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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Books on Order Hoping to receive these in the next few months.
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The newcomer
by Mary Kay Andrews
After her sister is murdered, Letty Carnahan goes on the run with her 4-year-old niece to Florida’s Gulf Coast where she is taken in by a hotel owner and her cynical son, a police detective, who believes she is a danger to them all. 300,000 first printing.
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A gambling man
by David Baldacci
"Aloysius Archer travels to 1950s California to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent but immediately finds himself involved in a scandal"
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Dark sky
by C. J. Box
"Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip--but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted"
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Win
by Harlan Coben
A high-suspense follow-up to the best-selling The Boy from the Woods is presented from the viewpoint of Myron Bolitar’s fan-favorite sidekick, Windsor Horne Lockwood III. 750,000 first printing. TV tie-in. Tour.
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Sooley
by John Grisham
Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon is a raw, young talent with big hoop dreams … and even bigger challenges off the court. By a #1 best-selling author.
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Summer on the bluffs : a novel
by Sunny Hostin
An Emmy Award-winning cohost of The View makes her literary debut with a novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard. A first novel. 200,000 first printing.
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Sunflower sisters : a novel
by Martha Hall Kelly
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey, an ancestor of Caroline Ferriday, travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress. By the best-selling author of Lilac Girls.
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It's better this way : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
"After divorce shatters her family, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning--but is the past truly behind her? #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber explores the powerful intersections of love and familyin this poignant novel"
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When the stars go dark : a novel
by Paula McLain
Retreating to her childhood foster home in the wake of a tragedy, a veteran missing-persons detective becomes entwined in the search for a local teen whose disappearance eerily resembles an unsolved case from the detective’s past. Maps.
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The summer of lost and found
by Mary Alice Monroe
With her family, finances, emotions, relationships and health teetering on the brink, Linnea Rutledge finds her life further complicated by her feelings for John, an old flame who turns up from California and is quarantining next door. 125,000 first printing.
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21st birthday
by James Patterson
Investigating the disappearance of a young mother and her baby girl, Detective Lindsay Boxer is presented with evidence that not only proves the innocence of the husband but places the lives of women all over the state of California in grave danger. (suspense).
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The Noise
by James Patterson
A mysterious explosion kills thousands in the Pacific Northwest—and only two young girls survive. The newest in psychological suspense from the mind of James Patterson.
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The Shadow
by James Patterson
In this explosive detective thriller, a 1930s vigilante finds himself in the late twenty-first-century where he teams up with a mysterious teenager, whose looming secrets may impact both of their futures.
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Legacy
by Nora Roberts
After launching her own line of yoga and workout videos, Adrian Rizzo begins receiving death threats, which lead her back home to Maryland, where she, with the help of her childhood crush, must find the truth when the threats escalate to murder. 1 million first printing.
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Ocean prey
by John Sandford
Picking up a stalled FBI case involving three murdered Coast Guardsmen, Lucas Davenport teams up with detective Virgil Flowers to investigate the suspicious activities of a sophisticated boat and mysterious diver. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Prey series. (suspense).
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Eternal
by Lisa Scottoline
An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Someone Knows.
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Finding Ashley : a novel
by Danielle Steel
When the home that has given her new purpose is threatened by a wildfire, a grieving mother reconnects with her estranged sister, a nun, to track down the child she gave up for adoption years earlier.
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Nine Lives
by Danielle Steel
A woman who longs to avoid risk at all cost learns that men who love danger are the most exciting in this moving novel from New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.
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Project Hail Mary : a novel
by Andy Weir
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. (science fiction).
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We begin at the end
by Chris Whitaker
A guilt-ridden police chief and a tough-as-nails woman who was forced to support her family as a girl work together to protect loved ones when the latter’s father is released after 30 years in prison. 500,000 first printing.
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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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