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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. In 1925, the cotton crop in Oklahoma was cashed in at $157 million. Oklahoma City’s position astride nine railroads made it a hub for transporting agricultural products in the region and the city featured a cotton compress (for making denser, easily transported bales) and a cotton oil mill. But it was also home to the Cotton Exchange on the southeast corner of Harvey and Second (now Kerr). Oklahoma City dealers would buy and sell millions of bales to mills around the country and the world. (Photo by Andrew A. Forbes (1862-1921) 1

BEST SELLERS The Apostle

The Lost Symbol

By Brad Thor

By Dan Brown

Symbologist Robert Langdon has come to Washington, D.C., to give a lecture at the behest of his old mentor, Peter Solomon. When he arrives, he finds Peter’s severed hand mounted on a wooden base, fingers pointing skyward to the Rotunda ceiling fresco of George Washington ascending to heaven. Robert discovers that through a secret portal, a seeker will find the wisdom known as the Ancient Mysteries. But someone known as Mal’akh, wants to locate the wisdom so he can rule the world. FIC

When the new president’s daughter is kidnapped abroad, he will agree to anything to get her back, even to a deadly and ill advised rescue plan. Counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is assigned to infiltrate a prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom. Scot learns that there is much more to the operation than anyone dares to admit, and that the president has a secret that he wants to keep hidden. FIC

The Keepsake

Plum Pudding Murder

By Tess Gerritsen

By Joanne Fluke

Everyone thought that the forgotten mummy in the basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum was just another ancient Egyptian artifact. Medical examiner Maura Isles discovers a message hidden in the corpse, and that this is a modern day murder victim. When the remains of two other women are found, it becomes clear to Maura and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli that a maniac is at large. Now they must unravel a murderer’s endgame before the Archaeology Killer adds to his collection. FIC

The yuletide season in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is the Cookie Jar’s busiest time of year. Owner Hannah Swenson is making her special plum pudding and helping her best friend get ready for a wedding. Hannah even gets a kick out of Larry Jaeger’s Crazy Elf Christmas Tree Lot’s carnival. Then she finds Larry dead as a doornail in his office.

With so many suspects, and the twelve days of Christmas ticking away, Hannah’s running out of time to nab a murderous Scrooge. MYS

Last Kiss

By Luanne Rice

The Professional

Nearly a year after the murder of her 18-year-old-son, Charlie, singer songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn’t played a note of the music that was once her life’s passion.

Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell, won’t rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. She summons the one man she believes can uncover the truth, Gavin Dawson. ROM

The wives of some of Boston’s wealthiest men have a mutual secret. They’ve all had an affair with the same cad who’s blackmailing them. P.I. Spenser has been hired to stop him. When the wives start dying one by one, Spenser’s new case becomes murder. MYS

By Robert B. Parker

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BEST SELLERS Run For Your Life

U is for Undertow

A murderer called the Teacher is terrorizing New York City’s powerful, arrogant elite. Rich people must mind their manners or die. The pressure is overwhelming, but Detective Mike Bennett is ready to take this case. Taking care of his ten children, all with a virulent flu, has prepared him for the job. As a secret pattern emerges in the Teacher’s lessons, Mike has just a few hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in its history. FIC

A man comes to P.I., Kinsey Millhone’s office, stating that twenty-one years ago when he was six he had stumbled upon the burial of a little girl. He wants Kinsey to help him locate the child’s remains and find the men who killed her. She agrees to give him one day, but as her investigation unfolds, she discovers the young man has an uneasy relationship with the truth. Is his story true or just a fabrication? MYS

By James Patterson

By Sue Grafton

Wicked Prey

Sizzle

By John Sanford

By Julie Garwood

A stray bullet put pimp and petty thief Randy Whitcomb in a wheelchair. He blames Special Agent Lucas Davenport for the bullet, but shooting him will be no fun, not when Davenport has a 14-year-old adopted daughter that Whitcomb can target instead. With the big Republican convention coming to town, Davenport is busy and has no idea that something worse is about to happen. MYS

Lyra Prescott, a Los Angeles film student, is closing in on graduation and works on her final assignment. The documentary has transformed into a real life horror film. While working on her project, a rash of mysterious incidents convince her that she’s trapped in a scenario headed for a violent ending. FBI agent Sam Kincaid is brought in to investigate and an attraction springs up between them. Unfortunately, the intrigue escalates and two of them are in deadly peril. ROM

Wyoming Brides

By Debbie Macomber

Something More

Letty Ellsion left Wyoming, and rancher Chase Brown, searching for a different kind of life.

She’s returned with her dreams in tatters and a five year old child. She’s ready for the true happiness of being Chase’s wife. But is it too late?

Ex-rodeo cowboy Lonny Ellison is used to the adulation of women, but Joy Fuller gives him none. They argue constantly, and his sister Letty, says he’s interested in Joy. Can he convince Joy that marriage to the Wyoming Kid will be as exciting as an eight second bull ride? ROM

By Janet Dailey In Glory, Wyoming, rancher Luke McCallister finds a human skull and a key to the town’s oldest mystery. Outlaws buried their gold and took the secret hiding place with them to the gallows. Angie Sommers’ great-greatgrandfather was one of the outlaws. She wants Luke to help her find the gold but someone else is also looking. ROM 3

NONFICTION Back of the Box Cooking

Composed

By Barbara Greenman

By Rosanne Cash

Here are 500 of the most delicious and highest rated time saving recipes from the packages, Web sites, and test kitchens of more than 125 popular supermarket brands. Each recipe can be ready in 30 minutes of less. There are stews, pizzas, burgers, cakes, pies, cookies, and even ice cream featured. HAF

She is probably best known as the daughter of country legend Johnny Cash, but Rosanne Cash has moved from Nashville stardom to acclaim as a singer-songwriter and author of short stories. Her childhood began on a snake infested Southern California hilltop with a father often absent, and a mother who was disappointed and bitter. She shares her memories of cutting her first record, to her marriages, and leaving Nashville for New York. BIO

Best Ever Craft Project Book

By Lucy Painter Create useful and decorative items that are perfect hand- made gifts or to embellish your own home. There are a fascinating range of techniques and skills to try: paper crafts, stenciling, stamping, embroidery, appliqué, patchwork, cross stitch, wood, decorating glass and ceramics. Each project comes with practical, easy to follow instructions.

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The Doctors 5 Minute Health Fixes

By The Doctors Millions of American tune in to The Doctors on TV to help them take control of their health and make sense of the latest medical news. They take on the most cutting edge medical information, most controversial new procedures, and the embarrassing questions that people are often too scared to ask their own doctors. Learn how taking just 5 minutes each day can help you create a lifetime of extraordinary health. HEA

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Stretching Your Dollar

By Shannon M. Medisky Of course, you’re no idiot, and you know the cost of nearly everything is rising. You want to get more for your money and here is commonsense advice of how, when, and where to spend your dollars to get the most from them. There are tips on prescription savings, toy buying, and even suggestions on when to pay a little more for savings down the road. HAF

Inventing George Washington

By Edward G. Lengel This is a funny and informative romp through more than two centuries of Washington iconography, mythology, and mythmakers.

Lengel separates fact from myth, exposes one deceiver after another, and shows why 4

NONFICTION Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Recipes for Two

the American public appears to be forever willing to be hoodwinked about the Father of Our Country. Here is a book that becomes essential reading for anyone even remotely interested in setting the record straight about George Washington. BIO

By Beth Hensperger These 125 recipes are for delicious meals specially created for preparation in a small (1 ½-3 ½ quart) slow cooker. Fresh, wholesome ingredients are showcased to create fabulous new dishes and contemporary takes on classic favorites, such as Pot Roasts, Chipotle Black Bean Vegetable Soup, and Chicken with Almonds. HAF

Manners and Morals of Victorian America

By Wayne Erbsen

As many Americans in the late 19th century moved to the bustling cities, they took jobs and started businesses that helped them become prosperous. Along with their growing wealth, there was a national obsession with looking and acting the part. Hundreds of etiquette and manners books flooded the market and were gobbled up by a public yearning to be accepted by the “upper crust” or “old money” families. HIS

Random Acts of Kindness by Animals

By Stephanie LaLand All these true, heartwarming stories tell of remarkable beings, not only cats and dogs, but gorillas, dolphins, bears, seagulls, rats, and even a pig, who have performed amazing acts of love and compassion. Meet a duck who warned an entire town about an air raid, three beavers who saved a boy from freezing to death, and many more incredible members of the animal kingdom. SS

Miraculous Moments

By Elissa Al-Chokhachy Heartfelt testimony to the eternal nature of the human spirit can be found in this collection of eighty-eight true stories from people who have seen, heard, and felt love from their family, friends, and acquaintances in spirit. These firsthand accounts offer hope, reassurance, and comfort to anyone who is mourning a lost loved one or has ever wondered if life goes on. REL

This Time Together

By Carol Burnett Even though television executives were reluctant at first to let her host a variety show, Carol prevailed and went on to have her show last eleven seasons and win twenty-five Emmy awards. She tells the story of her rise in show business, and the people she’s met along the way. The anecdotes range from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. BIO 5

NONFICTION Using the Internet Safely for Seniors

and ornaments for the tree, the cooler months lend themselves to knitting like no other time of the year. ARC

By Linda Criddle & Nancy Muir

Who Killed Kelsey?

The Internet is amazing, but a person needs to be very careful in using it. Online identity theft, e-mail scams, phony medical information, and more are just a few of the hazards to steer through. With the right guides, you can shop, visit, invest, explore, pay bills, and do dozens of other things online more securely. SS

By Britten Follet & Cherokee Ballard Two television journalists uncover private interrogations, confidential emails, and a destructive past that led to Kelsey’s violent murder. Multiple state agencies charged with protecting the little girl failed. Despite thousands of television news stories about Kelsey’s case and the system that failed her, none of her caseworkers has been fired and one even got a promotion. As you read this account of what happened to a beautiful two-year-old, decide if you can answer the question of who killed her. TC

Warm Knits, Cool Gifts

By Sally Melville & Caddy Ledbetter Filled with patterns, 35 of them, from modern designs to heirloom pieces, this book offers gift inspiration for everyone on your list.

With shawls to wrap up in, hats to pull over your ears, wool sweaters to keep you warm,

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Heavy Snow (Located

at Wheeler Street (now SW 10th) Pictured are seminarians from Little Flower Church enjoying a break from their studies during a snowstorm in the winter of 1938-39.

Father Robert Butler, the tall man on the left, has been identified in this photo.

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FICTION A Blue and Gray Christmas

Death of a Hangman

By Ralph Compton

By Joan Medlicott

After the horrors of the War Between the States, all Charlie Pike wants to do is work his cattle ranch and marry the local schoolmarm. When his old commanding officer, Henry Dryden, now a judge, wants Charlie to escort him back to his native Texas because he’s dying, he can’t refuse.

But powerful gang leader Clem Dredge wants vengeance on Dryden, who sentenced his brother to hang. Charlie is about to find out that paying some debts can cost a man everything.

An old tin box is unearthed at the Covington Homestead and the contents reveal that two Civil War soldiers were found dying on a battlefield by an old woman and nursed back to health. After the war, they stayed in Covington, caring for their rescuer as she grew frail. They never contacted the families they left behind. The ladies of the Homestead decide to find the soldiers’ descendants and invite them to meet during Christmas.

The Book of Spies

Hothouse Orchid

By Gayle Lynds

By Stuart Woods

Rare-books curator Eva Blake is brought in by the CIA to help them with the connection between the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible, and a bank account linked to terrorists. From London to Rome, Istanbul to Athens, Eva tracks down the gold covered, bejeweled books in the fabulous library. She must stay ahead of the men who will stop at nothing to protect their interests and are dead-set on keeping their secrets hidden.

When Special Agent Holly Barker lets an international terrorist slip through her fingers for a second time, the CIA thinks she might need a long vacation. She returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, but the new police chief is Holly’s former Army commander who she had brought charges against for sexual harassment. He was acquitted, and now Holly must decide whether to return to the CIA or seek her revenge.

Cross Roads

The Killers of the Cimarron

By Fern Michaels

By Frank Leslie

The women of the Sisterhood have received their presidential pardons and looking forward to a happy homecoming at the old Virginia farmhouse.

But two of them are hijacked by an elite group of Interpol agents. They face a stark choice: resume their vigilante status, or try to outwit a group of powerful adversaries. Now everything is in the balance, their lives, their friendship, and the freedom they fought so hard to gain.

Running from bounty hunters, Colter Farrow finds refuge in the remote Cheyenne Mountains, working on a small ranch run by Cimarron Padilla and his adopted Hunkpapa daughter, Pearl. A savage group of killers steals a cache of gold, slays Cimarron, and takes Pearl hostage. Colter is back on the vengeance trail, aided by an aging deputy U.S. marshal. He’s determined to bring Pearl back alive and avenge Cimarron.

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FICTION The Lost Witness

Southern Lights

By Robert Ellis

By Danielle Steel

Los Angeles Police Detective Lena Gamble was hailed as a hero by her colleagues for catching the infamous Romeo killer. But the department higher-ups hold her in disgrace and she hasn’t been allowed to handle a real murder investigation since. Now, after eight months, the chief tosses her a case. But, she wonders if she’s being set up to be exiled once and for all. The victim is unidentified, there are no witnesses, and there are no leads.

As Assistant D.A. Alexa Hamilton prepares for her latest case, the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin, threatening letters are sent to her seventeen-year-old daughter. Certain that Quentin is behind the letters, she sends her daughter back to her ex-husband’s world of southern tradition and memories of betrayal. A mother and daughter’s love is strengthened by the challenges they face and the secrets that are exposed.

Third Degree

Play Dead

By Greg Iles

By Harlan Coben

Laurel Shields’ life and marriage to a prominent doctor is shattered in the span of 24 hours. She discovers that after ending an affair, she is pregnant. She returns home to find her husband on the brink of violence. Behind the walls of her perfect house, she is locked in a standoff with a husband she barely recognizes.

While a ring of armed police prepare a dangerous rescue, she must tread a deadly path between truth and deception.

Tragedy strikes supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin while they are honeymooning on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. David goes for a swim and never returns. Now widowed and grieving, Laura has thousands of questions and no answers.

Her search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years.

The Siege

The Wild Zone

By Stephen White

By Joy Fielding

Detective Sam Purdy, FBI counterterrorism specialist Christopher Poe, and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake are drawn to New Haven to investigate the disappearances of several students, including the sons of both the secretary of the army and the newest Supreme Court justice. An unseen enemy is playing by no known rules, making no demands, and somehow anticipating every FBI move.

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Two brothers and their friend are out for a night of partying at the Wild Zone. They make a $100 wager on who will be the first to seduce a mysterious looking young woman drinking by herself. What they don’t know is Suzy Bigelow’s innocent girl-next-door looks hide dangerous secrets. The harmless wager takes on an explosive life of its own. It becomes clear that there’s no going back once you’ve entered The Wild Zone.

ROMANCE The Bride

around except the drifter Silas Hardin. Silas has just escaped a shotgun wedding, and lost his money, ranch, and his pride. Now he feels like he must protect not only the cattle, but Belle and her four daughters on the long cattle drive.

By Carolyn Davidson Before he died, Isabella Montgomery’s father betrothed her to Juan Garcia, an old ranchero infamous for cruelty. She now waits in a convent for the day he would come to claim her. Rafael McKenzie needs a bride before he can get his inheritance. When he sees Isabella, he knows that she is the one. Breaking into the convent and capturing her was easy enough, but stealing her heart was another story.

Just a Hint-Clint

By Lori Foster Clint Evans has been hired to rescue heiress Julie Rose who has been taken hostage by four thugs. The petite schoolteacher is no fainting trust-fund baby, but one who won’t be deterred when she sets her sights on something. Clint has one rule that he never breaks, don’t get involved with a client.

Keeping Julie safe until he can figure out who’s behind her kidnapping means never letting her out of his sight. Now it’s getting harder for him to consider letting her go.

Dreamkeepers

By Dorothy Garlock Kelly Templeton returns to Alaska hoping to put her disastrous marriage behind her.

But when she opens her lodge door expecting a guest, she’s confronted with her furious husband instead. Winslow will do anything to win her back.

Molly Develon’s father has left a will that practically forces her into marrying a stranger.

Adam Reneau isn’t thrilled at the prospect of a sham marriage. But for Molly to stay in her beloved home, and to have access to her father’s research, the two will have to find a way to survive together in Alaska.

A Knight’s Enchantment

By Lindsay Townsend Joanna of Glastonbury is desperate to liberate her father who is being held prisoner by the Bishop Thomas. She must use her skills as an alchemist to produce an elixir for eternal life. Since gold is a key ingredient, she must pan for it. While coming to the rescue of a boy who is drowning, she is aided by a knight.

They discover that they share a mutual hatred of the Bishop, and together devise a daring plan to save their imprisoned family members.

The Husband Tree

By Mary Connealy As she’s standing over her third husband’s grave, Belle Tanner makes a vow of no more men. Now she just has to get her cattle to market before winter sets in. But there’s no one 9

ROMANCE Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress

forces on a major case and the sparks between them quickly turn into attraction. But when they discover that only one of them will be named partner, it becomes an all out war.

Philippa, Viscountess Gossett, has memories of a seductive rake that stole her heart. She thinks that she will never see him again, until a stranger arrives on her doorstep and offers her a chance to find him. Captain Thomas Dashwell has never forgotten the beautiful vision in red, but feels that she betrayed him by marrying another. Can they forget their hurts and learn to love again?

Raven of the Wing

By Elizabeth Boyle

By Kay Hooper From the moment that Raven Anderson literally knocks Josh Long off his feet, he is smitten. He uses the resources of his business empire to crack the mystery surrounding Raven’s true identity. When the background check confirms that Raven is an international criminal wanted for her connections to worldwide terrorism, he can’t bring himself to believe it. Raven is playing a part in a deadly game against an adversary who never loses, and so she must keep Josh at a safe distance.

Now You Die

By Christine Heggan Cartoonist Zoe Foster finds a woman’s lifeless body in an alley and calls 911. When the police arrive, the woman is gone. They dismiss her concerns, but Zoe is not easily discouraged. She discovers that the missing woman was a singer at the nightclub owned by Zoe’s ex-husband. The two team up in an effort to find the woman. All evidence is beginning to point to one of her fans of her popular comic strip. Now someone will do whatever it takes to stop Zoe from finding out the truth.

Rogue’s Salute

By Jennifer Blake Juliette Armant must save her family in the only way possible. She must wed Nicholas Pasquale so she can claim an ancestral marriage chest and protect its secret contents from her twin sister, who wants the treasure all to herself.

She offers a practical arrangement to Nicholas, marriage in exchange for her taking care of his irascible young charge.

Practice Makes Perfect

By Julie James Payton Kendall and J.D. Jameson are lawyers, who for eight years have tolerated each other as coworkers, for one reason only: to make partner at the firm. They are asked to join 10

ROMANCE Texas Hold Him

Worth the Risks

By Lisa Cooke

By Nora Roberts

Lottie Mason needs to raise $15,000 to keep her ailing father out of prison. The only place to get that kind of money was a riverboat poker tournament, but she knows nothing about playing cards. She asks the best cardsharp in New Orleans for lessons. Dyer Straights has no time for a Southern belle who won’t take no for an answer. So, to scare her off, he makes a proposition that he’s sure will stop her.

Matthew Bates and Laurel Armand are rival reporters who are forced to work together on a case in steamy New Orleans. Determined to get their story they find themselves in the path of a deranged killer, putting love and life on the line.

Kirby Fairchild isn’t sure that Adam Haines is really the man he pretends to be when he comes to her father’s estate looking for respite. As the days and nights wear on, she feels an attraction for him building. Is she in danger of falling for a stranger who is more practiced in the art of deception than she is?

Cattle Drive Arrives in Town, Grand Ave. at Santa Fe tracks (1891)

A herd of longhorns have arrived from many surrounding ranches and are about to be lead onto cattle cars, probably headed for the Stockyards in Kansas City or Chicago.

MLS Oklahoma Images Collection.

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MYSTERIES Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun

none so peaceful when beautiful Kenji Sole is found stabbed to death on the floor of her bedroom. This was a woman with an active love life and cared nothing about her lovers’ marital status, so there are a lot of suspects.

By Lois Winston When her gambling-addicted husband dies in Vegas, Anastasia Pollack is left with two teenage sons, a mountain of debt, and her nasty, cane wielding Communist motherin-law. Her job as crafts editor at American Woman magazine gets stickier when she discovers the dead body of fashion editor Marlys Vandenburg hot-glued to Anastasia’s chair. Marlys’ collected enemies and exlovers, and one was Anastasia’s husband, which makes her a prime suspect. Now she must find the real killer.

Mortar and Murder

By Jennie Bentley Since inheriting her Aunt’s old Maine cottage, Avery Baker has a new career, home renovation. Things are going fine with the renovating of an old Colonial, when suddenly the body of an unidentified woman is found floating in the sea near the home, and then a second woman is retrieved from the harbor.

Avery finds a secret room in the house, and learns that the town has a long tradition of smuggling that somehow is a bizarre link between the two dead women.

The Glass is Always Greener

By Tamar Myers

Murder Had a Little Lamb

Abigail Timberlake Washburn takes a hiatus from her Charleston shop and accompanies her best friend, Rob, to the wake of his loco Aunt Jerry, who, as it happens, is not dead. Watching the crazy old gal gleefully disowning assembled relatives left and right is a hoot. Then Aunt Jerry really turns up dead in the deep freeze with a priceless emerald ring missing from her finger and Abigail is the prime suspect!

By Cynthia Baxter Jessica Popper and Nick Burby’s wedding is interrupted by the sound of bloody murder.

It’s a long lost relative that Nick has never met.

Now instead of enjoying her honeymoon, Jessie finds herself playing Bo Peep to a growing list of suspects, none with a past as white as snow.

All the clues lead to an exclusive private school in Long Island. Jessie has to shear away the thick fleece of politics, tension, and rivalries to reveal a very different animal under the school’s progressive appearance.

Mating Season

By Jon Loomis Frank Coffin is back in his hometown of Provincetown, Massachusetts, hoping to put his days of grisly big city crime fighting behind. The quirky beach town proves to be 12

MYSTERIES Murder Past Due

up to Brenna to ensure that the town’s namesake family doesn’t take the fall before the crafty killer puts the finishing touches on the perfect crime.

By Miranda James Charlie Harris is known by everyone in Athena, Mississippi, as the good natured librarian who walks his Maine coon cat on a leash. Author Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerk. Godfrey’s homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldn’t possibly go worse: by lunch, he’s put a man in the hospital, and by dinner, Godfrey’s dead. Now it’s up to Charlie and his cat to paw through the town’s grudges and find the killer.

Thai Die

By Monica Ferris Returning from a trip to Thailand, Doris Valentine is eager to show her stitching friends at the needlework shop, Crewel World, her souvenirs. She also has a stone Buddha that she agreed to deliver to a local antiques store.

After giving the statue to the owner, Doris’s apartment is broken into and some of her souvenirs are stolen. The antiques store owner is found murdered and the Buddha is missing.

Is the statue more than carved stone?

Plum Spooky

By Janet Evanovich

Town in a Blueberry Jam

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the search for Martin Munch, a man who assaulted his boss, and has jumped bail. With the help of Diesel, another bounty hunter, they must hunt through the Pine Barrens and face the legendary Jersey Devil who prowls above the treetops in the dark of night. Along the way they must survive cranberry bogs, sand in their underwear, and each other.

By B.B. Haywood Candy Holliday has an idyllic life tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father. Everyone is shocked when two murders occur back-to-back, an aging playboy takes a nosedive off a seaside cliff, and then gossip columnist, Valentine Vine stops a hammer with her head. When a local handyman is accused of the murder, Candy investigates to clear his name.

She must sort through the town’s juicy secrets and things start to get very sticky indeed.

Sealed With a Kill

By Lucy Lawrence Autumn in New England brings out the tourists, and Brenna Miller gets stuck as the tour guide for a group of leaf peepers. She tries to be enthusiastic until the trail leads them straight to a dead body. She learns that the victim was her best friend’s father’s business partner. Now it’s 13

LARGE PRINT Andy Catlett: Early Travels

Coop and Lil are thrown together in an effort to solve it. ROM

Blood Dreams

By Wendell Berry Nine-year-old Andy Catlett embarks on a bus trip to visit his grandparents’ homes unaccompanied. It is four days after Christmas of 1943, and Andy considers this an adventure, and his first step into adulthood. He tells stories of neighbors and friends as he makes his journey to the small town of Port William. FIC

By Kay Hooper

To catch a killer without conscience or fear of being caught, Noah Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes Unit unite with a civilian organization of crime stoppers.

This group operates outside any government oversight, and are comprised of a membership every bit as talented as the SCU. The latest victim was the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator. FIC

Black Hills

By Nora Roberts

Bury Your Dead

Leaving his fast paced life as an investigator in New York, Coop Sullivan has come to the Black Hills of South Dakota to care for his aging grandparents on their ranch. Their neighbor, Lil Chance, is opening her dream, The Chance Wildlife Refuge. When small pranks and acts of destruction bring back memories of an unsolved murder,

By Louise Penny

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is in Quebec City trying to recover from an investigation gone wrong. While there, a historian at the Literary and Historical Society is murdered. Then the Bistro owner of Gamache’s hometown is 14

LARGE PRINT Token Creek, Montana Territory.

Her life is rich in the bustling frontier town, with her growing business, and church family. But she struggles with an unsettling in her heart. She must decide whether or not to share with the people who have become so dear to her, the secrets of her past. FIC

convicted of murder. As past and present collide, he must relive the terrible event of his own past before he can bury his dead. MYS

Capitol Betrayal

By William Bernhardt Former senator Ben Kincaid is in a meeting with the president when Washington explodes into chaos. Kincaid and the president are whisked to the underground Presidential Emergency Operations Center, where they discover that a malevolent foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system. His message is: heed his demands or suffer unfathomable destruction.

The president starts to fall apart under the pressure. MYS

Eureka

By Jim Lehrer Otis Halstead is CEO of an insurance company in Eureka, Kansas. His work bores him, his wife nags him, and he wants out now. He spots and buys a shiny red fire engine he coveted as a child.

He next purchases a Daisy Red Ryder air rifle, and then a Cushman motor scooter. He hits the road on his new scooter, bound for adventures, but a horrible accident lands him back home. He’s unable to speak or move, and he’s now dependent on the very people he sought to escape. FIC

Cassidy

By Lori Wick Cassidy Norton makes her living sewing for the folks in 15

LARGE PRINT Ghost in Trouble

she’ll also have to come face to face with Trace Riley, the man she left ten years ago. Will he be a roadblock to her plans, or will he be proof that second chances are possible? ROM

By Carolyn Hart

When Bailey Ruth Raeburn passed over into the great beyond, she was delighted to join Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions.

She helps those in need and ensures that the wicked get their just desserts. She is sent to help a woman who just happens to be Bailey’s oldest enemy. Solving her toughest case yet means managing a recalcitrant charge, a fraudulent medium, a mother’s heartbreak, old passions and new, and a telltale rawhide dog bone. MYS

The Last Noel

By Heather Graham When a storm paralyzes New England, the O’Boyle household becomes prey to a pair of desperate escaped killers. Skyler O’Boyle is convinced that the only way they will live through this nightmare is to throw the convicts off their guard. Skyler’s daughter, Kat, escapes into the blizzard where she comes across a third felon, half-frozen. She recognizes him as a former classmate, but what is he doing with these guys? He is desperate to unload a secret that could change the family’s destiny.

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The Inn at Eagle Point

By Sherryl Woods

Abby Winters rushes back to her Maryland home town to help her sister protect her dream of renovating the Inn at Eagle Point.

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believes that she has set a trap of the worst sort in order to marry into his powerful family. ROM

By Jude Deveraux Joeelyn Minton has inherited an eighteenth century house in the small Virginia town of Edilean, and also a letter with clues to a decades old mystery. She moves to the tight knit village and meets a man with his own hidden past. As she pieces together the puzzle, she discovers shocking secrets about her own family history. ROM

A Thousand Voices

By Lisa Wingate

Dell Jordan has spent a year abroad with a traveling symphony, but beneath her polished surface lurks mysteries from the past. She was adopted at age thirteen and has wondered why did her mother abandon her, and who was her father? She sets out to find the answers in Oklahoma’s Kiamichi Mountains, propelled only by a father’s Native American name on her birth certificate. FIC

A Rogue of My Own

By Johanna Lindsey

At the court of Queen Victoria, Rebecca Marshall innocently steps into the rivalry between the queen’s spymaster and the noblewoman who is using the maids to spy on courtiers. The Marquis Rupert St. John is a secret agent of the crown and obtains proof that Rebecca is spying on him. When he seduces her, he is forced to the altar. He

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Where Do I Go?

Three irresistible angels, Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, love their assignments on Earth, and love helping people who send their prayer requests to Heaven. Mercy is assigned to bring peace of mind to an elderly man. Goodness is sent to oversee the love life of a young woman afraid to risk commitment a second time. And Shirley has the task of granting a little boy’s fondest wish. INSP

With much trepidation Gabby Fairbanks moves to Chicago to accommodate her husband, Phillip’s business ambitions. She finds an opportunity that could give her life meaning again. Manna House Women’s Shelter needs a program director, and Gabby has a degree in social work. She feels God’s call on her life, but Philip doesn’t like the changes and gives her an ultimatum: quit or risk divorce and losing custody of their sons. Can she find the strength to carry on with her new life? INSP

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