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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Sept. 2, 2009)Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950, a series of inexplicable events strikes Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that her family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp pinned to its beak. Later, Flavia finds a man dying in the cucumber patch. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. (Bestseller)
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The Bone Bed
Patricia Cornwell
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Nov. 1, 2012)Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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The 14th Colony
Steve Berry
Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, April 6, 2016)Shot down over Siberia during what was supposed to be a straightforward mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone barely escapes the clutches of a zealous anti-U.S. former KGB officer and learns that a sleeper is plotting a deadly attack during the American presidential inauguration. (espionage). Simultaneous.
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Feb. 1, 1999)Examines the ways wealthy people earn and manage their money to remain financially secure
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Carnegie's Maid
Marie Benedict
Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Feb. 7, 2018)Clara Kelley is not the experienced Irish maid hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, so Clara is pretending to be her -- if she can keep up the ruse. Carnegie's Maid tells the story of a brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie toward philanthropy.
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The Melody Lingers On
Mary Higgins Clark
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, July 8, 2015)A beloved aunt's agreement to help her niece with college essays reawakens past secrets about the night a grandparent was murdered, an event that compels the woman to investigate a treasured music box to uncover the truth. By the best-selling author of Mount Vernon Love Story. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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Execution Dock
Anne Perry
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, March 24, 2009)Thames River Police Superintendent Inspector William Monk and his team are pursuing Jericho Phillips, a child pornographer, and when the body of a thirteen-year-old boy washes ashore and is revealed to be one of Phillips' victims, the need to find him gains new urgency.
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The Orphan's Tale
Pamela Jenoff
Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, March 8, 2017)Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.
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After Dark
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Oct. 3, 2007)Two sisters--Eri, a fashion model sleeping her way to oblivion, and Mari, a young student--form the center of a novel that documents a series of encounters in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn.
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Doctor Sleep
Stephen King
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Oct. 9, 2013)After decades as an itinerant alcoholic, middle-aged Dan Torrance uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a twelve-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals.
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The Secret Place
Tana French
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Sept. 10, 2014)Investigating a photograph of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with Detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.
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Days of Infamy
Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Aug. 6, 2008)Admiral Yamamoto struggles with the discovery that his government failed to formally declare war on America prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, while Admiral Halsey prepares for a decisive counter-strike.