Here’s a list of the new large print books that have arrived at the library (listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name).
FICTION
Faceoff
An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay
A troubled family accidentally reconnects with the criminal who saved their lives seven years prior and is propelled into another potentially lethal situation.
2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
A first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer traces the unlikely bond between a precocious 9-year-old jazz singer, a divorced teacher who would reunite with her high-school sweetheart and a club owner facing the imminent loss of his Philadelphia business.
The Lost Key by Catherine Coulter
Investigating the Wall Street stabbing of a rare-book dealer who had been secretly looking for a missing WWI U-boat full of treasure, Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, frantically try to track down the victim’s missing children.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
A well-respected writer is implicated in the cold case murder of a young teenage girl who disappeared in 1975, motivating the young novelist he is mentoring to begin his own investigation.
The Hexed by Heather Graham
When a ghost leads Devin Lyle to a body in the woods where years earlier FBI paranormal investigator Craig Rockwell found his friend dead, they find themselves drawn deeper into the case and Salem’s history.
Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes
A latest Richard Jury tale is partially inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and follows the inimitable Scotland Yard Superintendent’s investigation into a cold-case involving a vertigo sufferer’s fatal accident after a young girl’s death in the same house.
The Mistress Memoirs by Jillian Hunter
Hired by courtesan Georgette Lawson to not only care for her children, but to help write her shocking memoirs, governess Kate Walcott soon becomes involved in a dangerously seductive scandal all her own.
The Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen
A woman with the ability to read people’s memories who has spent her life in the Witness Protection Program is forced to flee for her life when her cover is exposed.
Sight Unseen by Iris and Roy Johansen
When her carefully honed sensory skills determine that a deadly accident on San Diego’s historic Cabrillo Bridge is actually a murder scene, Kendra Michaels discovers a gruesome pattern of killings that mirror her most notorious cases.
The Golem of Hollywood by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman
Waking up beside a beautiful woman he has no memory of meeting, Detective Jacob Lev investigates a Hollywood Division murder case involving a severed head, an ominous message in Hebrew, and the legend of the Golem of Prague.
One of Us by Tawni O’Dell
Haunted by the death of his younger sister, forensic psychologist Sheridan Doyle returns to his hometown and discovers a body at an infamous gallows site before teaming up with a mentor detective who helps him unravel disturbing family secrets.
Paris Match by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington returns to Paris only to be embroiled in high-stakes trouble involving an old enemy with a vengeful associate and a scandal that threatens to disrupt a vital project in the United States.
NONFICTION
A Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans
An award-winning writer and photographer tells the extraordinary story of a lone black wolf who, showing up on his doorstep, returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, giving humans a rare chance to understand it a little more.
Big Tiny: A Built-It Myself Memoir by Dee Williams
The sustainability advocate author of Go House Go describes the heart condition and hectic lifestyle that compelled her to scale back and simplify while spending more time with family and friends in her self-built, 84-square-foot home.
Published on October 20, 2014.
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