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Books in THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE PRINT PERENNIAL BESTSELLERS SERIES series

  • The Joy Luck Club

    Amy Tan

    Paperback (Thorndike Pr, Jan. 1, 1990)
    Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughters' memories and feelings
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  • Anna, Mister God and the Black Knight

    Fynn, William Papas

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Feb. 1, 1992)
    A London East End waif teaches Fynn and the Black Knight the meaning of love and bemuses her friends with her capacity for viewing the world from Mister God's point of view
  • The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

    Terry Ryan

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Sept. 1, 2001)
    The author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Leadership

    Rudolph W. Giuliani, Ken Kurson

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2003)
    Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. Opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, and closes with the efforts to address the aftermath during his remaining tenure.
  • Mister God, This Is Anna

    Fynn, William Papas

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Nov. 1, 1991)
    Recounts the author's special friendship with an exuberant, precocious, little runaway, whom he came upon when she was four and who explored life with unparalleled gusto
  • Royal Blood

    Rhys Bowen

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Jan. 5, 2011)
    Royal Blood (A Royal Spyness Mystery #4)Penniless and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs. To escape her hateful brother, Georgie accepts an invitation from the Queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. But at the macabre-looking castle, Georgie finds the bride with blood running down her chin, and a wedding guest is poisoned. Now it's up to Georgie to save the nuptial festivities before the couple's vows become "to love and to cherish, till 'undeath' do them part..."
  • Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

    Nathaniel Philbrick

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, June 7, 2006)
    The startling story of the Plymouth Colony, from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England, from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea. Unabridged CDs - 14 CDs, 11 hours
  • Santa Fe Dead

    Stuart Woods

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, May 2, 2008)
    Ed Eagle finds the tables turned when he testifies as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of his ex-wife, who has been a very, very bad girl.
  • Year of Wonders

    Geraldine Brooks

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Dec. 1, 2001)
    A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves to limit the contagion.
  • The Sisters Brothers

    Patrick deWitt

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Aug. 3, 2011)
    Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he'snever known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road to Warm's gold claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does - and for whom he does it.
  • Where Are You Now?

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, April 2, 2008)
    Driven to solve the mystery of an older sibling's disappearance ten years earlier, young lawyer Carolyn MacKenzie investigates a bizarre community of people who choose to disappear, embarking on a quest with life-threatening consequences.
  • The Wartime Sisters: A Novel

    Lynda Cohen Loigman

    Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Feb. 27, 2019)
    For fans of Lilac Girls, the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist The Two-Family House about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with a deep secret. Loigman's strong voice and artful prose earn her a place in the company of Alice Hoffman and Anita Diamant, whose readers should flock to this wondrous new book.—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's TaleThe Wartime Sisters shows the strength of women on the home front: to endure, to fight, and to help each other survive. —Jenna Blum, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lost Family and Those Who Save UsTwo estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer's wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a "soldier of production." Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives.