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Large Print New Releases April 2024 |
Becoming Madam Secretary
by Stephanie Dray
Describes how Frances Perkins met a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt in turn-of-the-century New York and, despite initially not getting along, the pair formed a historic partnership that led them both to the White House.
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
by Satoshi Yagisawa
After a young Japanese woman's life falls apart, she moves into a flat above her eccentric uncle's bookshop, staying rent-free in exchange for working at the store and developing a passion for Japanese literature.
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The Divine Proverb of Streusel
by Sara Brunsvold
Shaken by her parents' divorce, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle's farm, leaving her life and relationships behind. She discovers her great-grandmother's notebook full of German recipes and wise sayings. With each recipe she makes, Nikki not only discovers her heritage but also learns to reconnect with what has been scattered.
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Dixon, Descending
by Karen Outen
A former Olympic-level runner working as a school psychologist abandons his family and students to join his brother on a quest to be the first black American men to summit Mount Everest, resulting in a tragedy that shatters his life.
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The Husbands
by Holly Gramazio
When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path?
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Lucky
by Jane Smiley
Coming of age in recording studios, backstage and on tour, rising folk musician Jodie Rattler, trying to hold her own in the wake of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell, feels like something is missing and sets out on a journey in search of herself.
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The Mayor of Maxwell Street
by Avery Cunningham
In 1921 Chicago, Nelly Sawyer, the daughter of the“wealthiest Negro in America,” works undercover to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate with the help of Jay Shorey, the low-level manager of the city's swankiest speakeasy, who introduces her to a whole new world.
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Meadow Falls
by Carolyn Brown
Inheriting Meadow Falls, the farm that's been in her Texas family for generations, Angela Marie, saddled with a legacy she never wanted, comes to see this as a precious gift by coming to terms with her past with the help of a handsome veteran she hires as a farmhand.
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Mockingbird Summer
by Lynda Rutledge
When her family hires a Haitian housekeep who brings her daughter, America, along with her, 13-year-old Corky Corcoran, in 1964 Texas, befriends America and asks her to play with her girls' softball team which, crossing the color line and setting off a firestorm, brings big changes that will last a lifetime.
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The Museum of Lost Quilts: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
While staying at Elm Creek Manor to finish her thesis, Summer, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, instead researches the antique quilts on display for a fundraiser to renovate the headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society, discovering its troubled history of racism, economic injustice and political corruption, past and present.
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Only the Brave
by Danielle Steel
During World War II, Sophia Alexander, after her mother dies and her father is sent to a concentration camp, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance and while working with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy where she risks everything to help those in need—no matter what the cost.
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The Paris Novel
by Ruth Reichl
Resigning herself to honor her mother's last wishes, Stella travels to Paris where she meets an octogenarian art collector who introduces her to the who's who of the 1980's Paris literary, art and culinary worlds, helping her understand what it might mean to live a larger life.
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Real Americans
by Rachel Khong
In this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen, who can't shake the feeling his mother is hiding something, sets out to find his biological father—journey that raises more questions than provides answers.
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The Twilight Garden
by Sara Nisha Adams
Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
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Better Hate Than Never
by Chloe Liese
Making a rare visit home, Katerina Wilmot finds her and Christopher Petruchio's fiery animosity rekindled into a raging inferno until a drunken night leads to a confession and an impassioned kiss, forcing them to decide if it's truly better to hate than to never risk their hearts.
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Curves for Days
by Laura Moher
A plus-size woman has a disastrous meeting with the gruff contractor working on her home, but the more time they spend together, the more they appreciate one another and their friendship blooms into a beautiful, small-town romance.
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Expiration Dates
by Rebecca Serle
Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together; usually she is right, but when she meets Jake, her whole system is thrown for a loop.
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Funny Story
by Emily Henry
After being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.
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How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss: A Sweet Romantic Comedy
by Jenny Proctor
When one of THE Hawthorne brothers—known by their chiseled jawlines and their family-run farm and event center—hires me to be his virtual assistant, I do everything I can to keep him firmly in the work zone. Besides the whole business part of our relationship, I’m a single mom for my son, Jack. When Perry upgrades me from virtual to in-person assistant, I wonder if I’ve gotten him all wrong. He’s actually pretty great with Jack. And let’s just say the chemistry crackling between us might vaporize all my reasons for keeping my distance. Trouble is, after his messy divorce, I’m not sure Perry’s ready to bet on a new relationship. But it isn’t just my heart that’s on the line. It’s Jack’s, too. And after everything we went through before my husband died, I’m not sure that’s a gamble I’m ready to take, no matter how desperate Jack is for a daddy.
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Icebreaker
by Hannah Grace
Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team--including Anastasia, who clearly can't stand him. But when Anastasia's skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot.
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Love, Unscripted
by Denise Hunter
When her bestselling romance novel earns a movie option, Chloe is appalled that a notorious Hollywood playboy has been cast as the hero until he offers an irresistible bargain—if she poses as his girlfriend, he will take her direction on the role that could save his career.
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Technically Yours
by Denise Williams
When the man she's been unable to forget comes back into her life, Pearl Harris, the acting director of a nonprofit aimed at inspiring high schoolers to code, is hesitant to trust her feelings and take a risk, especially because a workplace romance could spell disaster for both of them.
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The Amish Quiltmaker's Unlikely Match
by Jennifer Beckstrand
Filled with her trademark humor and relatable characters, award-winning author Jennifer Beckstrand's blends quilting, matchmaking, and a close-knit Colorado community in her newest Amish Quiltmaker novel, as independent-minded quilter Esther Kiem sets her sights on an unusual match between the shyest Yoder sister and a professional baseball player…
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Miracles at Promise Lodge
by Charlotte Hubbard
Long-time residents of Promise Lodge welcome a wave of newcomers that includes Isaac Chupp, the handsome, charming son of a notoriously unyielding Bishop from nearby Coldstream. Isaac has recklessly rebelled against his dat, and his bad boy reputation precedes him. Now he seeks a fresh start, applying for work at Dale Kraybill's bulk store and he proves himself reliable. But more miraculous awakenings may come as he settles into the warm new light of the faithful community. And while Promise Lodge celebrates an abundance of newborns as summer turns to fall, Isaac discovers a kindred soul who has her own share of challenges. In helping her, he just may find his true purpose in loving selflessly, building up, and giving back . . .
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A Cowboy's Fourth of July
by Melinda Curtis
Dix Youngblood has loved Allison Burns since he tutored her in high school. Now she's a single mom trying to save her family's Oklahoma ranch...from him. Foreclosing on bad debts is the only way to succeed as a banker. But he can't refuse her request for help. From feeding piglets to posing as Allison's fake boyfriend, Dix is soon pulled into the beautiful rancher's life. Will she reawaken his cowboy heart?
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Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation.
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The Murder Inn
by James Patterson
The owner of the Inn at Gloucester, a place open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson must defend his town, his chosen family and his home when a newcomer in town launches a series of attacks.
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One Last Shot
by Susan May Warren
When music star Oaken Fox joins Alaska Air One Rescue for a reality show, EMT Boo Kingston, who isn't impressed by his fame, is tasked with training him and they must learn to work together when five women go missing from a resort during a bachelorette weekend gone wrong.
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The Game Is A Footnote
by Vicki Delany
Asked to look into some strange happenings at Scarlet House, a historical re-enactment museum, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, and Jayne instead find a dead body and suspect foul play as secrets about the museum come to light.
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Murder with Chocolate Tea: A Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery
by Karen Rose Smith
When an anonymous tip during a true crime podcast reveals clues to a 20-year-old unsolved murder, tea shop owner and bride-to-be Daisy Swanson suspects a connection between a current homicide and this cold case, setting out to solve it before she walks down the aisle. Original.
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Paws To Remember
by Sofie Kelly
Librarian Kathleen Paulson and her enchanted cats look into the 30-year disappearance of a young woman whose body was just discovered—a cold case that puts some people in Mayville Heights in hot water.
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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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The Death of Us
by Lori Rader-Day
When Ashley Hay's car is found 15 years after her disappearance, Liss Kehoe, who has raised Ashley's son as her own, must protect her family and keep her own secrets hidden as tensions rise in the small community—and someone will go to great lengths to keep the truth from surfacing.
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Kill for Me, Kill for You
by Steve Cavanagh
Two ordinary women make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink.
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Pay Dirt
by Sara Paretsky
While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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The Silence in Her Eyes
by Armando Lucas Correa
Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
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A Spy Like Me
by Kim Sherwood
While grieving the loss of a loved one, MI6 agent 003, Johanna Harwood, sets off on an unsanctioned mission to find James Bond in the second novel of the trilogy following Double or Nothing.
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Toxic Prey
by John Sandford
When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.
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What Harms You
by Lisa Black
Starting a new job at the Locard Institute, a state-of-the-art forensic research center, Dr. Ellie Carr is immediately drawn into a murder investigation with her supervisor, Dr. Rachael Davies, when a colleague is found dead and a young woman attending a professional training program disappears.
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The Wild Side
by Fern Michaels
Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.
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The Best That You Can Do: Stories
by Amina Gautier
The winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize presents this collection of short stories exploring the cultural confusion of being on person in two places, showing readers how family traditions and holidays are the respledent and universal language of survival for displaced or broken families.
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
by Salman Rushdie
The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
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Life: My Story Through History
by Francis
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today.
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