|
Large Print New Releases March-May 2022
|
Booth
by Karen Joy Fowler
Describes the multiple scandals, family triumphs and disasters that took their toll on the 10 children of celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Booth as the North and the South reached a boiling point and the Civil War broke out.
|
|
Child of Light
by Terry Brooks
Auris Afton Grieg stages a desperate escape from the prison she's been in since age fifteen and meets up with an unusual stranger who claims to be a member of a magical race and insists that she is too.
|
|
The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn
Known as Lady Death, a lethal hunter of Nazis, Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.
|
|
Edgewater Road
by Shelley Shepard Gray
After inheriting an old farmhouse on Edgewater Road in Ross County, Ohio, Jennifer Smiley sees it as an opportunity for a fresh start, but becomes enamored with the unfriendly, solitary neighbor with deep, blue eyes and an unsavory history.
|
|
A Family Affair
by Robyn Carr
Seeing a young, pregnant woman at her husband's funeral a mourning wife realizes her husband's mid-life crisis went a bit farther than she realized in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of the Virgin River series.
|
|
Freedom's Song
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
After falling overboard, a famous riverboat singer is rescued by a group of escaped slaves seeking freedom and poses as their owner while heading north in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Librarian of Boone's Hollow.
|
|
French Braid
by Anne Tyler
Follows the Garrett family from 1959 onward as they discover that their actions advance across decades and ripple through generations, in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.
|
|
High Stakes
by Danielle Steel
Five women work together at a boutique literary and talent agency while the challenges of their individual lives causes chaos both inside and outside the office in a new novel by one of the world's best-selling authors.
|
|
The Homewreckers
by Mary Kay Andrews
When a slick Hollywood producer shows up in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, Hattie Kavanaugh gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers, cast against a male lead who may be a love interest, or may be the ultimate antagonist. Soon, there’s more at stake than bad pipes and dry rot: during the demolition, evidence comes to light that points to the mysterious disappearance of a young wife and mother years before. With a burned out detective investigating the case, an arsonist on the loose, two men playing with her emotions, and layers upon layers of vintage wallpaper causing havoc, it's a question of who will flip, who will flop, and if Hattie will ever get her happily-ever-after.
|
|
The Lost Summers of Newport
by Beatriz Williams
Historical fiction novel set in Newport, Rhode Island across multiple decades, from bestselling author trio.
|
|
One Night on the Island
by Josie Silver
When a double-booking at a remote one-room cabin accidentally throws two solace seekers together, it feels like a cruel twist of fate. But what if it’s fate of a different kind? Written with Josie Silver’s signature charm, One Night on the Island explores the meaning of home, the joys of escape, and how the things we think we want are never the things we really need.
|
|
Recitatif
by Toni Morrison
A story looks at race and the relationships that shape us through life.
|
|
A Relative Murder
by Jude Deveraux
The Medlar Three unexpectedly reenter sleuthing when Kate discovers a dead body with a connection to a charming, new real estate client with a mysterious past in the fourth novel of the series following A Forgotten Murder.
|
|
The Summer Getaway
by Susan Mallery
Jumping at the chance to visit her beloved aunt to escape her life, Robyn, while spending time with the woman whos like a mother to her, sees herself and the people she loves most with a bit more clarity, pushing her to take chances she hadn't dreamed of before.
|
|
The Vineyard at Painted Moon
by Susan Mallery
Devastated by a divorce that she admits was inevitable, MacKenzie finds her attempts to move away from the only family and source of employment she has ever known complicated by an unplanned pregnancy.
|
|
Along the Rio Grande
by Tracie Peterson
While running her uncle’s new hotel in the booming town of San Marcial, New Mexico, the recently-widowed Susanna Jenkins finds herself drawn to her brother’s kind boss, Owen Turner, a man who is afraid of opening up his heart again.
|
|
The Baxters: A Prequel
by Karen Kingsbury
On Kari Baxter’s wedding day, a building storm brings conflict and doubt to the family until a moment of danger reveals important truths, which could bring them back together or tear them apart.
|
|
How To Be a Wallflower: A Would-Be Wallflowers Novel
by Eloisa James
Using the huge fortune her father left her, the granddaughter of a viscount buys a costume emporium out from under the nose of an American financier, starting a high society feud, in the first novel of a new romance series.
|
|
Lady Fortescue Steps Out
by M. C. Beaton
After her husband’s death, Lady Fortescue knows she must work, even though the thought will appall her society relatives. So she decides to transform her once-grand Bond Street home into a hotel, the Poor Relation, offering society guests the pleasure of being waited upon by nobility. With the help of other down-and-out aristocrats, London’s newest, most fashionable hotel is born. And it is the perfect venue for Lady Fortescue to play with the love lives of her guests and staff, starting with her nephew, the dashing Duke of Rowcester. Lady Fortescue has it on good authority that the duke once shared a dance with darling Harriet James, the hotel cook. When the duke comes to London, Lady Fortescue orchestrates a reunion that is sure to scandalize the town . . .
|
|
Last Duke Standing
by Julia London
Falling under the tutelage of Queen Victoria, Crown Princess Justine of Wesloria, in the market for a proper husband, forms a friendship with Lord Douglas, who has been tasked with finding her a suitable match, and realizes he is the one whom she wants.
|
|
No Offense
by Meg Cabot
A sequel to No Judgments finds a broken-hearted Molly relocating to a library in the Florida Keys before the discovery of an abandoned newborn leads to an unexpected partnership with an arrogant town sheriff.
|
|
No Words
by Meg Cabot
Arriving on Little Bridge Island for a speaking engagement, best-selling children’s author Jo Wright comes face-to-face with her nemesis, writer Will Price, who, much to her surprise, wants to make amends and prove to her that he is a changed man—until disaster strikes.
|
|
Sea Glass Cottage: A Hope Harbor Novel
by Irene Hannon
Christi Reece arrived in Hope Harbor reeling from a series of setbacks and desperate for help. But Jack Colby wants nothing to do with the woman who betrayed him-until a turn of events finds him needing her help.
|
|
The Spark of Love
by Amanda Cabot
Alexandria Tarkington flees a spurned suitor and reunites with her father in Mesquite Springs. She doesn't know that Gabe Seymour, whom she met on the stagecoach, is a private investigator determined to unmask a con man . . . her father.
|
|
A Summer Affair
by Elin Hilderbrand
Reluctantly agreeing to organize a children's benefit at which a rock-star ex-lover is performing, Claire Danner Crispin finds her efforts complicated by her clashes with a fellow organizer, her best friend's catering mishaps, and a new relationship.
|
|
The Bookseller's Promise
by Wiseman, Beth
In the first novel of Beth Wiseman's new Amish Bookstore series, a rare, old book may hold answers to a present-day romance.
|
|
A Season of Change
by Wiseman, Beth
From beloved bestselling author Beth Wiseman comes the third and final novel in the Amish Inn series-charming, sweet stories about two widowed innkeeping sisters who are determined to help their guests find love.
|
|
The Sugarcreek Surprise
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Catching the eye of newcomer Paul Herchberger, Amish schoolteacher Lisa Miller, who has grown up being afraid of loving and losing, avoids his advances, especially when secrets are revealed.
|
|
Threads of Hope
by Leslie Gould
Tally Smucker's quiet world is shaken when her neighbor Danielle-who grew up Plain but joined the Army-returns in need of a friend. Inviting her to join her quilting circle, Tally and Danielle are both inspired by a story told of a WWI soldier. But when disaster hits Tally's family and Danielle's PTSD becomes unmanageable, can they find the hope they need?
|
|
Calder Grit: A Sweeping Historical Ranching Dynasty Novel
by Janet Dailey
Trying to calm tensions, an ambitious, young mill owner agrees to marry the daughter of a homesteading family in 1909 Montana after his spoiled half-brother took advantage of her, in the second novel of the series following The Calder Range.
|
|
Country Born
by Linda Lael Miller
Discovering that he's falling for his best friend's sister, J.P. McCall decides to do whatever it takes to protect her after someone from her past returns to Painted Pony Creek in the third novel of the series following Country Proud.
|
|
Stronger Than You Know
by Foster, Lori
When newcomer Kennedy Brooks joins his gym, Reyes McKenize, who teaches self-defense and gathers information on illegal activities for his family to investigate, is instantly attracted to this woman who will do anything to protect herself.
|
|
Abandoned in Death
by Robb, J. D.
Homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates after a woman’s body is found on a city playground bench holding a sign reading “bad mommy” in the newest novel of the long-running series following Forgotten in Death.
|
|
Afraid: Three Riveting Stories of Suspense
by Lisa Jackson
In this collection of never-before-released, linked novellas about dark secrets, murder and revenge, all connected by St. Cecilia’s School for Girls, three women, all of whom attended this haven for the daughters of the rich and famous, find their pasts catching up to them with a vengeance.
|
|
Death of the Black Widow
by James Patterson
A case from his very first night on the job, where a woman bludgeoned her kidnapper and then vanished, still haunts a Detroit detective years later and he discovers he is not alone in his search.
|
|
The Sacred Bridge
by Anne Hillerman
Sergeant Jim Chee, after visiting the sacred Rainbow bridge, investigates the death of a Navajo artist, putting his own life at risk, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito searches for the killer of a hitchhiker connected to a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise.
|
|
Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
Hired to investigate the black-skied Night City, Detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts discovers an anomaly in the North American wilderness, where he encounters a strange group of individuals who have all glimpsed a chance to do something extraordinary that could disrupt the timeline of the universe.
|
|
Three Debts Paid
by Anne Perry
While defending his former university professor charged with assault, young barrister Daniel Pitt works with pathologist Miriam Croft investigating a serial killer who only seems to kill on rainy days, a case that makes him question everything.
|
|
Caramel Pecan Roll Murder: A Delicious Culinary Cozy Mystery
by Fluke, Joanne
Baker Hannah Swensen agrees to help bake pastries at a local inn during a flashy fishing competition but investigates when the event’s celebrity spokesperson is found dead in the latest addition to the series following Chocolate Cream Pie Murder.
|
|
Dead Set
by Vannetta Chapman
With the help of a retired detective and her best friend, Agatha sets out to solve the mystery of the Lost Texas Treasures and find a killer. Their chase leads them through the Texas Hill Country to the famed YO Ranch where Agatha finds herself looking down the barrel of a gun. Suddenly, she’s no longer worried about a remodel. She just wants to live through this showdown.
|
|
Easter Bonnet Murder
by Leslie Meier
A part-time reporter, Lucy Stone, investigates when Tinker Cove’s retired librarian goes missing after a silly dispute during the annual Easter Bonnet Contest, in the latest novel of the long-running series following Irish Parade Murder.
|
|
Little Black Book: A Bibliophile Mystery
by Carlisle, Kate
When her friend, Claire, shows up on their doorstep, in disguise and fearing for life, book-restoration expert Brooklyn and her husband must revisit an event in Claire’s past, linked to a rare edition of Rebecca, before it destroys all of their futures.
|
|
Love in the Time of Bertie
by Alexander McCall Smith
This new addition to the wonderful 44 Scotland Street series finds its residents up their usual amusing antics, including young Bertie Pollock, whose starry-eyed explorations of Edinburgh's New Town are a reminder that life is an adventure and there is joy wherever you choose to look.
|
|
Miss Tonks Turns to Crime
by M. C. Beaton
The Poor Relation is a London hotel owned and run by high society’s down and out. When it burns to the ground, the genteel paupers who work there hatch a plan to save their golden goose. Enter Lady Tonks, a spinster about to shed her meek and mousy image by posing as a highwayman to rob her wealthy sister’s coach. But when Miss Tonks mistakenly stops the carriage of the dashing Lord Eston, she not only gains an accomplice to her crime, but an irresistible suitor for her debutante niece. That is, if the bumbling Miss Tonks actually succeeds in saving her and her friends from ruin. As it turns out, Miss Tonks has more than a few tricks up her sleeve . . .
|
|
The Mitford vanishing
by Jessica Fellowes
In 1937, with the six Mitford sisters split across political lines, their former maid-turned-PI Louisa Cannon and her policeman husband, at the behest of Nancy Mitford, look into the disappearance of Nancy’s Communist sister Jessica in Spain.
|
|
Mrs. Budley Falls From Grace
by Marion Chesney
With the inhabitants of the Poor Relation Hotel requiring more money, Lucy Budley plans to convince a rich, senile, old Marquess that she is a relative, only to find that the handsome Marquess is neither senile nor old.
|
|
A Plus One for Murder
by Laura Bradford
Reinventing herself as a paid companion, entrepreneur Emma Westlake finds her new business marred by murder when a client drops dead and she becomes the prime suspect in the case.
|
|
The Shop on Royal Street
by Karen White
Plagued by ghosts while fixing up her new house in New Orleans, Nola Trenholm turns an old friend who can communicate with ghosts and soon discovers he is connected to an unsolved murder of a woman who once lived in the old Creole Cottage she is determined to make her own.
|
|
Show Me the Bunny
by Laurien Berenson
When Beatrice Gallagher, the well-respected benefactor of a new women’s shelter, is murdered, Melanie Travis discovers that Beatrice wasn’t the warm and generous philanthropist she appeared to be and must expose her true nature to identify a vengeful killer.
|
|
A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear
Masie Dobbs, a psychologist and investigator in 1942 London, investigates the death of a female ferry pilot and two kidnapped American servicemen in the latest novel of the best-selling series following The Consequences of Fear.
|
|
What the Cat Dragged In
by Miranda James
Librarian Charlie Harris and his faithful feline companion, Diesel, have inherited Charlie’s grandfather’s house, along with a deadly legacy: a decades-old crime scene, in an all-new mystery in the New York Times best-selling Cat in the Stacks series.
|
|
City of the Dead
by Jonathan Kellerman
Court-consulting child psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis unravel a baffling mystery after a naked corpse in the street leads to the discovery of another murder, in the latest novel of the long-running series following Serpentine.
|
|
All the Colors of Night
by Jayne Ann Krentz
A sequel to The Vanishing finds a young man with rare crystal-energy abilities partnering with a disgraced paranormal artifacts finder to track down a mysterious relic that may be tied to a parent’s sudden coma.
|
|
Countdown to Midnight
by Dale Brown
In this sequel to Dale Brown’s New York Times bestselling Arctic Storm Rising, former U.S. Air Force officer Nick Flynn is caught up in a shadow war against allied Russia and Iran—a duo wielding a terrifying new weapon.
|
|
Dark Horse
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
A former government assassin helps a South Texas drug kingpin, a man who does bad things for good reasons, after a vicious cartel kidnaps his 18 year-old-daughter, in the seventh novel of the series following Prodigal Son.
|
|
The Darkest Place
by Phillip Margolin
After a pro bono case upends her life, defense attorney Robin Lockwood retreats home to Elk Grove where she defends a surrogate accused of kidnapping the baby she carried for another couplea case that may result in unexpected, deadly consequences.
|
|
Dream Town
by David Baldacci
Private Investigator and ex-World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case.
|
|
The Investigator
by John Sandford
Working with Homeland Security in Texas to investigate the thefts of crude oil, Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious daughter of Lucas Davenport, is pitted against a militia group as the case quickly turns deadly.
|
|
The Lightning Rod
by Brad Meltzer
Mortician Zig Zigarowski, while working on the body of a successful military man, discovers something he was never meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to find military artist Nola Brown, a search that reveals one of the U.S. government's most intensely guarded secrets.
|
|
The Match
by Harlan Coben
When a DNA match on an online ancestry database leads him to a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces after an epic fall from grace, WIlde must figure out if his cousin is linked to a cunning conspiracy involving a ruthless killer.
|
|
With a Mind to Kill
by Anthony Horowitz
Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West.
|
|
Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
by 1938- Oates, Joyce Carol
Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
|
|
Overboard
by Sara Paretsky
In a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, detective V.I. Warshawski must elude Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters as she tries to find a missing girl who is the key witness to a nefarious conspiracy, which makes Warshawski a target as well.
|
|
Robert B. Parker's Revenge Tour
by Mike Lupica
Owing her landlord and former client a favor, PI Sunny Randall sets out to find Melanie Joans stalker, but makes a discovery that challenges her loyalty to her old friend, while her aging ex-cop father is threatened by a sleazy lawyer with a desire to settle an old score.
|
|
Robert B. Parker's Someone To Watch Over Me
by Ace Atkins
In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser and his young protégé Mattie Sullivan take on billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients.
|
|
The Runaway
by Nicholas Petrie
When he picks up a pregnant woman whose car has broken down, war veteran and former marine Peter Ash finds his act of kindness turning into a confrontation with a ruthless killer whose instincts and skills match—and perhaps exceed—his own.
|
|
A Safe House
by Stuart Woods
A former New York City cop turned rainmaker for an exclusive Manhattan law firm pursues justice while handling a sensitive case for the U.S. government in the latest addition to the long-running series following Criminal Mischief.
|
|
Shadows Reel
by C. J. Box
Game warden Joe Pickett, while dealing with the brutal murder of a fishing guide, must help his wife solve a mystery involving a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi officer, placing them in the crosshairs of a killer.
|
|
Sierra Six
by Mark Greaney
When he sees a ghost from the past—a terrorist leader who was taken out years ago during his very first mission as a junior member of a CIA action team—the Gray Man is not one to leave a job unfinished or a blood debt unpaid.
|
|
Sparring Partners
by John Grisham
A #1 best-selling author collects a trio of novellas where law is a common thread.
|
|
What Happened to the Bennetts
by Lisa Scottoline
Forced into the witness protection program after being caught in the crosshairs of a drug-trafficking organization, Jason Bennett and his family, trapped in an unfamiliar life, start falling apart at the seams until Jason takes matters into his own hands after a shocking truth is revealed.
|
|
Finding Me : A Memoir
by Viola Davis
A noted actress's memoir, in her own words, spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day.
|
|
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
by Bill O'Reilly
This latest in the multimillion-selling Killing series looks the 20-year global war on terror, following America’s pursuit of Al Qaeda, Isis and the Iranian Revolution Guard through Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria and Libya.
|
|
In Love : A Memoir of Love and Loss
by Amy Bloom
The New York Times best-selling author tells the story of her husband's battle with early onset Alzheimer's, their determination to support one another and his eventual decision to end his own life with dignity.
|
|
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
by Selma Blair
The celebrated Hollywood actress and model, in this original, intelligent and wise memoir, lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, the moments she had flirted with death and how she found surprising salvation in her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
|
|
Mission Possible: Go Create a Life That Counts
by Tim Tebow
The New York Times bestselling author and athlete shows how having a clear sense of your unique, God-given mission will bring you a lasting sense of purpose to lead a bold, brighter, more fulfilling life.
|
|
|
|
|
|