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BEST SELLERS Devil’s Food Cake Murder
Happy Birthday
By Joanne Fluke
By Danielle Steel
Bakery owner Hannah Swenson’s life is going pretty sweet right now. Her best friend Claire is finally able to take a honeymoon with her new husband, Reverend Bob Knudson. Bob’s childhood friend, Matthew, also a minister, shows up to fill in for him. All seems well until Hannah finds Matthew face down in a plate full of Devil’s Food Cake, a single bullet in his head. She must now sift out the killer. MYS
Since her divorce, Valerie Wyatt has created a successful TV show and reached the pinnacle of her profession. But in spite of all the hours with her personal trainer, hairdressers, and cosmetic surgeons she can’t deny that she’s turning sixty. Her daughter, April, spends every ounce of her energy on her restaurant. She’s thirty and has no love prospects. Sports analyst Jack Adams is turning fifty and feels his age. Valerie, April, and Jack discover life itself can be a celebration. ROM
Fatal Error
Heat Rises
By J.A. Jance
By Richard Castle
Ali Reynolds begins a six week course at the Arizona Police Academy thinking that this will be her most difficult challenge. Brenda, an old friend, shows up with a story about a missing fiancé. When he is revealed to be a cyber-sociopath and then turns up dead, Brenda becomes the prime suspect. She vanishes without a trace, and Ali attempts to clear her friend’s name. FIC
The murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat’s most thrilling and dangerous case so far. It pits her against a vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a death squad out to gun her down. When she gets too close to the truth, she finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers. FIC
The Litigators
The First Rule
By John Grisham
By Robert Crais
The partners at Finley & Figg law firm are a couple of two-bit ambulance chasers. Change comes their way in the form of David Zinc who is desperate enough to take a job at the firm. They soon tackle a case that could make them rich. A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, alleging that their most popular drug causes heart attacks. It all seems almost too good to be true, and it is. FIC
When Frank Meyer and his family are executed during a home invasion, the police are sure that Frank had a secret life. Joe Pike is out to punish the people who murdered Frank and show that there was no secret life. What starts out a simple trail gets twisted fast by old grudges, double crosses, blood vengeance, and a crime so terrible even Pike has no way to measure it. FIC 2
BEST SELLERS Mobbed
Rules of Vengeance
By Carol Higgins Clark
By Christopher Reich
When a total stranger offers a hefty sum to buy octogenarian Edna’s beach house, she jumps at the chance. Her daughter asks her old friend Nora Reilly to check up on Edna. Nora and her daughter Regan find out that the actress Cleo Paradise had rented the house and left her belongings behind. Why did Cleo depart suddenly and no one has heard from her since? MYS
After foiling an international terrorist attack, Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom is working under an assumed name in a remote corner of Africa. His wife Emma has also been in hiding and they are both looking forward to a stolen weekend in London. A terrorist attack ruins their plans and Emma disappears. The police apprehend Jonathan and threaten him unless he helps secure Emma’s capture. FIC
Montana Creeds: Logan By Linda Lael Miller
Sixkill
After years of wondering, Logan Creed has returned home to put down roots and restore his family’s neglected ranch. Divorced mom Brianna Grant has heard stories about her gorgeous neighbor, so his kindness with her young boys is a welcome surprise. When an unknown enemy vandalizes her home, Logan shows her and the folks of Big Sky Country just what he’s made of. ROM
By Robert B. Parker A bad boy movie star pushes the limits of his reputation when he’s accused of rape and murder. It’s a high-profile case for Spenser, but the Hollywood secrets he uncovers are sordidly lowdown, and not just those of the accused. Spenser forges an unlikely alliance with Native American, Zebulon Sixkill, bodyguard to the star. Together they must put things right. MYS
The Omaha Trail
Tick Tock
By Ralph Compton
By James Patterson
Dane Kramer is looking forward to the day when his Oklahoma cattle ranch will truly be his. With only one more payment to make and a buyer in Omaha ready to pay top dollar for his herd, he should finally have the banker Earl Throckmorton off his back. But Earl wants the ranch for himself, and will try to make sure that the herd never makes it and Dane won’t come home alive. WES
A rash of horrifying crimes rips through the city of New York, and it’s clearly the work of a calculating, and deadly mastermind. Detective Bennett is called back from his first vacation since the death of his wife. He enlists the help of colleague, FBI agent Emily Parker. Soon another crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery, one that exposes the enormity of the killer’s plan. FIC 3
NONFICTION Coffee Is Good for You
The Making of a Royal Romance
By Robert J. Davis, PhD
By Katie Nicholl
Food is supposed to be one of life’s simple pleasures, but every day we are bombarded with come-ons for the latest diet, and warnings about contaminants in our favorite foods. This information cuts through the clutter to reveal what’s believable and what’s not in a fun and easily digestible way. HEA
A new woman has assumed a prominent role in Prince William’s life since the death of his mother, Diana. This is a revealing portrait of both Prince William and Prince Harry, and the commoner who is destined to become Queen Catherine. Find out how William and Kate’s love affair really started, the hurdles they overcame, and the challenges they’ll face as the future King and Queen. HIS
The Founding Foodies By Dave DeWitt The Founding Fathers were first and foremost a group of farmers. Their love of food and the art of eating created what would ultimately become America’s diverse food culture. Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin penned original recipes, encouraged local production of beer and wine, and shared their delight in food with friends and fellow politicians. HEA
Outlaw Tales of Oklahoma By Robert Barr Smith From Muskogee to Ingalls, Tulsa to Tahlequah, the frontier towns of Oklahoma were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Read about the Doolin and Dalton gang, Belle Starr, Bud Coe, the Verdigris Kid, and more notorious desperados in the history of the Sooner State. HIS
Hot Chocolate for Seniors By Jan Fowler More than 100 heartwarming, humorous, inspiring stories written by seniors, for seniors, and about seniors are in this book. Here are stories about love and life, trials and victories, miracles in the unexpected and the funny, yet meaningful moments in life. LIT
Outsmarting the Scam Artists By Doug Shadel This is a fascinating look at how fraud schemes work from the perspective of the cons who perpetrate them. They offer up secrets about who they target, what tactics they employ, and how you can inoculate yourself from harm. It is an easy-to-read tutorial on how to protect yourself. HAF 4
NONFICTION Small-Space Container Gardens
Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free
By Fern Richardson
Eliminating gluten and sugar from your diet doesn’t mean hours in the kitchen or expensive ingredients. Follow these smart strategies and simple techniques to create tasty, allergyfriendly meals in no time. This book’s nutritious, satisfying, home-cooked meals will minimize weight gain and maximize good health. HAF
By Amy Green
If you have a balcony, porch, or patio, you can beautify it on a small budget. You don’t need a yard to have a garden. Learn how to grow privacy screens, attract beneficial insects, or tackle unique challenges, like windy conditions when gardening several stories above street level. You can even cultivate your own food. HAF
The Time of Our Lives By Tom Brokaw
Sock Yarn One-Skein Wonders
One repeated question often asked Brokaw is: “Will our children and grandchildren have better lives than we do?” There are no simple, reassuring answers. He reflects on where we have been and how we are going to move forward together, and do it with more listening and less shouting. How will we respond to the challenges facing all of us in the brief time we have on this precious planet. HIS
By Judith Durant Sock yarn is affordable, sturdy, and available in endless colorful variations. It inspires creativity and passion among knitters. You can choose from more than 100 patterns that use your sock yarn single skeins in fresh and exciting projects, such as caps, scarves, shawls, bags, and, of course, socks. ARC
Steve Jobs By Time From the first Apple computers to the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, Steve Jobs brought us things that revolutionized our lives and the society we live in. He was a college dropout with a rare instinct for what it would take to make the computer into something much more inviting, a “personal computer.” He launched Pixar, the computer animation company. BIO
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NONFICTION The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said
Unlikely Friendships
By Robert Byrne
Animals crave company as much as people do. Discover a delightful collection of how they find friendship in the most amazing place: outside their own species. A leopard lies down with a cow, a housecat curls up with an iguana, an elephant cuddles a sheep, these and more heartwarming stories are documented with great photographs. SS
By Jennifer S. Holland
Here is a fresh selection of sharp, witty zingers gathered from both famous and utterly unknown sources. This is a go-to reference that serves readers better than Google, no Wi-Fi required. Read clever quips and laugh out loud punch lines from Gracie Allen to Frank Zappa on such topics as divorce, religion, fashion, animals and money. HUM
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Overholser Mansion by L.H. Keller, c. July 1909. In 1902 financier Henry Overholser built a three-story brick and stone Victorian mansion in Classen’s Highland Park Addition (now known as Heritage Hills.) (From an essay by Jana Hausburg.) 6
FICTION Bonnie
The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club
By Iris Johansen
By Wanda E. Brunstetter
Eve Duncan’s seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie, vanished into thin air, and Eve found herself in a nightmare from which there was no escape. Being a forensic sculptor, she is able to use her talent to help others find closure in the face of tragedy. With the help of her friends, Joe Quinn and Catherine Ling, Eve has come closer to the truth of what happened to Bonnie.
Amish widow Emma Yoder longs to remove the burden from her family by becoming selfsufficient. She offers to hold quilting classes in her home. When she sees the patchwork of faces assembled for the first lesson, her confidence dwindles as doubt threatens to take hold. Emma grows to realize her ability to share her passion for quilting and her faith.
Cowboys Never Cry By Tina Welling
I’ll Walk Alone
Cassie Danner is a young widow with a still mending heart. She seeks solace in nature and hard work, and expects to find both in her new summer job as a cook on a Wyoming dude ranch. She ends up tussling with Robbin McKeag, the ranch owner’s son and a superstar for having played iconic cowboys on the big screen. Cassie is drawn to his struggle to become a better man.
By Mary Higgins Clark Zan Moreland, a gifted interior designer, is haunted by the disappearance of her son two years ago. Now, on his fifth birthday, she discovers that someone is using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts, and photos have surfaced that seem to link her in the kidnapping. Zan sets out to find the mastermind behind the cruel hoax.
The Garden of Happy Endings By Barbara O’Neal
Little Black Dress
Reverend Elsa Montgomery has a crisis of faith after a tragedy shatters her small community in Seattle. She returns to her hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, and seeks work in a local soup kitchen. Meanwhile, her sister, Tamsin, finds her life shattered when she learns her financier husband is a criminal. Everything she owns is seized, and she has nothing but the clothes on her back.
By Susan McBride Two sisters whose lives seemed forever intertwined are torn apart when a magical little black dress gives each one a glimpse of an unavoidable future. Antonia Ashton is forced to return home when her mother suffers a massive stroke. As she tries to put her mother’s house in order, she uncovers long buried truths about her mother and her aunt. 7
FICTION Marilyn and Me
The Ruins of Lace
By Molly Levite Griffis
By Iris Anthony
Lydia Patterson and her best friend Marilyn both lose their husbands in the same week. Lydia is thrust into the role of only caregiver for Marilyn, who is in stage four of early-onset Alzheimer’s. She decides to take Marilyn on a road trip. The first day out a blind cat crawls into Marilyn’s lap and heart causing her to speak for the first time in two years.
The mad passion for forbidden lace has infiltrated France, pulling soldier and courtier into its web. Flemish lace is perfection of thread and air, and can buy almost anything or anyone. For Lisette, it is her downfall and she must outwit the noble who demands an impossible length of it. But for Katharina, it is her salvation. It is who she is, and what she does.
Nowhere to Run
Spider Bones
By Nancy Bush
By Kathy Reichs
When Liv Dugan returns from lunch, she discovers all her colleagues at Zuma Software have been massacred. She suspects the shootings are tied to her past and to the package she recently received from her longdead adoptive mother. When she thinks that she is being followed, she jumps into a stranger’s car and orders him to drive. He listens to her story and ultimately begins to believe her.
Tempe Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning and makes a shocking discovery. The victim was an American soldier declared dead in 1968, in Vietnam. Tempe sets out to find out who is buried in the vet’s grave. Things get complicated when her another victim is lethally attacked by a shark or a more sinister predator. She must deconstruct a twisting tale of death that spans years, continents, and tragic losses.
Return to Atlantis
Wings of Promise
By Andy McDermott Archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase have discovered three ancient statues from three different continents. They are about to tap into a colossal energy source, not felt since the days of Atlantis. The statues are stolen and a violent struggle erupts among a secret, powerful group that wants to control Nina and the earth energy.
By Bonnie Leon Alaskan bush pilot, Kate Evans, is a woman in a man’s profession, and one of the best. Now even her personal life is complicated, because she is torn between pilot Mike Conlin and Doctor Paul Anderson. When a terrible tragedy occurs, her mind may be made up for her. Can her spunk get her through tough times? 8
ROMANCE town, Tempest LeDoux knows he’s the one for her. Alaine LeDoux likes shooting and riding more than dresses and tea until she meets Morgan Payne.
Starlight By Dorothy Garlock During the Great Depression Maddy Aldridge agrees to run an illegal speakeasy in order to save her family’s mercantile store. The man who broke her heart, Jack Rucker, returns to town and will do anything to earn her forgiveness. He keeps one important truth from Maddy, that he’s a Prohibition agent on an undercover assignment. How far are Maddy and Jack willing to go to keep their secrets.
High Stakes By Lisa Jackson Thoroughbred breeder Becca Peters keeps a tight rein on her emotions, except when it comes to Brig Chambers. He shattered their relationship six years ago and now he’s back stirring up trouble. Tiffany Rhode’s horse farm was in trouble long before she met Zane Sheridan, a breeder with a shady reputation. She did feel relieved when he offered to buy her out. Though she doesn’t trust him, she’s drawn to him like a magnet.
The Chocolate Thief By Laura Florand Sylvain Marquis knows the secrets of a special chocolate that is yielding yet firm, exotic, and delicious. He’s not about to turn them over to a brash American waving a fistful of dollars. Cade Corey is in Paris to get one infuriating French chocolatier to sign on the dotted line. If not, maybe she can find a way to get the secrets herself.
Hope By Lori Copeland Mail order bride Hope Kallahan is not happy when her stagecoach is waylaid by a bunch of bumbling outlaws. She is puzzled by the oddball in the group, Grunt Lawson. She doesn’t know that Grunt is really Dan Sullivan, a government agent sent to infiltrate the gang. Together they learn that no matter what happens, God works everything together into a plan.
Give Me a Cowboy By J. Thomas, D. Pace, L. Broday, & P. Miranda Rowdy Darnell was born to be wild and Laurel Hayes knows she shouldn’t get involved with him. Agusta Garrison finds out that Dally Angelo is riding the bull that killed his father, and she’s ready to break their engagement. When a tall gunslinger rides into 9
ROMANCE A Match Made in Scandal
scandalous past. The only person who can help her is a fellow member of the expedition. They must find a way to win each other’s trust and work together.
By Melody Thomas Ryan Donally has adored Rachel Bailey since childhood, though she saw him as just another rowdy boy. Fate has brought them together once again, but Ryan has moved on to wealth and success, and Rachel hides a secret shame that could destroy everything. Will they find an undying love?
Wyoming Weddings By D. Brandmeyer, S. Davis, & V. McDonough Just as Randi Davis discovers romance with Matthew Carter, a traveling minister, she must go home to her orphaned niece. Police dispatcher Ruby Dale and veterinarian Chuck Sullivan ride into romance on a hundred mile endurance horseback ride. Bethany Shaffer finds romance on her family’s guest ranch when Evan Parker accompanies a group of students on a two week wagon train tour.
Never Look Back By Sheri Whitefeather
To Surrender to a Rogue By Cara Elliott Lady Alessandra della Giamatti, an expert in antiquities, arrives in Bath to excavate newly discovered Roman ruins. She finds herself caught in the web of a blackmailer who threatens to expose her
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Allie Whirlwind, Shaman, has a father who’s a ghost, a sister that’s a psychic, a great-grandmother who is a vengeful Apache witch, and a mother on death row. She’s no stranger to the supernatural. She paints an image of a dark winged warrior and releases him from a spell. The transformation was incomplete and now he lingers in twilight, half man, half raven. Allie must find a certain talisman to set it right.
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MYSTERIES Adrift on St. John
seams. Ashley Lawson is a self-important pageant mom with a rude attitude. When she is found dead, the sewing circle is shocked, because much as they wanted to strangle her, none of them actually would.
By Rebecca M. Hale Resort manager Pen Hoffstra knows that the idea of a tropical paradise is an illusion. When a young woman named Hannah disappears and a water taxi sinks mysteriously off the island, Pen is not surprised. Hannah resembles the Amina Slave Princess from the 1733 Slave Revolt and the local community latches on to the belief that her spirit is behind the sinking and the disappearance.
Fruit of All Evil By Paige Shelton Becca Robins sells her farm made jams and preserves at the local farmer’s market. When her best friend and fellow market vendor asks her to be maid of honor at her wedding, Becca takes on the duties of setting it up with a farmers’ market theme. Linda’s future mother-in-law ends up murdered and the fate of a missing local merchant is on the line. Only Becca can shut the lid on a canny killer.
A Cookie Before Dying By Virginia Lowell Cookie shop owner Livie Greyson finds her lawn covered in what looks like confectioner’s sugar, but is instead balled up flyers reading SUGAR KILLS. She assumes they were distributed by Charlene Critch, owner of The Vegetable Plate. When Charlene’s store is trashed she blames Livie and the feud escalates. Could Charlene be hiding a secret serious enough to kill for.
Hearse and Buggy By Laura Bradford Seeking a slower pace lifestyle in Amish country, Claire Weatherly opens a specialty shop. She loves her new home and making friends among the locals including Esther, a young Amish woman. When the store’s former owner is murdered and the man Esther is sweet on becomes a suspect, Claire gets involved. As she investigates, she uncovers more than she wanted to know about her neighbors.
Deadly Notions By Elizabeth Lynn Casey The Sweet Briar ladies Society sewing circle is one tight-knit group. Then one of the town’s most insufferable moms is murdered and the group finds itself fraying at the 11
MYSTERIES A Killer Plot
residents at the assisted living center with Tarver Elementary students to produce a book that the PTA can sell as a fund raiser. Enthusiasm is dampened when she discovers one of her customers has died from bee stings. What are bees doing out so early in Wisconsin.
By Ellery Adams Since coming back to town, Olivia Limoges is the subject of constant gossip. Hoping to break her writer’s block, she joins the Bayside Book Writers. When the townspeople start turning up dead with haiku poems left by the bodies, anyone with a flair for language is suspect. Now it’s up to Olivia to catch the killer before she meets her own surprise ending.
The Scarlet Pepper By Dorothy St. James Casey Calhoun is the official organic gardener for the White House. When someone starts to tamper with the presidential vegetable garden, she finds herself in way over her head. A hard-nosed investigative reporter is found dead after targeting the President’s unpopular Chief of Staff. Casey knows that someone is sabotaging both her garden and the First lady’s reputation.
Mind Your Own Business By Hannah Reed Beekeeper Story Fischer has her hands full when her hive takes off looking for better digs. While she looks for her bees, the rest of the town is searching for Lauren Kerrigan, a woman with a checkered past. When both Lauren and a gun go missing, everyone assumes the worst. The situation gets sticky when Lauren and another town resident turn up dead, in exactly the same spot Story was looking for her bees.
Till Death Do Us Bark By Judi McCoy A Hampton’s wedding gives dog walker Ellie Engleman an excuse to take a break in over ten years. She and her best friend pack up their dogs, Rudy and Twink, and head to the beach. Before the bride can say “I do”, someone is murdered. Ellie and Rudy must put their noses to the ground to sniff out the killer before the entire ceremony goes to the dogs.
Plotting at the PTA By Laura Alden Children’s bookstore owner, Beth Kennedy, is excited about the PTA’s spring Senior Story Project which pairs elderly 12
LARGE PRINT Broken Angel
She’s not the only one is Scottsdale, Arizona, who is desperate. Someone has iced Baxter Malloy on his first date with Mel’s mother. Now she’s a suspect, and Mel has to dig into Baxter’s shady past. MYS
By Sigmund Brouwer Caitlyn is only fifteen, and her mutated body has made her an outcast, and a target for bounty hunters. In the hills of Appalachia, a nation carved from the United States following years of infighting, Caitlyn and her companions are fugitives. They must outwit the bounty hunters, skirt an oppressive society, and find passage over the walls of Appalachia to reveal the dark secrets behind Caitlyn’s existence. FIC
Call Me Irresistible By Susan Elizabeth Phillips Lucy Jorik is the daughter of a former United States president, and Meg Koranda is the offspring of legends. One is about to marry Ted Beaudine, and the other is not happy about it. Meg knows that breaking up her best friend’s wedding is the right thing to do, but no one else agrees. She becomes the most hated woman in town. Broke and stranded she must depend on herself to survive. ROM
Buttercream Bump Off By Jenn McKinlay The owners of Fairy Tale Cupcakes, Melanie and Angie, must be doing something right because their rival is parading up and down the sidewalk dressed as a giant cupcake to steal customers. 13
LARGE PRINT Chasing Fire
organized gang of teenage thugs headed by a diabolical warlord. FIC
By Nora Roberts The Missoula smoke jumpers are among the most exclusive firefighting squads in the nation, and the job is in Rowan’s blood. Gulliver Curry is a hotshot firefighter who has come to Missoula to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Lucas Tripp, Rowan’s father. Rowan knows she can’t complicate things with Gull. Any distractions in the air or on the ground could be lethal. ROM
Dark Summer By Iris Johansen Veterinarian Devon Brady is working in a makeshift hospital on a remote search and rescue mission. A man arrives with his wounded black Lab, and Devon has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror and destruction. There are innocent lives, both human and animal, at stake. When the shots start flying and friends start falling, she finds nowhere to run. FIC
Cross Country By James Patterson Detective Alex Cross is called to a family murder scene, one of the worst he has seen. Then comes more killings, each more ruthless that the last. As Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, dig deeper into the case they become entangled in the deadly African underworld of Washington DC. There is an
Explosive Eighteen By Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum’s dream vacation turned into a nightmare and she’s flying back to New Jersey solo. Her seat mate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. 14
LARGE PRINT Now he’s dead, in a garbage can, and his killer could be anyone. A collection of thugs, psychos, and the FBI, are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying. MYS
opened a catering business in Atlanta. Flouting the traditions and expectations of Southern society turns out more complicated than they anticipated. As financial woes, personal hurts, and family troubles test the strength of their business and their friendship, they discover that sisterly support and lots of heartfelt prayer might be the only way to survive. FIC
A Good Woman By Danielle Steel Annabelle Worthington’s life of privilege changed in 1912 with the sinking of the Titanic. She pours herself into volunteer work, igniting a passion for medicine. Pursued by undeserved scandal because of her husband, she flees New York for war-ravaged France. In the heart of the First World War, in a ground breaking field hospital run by women, she finds her true calling, medicine and saving lives. FIC
Keep A Little Secret By Dorothy Garlock Charlotte tucker is a young woman thirsty to see the world. When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, she jumps at the opportunity and takes a room on John Grant’s ranch. She befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. They are set on revenge against the man they believe abandoned them, John Grant. ROM
How Dolly Parton Saved My Life By Charlotte Conners Four very different ladies have 15
LARGE PRINT The Look of Love
neighbor. As Katie struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her, she realizes that love is the only true safe haven. ROM
By Mary Jane Clark Piper Donovan takes a job in LA to create a dazzling and unique wedding cake for the owner of an exclusive spa and plastic surgery center. Elysium seems picture perfect until a guest is brutally murdered. Someone, it seems, wants to make sure Jillian Abernathy never gets to walk down the aisle. Piper discovers that beneath the glamorous surface lies an ugly truth, and a cold blooded killer. MYS
Seek Me With All Your Heart By Beth Wiseman After tragedy struck, Emily Detweiler’s family moved to Colorado from Ohio. David Stoltzfus also relocates to Colorado with his family from Pennsylvania. He struggles with the fear that his health could keep him from living a full life. Both Emily and David have to come to terms with a past that follows them, testing their faith and resolve. Will they be able to overcome adversity? ROM
Safe Haven By Nicholas Sparks A mysterious young woman appears in the North Carolina town of Southport, and raises questions about her past. She tries to avoid forming personal ties but is drawn into two reluctant relationships. One is with a widowed store owner and the other with her plain spoken
The Shack By William P. Young Mack Philips’s youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted 16
LARGE PRINT was small, Clara has resigned herself to living alone and caring for her widowed mother, who tells her that no man will ever want her. Tim Garver arrives in town to help his aunt and uncle with the spring planting, and expects to go back home to the woman he assumes he will marry. Then he meets Clara, and realizes why the Lord brought him to Sugarcreek. ROM
during a family vacation and may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack. Four years later, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. He arrives and walks into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his world forever. FIC
The Shape of Mercy By Susan Meissner
A Suitor for Jenny
College student Lauren Durough is helping retired librarian Abigail Boyles transcribe the journals of Mercy Hayworth, a 17th century victim of the Massachusetts witch trials. Lauren finds herself drawn to the girl who lived and died four centuries ago. She takes a new look at her own life, and tries to break free from her own preconceptions and recognize who she really is. FIC
By Margaret Brownley If you are looking for a husband, it’s best to go where the odds are in your favor. Jenny Higgins has plans to find husbands for her two sisters, and the place for that is Rocky Creek, Texas. She hits a snag when the applicants fail to meet her stringent requirements. She refuses to give up, and thinks choosing a husband is not a job for the heart. Can one strong and handsome marshal convince her otherwise? ROM
Spring’s Renewal By Shelley Shepherd Gray Scarred from a fire when she 17
LARGE PRINT is called to the murder scene. He soon finds a world of shading and nuance, and even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to him and his team if what they’ve found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light. MYS
A Trick of the Light By Louise Penny Lillian Dyson is found dead in Clara Morrow’s garden in the tiny Quebec village of Three Pines. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Surete du Quebec,
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