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Reader's Digest Select Editions: Can't Wait to Get to Heaven / Thunder Bay (Large Print)
Reader's Digest Select Editions Can't Wait to Get to Heaven / Thunder Bay - Large Print Author:Fannie Flagg, William Kent Krueger Can't Wait to Get to Heaven (Elmwood Springs, Bk 3) = Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner's nervous, high... more »-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner's neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch - and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, “What is life all about, anyway?” Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot's Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.
Thunder Bay (Cork O'Connor, Bk 7) = Happy and content in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator. But his newfound state of calm is soon interrupted when Henry Meloux, the Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's spiritual adviser, makes a request: Will Cork find the son that Henry fathered long ago?
With little to go on, Cork uses his investigative skills to locate HenryWellington, a wealthy and reclusive industrialist living in Thunder Bay, Ontario. When a murder attempt is made on old Meloux's life, all clues pointnorth across the border. But why would Wellington want his father dead? Thisquestion takes Cork on a journey through time as he unravels the story ofMeloux's 1920s adventure in the ore-rich wilderness of Canada, where his lovefor a beautiful woman, far outside his culture, led him into a trap of treachery, greed, and murder.« less