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Large Print New Releases March 2024
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After Annie
by Anna Quindlen
After Annie Brown dies suddenly, her family and her best friend struggle to maintain their lives and eventually discover that they are able to grow, change and become stronger due to their memories and the lasting power of love.
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The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
by Claire Swinarski
Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together.
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The Great Divide
by Cristina Henrâiquez
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.
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James
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
by Sarah Tomlinson
Accepting a job to work with a legendary model, style icon, and wife of the founder of the Midnight Ramblers, who died mysteriously in 1969, on her memoir, Mari Hawthorn, as she ingratiates herself into the world of the band, grows enchanted by these legendary rock stars, compromising her objectivity and her integrity.
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The Lost Book of Bonn
by Brianna Labuskes
In 1946 Germany, librarian Emmy Clarke, while cataloging literature plundered by the Nazis, finds a poetry collection which leads her to two sisters, a horrific betrayal and an extraordinary protest of hundreds of brave women who did what so few others dared to do under the Third Reich—they said no.
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Memory Piece
by Lisa Ko
Moving from the predigital 1980s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, a novel of friendship, art and ambition follows three lifelong friends as they strive for meaningful lives in a world that turned out to be radically different from the one they were promised.
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The Morningside
by Téa Obreht
Settling at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City, Silvia, struggling with her new reality, becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse and is determined to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past.
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Never Too Late
by Danielle Steel
Starting a new life in New York, Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, moves into a beautiful midtown penthouse where she forms an instant connection with her movie-star next-door neighbor over their strong impulse to help those in need after a devastating crisis strikes the city.
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The Summer Book Club
by Susan Mallery
In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club—devoted entirely to romance novels—and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
by Sara Ackerman
In 1987, when she inherits a piece of land, Emma finds a small plane in disrepair and her great uncle's journal that tells the story of Livy Jones, the woman who piloted his plane when he fell ill, and, with new purpose, works to secure Livy's place in the aviation hall of fame.
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The Underground Library
by Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
by Katherine Arden
In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, takes refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
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Wellness
by Nathan Hill
Alongside the challenges of parenting, married couple Jack and Elizabeth encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars and something called Love Potion Number Nine as they undertake separate, personal excavations in their quest to find health and happiness.
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The Women
by Kristin Hannah
In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words“Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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Above the Salt
by Katherine Vaz
Forced to flee Portugal in the wake of warfare between Catholics and Protestants, the son of a famous martyr and the daughter of a master botanist find themselves both working for rising politician Abraham Lincoln.
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By the Book
by Jasmine Guillory
A young, black woman working in publishing makes a surprise connection with an author who has failed to deliver his highly anticipated manuscript, in the second novel of the series following If the Shoe Fits.
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Kingdom of Love: 3 Medieval Romances
by Tracie Peterson
From bestselling author Tracie Peterson come three unique historical novels, rereleased for longtime and new fans alike. Liberty and love—even life itself—are fragile commodities for those living in medieval England. Will God’s love and power triumph in the lives of three courageous women?
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Until August
by Gabriel García Márquez
In a rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for 27 years, and yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
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Hopefully ever after
by Beth Wiseman
To become who they're meant to be, Eden and Samuel must find the courage to defy expectations. With absent parents and a troubled past, Eden refuses to become what people expect. When she is sent to live with an Amish cousin she's never met in Indiana, she welcomes the chance to become the person she wants to be without the burden of anyone's judgment. Her hopes are confirmed when she meets Samuel, a young Amish man who seems to like her for who she really is. Samuel Byler has grown up with strict Amish parents, and they aren't happy that their only son is choosing to spend his free time with an outsider. As Eden and Samuel grow closer, disapproval swirls around the young couple. Both Eden's and Samuel's futures hang in the balance as they face decisions about who they are meant to be--both as individuals and together.
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Chasing the Horizon
by Mary Connealy
After discovering her tyrannical father plans to commit her to an asylum, Beth Rutledge and her mother flee on a wagon heading west to Iowa where they consider whether or not to trust the handsome scout leading the caravan.
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A Love Discovered
by Tracie Peterson
Marybeth and Edward forge a marriage of convenience as they venture westward to the untamed frontier of the newly incorporated railroad town of Cheyenne, where they must rely on each other's strength amidst the perils of their new life.
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How To Solve Your Own Murder
by Kristen Perrin
After a fortune teller in 1965 predicts her murder, Frances spends her life searching for her best friend, who disappeared at a county fair, until she actually is murdered 60 years later, leaving her grand-niece, Annie, to solve both crimes.
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The Hunter
by Tana French
Moving to rural Ireland, Cal Hooper, who took early retirement from Chicago PD, has built a relationship with Lena and is gradually turning teenager Trey Reddy into a good kid, but when Trey's long-absent father reappears with an English millionaire and a get-rich-quick scheme, Trey wants revenge.
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A Traitor in Whitehall
by Julia Kelly
In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister's aide to expose a traitor in their midst.
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A Clue in the Crumbs
by Lucy Burdette
Local Key West food critic Hayley Snow and her octogenarian bestie investigate when a bed-and-breakfast is set ablaze and a body is discovered nearby, in the 13th novel of the series following A Dish to Die For.
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Killer Hooks
by Betty Hechtman
Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers have to read between the lines when a bookstore event turns fatal in the new Crochet Mystery by national bestselling author Betty Hechtman.
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Murder in Drury Lane
by Vanessa Riley
While attending a production at the Drury Lane theater, Lady Abigail Worthing, when murder is in attendance, launches her own investigation, dismayed to discover one suspect is a leading advocate for the cause dearest to her heart—the abolition of slavery within the British Empire.
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Murder in the Tea Leaves
by Laura Childs
When she reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie, Dark Fortunes, which results in the film's director murder, Theodosia Browning starts her own shadow investigation, and just when she's about to solve the case, another murder occurs, sending her back to square one.
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Spoon To Be Dead
by Dana Mentink
While catering a holiday steamboat party for a money-grabbing customer, Trinidad Jones, the owner of the Shimmy and Shake shop, agrees to help her good-for-nothing ex investigate a hit-and-run, one he may be responsible for, setting out to get the real scoop on a cold-hearted killer.
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Women of Good Fortune
by Sophie Wan
At a high-society Shanghai wedding, the reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own personal motives and fed up with the way society treats women, forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day.
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Every Single Secret
by Christina Dodd
A woman lives alone in an isolated lighthouse on the coast of California ... until a man appears on her doorstep who knows every single secret she's kept since one fateful night.
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The Guest
by B. A. Paris
When their friend Laure moves in after her husband reveals he's had a child with another woman, Iris and Gabriel, with Laure acting increasingly unhinged and broken relationships and hidden motives linked to a recent tragedy piling up around them, must reckon with whether their happy life has been an illusion.
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Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
by Nicci French
A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed.
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The Last One
by Will Dean
When she wakes up completely alone on the cruise liner RMS Atlantica, no other passengers, including her boyfriend, to be found, Caz, with the ship steaming into the mid-Atlantic, must solve this terrifying mystery before she ends up in a watery grave.
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Lone Wolf
by Gregg Hurwitz
Orphan X helps a little girl find her missing dog and finds himself battered between feuding AI technocrat billionaires and a female assassin called the Wolf in the ninth novel of the series following.
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The New Couple In 5B
by Lisa Unger
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past, in a thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
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The #1 Lawyer
by James Patterson
A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney, Mississippi's #1 lawyer who has never lost a case, when his wife is scandalously killed, spirals into a legal and personal legal streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation's #1 suspect.
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The Phoenix Crown
by Kate Quinn
Offered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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The Princess of Las Vegas
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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Rock Bottom
by Fern Michaels
The Sisterhood meets their match in an adversary that has money, power and resources to rival their own when they try to blow the whistle on a huge construction corporation using inferior foundation materials that cause buildings and bridges all over the world to collapse, killing hundreds of people.
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Still See You Everywhere
by Lisa Gardner
Asked by a female serial killer, with only 21 days left to live, to locate her long-lost sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, Frankie Elkin is led to a tech mogul's remote island where she goes undercover to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman's life.
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The Truth About the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
The charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, TJ Devlin finds his world turned upside down when his lawyer brother confesses he has just killed one of his clients and, seizing this chance to prove his worth, becomes entangled in a deadly web of deception and murder to save his brother.
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Watch Where They Hide: A Jordan Manning Novel
by Tamron Hall
Journalist Jordan Manning delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman—or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors.
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What Happened to Nina?
by Dervla McTiernan
Two families are pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son's name.
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
by Henry Louis Gates
Through essays and speeches, novels, plays and poems, this epic story of Black self-definition in America is told through the myriad of writers who've led the way and who have used words to create a livable world—a "home"—for Black people destined to live out their lives in a racist society.
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George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
by Philip Norman
Based on exhaustive research and access to inside sources, the longtime Beatles biographer returns with a revealing portrait of George Harrison, long known as the most mysterious and misunderstood member of the group.
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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
by Hilary Mantel
A posthumous collection of journalism and other writings by Hilary Mante reveals the beloved writer's cutting wit and singular voice on books, films, the royals, and her own life.
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Sharing Too Much: Lessons from an Unlikely Life
by Richard Paul Evans
In this intimate and heartfelt collection of personal essays, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of more than 40 novels recounts his moving journey from childhood to beloved writer, sharing the lessons he's learned and hard-won advice about everything from marriage to parenthood.
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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here--and Out There
by Garrett M. Graff
This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
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The Woman in Me
by Britney Spears
In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
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