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Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom
Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, April 6, 2016)Continues the experiences of Jamie, who in 1830 after escaping slavery passes himself off as a wealthy white silversmith, only to risk everything to save a beloved servant who has been captured and sold in the South.
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Miracle Creek
Angie Kim
Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Aug. 28, 2019)An Indie Next and LibraryReads SelectionYoung and Pak Yoo run the Miracle Submarine ? an experimental oxygen chamber for curing issues like autism or infertility. But when it explodes, killing two people, a murder trial upends their lives.
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The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
Paperback (Large Print Press, April 9, 2013)AFTER FOUR HARROWING YEARS ON THE WESTERN Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a "gift from God," and against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
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Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough
Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, May 3, 2017)The secretary of a successful psychiatrist is drawn into the seemingly picture-perfect life of her boss and his wife before discovering a complex web of controlling behaviors and secrets that gradually reveal profound and dangerous flaws in the couple's relationship.
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Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty
Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Nov. 7, 2018)Gathering at a remote health resort for a 10-day fitness program, nine strangers and their enigmatic host become subjects of interest to a brokenhearted novelist who develops uncomfortable doubts about the resort's real agenda. Simultaneous.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Roger Lancelyn Green
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Feb. 2, 2003)Champion of the poor and oppressed, Robin Hood takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache. Green's version of the classic tale brings sense, clarity and excitement to the myths, ballads and legends of Robin's adventures.
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Heads You Win
Jeffrey Archer
Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Nov. 7, 2018)A stand-alone epic by the best-selling author of Kane and Abel follows a 1968 Russian teen who escapes an oppressive life in Leningrad and is forced to choose between parallel lives in London and New York. Simultaneous.
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Beartown
Fredrik Backman
Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, May 3, 2017)In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.
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A Column of Fire
Ken Follett
Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, Oct. 4, 2017)A half-century love affair between a man in service to Elizabeth I and a woman on the opposing side of England's religious divide is challenged by violent ideological power shifts, torn loyalties and the queen's circle of spies, in a latest entry in the best-selling series that includes The Pillars of the Earth. (historical fiction). Simultaneous.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, March 8, 2017)-Thorndike Press large print basic.---Title page verso.
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The Girl You Left Behind
Jo Jo Moyes
Paperback (Large Print Press, June 24, 2014)A German Kommandant, occupying a French town in World War I, obssesses over a portrait of Sophie, a woman who risks everything to reunite with her husband; and a century later, Liv, a widow, is caught in a a dispute over the ownership of the valuable work.
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The Minister's Wooing
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, June 2, 2003)With colorful characters, including many based on real figures, and a plot that hinges on romance, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin combines domestic comedy and regional history to examine slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.