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.
JUNE 2015
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No problem. Call us at (405) 606-3295 or 405-606-3297. We’re happy to help.
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NONFICTION
Halina
By Halina Bratkowna Johnson In this gripping first-person account of the Nazi occupation of Poland, the author describes her personal experiences of those historical events interwoven with an inspirational chronicle of Poland’s bravery. BIO
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: The Anthology
This commemorative volume corrals over 100 poems by more than fifty poets who have appeared at the Gathering over the last three decades. Their poems range from traditional ballads to freestyle verse and will make you laugh, sigh, and sit up straight in your saddle. LIT
Object: Matrimony
By Chris Enss An entertaining look at the serious business of finding a husband or wife by mail in the
wide-open days of the Old West. Includes historic photographs and actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides. HIS
Survival Lessons
By Alice Hoffman After being diagnosed with cancer, the author began to look at her life in a different way. She shares her suggestions for finding beauty in the world even during the toughest times. PSY
Sweet & Simple Patchwork Gifts
By Hisako Arai Whether you’re a newbie or a comfortable quilter, the projects, fabrics, and designs in this book will inspire you to create many of the projects to give as wonderful gifts! ARC
Trisha’s Table
By Trisha Yearwood Country music superstar, Food Network standout, and bestselling cookbook author Trisha Yearwood shows how
delicious foods and wholesome dishes are part of the same balanced lifestyle. CKY
FICTION All the Light We Cannot See
By Anthony Doerr A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Cavendon Hall
By Barbara Taylor Bradford Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS ARC..........Arts & Crafts BIO...........Biography CKY.........Cookery HIS...........History INSP.........Inspirational Fiction PSY...........Psychology
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
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BOOKS BY MAIL JUNE 2015
BOOKS BY MAIL JUNE 2015
Titles available in large print and regular print.
over the centuries. But now, with World War I looming, these two families will find themselves tested in ways they never thought possible.
Cold Cold Heart
By Tami Hoag A promising TV reporter is attacked by a serial killer. Returning to her hometown in an attempt to put her life back together rekindles the police and media’s interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend’s disappearance the summer after their high-school graduation.
The Guest Book
By Marybeth Whalen Twenty-one years after she began exchanging drawings with an unknown boy through the guestbook at a vacation home, Macy Dillon returns to Sunset Beach in search of the boy whose artwork moved her as a child. INSP
Home to Chicory Lane
By Deborah Raney Audrey and Grany Whitman find that running a bed and breakfast is a bigger job than
expected when their newlywed ring that is more seductively daughter appears with all of her threatening than anything he’s belongings and no husband in witnessed before. sight. INSP
Keep Quiet
By Lisa Scottoline Jake Buckman’s split-second decision to leave the scene of a car accident caused by his sixteen-year-old son Ryan leaves father and son living under the crushing weight of their secret, which threatens to tear their family to shreds and ruin them all.
Memory Man
By David Baldacci More than a year after the most tragic event in Amos Decker’s life, a man confesses to murdering his family and Amos, called to help with the investigation, struggles with the memories.
Private Vegas
By James Patterson Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his top investigation firm has its headquarters. A hunt for two criminals leads him to the city of sin--and to a murder
Saving Grace
By Jane Green A literary power couple hides behind a carefree public image must face the painful realities of the husband’s raging mood swings and the wife’s past secrets until a too-good-tobe-true new assistant enters their lives, with dangerous consequences.
Shattered
By Karen Robards While investigating the coldcase disappearance of a baby girl 28 years earlier, attorney Lisa Grant begins to believe that she herself was the missing toddler. That makes Lisa’s life a lie, and whoever erased the truth isn’t through with her....
Vacationers
By Emma Straub Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter’s high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts,
and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
MYSTERY The Girl on the Train
By Paula Hawkins Rachel watches what she considers a perfect couple at breakfast every day as she rides the commuter train to London. In a brief moment Rachel sees something shocking. Then the wife goes missing. Rachel offers what she knows to the police, but can her glimpse be trusted?
Murder at the Book Group
By Maggie King When her friend and fellow murder mystery book group member Carlene drops dead after drinking cyanide-spiked tea, Hazel Rose investigates Carlene’s past, which she took great pains to hide, in search of a motive for murder.
the Rose Harbor Inn is touched illustrious Chicago family—a family who may guard the secret by a letter that proves love is strong enough to overcome any of her sister’s disappearance. challenge.
Silkworm
By Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike investigates the disappearance of a novelist who, in his most recent book, unflatteringly portrayed people from his life.
ROMANCE Buttermilk Sky
By Jan Watson After Mary Pelfrey goes to business school in Lexington, Kentucky to improve her chances for a better life, she meets a young man from a wealthy family, but she can’t seem to forget Chanis Clay, the young sheriff she left behind in her mountain hometown.
Love Letters: A Rose Harbor Novel
By Debbie Macomber Summer is a busy season at the inn and proprietor Jo Marie By Shelley Shepard Gray Rose welcomes three visitors Against the backdrop of the 1893 who, like her, are setting out on World’s Fair, a young woman new paths. Each new guest at finds employment with an
Playing by Heart
By Anne Mateer In early 20th century Oklahoma, Mathematics teacher Lula Bowman is called back to Oklahoma to help her sister. The only teaching job available is music instructor/basketball coach. She reluctantly turns to the handsome boys’ coach to learn the newfangled game of basketball.
Promise of Palm Grove
By Shelley Shepard Gray A young Amish woman finds herself torn between the man she’s pledged to wed and the man her heart desires in this heartwarming story of chance, duty, and choice. INSP
Secrets of Sloan House
www.metrolibrar y.org
BOOKS BY MAIL JUNE 2015
BOOKS BY MAIL JUNE 2015
Titles available in large print and regular print.
over the centuries. But now, with World War I looming, these two families will find themselves tested in ways they never thought possible.
Cold Cold Heart
By Tami Hoag A promising TV reporter is attacked by a serial killer. Returning to her hometown in an attempt to put her life back together rekindles the police and media’s interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend’s disappearance the summer after their high-school graduation.
The Guest Book
By Marybeth Whalen Twenty-one years after she began exchanging drawings with an unknown boy through the guestbook at a vacation home, Macy Dillon returns to Sunset Beach in search of the boy whose artwork moved her as a child. INSP
Home to Chicory Lane
By Deborah Raney Audrey and Grany Whitman find that running a bed and breakfast is a bigger job than
expected when their newlywed ring that is more seductively daughter appears with all of her threatening than anything he’s belongings and no husband in witnessed before. sight. INSP
Keep Quiet
By Lisa Scottoline Jake Buckman’s split-second decision to leave the scene of a car accident caused by his sixteen-year-old son Ryan leaves father and son living under the crushing weight of their secret, which threatens to tear their family to shreds and ruin them all.
Memory Man
By David Baldacci More than a year after the most tragic event in Amos Decker’s life, a man confesses to murdering his family and Amos, called to help with the investigation, struggles with the memories.
Private Vegas
By James Patterson Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his top investigation firm has its headquarters. A hunt for two criminals leads him to the city of sin--and to a murder
Saving Grace
By Jane Green A literary power couple hides behind a carefree public image must face the painful realities of the husband’s raging mood swings and the wife’s past secrets until a too-good-tobe-true new assistant enters their lives, with dangerous consequences.
Shattered
By Karen Robards While investigating the coldcase disappearance of a baby girl 28 years earlier, attorney Lisa Grant begins to believe that she herself was the missing toddler. That makes Lisa’s life a lie, and whoever erased the truth isn’t through with her....
Vacationers
By Emma Straub Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter’s high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts,
and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
MYSTERY The Girl on the Train
By Paula Hawkins Rachel watches what she considers a perfect couple at breakfast every day as she rides the commuter train to London. In a brief moment Rachel sees something shocking. Then the wife goes missing. Rachel offers what she knows to the police, but can her glimpse be trusted?
Murder at the Book Group
By Maggie King When her friend and fellow murder mystery book group member Carlene drops dead after drinking cyanide-spiked tea, Hazel Rose investigates Carlene’s past, which she took great pains to hide, in search of a motive for murder.
the Rose Harbor Inn is touched illustrious Chicago family—a family who may guard the secret by a letter that proves love is strong enough to overcome any of her sister’s disappearance. challenge.
Silkworm
By Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike investigates the disappearance of a novelist who, in his most recent book, unflatteringly portrayed people from his life.
ROMANCE Buttermilk Sky
By Jan Watson After Mary Pelfrey goes to business school in Lexington, Kentucky to improve her chances for a better life, she meets a young man from a wealthy family, but she can’t seem to forget Chanis Clay, the young sheriff she left behind in her mountain hometown.
Love Letters: A Rose Harbor Novel
By Debbie Macomber Summer is a busy season at the inn and proprietor Jo Marie By Shelley Shepard Gray Rose welcomes three visitors Against the backdrop of the 1893 who, like her, are setting out on World’s Fair, a young woman new paths. Each new guest at finds employment with an
Playing by Heart
By Anne Mateer In early 20th century Oklahoma, Mathematics teacher Lula Bowman is called back to Oklahoma to help her sister. The only teaching job available is music instructor/basketball coach. She reluctantly turns to the handsome boys’ coach to learn the newfangled game of basketball.
Promise of Palm Grove
By Shelley Shepard Gray A young Amish woman finds herself torn between the man she’s pledged to wed and the man her heart desires in this heartwarming story of chance, duty, and choice. INSP
Secrets of Sloan House
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.
JUNE 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
Halina
By Halina Bratkowna Johnson In this gripping first-person account of the Nazi occupation of Poland, the author describes her personal experiences of those historical events interwoven with an inspirational chronicle of Poland’s bravery. BIO
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: The Anthology
This commemorative volume corrals over 100 poems by more than fifty poets who have appeared at the Gathering over the last three decades. Their poems range from traditional ballads to freestyle verse and will make you laugh, sigh, and sit up straight in your saddle. LIT
Object: Matrimony
By Chris Enss An entertaining look at the serious business of finding a husband or wife by mail in the
wide-open days of the Old West. Includes historic photographs and actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides. HIS
Survival Lessons
By Alice Hoffman After being diagnosed with cancer, the author began to look at her life in a different way. She shares her suggestions for finding beauty in the world even during the toughest times. PSY
Sweet & Simple Patchwork Gifts
By Hisako Arai Whether you’re a newbie or a comfortable quilter, the projects, fabrics, and designs in this book will inspire you to create many of the projects to give as wonderful gifts! ARC
Trisha’s Table
By Trisha Yearwood Country music superstar, Food Network standout, and bestselling cookbook author Trisha Yearwood shows how
delicious foods and wholesome dishes are part of the same balanced lifestyle. CKY
FICTION All the Light We Cannot See
By Anthony Doerr A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Cavendon Hall
By Barbara Taylor Bradford Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS ARC..........Arts & Crafts BIO...........Biography CKY.........Cookery HIS...........History INSP.........Inspirational Fiction PSY...........Psychology
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