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Large Print New Releases May 2024
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
by Julia Alvarez
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
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Crow Talk
by Eileen Garvin
The best-selling author of The Music of Bees returns with the story of the unlikely friendship between a lonely ornithologist and an Irish musician working to save an injured crow in the wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
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Cursed Bunny
by Bora Chung
Blending horror, sci-fi and fairytales this collection of short stories from an increasingly popular Korean author includes a tale about a woman followed and haunted by her own bodily waste and a young monster forced into underground fight rings.
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The Goddess of Warsaw
by Lisa Barr
A legendary Hollywood screen goddess, Lena Browning uses her power and fame to get revenge on the Nazis who escaped justice after the war, hoping to right the past's wrongs, but when an old enemy resurfaces, she must use her skills to protect herself and those she loves, then and now.
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The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
by Helen Simonson
In the summer of 1919, Constance, sent as a lady's companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, is welcomed by Poppy Wirrall, a baronet's daughter who runs a ladies' motorcycle club, but as the country prepares to celebrate its hard-won peace, the club realizes the freedoms they gained during the war are being revoked.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
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Summer on Highland Beach
by Sunny Hostin
In Highland Beach, the oldest Black resort community in America, Olivia Jones, amid tense family drama, must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor or finally achieve her dream of having a home and family of her own in Highland Beach.
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Summers at the Saint
by Mary Kay Andrews
The widowed owner of the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel, Traci Eddings has one summer season to restore it to its former glory, but when a tragic death changes everything, she must put wrongs to right, put guilty parties in their place and maybe even find a new romance along the way.
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Where There Was Fire
by John Manuel Arias
A lush and atmospheric novel about three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias.
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All My Secrets
by Lynn N Austin
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
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Just for the Summer
by Abby Jimenez
With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other's curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.
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Lies and Weddings
by Kevin Kwan
Forced to attend his sister's wedding to seduce a woman with money and get his family out of debt, Rufus, the future Earl of Greshambury, finds their plans—and their reputation—going up in flames when a secret tryst and tragedy become known, revealing a shocking twist.
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Sandcastle Inn: A Hope Harbor Novel
by Irene Hannon
Returning home to Hope Harbor, Oregon, to regroup after her career tanks, Vienna Price helps Matt Quinn resuscitate his sister's floundering B&B and discovers hope, healing and even love can be found in the most unexpected places.
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The Songbird of Hope Hill
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
A young woman longs to know true love after escaping from a hopeless situation at a house of ill repute in this heartwarming novel inspired by historical events--from the bestselling author of A Tapestry of Grace.
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Summer Reading
by Jenn McKinlay
While chaperoning her half-brother, who is in a robotics competition at the local library, chef Samantha Gale meets Bennett Reynolds, who has come to Martha's Vineyard to find his father, and as their summer fling heats up, they both realize they may have stumbled upon happily-ever-after.
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This Summer Will Be Different
by Carley Fortune
When her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to, but his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe.
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Tourist Season
by Brenda Novak
Trapped alone in her fiancé's family cottage as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family—especially her fiancé.
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While the City Sleeps
by Elizabeth Camden
Dentist Katherine Schneider has always admired police lieutenant Jonathan Birch from afar, but they are brought together when Katherine is the only person who can identify the mastermind behind a string of deadly bombings. With lives on the line, Katherine and Jonathan must hold on to hope--and each other--if they want to survive.
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Delia and the Drifter
by Melody Carlson
Delia Blackstone knows what her mother is up to—she intends to marry her off to an older man who is all fortune and no future. When a mysterious visitor appears on the family doorstep and offers an opportunity for Delia to travel from Pennsylvania to Colorado, Delia knows it is time for her to strike out on her own and discover a new life. Along the way she encounters a handsome drifter who captures her heart. But is he interested in trading his exciting life of adventure for love?
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Lone Oaks Crossing
by Janet Dailey
With her family's farm in danger of foreclosure, Derby-winning horse trainer Jo Beth gets a deal she can't refuse from her handsome neighbor, and as she trains his gorgeous thoroughbred and he helps her rehab the farm, she dreams of winning a champion horse and a forever love.
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The Busy Body
by Kemper Donovan
After a very public defeat, former Senator Dorothy Gibson retreats to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her, and soon the two women are drawn into a mystery when a neighbor dies under suspicious circumstances and find their investigation unfolding in a way no one could've ever expected.
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Circle in the Water
by Marcia Muller
Sharon McCone is hired by a coalition of concerned San Francisco homeowners whose homes have been targeted in a series of“pranks,” in the latest installment of the long-running series following A Midnight Puzzle.
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Death at a Scottish Wedding
by Lucy Connelly
Invited to a Scottish wedding at Morrigan's Castle, American doctor Emilia McRoy is forced to investigate after discovering a dead man in one of the turrets, in the second novel of the series following An American in Scotland.
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Forget Me Never
by Susan Wittig Albert
Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, Forget Me Not: A Crime Victim’s Storyboard, which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now she has a stunning story to tell about a decades-old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs. Was it an accident—or something else?
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
by Janice Hallett
Looking to revive her career by writing a book about the Alperton Angels cult, who convinced a teenage girl her baby was the anti-Christ, true crime author Amanda Bailey, with the Alperton baby turning 18, seeks to find them until what she uncovers is much darker and stranger then she'd ever imagined.
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An Unfinished Murder
by Jude Deveraux
A novelist, Sara Medlar, and her friends use all their amateur sleuthing skills to solve a crime when a literal skeleton is discovered in a closet in the fifth novel of the series following A Relative Murder.
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Bulletproof Barista
by Cleo Coyle
Clare Cosi and her baristas at Village Blend agree to allow a true-crime television show to film in their coffee shop, resulting in an actual murder, in the 20th novel of the series following Honey Roasted.
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Easter Basket Murder
by Leslie Meier
A collection of Easter-themed mysteries set in coastal Maine features sleuths from three best-selling cozy mystery series: Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell and Julia Snowden, who investigate a deadly art theft and a body that mysteriously vanishes after being discovered.
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Feline Fatale: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
by Rita Mae Brown
Mary Minor“Harry” Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker, in the latest novel in the long-running series following Hiss and Tell.
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Camino Ghosts
by John Grisham
Bay Books shop owner Bruce Cable is reunited again with best-selling author Mercer Mann to solve another murder on Camino Island, Florida, in the third novel of the series following Camino Winds.
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Darling Girls
by Sally Hepworth
Two women who escaped an overly-strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse.
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Daughter of Mine
by Megan Miranda
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.
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Extinction
by Douglas J. Preston
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.
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It Had To Be You
by Mary Higgins Clark
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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The Heist
by Clive Cussler
Detective Isaac Bell investigates an attack on the Federal Reserve being led by a master thief and his assassin accomplice in 1914 Washington, D.C., in the 14th novel of the series following The Sea Wolves.
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I Will Ruin You
by Linwood Barclay
After convincing a student with a bomb not to harm anyone, an English teacher is targeted by a deranged blackmailer in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of No Time for Goodbye.
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The Last Time She Saw Him
by Kate White
When her ex-fiancé is found dead from a gunshot wound while at their friend's Connecticut country house, Kiki is determined to prove it was murder, not suicide, and to get the police to take her seriously, searches for the missing link, uncovering something far more sinister than she had ever imagined.
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She's Not Sorry
by Mary Kubica
Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
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Some Murders in Berlin
by Karen Robards
Assisting the Kripo in solving a series of murders in Nazi Germany, Dr. Elin Lund, an expert in psychological profiling, when the killer realizes she's figured out who he is, must join Denmark's Jews, along with her family, who are being smuggled to Sweden that very night to survive.
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Think Twice
by Harlan Coben
When his former client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing, who is deceased, has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, sports agent Myron Bolitar and Win, his longtime friend and colleague, search for answers, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes.
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The 24th Hour: Is This the End?
by James Patterson
While celebrating Cindy's engagement at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants, a woman is assaulted and Lindsay, Claire and Yuki spring into action, but when the victim's story keeps changing, Lindsay must expose a high-society killer before the Women's Murder Club is short a bridesmaid… or two.
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Tom Clancy Act of Defiance
by Brian Andrews
When U.S. intelligence reports there's something going on in Russia, President Jack Ryan and his youngest daughter, Katie, determine the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine, and the race is on to find its location and decide if it poses a threat to the continental U.S.
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Boat Crazy: The Collected Woodenboat Stories of Stan Grayson
by Stan Grayson
Since 2004, award-winning author and historian Stan Grayson has regularly contributed stories to WoodenBoat magazine about the many yachts, small craft, designers, boat builders, and sailors who have captured his imagination. This collection of twenty articles from Grayson and the pages of WoodenBoat presents a wide-ranging and insightful account of American yachting history and some of its fascinating characters.
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Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life
by Nicholas D. Kristof
From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and bestselling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism.
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Romney: A Reckoning
by McKay Coppins
Drawing on interviews with Romney himself and his inner circle as well as his personal journals, this rare glimpse into the life of the politician who in recent years has been at the center of our nation's most defining political dramas.
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
by Susan Page
Drawing on 150 interviews and extensive archival research, this definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time, who gave women a permanent place on the air, reveals the woman behind the legacy—one who broke all the rules to tell viewers what they deserved to know.
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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
by George Stephanopoulos
A former senior advisor to President Clinton, and for more than 20 years, the anchor of This Week and the co-anchor of Good Morning America, takes us into the White House Situation Room, the epicenter of crisis management where decisions are made that affect the lives of every person on this planet.
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