Beryl Matthews

Title: A Flight of Golden Wings

Author: Matthews, Beryl

Publication details: Bath, England : Windsor/Paragon, 2007.

Large Print/ War Stories/ Love

Ruth Aspinall, a gifted pilot, joins the Air Transport Auxiliary - civilian pilots who ferry aircraft to wherever they're needed in the war.  Ruth falls in love with the experienced American pilot Jack. The cautious Jack can't put his heart on the line when it could all end in tragedy and loss. In 1944, Jack is sent to France to deliver a Spitfire, but never arrives. Heartbroken, Ruth must accept that the love of her life may never return.




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Louis L'Armour

Title: The Ferguson Rifle

Author: L’Armour, Louis

Publication details: Bantam: 1985

Large Print/ Fiction/ Western

L’Armour’s personal experiences give him  an understanding of the challenges of the American frontier that are hallmarks of his novels. In this story, Ronan Chantry takes up his prized Ferguson rifle and heads into an unknown land searching for lost treasure with a handful of trappers and an Irish girl. Chantry is well-educated, tough and dangerous and reveals hidden courage under the fire of a man who will kill for the glitter of gold. 




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Dean Koontz

 Title: 77 Shadow Street

Author: Koontz, Dean

Publication details: United States : Random House, 2011

Large print/ Thriller/ Horror

Koontz firmly grasps hold of the horror mantle that put him on the map. 77 Shadow Street is about an apartment complex with a history of its inhabitants mysteriously disappearing. We meet the creature who is a menacing, amorphous evil entity called the One, trying to kill as many humans as it can. This chilling and deeply satisfying novel will linger with you long after the final page is turned.




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Basil Copper

Title: Bad Scene

Author: Copper, Basil

Publisher: Thorndike, Ma. : G.K. Hall & Co., 2000.

Large Print/ Fiction/ Mystery/ Detective

“Bad Scene” from the Linford Mystery Library is by much enjoyed author Basil Copper. It is one in his long running detective series featuring hardened Los Angeles private eye Mike Faraday. The laconic Faraday is coming up on the half-century mark when a hulking boat-builder named Alex Prosser brings him a case that winds him up in a whirlpool of murder and terror. Aided in the investigation by his caustic blonde secretary, Stella, Mike finds that nothing in the case is what it seems -- including the supposed mobster fished from the sea near Bridport Inlet. 


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Mary Balogh

Title: First Comes Marriage

Author: Balogh, Mary

Publication details: Bath, England: Windsor/Paragon: 2011

Huxtable Family Quintet

Large Print/ Historical Romance

‘First Comes Marriage’ is Book 1 in the very readable Mary Balogh’s quintet about the Huxtable family - three sisters, a brother, and a male second cousin. This book is the story of the widowed middle sister, Vanessa who intervenes when Viscount Lyngate seeks to marry her older sister Margaret simply because he needs a wife and she is a convenient candidate. Vanessa has had her chance at love so is willing to sacrifice herself for her sister who is waiting for her childhood sweetheart to return.


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Agatha Christie

Title: They Do It With Mirrors

Author: Christie, Agatha

Publication details: Leicester: Thorpe: 2010

Series: Miss Marple Collection

Large Print/ Crime

A Miss Marple solves the crime story by Agatha Christie which will have readers guessing till the end. Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. When there is a murder and a life threatened, can Miss Marple live up to her friend’s expectations and bring  murderer to light?  Reader’s will enjoy the twists and turns of the investigation. 


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John Russell Fearn

Title: Man of Two Worlds

Author: Fearn, John Russell

Publication details: Leicester: Thorpe: 2009

Large Print/ Suspense/ Science Fiction

In “A Man of Two World’s” Fearn’s follower’s will enjoy the mystery he creates. When Walter Cardish, a very ordinary individual, has an incredible accident, he finds on recovery that he has been granted the power of seeing into the future. He assumes an identity, amasses a fortune, gains a reputation as a seer and creates enemies along the way. One of them tries to kill him, and the implacable workings of his strange destiny close in upon him. 


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Stephanie Bond

Title:Our Husband

Author: Bond, Stephanie

Publication details: Oxford: Isis: 2005

Large Print/ Comedy/ Mystery/ Romance

 ‘Our Husband’ is a fast-paced, funny, irreverent, and thoroughly enjoyable comedy. What happens when three very different women find they are married to the same man? And then what happens when he suddenly dies and each becomes a suspect in his murder? Natalie, Bea and Ruby realise they must find the murderer themselves in order to fight the murder charges and in the process discover they have more in common than a dead husband.






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Alexander Fullerton

Title:All The Drowning Seas

Author: Alexander Fullerton

Publication details: Soundings Limited

Large Print/ Adventure

As the Japanese sweep across the Pacific, the Allies make a last-ditch effort to defend Java. Captain Nick Everard, commanding the cruiser Defiant, joins a mixed group of Allied ships to engage a superior Japanese invasion force. Nick is badly wounded and his ship is caught alone in the tightening noose of Japanese dominance. To escape, the battered Defiant must play a cat-and-mouse game with the hunting Japanese among the islands of the Java Sea.


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Debbie Macomber

Title: The Shop On Blossom Street

Author: Debbie Macomber

Publication details: Thorndike 2008

Large print/ Romance

Series:Blossom Street

‘The Shop on Blossom Street’ is an entertaining, well-paced, relationship drama story from Debbie Macomber’s well loved Blossom Street Series. The plot rotates between four very different women brought together through the craft of knitting. In the process of producing a baby’s blanket they make unexpected discoveries --- about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to their growing friendship, fulfillment and by the end of the book, a love which enriches their lives.




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