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The vintage photos appearing in this catalog are a result of the Oklahoma Images project, a collection of pictures and essays that illustrate the history of Central Oklahoma. Find photographs, art works, primary source materials, and essays that tell the story of the people who have called Oklahoma home. These images can be found on the MLS website www.metrolibrary.org.

On the cover. First National Bank After a run on banks during the Panic of 1893, and the closing of many banks, one stayed open because of the leadership of T. M. Richardson. It was the First National.

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BEST SELLERS Blue-Eyed Devil

Hannah’s List

By Robert B. Parker

By Debbie Macomber

Amos Callico is a power-hungry, vindictive, tin star with bigger aims. He needs the paid guns of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. This time, though, the soft-spoken gunmen aren’t for hire, which makes Callico a very vengeful man. His threats to Cole and Hitch ignite something just as dangerous in the town of Appaloosa. WES

Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter from his wife, Hannah, on the anniversary of her death. She makes a final request, she wants him to marry again, and she has a list of three women for him to consider. The first one is her cousin, Winter, a chef. The second is Leanne, Hannah’s oncology nurse. Michael knows them both but the third name is unfamiliar, Mary Roth. He starts to spend time with each woman, learning more about them, and about himself. Hannah’s list leads him to his next love. ROM

The Bodies Left Behind

By Jeffrey Deaver Off-duty county sheriff, Brynn McKenzie is called out to investigate a 911 call from an isolated vacation house on Lake Mondac. She finds a visiting Milwaukee couple have been shot dead, but there is one lone survivor. Brynn realizes that the perpetrators are still there.

Unable to call for backup, deprived of her gun, and her car, she takes her charge and escapes into the hostile wilderness in a cat-and-mouse chase. FIC

Heart and Soul

By Maeve Binchy Physician Clara Casey takes on the thankless task of establishing a clinic that will have little funding for a year. The heart clinic is in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. She is able to make the place a success, but now must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self pity. FIC

Cream Puff Murder

By Joanne Fluke Bakery owner Hannah Swensen has a date with her sister at Lake Eden’s new health club. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid Minnesota morning for exercise is bad enough, but finding the body of man-eating bombshell Ronni Ward floating in the gym’s Jacuzzi is far worse. It doesn’t help that a plate of Hannah’s bakery goods is garnishing the murder scene.

Hannah discovers that Ronni’s enemies are about half the town’s female population. MYS

Knock Out

By Catherine Coulter A seven-year-old witnesses her relatives bury a pile of dead bodies in the middle of the night.

She uses her telepathic powers to call a man she’s only seen on television, FBI agent Dillon Savich.

Now Savich and his wife and partner, Agent Lacey Sherlock, face their most elusive foes as they attempt to keep the child out of harm’s way. FIC 2

BEST SELLERS can she identify? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s to find her. MYS

Loitering With Intent

By Stuart Woods

Tough Customer

Stone Barrington is hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man. Stone thinks that this is a lucky job because it pays well and the son is hiding out in Key West.

But after arriving in the sunny keys he almost loses his life after being blindsided at a local bar. Then he realizes that the missing son may have good reason for not wanting to be found. Suddenly Key West is looking less like Margaritaville and more like the mean streets of New York. FIC

By Sandra Brown When a deranged stalker attempts to murder her daughter, Berry, Caroline King contacts Berry’s father, the private investigator Dodge Hanley. He hasn’t seen Caroline in thirty years, but flies down to Texas to protect the daughter he’s never met. He teams with Ski Nyland, a small town sheriff, and the situation worsens when the stalker claims other victims and leaves a trail of clues pointing toward Berry. FIC

The Search

World Without End

By Nora Roberts

By Ken Follett

Most people think that Fiona Bristow has an idyllic life, living on an island off Seattle’s coast, and having a thriving dog-training school. But, several years ago Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf killer. Simon Doyle arrives at her door desperate for her help with his out of control puppy, Jaws. As she embarks on training Jaws, a copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose one motive is to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands. FIC

Two centuries after the townspeople of Kingsbridge England finished building their exquisite Gothic cathedral, four children slip into the forest and witness a killing. This event will braid their lives together by ambition, love, greed, and revenge. FIC

Wrecked

By Carol Higgins Clark Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, arrive to celebrate their first anniversary at his parents’ home on Cape Cod during a major storm. The woman next door is found dead at the bottom of her staircase to the beach. By the time Regan and Jack get to her, she is gone, presumably swept out to sea. No one knows just who she was and how to reach her next of kin. The search for this mysterious woman’s identity makes for a weekend they’ll never forget. MYS

Storm Prey

By John Sandford Three men burst into a hospital pharmacy, duct tape two workers, and clean the place out. Then things turn violent and one worker dies. As the killers escape, their eyes meet for a split second with those of a witness. She’s a surgeon and also the wife of investigator Lucas Davenport. What did she see exactly, and whom 3

NONFICTION Behind the Palace Doors

failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. BIO

By Michael Farquhar

The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy

The kings and queens of great Britain have been beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, and bedeviled by ambitious children.

Venture beyond the rumors to the unvarnished history of Britain’s monarchs, and discover the unique blend of tragedy, comedy, romance, and incompetence that has made the throne a seat of unparalleled fascination. HIS

By Kimberly Powell Are you a descendant of ancient kings?

Were your ancestors fierce warriors? If you’re interested in your family history, you have a wealth of information at your fingertips. Learn how to effectively search various websites, decipher census data, chose the best way to share your data on and offline, and connect with other genealogists via social media outlets. HIS

Cleo

By Helen Brown She had no intention of adopting a pet when Helen Brown took her two sons to visit a friend’s new kittens. But the runt of the litter was irresistible. When she arrived weeks later, Cleo had no way of knowing that her new family had been hit by a tragedy. One of the boys had been hit by a car and had died. Helen was sure that she couldn’t keep the kitten now, until she saw something that she thought had vanished, her son’s smile. Cleo became the unlikely glue that held the family together. SS

Farewell Jackie

By Edward Klein Here is the moving account of the last months of an American icon who faced death as she faced life, with all the bravery and grace of a woman who had inspired the nation.

Klein chronicles the circumstances of Jackie’s diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the treatments she endured and the ones she refused. This is a compelling, regal tribute and an inspiring account of the last days of a woman whose legacy endures. BIO

Decision Points

By George W. Bush Come inside the Texas governor’s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq. For the first time, learn President Bush’s perspective and insights on such things as his decision to quit drinking, his family relationships, the administration’s counterterrorism, and his

Log Cabin Cooking

By Barbara Swell The recipes in this book make use of ingredients that would have been available in the American frontier 150 years ago. Imagine that it’s 1835 and you’re saying goodbye to friends and relations as you head for an 4

NONFICTION adventure into parts unknown. You have two iron pots to cook with and the only recipes you have are the food rhymes you heard your mama sing as she cooked. HAF

you’re a terrible parent who’s content to raise maladjusted kids, then walk away from it. This is not one of those parenting guides that have sucked all the fun out of child rearing. Here you will find out such things as: How to create a Team: “Us” vs. “Them”, How to Scare the Crap Out of Your Child, and Mind Control: Why it’s a Good Thing.

Remember: Raising a family isn’t easy, but why should you be the one who has to suffer? HUM.

Positive Options for Living with COPD

By Teri Allen Patients at every stage of COPD can learn to work with their limitations, rather than against them. You can learn to breathe more effectively, best use of medications, deal with emotional and psychological issues, identify your personal symptom triggers, and exercise safely, choose optimal foods, and quit if you are a smoker. There are also tips on working with doctors, insurance companies and home care providers. HEA

60 Quick Knits

By Sixth & Spring Books Whether you’re knitting for yourself or looking for sure to please gift ideas, you’ll find plenty of wonderful designs to choose from in this book. You can knit a cheerful pair of child’s octopus mittens, a monochrome scarf, a colorful cabled tam, or funky fingerless mitts.

Beginners and experienced knitters alike will find something to make and love. ARC

Quick and Easy Cooking

By Linda Johnson Larsen There’s more to quick and easy cooking than short cooking times and tiny ingredient lists. Delicious healthy meals are only possible if you have a rich store of essential tools, tips, and recipes. This is a step-by-step approach to everything from understanding basic concepts to buying food, organizing your kitchen, and preparing quick, tasty meals with everyday ingredients. HAF

So Long, Insecurity

By Beth Moore Every woman has some insecurities, from out looks to our worth as women, our relationships, our futures, and everything in between. Insecurity makes us miserable, cripples us, and makes us feel worthless. But we can overcome these by first understanding them, and then with the help of God we can have real, lasting, soul-deep security. REL

Raising the Perfect Child Though Guilt & Manipulation

By Elizabeth Beckwith If you love your children and want them to be better than everyone else’s, read this book. If 5

NONFICTION The Top 100 Low-Salt Recipes

their insights on life and reveal unguarded truths and surprising wisdom. Some 10-yearold thoughts: “Integrity is doing good deeds when no one is looking.” “Hope and faith are twins. You can’t break them apart.” Some words of wisdom from the centenarians: “In life, the one thing you can control is your word.” “Teach your children to be kind to everybody.” SS

By Christine Bailey We all know that eating too much salt can raise the blood pressure, increase the risk of heart disease and stroke, and cause other health problems including kidney disease, obesity, and certain cancers. A low salt diet doesn’t have to be bland, flavorless dishes. You can learn how to use exciting alternative flavorings, herbs, and spices to create tantalizing, healthy meals, all without added salt. HAF

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

By David Sedaris This is a collection of essays packed with details that readers will find as frightening as they are delightful, laugh-out-loud funny, and tear-jerkingly sad. Sedaris stories are wry, and wonderfully twisted. His trials and tribulations, no matter how small or petty, are placed under a microscope for our amusement. HUM

Treat Me, Not My Age

By Mark Lachs, MD

We all age at a different pace, yet too often the health care system defines us as a number or statistic instead of a living, breathing patient. This means that ailments go untreated or over treated. This is the essential handbook for navigating the health care system as we get older. Aging well means planning ahead in every part of life. Here you’ll learn to manage prescriptions, and find out why the hospital is no place for a sick person, as well as how to handle transitions between care facilities, and how to outfit your home so that you can remain in it as long as possible. HEA

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MLS Oklahoma Images Collection.

What I Know

By Roger Emerson Fishman Only people at the bookends of life can truly tell it like it is. Here is a remarkable group of 10-year-olds and 100-year-olds who share

Children Reading on front steps of Carnegie Library, 131 NW 3rd (Sept 3, 1948) by Charles D. Ingram 6

FICTION Big Girl

The Diary

By Danielle Steel

By Eileen Goudge

Victoria Dawson was a chubby girl with ordinary looks in a family that was beauty conscious. She leaves home and becomes a high school teacher in New York City. Victoria remains close to her younger sister, Grace, even though they couldn’t be more different in looks. When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sister’s future happiness.

Two grown daughters discover their mother’s diary in her attic and learn her true love was not their father. In their journey into the past, they see their mother, Elizabeth, lose her heart to one man while remaining devoted to another. She has a painful decision to make when a suspicious fire is linked to the man she loved. She’s the only one who can clear his name, but to do so would ruin her reputation and cost her the love of her fiancé.

Chasing the Night

Pretty Little Things

By Jilliane Hoffman

By Iris Johansen

Thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson has disappeared and is dismissed by the police as another runaway. Special Agent Bobby Dees, who heads up the department’s Crimes Against Children squad, discovers that the teen was involved in a secret Internet relationship. When other possible victims surface, the squad is pulled into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the most prolific killer ever encountered.

CIA agent Catherine Ling’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night nine years ago as a brutal act of vengeance. Her instincts, maternal and professional, tell her that her son is still alive. She asks Eve Duncan, who has endured the disappearance of her own child, to help find the boy. Eve uses her skills as a forensic sculptor to age progress the child.

Dead Dockett

Sidewinders: Mankiller, Colorado

By Mitchell Graham Ex-NYPD detective turned lawyer, John Delaney, volunteers to help a family friend when their daughter is killed in a horrific accident.

He soon discovers the sordid events in the dead woman’s recent past and facts surrounding her death suggest foul play. He enlists the help of his girlfriend, an Atlanta attorney, to help uncover what really happened.

By William Johnstone Bo Creel and Scratch Morton have accepted the best job they can get in a boomtown called Mankiller. Their boss is a drunken sheriff named Biscuits O’Brien. They start to take their new job seriously until they’re standing between a cunning clan of killers and the town’s cowering citizens.

They are now the only hope for a besieged town, if they don’t get their heads blown off.

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FICTION 7th Heaven

Trial by Fire

By James Patterson

By J.A. Jance

The teenage son of California’s exgovernor has mysteriously vanished and the pressure on Detective Lindsay Boxer to find him is overwhelming. At the same time mysterious fires are destroying some of San Francisco’s most beautiful homes and leaving the owners dead in the debris. When Lindsay enlists her friends in the Women’s Murder Club to help uncover the arsonist, the blazes rage much too close to home.

From a raging fire in the Arizona desert, a woman is pulled barely breathing. She has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her. Sister Anselm is a devoted advocate for unidentified patients, and steps in to help the woman. But to the would-be killer, Jane Doe poses a serious threat. Ali Reynolds, the police department’s media consultant, struggles to help Sister Anselm locate the missing relatives. Their efforts may be exposing the victim once more to danger.

Threat Warning

War Cry

By John Gilstrap

By Charles G. West

The first victims are random, ordinary citizens, fired upon at rush hour by unseen assassins. Caught in the crossfire of one of the attacks, rescue specialist, Jonathan Grave spies a gunman getting away with a mother and young son as hostages. Grave and his team must enter the heart of a nationwide conspiracy.

Their search reaches all the way to the highest levels of power.

Will Carson is Fort Dodge’s best scout and saves a lovely widow, Sarah, from Cheyenne Indian fire. This rescue has made him a mortal enemy of the Cheyenne. Bloody Hand and his band of warriors are determined to avenge the death of their own by taking down this “white devil.” Will has something other than good soldiers on his side, he now has Sarah to live for. © Metropolitan Library System

YWCA building, view is west on Park Avenue from Harvey.

On the present site of the Ronald J. Norick Library at 300 Park Ave. Between Harvey and N. Hudson.

(1956)

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ROMANCE easily save Zoe’s risqué reputation. Can he do this without ruining both of them?

Almost Perfect

By Susan Mallery

Fearless

Liz Sutton had stolen the heart of the most popular boy in town when they were both in high school. She was the girl from the wrong side of the tracks and their secret romance helped her through the worst of times. Then he betrayed her and she left town devastated and pregnant. Now she’s back and must face the man who doesn’t know of their son’s existence.

By Diana Palmer DEA agent Rodrigo Ramirez is sent undercover to Gloryanne Barnes’s stepbrother’s farm in Jacobsville, Texas. He’s looking to bust a new and vicious drug cartel.

Gloryanne’s job has put her in danger from the same criminal Rodrigo is investigating.

She is drawn to the new farmhand, a man who is much more than he seems. They must face the truth about each other, and decide if there’s a future for them.

Betrayed

By Fern Michaels Kate and Alex have a wonderful marriage, and a lovely home, until one phone call changes everything. Alex is accused and convicted of a terrible act and is sent to prison.

Kate discovers an inner strength to clear her husband’s name and ruin those who destroyed their life together. Her greatest challenge will be in avenging Alex without losing her chance at a new future.

Good Groom Hunting

By Shana Galen Adventurous Josephine Hale has half of a crumbling treasure map that belonged to her grandfather, a legendary pirate. Unfortunately, the remainder of the map belongs to Stephen Doubleday, Earl of Westman, her family’s sworn enemy. Utterly destitute, Stephen never dreamed a tale about pirate’s treasure would turn out to be true. Will joining this beautiful lady be the biggest mistake of his life?

Don’t Tempt Me

By Loretta Chase After twelve years in the exotic east, Zoe Lexham knows everything a young lady shouldn’t and nothing she ought to know. She has no hope for a future unless someone can civilize her. Lucien de Grey is the most popular bachelor in town and is the only one who can 9

ROMANCE Lost in Shadow

three million dollar loan. The money has gone missing with Ron and the bank is calling in the loan. The bank manager, Adam, is the brother to Ron’s other wife and now both he and Megan are trying to solve the mystery.

By Jocelyn Kelley The eccentric father of the Nethercott sisters dies before he could convince the world of the existence of ghosts. One sister, Jade, is ready to prove him right. Sir Mitchell Renshaw’s ghost has come to tell her that he died at the hands of his fiancee’s brother, Lord Bannatyne. He demands that Jade travel to London to protect his beloved. Now she must decide whether to heed the ghost’s warning or to follow her heart when she meets Lord Bannatyne.

A Mother’s Heart

By S. Sala, I. Sharpe, & L. Cardillo Here are three special women who contend with the trials and tribulations of motherhood and find romance in unexpected ways. A single mom rediscovers a long ago love with the help from her young son and YouTube.

A stressed out executive lands on her birth mother’s doorstep and falls for the guy next door.

A journalist helping her adopted daughter trace her roots learns a lesson in romantic destiny.

The Love of a Lawman

By Anna Jeffrey Isabelle Rondeau is running back to her hometown of Callister, Idaho. She’s determined to start over as a horse trainer and make up for lost time with her daughter. And no more men! That is, until she needs to call the local sheriff and discovers that he’s her old high school crush. While a passion that neither can deny develops, can two wounded hearts learn to love again?

Never Too Hot

By Bella Andre In the green mountains of the Adirondacks, wounded firefighter Connor MacKenzie has come to rebuild the 100 year old family cabin.

He has been scarred inside and out but knows that he’ll get back on his Hot Shot crew no matter what it takes. Ginger Sinclair has been burned by a different kind of fire. She’s escaped from a bad marriage and has retreated to start a new life. She unexpectedly encounters Connor, and they find themselves sharing a cabin and a romance.

Missing

By Jasmine Cresswell For twenty-five years multimillionaire Ron Raven has played the loving husband and father to two very different households. When he disappears, his deception is revealed. Megan Raven is trying to save her mother’s Wyoming ranch that has been used as collateral on a 10

ROMANCE The Raven Prince

Texas Princess

By Elizabeth Hoyt

By Jodi Thomas

Widow Anna Wren learns that she in dire financial straits, and now must find employment. The Earl of Swartingham, Edward de Raaf, needs a secretary. He needs someone who can withstand his bad temper and boorish behavior. Anna becomes his secretary, and it seems that both their problems are solved. But then new ones arise.

Liberty Mayfield has made the biggest mistake of her life by agreeing to marry ruthless Captain Samuel Buchanan. Hiding out in her father’s barn she meets Tobin McMurray who is trying to steer clear of outsiders. Meeting Liberty has made him hungry for something he swore he’d never have, a wife and a family. Unfortunately, this woman is about to marry another man.

MLS Oklahoma Images Collection. © Metropolitan Library System

Ned’s Grill (1949) Heavy snowfall, view south on Hudson from NW 12. Photo by John B. Fink.

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MYSTERIES Books Can Be Deceiving

they decide to dig into buried secrets. Then the town is abuzz about news of an escaped convict, rumors of trouble at the bank, and tales of a ghost heard digging around the local cucumber tree.

By Jenn McKinlay Lindsey Norris has just started as the director of the library in Briar Creek, Connecticut when her friend Beth’s boyfriend is found murdered. He had tried to stop Beth from contacting a vacationing New York editor with a children’s book she had written.

The local chief of police likes Beth for the murderer and isn’t interested in looking elsewhere. Now Lindsey has to act fast before they throw the book at the wrong person.

Foul Play at the PTA

By Laura Alden PTA meetings at Tarver Elementary School can get pretty heated, but after a member is strangled in his car following a meeting, Beth and her best friend, Marina fear there could be a cold blooded killer in the group. Rumors spread that Beth’s newest employee at her children’s bookstore is the murderer. As the new PTA vice president organizes a boycott of the store, and the real killer roams the streets, Beth realizes she’ll need to stick her own neck out to catch an elusive strangler.

Can’t Never Tell

By Cathy Pickens Lawyer Avery Andrews’ niece Emma isn’t impressed with the fright house at the Fourth of July celebration in town. That is, until the leg falls off a mannequin posed with a chainsaw and everyone recognizes a real human leg bone protruding. If that wasn’t shock enough, the next day a college faculty wife disappears off a waterfall during a picnic. Avery tries to piece together a very cold case and a very cold blooded murder.

Fundraising the Dead

By Sheila Connolly

The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree

When a collection of George Washington’s letters is lost on the day of the museum’s grand gala, and an archivist is found dead, Nell Pratt goes digging for answers. She’s frustrated when the fundraiser president doesn’t seem to be pushing for an investigation. Nell just may uncover a long, rich history of crime.

By Susan Wittig Albert

Path of the Wicked

Even though the country is struggling through the Great Depression, the Darling Dahlias Garden Club is determined to keep their town beautiful. When a local blond bombshell is found in a suspicious car wreck

By Jennifer Stanley Cooper Lee and the Sunrise Bible Study Group have just volunteered for a local charity, Door-2-Door Dinners. Of course, some of the 12

MYSTERIES A Slice of Murder

volunteers look more like Hell’s Angels than Good Samaritans, but never judge a book by its cover. That is, until an elderly Door-2-Door recipient is murdered, and the prime suspects are the volunteers. Someone in the flock is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The Lord works in miraculous ways, and so do the sleuths of the Sunrise Study Group.

By Chris Cavender Timber Ridge, North Carolina is a sleepy little town where not much happens. Pizza shop owner Eleanor Swift is fine with that, until a late night delivery customer turns up dead. Now she must find the killer before she becomes the next target, and her new shop, A Slice of Delight goes under.

The Quick and the Thread

By Amanda Lee

The Square Root of Murder

Marcy Singer throws a soiree for the grand opening of her shop, the Seven Year Stitch.

Everything goes swimmingly until the next morning when she finds the man who leased the shop before her, dead in the storeroom, with a message scratched on the wall beside him.

Now Marcy’s shop is a crime scene, and she’s a suspect in the murder. She knows she must get to the bottom of this mystery.

By Ada Madison The students at Henley College adore Dr. Sophie Knowles because she makes math seem like fun. Dr. Keith Appleton, however, was the most disliked professor on campus. When he is found dead, Sophie’s assistant, Rachel, who had a real problem with him, is the prime suspect.

Sophie is confident that Rachel didn’t murder him, and sets out to eliminate the lowest common denominator from campus herself.

Scoop to Kill

By Wendy Lyn Watson

Wicked Craving

During the annual Honor’s Day festivities at the local college, Tally Jones’ niece Alice stumbles upon the body of a graduate student.

Suspicion falls on the English professor he accused of sexual harassment, but a couple of days later, she’s found dead too. Tally sets out to clear the professor’s name but encounters, failing students, cutthroat academics, and extramarital affairs. Alice then gets too close to a suspected killer and Tally must act fast before someone else is put on ice.

By G.A. McKevett Having a few extra curves on her fullfigured body hasn’t stopped Savannah Reid from becoming one of California’s most successful private investigators. Her latest case puts her on the trail of a shady weight loss therapist who’s made a killing treating and cheating his overweight patients. The question is, did he kill his wife, too? Pound for pound, this is shaping up to be one of her toughest cases ever.

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LARGE PRINT Beverly Hills Dead

The Chocolate Cupid Killings

By Stuart Woods

By JoAnna Carl

Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills police officer, has risen to head of production of Centurion Studios. He is powerful and happily married to actress Glenna Gleason. It is the 1940s, tensions are high in Hollywood, and the Red Scare is an ominous sign. The witch hunt is spreading and with it come deception, murder, and dirty dealings. FIC

Chocolate shop owner Lee Mckinney and her aunt have been aiding an organization that helps abused women in escaping their tormentors. They are harboring just such a woman from a private investigator. The situation turns into a complex problem when the investigator meets his end, and Lee’s aunt becomes a suspect.

MYS

Carry the Light

By Delia Parr

Cross Fire

Two very different women meet and share the burden of being caretakers, and in doing so, they became the best of friends. Ellie Waters is trying to cope with her mother’s illness, while Charlene Butler’s Aunt Dorothy has a medical crisis. Together these two laugh, pray, and find new strength. INSP

By James Patterson Detective Alex cross and Bree Stone’s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of a perfectly executed assassination of a corrupt congressman and an underhanded lobbyist. When the gunman begins picking off other crooked insiders, he is hailed a 14

LARGE PRINT Deb on Arrival-Live at Five

hero. Alex discovers that this is a professional with information only a Washington insider could possess.

MYS

By Laurie Moore Dainty Prescott is an indulged society girl who is having a rotten, no good day. First, she discovers her longtime boyfriend kissing her boss’s young wife, then she’s arrested after a minor traffic stop.

Her boss makes Dainty a deal, get evidence that’ll favor him in divorce proceedings, and he’ll give her a paid internship. Now the Debutante Detective Agency is born. MYS

The Death Dealer

By Heather Graham When a string of homicides are mirroring the author Edgar Allen Poe’s macabre stories, and the victims were all members of a literary society, Genevieve O’Brien is afraid that her mother may be next. She turns to P.I. Joe Connolly for help. Joe starts receiving guidance from beyond the grave as people he knows to be dead appear to him. As Genevieve and Joe work together on this nightmare they begin to have romantic feelings toward each other. ROM

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Child Reading Projected book. (c. 1949) Under the library outreach program at that time, children who were homebound or hospitalized could view a microfilmed book onto the ceiling for immobilized patients.

LARGE PRINT Every Last Cuckoo

trying to seduce her, he cooks her potholder in the spaghetti sauce, and destroys her favorite pan trying to make a roast in it. All may seem lost for them until Aunt Edna, a ride on a Zamboni, and genuine love of family turns their luck around. ROM

By Kate Maloy Sarah thought that at age seventy-five her life was settled, until her granddaughter Lottie comes to live with her. Soon, two displaced friends of Lottie’s are added to the household. Then comes an Israeli soldier turned pacifist who needs a retreat. When a young family loses its home to a fire, Sarah finds room for them also. Just when she thinks that life couldn’t get any more chaotic, a woman and her infant, fleeing a violent spouse, show up. Sarah’s picture perfect home has become an unruly refuge, and she loves it. FIC

Invasion of the Widow’s Club

By Joyce Livingston After being a widow for several years, Valentine Denay is hesitant to move forward, but finally seems to have found a new love with Robert Chase. He’s a patient man. But will they both miss a second chance at happiness? Then Diamond Jenson moves into Val’s Nashville neighborhood and joins the fledgling Widow’s Club. Soon, peculiar events prompt Val to suspect that all is not what it seems.

Will the mysteries be solved before there’s one less member of the club? FIC

Hero at Large

By Janet Evanovich Ken Callahan stops to help single mom Chris Nelson with her car, but somehow she manages to break his arm, then his toe, and then his heart.

He moves into her basement and in 16

LARGE PRINT war has affected the town, and a small group of men take it upon themselves to harass Sophie’s family. Coming to Sophie’s rescue is a teacher form the high school, and despite their cultural differences, a romance starts to bloom. ROM

The Longing Season

By Christine Schaub John Newton leaves Plymouth feeling that his destiny was to be found at sea. His journey would find him reduced to an outcast.

Mary Catlett refuses to believe he had disappeared and takes steps to locate him. Meanwhile, he has become a slave trader with one goal: to make a fortune and find his way back to civilization.

When a storm at sea brings him to his knees, his outlook changes forever, and inspires him to write the incredible hymn “Amazing Grace.” FIC

92 Pacific Boulevard

By Debbie Macomber

Sheriff Troy Davis hoped to marry Faith Beckwith but she ended the relationship after misunderstandings between them, some of them caused by his daughter, Megan. Now he has other things to keep him occupied, like the unidentified remains found outside of town. Then his friend Judge Olivia Griffin is fighting cancer and there are mysterious break-ins at the house Faith just happens to be renting. ROM

The Moon Looked Down

By Dorothy Garlock Sophie Heller’s family immigrated from Germany to Victory, a small town in Illinois, before WWII began. Now the 17

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depend on her faith, the wisdom of her Amish relatives and the insight of the man she has recently begun dating. The secrets she uncovers, threatens her B&B, her beliefs, and ultimately her life. MYS

By Fern Michaels Toots Loundenberry has crammed a great deal of living and eight husbands into her life.

Toots’s daughter is about to lose her job at a paper due to the owner’s gambling debts. Toots calls on her three friends, Sophie, Mavis, and Ida to help her pull some strings.

Together they’ll hatch a plan that promises thrills, laughter, and more than a hint of danger. ROM

Sophie’s Dilemma

By Lauraine Snelling Sophie Knutson is certain that she can’t live without Hamre Bjorklund and rejects her father’s request to postpone her marriage until after graduation. She convinces Hamre to elope but finds that life as a fisherman’s bride in Washington is not all that she had envisioned.

Pregnant and lonely while Hamre is away at sea, she gets a job at a fish cannery. When tragedy strikes, Sophie can only think of returning home to her family. INSP

Secrets of Harmony Grove

By Mindy Starns Clark Sienna Collins, ad executive and owner of Harmony Grove Bed and Breakfast learns that she is under investigation by the federal government for crimes she knows nothing about. She finds her exboyfriend dead, and her life begins to spin out of control. As she tries to clear her name, she is forced to

To Have and To Kill

By Mary Jane Clark Struggling actress, Piper Donovan, moves back in with her 18

parents to take stock of her life.

She steps into the family bakery business and finds herself agreeing to create a wedding cake for the star of a daytime television drama.

When someone close to the brideto-be is murdered, it seems that

somebody is determined to stop the wedding. As Piper narrows in on a suspect, she realizes that it’s hotter in the kitchen than she may be able to handle. MYS

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