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1) Dark matter
Author
Language
English
Description
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose comes a vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's roots and seeking a father's wisdom through an unusual woodworking project -- constructing his own coffin. With wisdom and humor, Giffels grapples with the hard questions as he and his father saw, hammer, and sand their way through a year bowed by loss.
When Giffels enlisted his dad to help...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Australia's most decorated novelist crafts the story of Jaxie Clackton, a brutalized rural youth who strikes out for the wilds of Western Australia after his father's violent death. All he carries is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the salt lands alone is a savage business. Then he discovers he's not alone. In a brutal yet lyrical tale of unlikely friendship and yearning, Jaxie meets fellow exile Fintan...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the acclaimed follow-up to the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, everyone's favorite curmudgeon is back and as funny and charming as ever with the newest adventures of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club--for fans of Frederik Backman and Graeme Simsion. Everyone's favorite octogenarian is back and, together with his pals in the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he is more determined than ever to wreak havoc and turn a twinkly eye on the...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An account of the tragic sudden death of the author's wife, Joy, and its wrenching aftermath"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. Wild Bill became a legend, crossing paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson...