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Books in Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery series

  • 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.
  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

    Gail Honeyman

    Paperback (Large Print Press, May 22, 2018)
    "Published in 2018 by arrangement with Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC"--Copyright page.
  • Mrs. Grant And Madame Jule

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, March 4, 2015)
    A reimagining of the life of Civil War general's wife and First Lady Julia Grant traces her unlikely courtship and marriage, her relationship with a psychic slave who shared her name and their shared lives during and after the war. By the best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker. (historical fiction). Simultaneous.
  • Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch

    Nancy Atherton

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, May 2, 2012)
    "When Amelia Thistle moves to Finch, her new neighbors welcome her with open arms-and inquiring minds. Among them is Lori Shepherd, who isn't fooled by Amelia's unassuming persona. Amelia is, in fact, a world-famous artist with a rabid and eager-to-stalkfan base. In order to keep peace in Finch, Lori must help Amelia conceal her identity. Amelia, meanwhile, sets about working on the riddle that brought her to town in the first place. A fragment of a family diary hints that one of Amelia's ancestors might have been Mistress Meg, the Mad Witch of Finch. Following the clue, Lori hunts through Finch's darkest and most secret corners, all the while dodging nosy neighbors and Amelia's frantic fans. With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, Lori inches closer to the true story of Mistress Meg-and Amelia" -- Cover verso.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Odd Partners: An Anthology

    Anne Perry

    Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, May 29, 2019)
    At head of title: Mystery Writers of America presents
  • 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.
  • Ninth House

    Leigh Bardugo

    Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Dec. 25, 2019)
    Galaxy �Alex� Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale�s freshman class. Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. But Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world�s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What�s the catch, and why her? Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale�s secret societies. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.
  • Before We Were Yours

    Lisa Wingate

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, June 7, 2017)
    The multi-week USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"Memphis,Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone ... one stormy night. Rill Foss ... must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, present day. Avery Stafford has lived a charmed life. Loving daughter to her father, a U.S. senator, she has a promising career as an assistant D.A. in Baltimore and is engaged to her best friend. But when Avery comes home to help her father weather a health crisis and a political attack, a chance encounter with a stranger le her deeply shaken"--
  • A Spark of Light

    Jodi Picoult

    Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Oct. 24, 2018)
    When a deranged gunman forces his way into the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, and takes hostages, the police hostage negotiator discovers his daughter is inside the clinic.
  • Hidden Figures: Young Readers Edition

    Margot Lee Shetterly

    Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Dec. 6, 2017)
    A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorThis young readers' edition of Shetterly's #1 New York Times bestseller tells the powerful story of African-American mathematicians Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, whose work in a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as 'human computers' forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
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