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Large Print New Releases May 2023
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The Boardwalk Bookshop
by Susan Mallery
Three best friends who open up a beachfront bookshop together, ultimately becoming one another's family, Bree, Mikki and Ashley must contend with complicated romantic relationships, which brings about second chances and new beginnings.
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The Guest
by Emma Cline
Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarified world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.
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The Half Moon
by Mary Beth Keane
Longtime bartender Malcolm Gephardt realizes his dream of owning a bar, while his wife Jess, a lawyer struggling with fertility issues, wonders how to reshape her life, in a novel told over the course of one tumultuous week, laying bare the complexities of marriage, family, longing and desire.
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
by Tom Hanks
The Academy Award-winning actor and bestselling author presents a thought-provoking novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film based on a series of comic books that depict the changes in America and American culture since WWII.
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Only the Beautiful
by Susan Meissner
In 1947, Helen Calvert, returning to her brother's vineyard in America for good after witnessing firsthand Adolf Hitler's brutal pursuit of hereditary purity, is drawn into battle at home when she discovers what really happened to the vinedresser's pregnant daughter she had long ago befriended.
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Swamp Story
by Dave Barry
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the“Everglades Melon Monster,” inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
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The Wedding Planner
by Danielle Steel
Signing up for several lavish affairs, in addition to her mother's next marriage and her twin sister's modest ceremony, wildly successful wedding planner Faith Ferguson grapples with private quarrels, unplanned pregnancies, family scandals, dark secrets and almost cancelled ceremonies, proving that there is more than one path to happily ever after.
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Blue Moon Haven: A Charming Southern Love Story
by Janet Dailey
Agreeing to renovate Blue Moon, Alabama's drive-in movie theater, newcomer Kelly Jenkins, along with the two orphaned children in her care, finds the whole town bound up in the fate of the drive-in, including her neighbor, Seth Morgan, with whom she's falling in love.
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A Chance Inheritance
by Carolyn Brown
After inheriting their grandmother's home and family bait shop, three down-on-their-luck cousins return to Catfish, Texas, where they soon discover that sometimes an ending is really the beginning of a brand-new happily ever after.
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Hearts of Steel
by Elizabeth Camden
When successful businesswoman Maggie Molinaro offends a corrupt banker, she unwittingly sets off a series of calamities that threaten to destroy her life's work. She teams up with charismatic steel magnate Liam Blackstone, but what begins as a practicalalliance soon evolves into a romance between two wounded people determined to beat the odds.
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Montana Cold Case Conspiracy
by Sharon Dunn
New evidence tied to a ten-year-old robbery sends Lila Christie running to her ex-fiancé, Sheriff Stewart Duncan, for support—and right into a gunman’s crosshairs. Reopening the case that left his father dead and hers missing is the last thing Stewart wants, especially now that Lila’s a target. But could uncovering old mysteries give them a second chance…or make them victims in their own investigation.
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My Heart Will Find You
by Jude Deveraux
While caring for an elderly man during the pandemic, Etta Wilmont, every time she falls asleep, passes through the past and the present, discovering she has the power to make the lives of others better - and the chance to find a love to last a lifetime.
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A Novel Proposal
by Denise Hunter
Desperate to salvage her career, a novelist is forced to stop writing westerns and must write a contemporary romance novel despite never having been in love, but a summer at a friend's summer rental changes everything.
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Second Time Around
by Melody Carlson
Determined not to let her former secret crush, real estate developer Grayson Matthews, buy her grandmother's run-down tourist shop, Mallory Farrell, transforming it into an eclectic home decor store called Romancing the Home, discovers she needs his help romancing her own home? - and possibly her life.
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To Catch a Raven
by Beverly Jenkins
When the Declaration of Independence is stolen by a former Confederate official, fearless grifter Raven Moreaux, forced by the government to get it back, finds both her life and heart on the line when she falls for her partner who is posing as her husband.
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Ugly Love
by Colleen Hoover
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don't expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can't handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.
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Windswept Way: A Hope Harbor Novel
by Irene Hannon
Arriving in Hope Harbor to renovate a supposedly haunted house, Ashley Scott enlists the help of her neighbor, wounded warrior Jonathan Gray, and together they restore life, laughter and love to a historic estate that has known too much sadness, as well as find healing, hope and happiness for themselves. Original.
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Letters of Trust
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
When her husband turns to alcohol after the death of his youngest brother, who drowned in their pond, Eleanor Lapp writes letters to her friend, Doretta, in Indiana for advice, placing her trust in this woman whose gentle words are a balm for even darker days to come.
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After the Shadows
by Amanda Cabot
A young widow returns to her hometown in Texas Hill Country, never dreaming that the new schoolteacher holds the key both to the mystery surrounding her father's death--and to her heart.
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A Calder at Heart
by Janet Dailey
After losing his whole family to Spanish Flu, a former US Army Major heads to Blue Moon where the Calders welcome him and offer him a piece of ranching property in the third novel of the series following Calder Grit.
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Where Coyotes Howl
by Sandra Dallas
In 1916 Wallace, Wyoming, schoolteacher Ellen Webster finds purpose in her work as a rancher's wife and in her bonds with other women settled on the prairie as they look out for each other, share their secrets and help one another in times of need.
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The 23rd Midnight
by James Patterson
When an obsessed maniac turns serial killer Evan Burke's true-crime story into a playbook, adding some of his own gruesome touches, Detective Lindsay Boxer, who put Burke in jail, tracks this elusive suspect, who is determined to put an end to the Murder Club - permanently.
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The Bride Wore White
by Amanda Quick
When she is kidnapped, drugged and wakes up in a bloodstained wedding dress next to a dead man, psychic Prudence Ryland, framed for murder, knows who the real killer is and finds an unexpected ally in Jack Wingate, a crime boss's associate, who is the only one who believes her.
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A Courage Undimmed
by Stephanie Graves
In 1941 as fewer pigeons are being used for missions into occupied Europe, Olive is assigned to escort a visiting officer from the Royal Navy Intelligence Special Branch, in the third novel of the series following A Valiant Deceit.
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The Fourth Enemy
by Anne Perry
While trying to prove Malcolm Vayne, a beloved philanthropist, is guilty of fraud, prosecutor Daniel Pitt must rescue his wife, a forensic scientist who has been kidnapped by one of Vayne's crazed supporters, putting their lives and the case in danger.
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Killing Moon
by Jo Nesbo
Fired from the force and drinking heavily, Harry Hole agrees to assist the police in an investigation about two missing women who were only connected by attending the same party in the latest novel of the series following Knife.
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Love, Honor, Betray
by Mary Monroe
With their sham of a marriage in danger, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins, desperately trying to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing, must decide whether or not to reveal the person who might be behind the serial murders plaguing their town, which would risk their own web of lies being exposed.
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The Private Life of Spies And The Exquisite Art of Getting Even: Stories
by Alexander McCall Smith
Half spy stories, half tales of revenge, this new collection from the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels illustrates that transparency is paramount and forgiveness is restorative, reminding us that, in the end, the high road is often the better one for all involved.
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100 Proof Murder
by Mary Ellis
Travel writer Jill Curtis is in Louisville, Kentucky, on the next stop of her bourbon tour assignment, and is keen to explore the local distilleries with her videographer, Michael Erickson - especially since her new beau, Lieutenant Nick Harris, lives in the city. But the night before Jill's first tour at Parker's Distillery, she is shocked to learn that the master distiller, William Scott, has died suddenly of a heart attack - and even more shocked when she discovers William's daughter, Alexis, suspects foul play. Is there more to William's death than meets the eye? Jill is soon drawn into a deadly blend of rivalry, jealously, and cold-blooded murder as she attempts to uncover the truth behind William's unexpected demise.
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A Brighter Dawn
by Leslie Gould
When Ivy Zimmerman's Mennonite parents are killed in a tragic accident, her way of life is upended. As she grows suspicious that her parents' deaths weren't an accident, she gains courage from her Amish great-grandmother's time in pre-war Germany in 1937. With the inspiration of her great-grandmother, Ivy seeks justice for her parents, her sisters, and herself.
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A Catered Book Club Murder
by Isis Crawford
When a loyal member of their mystery book club is found murdered after failing to appear at a monthly gathering, sisters Bernie and Libby uncover the victim’s shady dealings and knowledge of scandalous community secrets.
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Crimes and Covers
by Amanda Flower
When her wedding reception is interrupted by the sight of a dead body in the Niagara River, Charming Books owner Violet Waverly recognizes the woman as a recent customer with a valuable book in her possession, and she sets out to solve the case.
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Death and the Decorator
by Simon Brett
Jude and Pete discover the handbag of a missing woman hidden in the wall of the locally known "Fiasco House" during renovations and investigate in the latest addition to the long running series following Guilt at the Garage.
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Death on the Emerald Isle: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery
by Jessica Fletcher
While attending a Book Festival in Belfast, Ireland, Jessica discovers the cousin of a Cabot Cove neighbor has been murdered and investigates, in the latest addition to the long-running, popular series following Murder Never Takes a Holiday.
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The House on Prytania
by Karen White
When Beau Ryan asks her for a favor that threatens to stall her hard-won recovery and send her hurtling backwards, Nola Trenholm, torn between helping him and protecting herself, realizes until it's almost too late why ghosts are haunting her house, throwing her and Beau together to fight a common enemy.
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In Farm's Way: A Farm to Table Mystery
by Amanda Flower
Organic farmer Shiloh Bellamy gets tangled up in the murder of an ice fishing contestant and must wade through the town's fishy characters to lure the killer to the surface while dealing with her struggling family farm.
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Irish Coffee Murder
by Leslie Meier
Tales of an Irish step dance-mom found dead in a bathtub and a popular comedian who dies after drinking an Irish coffee are included in a collection of St. Patty's-themed novellas by three fan-favorite cozy mystery authors.
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Statue of Limitations
by Kate Collins
Athena Spencer must live up to her warrior goddess namesake to protect her family from a killer and save their community from ruin after the powerful Talbot family threatens to raze the shops on Greene Street, resulting in murder.
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Tea & Treachery
by Vicki Delany
When real estate developer Jack Ford, who was trying to drive her and her grandmother, Rose, out of business, is found dead on Rose's property, Lily, the owner of a traditional English tearoom, discovers that Ford was brewing trouble all over town as she tries to clear Rose's name.
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Writing a Wrong
by Betty Hechtman
Writer for Hire Veronica Blackstone’s latest client is found dead and police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but Veronica isn’t convinced in this intriguingly plotted mystery.
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Beware the Woman
by Megan Abbott
A pregnant woman undergoes a health scare that brings up whispered conversations about her husband's complicated family history and long dead mother in the new novel from the award-winning author of Give Me Your Hand.
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Her Deadly Game
by Robert Dugoni
After a failed romance with a coworker, a Seattle prosecutor must return home to her family's failing law firm to work for her father until she accepts a high profile case in which the prosecutor is her ex.
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The Only Survivors
by Megan Miranda
When a group of classmates reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a terrible accident, one of the survivors disappears, casting fear and suspicion on the remaining individuals - and on the original tragedy itself.
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On the Line
by Fern Michaels
Undergoing a series of genetic tests to learn the cause of his sudden illness, rising star chef Mateo Castillo discovers his results threatening to uncover a dark secret that will expose his family to dangers in the past, while clouding the investigation into who is trying to hurt him in the present.
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Rogue Justice
by Stacey Abrams
Asked by a fellow law clerk to look into his boss's death, Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene, after another shocking murder, is led to a list of names - all judges on the FISA Court, also known as America's “secret court” - and must race the clock to stop an unprecedented national crisis.
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Weapons of Opportunity
by Dale Brown
When Nick Flynn left the US Air Force to join the Quartet Directorate, he did so with the full knowledge that no one could ever know. This covert private force--called Four by its members--promised him the chance to lead his own missions and make his own decisions. When a former senior CIA executive goes dark, Flynn and his team are ready to step in. What begins as a quiet check on his home turns into a firefight against a familiar enemy who is more dangerous than ever.
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