Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Large Print Fiction by the Dozen (minus four)

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Power Play by Joseph Finder. The executives of Hammond Aerospace are attending a retreat in a remote lodge. Their opening night dinner is taken over by gunmen intent on ransoming the lot of them. Junior Exec Jake Landry's mysterious past comes to the rescue.

Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event by James H. Cobb. Lt. Col. John Smith searches Wednesday Island in Northern Canada to recover a spy plane with weaponized anthrax. Also searching are an arms merchant and the Russians.

The McKettrick Way by Linda Lael Miller. Meg McKettrick wants a kid but not necessarily a husband. Meg and neighboring cowboy Brad are attracted to one another but Brad wants marriage and family together.

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills. This is NonFiction not Fiction. Some sort of self-help book on "the self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy."

The Vanishing Act of Lesme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell. I think we have the regular print version of this. Iris gets a phone call saying her great-aunt Esme is being released from her mental institution after 60 years and would she please come pick her up? "I have a great aunt?" Esme replies. Why was she locked up? Why was Iris never told of Esme? Why was Esme forgotten there?

Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn. I'll take a guess at this one. There is a threat to the country by terrorists or traitors. Federal officials - either Special Forces, CIA or lawyers - fight the enemy against their own bureaucratic and shortsighted leaders. There is a beautiful, brave and plucky woman character.

A Time to Die by Beverly Barton. Deke shot and paralyzed Lexie during an African coup. Deke was a soldier working undercover and his guilt follows him after retirement to his job at Dundee Private Security. Lexie now heads an international charity when the son of a coup leader threatens her. Deke is hired to protect her.

Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Is this the lady who lives in Madison? Yep, it is.

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