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Large Print New Releases February 2023
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The Making of Us
by Lisa Jewell
Lydia, Dean, and Robyn don't know one another...yet. Each is facing difficult challenges: Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood. Wealthy and successful, she leads a lonely and disjointed existence. Dean is a young, unemployed, single dad whose life is going nowhere. Robyn is 18. Gorgeous, popular, and intelligent, she entered her first year of college confident about her dream to become a pediatrician. Now she's failing her classes. Now she's falling in love for the first time. Lydia, Dean, and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It's a letter containing a secret - one that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean. A literary gem, The Making of Us will remind listeners of the miracles that happen when we bring life into the world and share our lives with those we love.
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The Mitford Affair
by Marie Benedict
After her sister, Diana, divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and her sister, Unity, follows Diana to Munich, inciting rumors that shes become Hitlers mistress, novelist Nancy Mitford, after uncovering disquieting documents, must make difficult choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany.
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Someone Else's Shoes
by Jojo Moyes
When she accidentally takes the wrong gym bag, Sam Kemp tries on a pair of six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes that give her the confidence to change her life, while the shoes' owner tries to cling to her glamorous life after her husband cuts her off.
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Coming Home
by Shelley Shepard Gray
Forced to reconnect through the senior center, former high school sweethearts, firefighter Anderson Kelly and Chelsea Davis, steer clear of each other to avoid reopening old wounds until an accident on Ute Pass makes Anderson realize that hes ready to risk everything for one more chance with her.
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Reminders of Him
by Colleen Hoover
Released from prison, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter, but with everyone against her, she turns to local bar owner Ledger Ward who, risking everything, secretly helps her make amends.
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Thursday's Child
by Melody Carlson
Emma has always been “the practical one” in the family. But that is about to change as she embarks on the adventure of her life. Emma Davis wants a new life now that she no longer needs to care for her grandmother. A spur-of-the-moment visit to a travel agency sets her on a journey far from her Iowa home. Emma takes a cruise to the far islands of the Pacific, but it isn’t until she arrives in Papua, New Guinea, that she begins to realize her true calling. Emma regains her sense of purpose by caring for three motherless children and befriending their father, Josh Daniels. Josh’s troubled pass and the loss of his wife have left him vulnerable, but can the love Emma has discovered in her own heart, awaken his heart to all Emma has to offer?
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The Amish Matchmaker's Choice
by Patricia Johns
Widow Adel Draschel refuses to marry again, but that won't stop her from playing matchmaker for her old schoolmate Jake Knussli. After a decade with the English, Jake's six-month time limit to marry so he can inherit his uncle's farm is quickly running out. Finding him the perfect wife won't be easy...especially when Adel might just be his perfect match.
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The Bake Shop
by Amy Clipston
Return to Lancaster County with the first installment of Amy Clipston's charming new Amish Marketplace series.
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Falling for the Amish Bad Boy
by Emma Miller
When Beth Koffman finds out her family has hired Jack Lehman to build their new store, she’s furious. The far-too-charming Amish bachelor is known in their community as a heartbreaker, and Beth doesn’t want him near her sisters. But the more time they spend together, the more she realizes hating Jack might prove difficult when she’s falling for him at the same time…
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The Farm Stand
by Amy Clipston
Experience some sweet, garden-fresh romance in the next installment of Amy Clipston’s Amish Marketplace series.
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The Loyal One
by Shelley Shepard Gray
When Katie Steury hires her old friend Harley Lambright to remodel her rundown old house into a charming bed and breakfast, she does so with trepidation.
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Piece by Piece
by Laura Bradford
When a car crash takes the lives of her mother, husband, and children on the one day Danielle Parker takes some "me time," she struggles with guilt and grief until an old friend offers her a place to escape.
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Promises of Tomorrow
by Shelley Shepard Gray
Two years have passed since their friend Andy's death, and the Eight is still struggling to cope with their loss. In an attempt to give the group some time to reconnect with one another, remember their friend, and reflect on the last two years, Marie decides that a relaxing couple's getaway is just what they need before the craziness of the holiday season begins. When their large cabin in the woods turns out to be more rundown than rustic, though, Marie fears that she's ruined everything, but at least, she thinks, the trip can't get any worse, that is, until a lost English girl named Beth appears at the cabin. And with such heavy snow, the Eight is forced to take her in for the next twenty-four hours.
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The Trustworthy One
by Shelley Shepard Gray
One broken young woman's search for peace leads her back to her hometown, where she rediscovers her faith and reconnects with those she loves most. By a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author.
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Yesterday's Gone
by Cindy Woodsmall
Eliza Bontrager and Jesse Ebersol have fallen in love and are determined to marry, despite the belief of their Amish community and respective families that there's a hidden curse-one that only shows up when an Ebersol and Bontrager marry. Before the ceremony on the day of the wedding, Eliza's great-aunt Rose gives her a family heirloom quilt and tells her that she may use it to change one event in the past. Eliza appreciates the woman's heart, but she dismisses the strange conversation while keeping the beautiful quilt. Several years later, mourning the loss of their third child, Eliza discovers her inability to deliver a healthy baby is genetic. Remembering her great-aunt's strange words, she decides that if she can go back in time and reject Jesse's proposal, she can save him the heartache of a childless marriage. Her sacrifice will allow him to marry someone else and raise a family. But once she puts her plan into action, she discovers the true impact of her decision-on Jesse and so many others within their community.
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The Sister's Search
by Susan Page Davis
Molly Weaver and her widowed mother embark on an arduous journey at the end of the Civil War. They hope to join Molly’s brother Andrew on his ranch in Texas. When they arrive, Andrew is missing and squatters threaten the ranch. Can they trust Joe, the stranger who claims to be Andrew’s friend? Joe’s offer to help may be a godsend—or a snare. And who is the man claiming to be Molly’s father? If he’s telling the truth, Molly’s past is a sham, and she must learn where she really belongs.
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The Cliff's Edge
by Charles Todd
In the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is drawn into a deadly feud between two families that sets in motion a revelation with the potential to change the loves of those she loves most.
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Concrete Evidence
by DiAnn Mills
On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be... until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery's just discovered a billing discrepancy for materials supposedly purchased for construction of the Lago de Cobre Dam. Desperate for answers, Avery contacts FBI Special Agent Marc Wilkins for help. As Marc works to identify the dead man Avery saw, threats toward Avery create a fresh sense of urgency to pinpoint why someone wants to silence her. With a hurricane approaching the Texas coast and the structural integrity of the Lago de Cobre Dam called into question, time is running out to get to the bottom of a sinister plot that could be endangering the lives of not only Avery and her loved ones but the entire community.
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Dark of Night
by Colleen Coble
Ranger Annie Pederson is preoccupied by another missing hiker in Michigan's Upper Peninsula when a woman claiming to be her long-lost, abducted sister shows up, in the second novel of the series following Edge of Dusk.
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Death of a Traitor
by M. C. Beaton
When the nosiest neighbor in Lochdubh is seen lugging a heavy suitcase to the bus stop, town residents are pleased, until they discover she's gone missing, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Death of a Green-Eyed Monster.
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The Favor
by Nicci French
When she agrees to pick up an ex-boyfriend at the train station, Jude is shocked when the police show up instead of him and, realizing she knows nothing about the man he's become, becomes entangled in his life as she tries to uncover the truth.
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The Maltese Iguana
by Tim Dorsey
When the only witness to a CIA revenge mission gone wrong is forced to flee his home country, he arrives in the Florida Keys where he runs into the Sunshine States most lovable serial killer, Serge A. Storms, and his convoy of hardcore partiers.
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Murder at Black Oaks: A Robin Lockwood Novel
by Phillip Margolin
After getting a wrongful conviction overturned for retired DA Francis Hardy, Robin Lockwood is invited to a party at Black Oaks, his home in the Oregon mountains rumored to be cursed, and finds murder in attendance when Hardy is found dead.
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Storm Watch
by C. J. Box
After finding the frozen and mutilated body of a man killed near the location of a mysterious high-tech structure, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds his investigation obstructed by federal agents, extremists and the governor and must find away around them to stop the oncoming storm of peril.
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The Big Steep
by Sandra Balzo
When her sheepdog Frank comes bearing a gift from her new neighbor's yard, Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen is drawn into an investigation steeped in shocking family secrets, tragedy and murder.
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But Knot for Me
by Betty Hechtman
When a charismatic life coach and his devoted followers descend on Vista Del Mar, Casey Feldstein and the yarn retreat group she's hosting literally get pushed aside, out of sight and out of mind of the struggling participants seeking enlightenment. But Casey can't help overhearing the rancorous argument between two members of the guru's staff, and when one of them turns up dead after ingesting poisonous mushrooms, Casey finds herself tangled up in a murder investigation while the self-help group looks on helplessly. With rumors swirling that the victim was having an affair with the group's leader and a host of potential suspects among her own eccentric yarn retreat group, Casey can only knit her brow at the complexity of the case. And when another staff member turns up dead and Casey narrowly escapes an early demise of her own, she knows she'll have to unravel the clues quickly to catch a killer who may be feeling more empowered than even the guru intended . . .
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A Dark and Snowy Night
by Sally Goldenbaum
Busy with Christmas preparations the Seaside Knitters pause to help Cass after her new nanny suddenly disappears with her beloved rescue mutt, in the fifth novel of the series following A Crime of a Different Stripe.
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A Good Dog's Guide To Murder
by Krista Davis
When, during the Gingerbread Dog & Cat House competition, the grand old oak tree on the property drops an enormous limb, leading to the discovery of a body, Holly, along with Trixie and Twinkletoes, her calico kitty, must dig up the truth to collar a conniving killer.
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Murder, She Wrote: Killer on the Court
by Jessica Fletcher
Jessica is delighted when her nephew Grady invites her to spend a few days with his family in an oceanside New York bungalow. She packs her bags and heads down to the city, ready to spend some quality time with Grady, his wife, Donna, and their young son, Frank. But the morning after Jessica's arrival, Donna finds her boss dead on a tennis court, and Jessica's dreams of a relaxing visit are quashed. Everyone in the small beachside community is a suspect, and the local authorities-headed by an old colleague of Cabot Cove sheriff Mort Metzger-have asked that no one leave town. Will Jessica be able find a killer and salvage the rest of her trip?
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3 Days To Live
by James Patterson
Three new thriller-novellas from the world's best-selling author include the tales of a honeymooning CIA agent who is poisoned and a pair of grifters who attempt to take control of the home of a murdered L.A. doctor.
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Burner
by Mark Greaney
Court Gentry and his lover, Zoya Zakharova, discover they both want to capture Alex Velesky, who stole records from his Swiss bank employer, but for very different reasons, in the 12th novel of the series following Sierra Six.
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Encore in Death
by J. D. Robb
Eve Dallas investigates after one half of a celebrity couple falls to the floor dead after making a toast at an event attended by A-listers in the latest addition to the long-running series following Secrets in Death.
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Exiles
by Jane Harper
A federal investigator, Aaron Falk, investigates the disappearance of young mother who left her baby alone in a festival crowd and vanished in the latest novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Dry.
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The House at the End of the World
by Dean R. Koontz
Alone on Jacob's Ladder island until two agents arrive in search of someone? - or something? - they refuse to identify, artist Katie, along with a brave young girl, finds herself in an epic and terrifying battle with a mysterious enemy that could bring about the end of the world.
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Iced
by Felix Francis
When Miles Pussett discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future, he begins a search for answers.
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Just the Nicest Couple
by Mary Kubica
When her husband Jack vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing.
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More Than Meets the Eye
by Iris Johansen
When brutal murders with the same signature as serial killer James Michael Barrett mysteriously continue after his death, FBI consultant Kendra Michaels teams up with the only survivor of Barrett's attacks and soon discovers the killer has a terrifying plan that they are only beginning to understand.
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One Last Chance
by Kat Martin
When former Green Beret Edge Logan offers to help fellow agent Skye Delaney with a case involving her missing sister and a mysterious cult, they infiltrate the cult's compound, working against the clock to unmask the face of evil - and their feelings for each other - before time runs out.
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Unnatural History: An Alex Delaware Novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
When a wealthy photographer, who had recently received rave media attention for his images of homeless people in their personal dream situations, is shot to death, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis, when new murders arise, are confronted by one of the deadliest threats they've ever faced.
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Wicked Dreams
by Lisa Jackson
Private investigator Ravinia Rutledge, when a dead body is found with her phone number and the words "Next of Kin," returns to Siren Song - a place marked by unexplained deaths and tragedies where she must stop a monster from her past from killing each and every member of The Colony.
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The Answer to Anxiety: How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Anxious Thoughts and Worry
by Joyce Meyer
Anxiety and worry are common human responses to stressful situations. We all feel anxious, worried, or concerned at times but what if there was a way to put a stop to your worrying before it gets out of hand? In The Answer to Anxiety, renowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer encourages us to lean into God when we're feeling anxious or unsettled. Joyce teaches readers the lessons found in God's word that can help us deal with our fears and anxieties. When we understand that God has a good plan for us, we can find the peace He offers. God's will for us is peace, not worry and anxiety. Join Joyce on this exploration to conquer that anxiety and learn to lead a God centered, anxiety-free life.
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It's Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism
by Bernie Sanders
A popular U.S. senator and former presidential candidate offers a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.
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