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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 if sign up for Books-by-Mail service and to place your order. you’re traveling, you may drop off the bag at any Metropolitan Library How do you receive your books? System library. Your books will be mailed to you in a reusable canvas bag. No postage What if I have questions? is required. No problem. Call us at (405) 606-3295 or 405-606-3297. We’re happy How long can you keep your books? to help. 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. www.metrolibrar y.org
NONFICTION 100 Mistakes that Changed History
By Bill Fawcett History is filled with not-sobright ideas that snowballed into disasters and unintended consequences. Read about backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies and altered history. HIS
Creative Cooking (for One or Two)
By Marie W. Lawrence With recipes for soups, salads, entrées, baked goods, and desserts, there’s something in here for everyone (or two) looking to prepare meals that are tasty, satisfying, and won’t leave you with excessive leftovers. CKY
Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow
By Jan Pol Dr. Pol shares humorous and uplifting stories from his four decades as a veterinarian in rural Michigan. From the Netherlands, he writes about his practice in America and the lessons he has learned from a wide menagerie of patients. ANI
What Happens When I Die? True Stories of the Afterlife By Bill Wiese The best-selling author of 23 Minutes in Hell explains some of the fascinating stories that people have shared with him as he traveled to speak about his experiences. REL
Words from the White House By Paul Dickson The founding fathers felt that coining words and creating new uses for old ones was part of creating a new American culture and language. Ever
since, American presidents have enriched our vocabulary with words, phrases, and concepts that we still use. HIS
The World According to Bob By James Bowen A sequel to the best-selling A Street Cat Named Bob describes the author’s transition from street musician to international celebrity and the moments of friendship, bravery and humor he has shared with his feline companion. ANI
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS ANI...........Animal Stories BIO...........Biography CKY...........Cookery FIC............Fiction HIS...........History INSP.........Inspirational Fiction MYS..........Mystery ROM.........Romance REL...........Religion
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BOOKS BY MAIL FEBRUARY 2015
BOOKS BY MAIL FEBRUARY 2015
Titles available in large print and regular print.
FICTION
Amish Blacksmith
By Mindy Starns Clark Six years after her mother died in an accident, Priscilla Kinsinger returns to Lancaster County from Indiana. Her uncle asks his employee, blacksmith Jake Miller, to help Priscilla reconnect with community life. INSP
Golem of Hollywood
By Jonathan Kellerman Waking up beside a beautiful woman he has no memory of meeting, Detective Jacob Lev investigates a Hollywood Division murder case involving a severed head, an ominous message in Hebrew, and the legend of the Golem of Prague. FIC
Pegasus
By Danielle Steel A multigenerational narrative inspired by the author’s own family history traces the efforts of an aristocratic German family to find refuge for themselves and their magnificent horses in post-World War II America. FIC
Skin Collector
By Jeffery Deaver When a serial killer terrorizes Burning Room By Jodi Picoult New York City, claiming his By Michael Connelly For more than a decade, Jenna victims by tattooing cryptic In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Metcalf has never stopped messages on their skin using Unit, not many murder victims thinking about her mother, tattoo guns loaded with poison, die almost a decade after the Alice, who mysteriously Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia crime. When a man succumbs disappeared in the wake of Sachs are drawn into the case to complications from being a tragic accident. She enlists because of its connection to the shot by a stray bullet nine years the help of a psychic and a decade-old Bone Collector case. earlier, Bosch catches a case in private detective who originally FIC which the body is still fresh, but investigated Alice’s case. FIC all other evidence is virtually Tattler’s Branch nonexistent. FIC Lydia’s Hope By Jan Watson By Marta Perry In 1911, a small-town doctor Finding Love at Home When she discovers that she of a tiny Kentucky mountain By Jerry S. Eicher has two sisters who were raised coal community must deal with Poised to marry Amish farmer in other homes, Lydia, taken in absence of her miner husband, Alvin Knepp, Debbie Watson by her aunt and uncle after her the arrival of her sister for the tries to console the Beiler parents died, is determined to summer and an abandoned family after Ida Beiler loses her find her lost sisters despite her baby on her doorstep. INSP husband-to-be in a farming husband’s objections. INSP accident. INSP
Leaving Time
To Everything a Season Remains of Innocence By Lauraine Snelling Promoted to the head of a construction crew in a rapidly growing North Dakota town, Trygve Knutson considers leaving the home he has always loved before pursuing a relationship with suffragette nurse, Miriam, who wishes to pursue a career in New York. INSP
By J.A. Jance While investigating two separate cases, Sheriff Joanna Brady must discover if the death of a family friend whose body was found in a limestone cavern is linked to the discovery of a fortune in $100 bills hidden in the house of a hoarder.
Yarn over Murder
By Maggie Sefton Kelly Flynn and the House of Lambspun knitters help save Death Come Quickly their friend’s alpacas from a By Susan Wittig Albert fast-moving wildfire while one With the help of a lawyer of their group comes under friend in Texas, China Bayles suspicion for murder after a investigates a cold case involving husband-stealing local rancher a valuable piece of Mexican art turns up dead. after suspecting a connection to the death of another friend.
MYSTERY
Flesh and Blood
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell Dr. Kay Scarpetta is in pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no evidence except tiny fragments of copper. As she tracks the sniper across several states, she finds news that implicates her niece, Lucy, her own flesh and blood.
ROMANCE
Heartland Courtship
By Lyn Cote When Quaker Rachel Woolsey nurses a former Civil war soldier back to health, he agrees to help her achieve her dream of having her own bakery and a homestead in Pepin, Wisconsin. INSP
True Love
By Jude Deveraux After she inherits a nineteenthcentury Nantucket house, Alix Madsen gets drawn into the unsolved disappearance of her ancestor two hundred years ago and begins to have feelings for Jared Montgomery, who lives in the property’s guesthouse. ROM
Undercover Dreamer
By Debbie Macomber Having recently moved to Portland, Meggie O’Halloran falls for her new neighbor Quinn Donnelley, who is an undercover detective, and she doubts she can keep her feelings a secret for long. ROM
Whiskey Beach
By Nora Roberts Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiance’s murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love. ROM
www.metrolibrar y.org
BOOKS BY MAIL FEBRUARY 2015
BOOKS BY MAIL FEBRUARY 2015
Titles available in large print and regular print.
FICTION
Amish Blacksmith
By Mindy Starns Clark Six years after her mother died in an accident, Priscilla Kinsinger returns to Lancaster County from Indiana. Her uncle asks his employee, blacksmith Jake Miller, to help Priscilla reconnect with community life. INSP
Golem of Hollywood
By Jonathan Kellerman Waking up beside a beautiful woman he has no memory of meeting, Detective Jacob Lev investigates a Hollywood Division murder case involving a severed head, an ominous message in Hebrew, and the legend of the Golem of Prague. FIC
Pegasus
By Danielle Steel A multigenerational narrative inspired by the author’s own family history traces the efforts of an aristocratic German family to find refuge for themselves and their magnificent horses in post-World War II America. FIC
Skin Collector
By Jeffery Deaver When a serial killer terrorizes Burning Room By Jodi Picoult New York City, claiming his By Michael Connelly For more than a decade, Jenna victims by tattooing cryptic In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Metcalf has never stopped messages on their skin using Unit, not many murder victims thinking about her mother, tattoo guns loaded with poison, die almost a decade after the Alice, who mysteriously Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia crime. When a man succumbs disappeared in the wake of Sachs are drawn into the case to complications from being a tragic accident. She enlists because of its connection to the shot by a stray bullet nine years the help of a psychic and a decade-old Bone Collector case. earlier, Bosch catches a case in private detective who originally FIC which the body is still fresh, but investigated Alice’s case. FIC all other evidence is virtually Tattler’s Branch nonexistent. FIC Lydia’s Hope By Jan Watson By Marta Perry In 1911, a small-town doctor Finding Love at Home When she discovers that she of a tiny Kentucky mountain By Jerry S. Eicher has two sisters who were raised coal community must deal with Poised to marry Amish farmer in other homes, Lydia, taken in absence of her miner husband, Alvin Knepp, Debbie Watson by her aunt and uncle after her the arrival of her sister for the tries to console the Beiler parents died, is determined to summer and an abandoned family after Ida Beiler loses her find her lost sisters despite her baby on her doorstep. INSP husband-to-be in a farming husband’s objections. INSP accident. INSP
Leaving Time
To Everything a Season Remains of Innocence By Lauraine Snelling Promoted to the head of a construction crew in a rapidly growing North Dakota town, Trygve Knutson considers leaving the home he has always loved before pursuing a relationship with suffragette nurse, Miriam, who wishes to pursue a career in New York. INSP
By J.A. Jance While investigating two separate cases, Sheriff Joanna Brady must discover if the death of a family friend whose body was found in a limestone cavern is linked to the discovery of a fortune in $100 bills hidden in the house of a hoarder.
Yarn over Murder
By Maggie Sefton Kelly Flynn and the House of Lambspun knitters help save Death Come Quickly their friend’s alpacas from a By Susan Wittig Albert fast-moving wildfire while one With the help of a lawyer of their group comes under friend in Texas, China Bayles suspicion for murder after a investigates a cold case involving husband-stealing local rancher a valuable piece of Mexican art turns up dead. after suspecting a connection to the death of another friend.
MYSTERY
Flesh and Blood
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell Dr. Kay Scarpetta is in pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no evidence except tiny fragments of copper. As she tracks the sniper across several states, she finds news that implicates her niece, Lucy, her own flesh and blood.
ROMANCE
Heartland Courtship
By Lyn Cote When Quaker Rachel Woolsey nurses a former Civil war soldier back to health, he agrees to help her achieve her dream of having her own bakery and a homestead in Pepin, Wisconsin. INSP
True Love
By Jude Deveraux After she inherits a nineteenthcentury Nantucket house, Alix Madsen gets drawn into the unsolved disappearance of her ancestor two hundred years ago and begins to have feelings for Jared Montgomery, who lives in the property’s guesthouse. ROM
Undercover Dreamer
By Debbie Macomber Having recently moved to Portland, Meggie O’Halloran falls for her new neighbor Quinn Donnelley, who is an undercover detective, and she doubts she can keep her feelings a secret for long. ROM
Whiskey Beach
By Nora Roberts Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiance’s murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love. ROM
www.metrolibrar y.org
HOW TO GET BOOKS BY MAIL Applying for service.
FEBRUARY 2015
www.metrolibrar y.org
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 if sign up for Books-by-Mail service and to place your order. you’re traveling, you may drop off the bag at any Metropolitan Library How do you receive your books? System library. Your books will be mailed to you in a reusable canvas bag. No postage What if I have questions? is required. No problem. Call us at (405) 606-3295 or 405-606-3297. We’re happy How long can you keep your books? to help. 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. www.metrolibrar y.org
NONFICTION 100 Mistakes that Changed History
By Bill Fawcett History is filled with not-sobright ideas that snowballed into disasters and unintended consequences. Read about backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies and altered history. HIS
Creative Cooking (for One or Two)
By Marie W. Lawrence With recipes for soups, salads, entrées, baked goods, and desserts, there’s something in here for everyone (or two) looking to prepare meals that are tasty, satisfying, and won’t leave you with excessive leftovers. CKY
Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow
By Jan Pol Dr. Pol shares humorous and uplifting stories from his four decades as a veterinarian in rural Michigan. From the Netherlands, he writes about his practice in America and the lessons he has learned from a wide menagerie of patients. ANI
What Happens When I Die? True Stories of the Afterlife By Bill Wiese The best-selling author of 23 Minutes in Hell explains some of the fascinating stories that people have shared with him as he traveled to speak about his experiences. REL
Words from the White House By Paul Dickson The founding fathers felt that coining words and creating new uses for old ones was part of creating a new American culture and language. Ever
since, American presidents have enriched our vocabulary with words, phrases, and concepts that we still use. HIS
The World According to Bob By James Bowen A sequel to the best-selling A Street Cat Named Bob describes the author’s transition from street musician to international celebrity and the moments of friendship, bravery and humor he has shared with his feline companion. ANI
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS ANI...........Animal Stories BIO...........Biography CKY...........Cookery FIC............Fiction HIS...........History INSP.........Inspirational Fiction MYS..........Mystery ROM.........Romance REL...........Religion
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