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Books, Literature & Fiction, Large Print
Thomas L. Friedman
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thorndike Press (Hardcover)
Charlaine Harris
Dead Until Dark
by Wheeler Publishing (Paperback)
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out....Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea.A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of vampire and mystery that's hard to put down, and should not be missed. (Susan Sizemore)Praise for Charlaine Harris:Harris writes neatly and with assurance. (New York Times Book Review)An author of rare talents. (Publishers Weekly)
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
by Thorndike Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-11-01)
Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
by Ulverscroft Large Print (Hardcover)
Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
by Center Point Large Print (Hardcover)
Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
by Thorndike Press (Hardcover)
Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Thorndike Press (Hardcover)
Following the traditions of Gabriel GarcÍa Marqu,z, John Gardner and J.R.R. Tolkien, Wicked is a richly woven tale that takes us to the other, darker side of the rainbow as novelist Gregory Maguire chronicles the Wicked Witch of the West's odyssey through the complex world of Oz -- where people call you wicked if you tell the truth. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin -- no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or to overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters the university in Shiz, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz' most promising young citizens. Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals -- those creatures with voices, souls and minds -- are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild ...
Max Brooks
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Thorndike Press (Hardcover)
“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old ...
Cornelia Caroline Funke
Inkheart
by Thorndike Press (Paperback)
Kate Jacobs
The Friday Night Knitting Club (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print))
by Center Point Large Print (Hardcover)
A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together-even when we least expect it. Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started by some of Georgia's regulars, who gather once a week to work on their latest projects and to chat-and occasionally clash-over their stories of love, life, and everything in between. Georgia has her hands full, juggling the demands of running the store and raising her spunky teen daughter, Dakota, by herself. Thank goodness for Anita, her mentor and dear friend, and the rest of the members of the knitting club-who are just as varied as the skeins of yarn in the shop's bins. There's Peri, a prelaw student turned handbag designer; Darwin, a somewhat aloof feminist grad student; and Lucie, a petite, quiet woman who's harboring some secrets of her own. However, unexpected changes soon throw ...