Check out our calendar for some great events @ the library. We are here to also help you find your next great read. Give us a call at 860-258-7623 and ask us for recommendations.
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Large Print - Just Unpacked (see below for sneak peek of large print books on order)
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Little wishes : a novel
by Michelle Adams
"On her favorite day of the year, Elizabeth Davenport awakens in her cottage on the wild and windy Cornish coast, opens her front door, and discovers a precious gift: the small blue crocus and a note that begins I Wish . . . They are not signed, but she knows they've been left by her first and truest love, Tom Hale. Each of these precious missives convey a simple wish for something they had missed, and the life they might have shared. She has kept them all. But on this day, what should have been the fiftieth anniversary of their falling in love, the gift fails to arrive"
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Piece of my heart
by Mary Higgins Clark
A high-suspense follow-up to the best-selling You Don’t Own Me finds the nuptials of television producer Laurie Moran and investigative host Alex Buckley nightmarishly upended by the sudden disappearance of Alex’s 7-year-old nephew. 250,000 first printing.
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The law of innocence : a novel
by Michael Connelly
"Defense attorney Mickey Haller utilizes his legal team's resources from behind bars to organize his own defense when he is framed for murder by an unknown adversary" Coming soon....
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The wonder boy of Whistle Stop : a novel
by Fannie Flagg
Taking a final visit to the ghost town where his mother Ruth's Whistle Stop Café made its famous fried green tomatoes, Bud Threadgoode discovers new friends and surprises about the community's women while triggering unexpected changes in his daughter's life
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Troubled blood
by Robert Galbraith
While visiting his family in Cornwall, Private Detective Cormoran Strike agrees to take on a cold case involving a woman who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974, and as Strike and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, investigate the disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer, and witnesses who cannot all be trusted
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Jane in love : a novel
by Rachel Givney
Searching for a radical solution to a lifetime of spinsterhood, Jane Austen is accidentally transported 200 years into the future onto a Hollywood film set of Northanger Abbey. Original. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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Murder of innocence : true-crime thrillers
by James Patterson
Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder of Innocence," in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and "A Murderous Affair," in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant
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Three women disappear
by James Patterson
When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection to the case, discovers why the women have to stay hidden from both the law and each other. (suspense).
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The awakening
by Nora Roberts
An anxious young woman mired in student debt and working a hated job uses hidden funds to visit Ireland, where she uncovers truths about vivid dreams compelling her to embrace her destiny in a fantastical alternate world.
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Books on Order Hoping to receive these in the next few months.
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Poppy Redfern and the midnight murders
by Tessa Arlen
"The world has been at war for three long and desperate years. In the remote English village of Little Buffenden, Poppy Redfern's family house and farmland has been requisitioned by the War Office as a new airfield for the American Air Force. As the village's Air Raid Warden, Poppy spends her nights patrolling the village as she tries to ease her neighbors' fears about the "Friendly Invasion" and what it means to their quiet way of life. When two young, popular women who were dating American servicemen are found strangled, Poppy quickly realizes that her little town has been divided by murder. The mistrust and suspicion of their new American partners in war threatens to tear Little Buffenden apart. Poppy decides to start her own investigation with the help of a charismatic American pilot and she soon unearths some chilling secrets and long-held grudges. Poppy will have no choice but to lay a trap for a killer so perilously close to home, she might very well become the next victim.."
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The mystery of Mrs. Christie : a novel
by Marie Benedict
Claiming amnesia after going missing for more than a week in late 1926, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie pens a chilling story that brashly implicates her war-hero husband. By the author of The Other Einstein.
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The Paris library : a novel
by Janet Skeslien Charles
Based on a true story, describes how a lonely, 1980s teenager befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived. 200,000 first printing.
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Ready player two : a novel
by Ernest Cline
A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. Movie tie-in. (science-fiction). Simultaneous.
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Before she disappeared : a novel
by Lisa Gardner
Investigating the cold-case disappearance of a Haitian teen in a gritty Boston neighborhood, Frankie Elkin navigates resident and police resistance as well as the challenges of her own sobriety before risking her life to uncover the truth. Simultaneous. Tour.
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The lies that bind
by Emily Giffin
Forging an unlikely connection with a stranger at a bar who warns her against resuming a dysfunctional relationship, an aspiring reporter investigates when the man goes missing on September 11, 2001
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The midnight library
by Matt Haig
Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place
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The four winds
by Kristin Hannah
A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale. 1.5 million first printing. Illustrations
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The wife upstairs
by Rachel Hawkins
Supplementing her modest income by stealing small valuables from her gated-community clients, a broke dog-walker endeavors to win the heart of a wealthy bachelor before learning his late wife’s own rags-to-riches story. 100,000 first printing.
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Always the last to know
by Kristan Higgins
When John Frost has a stroke, his family, including his two daughters – perfect Julie and free-spirited Sadie, and his wife of 50 years, are forced to confront the truth about their lives, in this new novel of about what family really means. Original.
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Truly, madly, deeply : a novel
by Karen Kingsbury
Dividing his family with his decision to become a police officer, 18-year-old Tommy Baxter falls in love with a girl fighting for her life at the same time he uncovers devastating truths about his late grandfather. 200,000 first printing.
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The brilliant life of Eudora Honeysett : a novel
by Annie Lyons
Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, a world-weary octogenarian forges an unexpected bond with an exuberant 10-year-old who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees and other social excursions. 100,000 first printing.
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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. 250,000 first printing.
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Pianos and flowers : brief encounters of the romantic kind
by Alexander McCall Smith
An anthology of 14 stories by the best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series imagines the rich lives and loves behind everyday people featured in pictures from the London Sunday Times photograph archives. Illustrations.
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Total power
by Kyle Mills
When an ISIS plot devastates America’s power grid, Mitch Rapp and his CIA team race to find the responsible cyberterrorists to prevent the nation from succumbing to total collapse. By the best-selling author of Red War. 500,000 first printing. Tour.
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The duke and I : Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
In an effort to keep himself footloose and single in spite of the efforts of the town's matchmakers, Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, begins a sham courtship with Daphne Bridgerton
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The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
by V. E. Schwab
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early 18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name. By the best-selling author of the Villains series. Read by Julie Whelan. Simultaneous.
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Due to some changes in the library online card catalog, it sometimes is harder to place holds on books that are owned by other libraries for pick up in Rocky Hill. If you find you are unable to place an item on hold to be picked up in Rocky Hill, please email cora@rockyhillct.gov with titles of large print book recommendations. We will then place the hold for you. Thanks!
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