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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
2) Six years
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
cp2013.
Language
English
Description
Harboring an enduring love for Natalie six years after her marriage to another man, Jake Sanders learns of his rival's death and attends the funeral only to discover that Natalie is not the woman she seemed to be, a situation that compels a determined search for answers.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the...
6) Hotshot
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
♭2013.
Language
English
Description
Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have inherited Bishop's Cove, a small, luxurious oceanfront resort, but it comes with a condition: The girls must run the resort for one year and show a profit. Only then will they own it. A graduate of a prestigious French culinary school, Peyton has just lost her job as a food critic. Out of work and in a bad place personally, a year doing something completely different sounds wonderful. There are countless challenges...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
8) Poison
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just can't stay away from the courtroom for long and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences. Grant Wagner, the vigorous patriarch of the Wagner family and its four-generations...
9) Hell's gate
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Hunter Lee turns his back on the New York City rat race that has made him rich but cost him his marriage, and settles in Montana. Hunter befriends Paul Brule, a Fire Jumper - one of an elite corps of firefighters who parachute into remore wilderness areas to put out blazes before they become infernos - and gets a terrifying firsthand look at the reality of forest fires. In this tiny town where everyone seems to have a secret, Hunter comes to...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When FBI Agent Grayson Kincaid first encounters Olivia MacKenzie, she makes quite an impression. The beautiful, tough young attorney has stumbled into the middle of an FBI sting operation and reduced it to chaos. Months of surveillance and careful planning down the drain, Kincaid's partner is furious and lets Olivia know that she's ticked off the wrong guy. After all, he's FBI. But Olivia isn't intimdated by his partner's bullying because she's something...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When an obscure charity recruits Josh Hagarty to manage their activities in a war-torn region of Africa, he's eager to sign on and atone for a past he regrets. Someone is finally giving him a chance. All he has to do is not blow it. Josh tries to lose himself in the job, but soon the precariousness of his situation becomes clear. And when the life of his young sister in the United States is threatened, Josh faces the fact that his employer is not...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Examines America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked-- we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her boss disappears while on a health retreat at an exclusive spa, investigative apprentice Lyra Brazier goes undercover with the help of a man with a unique gift, and together, they are plunged into a world darker and more dangerous than they ever could have imagined.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a long, bleak, dark winter in the year 1383, rain began falling and barely ceased all year. Into this watery world, against a backdrop of flood famine plague and the political turmoil of the Hundred Years' War, Hildegard a nun from the Abbey of Meaux is sent across Europe in search of a precious relic, the Cross of Constantine. Strong-willed and independent, she will need remarkable skills to survive such a dangerous quest.
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