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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: Belle Isle Swimming Area, August 6, 1909, By L. H. Keller. In the Belle Isle Park recreation area, the park thrived with the help of the street car line stop, which was far beyond the city’s developed area at what is now N.W. Expressway and Pennsylvania. (From the Oklahoma Images Belle Isle Park essay by Larry Johnson.) 1
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BEST SELLERS The Bride Wore Pearls
Deception
By Liz Carlyle
By Jonathan Kellerman
Lady Anisha Stafford fled her native India to seek refuge within London’s secretive St. James Society. Rance Welham has survived scandal and disgrace and is called a cold-blooded killer. He must now give protection to Anisha and is the most intriguing man she has ever laid eyes on. In a world where treachery abounds, no one can be trusted. ROM
A DVD with a chilling cry for help is found near the lifeless body of Elise Freeman. More shocking is the revelation that the killers are teachers at one of L.A.’s most prestigious prep schools. Homicide detective Milo Sturgis calls in Dr. Alex Delaware for help. As the scandal conscious elite close ranks around Windsor Prep, Alex and Milo push to expose the dirty secrets among society’s manor-born. MYS
The Burning Range
Hell Gate
By Ralph Compton
By Linda Fairstein
A mysterious villain known as the Fat Man wants the gold hidden beneath the town of Green Meadow, Oklahoma. He is willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two men serve up any protection for the citizens, seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. Against all odds, these underdogs will fight the Fat Man tooth and nail. WES
New York assistant DA Alexander Cooper’s attention is drawn to two different stories. One is the death of a female that died before the Ukrainian freighter she was on had been wrecked. The other story is that of a New York congressman’s dive into disgrace following a sordid sex scandal. Alexandra finds that the freighter victim and the congressman’s lover are connected. FIC
D.C. Dead
Hotel Vendrome
By Stuart Woods
By Danielle Steel
Stone Barrington is at loose ends and unsure if he wants to stay in New York. It comes as a welcome relief when he’s summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls for Stone’s unique skill set, and it will unite him with Holly Barker, his former partner. FIC
Swiss born hotelier Hugues Martin transforms the Hotel Vendrome into one of the world’s finest luxury hotels. It becomes the ideal refuge for the rich and famous, and a perfect home for Hugues’s family. Then his wife abandons him, leaving him to raise their four year old daughter, Heloise. She grows up and longs to follow in her father’s footsteps. The lessons she learned at his side will carry her through. ROM 2
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BEST SELLERS Killing the Blues
Risky Business
By Robert B. Parker
By Lisa Jackson
As the town of Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season, a string of car thefts disturbs the peace. When the thefts become murder, chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Then a young PR executive with plans to turn the town into a summertime concert destination runs afoul of the law. MYS
Newswoman Kirsten McQueen sued her station for age discrimination and has won the first round. Dane Ferguson, attorney for the network, is determined to win Kirsten for himself. Gavin has returned to Taylor’s Crossing after trying to forget the woman who had broken her promises to him a long time ago. Will secrets revealed keep them apart or make their worlds collide forever? ROM
Lowcountry Summer By Dorothea Benton Frank
The Sixth Man
Having returned to Tall Pines Plantation, Caroline Levine must now make peace with long-buried truths about herself and her family. Her late mother was a force of nature and the undisputed Queen of Tall Pines. Now that she’s gone, she leaves Caroline and the rest of the family uncertain of who will take her place. Old hurts, betrayals, and dark secrets surface along the banks of the Edisto River. FIC
Alleged serial killer, Edgar Roy, is awaiting trial and faces certain conviction. Roy’s attorney, Tom Bergin, calls in Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to help work the case. Their investigation is derailed when Tom is found murdered. The more they dig into Roy’s past, the more they encounter, half-truths, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. FIC
Postcard Killers
Worth Dying For
By James Patterson
By Lee Child
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is touring Europe’s most gorgeous cities, but he sees each museum, cathedral, and café through the eyes of his daughter’s killer. She and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, other young couples have been found dead. Little connects them, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. FIC
Jack Reacher walks right into deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska. He first runs afoul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. The Duncan’s want Reacher gone, but they are just the bottom of a criminal food chain that stretches halfway around the world. Reacher is more interested in the unsolved, decades old case of a missing child. FIC
By David Baldacci
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NONFICTION AARP New American Diet
Does Anything Eat Wasps?
By John Whyte, MD
By New Scientist
Here’s a new way to eat and enjoy food that will not just help you look great, but have you feeling great, too. There are three practical weight-loss plans and dozens of delicious recipes inside. Based on solid science, this breakthrough book cuts through the confusion over what’s good and bad and gives you a way of eating that you can live with for a lifetime. HEA
Have you ever thought up a question so off-the-wall, so seemingly ridiculous, that you couldn’t even find the courage to ask it? This book is full of fun fact-lets, and celebrates the weird and wacky questions that are trivial, baffling, but all unique. SS
Easy as 1-2-3 Skeins By Kara Warner
Alfy’s Amazing But True
If you are pressed for time, you’ll find quick, gift-giving solutions for everyone from babies to adults. From the whimsical to the old standby classic, here are 58 projects to choose from. You can make an adorable hat for the baby, a scarflette or a shrug. There are even patterns for eye catching tunics and tanks, perfect for layering. ARC
By Alfred Wolfram American history is teeming with some of the best stories that have been consigned to a dusty file drawer. The real history of this country is comprised of the activities of common people doing uncommon things. We are beginning to realize that a country is like a person. To love it, totally, unequivocally, one must know and accept its virtues as well as its flaws. HIS
The Farmer’s Wife Comfort Food Cookbook
Cooking for One
By Lela Nargi
By Mark and Lisa Erickson
During the 46 years that The Farmer’s Wife magazine was published, it gave the farmer’s wife advice from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen. Comfort food is easy to prepare and doesn’t require sophisticated palates to enjoy. These dishes provide a sense of warmth, no matter the weather. HAF
Cooking for one can be simple and easy as well as satisfying, healthy, and flavorful. You’ll find recipes for foods you might not expect, like cookies, chocolate fondue, pizza, and hearty stews. Use these simple techniques and strategies to get the most from the ingredients you buy, and make dinner at home the best part of your day. HAF 4
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NONFICTION The Garner Files
Indian Tribes of Oklahoma
By James Garner
By Blue Clark
James Garner is one of Hollywood’s all time great leading men. His appeal bridges generations. Few know his real story, from growing up in Depression-era Oklahoma to the physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother. He was Oklahoma’s first draftee of the Korean War, receiving two Purple hearts for combat wounds. He ended up in Hollywood and became the acting equivalent of a national monument. BIO
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. Blue Clark of the Muscogee Nation, has rendered a new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years. This is the unique story of each tribe, from the AlabamaQuassartes to the Yuchis. HIS
Is This Thing On? By Abby Stokes
The Hilarious Book of Heavenly Humor
Here is the book for the person who did not grow up with personal computers or use one in the office. You’ll learn how to shop for a computer, set it up, use the mouse, printer, scanner, and how to get started with things like word processing and text messaging. You will also learn how to take advantage of all the features of your smartphone and tablet. SS
By Bob Phillips Here is a lighthearted look at faith, biblical characters and events, and church life in this very funny collection. You’ll grin, smile, and groan with good-natured humor as you enjoy quips, jokes, and cartoons from Abel to Zacchaeus. HUM
How to be a Cowboy By Jim Arndt This is a compendium of knowledge and insight, wit and wisdom, and all around resource for every aspect of cowboy life. Such as: ranching, rodeo, cooking, yodeling, boots, lingo, cowboy poetry, horses, and how to walk like a cowboy. HIS
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NONFICTION Secret Heroes
Survival Kit for Seniors 2012-2013
By Paul Martin Some American heroes never appear in the standard history texts, and their achievements aren’t celebrated like presidents, generals, and founding fathers. Ordinary citizens have done extraordinary things for as long as this nation has existed. Martin spotlights thirty overlooked Americans, all of whom had an impact on their world and ours. BIO
By Areawide Aging Agency This is a resource directory of a variety of programs and services for seniors in Central Oklahoma. Here are services to those aged 60 and over. Inside you will find addresses and phone numbers of different agencies that may be able to assist Seniors. SS Š Metropolitan Library System MLS Oklahoma Images Collection.
Delmar Garden Seating Area, May 22, 1909. by E.W. Irish. 1909. This recreation spot, circa 1900-1910, was located at what is now S.W. 3rd and S. Western. The recreation area featured a beer garden, outdoor dining, a dance pavilion, a horse racing track, theatre and amusement rides until it succumbed to prohibition and regular flooding of the North Canadian River. 6
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FICTION Angel of the Cove
crosses paths with the man and the child and learns a spiritual lesson. We are responsible for the things we do and don’t do.
By Sandra Robbins In 1894 Anna Prentiss is sent to Cades Cove by her brother to apprentice with the local midwife. Anna has always wanted to be a nurse, and is determined to prove herself and then head to the big city to start nursing school. Anna discovers the beauty of the country and the friendships she finds there. She certainly isn’t prepared for the handsome young minister or the feelings he arouses in her.
Hand of Fate By Lis Wiehl Outspoken radio talk show host Jim Fate dies tragically when poisonous gas fills the studio. Three best friends, who call themselves the Triple Threat, are uniquely qualified to crack the case. FBI special agent Nicole Hedges, crime reporter Cassidy Shaw, and federal prosecutor Allison Pierce, will race against time to stop another killing. One of them just might be a suspect in Fate’s murder.
The Bells of El Diablo By Frank Leslie During a guerrilla mission in the north Georgia mountains, Confederate lieutenant James Dunn learns how horrific the war really is. Losing his taste for bloodshed, he deserts, but he’s not alone. Crosseye Reeves, a former sharecropper on the Dunn plantation, has had his own bellyful of war. Together the men head for Mexico where they have heard tales about a great treasure.
The Icon Thief By Alec Nevala-Lee A controversial masterpiece painting resurfaces in Budapest, and art buyer Maddy Blume is desperate to track it down. A ballerina’s headless corpse is found beneath the boardwalk at Brighton Beach, and criminal investigator Alan Powell is thrust into the search for the same painting with its enigmatic image of a headless nude. A Russian thief and assassin known as the Scythian must steal the painting to save his life. The murderous race is on.
Chasing the Wind By Pamela Binnings Ewen Businessman Bingham Murdock flies his small plane into New Orleans, banking it in such a way that a ray of sunshine shot through the city at light speed. Amalise Catoir saw the flash from her office window and imagines that seeing the plane was a fate for her eyes only. A six-year-old Cambodian refugee in foster care also sees the light but it reminds him of artillery fire. Amalise 7
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FICTION One Mountain Away
past winners of Charm magazine’s “Ten girls to Watch” contest. As she gets to know their life stories, she finds that success, love, and friendship can be found in the most unexpected of places.
By Emilie Richards Charlotte Hale has built a career as a tough real estate developer, and is at the top. Her life is empty and she’s alienated her family. She suddenly realizes that she needs to make amends, not simply with her considerable wealth, but by offering a hand instead of a handout. Charlotte finds that climbing a new mountain, one built on friendship, love and forgiveness will teach her what life truly means.
What You Wish For By Kerry Reichs Actress Dimple Bledsoe is turning forty and figures that it’s now or never to have a baby. Eva, agent to the stars, never wanted kids, and cannot figure out why no one can accept her decision. When Maryn was undergoing treatment for cancer, she and her husband had embryos frozen, but that was before their divorce and her remission. This is a story of the pursuit of family in all its forms.
Return to Sender By Fern Michaels When she was seventeen, Lin Townsend found herself pregnant and alone. The baby’s father refuses to marry her and Lin raises him by herself. Nineteen years later, Will’s about to start his freshman year at NYU. When Lin visits New York with Will, she crosses paths with his father. Seeing him fills Lin with anger and she resolves to right the wrong he did to Will. But the cost of revenge may be the loss of a new future.
A Wicked Snow By Gregg Olsen CSI Hannah Griffin was just a girl when tragedy struck. She remembers the flames reflected against the snow and the bodies the police dug up, one of them her mother’s. Twenty years later she is investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back. An anonymous message turns Hannah’s blood cold: Your Mom called.
Ten Girls to Watch By Charity Shumway Recent graduate Dawn West is trying to make her way in New York City. She’s got an ex-boyfriend, a roommate who views basic hygiene as optional, and a writing career that’s only gotten as far as an online lawn care advice column. She lands a job tracking down the 8
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ROMANCE Aloha Brides By Yvonne Lehman Jane Buckley visits the kingdom of Hawaii in 1890 before her wedding to a Texas oil baron. She meets rancher Mak McCauley and his daughter, who are deep in grief and in need of love. Will she be able to leave? Mary Ellen Colson goes to the islands looking for her sister, who had gone as a bride and disappeared. Is sugarcane farmer Clay Honeycutt covering a crime? Amelia Thurston has hidden a secret from her family since her boyfriend’s death at Pearl Harbor. Now she must face his brother Luke, with the truth.
Country Brides By Debbie Macomber While on vacation, Rorie Campbell’s car breaks down on a country road and horse rancher Clay Franklin comes to her rescue. She discovers that a city girl can fall in love with a country boy. But he is engaged. Kate Logan is devastated when Clay marries another woman. At Clay’s wedding she proposes to her longtime friend, rancher Luke Rivers. Luke accepts and refuses to renege on his promise.
Four Dukes and a Devil By C. Maxwell, E. Fox, J. Frost, S. Nash and T. Warren
and one dog named Duke, plus one powerful vampire. From the ballrooms of Regency London to the secret haunts of Washington, D.C., to the charming cottages of Cape Cod, they will break all the rules.
Love Finds You in Daisy, Oklahoma By Janice Hanna Two years after a tornado left many children homeless, the town of Daisy needs help with its orphanage. Rena Jewel, 38 years old and still single, feels that it is a sign from the Lord for her to go there. When Sheriff Gene Wyatt receives word that help is on the way, he rejoices, until he meets Rena, who seems too genteel and far too pretty to control 17 unruly orphans.
My Stubborn Heart By Becky Wade Kate Donovan jumps at the chance to accompany her grandmother to Redbud, Pennsylvania, to restore the grand house she grew up in. Kate soon meets Matt Jarreau, the man hired to renovate the house, and is attracted to him. But he’s clearly wounded and hiding from people, from God, and from his past. Kate sets her heart on bringing him out of the dark and back into the light.
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ROMANCE Once Upon a Wedding Night
Skin Tight
By Sophie Jordan
By Ava Gray
Husbandless, and penniless, Lady Meredith Brookshire has every right to Oak Run. Yet Nicholas Caulfield, the new Brookshire heir, claims that the estate is his. Nick is a reluctant aristocrat and does not trust Meredith, whom he suspects of subterfuge. The sooner he can get her married off the better. But he is falling in love.
Forensic accountant, Mia Sauter could usually tell when people had something to hide. Then she met a clever, ruthless man and one year later, she’s still haunted by his betrayal. He has reinvented himself as Thomas Strong, and is out for revenge. But his mission is about to be compromised by the one woman capable of exposing him.
Pirates
Tender Savage
By Linda Lael Miller
By Iris Johansen
Phoebe Turlow leaves Seattle, the man she just divorced, her dwindling finances, and the lonely nights that stretch ahead. She arrives on Paradise Island, stepping into a run-down hotel, and into the world of Duncan Rourke, a man who has been dead for two centuries. She cannot envision the adventure that is about to sweep them both away.
Lara Clavel is on a mission to the war torn Caribbean island of Saint Pierre to rescue the rebel leader Ricardo Lazaro and prevent her brother from rejoining his revolutionary army. What she doesn’t expect is the attraction she feels for the legendary warrior. Even after he is freed, she will find her feelings for him put to the ultimate test.
Private Arrangements
Touch of Texas
By Sherry Thomas
By Tracy Garrett Texas Ranger Jake McCain finds Rachel Hudson’s cabin during a blizzard. He’s badly wounded and taking care of him is the right thing to do. The local gossips won’t see it that way. Everything that Rachel has fought for is at stake and the past she’d hoped to escape looms over her future. When Jake sees the trouble she’s in, he can’t leave her behind.
Lord and Lady Tremaine have a marriage based on civility, courteousness, and freedom. For the last ten years, husband and wife have resided on separate continents. Now Lady Tremaine wants to be free to marry again. She is given an outrageous demand in exchange for her freedom, Will one of London’s most admired couples let each other go? 10
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MYSTERIES The Azalea Asault
Dire Threads
By Alyse Carlson
By Janet Bolin
Camellia Harris has gotten a national magazine for garden lovers to feature one of Roanoke’s spectacular gardens. World famous photographer Jean-Jacques Georges is going to shoot the spread. At a welcoming party, Jean-Jacques insults several guests, complains about the flowers, and gooses almost every woman in the room. It is no surprise when his body is found the next morning.
Shopkeeper Willow Vanderling is anxious to see her embroidery store succeed. The town’s zoning commissioner, Mike Krawbach, denies Willow’s plan to renovate the cottage behind the store. He attempts to trick some tourists into signing a petition to knock the cottage down to make way for an ATV trail. When he turns up dead, Willow becomes the prime suspect.
Buzz Off
Ghost in Trouble
By Hannah Reed
By Carolyn Hart
September is National Honey Month in Moraine, Wisconsin, and Story Fischer’s beekeeping business is thriving. Her mentor, Manny, is found stung to death in his apiary. As Story tries to tell the panicked locals that her honeybees had nothing to do with it, another body is found floating in the river. This time the evidence points to her ex. Story must now try to save her bees and her ex.
Bailey Raeburn joined Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions when she passed over into the great beyond. Now the endangered woman that she’s supposed to save happens to be one of her oldest enemies. To solve her toughest case yet, Bailey will have to manage her recalcitrant charge somehow, while dealing with a medium, a mother’s heartbreak, and a rawhide dog bone.
Hide and Snoop
A Case of Nosy Neighbors
By Sue Ann Jaffarian
By Lori Copeland
A merger at Odelia Grey’s law firm has put her job in jeopardy, and her new boss, Erica, has it in for her. Then Erica dumps her three-year-old niece with Odelia and disappears. Odelia goes to her boss’s home in the middle of the night and finds Erica’s sister murdered and Odelia’s accused.
Someone is spying on Stella’s neighbors in Morning Shade. With her two friends sidelined, one with a sprained ankle and the other one busy with her mail route, Stella has to follow the clues alone. She has to work fast because her poor neighbors are scared witless. 11
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MYSTERIES If Fried Chicken Could Fly
Town in a Lobster Stew
By Paige Shelton
By B. B. Haywood
Betts Winston is helping her Gram’s students at Gram’s Country Cooking School prepare for the Southern Missouri Showdown. When they discover the body of local theater owner Everett Morningside in the school’s supply room, his widow points the finger at Gram. Betts must clear Gram’s name and keep the cook-off preparations on schedule. After shots are fired at her, Betts has to dig into the town’s history to find a modern day killer.
Candy Holliday tends to the Blueberry Acres farm that she runs with her father. Memorial Day ushers in the summer season and the Twenty-Ninth Annual Cape Willington Lobster Stew Cook-off. Competition is fierce and contestants are already steamed, but would any of them resort to stealing an award winning recipe? Or make a seven-time contest champion disappear? Candy discovers that dark secrets and ambition can boil over into murder.
The Teaberry Strangler
The Walled Flower
By Laura Childs
By Lorraine Bartlett
The cobblestone alleys of Charleston are bustling with shoppers looking for bargains, and Theodosia Browning’s delicious teas. When the clock strikes ten, the alleys clear, except for one body. It’s the strangled form of Daria, the map store’s owner. There have been many locals who have shown interest in buying Daria’s shop, but enough to kill?
Thanks to her late husband, Katie Bonner is responsible for keeping the craft fair Artisan’s Alley in the black. When a young couple buys the Webster mansion to remodel, they find a skeleton sealed in one of the walls. The bones belong to Heather Winston, who went missing twenty-two years ago. Her aunt, a jewelry vendor at Artisan’s Alley, asks for Katie’s help in finding the murderer.
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LARGE PRINT An Amish Love
Buried in a Book
By B. Wiseman, K. Fuller, & K. Long
By Lucy Arlington Newspaper journalist Lila Wilkins is handed her pink slip and is now desperate to find a job. She accepts an internship at Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency. When a penniless aspiring author drops dead in the agency’s waiting room, no one seems particularly concerned. Lila discovers the dead man’s journal and some newspaper clippings about him and is determined to uncover, what or who killed him. MYS
Levina Lapp and her husband are alone for the first time in thirty years. Will they fall in love again? There’s a tragic accident in the peaceful Amish community of Paradise, Pennsylvania. Rachel Yoder tiring of her Amish lifestyle, seeks marriage to escape her domineering father. ROM
The Associate By John Grisham Because of a dark episode from his college days, Kyle McAvoy is forced to take a job he doesn’t want. He has become an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed. FIC
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LARGE PRINT The Chocolate Castle Clue
Libby and Adam will confront a danger more threatening than their growing passion. MYS
By JoAnna Carl
Emily’s Chance
When Lee Woodyard discovers a dusty trophy inside TenHuis Chocolade that belongs to her Aunt Nettie’s old singing group, it brings back terrible memories of an unsolved murder years ago. Before Lee can take aim at the past, someone is murdered here and now. She hopes that the trophy is a clue to finding the killer before she’s the next target. MYS
By Sharon Gillenwater Emily Rose is pursuing the prestigious world of a big city museum curator, by working at the historical society in the tiny town of Callahan Crossing, Texas. Chance Callahan has decided that he can convince Emily to stay both with the town and with him. As he helps her restore the town’s history after a devastating fire, he helps her uncover her own hidden worth. ROM
Danger in Plain Sight By Marta Perry Libby Morgan made her life in the city as a news photographer when she left the slow pace of Amish country. She also left love behind. Former marine Adam Byler, police chief of Springville, keeps peace for both the Amish and their modern neighbors. When an innocent woman is attacked,
Hearts Aglow By Tracie Peterson Life in the logging town of Perkinsville, Texas, holds promise for Deborah Vandermark as she pursues her medical studies under the tutelage of Dr. Christopher Clayton. There is a growing 14
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LARGE PRINT affection between them until Christopher gets a letter from his family. Deborah’s well laid plans falter and the arrival of Jake Wythe only adds to her uncertainty. ROM
her reticent grandmother. She turned to music for comfort, but her potential career is stopped by a pregnancy and birth of a stillborn baby. When her estranged father dies, she travels to Jonah, New York to claim her inheritance. She learns that her father’s will stipulates that she must stay in Jonah for six months. INSP
Hearts At Home By Lori Copeland & Angela Hunt Pastor’s wife, Edith Wickam, has her heart set on wearing a dress to the wedding of the year, but the zipper won’t close. Can she shed those pounds? Annie Culver is at peace with her world until tragedy presents her with a series of lifechanging decisions. The briefest month on the calendar presents the angels with the biggest challenges on Heavenly Daze, where heaven is but a breath away. INSP
Kill For Me By Karen Rose Six teenage girls have been attacked and only one survived. She can reveal the secrets of the ring of people who kidnap and sell teenage girls on the black market, but they will do whatever it takes to silence her. Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos have sworn to stop the murderers. Their investigation leads them to the shady realm of Internet chat rooms. They discover a chain of deception so deceptive that they don’t know whom to trust. FIC
Home Another Way By Christa Parrish With her mother’s death and her father’s abandonment, Sarah Graham was left to be raised by 15
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LARGE PRINT Run For Your Life
his bid for Congress. In return for her help, he will give her back the funding. ROM
By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge A murderer who calls himself the Teacher is taking on New York City, slaughtering the powerful and the arrogant. For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. Detective Michael Bennett discovers a secret pattern in the Teacher’s lessons. But he only has a few hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in its history. FIC
The Secret’s in the Sauce By Linda Shepherd & Eva Marie Everson A multi-generational group of women from Grace Church meet once a week to pray and share home cooking. The Potluck Club has decided to launch a catering business that’s a lot like them: spicy, saucy, and well-seasoned. During their new venture, they will have to deal with a steamy past that threatens a marriage, a scalding truth about people they thought they knew, and outrageous situations that come out of an unexpected and revealing trip back home. FIC
Save the Date By Jenny B. Jones The funding for Lucy’s nonprofit job is pulled and she’s determined to find out why. Alex Sinclair enterprises is the primary donor to Lucy’s organization. They discover that both have something the other wants desperately. Alex needs Lucy to pose as his fiancé so he can get the votes he needs in 16
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LARGE PRINT Snow Angel
in odd packages, from a man who hoards gum wrappers to a meddlesome neighbor. Penny also has a small notebook in which she scribbles down her recovery plan: Do one kind thing for another person every day. The results are beautiful, and sometimes heartbreaking. INSP
By Jamie Carie During a nighttime blizzard outside his Alaskan cabin, Noah Wesley hears a faint sound at his door. When he takes a closer look he discovers a snow angel. Unconscious and more than half frozen to death, Elizabeth has been intent on discovering gold like so many others rushing headlong toward the Yukon. But why would she chase it even through a pounding storm? FIC
Summer Rental By Mary Kay Andrews Best friends since Catholic grade school, Ellis, Julia, and Dorie find themselves at the crossroads of life and love. A month in North Carolina’s Outer banks is just what they need. Ty Bazemore is their landlord, and Maryn Shackleford is a woman on the run. They are five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. ROM
Stepping Into the Sunlight By Sharon Hinck After she witnesses a shocking crime, Penny Sullivan’s life begins to fray. She has a seven-year old son and her husband has been deployed as a Navy chaplain. Simple tasks are suddenly more than she can handle. Help comes 17
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LARGE PRINT When All My Dreams Come True
Victims By Jonathan Kellerman By all accounts, acid tongued Vita Berlin hadn’t a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up in such a grotesque tableau? LAPD detective Milo Sturgis summons his goto expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. When more slayings occur in the same ghastly fashion, Alex is stymied. He starts to navigate the secretive world of mental health treatment. MYS
By Janelle Mowery Bobbie McIntyre dreams of running a ranch of her own and knows more about wrangling than acting like a lady. She shows up at Jace Kincaid’s ranch looking for work. Jace figures that the Lord was testing his faith when he hires her. The friendship with her new employer awakens a desire to learn more about presenting her feminine side. ROM
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