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New Large Print BooksAugust 2016
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Sweet Tomorrows
by Debbie Macomber
A much-anticipated conclusion to the best-selling series finds innkeeper Jo Marie Rose starting over after Mark's departure and taking in heartbroken boarder Emily, who would pursue adoption and give up on marriage, only to be urged to take a chance on a new relationship. By the #1 best-selling author of the Cedar Cove series (romance).
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The black widow
by Daniel Silva
A latest entry in the series starring the inimitable art restorer, assassin and spy Gabriel Allon is set in the aftermath of a shocking event in Paris. By the award-winning author of The English Spy (espionage).
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Chance developments
by Alexander McCall Smith
A collection of thematically linked short stories on the subjects of love and art, each inspired by an evocative old photo, includes the stories of a nun who leaves the sisterhood to discover big-city life and a romance between a circus ventriloquist and animal handler. By the best-selling author of Trains and Lovers.
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The light of Paris
by Eleanor Brown
Feeling panicked by her empty life and marriage to a controlling and critical husband, misfit Madeleine discovers a revelatory journal written by her grandmother during a romantic, literary and rebellious summer in Jazz Age Paris. By the author of The Weird Sisters.
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Ghosts of war
by Brad Taylor
Traveling to Poland to investigate artifacts believed hidden in a fabled Nazi gold train, Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are swept up by a Russian incursion into Belarus before a horrific attack against U.S. forces, prompting NATO to prepare for a war that is being manipulated by a mysterious interest. By the best-selling author of The Forgotten Soldier (suspense).
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The games
by James Patterson
Two years after averting disaster while overseeing security for the World Cup, Jack Morgan, the head of international investigation firm Private, returns to Rio to secure the Olympics, only to confront a Brazilian saboteur who is hatching a lethal plot. By a #1 best-selling author (suspense).
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What we find
by Robyn Carr
When a high-risk neurosurgery procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie Sullivan finds herself in the middle of a lawsuit. She knows she needs to slow down before she burns out completely, and the best place she can think to do that is Sullivan's Crossing, the land that now belongs to her eccentric father, Sully. But shortly after arriving, Maggie's world is rocked once again and she must take on more responsibility than she'd planned.
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Dishonorable intentions
by Stuart Woods
A latest adventure by the Edgar Award-winning author of Chiefs finds New York City cop-turned-rainmaker for a top Manhattan law firm Stone Barrington and his associates confronting a new threat that tests the limits of their collective skills (suspense).
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The pursuit
by Janet Evanovich
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum series and an acclaimed writer for Monk team up again in a latest entry of the popular series starring master con artist Nicolas Fox and FBI agent Kate O'Hare (suspense).
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The summer before the war : a novel
by Helen Simonson
Arriving in the 1914 village of Rye, England, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes a first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew. By the best-selling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (historical fiction).
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Tipping Point : The War With China - the First Salvo
by Poyer David
In a story of duty, war, and the stress of command, Captain Dan Lenson takes his damaged ship, the USS Savo Island, and a fractious crew into the dangerous Indian Ocean and South China Sea, where India and Pakistan are poised on the brink of a nuclear confrontation.
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City of secrets
by Stewart O'Nan
A moral thriller about the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after World War II follows the experiences of a hunted refugee, who, after losing everything, assumes a different identity and commits himself to the revolution while accepting increasingly dangerous missions (historical fiction).
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Two if by sea
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Joining the volunteer rescue effort in Brisbane when his family is swept away by the Christmas Eve tsunami, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy is transformed by his rescue of a telepathic little boy, who he illegally takes back with him to America and struggles to protect against ominous adversaries.
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A hero of France : a novel
by Alan Furst
A tale set in World War II occupied Paris follows the experiences of French Resistance network members from diverse walks of life who engage in clandestine actions to regain the country's freedom. By the best-selling author of Red Gold (action & adventure).
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The race for Paris
by Meg Waite Clayton
A World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives.
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Tom Clancy duty and honor
by Grant Blackwood
When a wealthy political opponent alludes to a scandal in the Ryan presidential family, Jack Ryan Jr. unravels an insidious plot that tests the limits of his sanity. By the best-selling author of the Briggs Tanner series (suspense).
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Heartless
by Mary Balogh
Dreaming of happier futures as man and wife, Lucas and Anna Kendrick find their new marriage threatened by forces that cause them to deny their mutual feelings, and each claims to have married for the sake of convenience only.
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The weekenders
by Mary Kay Andrews
Served with papers that her much-loved island home on idyllic Belle Isle is being foreclosed and that her husband has abandoned her, Riley turns to her friends for help, who she discovers are harboring their own secrets. By the best-selling author of Beach Town.
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