April 2019 LARGE PRINT NEWS FROM OUR EDITORS

What’s Inside: In the Spotlight! Instant Classics 2 OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM: Editors’ Picks 3 – 4 Declutter & Organize Young Adult Seletions 5 to Make More Room for LibraryReads 6 – 8 Happiness by Gretchen Rubin (9781432863739) Has spring cleaning Indie Next Picks 9 – 11 or the Kondo-craze made you New Christian Fiction 12 – 14 want to conquer your own clutter? Read-Alikes 15 – 16 #1 New York Times bestselling Bestsellers 17 – 18 author Gretchen Rubin has written another easy-to-read but hard-to-put-down book, with more than 150 short, concrete clutter-clearing ideas. With both a sense of humor and a clear idea of what’s realistic for most people, here are dozens of manageable steps for creating a more serene, orderly environment. “Why this instead of what’s become the iconic decluttering tome [Kondo]? There’s no guilt attached,” said the starred Booklist review. Library Journal said, “Rubin’s many fans will flock to To order or for more information about the this title, as will anyone seeking a quick and easy fix to titles featured visit us at gale.com/thorndike the persistent problem of clutter.” or call: 1.800.223.1244, Ext 4. (Lifestyles — 4/17/2019) © 2019. Gale, Cengage Learning, and Thorndike Press are registered trademarks used herein under license. Actual large print covers may be different from those appearing in newsletter. Prices and release dates may change according to original publisher’s schedule and are subject to change without notice. Instant Classics Available in Large Print

THE FALL OF MILKMAN GONDOLIN by Anna Burns by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited (9781432863296) by Christopher Tolkien Winner of the 2018 Man with illustrations Booker Prize. In an unnamed by Alan Lee city, middle sister stands (9781432863265) out for the wrong reasons. In the words of #1 New York She reads while walking, Times bestselling author for one. And she has been J. R. R. Tolkien, this was ‘the first real story taking French night classes downtown. So of this imaginary world’ and, he regarded when a local paramilitary named Milkman it as one of the three ‘Great Tales’ of the begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes Elder Days. The city of Gondolin, beautiful “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted. but undiscoverable, was built and peopled Milkman is a story of the way inaction can by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in have enormous repercussions, in a time Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon even a sunset can be subversive. Told with King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor. his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to “There is a touch of James Joyce’s Stephen discover the marvellously hidden city, while Dedalus in the narrator’s cerebral reticence the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely . . . the narrator of this claustrophobic refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo’s but strangely buoyant tale undergoes an desires and designs.“[This] gives readers a unsentimental education in sexual politics. final glimpse at the author’s brilliance . . This is an unforgettable novel,” said the . This work is a fitting end to Christopher starred, Publishers Weekly review. Tolkien’s labors as the steward of his (Basic 6 — 4/3/2019) father’s beloved works, and is likely to be cherished by Tolkien’s many fans,” said the starred review from Publishers Weekly. Our large print edition includes full color illustrations. (Wheeler Hardcover — 4/3/2019)

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THE EDITOR LESSONS FROM LUCY: by Steven Rowley The Simple Joys of an Old, (9781432863272) Happy Dog by Dave Barry From the bestselling author (9781432856328) of Lily and the Octopus Pulitzer Prize-winning and comes a new Indie Next Pick New York Times bestselling about a struggling writer author and humorist Dave who gets his big break, with Barry returns with essays a little help from the most about midlife obstacles famous woman in America. After years of and the lessons he’s learned from his best trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New dog, Lucy, about how to live his best life. York City, James Smale finally sells his novel From “Make New Friends” (an unfortunate to an editor at a major publishing house: fail when he can’t overcome his dislike none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. for mankind) to “Don’t Stop Having Fun” Jackie — or Mrs. Onassis, as she’s known in (validating his longtime membership in a the office — has fallen in love with James’s parade marching unit), Lucy teaches Dave candidly autobiographical novel. But when how to live in the present and how to let go the book’s forthcoming publication threatens of daily grievances. “Barry turns (somewhat) to unravel already fragile relationships, Jackie serious . . . [his] easy, conversational tone and James develop an unexpected friendship. and sense of humor make for an effortless She pushes him to write an authentic ending, reading experience for dog lovers and Barry encouraging him to head home to confront the fans alike,” said Publishers Weekly. truth about his relationship with his mother. In (Core 5 — 4/3/2019) a starred review Publishers Weekly called this MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, “a winning dissection of family, forgiveness, and a Mother’s Will to Survive and fame.” (Core — 4/3/2019) by Stephanie Land (9781432858926) New York Times bestseller. At 28, Stephanie Land’s plans of breaking free from the roots of her Pacific Northwest hometown to attend university and become a writer were cut short. When a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy, she turned to housekeeping to make ends meet. Reminiscent of the works of Barbara Ehrenreich and Matthew Desmond, Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America. (see next page) 3 Editors’ Picks (continued)

The starred review from Kirkus Reviews ALL THE LIVES said, “For readers who believe individuals WE NEVER LIVED living below the poverty line are lazy and/ by Anuradha Roy or intellectually challenged, this memoir is a (9781432863173) stark, necessary corrective . . . An important The Man Booker memoir that should be required reading Prize nominated Roy offers for anyone who has never struggled with us a poignant and sweeping poverty.” novel set in India during (Biography and Memoir — 4/3/2019) World War II and the present-day, about a son’s quest to uncover THE ADULTS the truth about his mother. This novel is a by Caroline Hulse spellbinding and emotionally powerful saga (9781432862145) about family, identity, and love. Library In this LibraryReads and Journal called it “epic.” A starred review IndieNext selected novel, from Publishers Weekly said, “A lush and a separated couple and lyrical fusion of history and storytelling their new significant others . . . This mesmerizing exploration of the decide to give their young darker consequences of freedom, love, and daughter an epic Christmas loyalty is an astonishing display of Roy’s vacation. What could possibly go wrong? This literary prowess.” Highly recommended for razor-sharp novel puts a darkly comic twist on diversity collections and fans of mother/son seasonal favorites like Love Actually and The relationship fiction. Holiday and was named one of the Best Books (Relationship Reads — 4/17/2019) of the Year by Real Simple. They grit their teeth over Forced Fun Activities, drink a little too much after Scarlett’s bedtime, overshare classified secrets about their pasts . . . and before you know it, there’s a tearful, frightened call to the police. “. . . snappy writing style and changing viewpoints make the pages fly by,” said the starred Library Journal review, and Publishers Weekly said “realistic, flawed characters placed in an increasingly tense situation, resulting in a surprising, suspenseful novel,” in their starred review. (Bill’s Bookshelf — 4/3/2019)

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We’ve listened to the feedback from our public CHILDREN OF librarians . . . The Literacy Bridge standing BLOOD AND BONE order is now named Young Adult. This plan by Tomi Adeyemi will offer two young adult title options each (9781432864095) month. This #1 New York Times bestseller and Indie Next Middle Reader titles will be offered in a Pick with multi-starred separate plan, with fourteen titles released in reviews has been optioned each of May and October of 2019. Ask your for film and is perfect for Thorndike Sales Consultant about the details fans of Black Panther. The first title in the and discounts. Legacy of Orïsha trilogy features 17-year- old Zélie who has a chance to bring magic back to the land of Orïsha. Horn Book SHOUT: A Poetry Memoir said, “References to Nigerian culture and by Laurie Halse Anderson geography give this fantasy a distinct flavor.” (9781432861773) “Adeyemi keeps it fresh with an all-black This New York Times cast of characters, a meaningful emphasis bestseller quickly stacked on fighting for justice, a complex heroine up eight starred reviews. saving her own people, and a brand of Anderson looks at how little magic made more powerful by the strength has changed in our culture of heritage and ancestry,” said the starred for victims of sexual assault Booklist review. (Young Adult 2 — 4/3/2019) since she published SPEAK 20 years ago. It’s a love letter to all the people with the courage Thorndike Press has licensed all three titles to say #MeToo and #TimesUp. The starred in the Orïsha Legacy trilogy — Adeyemi’s Kirkus review said this book is “necessary second title, Children of Virtue and Vengeance for every home, school and public library.” will be available in large print in December “In this powerful memoir told in free verse, of 2019. Anderson delves into her past . . . Anderson turns on its head the common refrain ‘follow your dreams,’ . . . Her potent words and willingness to shout her message are proof of the soundness of that advice.” starred, Publishers Weekly review. (Young Adult — 4/3/2019)

5 April LibraryReads Picks

THE GIRL HE USED newborn twins Morgan and Riley, she’s never TO KNOW been more tired in her life. But she knows by Tracey Garvis Graves what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, (9781432861797) a woman tried to take her babies and replace New York Times bestselling them with her own . . . creatures. Yet when author Graves presents the police arrived, they saw no one. With a compelling, romantic two starred reviews and soon-to-be a motion novel for fans of Me Before picture, this novel “will strike true fear into You, The Light We Lost, or the heart of any parent,” said the Kirkus Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Annika starred review, while “explor[ing] the fierce Rose is anxious in social situations. She and desperate love we have for our children, prefers the order and discipline of books and written with beautiful intensity . . . A gorgeous, chess. When Jonathan Hoffman joins her chess creepy, modern fairy tale reminiscent of club, he loses his first game — and his heart Angela Carter.” — to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and (Wheeler Hardcover — 9/4/2019) beautiful, Annika. He admires her ability to be true to herself, quirks and all, and accepts the MIRACLE CREEK challenges involved in pursuing a relationship by Angie Kim with her. A decade after an unforeseen tragedy (9781432867034) ends their tumultuous, yet tender, love affair, This thrilling debut for the pair is reunited and the attraction and fans of Liane Moriarty and strong feelings they once shared are instantly Celeste Ng examines how rekindled. Can they confront the fears and far we’ll go to protect our anxieties that drove them apart, or will their families — and our deepest second chance end before it truly begins? secrets. In rural Virginia, Kirkus Reviews called this “A heartwarming, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental neurodiverse love story.” (Core — 4/3/2019) medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine — a pressurized oxygen LITTLE DARLINGS chamber patients enter in hopes of curing by Melanie Golding (9781432869045) issues from autism to infertility. But when “Mother knows best” takes on a sinister new the chamber explodes, killing two people, meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos’ fans of Neil Gaiman, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, small community, uncovering unimaginable and Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother. secrets from that night. Trysts in the woods, Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, mysterious notes, and child-abuse charges all that she needs rest. And they’re right; with betray tense rivalries and alliances among

6 April LibraryReads Picks (continued) a group of people driven to extraordinary SAVE ME THE PLUMS: degrees of desperation and sacrifice. In their My Gourmet Memoir starred review, Kirkus Reviews wrote, “With by Ruth Reichl so many complications and loose ends, (9781432867386) one of the miracles of the novel is that the When Condé Nast offered author ties it all together and arrives at trailblazing food writer Ruth a deeply satisfying — though not easy or Reichl the top position at sentimental — ending.” America’s oldest epicurean (Core 8 — 8/7/2019) magazine, she initially declined. And yet, Gourmet had inspired her THE MOTHER-IN-LAW career. How could she say no? This is the story by Sally Hepworth of a how a former Berkeley hippie entered the (9781432858919) corporate world and worried about losing her From the moment Lucy met soul. Readers will meet legendary chefs like her husband’s mother, Diana, David Chang and Eric Ripert, idiosyncratic she was kept at arm’s length. writers like David Foster Wallace, and a Diana was exquisitely polite, colorful group of editors and art directors who, but Lucy knew she was not under Reichl’s leadership, transformed stately what Diana envisioned. She Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. wanted so much to please her new mother-in- Complete with recipes, this is a personal law. When Diana is found dead, a suicide note journey of a woman coming to terms with near her body stating she no longer wanted being in charge, making a mark, following to live because of a battle with cancer, the a passion, and holding on to her dreams— autopsy finds no cancer. The autopsy does find even when she ends up in a place she never traces of poison and evidence of suffocation. expected to be. In a starred review, Publishers Who could possibly want Diana dead? And Weekly called it, “Endearing . . . a deeply why was her will changed at the eleventh hour personal look at a food world on the brink to disinherit both of her adult children and of change.” their spouses? With the depth of Lucy’s secrets (Biography and Memoir — 8/7/2019) and the complexity of her relationship with her mother-in-law growing clearer as the pages turn, this twisty, compelling novel from Sally Hepworth is sure to add to her growing legion of fans. In a starred review, Booklist called this “A masterful depiction of how much is said in the silences.” (Women’s Fiction — 4/23/2019)

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SOUTHERN LADY WOMEN TALKING CODE: Essays by Miriam Toews by Helen Ellis (9781432865771) (9781432864262) Based on real events and one “If you don’t have something of the most anticipated books nice to say, say something of 2019, this is the story of not-so-nice in a nice way.” eight women in a remote That’s the mantra of Helen Mennonite colony who face Ellis, who offers a fiercely an agonizing decision. For funny collection of 23 raucous essays on the past two years, each of these women, and marriage, manners, and the art of living over a hundred other women and girls in their as a Southern Lady. The New York Times colony, has been violently and repeatedly bestselling author of American Housewife violated in the night. Told it was demons shares how she inadvertently stole a $795 coming to punish them for their sins, they’ve Burberry trench coat, witnessed a man fake now learned they were, in fact, drugged and his own death at a party, and avoided a neck attacked by a group of men from their own lift. She may have left her home in Alabama, community. Determined to protect themselves married a New Yorker, and abandoned the and their daughters from future harm, they puffy headbands of her youth, but Ellis have very little time to choose whether they is clinging to her Southern accent like should stay in the only world they’ve ever mayonnaise to white bread, offering readers a known or whether they dare to escape. In a hilarious view of womanhood for both sides starred review, Kirkus Reviews called Women of the Mason-Dixon line. In a starred review, Talking “Stunningly original and altogether Library Journal said, “By turns lighthearted arresting,” and Margaret Atwood tweeted, and heart-wrenching . . . Reminiscent “Don’t miss this one! [It] could be right out of each character from the TV sitcom of The Handmaid’s Tale.” Designing Women, Ellis’s wonderfully (Basic 8 — 6/5/2019) amusing writing is hard to put down.” (Nonfiction — 5/22/2019)

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WOMEN TALKING LIGHTS ALL by Miriam Toews (9781432865771) This NIGHT LONG is also a LibraryReads Pick for April. See by Lydia Fitzpatrick newsletter page 8 for details. (9781432866648) (Basic 8 — 6/5/2019) In this ABA Indies Introduce pick, 15-year-old Ilya LOT: Stories by Bryan Washington arrives as an exchange (9781432867836) In the city of Houston, the student in Louisiana from son of a black mother and a Latino father his native Russia for what works at his family’s restaurant, weathering should be the adventure of his life. But all his brother’s blows, resenting his older sister’s is not right in Ilya’s world: he’s consumed absence, and discovering he likes boys. by the fate of his older brother Vladimir, a Around him, others live, thrive, and die: a magnetic rebel who disappeared into their young woman whose affair detonates across an town’s seedy underworld and found himself apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a in prison, charged with the murders of three group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a young women. With the help of Sadie, the local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen beautiful and enigmatic daughter of his host under his wing, and a reluctant chupacabra. parents, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Washington’s brilliant, viscerally drawn world his brother’s innocence. Piecing together vibrates with energy, wit, and the infinite the timeline of the murders and Vladimir’s longing of people searching for home. With descent into addiction, Ilya discovers the soulful insight into what makes a community, radical lengths to which his brother has gone a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and to protect him — a truth he could only have love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms. learned by leaving him behind. In a starred In a starred review, Publishers Weekly wrote, review, Booklist called it, “[an] intriguing “Washington is a dynamic writer with a debut with elegant prose, affecting images, sharp eye for character, voice, and setting. and rich settings.” This is a remarkable collection from a (Basic 6 — 7/3/2019) writer to watch.” (African-American — 8/21/2019)

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THE GIRL HE USED TO KNOW THE EDITOR by Steven Rowley by Tracey Garvis Graves (9781432861797) (9781432863272) This is also an Editors’ Pick This is also a LibraryReads Pick for April. See for April. See newsletter page 3 for details. newsletter page 6 for details. (Core — 4/3/2019) (Core — 4/3/2019)

QUEENIE THE HONEY BUS: by Candice Carty-Williams A Memoir of Loss, (9781432862350) Courage and a Girl Saved Queenie Jenkins is a by Bees by Meredith May 25-year-old Jamaican British (9781432866785) woman living in London, Pulitzer-nominated journalist straddling two cultures Meredith May recalls the first and fitting neatly into time a honeybee crawled on neither. Constantly forced her arm. She was five years to compare herself to her white middle class old, her parents had recently split, her mother peers at the national newspaper where she had receded into a volatile cycle of madness works, and on the heels of a messy break-up and despair, and she found herself in the care from her long-term boyfriend — also white of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who — Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong made honey in a rusty old military bus on the places. As she careens from one questionable coast of Big Sur. That first close encounter with decision to another, she struggles to answer a bee was at once terrifying and exhilarating, the many questions today’s women face in and in that moment May discovered that a world trying to answer them for her. This everything she needed to know about life and disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly family was right before her eyes, in the secret inclusive novel will speak to anyone who has world of bees. In a narrative that echoes The gone looking for love and found something Glass Castle and H Is for Hawk, she describes very different in its place. This debut, which how she learned to take care of herself, forged is sure to appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes, has an unbreakable bond with her grandfather, been called “Bridget Jones’s Diary meets and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom Americanah.” In a starred review, Publishers of nature. Booklist called this “[A] sharply Weekly wrote, “This is an essential depiction visceral memoir,” and Publishers Weekly of life as a black woman in the modern said it was “Powerful . . . Moving and world . . . dynamic and memorable.” thoughtful.” (African-American — 3/20/2019) (Biography and Memoir — 7/3/2019)

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SAVE ME THE PLUMS: MY LOVELY WIFE My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl by Samantha Downing (9781432867386) This is also a LibraryReads (9781432858858) Pick for April. See newsletter page 7 for This wildly compulsive details. (Biography and Memoir — 8/7/2019) debut thriller has been described as Dexter meets TRUST EXERCISE Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The by Susan Choi unnamed narrator and his (9781432867058) wife of 15 years, Millicent, Pulitzer finalist Susan Choi’s look like a normal couple; they’re your narrative-upending novel neighbors, the parents of your kid’s friend, the follows David and Sarah, acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner two freshmen at a highly with. And they’re getting away with murder. competitive performing Plenty of people have secrets for spicing up arts high school in the their marriage. This suburban couple’s secret 1980s. Thriving in a rarefied bubble, they just happens to be serial kidnapping and ambitiously devote themselves to their studies killing. Publishers Weekly said, “first-person, — and, particularly, to classes taught by their present-tense narration makes readers feel magnetic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley — uncomfortably complicit . . . underscoring until a sudden and startling spiral of events the plot’s grim and twisted nature. Readers changes everything. The plot tightens, until, will eagerly await Downing’s next thriller.” with a stunning coda, a final piece of the (Basic 5 — 3/26/2019) puzzle falls into place, ensuring the novel will shock and resonate long after the final sentence. As captivating and tender as it is brilliantly surprising, Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, friendships and loyalties. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly wrote, “Fiercely intelligent, impeccably written, and observed with searing insight, this novel is destined to be a classic.” (Core 7 — 8/7/2019)

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The following titles were featured in THE FORGIVING JAR Publishers Weekly’s Spring Religion & by Wanda E. Brunstetter Spirituality Feature Issue. (9781432860813) In book two of New York Times bestselling THE UNEXPECTED author Brunstetter’s The CHAMPION Prayer Jars series, Sara by Mary Connealy Murray is surprised to learn (9781432861735) after her mother’s death that In the next zany, her grandparents are Amish. When she makes action-packed installment the trip to Lancaster County to meet them, of Connealy’s High Sierra she is shocked to learn someone else has been Sweethearts series, city living with them, pretending to be her. Sara dweller John McCall finds can’t understand how quickly her grandparents himself in the High Sierras on a wild-goose are willing to forgive the impostor. Secrets chase to find a missing person. Once there, and deceit seem to follow her, and she is so things get even more complicated, mostly tired of it. Soon she meets Brad Fuller, who due to wildcat Penny Scott. She’s not like any is visiting her grandparents for Christmas. woman he’s ever met; she’s comfortable in the She likes him a lot, but even he seems not to woods, riding a horse, and using a gun. When be totally honest. Struggling, Sara finds an Penny and John are taken against their will by old canning jar hidden in the barn that is full a shadowy figure looking for evidence they of encouraging prayers. Can Sara find a way don’t have, both realize they’ve stumbled into to forgive the past and move toward building something dangerous and complicated. With new relationships? their friends and family desperately searching (Christian Fiction — 2/6/2019) for them, Penny and John must make a daring escape from a kidnapper who just won’t stop and bring a powerful, ruthless man to justice. (Christian Romance — 3/6/2019)

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WHEN YOU THE WHITE CITY: ARE NEAR Historical Stories of by Tracie Peterson American Crime (9781432862435) by Grace Hitchcock In the first installment of (9781432864743) CBA bestselling author Step into the world of True Peterson’s new Brookstone Colors, a new series of Brides series, heroine six books for fans of real Lizzy Brookstone is the history that is stranger than star trick rider of the all-female Brookstone fiction. While attending the Chicago World’s Wild West Extravaganza. After her father’s Fair in 1893, Winnifred Wylde believes she death, Lizzy takes over management of the witnessed a woman being kidnapped. She traveling show and finds herself torn between tries to convince her father, an inspector with Wesley DeShazer, the ranch foreman who the Chicago police, to investigate reports of once broke her heart, and her financial partner, mysterious disappearances around the White Jason Adler. When Lizzie finds Ella Fleming City. Inspector Wylde tries to dismiss his fleeing a forced engagement, she gives her daughter’s claims as the exaggerations of an a job as a costumer, unaware Ella has a overactive imagination, but he eventually dangerous secret that could affect the future concedes to letting her go undercover as of the Extravaganza. Things get even more secretary to the man in question — if she takes complicated when Mary Reichert, a former her pistol for protection and Jude Thorpe, a sharpshooter for the show, returns to find the policeman, for a bodyguard. Will Winnifred be truth about who killed her brother, August. able to expose H. H. Holmes’s illicit activity, or As Lizzy, Mary, and Ella work together to will she become his next victim? discover how August died, Lizzy strives to (Christian Historical Fiction 3 — 5/22/2019) hold the show together, and all three seek freedom in a world run by men. (Christian Romance — 4/3/2019)

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CROSS MY HEART upset her parents. But the day she turns 22, by Robin Lee Hatcher (9781432864910) a locket bears a surprise that sends her on an Two broken paths lead toward redemption in unexpected journey. Searching for answers, the next installment of Carol and Rita Award- Emma travels to the English world and finds winning author Hatcher’s Legacy of Faith a kinship as intriguing as it is forbidden. But series. Ashley Showalter, who runs a horse is this newfound connection enough to leave rescue operation, and Ben Henning, who has behind the future she’d expected? The answers started an equine therapy barn, have so much are as mysterious, and as devastating, as the in common. But as a strong bond develops truth that divides Emma from the only family, between them, they realize they also share and the only life, she’s ever known. something that may drive them apart. Ben is a (Christian Fiction 4 — 8/7/2019) recovering alcoholic, ten years sober. Ashley’s brother, Dylan, is an opioid addict in court- Other must-have Christian Fiction ordered rehab. Ashley promised herself she or Clean Reads titles: would never walk knowingly into the chaos THE ALAMO BRIDE created by addiction. In her mind, addicts can by Kathleen Y’Barbo (9781432862510) never be fully cured. But with God, all things (Christian Romance 3 — 4/3/2019) are possible. Will Ashley find it within herself to give love a chance? Christy Award-winning CONVERGENCE by Ginny L. Yttrup author Beth K. Vogt praised the novel, (9781432863449) (Clean Reads — 7/17/2019) saying, “Hatcher writes with realism and compassion about how hope and healing THE HEART OF A KING: can grow from our deepest wounds.” The Loves of Solomon by Jill Eileen Smith (Christian Fiction — 7/3/2019) (9781432864859) (Christian Historical Fiction 3 — 6/19/2019) A DAUGHTER’S TRUTH by Laura Bradford (9781432867621) A HERO FOR MISS HATHERLEIGH Emma tries to be the perfect daughter to by Carolyn Miller (9781432869021) her parents in their Pennsylvania Amish (Clean Reads — 9/18/2019) community, but she can’t quite win her mother’s affection. Emma knows she’s a A SILKEN THREAD reminder of her mother’s greatest sorrow, by Kim Vogel Sawyer (9781432862480) having been born on the same day Mamm lost (Christian Fiction — 4/3/2019) her beloved sister. The one bright spot has been the odd trinkets anonymously left at her TWO WEEKS by Karen Kingsbury aunt’s grave each year on Emma’s birthday (9781432863364) — gifts Emma secretly hides because they (Wheeler Hardcover — 4/3/2019)

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If your readers like Phaedra Patrick and in what remains of New York’s bohemia. A Fredrik Backman: snapshot of the city’s youth as they grapple with privilege and the fading of radical hopes, THE FIFTEEN paints a captivating portrait of a young woman WONDERS in the first flush of freedom. In their starred OF DANIEL GREEN review, Kirkus Reviews wrote, “Coming-of- by Erica Boyce age in Manhattan may not have been done (9781432863647) this brilliantly since Catcher in the Rye . . . A family falling apart at Get ready to fall in love.” the seams is stitched back (Wheeler Hardcover 5 — 4/3/2019) together by a young stranger in the most unconventional If your readers like The Paris Wife: way possible — crop circles. This astonishing debut explores the healing power of THAT CHURCHILL forgiveness, the sometimes unconventional WOMAN definition of family, and the realization that by Stephanie Barron home is not defined by the walls you build, (9781432863302) but by the people you choose to build them Reimagines Winston with. Rich and vulnerable characters deal with Churchill’s scandalous addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder, and mother, Jennie Jerome, a homophobia in what Publishers Weekly called, wealthy, privileged, and “A thoughtful, appealing novel about life’s fiercely independent New endings and beginnings.” Yorker who took Victorian England by storm. (Basic 7 — 4/3/2019) Artistically gifted and politically shrewd, she shapes her husband’s rise in Parliament and For fans of Sheila Heti and Julie Buntin: her young son’s difficult passage through boyhood. “Barron . . . turns her able hand to THE FALCONER by Dana Czapnik biographical fiction in this absorbing volume (9781432863593) This New York Times that captures the life and charm of one of the Editor, Oprah Magazine and Indie Next American heiresses who crossed the Atlantic pick is set in 1993 New York City, where to catch a titled English husband in the late 17-year-old Lucy Adler is a street-smart, trash- nineteenth century . . . Recommended for talking baller. She’s cynical, insecure and fans of Victorian England, Gilded Age New self-possessed. In unrequited love with her York, historical fiction populated with real best friend, she begins to question accepted people, and high society,” said Booklist. notions of success. She is drawn into the world (Relationship Reads — 4/17/2019) of a pair of provocative female artists living

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16 Bestsellers Releasing in April Our New York Times bestsellers and bestselling authors in April are:

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LETTERS FROM PEACEFUL LANE THE BLACK MARKET by Kiki Swinson by Janet Dailey (9781432863623) (9781432863715) African-American Wheeler Hardcover

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THE FALL OF GONDOLIN THE WRONG HIGHLANDER by J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christopher by Lynsay Sands (9781432863777) Romance Tolkien with Illustrations by Alan Lee (9781432863265) Wheeler Hardcover TORTURE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN by William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone THE GIRL HE USED TO KNOW (9781432862138) Western by Tracey Garvis Graves (9781432861797) Core TRIPLE JEOPARDY by Anne Perry (9781432863241) Basic THE LADY TRAVELERS GUIDE TO DECEPTION WITH AN UNLIKELY EARL TWO WEEKS by Karen Kingsbury by Victoria Alexander (9781432863364) Wheeler Hardcover (9781432863784) Romance UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN by Donna Leon THE LAST ACT by Brad Parks (9781432862060) Mystery (9781432862947) Mystery WILD JUSTICE by Loren D. Estleman THE MEMORY HOUSE by Rachel Hauck (9781432863319) Western (9781432862459) Christian Fiction YOU WERE ALWAYS MINE by Nicole Baart THE PATIENT ONE by Shelley Shepard Gray (9781432863722) Women’s Fiction (9781432862909) Christian Fiction

THE TINDERBOX by Beverly Lewis (9781432862497) Christian Fiction

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