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Under One Roof: Lessons I Learned from a Tough Old Woman in a Little Old House
Under One Roof: Lessons I Learned from a Tough Old Woman in a Little Old House

Barry Martin · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Book

When developers in Ballard, Washington, were building a giant shopping mall, feisty octogenarian Edith Wilson Macefield?s house was in the way. They offered her a million dollars. She told them to take a hike. As construction supervisor, Barry Martin was determined to make things as easy...
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Shame and the Captives
Shame and the Captives

Thomas Keneally · Thorndike Press Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

"If the legendary Schindler's List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneally's literary mastery, then [this novel] surely will" (New York Daily News) as the Booker Prize-winning author reimagines from all sides the drastic true events of the night more than one thousand...
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Hanging Mary
Hanging Mary

Susan Higginbotham · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 650
Format: Large Print Hardcover

The untold story of Lincoln's Assassination1864, Washington City. One has to be careful with talk of secession, of Confederate whispers falling on Northern ears. Better to speak only when in the company of the trustworthy. Like Mrs. Surratt.A widow who runs a small boardinghouse on H Street,...
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Carnal Curiosity
Carnal Curiosity

Stuart Woods · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author Stone Barrington seems to have a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Manhattan?s elite are beset by a series of clever crimes ? and Stone is a material witness ? he and his former partner Dino Bacchetti find themselves drawn into...
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Windigo Island
Windigo Island

William Kent Krueger · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author An EdgarxAE Award-winning Author When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a mythical beast or a vengeful spirit But that...
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Playing By Heart
Playing By Heart

Anne Mateer · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 418
Format: Large Print Hardcover

"Mateer's turn-of-the-century story is full of characters who will touch your heart."--"RT Book Reviews" Lula Bowman has finally achieved her dream: a teaching position and a scholarship to continue her college education in mathematics. But then a shocking phone call...
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The Promise
The Promise

Dan Walsh · Thorndike Press
Pages: 443
Format: Large Print Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author For the last five months, Tom Anderson has been without a job and hiding the fact from his wife Jean and everyone else. He leaves each morning pretending nothing has changed, and spends his disheartening day rotating through two coffee shops and the library,...
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Winter Street
Winter Street

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In bestseller Elin Hilderbrands first Christmas novel a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprisesKelley Quinn is the owner of Nantuckets Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray Patrick the eldest is a hedge...
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Hounded
Hounded

David Rosenfelt · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Andy Carpenter gets a mysterious phone call from his friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything and drive to an unfamiliar address with his girlfriend. Andy isn?t expecting to show up at a crime scene where Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diza. Or that...
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The Outcast of Spirit Ridge: A Keystone Ranch Story
The Outcast of Spirit Ridge: A Keystone Ranch Story

James C. Work · Western Series Level III
Format: Large print book

"GruÌ?dj, abandoned as an infant and believed dead, was rescued from his grave by some Plains Indians, who raised him as one of The People. As a youth, he is banished from the tribe when he interrupts a sacred ceremony and must find his own way in the world"--
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Yoga and Parkinson's Disease
Yoga and Parkinson's Disease

Peggy Van Hulsteyn · Demos Health
Pages: 116
Format: Paperback

Yoga and Parkinson's Disease is a practical how to guide to using yoga to manage stress, improve mental alertness, increase flexibility, correct posture and improve the quality-of-life of readers with Parkinson's. It follows the author's own experience and research studies in the subject...
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Murder Comes by Mail
Murder Comes by Mail

A H Gabhart · Center Point Pub
Pages: 500
Format: Large Print Library Binding

Deputy Sheriff Michael Keane doesn t particularly enjoy being touted as the hero of Hidden Springs after pulling a suicidal man back from the edge of the Eagle River bridge in front of dozens of witnesses a few of whom caught the breathtaking moments with their cameras. But the media hype...
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Arctic Drift
Arctic Drift

Clive Cussler · Putnam
Pages: 515
Format: Print book

As with all Clive Cussler's dazzling Dirk Pitt novels, critics said Treasure of Khan "amazes, informs and entertains" (Publishers Weekly), "the action zipping along until a final powerhouse showdown" (Entertainment Weekly). "What's not to like?" proclaimed...
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Cruel Beautiful World
Cruel Beautiful World

Caroline Leavitt · Thorndike Press Large Print

Caroline Leavitt is at her mesmerizing best in this haunting, nuanced portrait of love, sisters, and the impossible legacy of family. It s 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both...
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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

Susan Jane Gilman · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. No sooner do they land on Manhattan's squalid Lower East Side than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken in by an Italian ices peddler, she learns the secrets of his trade. In time she falls in love with a gorgeous,...
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