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BEST SELLERS Burnt Mountain

A Hero to Come Home To

By Anne Rivers Siddons

By Marilyn Pappano

After losing her husband two years ago in Afghanistan, Carly Lowry has rebuilt her life in Tallgrass, Oklahoma. She is teaching third grade and has fellow military wives as best friends.

She’s content until she meets Staff Sergeant Dane Clark whose plans were derailed by a mission gone wrong. He finds comfort in the open spaces of Tallgrass and the attention of Carly. ROM

Growing up, the only place Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp in the North Carolina mountains. She met her first love and had her first heartbreak there. She later marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and moves only miles from her summer camp. Aengus is invited to the camp to tell Irish tales to young campers and things begin to change. Thayer is forced to confront dark secrets. FIC

Hiss of Death

Evidence

By Rita Mae Brown

As the redbuds open in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen is excited until a health crisis sends her into the forbidding world of hospitals, doctors, treatments and procedures.

She has her animal friends and her ever-helpful husband, Fair, to support her. A nurse’s lifeless body is discovered without a mark on it, and then another hospital employee is found dead. Harry and her menagerie can’t keep their noses out of this mystery. MYS

By Jonathan Kellerman

A watchman stumbles onto the bodies of a young couple in a half-built mansion in L.A. The male victim is eco-friendly architect Desmond Becker, notorious for his power to seduce women. Homicide detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware dig deep for clues. When the investigation veers in a startling direction, the investigators may wind up on the wrong end of a predator’s final fury. MYS

Last Chance Beauty Queen

The Fifth Witness

By Hope Ramsay

Beauty shop owner Ruby Rhodes has always wanted her daughter, Caroline to find someone nice to marry. Caroline was never interested in the local boys of Last Chance, but Ruby never thought that she’d come home with English royalty. The trouble is this guy wants to buy some of their folks’ land and they don’t want to sell it. Ruby just doesn’t think that he’s right for her daughter. ROM

By Michael Connelly

When criminal defense dries up, Mickey Haller tries to expand his business into foreclosure defense. Then one of his new clients is accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take her home. Mickey goes into high gear to exonerate his client, despite the mountain of evidence against her. His digging reveals that the banker was involved in dirty dealings. FIC 2

BEST SELLERS The Last Song

10th Anniversary

By Nicholas Sparks

By James Patterson

When her parents divorced, seventeen-yearold Veronica Miller’s life was turned upside down. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her father. Her mother decides that it’s in everyone’s best interests if Ronnie and her brother spent the summer with their father. Ronnie rejects all his attempts to reach out to her. She meets the local heartthrob and opens herself up to happiness and pain. FIC

Lindsay Boxer’s wedding celebration crashes to an end when she is called to investigate a vicious attack on a teenage girl and the abduction of her newborn baby. Assistant DA Yuki Castellano’s career rests on a guilty verdict in the case of a woman accused of murdering her husband in front of her young children. Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant and find the missing baby. FIC

Let’s Play Dead

Undone

By Sheila Connolly

By Karin Slaughter When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim. FIC

Nell Pratt is invited to the Philadelphia children’s museum for a sneak preview of a newly installed exhibit. In the middle of her visit one of the installers gets a severe jolt from an electronically animated forest creature.

He recovers, but when a second man gets zapped, this time fatally, it sparks a homicide investigation. Nell must channel her energy into finding the killer, before she gets burned herself. MYS

One for the Money

Waiting for Nick & Considering Kate

By Janet Evanovich

By Harry Oliver

Stephanie Plum needs cash fast, but times are tough, and she’s forced to turn to a last resort, her family. She lands a gig at her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonding company. Her first bail jumper is local vice cop Joe Morelli, who is wanted for murder. If Stephanie can nab him in a week, she’ll make ten grand, and all she has to do is become an expert bounty hunter overnight without getting killed. MYS 3

Frederica has been waiting for the day when Nicholas would fall in love with her as desperately as she has been with him. Nick had loved Freddie like a kid sister but now suddenly his feelings were anything but brotherly.

Kate turned her back on fame and came home to begin again. The only thing more beautiful than her dilapidated building she’s bought for her dance school was Brody the contractor she’d hired for the renovation. ROM

NONFICTION Arms Full of Love

Fact-O-Pedia

By Delilah

By Charlotte Lowe

Delilah is a favorite nighttime radio host and her listeners send her letters with their own stories of the heartache, healing, and happiness that their families bring them. This is the best of those letters and pairs them with stirring songs to recreate the magic of her radio show.

She also shares her own stories of her own family, and the laughs, worries and love her twelve children have brought into her life. SS

Start off with little known facts about Aristotle and Barbie and continue to discover gems about zombies, zippers and more. Did you know that cats were once used to deliver mail in Belgium, or that the football huddle became popular after a deaf player began using it to prevent the other teams from reading his sign language? This is a treasure trove for the curious. SS

Baby Love Knitted Booties for Tiny Feet

The Grand Tour

By Catherine Bouquerel

Agatha Christie set sail on a ten month voyage around the world in 1922. She set out in January and did not return home until December. She kept a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother describing the exotic places and remarkable people she encountered. These letters are full of tales of seasickness and sunburn, motor trips and surfboarding, glamour and misery. BIO

By Agatha Christie

Today’s babies are fashionably dressed from day one after their mothers and grandmothers have spent months knitting little outfits and booties to match. Here are a few ideas that you can make as arrival gifts for newborns. They are sure to become precious keepsakes. You can make dressy booties for special occasions or snuggly slippers for chilly nights. ARC

The Horse in My Garage

By Patrick F. McManus

Beat Sugar Addiction Now!

Humorist McManus weighs in on his childhood, everyday life, and outdoor tales with his typical exaggerated commentary that will elicit a belly laugh. Read about the antics of his friends and meet his horse Huckleberry.

Enjoy the experience of all the problems that come along with owning your own horse and keeping him in the garage. HUM

By Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D.

Mealtime can be an obstacle course for recovering sugar addicts with the modern diet awash in sugar and processed carbohydrates.

There are 120 recipes tailored to heal the four types of sugar addiction in this book.

Each recipe works on underlying causes of sugar addiction from exhaustion to hormonal imbalances. You can rebalance your body chemistry to fight sugar cravings. HAF

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NONFICTION Keeping Life Simple

Senior Satisfaction Revealed

By Karen Levine Learn seven guiding principles to help you identify what brings you pleasure. Levine shares over 500 practical ideas and passes on some of the easiest ways to simplify your life. Discover quick tips and small snippets of advice that make it easy to get organized and create stress-free family gatherings. HEA

By Patty Hopker Here is a guide that gives you the tools that will upgrade your aging experience of daily life.

You will feel more empowered, enjoy clearer thinking, improve your relationships, and be able to communicate your needs and desires, along with developing a renewed enthusiasm for living. If you are tired of being confused about which way to turn, these are some helpful alternatives to the aging process. SS

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier

By Ree Drummond

Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma

This is a mouthwatering collection of simple but scrumptious recipes that rotate through Ree’s kitchen on a regular basis.

These recipes are guaranteed to make your kids, friends, and family smile, sigh, and beg for seconds. You can make things like Cowgirl Quiche, Italian Meatball Soup, or an assortment of desserts like Blackberry Chip Ice Cream, or Coffee Cream Cake. HAF

By David Dary

Dary begins with an overview of Oklahoma’s rich and varied history and geography, describing the origins of its trails, rails, and waterways. He introduces us to Oklahomans ranging from Indian leaders Quanah Parker and Satanta, to lawmen Bass Reeves, and Bill Tilghman. He writes about forts, stagecoaches, cattle ranching, oil, outlaws and lawmen, inventors and politicians. HIS

Rooster

By Brett Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger than life as the American West itself. The only authority the Cogburn clan recognized was God and a gun. Rooster never packed a badge, but meted out his own brand of justice, even taking on a posse of U.S. deputy marshals in a showdown of gunfire and blood. He was a wanted man with a $500 reward on his head. He was proud, stubborn, fearless, and ornery to the bitter end. HIS

Women I Want to Grow Old With

By Diane Lofgren & Margaret Bhola This practical guide will support in cultivating friendships that nourish you and help you evolve. You will learn how to transcend limitations, overcome obstacles, and discover where your soul is longing to go by tapping into the collective heart that connects us all. SS 5

FICTION job. The club’s not only discussing books, but secrets are shared, old dreams rekindled, and new loves blossom.

The Blue-Ribbon Jalapeño Society Jubilee

By Carolyn Brown

The Jubilee blue ribbon has been won every year by Miss Clawdy’s Café, but this year Violet Prescott is going after it with determination. Café owners Cathy and Marty along with their best friend, Trixie must pull out their secret weapon. Welcome to Cadillac, Texas, where the jalapenos are hot, and the gossip is even hotter.

The Deveraux Legacy

By Carolyn Hart Leah Deveraux discovers that everyone thought she had been killed nineteen years ago along with both her parents in a boating accident. She has returned to South Carolina and the Deveraux plantation to uncover the real story of her parents’ death. One of her cousins welcomes her, but the others tell her to stop meddling in secrets long kept.

The Cherry Cola Book Club

By Ashton Lee

Gone South

The Cherico, Mississippi, library may be underfunded and overlooked, but it’s librarian Maura Beth’s pride and she won’t let the good ole boys on the City Council close it down. She has started the Cherry Cola Book Club as a last ditch attempt to boost circulation and save her MLS Oklahoma Images Collection.

By Meg Moseley

The opportunity to buy her great-greatgreat-grandparents’ Civil War era home beckons Tish McComb to Noble, Alabama.

Tish discovers that the McCombs aren’t welcome in town and feels like a Yankee

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FICTION behind enemy lines. Being a lonely outcast she takes in the town’s resident prodigal, Melanie Hamilton. The problem is, Melanie is set in her destructive ways and Tish must try to manage her and prove her own worth in a town that seems to have forgotten every sinner needs God-given mercy.

to come. Kathryn Dance and her C.B.I. team know when the attacks will take place, but not who will be the victims. Her expertise leads her to the driver of a fatal car crash, a teen who became the target of cyberbullies. She enters a world of bloggers and social networking.

Shadow Zone

Mounting Fears

By Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen

By Stuart Woods

President Will Lee is having a rough week.

His vice president just died during surgery, the squeaky clean governor that he has nominated for replacement may have some unnoticed skeletons in his closet, and there are some loose nukes in Pakistan that might just trigger World War III if diplomatic efforts fall short. Plus a rogue CIA agent is plotting revenge on the president’s wife.

Marine architect Hannah Bryson has unearthed a legendary artifact the might hold the key to unlocking the secrets of an Atlantislike lost city called Marinth. But her discovery might have dire consequences for the modern day world, and there are some people who will do anything to keep the truth hidden. The artifact is hijacked and Hannah stands alone between a power hungry enemy and widespread destruction.

Nano

The Stranger from Abilene

By Robin Cook

By Ralph Compton

Pia Grazdani takes a job at Nano and is shocked by the secretive corporate culture.

She’s warned not to investigate the other work being done at the gigantic facility, and not to ask questions about the source of endless capital that funds the research. When she encounters a fellow employee suffering a seizure, she soon realizes that she may have stumbled upon Nano’s human guinea pigs.

Bighorn Point appears to be a quiet place until a stranger comes looking for a murderer, and not all of the respectable citizens are what they seem. Cage Clayton has been hired to track down and kill Lissome Terry, but he doesn’t know what Terry looks like. The town Marshall gives Clayton a week to find his man in a town where everyone knows his deadly purpose and it won’t be easy.

Roadside Crosses

By Jeffery Deaver Roadside crosses are appearing alongside the Monterey Peninsula, not as memorials to past accidents but as markers for fatalities yet 7

ROMANCE and his big dreams capture proper young Clementine’s heart. When Gus proposes marriage, Clementine accepts, and moves back to Montana with him. The harsh frontier life is a shock, but not as big a shock as meeting Gus’s brother, Rafferty.

Alaska Weddings

By Susan Page Davis Love has come to the Holland family of Alaska. Caddie and Lyle’s romance is threatened as their duties in the Coast Guard make a long-term relationship impossible.

Robyn Holland’s sled dog kennel has financial woes and theft. She turns to veterinarian Rick Baker for help as she tries to organize the Fire and Ice race.

Widow Cheryl Holland thought that she’d never love again and certainly not someone like animal scientist Oz Thormond. But she suddenly develops an interest in polar bear studies.

Love on a Dime

By Cara Lynn James Newport, Rhode Island, 1889, is a place of sleek yachts and ladies of leisure. It’s certainly not the place for lady novelists, especially those who pen dime novels. No one in Lilly Westbrook’s social set knows she pens fiction under the name of Fannie Cole.

Not her family, the wealthy young man about to propose to her, and especially not Jackson Grail who just bought her publishing company.

Countdown to First Night

By Jillian Hart

When Shelby Craig comes for a First Night job, she secretly hopes it will be a respite from her grief and a haven for her two young kids. A sympathetic cop becomes her staunchest ally.

Children’s book author Ellie Summers came to the festival to meet her new illustrator.

She didn’t expect him to turn down her proposal or that she’d find him so charming.

Jolie Godwin does her best to ignore her grievances with Jake Wild. He is letting her exhibit her artwork in his resort for First Night.

If only he’d always been so perfect in their past dealings.

A Most Peculiar Circumstance

By Jen Turano

Arabella Beckett is returning from her travels in support of the women’s suffrage movement. She suddenly finds herself in trouble and is reluctant to receive assistance from the arrogant man who shows up just in time. Theodore Wilder, Private Investigator, is on an assignment to locate Hamilton Beckett’s sister. He finally locates her, and she turns out to have radical ideas and an independent streak. Their paths continue to cross when they return to New York.

Heart of the West

By Penelope Williamson

Cowboy Gus McQueen sweeps like a Western wind through Boston’s staid streets 8

ROMANCE Taken By Storm

Whisper’s Edge

By Donna Fletcher

By Whisper’s Edge

Savannah Perry loves her job as the social director of Whisper’s Edge, a retirement community. She feels treasured and loved by the retired residents, who treat her as their adopted granddaughter. The community is struggling to stay afloat financially. Then Tristan McMillan swoops into town as the new owner of Whisper’s Edge. He never expects to fall for the charms of a village of crafty retirees or to fall for a small-town girl like Savannah.

Having come to Scotland to find his brother, Burke Longton finds himself in a dungeon, accused of a crime he did not commit. A motley crew bursts into the cell and he is rescued by a beauty called Storm.

She is an outlaw wanted by the Scottish government and an avenging angel to the wrongly imprisoned. Everything and everyone she has ever loved has been taken from her and she’s determined to never let that happen again.

By Sari Robins

Heath Bartlett doesn’t want to believe that his childhood friend had any part in the crime he’s investigating. Lady Tess Golding is seen as the castoff of a disreputable rake, but she is protecting her own secret. Heath is certain that she is hiding something and he will do whatever necessary to uncover the truth.

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When Seducing a Spy

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MYSTERY information but the situation is deadly and in danger of boiling over. They can’t count on Saint Pat to drive out the snake in their midst. They have to.

Beauty to Die for

By Kim Alexis & Mindy Starns Clark

Juliette Taylor walked away from her career as a supermodel twenty-five years ago.

She now has a successful skin care line and spa retreats. As she heads for the renowned Palm Grotto Resort and Spa, she runs into Raven, a fellow supermodel. Within minutes, Raven flies into a rage and threatens to kill Juliette.

Two hours later, Raven is dead. Juliette must learn who killed her old modeling rival and why.

The Chocolate Castle Clue

By JoAnna Carl When a dusty trophy is found hidden away inside TenHuis Chocolade, it brings back terrible memories of Nettie’s high school singing group and the night of their winning performance at the Castle Ballroom. The ballroom’s owner was found shot to death, and it was called suicide. But everyone whispered, Murder. Now someone else turns up murdered in the here and now, and the trophy may be the clue.

A Catered St. Patrick’s Day

By Isis Crawford St. Paddy’s Day means good food, great music, and plenty of Guinness. But when the lifeless body of Mike Sweeney floats to the top of a vat of green beer, it looks like the luck of the Irish has just run out. The Simmons sisters, Bernie and Libby, try to stir up some MLS Oklahoma Images Collection.

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MYSTERY Dial C for Chihuahua

Hounds Abound

By Waverly Curtis

By Linda O. Johnston

Pepe may look like the average little chihuahua, but with one big difference.

He can talk, but only his new owner, Geri, can understand him. Geri takes on her first assignment for investigator Jimmy G and stumbles over a millionaire’s corpse. Pepe proves to be worth his weight in liver treats as he tries to sniff out the killer.

Shelter manager and amateur sleuth Lauren Vancouver thinks that the newest nokill shelter in L.A. is just perfect. It’s a place for handicapped kitties and senior spaniels to find a loving home and a second chance.

But now the owner, Bella Frankovick, is suspected of murdering her ex-husband, an animal hating cosmetic surgeon. Lauren must use her bulldog grip on the case to save Bella and the shelter.

Double Booked for Death

By Ali Brandon

Darla left Texas for New York when she inherits her great-aunt’s Brooklyn bookstore.

She also inherits the store’s mascot, a cat named Hamlet. She manages to get the hottest bestselling author to hold a signing at the store, which brings in hordes of fans. Then the author meets an untimely death during the event. It is ruled an accident until Hamlet digs up a clue that indicates otherwise.

A Killer Read

By A Killer Read

Reading specialist Lizzie Turner was excited about the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers Society that was being hosted in Molly Mathew’s old Southern mansion. Then a mysterious stranger stops by and is later found shot to death by one of Molly’s antique guns.

Lizzie steps in to investigate and begins to find mysterious manuscript chapters in her mailbox.

Fire Engine Dead

By Sheila Connolly

A series of warehouse fires has police looking for an arsonist, especially when valuable pieces in storage from the Fireman’s Museum go up in flames and a guard is killed in the blaze. A picture of the 1825 horse-drawn hand-pump fire engine in the paper catches Nell Pratt’s attention. It does not look like the original and no at the museum is talking about it. Did someone pull a fast one?

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MYSTERY The Long Stitch Good Night The Wild Wood Enquiry

By Amanda Lee

By Ann Purser

Murder Unmentionable

By Meg London Emma Taylor is trying to help her aunt, Arabella, breathe new style into her waning lingerie boutique in Paris, Tennessee.

Emma’s philandering French ex-boyfriend suddenly shows up in town and ends up murdered. Emma is the police’s top suspect. She and Arabella refuse to let death threats wrapped in knifed nighties stall the boutique’s fashion show. Emma is going to need more than fishnets to snare the real killer.

Life has been quiet at Springfields Luxury Retirement Home, and Ivy and her team of sleuths have resorted to finding lost cats. Even Gus is threatening to return to his memoirs, until his ex-wife calls in desperate need of a place to hide. Now the sleuths have their hands full, not only with missing pets, but with missing jewels, and evidence of foul play too close to their too-quiet home. © Metropolitan Library System MLS Oklahoma Images Collection.

Tallulah Falls, Oregon, is gearing up for St. Patrick’s Day and Marcy Singer’s specialty embroidery shop is no exception. At a St. Patrick’s Day party local brewer Todd and his friend Blake are found standing with the body of their former fraternity brother and a smoking gun. Neither is talking about what happened and everyone is convinced that one of them is guilty of murder. Marcy is determined to prove that the culprit was someone else entirely.

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LARGE PRINT The Accidental Bride

against the Catholic Church. The Illuminati announces that they have hidden a time bomb at the heart of Vatican City. Langdon follows a 400 year old trail of ancient symbols to the Illuminati lair. FIC

By Denise Hunter

Shay Brandenberger is a survivor of a crazy childhood, a failed marriage, and single parenthood. She participates in her town’s Founders Day wedding reenactment, and finds herself face-to-face with the one man who broke her heart when they were high-school sweethearts. Travis McCoy is back after years away on the rodeo circuit. Their “marriage” is accidentally made official and Travis wants it to stay that way.

ROM

The Azalea Assault

By Alyse Carlson

A national gardening magazine has agreed to feature one of Roanoke’s most spectacular gardens. World famous photographer JeanJacques Georges is shooting the spread. At the welcoming party he insults several guests, complains that the flowers are boring and gooses almost every woman in the room. So when his body is found in the azaleas next morning it’s no surprise. MYS

Angels and Demons

By Dan Brown

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. It has surfaced to carry out the final phase of its vendetta 13

LARGE PRINT finds that danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles.

MYS

Beyond All Measure

By Dorothy Love

Ada Wentworth journeys to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, in the years following the Civil War. She accepts a position as a lady’s companion to the elderly Lillian Willis, a pillar of the community. Ada hopes to earn enough money to open her own hat shop back east. But she meets Wyatt Caldwell, local mill owner, and her plan seems less simple. She becomes a part of life in Hickory Ridge and her feelings grow for Wyatt. ROM

Broken Wings

By Carla Stewart

Mitzi Steiner and Brooke Woodson meet when Brooke has an injury and is hospitalized. Mitzi volunteers at the hospital and the two develop an unlikely friendship. Mitzi and her husband Gabe were once a great singing duo but now Gabe has Alzheimer’s. Brooke’s fiancé, a lawyer with sights on becoming Tulsa’s next District Attorney, has anger issues. The two women help each other with love. INSP

The Bone Bed

By Patricia Cornwell When a woman vanishes digging a dinosaur bone bed in the wilderness of Canada. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is sent the only evidence that is available. She begins to suspect that the paleontologist’s disappearance is connected to a series of crimes.

She turns to those around her, but

A Flickering Light

By Jane Kirkpatrick

Fifteen-year-old Ann Gaebele is hired by F.J. Bauer in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom. Her dreams of a career in photography 14

LARGE PRINT seem to becoming a reality. She shows remarkable talent in both the artistry and business of running a studio. She proves less skillful at managing her growing attraction to the very married Mr. Bauer. FIC

seems to be falling into place and she is finally marrying Christopher, the man who claimed her heart.

She’s devastated when he receives an urgent telegram and has to travel to Kansas City. When he returns to Texas, Deborah is faced with a very different future than she expected.

She finds herself plagued with questions and uncertainty. ROM

Hidden Affections

By Hidden Affections

When Annabelle Tyler is betrayed by her husband she now bears the burden of being a divorcee. While attempting to start a new life, an unwelcome turn of events forces her to marry eligible bachelor, Harrison Graymoor.

Harrison assures her that he will get an annulment right away, but word has already been sent of the marriage to the press. Suddenly her ex-husband shows up very repentant. ROM

Loitering With Intent

By Stuart Woods

Stone Barrington is having a bad week when his girlfriend dumps him and he runs low on cash. Then he’s hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man. The young man is hiding in the tropical paradise of Key West. When Stone nearly loses his life after being blindsided at a local bar, he realizes that the man he’s been hired to track may have a good reason for not wanting to be found. FIC

Hope Rekindled

By Tracie Peterson

Deborah Vandermark’s life 15

LARGE PRINT he’s accosted by a criminal seeking revenge, a spark fuels between them. ROM

Look Again

By Lisa Scottoline When a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer comes in the mail, Ellen Gleeson’s heart stops. The child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. She knows her adoption was lawful, but she’s a journalist and can’t stop thinking about the photo. She investigates, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life, and that of the son she loves. FIC

The Neighbor

By Lisa Gardner Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren arrives at a home where a young mother has disappeared.

The only witness is her four-yearold daughter, and the prime suspect is her secretive husband. On the surface they seem like any other hardworking family, but below that surface things grow murkier.

Why is the husband more intent on destroying evidence and isolating his daughter than in searching for his wife? FIC

Merciless

By Diana Palmer

FBI agent Jon Blackhawk is tall, dark, and eligible, and to the women of Jacobsville that’s all that matters.

Luckily he has his reliable assistant Joceline Perry to be his gatekeeper.

The more he relies on her, the more he notices how invaluable she really is. As a single mother with responsibilities, Joceline is determined to be professional.

When she comes to Jon’s aid, after

The Next Always

By Nora Roberts The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, is getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. Beckett Montgomery’s social life consists of talking shop over pizza and 16

LARGE PRINT beer with his brothers. But there’s another project he’s got his eyes on. Clare Murphy Brewster, the girl he’s been waiting to kiss since he was sixteen. ROM

There’s a fatal accident involving a drunk driver. The other mother has a daughter who needs a new heart, and one woman’s loss becomes the miracle another has desperately prayed for. While one mother grieves and pulls away from her family, the other finds that miracles aren’t always easy to receive. INSP

Notorious Nineteen

By Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum lands an assignment that could finally bring in some herd cash. Geoffrey Cubbin has vanished from the hospital after an emergency operation. Stephanie must track him down, but he’s gone without a trace, witness, or his money hungry wife. Did he make a daring escape or maybe he never made it out of his room alive.

When a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Stephanie must crack the case. MYS

Swimsuit

By James Patterson

A beautiful supermodel disappears from a photo shoot at the most glamorous hotel in Hawaii.

Her parents receive a terrifying phone call and fly to Maui to begin the hunt for their daughter. Ex-cop Ben Hawkins, now a reporter, gets the assignment. Because of the ineptitude of the local police force, he must start his own investigation.

The killer sets the stage for his next production. FIC

One Perfect Day

By Lauraine Snelling This is a story of two mothers.

The first has two children, twins, who are seniors in high school.

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LARGE PRINT job. Clarissa Richardson’s dream of running her own pharmacy comes to a halt when her grandfather hires a too-perfect new girl. How far will these two women go to protect their dreams? FIC

The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

By Alexander McCall Smith

Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie gets an appeal from a wealthy Scottish collector who has been robbed of a valuable painting. She discovers that the thieves may be closer to the owner than he ever expected.

Against all this intrigue she suspects that her three-year-old son might be a budding mathematical genius.

What to do? Isabel finds herself tested, but manages to use good sense, quick wits, and a kind heart to come to the right solutions. MYS

Word Gets Around

By Lisa Wingate

Lauren Eldridge returns home to Daily, Texas, after her father admits that he’s in over his head.

He’s invested in a horse that’s supposed to be the star of a new Hollywood movie. But the horse won’t behave, and Lauren is the best trainer in the state. She soon finds more than she bargained for when the movie’s screenwriter turns out to be leading-man handsome. FIC

Waiting for Daybreak

By Kathryn Cushman

When her mother ’s only hope for a cure for her cancer isn’t covered by insurance, Paige Woodward lands a job at a new pharmacy. She has to keep quiet about her past to be able to keep the

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ALMONTE 2914 SW 59TH, OKC 606-3575

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BELLE ISLE 5501 N. Villa, OKC, 843-9601

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BETHANY 3510 N. Mueller, Bethany, 789-8363

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CAPITOL HILL 334 SW 26th, OKC, 634-6308

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CHOCTAW 2525 Muzzy St., Choctaw, 390-8418

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DEL CITY 4509 SE 15th, Del City, 672-1377

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DOWNTOWN 300 Park Ave., OKC, 231-8650

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EDMOND 10 S. Boulevard, Edmond, 341-9282

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MIDWEST CITY 8143 E. Reno, MWC, 732-4828

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NORTHWEST 5600 NW 122nd Street, OKC, 606-3580

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RALPH ELLISON 2000 NE 23rd, OKC, 424-1437

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SOUTHERN OAKS 6900 S. Walker, OKC, 631-4468

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THE VILLAGE 10307 N. Penn Avenue, The Village, 755-0710

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WARR ACRES 5901 NW 63rd, Warr Acres, 721-2616

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MLS EXTENSION LIBRARIES* *HARRAH 1930 N. Church Avenue, Harrah, 454-2001 *JONES 111 E. Main, Jones, 399-5471 *LUTHER 310 NE 3rd, Luther, 277-9967

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*NICOMA PARK 2240 Overholser, Nicoma Park, 769-9452

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*WRIGHT 2101 Exchange, OKC, 235-5035

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