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The Green Age of Asher Witherow: A Novel

1 review
M. Allen Cunningham

RB Large Print, 2005

From Publishers Weekly
A miner's son is immersed in the dark spirituality of an insular, mostly Welsh Northern California mining town in the mid-19th century in this gritty coming-of-age debut. When Asher Witherow is eight, he witnesses the burning of his best friend, Thomas Motion, in a horrific accident as the boys explore the caverns of nearby Mt. Diablo. Witherow hides his knowledge of the accident even as a search ...

The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole: A Novel

1 review
Stephan Doyon

RB Large Print, 2005

From Publishers Weekly
Doyon, the author of series books for teens, peoples her adult debut, a sprawling, bustling chronicle of smalltown life, with a passel of intriguing characters, first among them the sad-sack town itself. Schoolmarm Delia Pratt calls her charges "Cedar Hellions" and bums cigs from the older girls at lunch; the nine Pinkham tomboys are depraved viragos who bully their young brother, Francis. ...

Dreaming of You

1 review
Lisa Kleypas

RB Large Print, 2004

Not So Fairy-Tale But Even Better!
The book is a sequel to Then Came You. The first book doesn't have to be read to understand this book, but you learn some things about Derek from that book. Well, Dreaming of You is about the prim, well-bred lady, Sara Fielding and Derek Craven, the owner of the most exclusive gambling house in London. Sara, a writer, goes to London to do research for her next controversial book. Derek is ...

Holy Guacamole!

1 review
Nancy Fairbanks

RB Large Print, 2004

Excellent
Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dishtowel - and take on a dream job as food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash of crime, to taste. She could very well get used to this........ Carolyn Blue spices things up at a post-production opera party in ElPaso, Texas - ...

Loving Che: A Novel

1 review
Ana Menendez

RB Large Print, 2003

From Publishers Weekly:
In this evocative first novel by short story writer Menendez (In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd), a young, unnamed Miami woman is granted an intimate look into her provenance with the arrival of a package of old photographs and letters. An infant during the revolution, she was sent from Cuba to be raised by her kind but unforthcoming grandfather; her mother, Teresa, seems to have vanished. But this ...

Boogaloo on Second Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music

1 review
Mark Kurlansky

RB Large Print, 2005

Book Description
From Publishers Weekly The bestselling author of 1968, Salt and Cod makes an uneven transition to fiction in his first novel, an erratic snapshot of the East Village's ethnic melting pot set during the late 1980s. The story opens with a bang when a Jewish restaurant owner is murdered in the first chapter, a tragedy that sends protagonist Nathan Seltzer into spasms of anxiety as he wonders if ...

Climb To Conquer: The Untold Story Of World War II's 10th Mountain Division Ski Troups

1 review
Peter Shelton

RB Large Print, 2003

Book description
From Publishers Weekly: Shelton, who writes for Men's Journal and Ski magazine, traces the story of America's 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops from 1940, when the idea for a military mountaineering/skiing division was first proposed, through 1945, when the division was briefly deployed (for 114 days) in northern Italy. Inspired by Finnish resistance to invading Soviet armies in 1939, a ...

The Glass Castle: a Memoir

1 review

RB Large Print, 2005

Great memoir
The author describes her fascinating childhood in which her family moves around the country, following her father's dreams, staying ahead of law enforcement and bill collectors, and living the family's carefree attitude. While her father's dreams are what sustains the family for many years, slowly the four children become disillusioned as their father continually fails to provide all of the ...

Carry Me Home: A Novel

1 review
Sandra Kring

RB Large Print, 2005

Book Description
From Publishers Weekly: Earnestly narrated by brain-damaged 16-year-old Earl "Earwig" Gunderman ("Ma said that after the fever was gone, my brain was like meat cooked too long, and it just fell apart whenever I tried to learn something new"), Kring's heartfelt debut explores the effects of WWII on a smalltown Wisconsin family. Earwig, whose intellectual difficulties are balanced by his sharp ...

The Courage Consort

1 review
Michel Faber

RB Large Print, 2005

From Publishers Weekly
The loss of innocence, the urgency of sexual need and the persistence of inner demons unite these three fine novellas, further evidence of the wide-ranging imagination, ironic humor and incisive characterization Faber displayed in The Crimson Petal and the White. Siân, in "The 199 Steps," is working on an archeological dig in England when she encounters Mack, a gorgeous fitness buff. As Siân and ...

The Pearl Diver: A Novel

1 review
Jeff Talarigo

RB Large Print, 2004

Book description
From Publishers Weekly: This unusual debut novel set in 1940s postwar Japan renders brutality and intolerance in quiet, lyrical prose. When a 19-year-old pearl diver, the youngest of a crew working the Seto Inland Sea, discovers she is sick with leprosy, she is banished to Nagashima, an island leprosarium, where she is told to change her name and forget her past. Nagashima is its own kind of ...

Blueberry Muffin Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)

28 reviews
Joanne Fluke

RB Large Print, 2003

Muffin murder madness
Imagine opening a book and finding yourself in a snow covered, chilly town of Lake Eden where the cookies are freshly baked, winter carnivals supply all the hot chocolate needed to melt of the winter chill and a detective who bakes those cookies is on the run to solve the next cozy murder mystery. Not only is this mystery actually very interesting and complex but it develops our relationship with ...

A Gentleman's Game: A Queen & Country Novel

20 reviews
Greg Rucka

RB Large Print, 2004

Move over James Bond and make room for Tara Chase!!!
Better known for his "Atticus Kodiak" novels, Greg Rucka has started a new series about Tara Chase, a female British Secret Service agent, known as a "Minder" in the trade world of spy craft. Chase is just as tough and sexual as James Bond, but much more realistic with flaws that show up under extreme stress, not mention backstabbing by the British bureaucrats. The first book in this new ...

The Pistol Poets

1 review
Victor Gischler

RB Large Print, 2004

Book Description
The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia--with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.'s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he'd rather be: a live poet or a dead criminal. ...

Prince of Thieves (LARGE PRINT)

33 reviews
Chuck Hogan

RB Large Print, 2004

Prince of Thieves
Fortunately I listened to a friend and not the reviewers and got a copy of Prince. Too long? I didn't think it was long enough! A very good read, hat's off to Hogan and his wonderful characters. Read this book and don't wait for the movie, you'll love it.

Our husband

22 reviews
Stephanie Bond

RB Large Print, 2003

Very Funny, Memorable Characters and Storyline!
I was impressed with this off-beat story about three wives and one dead husband. The humor was rich and the mystery great, it had you wondering althrough who the killer was. This is a first from Ms. Bond and I will be reading more from this talented author! ~Take one blonde socialite, post-menopausal and fuming mad. Beatrix always suspected that her husband Raymond Carmichael married her for ...

Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived

36 reviews
Laurence Shames, Peter Barton

RB Large Print, 2003

A winner on all counts
I just finished reading "Not Fade Away" for the second time. The first time I read it a couple of years ago I remember taking it very slowly because I felt each word was so important. Usually a very fast reader, I would stop and go over sentences because I didn't want to miss anything. Impactful ideas were there in every sentence. I just finished reading it again because I wanted to see ...

The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New ...

25 reviews
Alan Cutler

RB Large Print, 2004

A Pleasure to Read
We are privileged to live in a Golden Age of writing about the history of science. Several other reviewers have already sung the praises, aptly, of this book, so I will merely recommend a few other titles. If you enjoy this book, you'll also enjoy: The Ice Finders; The Man Who Discovered Time; Out of the Flames; The Lunar Men; World on Fire.

Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War

1 review
Benson Bobrick

RB Large Print, 2003

From Publishers Weekly:
Civil War buffs will relish this extraordinary new history from Bobrick (Wide as the Waters), based on a collection of letters written by his great-grandfather, Benjamin "Webb" Baker. The letters date from 1861, when the 19-year-old enlisted in the Union army, to 1864, when he was honorably discharged a corporal. As a private of Company E of the 25th Regiment of Illinois Voluntary Infantry, Baker ...

The new work of dogs: Tending to life, love, and family

23 reviews
Jon Katz

RB Large Print, 2003

Great Read!
I really enjoyed reading this book about the new work of dogs. Jon Katz writes what I always see in the lives of people with dogs, but can't exactly put into words. He does a great job of that by writing about the lives of people with dogs and how their dogs serve them. Yes, there are actual working dogs in the world working on farms and such. But the work he writes about in this book is more ...

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