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Books in G K Hall Large Print Book Series series

  • The Bluest Eye

    Toni Morrison

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Dec. 1, 1999)
    The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others - who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
  • Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

    Stephen W. Hawking, Carl Sagan, Ron Miller

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Nov. 1, 1989)
    A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world--observations that have confirmed many of Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book.Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.
  • The Red Carnelian

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Dec. 1, 1989)
    Linell Wynn, a copywriter for the Cunningham department store in World War II-era Chicago, is hurt and puzzled when she is dropped by the company Casanova, who is subsequently murdered
  • Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

    Erik Larson, Isaac Monroe Cline

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Feb. 1, 2000)
    Provides an account of the hurricane which struck Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, and killed as many as ten thousand people.
  • The Poisonwood Bible

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, March 1, 1999)
    The family of a fierce evangelical Baptist missionary--Nathan Price, his wife, and his four daughters--begins to unravel after they embark on a 1959 mission to the Belgian Congo, where they find their lives transformed over the course of three decades
  • A Woman Named Jackie

    C. David Heymann

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Aug. 1, 1990)
    Culls the insights of friends, family, and acquaintances to portray a woman driven by ambition and a veteran of tremendous success and great tragedy
  • The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, March 1, 1991)
    A woman's nagging sense of deja vu leads her to discover the truth behind a series of terrorist bombings in the title story, in a collection of short fiction by a leading suspense writer
  • Poirot Investigates

    Agatha Christie

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Sept. 1, 1992)
    Presents a selection of fourteen of Hercule Poirot's most baffling cases, including the country house murders and an adventure in an Egyptian tomb
  • Into the Wild

    Jon Krakauer

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Dec. 1, 1997)
    The story of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarked on a solo journey into the wilds of Alaska and whose body was discovered four months later, explores the allure of the wilderness
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  • The Lord God Made Them All

    James Herriot

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Nov. 1, 1993)
    The triumphant conclusion to the legendary seriesWith each book more engaging than the last, James Herriot once again brings us the magical beauty of Yorkshire through his uplifting experiences as a country veterinarian. These stories provide a grand finale to the wonderful books that began with All Creatures Great and Small and continued in All Things Bright and Beautiful and All Things Wise and Wonderful.It is just after World War II, and James has returned from the Royal Air Force to do battle with the diseases and injuries that befall the farm animals and pets of Skeldale and the surrounding moors. Four-year-old Jimmy Herriot, Humphrey Cobb and his little beagle Myrtle, Norman the book-loving veterinary assistant, and many more new faces join old favorites among the green hills of Yorkshire, as James takes an unforgettable voyage to Russia on a freighter with 383 pedigreed sheep. Touching our hearts with laughter and wisdom, lifting
  • Listening Woman

    Tony Hillerman

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Sept. 1, 1993)
    Native American police officer Joe Leaphorn probes the murders of an old Indian soothsayer and a young Indian girl, and ends up investigating the strange kidnapping of a group of Boy Scouts and evading a plot on his own life. (Mystery)
  • The Time It Never Rained

    Elmer Kelton

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Aug. 1, 1988)
    A Texas rancher reveals his determination and endurance as he battles a drought that has lasted six years