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81) Newport summer
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
247 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1880s the Earl of Camberly crosses the Atlantic to Newport, Rhode Island, hoping to trade his title for an American heiress's wealth. Audrey St. Clair knows what she wants and it's not an English Earl. She offers to guide him in some investments that will save his family finances, if, in return, he will help her thwart her parents' matchmaking efforts.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
567 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on his ability to seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable. For Katherine, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante by asking her to become his wife.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in London during the years of 1939-1942, when citizens had slim hope of survival, much less victory; and on the strategic island of Malta, which was daily devastated by the Axis barrage, Everyone Brave is Forgiven features little-known history and a perfect wartime love story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave's grandparents. This dazzling novel dares us to understand that, against the great theater of world events, it...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
509 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Determined to save her father and siblings from a crumbling Chicago tenement, Emilia Stanek becomes the long-distance bride of a Montana rancher. But when she arrives in Helena, a rugged lawman shatters her plans with the news that her husband is dead--and deeply in debt. County sheriff Mac McCall can't afford to be distracted by the pretty young widow, not with scandalous secrets emerging as he investigates his friend's suspicious death. Mac's gruff...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. Langdon Rochester's parents have given him an ultimatum: settle down with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Being Madame Ariadne, Psychic Dream Consultant, wasn't Prudence Ryland's ideal gig, but it paid well which was reason enough to do the work--until she realizes that her latest client intends to kill her. It doesn't seem likely that rumored crime boss Luther Pell or his associate, Jack Wingate, believe her claims of being a target of a ruthless vendetta. So no one is more shocked than Prudence when Jack says he'll help her. Of course, his ideas for...
90) Once a rebel
Author
Series
Rogues redeemed volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
517 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lord George Gordon Audley had been Callista Brooke's best friend, and it was to Gordon she turned in desperation to avoid a loathsome arranged marriage. The repercussions of his gallant attempt ended with Callie in Jamaica, and Gordon on a one way trip to the penal colony of Australia. Now it's 1814, and Callie is in Washington, trapped in the battle between her native England and her adopted homeland. She is on the verge of losing everything, including...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find peace, she heads to the seaside resort she loved as a...
92) Thief's mark
Author
Series
Sharpe and Donovan novel volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a young boy, Oliver York witnessed the murder of his wealthy parents in their London apartment. The killers kidnapped him and held him in an isolated Scottish ruin, but he escaped, thwarting their plans for ransom. Now, after thirty years on the run, one of the two men Oliver identified as his tormentors may have surfaced. Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan are enjoying the final day of their Irish honeymoon when a break-in at the home of Emma's grandfather,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers' hideaway tucked inside a cave. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain's...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
495 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Kent, England, the arrival of Beranger Northcott, Duke of Brightshire, causes a stir. Because with the duke comes his new American bride, who isn't quite what anyone expects. By accepting the hand of her beloved, Emma Brinkman went from hardworking Colorado rancher to duchess. Now she's expected to comport herself as nobility. Overnight. For Emma-stifled, homesick, and unable to shake the feeling she's being watched-the metamorphosis is a challenge....
