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A Place Called Hope

Philip Gulley - Thorndike Press Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner agrees to oversee a wedding in place of the ill Unitarian minister, unaware until the couple stands before him that they?re two women. In the tempest of strong opinions that follows, Sam faces potential unemployment. Deeply discouraged, he wonders if his pastoral...
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Half Finished

Lauraine Snelling - Center Point Pub
Format: Large Print

Recognizing how common it is for crafters to start many projects and finish few, a group of women join together to form a guild Unfinished Projects Anonymous to keep each other on track and accountable. Three of the friends are tasked with the job of home visits for their guild. Laughingly...
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Gunfire Mountain

Ed La Vanway - Center Point Pub
Format: Large Print

After the gunsmoke cleared away, Sheriff Rodin and his nephew, Johnny McVay, loaded a dead outlaw and Old Joe Hooker into the wagon and headed for Grief Hill. Old Joe was dying from Johnnys bullets, but he could still talk. He said that the killer, Sammy Lee Dilts, got clean away with the nine...
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Summer Love

NANCY THAYER - Center Point
Format: Large Print

When four strangers rent bargain-basement rooms in an old hotel near the beach, they embark on the summer of their lives. First there's Ariel Spencer, who has big dreams of becoming a writer and is looking for inspiration in Nantucket's high society. Her new friend Sheila Murphy...
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The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel

Alexander McCall Smith

From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and La's Orchestra Saves the World, a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set during World War II, in which a British farm girl, an American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together...
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The Survival of Margaret Thomas

Del Howison - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print

"1870s - Missouri, br> Margaret ""Peggy"" Thomas and her husband, James, lead a simple and peaceful life; she tends to the farm while he works as sheriff in the nearby town of Bleak Knob. Their evenings are spent doing the thing they love most-being together....
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Prince Philip Revealed

Ingrid Seward - Thorndike Press Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Library Binding

The son of Greek and Danish royalty, consort to the queen, and the grandfather of Princes Harry and William, Prince Philip has been at the heart of the royal family for decades--yet he remains an enigma to many. Now, Ingrid Seward, the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, brings her decades...
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As Close to Us As Breathing

Elizabeth Poliner - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print Hardcover

A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely" (Edward P. Jones) . In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long...
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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State. - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Hardcover(Library Binding - Large Print)

From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) writer comes a powerful and moving account of how refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school learn English and become Americans, in the care of a compassionate teacher. The Newcomers follows the lives of twenty-two...
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The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness

Kelli Harding MD - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print

For all of its rigor and science, medicine is full of stories -- mysteries -- that doctors and research cannot explain. Patients who are biologically healthy but feel ill. Patients who are biologically ill but feel healthy. What if these health mysteries could teach us something about...
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