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Books in Wheeler Publishing Large Print Book Series series

  • Killing The Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

    Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing Large Print, Oct. 5, 2016)
    Portrays the events of World War II in 1944, when escalating Pacific battles between the forces of General MacArthur and the Japanese army lead to the development of humanity's deadliest weapon and President Truman's impossible choice.
  • A Farewell to Arms

    Ernest Hemingway

    Paperback (Wheeler Pub Inc, Aug. 20, 2008)
    In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, and the men and women he meets in Italy, with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.
  • The Paris Architect

    Charles Belfoure

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing, April 1, 2015)
    A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied country but struggles with risking his life for a cause he is ambivalent towards, until a personal failure brings home their suffering.
  • A Dogs Journey

    W. Bruce Cameron

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing, May 2, 2012)
    Believing that he has achieved his purpose throughout several eventful lives, Buddy the dog is drawn to a vibrant but troubled teen who he struggles to help until they are separated.
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  • The Whisper Man

    Alex North

    Library Binding (Wheeler Publishing Large Print, Dec. 25, 2019)
    After the death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning in a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night. Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to Frank Carter's crimes, reigniting old rumors that he had an accomplice. And then Jake begins acting strangely. He hears a whispering at his window.
  • Dark Places

    Gillian Flynn

    Hardcover (Wheeler Pub Inc, Aug. 5, 2009)
    For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
  • Let Me Die In His Footsteps

    Lori Roy

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing, Sept. 2, 2015)
    In the spellbinding and suspenseful "Let Me Die in His Footsteps, "Edgar Award-winner Lori Roy wrests from a Southern town the secrets of two families touched by an evil that has passed between generations. On a dark Kentucky night in 1952 exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. Everyone knows Hollerans don't go near Baines, not since Joseph Carl was buried two decades before, but, armed with a silver-handled flashlight, Annie runs through her family's lavender fields toward the well on the Baines' place. At the stroke of midnight, she gazes into the water in search of her future. Not finding what she had hoped for, she turns from the well and when the body she sees there in the moonlight is discovered come morning, Annie will have much to explain and a past to account for. It was 1936, and there were seven Baine boys. That year, Annie's aunt, Juna Crowley, with her black eyes and her long blond hair, came of age. Before Juna, Joseph Carl had been the best of all the Baine brothers. But then he looked into Juna's eyes and they made him do things that cost innocent people their lives. Sheriff Irlene Fulkerson saw justice served--or did she? As the lavender harvest approaches and she comes of age as Aunt Juna did in her own time, Annie's dread mounts. Juna will come home now, to finish what she started. If Annie is to save herself, her family, and this small Kentucky town, she must prepare for Juna's return, and the revelation of what really happened all those years ago
  • The Dollhouse

    Fiona Davis

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing Large Print, Dec. 7, 2016)
    Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended by a hotel maid, who introduces her to the city's jazz and drug counterculture, and becomes involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later.
  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

    Lisa See

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing Large Print, March 22, 2017)
    Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations. (general fiction). Simultaneous.
  • The One-in-a-million Boy

    Monica Wood

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing Large Print, Aug. 3, 2016)
    The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house a friendship that touches each member of the boy s unmoored family For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absentto his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for his son s unfinished Boy Scout badge.For seven Saturdays, Quinn does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the wily 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy hadvisited weekly.Quinn soon discovers that the boy had talked Ona into gunning for theworld record for Oldest Licensed Driver and that s the least of her secrets. Despite himself, Quinn picks up where the boy left off, forging a friendship with Ona that allows him to know the son he never understood, a boy who was always listening, always learning."The One-in-a-Million Boy"is a richly layered novel ofhearts broken seemingly beyond repair and then bound by a stunning act of human devotion."
  • Lightning Men

    Thomas Mullen

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing Large Print, Oct. 4, 2017)
    Officers Smith, Rake, and Boggs and their sergeant navigate volatile racial tensions in 1950 Atlanta, including Rake's once-white neighborhood's violent efforts to force out Smith's black family and an upsurge in drug territory wars.
  • The Twelve

    Justin Cronin

    Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing, Nov. 1, 2012)
    A follow-up to the best-selling The Passage continues the efforts of survivors of a government-induced apocalypse to endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original 12 virals. (suspense). Simultaneous.