new books in large print, 3.27.08

Trailing West: a western quartet, Louis L'Amour
In "Trap of Gold," a man named Wetherton finally finds gold. The problem is that the vein is laced into an unstable piece of granite, and removing it could cause an avalanche. Tack Gentry has been away a year. When he returns to his uncle's ranch, he's told his uncle was killed in a gunfight and that he should "Keep Travelin, ' Rider." But Tack's uncle was a Quaker and didn't own a gun . . . In "Dutchman's Flat," a six-man posse goes after a squatter who murdered a man. But as the posse goes deep into the desert, they realize that this squatter knows the terrain a lot better than they do. Lance Kilkenny is known as the fastest gun in the West. In "Rider of Lost Creek," he's called on to help a man who once saved his life. How can he refuse?

Hand Of Evil, J.A. Jance
With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he's dragged along a deserted stretch of San Juan Road in Phoenix's South Mountain Preserve. It's the perfect place to drive a man to his grave — literally. Starting with a crime so gruesome even prowling coyotes keep their distance from the remains, a killer begins crisscrossing the Southwest on a spree of grisly murders. A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving. The newscasting job she once delighted in is gone and so is the philandering husband she loved and thought she knew. When a member of the family who gave Ali a generous scholarship for her education decades earlier suddenly asks her for a meeting, Ali wonders what it can mean. Before she can satisfy her curiosity, though, Ali receives another startling call: a friend's teenage daughter has disappeared. Ali offers to help, but in doing so, she unknowingly begins a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets, at the center of which stand two undiscriminating killers....

Third Degree, Greg Iles
From the New York Times bestselling author of True Evil — acclaimed as "one of the most original and entertaining...writers to come down the pike in a long time" (The Denver Post) — comes a new big-trouble-in-a-small-town thriller that takes place in the span of a terrifying single day.


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Wizard's Daughter, Catherine Coulter
Utilizing characters from the Sherbrooke novels and a paranormal twist, a #1 "New York Times" bestselling author delivers a sensational novel of a woman at the center of a centuries-old mystery and the man who will help her unravel the secrets of her heart.


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A Rose From The Dead, Kate Collins
Abby Knight is attending the Midwestern Funeral Directors Associations regional convention, where the associations intensely disliked chairperson is found dead in a locked casket, her signature rose missing from her hair. Abbys determined to find out who loved the victim--and who loved her not.

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I Heard That Song Before, Mary Higgins Clark
Kate Lansing is a 28-year-old attractive, smart, and gifted gardener who has just married Peter Carrington, 42, and head of his familys fortune. Soon, re-emerging memories threaten her marriage--and her life--as Kay begins to question the suspicious drowning death of Peters first wife.

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On Her Own, Wanda Brunstetter
Hitch up your wagon and take a buggy ride into Amish country, where love, faith, and hope get a second chance at life! Barbara Zook was devastated when her husband David was killed. How will she be able to raise their four young boys and manage her beloved David's harness store on her own? When harness maker Paul Hilty arrives in Webster County, Missouri, he finds himself agreeing to help run Barbara's shop. Things are going fairly well until widower Bishop John Frey comes courting Barbara, and Paul's jealousy takes everyone by surprise. Will Paul try to beat out the competition, or will he hightail it back to Pennsylvania? Will Barbara marry for love, or will she be forced to enter into a marriage of convenience?

The Last Law There Was, Bill Brooks
Riding out from the Texas Panhandle in pursuit of vengeance, 15-year-old Ivory Cade and his best friend Albert Sand are determined to track down the vicious Comancheros who killed Albert's father, and are led by the infamous Rufus Buck. First, they must enlist the help of Augustus Monroe, gambler, gunfighter, lawman and friend to presidents and kings.

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The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (The Cat Who .... series), Lilian Jackson Braun
In the 29th installment of Braun's beloved, bestselling Cat Who . . . series., all of Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere, is in an uproar following vast inheritances from wealthy old families. Only "Cool Koko" knows what's happening . . . and he's not telling. Jim Qwilleran thinks it's because he has more whiskers than ordinary cats, but who's counting?

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