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2) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
4) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
A social scientist and Harvard professor draws on social science, philosophy, biography, theology and eastern wisdom, as well as dozens of interviews with everyday people to help those over 50 find purpose, meaning and success as they age.
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Language
English
Description
"Head-in-the-stars Audrey is about to marry down-to-earth Josh. Though they are polar opposites, they have a healthy, stable relationship; Josh is just what Audrey needs. But romance should be unpredictable and full of fireworks, and as the big day approaches, Audrey's found herself wondering if Josh really is "The One." So, when Josh's sister shows up to the rehearsal dinner with Fred, Audrey's "What If? Guy" Audrey finds herself torn. Surely Fred's...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz explores these questions and many more in this profound, poetic, and poignant masterpiece...
10) City of betrayal
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 7
Language
English
Description
A grifter skilled at interacting with difficult men, Elizabeth Bates teams up with the suffragist movement in an attempt to pass the 19th Amendment in Tennessee. But she would never have expected the lengths to which some would go to keep the vote out of women's hands. She'll need to devise the perfect con or the suffragists' life's work could all be for nothing.
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Language
English
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Drawing on interviews with marine geologists, marine biologists and oceanographers, a premiere chronicler of the aquatic world provides a fascinating history of deep-sea exploration and shows how urgent it is that we understand the ocean in a time of increasing threats from climate change.
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Language
English
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Description
"The year is 1998, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age -- from Baku to Athens to Houston -- as her own ambition and desire...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Red Clark had heard Juilos County was "plumb bad," so he had come to nose around and get himself a job. Disgusted with what he is seeing, he befriends Zee Hill, a journeymen printer who wants the chance to get out a real paper -- one that will show various characters of that country in their true colors, and get justice for some of the small cattlemen against the greedy range barons. On his first day in Juilos, he runs up against the three biggest...
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Language
English
Description
After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn, delivering a box of books to Penryth Hall, the home to her once dearest friend, Tamsyn, is drawn into a mystery when Tamsyn’s husband is murdered and the crime is blamed on a curse—one that could claim Tamsyn’s life as well.
Author
Series
Rance Dehner westerns volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Violence erupts over booze in the Texas town of Red Horse. A play, The Devil's Brew, which demands the abolition of liquor, is greeted with gunfire. The author is brutally murdered, and the cast threatened with death. Detective Rance Dehner quickly discovers that no one in the cast of the play believes in abolition. They are struggling actors trying to make a living. But powerful forces are conspiring to end the play and end their lives. Dehner must...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Enrolling in the prestigious Law and Literature course at Franklin University to exact revenge on the professor she believes is responsible for her sister’s death, Jessie Mooney will cross any line to hold him accountable as the truth becomes darkly twisted.
19) Hidden
Author
Series
Texas murder files volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When a woman is found brutally murdered on Austin's lakeside hike-and-bike trail, investigative reporter Bailey Rhoads turns up on the scene demanding access and answers. She tries to pry information out of the lead detective, Jacob Merritt. But this case is unlike any he's ever seen, and nothing adds up. With the pressure building, Jacob knows the last thing he needs is a romantic entanglement, but he can't convince himself to stay away from Bailey....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Death Rides This Trail!" is the story of Jake and Emma Breslin, who packed up the covered wagon and headed West to find a new life. On the way they faced many hardships, beset by both brutal weather and violent humans. When Jake was shot and killed, everything changed for the Breslin family, except the determination to continue the journey. "Tower of Rocks" Roy Hale, a former captain in the Confederate Army, is in Denver when he receives an unsigned...
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