We received a lot of new largeprintbooksinthisweek. The following is just a few of what we have. Come check out all of the new titles.
Mollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father's wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. After all, what options does she trulyhavein1860sMontana? But providing for her stepfamily during her father's long absences doesn't keep her from wishing for more.
When romance blooms between her and Peter Ronan, Mollie finally allows herself tohopeforabrighterfuture— until her father voices his disapproval of the match and moves her to California to ensure the breakup. Still, time and providence are at work, evenwhencircumstancesare at their bleakest.
Mollie may soon find that someone far greater than her father is in control of the course of her life, and that even the command to 'honor thy father' has its limits.
BeneaththeBendingSkies by Jane Kirkpatrick is based on a true story of a young woman torn between duty and her own happiness defies her father to become the wife of a man with few prospects.
September 1, 1939. Sixtyyear old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade.
Suddenly treated as an outcast in his own city, Janusz, respected leader known for his heroism and teaching is determined to do whatever it takes to protect the children from the horrors to come.
When over four hundred thousand Jewish people are rounded up and forced to live in the 1.3-square-mile walled compound of the Warsaw ghetto, Janusz and his friendstakedrasticmeasures to shield the children from disease and starvation.
With dignity and courage, the teachers and students of Dom Sierot create their own tiny army of love and bravely prepare to march toward the future, whatever it may hold.
Unforgettable, devastating, and inspired by a real-life hero of the Holocaust, The Teacher of Warsaw by Mario Escobar, reminds the world that one single person can incite meaning, hope, and love.
In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed some hundred and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-down in one of the bathrooms.
Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, wasthe onlyotherperson in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize fled the scene, but no evidence was uncovered.
When Dickins was convicted and sentenced to a life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions were drafted, signed, and circulated, pleading for her release, and after only five years,shewasindeedsetfree.
The governor granted Ruth Dickens an indefinite suspension. Beverly Lowry who was ten at the time of the murder, continued to investigate what happened decades ago on the most prestigious street in Leland, Mississippi, and she reflects on what her working class childhood in the south means today.
With brilliant reporting and irresistible prose, Deer Creek Drive tells the story of that unspeakable murder within the wider context of race and class, and sheds light on what it was like to grow up white in the Mississippi Delta during the last years of school segregation.