HOW TO GET BOOKS BY MAIL Applying for service.
How do you return your books?
For those living in Oklahoma County, if you are 65 years of age or older or Easy. Put the books back into the bag and fill out the re-order slip if you completely homebound, please call 405-606-3295 or 405-606-3297 to wish to order more books. Turn the address label (located in the pocket on the side of the bag) so that the library’s address is showing. Or, drop sign up for Books-by-Mail service and to place your order. off the bag at any Metropolitan Library System library.
How do you receive your books?
Your books will be mailed to you in a reusable canvas bag. No postage What if I have questions? is required.
How long can you keep your books? You can keep books for up to three weeks. Of course, we hope when you finish your reading you’ll return them promptly so they will be available to others.
MAY 2015
www.metrolibrar y.org
No problem. Call us at (405) 606-3295 or 405-606-3297. We’re happy to help.
www.metrolibrar y.org
NONFICTION
of each of Oklahoma’s seventyseven counties. HIS
Anyone Can Paint
Muscogee Daughter
By Barrington Barber Learn the methods of painting in watercolor, acrylic, and oils through demonstrations of stepby-step methods and beautiful examples. ART
Grow All You Can in 3 Square Feet
By DK Books You can grow healthy, organic foods at home even in small spaces. Packed with information on window boxes, potted plants, patio gardening, raised beds, small square-foot gardening, container gardening, and everything else related to growing your own small garden. GAR
Main Streets of Oklahoma
By Kristi Eaton The author crisscrossed the state to find quirky stories that celebrate the unique events, landmarks, people and heritage
By Susan Supernaw Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, and abuse, Supernaw sought escape in school, dance and church eventually becoming a presidential scholar and being crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. This is the story about finding her Native American identity within an American life. BIO
No Mud, No Lotus
By Thich Nhat Hanh The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Hanh offers practices and inspiration for transforming suffering and finding true joy. PSY
Trust Me, I Know What I’m Doing
By Bill Fawcett The author of “100 Mistakes that Changed the World” is back with a hundred more bombshells and
blunders—from Pickett’s Charge to the Lewinski scandal—get a fascinating look at some of history’s greatest turns for the worse. HIS
FICTION Cane and Abe
By James Grippando Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife’s accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife.
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS ART..........Art BIO...........Biography GAR.........Gardening FIC............Fiction HIS...........History INSP.........Inspirational Fiction MYS..........Mystery PSY...........Psychology ROM.........Romance
Return Service Requested Books by Mail MLS Service Center 300 N.E. 50th, Suite 5 Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Oklahoma City, OK Permit No. 757
PAID
Non-Profit U.S. Postage
BOOKS BY MAIL MAY 2015
BOOKS BY MAIL MAY 2015
Titles available in large print and regular print.
Crash and Burn
By Lisa Gardner A woman who suffers from a rare brain injury is involved in a car crash. She insists police find her missing daughter who her husband states doesn’t exist. Who is Nicky Frank, and what happened the night her car sailed off the road?
Delicious!
A Dream of Home
By Amy Clipston When she moves to Amish country to find peace and healing, Madeleine finds a special community---and a special man---who pull her out of her solitude into a new life. INSP
The Heist
By Janet Evanovich By Ruth Reichl FBI Special Agent Kate Winslow Billie leaves college to take a job uses her own schemes to with a soon-to-be disbanded outmaneuver charming con food magazine. What follows man Danny Cole, who becomes is an intriguing story involving an unlikely partner when her dusty archives, long-forgotten next mission pits her against a letters written during World formidable adversary. War II to the illustrious James Beard, and a young woman in In Plain View New York City who learns to By Olivia Newport trust her culinary talents. The journey continues as software designer Annie Freisen struggles with a tough choice: Die Again to continue living her newfound By Tess Gerritsen Amish life or return to a world Detective Jane Rizzoli and where she knows she can medical examiner Maura Isles investigate the murder of a big succeed. INSP game hunter whose demise is linked to several seemingly Lizzy and Jane unrelated deaths and a camping By Katherine Reay safari in Botswana. With her passion for her restaurant sliding, Chef Elizabeth leaves New York for Seattle and the bedside of
her sister Jane, who has been diagnosed with cancer, and finds peace in a burgeoning relationship with Jane’s coworker Nick.
NYPD Red 2
By James Patterson A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears.
Obsession in Death
By J. D. Robb Police lieutenant Eve Dallas must contend with an admirer who is killing innocent people to prove his devotion.
Prodigal Son
By Danielle Steel Twins, one good and one bad, reunite after 20 years when one of them returns to their hometown, but it is no longer clear who the good and who the bad one is.
MYSTERY Destroyer Angel
By Nevada Barr Testing outdoor sporting equipment designed for a disabled companion, U.S. Park Services ranger Anna Pigeon returns from a solo outing to discover that her fellow campers have been abducted.
Motive
By Jonathan Kellerman The Los Angeles psychologist Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis, a homicide cop realize that the murder they’re investigating was committed by a serial killer. .
Shunned and Dangerous
By Laura Bradford Living in the small town of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, Claire Weatherly has come to admire the Amish for their wholesome, honest way of life. After she discovers the body of an Amish dairy farmer in Mose Fisher’s latest corn maze, Claire investigates.
ROMANCE
Tried and True
By Mary Connealy In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Full Steam Ahead Wilde is disguised as a man, By Karen Witemeyer homesteading for profit so Discovering that her critical she can live comfortably father’s health is failing, finishing back East. But love or danger school graduate Nicole attempts could change her mind. to secure a family heirloom and a business-minded husband only to land in the employ of a distracted scientist.
WESTERN
Inn at Rose Harbor
By Debbie Macomber Jo Marie Rose opens the Rose Harbor Inn bed and breakfast in Cedar Cove in order to start a new life, but the inn and its first guests bring surprises into Jo’s life.
Mountain Made
By Max Brand Beaten and disfigured by Jack Rutledge, Winsor Glanvil recovers in the mountain den of a shewolf and her cub. When spring comes, Glanvil leaves the den to exact revenge on Rutledge, accompanied by the wolves he has befriended.
My Foolish Heart
By Susan May Warren Unbeknownst to anyone in her small town, Isadora is a radio talk show host who gives advice on love and relationships even though she’s never been on a date, but that may change now that a handsome stranger has moved in next door. www.metrolibrar y.org
BOOKS BY MAIL MAY 2015
BOOKS BY MAIL MAY 2015
Titles available in large print and regular print.
Crash and Burn
By Lisa Gardner A woman who suffers from a rare brain injury is involved in a car crash. She insists police find her missing daughter who her husband states doesn’t exist. Who is Nicky Frank, and what happened the night her car sailed off the road?
Delicious!
A Dream of Home
By Amy Clipston When she moves to Amish country to find peace and healing, Madeleine finds a special community---and a special man---who pull her out of her solitude into a new life. INSP
The Heist
By Janet Evanovich By Ruth Reichl FBI Special Agent Kate Winslow Billie leaves college to take a job uses her own schemes to with a soon-to-be disbanded outmaneuver charming con food magazine. What follows man Danny Cole, who becomes is an intriguing story involving an unlikely partner when her dusty archives, long-forgotten next mission pits her against a letters written during World formidable adversary. War II to the illustrious James Beard, and a young woman in In Plain View New York City who learns to By Olivia Newport trust her culinary talents. The journey continues as software designer Annie Freisen struggles with a tough choice: Die Again to continue living her newfound By Tess Gerritsen Amish life or return to a world Detective Jane Rizzoli and where she knows she can medical examiner Maura Isles investigate the murder of a big succeed. INSP game hunter whose demise is linked to several seemingly Lizzy and Jane unrelated deaths and a camping By Katherine Reay safari in Botswana. With her passion for her restaurant sliding, Chef Elizabeth leaves New York for Seattle and the bedside of
her sister Jane, who has been diagnosed with cancer, and finds peace in a burgeoning relationship with Jane’s coworker Nick.
NYPD Red 2
By James Patterson A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears.
Obsession in Death
By J. D. Robb Police lieutenant Eve Dallas must contend with an admirer who is killing innocent people to prove his devotion.
Prodigal Son
By Danielle Steel Twins, one good and one bad, reunite after 20 years when one of them returns to their hometown, but it is no longer clear who the good and who the bad one is.
MYSTERY Destroyer Angel
By Nevada Barr Testing outdoor sporting equipment designed for a disabled companion, U.S. Park Services ranger Anna Pigeon returns from a solo outing to discover that her fellow campers have been abducted.
Motive
By Jonathan Kellerman The Los Angeles psychologist Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis, a homicide cop realize that the murder they’re investigating was committed by a serial killer. .
Shunned and Dangerous
By Laura Bradford Living in the small town of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, Claire Weatherly has come to admire the Amish for their wholesome, honest way of life. After she discovers the body of an Amish dairy farmer in Mose Fisher’s latest corn maze, Claire investigates.
ROMANCE
Tried and True
By Mary Connealy In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Full Steam Ahead Wilde is disguised as a man, By Karen Witemeyer homesteading for profit so Discovering that her critical she can live comfortably father’s health is failing, finishing back East. But love or danger school graduate Nicole attempts could change her mind. to secure a family heirloom and a business-minded husband only to land in the employ of a distracted scientist.
WESTERN
Inn at Rose Harbor
By Debbie Macomber Jo Marie Rose opens the Rose Harbor Inn bed and breakfast in Cedar Cove in order to start a new life, but the inn and its first guests bring surprises into Jo’s life.
Mountain Made
By Max Brand Beaten and disfigured by Jack Rutledge, Winsor Glanvil recovers in the mountain den of a shewolf and her cub. When spring comes, Glanvil leaves the den to exact revenge on Rutledge, accompanied by the wolves he has befriended.
My Foolish Heart
By Susan May Warren Unbeknownst to anyone in her small town, Isadora is a radio talk show host who gives advice on love and relationships even though she’s never been on a date, but that may change now that a handsome stranger has moved in next door. www.metrolibrar y.org
HOW TO GET BOOKS BY MAIL Applying for service.
How do you return your books?
For those living in Oklahoma County, if you are 65 years of age or older or Easy. Put the books back into the bag and fill out the re-order slip if you completely homebound, please call 405-606-3295 or 405-606-3297 to wish to order more books. Turn the address label (located in the pocket on the side of the bag) so that the library’s address is showing. Or, drop sign up for Books-by-Mail service and to place your order. off the bag at any Metropolitan Library System library.
How do you receive your books?
Your books will be mailed to you in a reusable canvas bag. No postage What if I have questions? is required.
How long can you keep your books? You can keep books for up to three weeks. Of course, we hope when you finish your reading you’ll return them promptly so they will be available to others.
MAY 2015
www.metrolibrar y.org
No problem. Call us at (405) 606-3295 or 405-606-3297. We’re happy to help.
www.metrolibrar y.org
NONFICTION
of each of Oklahoma’s seventyseven counties. HIS
Anyone Can Paint
Muscogee Daughter
By Barrington Barber Learn the methods of painting in watercolor, acrylic, and oils through demonstrations of stepby-step methods and beautiful examples. ART
Grow All You Can in 3 Square Feet
By DK Books You can grow healthy, organic foods at home even in small spaces. Packed with information on window boxes, potted plants, patio gardening, raised beds, small square-foot gardening, container gardening, and everything else related to growing your own small garden. GAR
Main Streets of Oklahoma
By Kristi Eaton The author crisscrossed the state to find quirky stories that celebrate the unique events, landmarks, people and heritage
By Susan Supernaw Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, and abuse, Supernaw sought escape in school, dance and church eventually becoming a presidential scholar and being crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. This is the story about finding her Native American identity within an American life. BIO
No Mud, No Lotus
By Thich Nhat Hanh The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Hanh offers practices and inspiration for transforming suffering and finding true joy. PSY
Trust Me, I Know What I’m Doing
By Bill Fawcett The author of “100 Mistakes that Changed the World” is back with a hundred more bombshells and
blunders—from Pickett’s Charge to the Lewinski scandal—get a fascinating look at some of history’s greatest turns for the worse. HIS
FICTION Cane and Abe
By James Grippando Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife’s accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife.
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS ART..........Art BIO...........Biography GAR.........Gardening FIC............Fiction HIS...........History INSP.........Inspirational Fiction MYS..........Mystery PSY...........Psychology ROM.........Romance
Return Service Requested Books by Mail MLS Service Center 300 N.E. 50th, Suite 5 Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Oklahoma City, OK Permit No. 757
PAID
Non-Profit U.S. Postage