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Large Type Books November 2018
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The Dream Daughter
by Diane Chamberlain
When Carly Sears, a young women widowed by the Vietnam War, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970, and she is told that nothing can be done to help her child. But her brother-in-law, a physicist with a mysterious past, tells her that perhaps there is a way to save her baby. What he suggests shatters every preconceived notion that Carly has. It will require a kind of strength and courage she never knew existed. And it will call for an unimaginable leap of faith on Carly's part--made possible by her love for an unborn child.
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Gone So Long
by III Dubus, Andre
Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was taken from him. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled and find lasting love. Lois, her maternal grandmother who raised her, seeks peace in her antique shop but cannot escape her own anger, bitterness, and fear. Now, as Daniel seeks out the daughter he has not seen in decades, past wounds will test the limits of recovery and the chance for absolution.
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The Forbidden Door
by Dean R. Koontz
Former FBI agent Jane Hawk is now a fugitive bent on stopping the nation's enslavement by a secret society's terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn't save her husband, but Jane's grief-born fury fueled major blows against the cabal. These enemies strike back, using her five-year-old son as bait. As Jane battles to reach her boy, a new threat emerges: brain-altered victims are becoming violently insane. The war between Jane and her enemies becomes a fight for all their lives--against the lethal terror unleashed from behind the forbidden door.
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Alaskan Holiday
by Debbie Macomber
Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants, Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary--or so she thinks, as she becomes a valued part of the local community, falling in love with the people who call Klutina Lake home. But one Alaskan man, in particular, stands out among Josie's new friends: Palmer Saxon, a quiet, intense sword craftsman, whose very existence forces her to question whether her heart wants to return to Washington at all--or make Alaska her home.
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Why not tonight
by Susan Mallery
Natalie Kaleta will do anything for the artists at her gallery, including braving a downpour to check on brooding class artist Ronan Mitchell. After a mudslide strands her at his mountain home, the reclusive artists reveals a playful side, sending Natalie's crush on him into overdrive. But Ronan has a damaged heart: a secret tore apart his family, and he fled his hometown of Happily Inc. He resists his attraction to beautiful, perpetually cheerful Natalie. But Natalie knows that dreams sometimes come true. So why not this one, and why not tonight?
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Eliza Hamilton : The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Tilar J. Mazzeo's comprehensive and riveting biography describes the extraordinary life and times of ElizaHamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's early days. Eliza was a strong pioneer woman, a loving sister, a caring mother, and in her later years, a generous philanthropist. From her upbringing in New York to her married life and beyond, this captivating account reveals the woman behind the famous man.
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Killing the Ss : The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
by Bill O'Reilly
As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals--including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann--went on the run. But self-styled "Nazi hunters" were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, risking death to bring the SS fugitives to justice.
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Ambush
by James Patterson
"An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a flair for disguise. Bennett taps his best investigators and sources, and they fan out across the five boroughs. But the leads they're chasing turn out to be phantoms. The assassin takes advantage of the chaos, enticing an officer into compromising Bennett, then luring another member of Bennett's family into even graver danger. Michael Bennett can't tell what's driving the assassin. But he can tell it's personal, and that it's part of something huge. Through twist after twist, he fights to understand exactly how he fits into the killer's plan, before he becomes the ultimate victim."
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Dark Tide Rising
by Anne Perry
When his wife is kidnapped, wealthy real estate developer Harry Exeter asks the Thames River Police--and Commander William Monk--to secretly accompany him to the ransom exchange spot. But after Monk and five of his men are attacked, it becomes clear that one of his own men has betrayed him. Monk realizes how little he knows about the people he works with every day. As the case runs into a series of obstacles, Monk must choose between his own safety and the chance to solve the mystery--and to figure out where his men's loyalties lie.
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A Spark of Light
by Jodi Picoult
One morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts into a women's reproductive health services clinic and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. Police hostage negotiator Hugh McElroy quickly arrives on the scene, only to find out via text message that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside. Wren will share the next few hours of her life with a cast of unforgettable characters--including a doctor whose faith is tested and a pro-life protester disguised as a patient--in a story that traces its way back to what brought each of the these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.
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Holy Ghost
by John Sandford
Wheatfield, Minnesota, with a population of seven hundred, is a place where nothing ever happened and nothing ever would--until the mayor and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Wheatfield on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. If it happened in their town, the tourist influx would make them rich. But their plan is thwarted when a dead body shows up, and it soon becomes clear that this is only the beginning of their--and Virgil Flowers's--troubles.
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The subway girls
by Susie Orman Schnall
In 1949, dutiful and ambitious Charlotte's dream of a career in advertising is shattered when her father demands she help out with the family business. Swept into the glamorous world of the Miss Subways beauty contest, which promises irresistible opportunities, Charlotte makes a heart-wrenching decision that will change the lives of those around her forever. Seventy years later, outspoken advertising executive Olivia's urgent search for a winning strategy leads her to the historic Miss Subways campaign--and an unexpected personal connection.
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George and Barbara Bush : a great American love story
by Ellie LeBlond Sosa
"To begin with I was in love and I am in love so that's not hard." Ellie LeBlond Sosa had asked her grandmother how her lifelong love affair with President George H.W. Bush had withstood World War II, the West Texas oil fields, the painful loss of a child, a political climb to the White House, and the transition back to a "normal" life. Through a lifetime's worth of stories and letters, and intimate interviews with the Bushes and family friends, this is a never-before-seen look into the private life of a very public couple.
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