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Love's Reckoning

Laura Frantz · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition

On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from becoming a master blacksmith himself, Silas is determined to finish his apprenticeship and move west. But Liege soon discovers that Silas is a prodigious...
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Wild Ran the Rivers: One Family's Western Odyssey

James D. Crownover · Thorndike Press Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

This is a story of pioneers, pirates and ponies, floods, earthquakes, a mysterious wilderness settlement and how the second generation of a Cherokee family found a home on the upper reaches of the Little Red River. Barely sixteen, Ruth Harris is captured with her brother Jerry and held...
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery

Rob Dunn · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The secret history of our most vital organ--the human heartThe Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which...
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Amanda Weds a Good Man

Naomi King · Center Point Large Print
Pages: 415
Format: Library Binding

The Amish community of Cedar Creek is celebrating a wedding! When Amanda Lambright, widowed with three daughters, marries Wyman Brubaker, a widower with five children, she envisions joining their two households into one big happy family. But it isn't quite that easy....Amanda Lambright...
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Long Way Down

Michael Sears · Thorndike Press
Pages: 533
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Two years in federal prison changed Jason Stafford, but taught him how to detect a lie. Philip Haley, an engineer on the verge of a biofuel breakthrough, has been indicted for insider trading on his own company. Stafford believes he?s been set up. Haley has enemies. He is not a nice man....
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Always on My Mind: A Christiansen Family Novel

Susan May Warren · Center Point; Lrg edition

After a failed dig in Honduras, aspiring archaeologist Casper Christiansen heads home to Minnesota to face his unresolved feelings for Raina Beaumont, the woman of his dreams. But when he arrives unannounced on her doorstep, he receives the shock of a lifetime: Raina is pregnant with someone...
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The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 497
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect....
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Undercover Cop: How I Brought Down the Real-Life Sopranos

Mike Russell , · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

One moment, New Jersey state trooper Mike Russell was working undercover hoping to infiltrate a Mafia family. The next, he was lying facedown in an alley, shot in the back of the head. Miraculously surviving, Russell maintained his cover and soon had a stroke of luck when he saved a captain...
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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases

Deborah Halber · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes?wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement ? and one another ? at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted...
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A Bullet for Billy the Kid: A Western Trio: the Fourth Horseman/Santa Fe Passage/A Bullet for Billy the Kid

Will Henry · Center Point Pub; Lrg edition

Three classic novellas, including the title story, about the most infamous outlaw of the Old West. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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