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Large Print New Releases January 2025 |
All Fours
by Miranda July
Ditching her California life for the open road, a restless, semi-famous artist leaves her husband, child and career and reinvents herself in a motel room, embarking on a journey of self-discovery and what it means to be alive and free.
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The Book of George
by Kate Greathead
From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a razor-sharp but big-hearted excavation of millennial masculinity.
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Fire Exit
by Morgan Talty
Consumed by a long-held secret about his daughter across the river on the Penobscot Reservation, Charles Lamosway grapples with his past, a lost love and the burdens of family as he searches for redemption. as he searches for redemption.
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Good Dirt
by Charmaine Wilkerson
The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick.
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The Last One
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Waking up in a forest, Kai, who doesn't remember anything of her life before today, is hunted by otherworldly creatures, unlocking new powers every time she fights them, but the moment she touches another, a piece of her dies, leading her on a desperate search for answers to who?—?and what—she is.
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The Life of Herod the Great
by Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished novel offers a reimagined portrayal of Herod the Great, not as the notorious villain of the New Testament, but as a philosophical and visionary king who brought prosperity to Judea during a tumultuous period of war and imperial expansion in the first century BCE.
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The Queen's Cook
by Tessa Afshar
After gaining a position in Queen Esther's kitchens, Roxannah discovers her dream job is fraught with palace intrigue. She must partner with Adin, the Jewish royal physician never far from her thoughts, in a race to save the life of a princess . . . despite the secrets their mission might uncover.
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix
Four teenage girls trapped in a secretive maternity home for unwed mothers in 1960 St. Augustine, Florida, find an unexpected source of power through witchcraft.
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Better Than Friends
by Jill Shalvis
When Olive's off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly turns to her ex, a National Park Service agent, for help, forcing them to confront their past in the seventh novel of the series following The Summer Escape.
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Daydream
by Hannah Grace
Academic superstar and fellow junior, Halle Jacobs, befriends Henry Turner when he accidentally crashes her book club and the pair work together to overcome their collegiate challenges in the third novel of the series following Wildfire.
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Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
by Marianne Cronin
Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed. Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop. When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she resolves to help Eddie Winston finally find love, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie Winston to the moment he has waited for all his life.
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The Favorites
by Layne Fargo
Katarina Shaw and Heath Rocha, childhood sweethearts turned champion ice dancers, captivated the world with their fiery chemistry until a shocking incident at the Olympics tore them apart, but as a documentary threatens to reshape their legacy, Kat breaks her decade-long silence to reveal the truth behind their intense, obsessive relationship.
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Golden Lord
by Mary Jo Putney
The oldest foster child of the Earl and Countess Tremayne, Caden, possessing a gift for preventing violence, is given a dangerous mission in an escalating conflict with France in 1803, in the second novel of the series following Silver Lady.
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A Hope Unburied
by Kimberley Woodhouse
Eliza Mills's paleontology career has led her to Dinosaur National Monument. When one of her pseudonymous papers gains fame, she asks her friend Devin Schmitt to pose as the paper's author. He agrees - until Eliza disappears. As a sinister plot unfolds,Devin must rescue Eliza from those who want her to fail - at any cost.
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Is She Really Going Out With Him?
by Sophie Cousens
Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she has two kids, a cat, and uncontested control of the TV remote? Besides, she'd rather be single than subject herself to the hell of online dating. But her office rival is vying for her column, and no column means no stable source of income. In a desperate attempt to keep her job, Anna finds herself pitching a unique angle: seven dates, all found offline, chosen by her children. From awkward encounters to unexpected connections, Anna gamely begins to put herself out there, asking out waiters, the mailman, and even her celebrity crush. But when a romantic connection appears where she least expected it, will she be brave enough to take another chance on love?
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The Merry Matchmaker
by Sheila Roberts
Inspired by Jane Austen's Emma, a joyful Christmas romp tells the story of a meddling widow—nearing 50—who can't stop trying to help everyone in her small town of Carol, Washington, find their happily-ever-afters—even when all her help leads to disaster.
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Never Say Never
by Danielle Steel
After her husband of 25 years leaves her for a younger male lover, Oona Kelly Webster takes her anniversary trip to France alone, where after renting a house called La Belle Florence, she risks love with her friendly Trinidadian neighbor, a well-known actor.
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Remember When
by Mary Balogh
When Clarissa Ware returns to Ravenswood after living a society life as the Dowager Countess of Stratton, she reconnects with widowed village carpenter Matthew Taylor, and their summer friendship deepens into romance.
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So Into You
by Kathleen Fuller
Opposites attract when an introverted vlogger and a reformed party boy exchange lessons on art, confidence, and yacht rock.
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Where the Creek Bends
by Linda Lael Miller
Madison Bettencourt has tried to assemble all the pieces of a perfect life, but nothing fits quite the way it should. She’s moved back home to Montana to care for her grandmother. As Madison rattles around her family home, childhood memories come flooding back. Bliss Morgan transformed eight-year-old Madison with her loyalty,but Madison never understood why Bliss suddenly vanished. Before she can begin again, Madison must uncover what happened to Bliss, and Liam McKettrick—a widowed dad trying to repair his relationship with his two children—becomes her unlikely ally. He, too, understands the pang of regret. Yet there are mysteries that Madison hesitates to explore with anyone, and strange energies in Bettencourt Hall that blur the lines between past and present.
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Cloaked in Beauty
by Karen Witemeyer
Hidden away for fifteen years, Letty Hood must now return home under the protection of Pinkerton agent Philip Carmichael to claim her birthright. As they journey together, Letty and Philip come to rely on each other, but their growing feelings might become their greatest weakness when confronted by the villain determined to destroy them.
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Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right
by Walter Mosley
Detective King Oliver fulfills his grandmother's dying wish to reunite with his estranged father while also protecting a missing woman and her daughter from a powerful billionaire, in the third novel of the series following Every Man a King.
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Come Shell or High Water
by Molly MacRae
After discovering letters addressed to her late husband from the proprietor of a shell shop off the North Carolina coast, Maureen decides to visit the store where she discovers a dead body and gets assistance from a Welsh pirate's ghost.
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The Examiner
by Janice Hallett
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art master's program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling author Janice Hallett.
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Holmes Is Missing
by James Patterson
Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations face a challenging string of child abductions that forces them to solve the case without their brilliant leader, Brendan Holmes, in the second novel of the series following Holmes, Marple & Poe.
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The Perfect Storm
by Paige Shelton
The next installment in Paige Shelton's Alaska Wild series, a gripping, atmospheric, traditional mystery series with a great wilderness hook. Beth Rivers needs to disappear. Her one-time kidnapper, Travis, is on his way to her town in Alaska, and she's losing time to get out quickly. The perfect spot for Beth and her boyfriend, Tex, to hide, presents itself in a camp in the woods, away from Benedict. But when their trip takes them by Blue Mine, a small community that has seen tragedy over the last couple months, plans get diverted. Beth and Tex bring the widow of a recently murdered man back to Benedict, for Police Chief Gril to investigate, only to find that nothing is quite what it seems. When the woman vanishes, Beth must be on the alert for further danger. Who knows what further unwelcome disappearances--or appearances--might be lurking in the unforgiving Alaska storms.
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The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie's Biscuits
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Mysteries have a way of following Fannie Miller, so when she makes it into the finals of the Tuscarawas County Baking Contest and contestants start disappearing, she calls on her old friend Foster Bates, a retired cop and part-time private investigator. Could it be that other finalists—like the couple on verge of divorce who need the prize money. . .or the three Beiler sisters, always in a huddle whispering—are somehow responsible for these disappearances, thinning out the competition? One thing is certain—Foster and Fannie will stay on the case until the end, and everyone involved will learn something important about baking contests, mystery solving, and life.
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Some Die Young
by William W. Johnstone
Hired as Judge Wick Justice's private bodyguard and personal avenger, John Bannack soon discovers Justice has a lot of enemies, but the worst of the bunch is a rival judge who wants to put Bannack behind bars again and take down Justice in a hail of bullets.
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Time Will Tell
by Rita Mae Brown
An eye-wateringly expensive watch is found discarded on the land days prior to a dead body turning up. "Sister" Jane Arnold sets out to find the connection between the two, with a little help from her friend-both two legged and four-in this transportive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown.
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Annie's Rainbow
by Fern Michaels
Stumbling upon a bag filled with a half million dollars in cash on her graduation day, Annie Daisy Clark decides to use the money to secure her future, vowing to pay back every penny, but a ten-year college reunion embroils her with a decade-old robbery and an enraged thief out to reclaim his loot.
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Backwater Justice
by Fern Michaels
Bound by friendship and a quest for justice, the members of the Sisterhood investigate when two young women go missing in Mountain Valley, Oregon, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Rock Bottom.
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Clever Little Thing
by Helena Echlin
After her daughter Stella begins mimicking the personality of her deceased babysitter, Blanka, pregnant Charlotte becomes convinced that Blanka has possessed her child, leading her on a chilling and obsessive quest to uncover the truth and save her daughter.
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Deadly Revenge
by Patricia Bradley
After returning home to Pearl Springs, Jenna Hart didn't expect her new job as deputy to bring her in contact again with FBI Agent Max Anderson. They team up to stop a killer on a path of revenge--only to have the tables turned on them when the hunted becomes the hunter.
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Grave Danger
by James Grippando
Jack Swyteck must defend a woman accused of kidnapping her niece while uncovering deadly secrets about the parents as political forces and international law complicate the case in the latest addition to the series following Goodbye Girl.
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Haunted
by Kat Martin
A brutal 1898 murder in the mining town of Jerome, Arizona, sets off an eerie chain of events that impacts a pair of 2024 hotel owners whose discovery of an old journal triggers supernatural occurrences impacting their livelihood and relationship.
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The Note
by Alafair Burke
May Hanover, always the rule-following“Little Sheriff,” reunites with her childhood friends Lauren and Kelsey for a carefree trip to the Hamptons, but when a drunken prank goes disastrously wrong, May becomes the focus of a police investigation and begins questioning whether her friends are hiding dangerous secrets.
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The Oligarch's Daughter
by Joseph Finder
Paul Brightman, a former Wall Street star hiding in a New England town with a bounty on his head, is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness as he unravels a conspiracy involving Russian operatives and government agencies after falling in love with Tatyana, the daughter of a powerful oligarch.
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Our Kind of Game
by Johanna Copeland
Living the life she's always wanted, Stella Parker finds her peaceful existence shattered when her neighbor claims to know things about her, forcing her to reckon with the dark secret upon which she's built her life, in this debut thriller that explores the connection between physical and psychological harm.
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Power of Persuasion
by Stacey Abrams
A.J. Grayson is hired by the cabinet of King Damon Toca of Jafir to install her revolutionary AI system to thwart a potential coup, and as Damon guards against a treacherous adversary, he finds he is drawn to A.J. and will risk everything for a future with her.
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Presumed Guilty
by Scott Turow
Rusty is a retired judge asked by his fiancée, Bea, to defend her adult son Aaron, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend Mae, and Rusty agrees to help but questions whether the system can provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.
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Shattering Dawn
by Jayne Ann Krentz
When PI Gideon Sweetwater disrupts the kidnapping of Amelia Rivers, they escape and return to the ruins of the hotel where Amelia lost a night to amnesia before gaining powers, desperate to stop a killer and the people who are conducting illegal experiments with a dangerous drug designed to enhance psychic abilities.
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The Stolen Queen
by Fiona Davis
In 1978, as a valuable Egyptian artifact disappears during the Met Gala, Met curator Charlotte Cross and young assistant Annie Jenkins embark on a high-stakes search that leads them to Egypt, where Charlotte must confront an ancient curse and the haunting tragedy of her past.
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The Texas Murders
by James Patterson
Texas Ranger Rory Yates, a quick-draw champion, teams up with Tigua Tribal police archer Ava Cruz to investigate the disappearance of a native woman, pursuing a suspect in a long-cold case across Texas's harshest landscapes.
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The Art of Power
by Nancy Pelosi
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.
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Beyond Anxiety
by Martha Beck
In Beyond Anxiety, Dr. Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy.
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Black in Blues
by Imani Perry
A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry.
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Bone of the Bone
by Sarah Smarsh
Compiling Smarsh’s reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.
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Defy
by Sunita Sah
This is the definitive book on defiance, a clear-eyed dissection of the forces that silence us, featuring groundbreaking research and legendary stories alongside everyday examples and strategies for how to unleash the power of a “True No.”
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A Devil Went Down to Georgia
by Deb Miller Landau
The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia, like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in cold blood in broad daylight. How many socialites had enemies so dangerous they would be murdered by a hitman pretending to deliver roses on an early winter morning?…
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Northeaster
by Cathie Pelletier
For many, the past few years have been defined by climate disaster. Stories about once-in-a-lifetime hurricanes, floods, fires, droughts and even snowstorms are now commonplace. But dramatic weather events are not new and Northeaster, Cathie Pelletier’s breathtaking account of the 1952 snowstorm that blanketed New England, offers a valuable reminder about nature’s capacity for destruction as well as insight into the human instinct for preservation.…
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Pray Bold
by Joel Osteen
New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen wants you to know that God is listening and waiting for you take the limits off and ask Him for your dreams, for the big things in your heart, for your deepest hopes, for what looks impossible. Pray Bold will challenge you to think bigger, to stretch your faith, to receive what you’re believing for when you pray, and to pray prayers that move the hands of God. You’ll learn to pray with confidence, you’ll dare to pray bold, and that’s when you’ll see the all-powerful Creator of the universe go to work. You’ll see God do the extraordinary and show out in ways greater than you ever imagined.
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Save Our Souls
by Matthew Pearl
From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal.
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The Serviceberry
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
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The Sinners All Bow
by Kate Winkler Dawson
Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.
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The Sirens' Call
by Chris Hayes
From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society.
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