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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: Books By Billboard (c. 1949 )
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BEST SELLERS Assaulted Pretzel
Creole Belle
Claire Weatherly has found the simple life she always wanted when she opened a gift shop in the heart of Amish country. Toy manufacturer Rob Karble is in town to meet with the members of the Amish community who will soon be crafting a new toy line for his company. Word gets out that Karble intends to use the Amish designs without employing the Amish to make them, and someone sends him to his final reward. MYS
Dave Robicheaux is in a New Orleans recovery unit since surviving a bayou shootout. His morphine addled mind conjures up visions of Tee Jolie Melton, who in reality has gone missing. An iPod with an old blues song left by his bedside turns Robicheaux into a man obsessed. As oil companies assign blame after an epic disaster, he unearths connections between tragedies both global and personal. MYS
Between Heaven and Texas
By Ralph Cotton
By Laura Bradford
By James Lee Burke
Fighting Men
By Marie Bostwick
Too Much, Texas, where the women are strong-willed and the men are handsome yet shiftless. Mary Dell Templeton and her twin sister Lydia Dale have always been warned away from the local boys by their Aunt Velvet. Unfortunately, the females in the family have two traits in common, superior sewing skills and a fatal weakness for men. ROM
Civil War veteran and former schoolmaster Sherman Dahl rides the Southwest as a gun for hire. He sells his services to those seeking justice, and is relentless in his pursuit of wanted men. A band of outlaws led by Chester Goines has been thieving and killing everything in their path across Arizona. When Goines learns that Dahl is on his trail, he welcomes the opportunity to settle and old score. WES
Collateral Damage
The Forgotten
Stone Barrington is back in Manhattan and ready to return to the world of deluxe dining and high society. Then an unexpected visit from his friend, CIA assistant director Holly Barker, draws him into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance against an enemy with plans bigger than they could ever imagine.FIC
Army Special Agent John Puller is the man that the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. He is now on a crime that is personal. His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida. The local police ruled her death an unfortunate accident, but she had mailed a letter before she died to Puller’s father, telling him that Paradise is not all it seems to be. FIC
By Stuart Woods
By David Baldacci
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BEST SELLERS Low Pressure
Summerland
Bellamy Lyston was only twelve when her older sister, Susan, was killed. A tornado destroyed the crime scene, and Bellamy’s memory of what happened. Eighteen years later, Bellamy has penned a bestselling novel based on Susan’s murder. She soon becomes the target of an unnamed assailant who is out for vengeance. Bellamy must confront the ghosts of her past and not stop until she reveals Susan’s killer. ROM
The students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in a horrible car crash, leaving the driver dead and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers are physically unhurt, but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before the crash. Truths are revealed about the secrets kept, promises broken, and hearts betrayed. FIC
By Elin Hilderbrand
By Sandra Brown
Peril in Paperback
Veil of Night
By Kate Carlisle
By Linda Howard
Rare books expert Brooklyn Wainwright has been invited to a party of a retired founder of a major video game corporation. She is asked to catalog Grace’s rare paperback pulp fiction. During the party, a séance is held, but when the lights flicker one of the guests is found dead, poisoned by a cocktail intended for Grace. Brooklyn suspects that the answer lies in the book that Grace has written about her life. MYS
Wedding planner Jacklyn Wilde loves her job, but helping bridezilla Carrie Edwards has been an unrelenting nightmare. The task turns seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone is accusing one another of doing the deed. Detective Eric Wilder finds that Jacklyn, whom he once was involved with, is now a prime suspect. ROM
Private
V is for Vengeance
Private is a renowned global investigation company run by former Marine Jack Morgan. He is already deep into the investigation of a multimillion dollar NFL gambling scandal and the slayings of eighteen schoolgirls when his best friend’s wife has been slain. He devotes all of Private’s resources to tracking down her killer and he doesn’t play by the rules. FIC
Private detective Kinsey Millhone is in Nordstrom’s lingerie department putting a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. She learns that one of the thieves has been found dead in an apparent suicide. The grieving fiancé suspects murder and hires Kinsey to investigate. She is led into a web that connects a shadowy “private banker,” an angry trophy wife, a spoiled kid, and a brutal killer. MYS
By Sue Grafton
By James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
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NONFICTION After the Fact
Eating With Uncle Sam
Picking up where traditional histories leave off, this book uncovers the telling details of history’s most compelling subplots. Here are the surprising fates of American history’s heroes, villains, and supporting characters. Prohibition agent Eliot Ness was involved in a hit-and-run accident while driving under the influence of alcohol. This is just one of the “What happened next “ stories. HIS
This is a collection of 150 recipes from the National Archives. From Queen Elizabeth II’s scones, Laura Bush’s guacamole, to recipes from “Aunt Sammy” the wife of the mythical “Uncle Sam,” these are all dishes kept true as they were published. No attempt has been made to modify the recipes to make them healthier by today’s standards. HAF
By Owen J. Hurd
By Patty Mason
The Gift of Pets
Birds of North America
By Bruce R. Coston, D.V.M.
By National Geographic
Veterinarian Coston shares stories about his animal patients and the clients that make his practice so fulfilling. He explores what it is about the interaction with our pets that provides such profound companionship, and how a love for animals helps us to be more fully human. Learn what a “sugar glider” is and how to give one mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. These are stories only a Vet could tell. SS
Using this guide anyone looking up to the skies can discover the joys of bird-watching. From the tiny Tufted Titmouse and House Wren to the majestic Heron and Bald Eagle, this book has gorgeous full color illustrations and photographs that capture details and typical behavior. SS
Butch Cassidy
iPad for Seniors
By W.C. Jameson
By Studio Visual Steps
Follow the exploits of Robert LeRoy Parker, also known as Butch Cassidy, as he travels across Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. He made his name as a surprisingly affable outlaw. Here is the answer to the question: Did he survive his alleged death at the hands of Bolivian soldiers in 1908? The evidence suggests that he returned to the United States and his family. HIS
The iPad is a very user friendly, portable multimedia device with endless capabilities. This practical tablet computer offers applications to allow you to listen to music, take and view photos, and make video calls. There is literally an app to do almost anything. You can learn how to take complete advantage of this technology. SS
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NONFICTION Mug Cakes
Oklahoma Curiosities
Here are more than one hundred recipes that are ready in a matter of minutes. You can make a quick, tiny batter to mix in a mug with a fork. From basic Buttermilk Cake to fancy Chocolate Caramel Fleur de Sel, these are all mouthwatering recipes. So if you’ve got five minutes to spare, grab a mug, mix up a mug cake, and satisfy your sweet tooth. HAF
Laugh your way through Oklahoma as you take a round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things that the state has to offer. Pay your respects at the grave that may or may not hold Mr. Ed. Go on a quest for the elusive Bigfoot, or to the only American city to be bombed by an aircraft in WWII. HIS
By Leslie Bilderback
By PJ Lassek
New Yoga for People Over 50 Once Upon a Time By Suza Francina
By Debbie Macomber
Nationwide, people are recognizing yoga for its ability to slow down and reverse the aging process. Yoga not only restores vitality to the body, but also opens and expands the mind and soul. It transforms the years after 50 from a time of deterioration to one of increased perspective and illumination. You are never too old to do yoga. HAF
Debbie Macomber helps each of us to understand that life is a story, part of a grand narrative that God is writing day by day. She uses the structure of a story to illustrate God’s hand in our lives. Each chapter in this book has a storytelling prompt, a searching question that will help frame our story. She shares her love of a story and helps showcase the big picture of the story God is writing through us. REL
Now That’s Funny
One + One Hats
By Andy Simmons
By Iris Schreier
Why is laughter the best medicine? Because it keeps you in stitches! Reader’s Digest is publisher for some of the longest-running, best loved humor columns in the country. Editor Andy Simmons has gathered the funniest jokes, interviews, essays, and anecdotes from the pages of the magazine. This is America at her funniest. HUM
Here are 30 spectacular hat projects that feature artful combinations of sumptuous yarns. You will need only two skeins of yarn to create something exquisite. Use cashmere sock yarn in two colors with an unraveling method, or integrate silk yarns to give depth to cables, or even mix semisolid and variegated merino. Just two skeins, but so many possibilities. ARC
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NONFICTION Pulling Taffy
Stashbuster Knits
Writer and singer Tinky Weisblat kept a journal during her final year of taking care of her mother, Taffy, who suffered from dementia. She shares journal entries, recipes, stories, and family photos. Tinky and Taffy managed to show stress the door, or at least encourage it to go out the window for a while. This is a story of love, humor, struggle, constancy, and good old fashioned pluck. BIO
What can you do with your stash of leftover yarn? You will find 21 ingenious projects for men, women, children, and home that are designed so no one will ever guess they were made from odds and ends. There are tips on customizing projects and ideas for using even the tiniest bits of yarn. ARC
By Tinky Weisblat
By Melissa Leapman
Stand Up and Garden
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By Mary Moss-Sprague
Everyone can garden, including those with physical limitations like arthritis or location limitations like apartments without yards. Imagine harvesting fresh vegetables, or fruit such as strawberries without the backbreaking pain of bending and digging. Develop ways to grow plants that produce large amounts of food in small spaces. Plant and harvest your own crops. HAF MLS Oklahoma Images Collection
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FICTION Close Your Eyes
Gone
Being blind has honed Kendra Michaels other senses to almost superhuman perfection. Her uncanny ability to pick up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues has made her a law-enforcement legend. When she is approached about a serial murder investigation, her instincts tell her to steer clear. Then she discovers that the next name on the killer’s list is her ex-lover.
Hannah Smith makes her living as a fishing guide in Florida, but everyone knows her as a woman with a keen sense of justice who can’t be bullied. People come to her with their problems. Her methods are unorthodox and those on the receiving end of them often wind up very unhappy. When a girl goes missing and Hannah is asked to find her, that is exactly what happens.
By Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen
By Randy Wayne White
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Harvest of Gold By Tessa Afshar
When Sarah married Darius, she did not know that she would feel she had married the Persian aristocracy too. She has wealth, property, honor, and power, yet securing her husband’s love seems unattainable. Darius has been on many battlefields facing fierce enemies, but now finds himself with a fear he has never felt before, because he wishes to express the truth to his wife.
By Laurie Viera Rigler
When Courtney Stone wakes up after nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and whiskey, she finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom but inside the bedchamber of a woman in nineteenth century Regency England. Courtney is stuck in another woman’s life and is forced to pretend she actually is that woman.
Flash and Bones
Knit Two
As 200,000 fans pour into town for NASCAR week, a body is found in a metal drum near the Speedway. NASCAR crewman, Wayne Gamble seeks out Dr. Temperance Brennan for help. Twelve years ago his sister, an aspiring race car driver, and her boyfriend disappeared. Is the body his sister’s or her boyfriend’s? After another disappearance, Tempe wonders who is behind the mayhem at NASCAR.
NYU freshman Dakota Walker works parttime at the Manhattan knitting store founded by her mother, and often relies on the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club for help. As the ladies piece together their projects they also discover the patterns that make life so challenging and beautiful. It’s not the difficulty of the garment that makes a great knitter, it’s the care brought to the craft.
By Kate Jacobs
By Kathy Reichs
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FICTION Mad River
XO
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde are on the run through rural Minnesota, and victim by victim they’re having the time of their lives. But when Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the hunt for the thrill hungry kids, things take a shocking detour. Even Virgil couldn’t predict where these outlaws would lead him.
Country-pop singer Kayleigh Towne’s career is reaching new heights when an innocent exchange with a fan leads her into the dangerous realm of obsession. When California Bureau of Investigation agent Kathryn Dance intervenes on Kayleigh’s behalf, she draws the admirer’s attention to herself. As Kathryn races to stop the stalker, she soon discovers that Kayleigh has more than one fan with a mission.
By John Sandford
By Jeffrey Deaver
Paroled
By Frank Roderus
Lyle Wilson is out on parole and all he wants is to be left alone to rebuild his small ranch and his life. He doesn’t even want revenge on the man who set him up, Bradley Thom, the town marshal. Thom figures that Lyle must have come back to town for a reason and he’s not going to wait for him to make the first move. Whether he wants it or not, it looks like trouble is about to find Lyle Wilson.
By Clive Cussler
An archaeologist friend requests Sam and Remi Fargo’s help to excavate a top secret site. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune. A trail through Europe leads the Fargos not to one tomb but five. They find themselves pitted against a group of treasure hunters, a Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian.
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Claude Wickens Inside Steinmetz Auto Top Shop 613 North Hudson (c. 1953 )
ROMANCE A Bride Opens Shop in El Dorado, California
The Icing on the Cake By Janice Thompson
Scarlet Lindsey’s dreams are coming true. She’s moved her bakery to a prime spot on Galveston’s most popular street, she’s planning an extravagant cake for her best friend’s wedding, and she has a great relationship with Bella Neely, a popular wedding coordinator. Then Bella’s brother Armando breezes into her life and she’s faced with a sticky situation.
By Keli Gwyn
Elenora Watkins heads to California with her nine-year-old daughter, to become a partner in a mercantile. When the owner withdraws his offer because she’s a woman, she opens her own shop. Widower Miles Rutledge is not happy about his competition, and not happy with the willful Elenora. But when another man appears to claim her heart, Miles searches for a way to win her.
The Lady and the Laird
Hearts Unbound
By Nicola Cornick
Lady Lucy MacMorlan is profiting from writing love letters for her brother’s friends. Letters that become increasingly racy as her fame grows. Then she inadvertently ruins the betrothal of a notorious laird. The dashing Marquis of Methven is onto Lucy’s secret and thinks that her letters suggest she is considerably more experienced than he realized. But Lucy’s knowledge is not based on past seductions.
By Sara Luck
When Pia Carranza’s father sends for her and her sister to join him in Idaho, she imagines that she will build a new life in this land. Her father has marriage plans for his daughters, with mates already chosen from the group of Basque men who work the sheep range. Physician Bart Wilson notices Pia, but also knows that it is the Basque custom to marry inside the culture.
The Letters
How to Lose a Bride in One Night
By Suzanne Woods Fisher
Widow Rose Schrock turns her farmhouse into a bed and breakfast and expects there will be problems. There is disapproval from her motherin-law and from the church. But she never expects that the guests will spill their problems into her life and into her heart. She also never expects that the rugged horse trainer next door will give her help. Love can bloom in unexpected ways.
By Sophie Jordan
When the duchess, Annalise, is tossed over the side of her honeymoon barge, she knows that she’s been left for dead. Her husband only has an interest in her vast dowry. She never counted on an intriguing earl saving her. Owen is enchanted by the woman he rescued. He will teach her to protect herself, and then send her away.
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ROMANCE Love Finds You in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
A Wedding Date
By Annalisa Daughety
Violet Matthews is determined to have a date for her sister’s wedding and doesn’t care what it takes. She hires a matchmaker but when she meets her match for lunch, she is horrified. She’s been paired with Jackson Stratford, an old college classmate. She didn’t like him then and she doesn’t like him now. He tells her that he will be her date for the wedding if she will be his for his high school reunion.
By Pamela S. Meyers
In 1933, Lake Geneva is well established as a summertime playground for Chicago’s elite. Meg Alden works at the town newspaper, but aspires to be a reporter. When a position opens up, she spies an opportunity to break into the business, but the son of a big-city newspaper magnate is hired instead. He suggests that they combine forces to uncover a local scandal. Can she work with the man who stole her job?
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Recipe for a Happy Life Hannah Goodman didn’t grow up like most kids on her block. Her mother is an award winning photojournalist and had little time for child rearing. Her wealthy grandmother has set up a handsome trust fund for Hannah, but her mother is determined that she make her own way in the world. So, Hannah becomes a successful lawyer dating a handsome musician. Then her life falls apart.
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By Brenda Janowitz
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MYSTERY Bad Egg
Cat in a White Tie and Tails
The worthless ex-husband of a waitress at the Charming Moose Diner shows up out of the blue demanding custody of their children. Soon after, the man is murdered and a surprising number of suspects turn up. The sheriff must find the real killer quickly before someone they care about is arrested.
Temple Barr and her fiancé are off to Chicago so she can meet his family and plan their wedding. Midnight Louie, Barr’s ex-alley-cat sleuth, tags along as chaperone. Louie is cat-napped from fiancé, Matt’s mom’s living room. During the hunt for Louie, Temple and Matt uncover a juicy secret that makes the recent murder of Matt’s nefarious stepdad suddenly look not so random.
By Jessica Beck
By Carole Nelson Douglas
Book, Line, and Sinker
Cooking the Books
By Jenn McKinlay
By Bonnie S. Calhoun
When a shocking murder is committed in library director Lindsey Norris’s coastal town of Briar Creek, Connecticut, she must find the killer before an innocent man gets the book thrown at him. Her downstairs neighbor is accused of killing the local tourism director who hired a salvage company that has arrived in town to try and dig up treasure buried over three hundred years ago.
When her mother dies, Sloane goes from Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner. She also inherits a half-batty store manager, a strange bunch of little old people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week, but never read books. Sloane begins to receive cyber threats and must use her computer forensic skills to uncover the source. Now someone is out to kill her.
Buried in Buttercream
Died With a Bow
By G.A. McKevett
Madeline has been hailed as the wedding planner to the stars. Then after a nasty divorce, her life falls apart, and rumors swirl that her parties have become total duds. She is planning far less glamorous affairs such as the wedding of plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid. Madeline soon gets on Savannah’s last nerve. When the big day arrives, Madeline is found face down in the pool. Savannah puts her wedding on hold vowing instead to find out who killed Madeline.
By Grace Carroll
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It’s been a year since Rita began working at Dolce’s boutique. Then Dolce hires a fast talking, young salesgirl, Vienna. She’s rearranged the store, relegating Rita to answering the phone. Thank goodness Rita has tickets to the charity bachelor auction. While Rita opts for something simple, Vienna wears a black dress with a pink bow. Rita is stunned to find Vienna dead on the sales floor the next day wearing that same dress.
MYSTERY Dirty Rotten Tendrils
Little Shop of Homicide
While spring is blooming in New Chapel, Indiana, the town has become a media circus. Cody has returned home after winning on America’s Next Hit Single, and brought his highpowered lawyer with him. The lawyer is found dead from a suspicious overdose and Abby’s old boss could be the killer. Now Abby and her boyfriend, Marco, must prune the list of suspects for a murdered man with a lot of enemies.
Devereaux Sinclair opens an old-fashioned five-and-dime in her small Missouri hometown. When the fiancé of Dev’s ex-boyfriend is found murdered with a champagne bottle and a stiletto heeled shoe, Dev becomes the prime suspect. She had put together a gift basket with the champagne and her fingerprints were all over it. With the help of her two friends, she sets out to find the killer.
By Kate Collins
By Denise Swanson
One Book in the Grave
Eternally 21
By Kate Carlisle
By Linda Joffe
When her husband loses the family’s nest egg in a Ponzi scheme, Maddie does whatever she can to keep up the appearance that everything is financially fine. She starts a bargain hunter’s blog under the alias of Mrs. Frugalicious. When she is researching deals, Eternally 21 store manager Laila accuses her of shoplifting. Then Laila expires on the floor. Maddie is the prime suspect.
When she gets a chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast, bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright finds out that the book belonged to an old friend of hers, Max Adams. Ten years ago he had fallen in love with Emily and gave her a copy of the book. Soon afterward, he died in a car crash and Brooklyn has always suspected his possessive ex and her jealous beau of wrongdoing.
Kneading to Die
Rules of Murder
Kristan Connor loses her public relations job and opens her own organic pet treats shop. Soon the neighborhood dogs are escaping their yards to show up on her doorstep begging for her special homemade treats. The town vet is not happy with the new shop. Kristan takes her Maine coon cat, Nutty, in for a checkup and finds the vet dead under a pile of kibble.
Drew Farthering is the epitome of a stylish 1930’s English gentleman who loves a good mystery. He just never expected to find a dead body on his country estate. With the help of Madeline, a guest from America, he proposes to use the lessons he’s learned reading his mysteries to solve the crime. He soon realizes that no one at Fathering Place is who he or she appears to be.
By Liz Mugavero
By Julianna Deering
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LARGE PRINT Alex Cross’s Trial
As in a plane crash investigation, Bosch searches for the “black box, “ the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together. MYS
By James Patterson & Richard Dilallo
Alex Cross has passed a family tale of his great-uncle Abraham along to his own children. Ben Corbett was a lawyer in Washington, D.C., in the 1900s when President Theodore Roosevelt asks him to return to his hometown to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. He meets Abraham who introduces him to the hidden side of the town. Ben aims to break the reign of terror. FIC
Canary Island Song By Robin Jones Gunn
When her grown daughter tells Carolyn to “get a life,” she decides to go to her mother’s home in the Canary Islands. It’s been seven years since Carolyn lost her husband, and her life has grown smaller and smaller. But with the help of her mother, aunts, the islands, a Flemenco dance lesson, and a defining camel ride, Carolyn starts living again. She even meets her teenaged summer romance, Bryan, again. ROM
The Black Box
By Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch links a bullet from a recent crime to the killing of a young female photojournalist in 1992 during the LA riots. The match indicates that the journalist’s death was more personal and connected to a deeper intrigue.
Desperate Housedogs By Sparkle Abbey
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LARGE PRINT 44 Charles Street
Laguna, California. She’s there to help Kevin Blackstone with his two misbehaving German Shepherds. She doesn’t expect that two hours later the police will find Kevin dead, and she is the last person to see him alive. Now she’s a definite person of interest to the police. MYS
By Danielle Steel
Francesca Thayer is suddenly the sole mortgage payer on her Greenwich Village townhouse. She puts out an advertisement for boarders. First to arrive is a young schoolteacher, then a young father struggling with an ex-wife and a seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend. The final tenant is a celebrated cookbook author hoping to start a new chapter in her life after her husband’s death. Over the course of one year, the house fills with laughter, heartbreak, and hope. FIC
Fireproof
By Eric Wilson
Captain Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter’s adage: Never leave your partner. Yet at home, he lives by his own rules. Countless arguments and anger have moved Caleb and his wife, Catherine, in the direction of divorce. Caleb’s father challenges him to commit to a 40-day experiment he calls “The Love Dare.” Caleb discovers that his wife and marriage are worth fighting for. FIC
Gone Tomorrow By Lee Child
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LARGE PRINT in Washington, California, and Afghanistan. It will be up to Jack Reacher, one of the passengers, to make a choice, and trigger an electrifying chain of events. FIC
would have asked for healthy too, if they had been given a choice. Five year old Willow is smart as a whip, funny, pretty, and brave, but everything changes after a series of events. The O’Keefes wonder what they would have done if they had known about Willow’s illness before she was born. FIC
Guilt
By Jonathan Kellerman
In an upscale L.A. neighborhood, a backyard renovation unearths an infant’s body buried sixty years ago. Soon thereafter, in a nearby park, another bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. There is a link to these incidents, and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware will have to draw out the disturbing truth. MYS
The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
It’s 1962 and three ordinary women are about to take a step that forever changes a town and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, and friends view one another. Skeeter has just returned home with a degree from Ole Miss, Aibileen is a wise regal woman raising her seventeenth white child, and her best friend, Minny, can cook like nobody’s business, but can’t mind her tongue so she can keep a job. FIC
Handle With Care By Jodi Picoult
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LARGE PRINT I See You Everywhere
employees. Someone is sabotaging his company. Several problems present themselves: Kate despises beer, no one seems to trust her, and she is falling for Matt. ROM
By Julia Glass
Louisa Jardine is the older conscientious sister who is a good student, and yearns for a good marriage, career, and a family. Clem Jardine is the younger rebellious sister, and is a constant source of frustration to Louisa. This is a heart-rending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love and takes us into the dark hearts of jealousy and anger, then sweeps us into the sweetness of affection and devotion. FIC
Malice
By Lisa Jackson
New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees his wife, Jennifer, everywhere. But it couldn’t be her, she died twelve years ago. He can’t tell his new wife about the sightings or the fear that he’s losing his mind. Then a copy of Jennifer’s death certificate arrives in the mail with a red question mark. He follows the trail to L.A. and straight into a killer’s web. Someone has been waiting patiently. FIC
Love in a Nutshell By Janet Evanovich
Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, and she’s been fired from her current job as a magazine editor. The only place for her to go is her parents’ summer house, The Nutshell. She wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, but she needs cash. Matt Culhane hires her to spy on his brewery
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ranch, she finds herself daring to love again. She then finds out that the townspeople think she’s just a gold digger. ROM
By Vannetta Chapman
On the opening night of the Fall Crafters’ Fair a woman is killed in the parking lot of Daisy’s Quilt Shop. There’s a madman loose in the largest crowd of the year and he’s searching for something or someone. Masked identities, antique quilts with hidden messages, an Amish boy, one brave dog, and a possible hidden treasure, all make for nonstop action and danger in Shipshewana, Indiana. MYS
The Moment Between By Nicole Baart
After the suicide of her younger sister, Hailey, Abigail Bennett develops an obsession. She is after Hailey’s boyfriend, Tyler Kamp. She follows him to a winery in British Columbia. Abigail has given up everything she’s ever worked for to chase down her obsession. Her journey is awash in memories of family and childhood. FIC
Megan’s Hero
By Sharon Gillenwater
Megan Smith doesn’t think that things could get any worse in her life. She’s pregnant, unmarried, broke, alone, and now stuck on a road without shelter when a tornado appears. She barely escapes with her life when Will Callahan finds her. While staying at the Callahan
Redwood Bend By Robyn Carr
Katie Malone and her twin boys’ trip to Virgin River is stopped by a tire as flat as her failed romance. As she ponders her next move, she hears a distinct rumble. Dylan 17
LARGE PRINT the past two years, Emma has been caring for her ailing mother, but after her death, Emma is at a loss. Adam has returned to the Amish community of Middlefield, Ohio, and reawakens feelings Emma had buried for so long. Both of them are older now, and both have reached turning points in their lives. INSP ROM
Childress and his buddies are on the motorcycle trip of a lifetime. While the guys are checking out her car, she and Dylan are checking out one another. Whatever plans they had for their futures are left at the side of the road. ROM
Shunning Sarah By Julie Kramer
Investigative reporter riley Spartz is constantly in search of her next TV sweeps piece. When a young boy is trapped at the bottom of a sink hole, she smells ratings. She soon discovers that the story involves a tragic murder, and the local Amish community as well. She finds a clue the cops miss, and uncovers a dark web of fraud and deception in the community. MYS
A Vision of Lucy
By Margaret Brownley
Lucy Fairbanks dreams of working as a photographer at the Rocky Creek newspaper. But trouble seems to follow her on every photo shoot. She encounters a mess of petticoats and ribbons, an accidental shooting, and even a fire. She then meets David Wolf, a quiet man who lives on the outskirts of town, and thinks she can catch the attention of the town with his photograph. INSP ROM
Treasuring Emma
By Kathleen Fuller Emma was Adam’s first love, but circumstances made them choose different paths in life. For 18
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