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BEST SELLERS Black Hills

Hot Money

By Nora Roberts

By Dick Francis With five ex-wives and nine children, it’s no surprise that gold trader Malcolm Pembroke should preside over a motley and conflicted clan. When sudden death claims the least likely of his former spouses, Malcolm feels threatened himself, and he calls on the most capable son, Ian, a jockey. Ian has to protect his father from their nearest relatives and find the critical secret buried in the Pembroke past that could motivate blood to strike against blood. MYS

Cooper Sullivan has left his fast paced life as an investigator in New York to take care of his aging grandparents on their ranch in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Neighbor Lil Chance is opening her dream, The Chance Wildlife Refuge. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate memories of an unsolved murder, Coop and Lil are thrown together in an effort to solve it, before they are singled out as prey. ROM

Ford County

Kisser

By John Grisham

By Stuart Woods

Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi in this riveting collection of seven short stories. Wheelchair bound Inez Graney and her sons embark on a bizarre road trip to visit her youngest son, on death row. A stalker hunts victims in a retirement home, a lawyer confronts a vengeful adversary from the past, and a young man from a prominent family is driven off by scandal and fear. These are just a few of the stories in the book. FIC

Stone Barrington is back in New York working on simple divorce and custody cases when he crosses paths with a lip model. Then the fleecing of a wealthy art dealer’s daughter leads him into the world of financial fraud. No stranger to high society or the foibles of the rich, Stone realizes he must uncover the truth in a world where wealth and beauty sometimes come at an unusually high price. FIC

The Last Song

Foul Play

By Nicholas Sparks

By Janet Evanovich

Ronnie Miller’s life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved to North Carolina three years ago. Now her mother decides that it would be best if she and her brother spent the summer with their father. Ronnie rejects her father’s attempts to reach out to her and threatens to return to New York before the summer ends. She then meets Will and finds herself falling for him, opening herself to the greatest happiness and pain that she has ever known. FIC

Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, and veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Then the job stealing chicken disappears and Amy is suspected of foul play. Amy and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence. Jake can’t resist a damsel in distress and Amy certainly doesn’t mind Jake’s charming sincerity. ROM 3

BEST SELLERS Natural Born Charmer

Reilly’s Return

Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard isn’t prepared when he sees a woman in a beaver suit walking down the road with her big fat tail bouncing in the gravel. He’d been praying for a little distraction from his own depressing company, and he gets it. This is the love story of a golden boy who might be losing his luster and a spirited woman who’d learned never to depend on anyone but herself. ROM

Recovering from her husband’s death, Jayne Jordan has moved to a small town on the California coast. She still manages to crank out bluntly honest movie reviews read by millions. Into her life strides movie star Pat Reilly, a friend of Jayne’s late husband. He is certain they both felt an attraction the first time they met and has arrived to give destiny a nudge. Reilly’s latest action blockbuster is about to draw the wrath of her next review. Can she stay true to herself, and still fall in love? ROM

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips

By Tami Hoag

No Choice But Seduction

Sail

By Johanna Lindsey Sir Anthony Malory’s young daughter is abducted from London’s Hyde Park. The ransom note mistakenly falls into the hands of a Malory relative, sea captain Boyd Anderson. He hardly expects to find that a recent passenger on his ship, Katey Tyler, is at the center of the plot. Katey fled her dull Connecticut town in search of romance and adventure, but has become caught up in the crime. She is about to experience more excitement than she ever dreamed possible. ROM

By James Patterson Katherine Dunne is taking her three children on a summer sailboat getaway. What should be a trip to paradise is turning into anything but as her children are miserable and not shy about showing it. Katherine had hoped that this vacation would bring them back the togetherness they’d lost when her husband died. Suddenly a disaster hits, and the Dunnes rediscover the meaning of family. But danger lurks ahead and someone wants to make sure that they never leave paradise alive. FIC

Rain Gods

The Scarpetta Factor

By James Lee Burke

By Patricia Cornwell

In a border town, the bodies of nine illegal aliens are unearthed in a grave. Texas Sheriff Hack Holland attempts to untangle the grisly case. Damaged young Iraq vet Pete Flores and his girlfriend saw too much before fleeing the crime scene and are running for their lives. Hack is sorting through the lowlifes who are hunting down Pete who is caught up in a terrifying race for survival. FIC

When Kay Scarpetta offers her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected events. This culminates in a package showing up, that could possibly be a bomb, at the front desk of her apartment building. Soon the threat on her life finds her embroiled in a plot that includes a famous actor accused of a sex crime. MYS 4

NONFICTION Awkward Family Photos

A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers

By Mike Bender & Doug Chernack This book features classic and never before seen photos and hilarious personal stories covering everything from uncomfortable moments with relatives, teen angst, sibling rivalry, and family vacations that did not go as planned. All of this prompts us to look at our own families and celebrate that we are not alone. HUM

By Colleen Sell In this moving collection of stories, you’ll meet more than 50 admirable, adorable dogs. Sometimes bittersweet, sometimes joyful, but always poignant, these touching true stories of canine love, loyalty, companionship, and devotion will touch the heart and soothe the soul of you and every dog lover in your life. SS

The Big Green Book of Recycled Crafts

The Girls from Ames

By Leisure Arts

By Jeffrey Zaslow

All of the projects in this book use one of more items that would ordinarily end up in a landfill. Find ways to extend the usefulness of paper, plastic, cans, glass, clothing, and other recyclables. Each craft is fun to make and even more fun to give as a gift. You’ll find plenty of ideas to get more mileage out of an old sweater, create artwork from household discards, or even organize your photos. ARC

The Ames Girls are eleven childhood friends who grew up together in Iowa. They moved to eight different states later, but managed to maintain an enduring friendship that carried them through college, careers, marriage, motherhood, divorce, and the mysterious death of one member of their group. They demonstrate how close female relationships can shape every aspect of women’s lives and how such friendships thrive. BIO

Clara’s Kitchen By Clara Cannucciari

The Healthy Eating for Diabetes

Clara offers a warm and loving portrait of growing up during the Great Depression. In between the recipes, she tells stories about neighborhood bootleggers, chocolates, and roller-skating to work at the Hostess Twinkie Factory. She gives practical advice on the best way to stretch a pot of pasta, and how to conserve electricity when cooking. Clara takes readers back to a simpler, if more primitive time, and gives hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta. HAF

By Antony Worrall Thompson This book is loaded with 100 appealing recipes for those living with diabetes and struggling with their weight, and for those in perfect health. Top chef Thompson, himself diagnosed with diabetes, had a personal interest in creating recipes that are low 5

NONFICTION glycemic, but delicious and that everyone could eat and enjoy. HAF

among them writers Roald Dahl, and Ian Fleming, sent to Washington by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They were to ingratiate themselves on the social scene, subvert American isolationism, and advance the British cause through good manners. They were to use their charm to gain access to the most powerful figures in American political life. HIS

I’ll Mature When I’m Dead By Dave Barry

Humorist Dave Barry tackles everything from fatherhood, new fatherhood, self-image, the battle of the sexes, celebrity, technology, reality shows, and parenting styles, all with hilarity. He has watched his son get married, his daughter perform in ballet recitals that lasted longer than the Spanish-American War, and spent the equivalent of the gross national product of Uruguay on veterinarian fees in an effort to repair a persistent injury to the dog’s tail caused by the fact she wags too hard. HUM

The Love Revolution By Joyce Meyers Joyce Meyer invites the reader to join her in a revolution of love, one that will completely change the way you think and act, especially towards people. She wants us to totally change our way of expressing love by changing the way we treat others. This is about changing the world for Christ by choosing to purposely and aggressively help other people. REL

Incontinent on the Continent By Jane Christmas Jane decides to take her arthritic, incontinent, and strong-willed mother on a month long road trip through Italy. As the two zip along the winding Amalfi Coast, traverse St. Peter’s Square in Rome, and bounce over the waves to Sicily with walker, shawls, and medications in tow, the bickering and bitterness of years past bubble to the surface. Unflinching and frequently hilarious, this is sure to strike a chord with any women who has tried to make friends with her mother. BIO

Montana Women Homesteaders By Sarah Carter Here are the voices and images of women who filed on 160 or 320 acre homestead plots in Montana. They were single, widowed, divorced, or deserted and varied in ages, educational levels, and ethnic backgrounds. In published accounts, scrapbooks, personal reminiscences, and photographs, the women recorded their remarkable journeys. HIS

The Irregulars By Jennet Conant This is the story of a handful of young, handsome, cosmopolitan British officers, 6

NONFICTION The New Health Care System

addition to the patterns, there is a series of tips and tricks to make on the go knitting easier. If you’ve never knitted in public, try it. ARC

By David Nather

All Americans are affected by the new health care legislation. Here is comprehensive, accessible information on how you can navigate the system. You’ll find quick answers depending on your personal situation, along with strategies for what to do. HEA

This I Believe By Jay Allison & Dan Gediman This is a collection of seventy-five essayists who complete the thought that begins the book’s title. The contributors run the gamut from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, to professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, to Sister Helen Prejean, and Robert Fulghum, and to ordinary folks like a diner waitress, an Iraq War veteran, a farmer, and many others. These are wonderful and surprising essays about forgiveness, personal integrity, and honoring life and change. PSY

Take-Along Knitting By North Light Books

Are you tempted to break out the knitting needles in the library, on the bus, at the doctor’s office? Here are 20 fabulous patterns for the best portable projects that celebrate the joys of knitting everywhere you go. In © Metropolitan Library System

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Pioneer Telephone Building (left, under construction) and Baptist White Temple (right), 401 and 400 N. Broadway (c. Oct. 1906). 7

FICTION Below Zero

Game Over

By Fern Michaels

By C. J. Box

The ladies of the Sisterhood are hit with some exciting but unsettling news. Their dear ally Lizzie Fox is rumored to be near the top of the list for a seat on the Supreme Court. While they are thrilled for Lizzie, they are concerned about her being ripped to shreds in the approval process. They also fear it will delay their long awaited pardon from the President. It will take a masterful plan and loyal friends to protect Lizzie.

The Pickett family is shaken to the core when they receive a phone message: “Tell Sherry April called.” April was their foster daughter and was murdered six years ago. Joe’s daughter Sherry believes that April is still alive, but Joe is suspicious. Unsettling questions arise. These calls are coming from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred. Is this a cruel hoax, or could April be alive?

Marine One

Blood Ties

By James W. Huston

By Kay Hooper

A helicopter carrying the President crashes into a ravine, killing all aboard. The government accuses the French helicopter manufacturer. Mike Nolan, a trial attorney and a Marine Corps reserve helicopter pilot, is hired to defend the company. Nolan must find out what really caused the accident and why the President threw caution aside to attend a secret meeting. To clear his client, he must win the highest profile trial of the last hundred years, and many are working against him.

Because of a series of grisly murders across three states, the Special Crimes Unit has come to a small Tennessee town where two more killings have occurred. Special Agent Hollis Templeton has shown an uncanny ability to survive even the deadliest attacks. But what she can’t know is that this killer intends to destroy the team from within. As the body count climbs, the agents race to uncover the true identity of their enemy.

Breaking the Rules

Nightwalkers

By Barbara Taylor Bradford

By P. T. Deutermann

A beautiful young woman flees her quiet English countryside after a terrifying encounter. She adopts the initial M as her name and becomes a famous fashion model. She marries a Hollywood actor and thinks that she has truly put the horrors of her earlier days behind her. Her life is about to take a dark turn as someone from her past has made a vow to shatter M’s world forever.

Detective Cam Richter buys an antebellum plantation in North Carolina in the hopes of having a more peaceful life. His new locale is not as quiet as he’d hoped. He finds himself caught up in mischievous pranks on his land, but the pranks soon turn hostile. Cam realizes he’s been targeted by a killer who holds him responsible for something he never did. He now needs all his resources to stay alive. 8

FICTION Rogue

that may save her sister. A powerful enemy is also in hot pursuit, and as he draws closer, Rachel will face murder and deceit at every turn.

By Danielle Steel Blake and Maxine have worked out an odd but amicable divorce. Blake enjoys his globe-trotting lifestyle while Maxine raises their three children and pursues her work as an adolescent psychiatrist. Their lives change when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of Blake’s foreign homes in Morocco. It leaves hundreds of children orphaned and Blake wants Maxine as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives.

Tribute By Nora Roberts Former child star, Cilla McGowan has moved to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley to restore her grandmother’s farmhouse. Her grandmother was a legendary actress who died of an overdose thirty years ago. Cilla finds some unsigned letters in the attic that suggests her grandmother was pregnant when she died. The father was a local married man and Cilla wonders what really happened all those years ago.

Smash Cut

By Sandra Brown Renowned lawyer Derek Mitchell is retained to defend the nephew of murdered millionaire Paul Wheeler. Wheeler’s mistress, Julie Rutledge, who is also a suspect, believes that the nephew is the killer, and she will do almost anything to prove his guilt. The more Derek learns of the nephew’s darker side, the more he comes to believe Julie is right. They join forces to find the truth.

206 Bones

By Kathy Reichs Dr. Tempe Brennan and Lieutenant Ryan had recently accompanied the remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Tempe is accused of mishandling the autopsy, and after an incriminating phone call and another shocking death, her enemy closes in. As the corpses of a second, then third elderly woman turn up, someone wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way. Who would resort to sabotage to destroy the secrets hidden in the bones?

Storm Cycle By Iris Johansen

With her younger sister dying of a rare illness, Rachel Kirby is running out of time to connect the intricate pieces of a technological puzzle that will keep her alive. Suddenly a call comes from thousands of miles away from a man who has unearthed an important secret in an Egyptian tomb. It’s a discovery that humankind has been seeking for centuries, one 9

ROMANCE Always Dakota

In the Bed of a Duke

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota is a good place to live. Local rancher Margaret Clemens is finally marrying cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don’t think that Matt’s such a prize, but Margaret is aware of his reputation and his flaws. She wants him anyway and wants to have a baby with him. Now she only has to make him love her as she loves him.

During a rainy Scottish night, Charlotte Cameron invited the worst man into her carriage. Phillip Maddox brought the weight of the town’s fury upon her when she encouraged her sister not to wed the powerful peer. Now the seductive devil responsible for her social ruin is sitting close to her. There is grave danger for them both on this journey because a nemesis means them harm.

By Debbie Macomber

By Cathy Maxwell

Cold Hearted

The MacGregor Brides

By Beverly Barton

By Nora Roberts

Every man who gets close to Jordan Price is made to pay in blood. Rick Carson is hired to investigate Senator Dan Price’s death. No one can suspect Jordan of cold-blooded murder as she stands by her late husband’s graveside. Only Rick notices that she never sheds a tear. As he delves deeper into the string of deaths from which she has profited handsomely, he is convinced that he is dealing with a callous, cunning, unstoppable killer.

Daniel MacGregor , patriarch of the MacGregor clan, would like nothing more than to see his three eldest granddaughters happily married. He’s handpicked three unsuspecting candidates he believes would make perfect husbands. His granddaughters are so focused on their careers that marriage is the last thing on their minds. It’s a good thing this meddlesome nonagenarian has a few tricks up his sleeve.

Happily Ever After By Susan May Warren Mona’s dream of transforming an old Victorian house into the Footstep of Heaven Bookstore and Coffee Shop is about to come true. Since she can’t even swing a hammer, she enlists the help of mysterious handyman Joe Michaels. When disaster threatens her dream, she turns to her handyman for more than just household solutions and finds that some fairy tales have surprise endings. 10

ROMANCE Pale Moon Stalker

the attacks begin, Juliana and Sir Oliver are determined to protect her.

By Shirl Henke

The Spinster Brides of Cactus Corner

Sky Brewster left her Sioux people to hire an assassin to find the gunman who murdered her husband. Max Stanhope is an infamous English bounty hunter who now must take a wife to claim his birthright. The beautiful widow and the bounty hunter make a deal. She will marry him in return for his special skills.

By F. Devine, L. Dooley, V. McDonough, & J. Odell India Cunningham is running the ranch her father left her when a man she doesn’t remember from her childhood arrives to help. Is he there to steal her land? Anika Windsor, lawyer, is pitted against her first and only love. Can two opposites find a true love? Elaine Daly has dedicated her life to caring for orphaned children and has no desire for a husband. When a new doctor comes to town, he changes her world. Jody McMillan is determined to buy a vacant property to expand the overcrowded orphanage. Unknown to her someone else has already bought the lot. Can they come to an agreement?

Paradise Valley By Robyn Carr

Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home from Iraq and the carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is bleak. As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the closely knit town’s welcoming spirit. Dan Brady has a questionable past and he’s looking for a place to start over. Virgin River offers the favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, a chance to make peace with the men they once were.

A Stranger’s Game By Joan Johnston

Seducing Sir Oliver

FBI Special Agent Breed Grayhawk gets involved one night with a woman whom he later discovers is a convicted murderer who has broken her parole and disappeared. Now she’s the prime suspect in a terrorist threat against the U.S. president. Grace Caldwell was framed for the murder and has been chasing the real killer. In just five days the president will visit Austin, Texas, and the last thing the FBI needs is a serial killer on the prowl.

By Nicole Byrd Juliana Applegate is taken to London by her newly revealed brother to look for an eligible marriage mate. An illness in her brother’s household forces her to stay with his friend Lady Sealey and her handsome godson, Sir Oliver. They are thrown together when someone starts sending Lady Sealey mysterious vengeful letters that threaten an imminent doom. When 11

ROMANCE Touch the Horizon

Your Scandalous Ways

By Iris Johansen

By Loretta Chase

Billie Callahan has come to the Middle East to play a minor film role in a desert epic. She finds herself stranded in a deadly sandstorm when a real life cowboy rides to her rescue on his black stallion. What was this mysterious and eccentric man doing in Sedikhan? She follows him to his lavish fortress he calls home with its armed guards and adoring staff to find the answer.

James Cordier is a master of disguise, a brilliant thief, and a first class lover, all for King and Country. His last mission is to acquire a packet of incriminating letters from one notorious woman. Francesca Bonnard has weathered heartbreak and scandal. She’s learned that “gentlemen” are more trouble than they’re worth, and James is bad news. As bad as James is, there are others far worse also searching for Francesca’s letters.

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Cheyenne and Arapaho Delegates Council (1889.) The council met in Oklahoma City on May 23 and 24 to negotiate the sale of the unused Cherokee Outlet land. On the front row, second in from the right in the light hat is George Bent, trusted advisor and interpreter for the Cheyenne; fourth from the right on that row is Left Hand; directly behind Left Hand is Arapaho leader Row of Lodges; in the back row by the door in the straw hat is George Beidler, first postmaster in Oklahoma City, 12

MYSTERIES Crossing the Lion

in a little amateur investigating. But the more questions she asks, the more complicated things become. She finds herself at odds with a very rich and very powerful family.

By Cynthia Baxter Veterinarian Jessica Popper is asked to investigate the suspicious death of Linus Merrywood, king of the corporate jungle. When Jessica arrives on the private island of the Merrywoods’ estate, she feels that she has walked straight into the game of Clue. There is a butler named Jeeves, a sexy assistant named Scarlet, secret passageways, moving walls, and a wailing aunt locked in the attic. She is soon against a family steeped in secrets and a killer on the prowl.

The Long Quiche Goodbye By Avery Aames Charlotte Bessette is having the grand opening of The Cheese Shop, when there is a blood curdling shriek outside her door. She finds a body, the victim stabbed to death with one of her prized olive wood handled knives. As the police leap to conclusions, it’s up to Charlotte to find the real killer.

Finger Lickin’ Fifteen

Oolong Dead

By Janet Evanovich

By Laura Childs

When celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to town to participate in a barbecue cook-off, he loses his head-literally. His sponsor is offering a million dollar reward for information leading to the capture of the killers. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is recruited by the only witness to help her find these killers. Can Stephanie hunt down two killers, a traitor, five skips, and keep her grandmother out of the sauce?

Theodosia Browning is asked to host a luncheon to benefit the Charleston Opera Society, which is throwing a Verdi-themed Masked Ball. If that isn’t enough to keep her busy, she finds the dead body of her arch nemesis, Abby Davis. As the opera house is transformed into a Venetian carnival, her investigation into Abby’s murder takes her backstage in the darkened theater. There a maestro of murder waits for the next cue.

French Polished Murder By Elise Hyatt Furniture refinisher Candyce Dare is giddy about her latest project of giving an antique piano a facelift. She finds an old letter inside the piano from a woman who’s been missing for decades. She can’t help but engage 13

MYSTERIES The Reisling Retribution

John O’Malley must find the connection between the two mysteries.

By Ellen Crosby

Swan for the Money

When a tornado rips through Montgomery Estate Vineyard and unearths a grave, the police inform Lucie Montgomery that odds are someone in her family is responsible, possibly for murder. She has more to worry about than buried secrets, since she is allowing Civil War re-enactors to use a field near the grave site and eerie ghost stories are being reported.

By Donna Andrews Meg Langslow is relieved that her parents have taken up the seemingly gentle hobby of growing roses. She even volunteers to help when the Caerphilly Garden Club sponsors its first annual rose show. After only a few hours of dealing with the competitors, Meg sees trouble. Rose growers are cutthroat and will do anything to win the Black Swan trophy, even attempting to kill the wealthy woman on whose estate the competition is being held.

Royal Flush By Rhys Bowen Lady Georgiana is thirty-fourth in line for the British throne and penniless. She tries to make a living out of being a dinner companion but that fails miserably. She is sent home to Castle Rannoch where she is to keep the unsuitable Mrs. Simpson from seducing the Prince of Wales. Then Scotland Yard asks her to keep an eye on the members of the shooting party at Balmoral and prevent someone from shooting the Prince.

There Goes the Bride By M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin takes a break from her detective agency to attend the wedding of her ex-husband, James. As soon as she lays eyes on James, she realizes she’s still desperately in love. Then just moments before saying “I do”, the bride is shot. Agatha, highly competitive, hopelessly romantic, and no stranger to scandal is named the prime suspect in her murder.

Silent Spirit

A Timely Vision

By Margaret Cole In 1923, Charlie Wallowingbull is recruited as an extra to appear in a silent film using real Indians. He never returned home. His great-grandson Kiki, recently released from prison, went to Hollywood to uncover the truth behind Charlie’s disappearance. Kiki’s frozen body is discovered on the reservation. Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father

By Joyce & Jim Lavene

Dae O’Donnell, mayor of Duck, North Carolina, has a special gift. People come to her when they’ve lost something. One touch and Dae can find it. Town matriarch Miss Mildred seeks Dae’s help in finding her lost watch. Her vision leads her straight into a murder investigation. Now she must prove that Miss Mildred isn’t a cold blooded killer.

LARGE PRINT The Appeal

visit and challenges her with three probing questions. These questions inspire her to make a poignant trip into her past. FIC

By John Grisham A jury in Mississippi returns a verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a town’s water supply. The chemical company appeals to the Supreme Court, but the owner is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. So he sets out to purchase a seat on the Court. His political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate that they manipulate, market, and mold into a potential Supreme Court Justice. FIC

Capitol Offense

By William Bernhardt Professor Dennis Thomas is found lying unconscious atop Detective Chrostopher Sentz’s murdered body. He claims temporary insanity, but who can believe him when days earlier he was heard making threats against the murdered cop he holds responsible for the tragic death of his wife. Thomas asks high-profile lawyer Ben Kincaid to help, hoping he will work some of his magic in his defense. MYS

Between the Tides

By Patty Callahan Henry Catherine Leary hasn’t fulfilled her father’s last wish that she scatter his ashes in the Seaboro River in South Carolina. Seaboro was the scene of a childhood tragedy that forced her family to move. Catherine never wanted to see it again, but her father’s young colleague pays a

Day by Day By Delia Parr

Three mismatched grandmothers are united by the bonds of tragedy, and begin the task of raising their 15

LARGE PRINT she had to find a way to forget the past and make sure they all had a future. INSP

grandchildren. Barbara lost her son, a single dad, to senseless violence, Judy’s daughter fell into a black hole of addiction, and Ginger’s girl threw away motherhood for money, status and materialism. Now they find the support of each other, the love of their grandchildren, and the deep core of faith rediscovered. INSP

Friendly Persuasion By Jessamyn West The Birdwells are a pacifist Quaker family in southern Indiana during the Civil War. Eliza Birdwell is a blend of practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family. The family negotiates their way through a world that constantly confronts them, and tests the strength of their beliefs. Whether it’s a gift parcel on their doorstep or Confederate soldiers approaching their land, they embrace life with humor, emotion, conviction, and love. FIC

Death Benefits By Hannah Alexander Ginger Carpenter’s Hawaiian vacation turned into a tropical nightmare. An escaped murderer was on the loose and on the trail of her two foster nieces. To protect them, she has to rely on Dr. Ray Clyde, a man she had never wanted to see again. She hadn’t been able to forgive Ray’s interference with her vocation as a missionary. Now with danger lurking behind every palm tree, 16

LARGE PRINT The Grand Finale

and children, are both fascinating and poignant. FIC

By Janet Evanovich

Laughed ‘Til He Died

Berry Knudsen has a talent for disaster. She falls out of a tree, onto a pizza, and into love. Well, maybe the road to true love isn’t all that easy. She ruins the pizza, loses three cars, adopts three little old ladies that she rescues from the train station, is held at gunpoint, and is caught ogling the very handsome guy next door. ROM

By Carolyn Hart

Mystery book-store owner Annie Darling and her husband Max are plunged into a web of danger and deceit when a trio of deaths is linked to the youth recreation center. The center’s director seeks out Max to clear her name. Annie and Max try to unscramble three interlinked puzzles: the mystery of three guns, the pulled out pant pockets of one victim, and the disappearance of a teenager whose stepfather is killed. MYS

The Home-maker By Dorothy Canfield

Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, while her husband, Lester, is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed. Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family. This is a rare occurrence in 1924, and the changes that take place between husband and wife, parents

The Lumby Lines By Gail Fraser

When a couple of “East Coasters” purchase the fire ravaged Montis Abbey to convert into a country inn, the residents of Lumby look on with suspicion. 17

LARGE PRINT A Promise to Believe In

As work begins, the couple faces the open hostility of the cranky newspaper publisher with a dark secret, and the sometimes helpful, often hapless assistance of the local tradespeople. The mayhem and full array of personalities come to life in snippets from the local paper. FIC

By Tracie Peterson

The three Gallatin sisters begin to fashion a life for themselves in the Montana wilds after spending years following their father. They are operating a roadhouse at the crossroads of two stage lines. When their father is accidentally killed, the oldest sister, Gwen, feels that death is haunting her every step. An unexpected visitor arrives and sends Gwen into turmoil. Is he whom he claims to be? Can she ever dare to hope that love might again be hers? ROM

Pirate Latitudes By Michael Crichton In 1665 the remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica, holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal is a cutthroat town of grog shops and bawdy houses. Captain Charles Hunter gets word that a galleon, fresh from New Spain, is awaiting repairs in a nearby harbor. He figures that gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it. FIC

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LARGE PRINT U is For Undertow

Vision in White

A young man arrives unannounced to P. I., Kinsey Millhone’s office. Twenty-one years earlier, a four year old girl disappeared and the man believes that he stumbled on her burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey’s help in locating the child’s remains and finding 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

Wedding photographer Mackensie Elliot’s focus is shattered just before a wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-tobe’s brother. English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac’s type. But maybe a casual fling would take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, causal flings can turn into something more when you least expect it, and Mac will have to see her way to her own happy ending. ROM

By Sue Grafton

By Nora Roberts

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