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3) 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.
5) 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...
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.
11) Kinfolk: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious teenager shows up in 62-year-old Nub’s life in rural Alabama, he learns that family, forgiveness, and kindness can be found in the most unlikely of places.
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...
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Language
English
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Description
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...
15) Flight
Author
Series
Texas murder files volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When former forensic photographer Miranda Rhoads moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she's decided to make her living as a wildlife photographer and put crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when one morning, she comes across a couple sleeping in a canoe, entwined in an embrace. Looking closer, she realizes the man and woman aren't asleep--they've been murdered. Detective Joel Breda sets out to find answers--not only about...
Author
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
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, struggles to make her estranged mother a part of the family while also trying to break through to her son, Adam, who has returned from college after an incident he refuses to discuss.
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