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ii In Brief NLS celebrates its workshops, email heiskelltech+subscribe@ 90th anniversary googlegroups.com to join the Tech and Culture mailing list. The library has also March 3, 2021, marked the 90th anniver- launched a new podcast called Talkin’ sary of the National Library Service for Talking Books. Each episode will feature the Blind and Print Disabled. NLS will be library staff, volunteers, and patrons celebrating throughout 2021 by sharing engaging in lively and light-hearted con- historical tidbits, interviews, and congrat- versation about books available through ulations from the Library of Congress and NLS. The first episode can be accessed at others. To follow along as we commemorate http://bit.ly/39AlP4a. 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If you wish to receive a copy interactive Zoom workshops on assistive of your tax notice in braille or large print, technology, braille, and books. To receive please call the tax assistance telephone invitations and reminders about upcoming number at 800-829-1040. iii In Brief Monthly accessibility Tactile Images announces webinars available from new partnership with Getty Freedom Scientific and NFB Patrons who use JAWS, Fusion, or Tactile Images, Getty Images, and the ZoomText may find the free webinars National Federation of the Blind have offered by creator Freedom Scientific joined forces to make millions of culturally useful. Webinars are generally held on the important images available in accessible third Thursday of the month at 12 noon formats to museums and other educational Eastern Time and can be accessed at institutions around the world. Several www.freedomscientific.com/training traveling exhibits have already been /freewebinars. 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iv Books for Adults All books listed in this issue of Talking Adult Fiction Book Topics (TBT) have been distributed to cooperating libraries, though TBT does not Adventure include every book that has been produced The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by NLS. The complete collection, con- DB98810 11 hours 53 minutes taining a wide range of fiction and nonfic- by Josie Silver tion books, including biographies, classics, read by Olivia Vinall westerns, mysteries, and romances, can be Lydia loses her lover of more than a found by visiting www.loc.gov/nls. decade when Freddie dies in a car acci- Registered users may also download all dent. Deeply grieving, it takes her time titles and magazines from the NLS Braille to move on. Meanwhile, in her dreams, and Audio Reading Download (BARD) she has another chance at her old life service at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. The free with Freddie. Unrated. Commercial BARD Mobile app is available from the audiobook. 2020. App Store, Google Play, and Amazon’s Family Appstore for reading talking books on your The Unlikely Adventures of the personal smart phone or tablet. To learn Shergill Sisters more about the collection or to sign up DB99032 13 hours 13 minutes for BARD, contact your local cooperating by Balli Kaur Jaswal library. Regional library telephone numbers read by various narrators and email addresses are listed on the last The Shergill sisters—buttoned-up prin- pages of this magazine. cipal Rajni, struggling actress Jezmeen, Books within the headings Adult Fiction and duty-bound Shirina—travel to India and Adult Nonfiction are listed alphabeti- to honor their mother’s deathbed wishes. cally by subject category, author last name, Each faces a momentous decision, and and title. For example the title War and they take the time to reflect on their next Peace by Leo Tolstoy would be listed in steps. Family secrets are also revealed. Adult Fiction under the Classics subject Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. category and by the last name Tolstoy. Little Gods Note: A notice may appear immediately DB98696 9 hours 5 minutes following the book description to indicate by Meng Jin occurrences of violence, strong language, read by various narrators or descriptions of sex. The word “some” Su Lan gives birth to her daughter before any of these terms indicates an occa- Liya the night of the suppression of sional or infrequent occurrence, as in “some the Tiananmen Square protests. A bril- strong language.” Commercial audiobooks liant physicist, Su Lan’s mind begins to for which NLS does not have access to the unravel. Seventeen years later, she dies print book may display the notice “unrated,” unexpectedly. Liya—who has grown up which means that the book may or may in America—must return Su Lan’s ashes not contain violence, strong language, or to China. Unrated. Commercial audio- descriptions of sex. book. 2020. 1 Adult Fiction Family, Fantasy Searching for Sylvie Lee cop and magical practitioner DB95575 11 hours 43 minutes Peter Grant has left the Metropolitan by Jean Kwok Police, taking a security job with a tech read by various narrators startup founded by Silicon Valley guru Sylvie Lee was raised abroad by her Terrence Skinner. His boss wants Peter’s grandmother because her Chinese immi- help catching a rat at the company, but grant parents were too poor to keep her. magical problems still follow Peter. When she disappears on a trip to the Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Netherlands to visit her dying grand- Smoke Bitten mother, her younger sister Amy retraces DB98862 10 hours 12 minutes her movements to find answers. Unrated. by Patricia Briggs Commercial audiobook. 2019. read by Lorelei King The Two-Family House Centuries ago, the fae dwelt in DB97949 8 hours 56 minutes Underhill, until the doors were locked by Lynda Cohen Loigman against them. The prisoners of the read by Barrie Kreinik fae were left behind, but now one has 1947. Neighbors and sisters by mar- escaped. It can look like anyone, its riage, Rose and Helen, each give birth to bite puts you in its control, and it is children within minutes of each other at now in coyote-shifter Mercy Thompson home in the middle of a blizzard. While Hauptman’s territory. Unrated. life seems to return to normal, cracks Commercial audiobook. 2020. permeate their deeply forged bond, and it Conceal, Don’t Feel: A Twisted Tale begins to unravel. Unrated. Commercial DB98850 6 hours 49 minutes audiobook. 2016. by Jen Calonita The Revisioners read by Rachel Matthews DB99031 8 hours 25 minutes When Elsa begins to remember frag- by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ments of her childhood, she sets out from read by various narrators Arendelle to find Anna, the sister she has To provide a better school for her son, forgotten. Commercial audiobook. For Ava moves in with her white grand- junior and senior high readers. 2019. mother, Martha. Martha’s behavior Competence grows erratic. Ava’s ancestor, Josephine, DB98653 11 hours 54 minutes faces her own challenges in 1924 as a by Gail Carriger black woman who owns her farm. Their read by Moira Quirk stories begin to converge. Unrated. Alone in Singapore, Miss Primrose Commercial audiobook. 2019. Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship. When she uncovers rumors of Fantasy a new kind of vampire, Prim and the False Value crew of the Spotted Custard embark on DB98902 11 hours 7 minutes a mission to Peru. Unrated. Commercial by Ben Aaronovitch audiobook. 2018. read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith 2 Adult Fiction—Fantasy American Hippo: River of Teeth, Taste of As a case worker at the Department Marrow, and New Stories in Charge Of Magical Youth, DB99049 8 hours 9 minutes Linus Baker spends his days over- by Sarah Gailey seeing the well-being of children in read by Stephen Van Doren government-sanctioned orphanages. The novellas River of Teeth and Taste of He is unexpectedly given a highly clas- Marrow, in which hippos rule the swamp sified assignment: travel to a remote of the former Mississippi River. Originally island orphanage where six dangerous introduced as an alternative meat source, children reside. Unrated. Commercial the feral hippos rule the vast bayou by audiobook. 2020. the 1890s. Winslow Houndstooth gathers The Dragon Republic: The Poppy War, a motley crew to win back that land. Book 2 Violence and strong language. 2018. DB97920 23 hours 48 minutes The Scribbly Man by R.F. Kuang DB98771 3 hours 53 minutes read by Emily Woo Zeller by Terry Goodkind Rin is an addict on the run from the com- read by John Skelley mands of the fiery Phoenix god, who After centuries of bitter feuds and blessed Rin with her power. Though she bloodshed, First Wizard Richard and doesn’t want to live, she refuses to die Mother Confessor Kahlan have engi- until she gets revenge on the Empress neered a fair, peaceful kingdom. But who betrayed Rin’s to its they receive a threat that will destroy enemies. Sequel to The Poppy War everything they have fought for. First of (DB92191). Unrated. Commercial audio- a series of novellas that follow the Sword book. 2019. of Truth series. Unrated. Commercial Sevenwaters, Books 4–6 audiobook. 2019. DB96721 50 hours 41 minutes The City We Became by Juliet Marillier DB98901 16 hours 14 minutes read by various narrators by N.K. Jemisin Three fantasy novels set in ancient read by Robin Miles Ireland, written 2008–2012. In Heir to Every great city has a soul. New York Sevenwaters, Clodagh’s baby brother is City? She’s got six, all newly awakened stolen from Sevenwaters, and she must to their power. But every city also has a travel to the Otherworld to save him. dark side. An ancient evil stirs, threat- Also includes Seer of Sevenwaters and ening to destroy New York and her six Flame of Sevenwaters. Some descrip- newborn avatars unless they can come tions of sex. 2013. together to stop it. Unrated. Commercial Nameless Queen audiobook. 2020. DB98928 9 hours 22 minutes The House in the Cerulean Sea by Rebecca McLaughlin DB98951 12 hours 15 minutes read by Emma Galvin by TJ Klune In the city of Seriden, everyone expected read by Daniel Henning the king’s daughter, Esther, would inherit 3 Adult Fiction Fantasy the throne. Instead, it went to a thief strong language, and descriptions of sex. called Coin. She is a Nameless—no Commercial audiobook. For senior high family, no legal rights, and no standing and older readers. 2017. in society. Some violence. Commercial Blood of Elves audiobook. For senior high and older DB98082 10 hours 57 minutes readers. 2020. by Andrzej Sapkowski The Husband Hunter’s Guide to London read by Peter Kenny DB99102 8 hours 33 minutes Geralt of Rivia, the assassin known by Kate Moore as The Witcher, has been waiting for read by Faith Potts the birth of a prophesied child with The daughter of a British intelligence the power to change the world. As agent, Jane Fawkener is confused when war threatens and the child is hunted her father disappears after sending her a for her extraordinary powers, it will copy of The Husband Hunter’s Guide to become Geralt’s responsibility to pro- London. Convinced the book has hidden tect them all. Translated from the 1994 a covert message, she investigates while Polish edition. Unrated. Commercial a government escort follows her every audiobook. 2008. move. Some strong language and some Fortune and Fate descriptions of sex. 2018. DB99095 15 hours 4 minutes Follow Me to Ground by DB98944 4 hours 23 minutes read by Eva Wilhelm by Sue Rainsford Wen, a former elite warrior Rider, is read by various narrators haunted by her failure to protect King Ada and her father live on the edge of Baryn and heartbroken by her lover’s a village where they use their healing marriage to another. After Wen saves powers to help sick locals by cracking Karryn, daughter of one of the rebels, open their damaged bodies or tempo- Karryn’s uncle Jasper rewards Wen with rarily burying them in the reviving, an offer to train a cadre of bodyguards. dangerous Ground nearby. Ada is unin- Some strong language. 2008. terested in those she helps, until she Soot meets Samson. Unrated. Commercial DB98831 22 hours 13 minutes audiobook. 2020. by Dan Vyleta Seeker read by various narrators DB98847 10 hours 22 minutes It is 1909, ten years after Thomas, by Veronica Rossi Charlie, and Livia released Smoke upon read by various narrators the world. Thomas is in India researching After sealing Sebastian in a dark dimen- the origins of Smoke. Meanwhile sion with the demon Samrael, Daryn Eleanor Renfrew, niece of the cruel loses her visions and must lead the riders Lord Protector of , hides from into a shadowy realm to rescue him. her uncle in Canada. Sequel to Smoke Sequel to Riders (DB83752). Violence, (DB84506). Unrated. Commercial audio- book. 2020. 4 Adult Fiction—Fantasy, General Flamebringer: A Heartstone Novel Everywhere You Don’t Belong DB98769 10 hours 43 minutes DB98891 7 hours 17 minutes by Elle Katharine White by Gabriel Bump read by Billie Fulford-Brown read by Korey Jackson Tristan Wydrick, sworn enemy of Claude McKay Love grows up on House Daired, is back from the dead the South Side of Chicago. His Civil and commands forces bent on Arle’s Rights-era grandmother is the primary destruction. Aliza and Alastair Daired, influence on his life as she tries to shape along with their dragon Akarra, are far him into a principled man. After riots from home, trapped in the icy northern consume his neighborhood, he leaves wastes by Wydrick’s treachery. Unrated. Chicago—but he can never shed his Commercial audiobook. 2019. experiences. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. General Small Days and Nights Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line DB98752 8 hours 51 minutes DB98647 9 hours 41 minutes by Tishani Doshi by Deepa Anappara read by Siiri Scott read by various narrators Grace Marisola leaves behind a failing Nine-year-old Jai watches too marriage in the United States when she many reality police shows. When a returns to India to bury her mother. She classmate goes missing, Jai decides discovers family secrets—including to use the crime-solving skills he has an institutionalized older sister. Grace picked up from TV to find him. He brings Lucia to the house she has inher- asks friends Pari and Faiz to be his ited and works to build a new life. assistants, while other children start Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. disappearing from their urban Indian Girl, Woman, Other neighborhood. Unrated. Commercial DB98756 11 hours 9 minutes audiobook. 2020. by Bernardine Evaristo The Regrets read by Anna-Maria Nabirye DB98648 6 hours 48 minutes Twelve characters lead vastly different by Amy Bonnafons lives in modern Britain. From a non- read by various narrators binary social media influencer to a Rachel has been watching the 93-year-old woman living on a farm in same young man sitting at her Northern England, they all intersect in Brooklyn bus stop. Their chemistry shared aspects of their identities, from is undeniable, but there’s just one age to race to sexuality to class. Unrated. problem: he is dead. Thomas can’t Commercial audiobook. Booker Prize. cross over to the afterlife until he 2019. completes a ninety-day stint on earth, A Good Neighborhood while forbidden from getting involved DB98910 10 hours 38 minutes with the living. Unrated. Commercial by Therese Anne Fowler audiobook. 2020. read by Ella Turenne 5 Adult Fiction General In the tight-knit neighborhood of Oak increasingly bizarre placements in search Knoll, North Carolina, African American of steadiness, connection, and something, professor Valerie Alston-Holt lives with at last, to call her own. Some strong lan- her bi-racial son, Xavier. When a local guage. 2020. TV celebrity and build a huge Oona Out of Order house next door, the neighbors clash over DB98703 11 hours 32 minutes damage to a tree on Valerie’s property. by Margarita Montimore Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Brittany Pressley Lost in the Spanish Quarter Nineteen-year-old Oona Lockhart is DB98641 13 hours 41 minutes at a crossroads in her life when she by Heddi Goodrich attends a New Year’s Eve party in 1982. read by Lisa Flanagan At midnight, she faints and awakens Heddi has come to Naples to study, but thirty-two years later. A stranger informs she and her fellow students learn more her that with each passing year she will as they explore the Spanish Quarter of leap to another age at random. Unrated. the city. She meets Pietro and they fall in Commercial audiobook. 2020. love as each tries to discover their place The Love Story of Missy Carmichael in the world. Translated from the original DB99047 9 hours 56 minutes Italian edition. Unrated. Commercial by Beth Morrey audiobook. 2019. read by Harriet Walter Writers & Lovers At seventy-nine, Missy Carmichael is DB98766 8 hours 16 minutes estranged or separated from her family by Lily King and her great love is gone. The last read by Stacey Glemboski thing Missy expects is for two per- Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death fect strangers and one spirited dog to and wrecked by a recent love affair, break through her prickly exterior and Casey Peabody arrives in Massachusetts show Missy just how much love she in the summer of 1997 without a plan, still has to give. Unrated. Commercial but determined to live a creative life. audiobook. 2020. When she falls for two very different The Cactus League men at the same time, her world fractures DB98762 8 hours 56 minutes even more. Unrated. Commercial audio- by Emily Nemens book. Bestseller. 2020. read by Eva Wilhelm Temporary Jason Goodyear, star outfielder for the DB98758 5 hours 6 minutes Los Angeles Lions, is with his team in the by Hilary Leichter hot Arizona desert for their annual spring read by Mare Trevathan training. Handsome, famous, and talented, A young woman works for a temp Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart agency in positions from the menial to at the seams, and everyone around him the absurd. One day she shines shoes, wants to know his secrets. Strong lan- while another she is a pirate. She fills guage and some descriptions of sex. 2020.

6 Adult Fiction—General, Historical Fiction Such a Fun Age Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit DB97929 10 hours 1 minute as a self-employed tech expert and by Kiley Reid superintendent of his Baltimore apart- read by Nicole Lewis ment building. But one day his routines African American babysitter Emira are blown apart when his girlfriend Tucker is accused by a security guard is evicted and a teenager shows up at of having kidnapped the toddler she is Micah’s door claiming to be his son. caring for when she takes the girl to an Some strong language. Commercial upscale market. The incident is caught audiobook. 2020. on film and her white employer is deter- Barn 8 mined to make things right. Unrated. DB98859 7 hours 37 minutes Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. by Deb Olin Unferth Five Windows read by Brittany Pressley DB96809 5 hours 48 minutes Two auditors for the US egg industry go by Jon Roemer rogue and conceive a plot to steal a mil- read by Bill Delaney lion chickens in the middle of the night. A San Francisco publisher spends his Janey and Cleveland assemble a precar- days holed up in his apartment poring ious, quarrelsome team and descend on over manuscripts. He looks out his the farm on a dark spring evening, but window one day to see three houses go catastrophe ensues. Unrated. Commercial up in flames. Afterwards, he finds him- audiobook. 2020. self watching his neighbors with suspi- Sharks in the Time of Saviors cion, only to find them watching him the DB98952 10 hours 41 minutes same way. Some strong language. 2019. by Kawai Strong Washburn In Five Years read by various narrators DB98798 6 hours 46 minutes In 1995, seven-year-old Hawaiian boy by Rebecca Serle Nainoa Flores falls overboard on a read by Megan Hilty ship. He is rescued by sharks, which his Newly engaged Manhattan lawyer family believes marks him as favored Dannie Kohan has a plan for the next by the gods. But as time passes, this five years. But when she goes to sleep supposed divine favor begins to drive she wakes up in a different apartment, the family apart. Unrated. Commercial beside a very different man. It’s the same audiobook. 2020. night, five years in the future. Some strong language and some descriptions of Historical Fiction sex. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. Lost Boy Found 2020. DB98750 8 hours 21 minutes Redhead by the Side of by Kirsten Alexander DB99044 4 hours 53 minutes read by Andi Arndt by 1913. One afternoon, four-year-old read by MacLeod Andrews Sonny goes missing. His wealthy parents search for years. When a young boy is 7 Adult Fiction Historical Fiction found in the company of a tramp, people Tell Them of Battles, Kings & Elephants believe it could be Sonny. But an unwed DB98997 3 hours 6 minutes farm worker, Grace, also lays claim to by Mathias Énard the boy. Unrated. Commercial audio- read by Eva Wilhelm book. 2020. Constantinople, 1506. Famed artist The Silver Music Box Michelangelo Buonarroti has arrived to DB98482 8 hours 6 minutes work for the Sultan after breaking with by Mina Baites Pope Julius II. Michelangelo spends his read by Kristin Allison days exploring the city, as he prepares 1914. Silversmith Johann Blumenthal to build a new bridge over the Golden creates a work of art for his son Paul Horn. Translated from the 2010 French before he leaves to fight in the war. As edition. Some violence. 2018. Paul grows up, he finds his family fre- The Night Watchman quently under attack for their Jewish DB98896 13 hours 35 minutes faith. In 1963, Lilian Morrison learns by about her true past. Translated from the read by Louise Erdrich German edition. Some violence. 2017. 1953. Thomas Wazhashk tries to balance Modern Girls the demands of his night watchman job DB97945 13 hours 23 minutes with his responsibilities as a Chippewa by Jennifer S. Brown Council member. A bill purporting eman- read by Elizabeth Wiley cipation for Native American tribes is 1935. Dottie is doing well for herself, wending its way through Congress and but on the same day she receives a pro- may have complicated consequences. motion she realizes she is pregnant by Violence, strong language, and some a man who is not her beau. Her mother descriptions of sex. Commercial audio- Rose, longing for a fresh start, also real- book. Bestseller. 2020. izes she’s pregnant. They must face their City of Flickering Light choices. Unrated. Commercial audio- DB98853 11 hours 35 minutes book. 2016. by Juliette Fay Hannah’s War read by Lisa Flanagan DB98747 8 hours 0 minutes 1920s. Irene is determined to take by Jan Eliasberg hold of her new life—even if it means read by Orlagh Cassidy jumping from a moving train to escape Berlin, 1938. Physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss the burlesque show she’s in. She’s fol- knows she is on the verge of splitting lowed by friends Millie and Henry. the atom, but as a Jewish woman living They head to the burgeoning town of under the Nazi regime, she finds her Hollywood intent on making new lives. work belittled then stolen. Seven years Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. later, she is in America under suspicion The Search for Joyful of spying. Unrated. Commercial audio- DB98995 9 hours 46 minutes book. 2020. by Benedict Freedman and Nancy Freedman read by Eva Wilhelm 8 Adult Fiction—Historical Fiction Kathy, the adopted Cree daughter Elsa’s only hope for survival. Basis of Mike and Kathy Flannigan from for Jojo Rabbit, winner of 2020 Oscar Mrs. Mike (DB10973), feels the need for Best Adapted Screenplay. Unrated. to be a part of the WWII war effort and Commercial audiobook. 2019. moves to Montreal to attend nursing The Mirror & the Light school. There, she learns more of the DB98825 38 hours 14 minutes world through her relationships with two by Hilary Mantel men. Some descriptions of sex. 2002. read by various narrators The Animals at Lockwood Manor After the events of Bring Up the Bodies DB99112 9 hours 51 minutes (DB74880), royal advisor Thomas by Jane Healey Cromwell breakfasts with those who cel- read by Kristin Allison ebrate the demise of King Henry VIII’s Hetty Cartwright supervises the evacua- recently dead wife, Anne Boleyn. But tion of a natural history collection from rebellion and a capricious king threaten London to Lockwood Manor to escape the religious reform and power Cromwell potential bombing by the Germans. She craves. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. meets the lady of the house, Lucy, and Bestseller. 2019. becomes fascinated by her even as Hetty Deacon King Kong cares for her collection. Violence, strong DB98819 14 hours 8 minutes language, and some explicit descriptions by James McBride of sex. 2020. read by Dominic Hoffman Arroyo 1969. On a cloudy September morning, DB98655 14 hours 39 minutes Deacon Cuffy Lambkin—known as by Chip Jacobs Sportcoat to his friends—walks into the read by Joel Richards plaza of a Brooklyn project and shoots Two timelines—one in 1913 and one in the local drug dealer point blank in the 1993—follow inventor Nick Chance and face. His reasons for this uncharacteristic his clairvoyant dog. In both lifetimes, act of violence slowly unfold. Unrated. their lives are entwined with the history Commercial audiobook. 2020. of Pasadena, California, and its land- The Land beyond the Sea mark Colorado Street Bridge. Unrated. DB98824 31 hours 13 minutes Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. by Sharon Kay Penman Caging Skies read by Anne Flosnik DB98690 10 hours 30 minutes The court of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Christine Leunens is filled with tension as the Crusaders read by Steven Jay Cohen attempt to repel the Muslim army led by Vienna, 1940s. Johannes Betzler is an Saladin. King Amalric takes a new wife, avid member of the Hitler Youth, but but soon dies. His son Baldwin faces his discovers his parents have been hiding own challenges as leprosy slowly kills a Jewish girl named Elsa in their home. him. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. When his parents disappear, he becomes 2020.

9 Adult Fiction Historical Fiction, Human Relationships Sea of Memories 1867. Three women—Hannie who has DB98481 8 hours 37 minutes been freed from enslavement, plan- by Fiona Valpy tation heiress Lavinia, and Lavinia’s read by Mare Trevathan Creole half-sister Juneau Jane—travel Kendra is asked by her Granny Ella to to Texas in search of family and fortune. write Ella’s story. In 1938, Ella travels In 1987, the results of their quest rever- to the Île de Ré, where she meets berate in Augustine, Louisiana, where Christophe. She finds a freedom she has Benedetta teaches in a poor rural school. never known before as they explore the Some violence. Commercial audiobook. island. When war breaks out, she returns Bestseller. 2020. to Scotland, where she meets Angus. The Lost Diary of M 2018. DB99029 7 hours 51 minutes All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel by Paul Wolfe of the Ritz Paris read by Cassandra Campbell DB98631 14 hours 19 minutes Mary Pinchot Meyer records her adven- by Beatriz Williams and others tures and indiscretions as a divorced read by various narrators and others Georgetown socialite in her diary— The upheavals of Europe, and their including her tumultuous affair with effects through the generations, play out President John F. Kennedy. As the against the backdrop of the Ritz hotel in ex-wife of a CIA chief, she knows Paris. In 1914, Aurelie faces conflicting when she is being surveilled. But she is loyalties as she falls for a German determined to record her life. Unrated. officer. In 1942, Daisy counters her Commercial audiobook. 2020. husband, a Nazi collaborator. Unrated. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98697 9 hours 31 minutes The Wicked Redhead: A Wicked City by Michael Zapata Novel read by Coral Peña DB97950 12 hours 9 minutes A young Dominicana, Adana, leaves by Beatriz Williams her homeland for a new start in New read by various narrators Orleans, where she marries a pirate. 1924. Gin Kelly, from The Wicked City They have a son, Maxwell. Adana writes (DB87530), and Oliver Anson have a well-received novel, but falls gravely fled to Cocoa Beach, Florida. But when ill before finishing the sequel which she Anson disappears, it’s up to Gin to and Maxwell destroy. Years later, it reap- use all her wits and wiles to find him. pears. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. In 1998, Ella Gilbert finds out more 2020. about the mysterious woman. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Human Relationships The Book of Lost Friends Amnesty DB98888 15 hours 9 minutes DB98787 8 hours 37 minutes by Lisa Wingate by Aravind Adiga read by various narrators read by Vikas Adam 10 Adult Fiction—Human Relationships Cleaner Dhananjaya, known as Danny and make Cienfuegos the new Jerusalem. to others, fled Sri Lanka to Australia The neighborhood’s residents have many four years ago. Despite his immigration and differing thoughts on the project. status, he feels he is finally close to a Translated from the 2012 Spanish edi- normal life with girlfriend Sonja—until tion. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. he finds out one of his clients has been 2020. murdered. Strong language and some Full Disclosure violence. Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98097 9 hours 35 minutes Sunset Beach by Camryn Garrett DB95236 14 hours 34 minutes read by Adenrele Ojo by Mary Kay Andrews Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and read by various narrators in love for the first time, decides that When her mother dies, Drue Campbell facing potential bullies head-on may inherits a run-down bungalow on the be better than protecting her secret. beach and sees her father for the first Strong language and descriptions of sex. time in twenty years. Out of work, she Commercial audiobook. For senior high reluctantly agrees to take a job at her and older readers. 2019. father’s law firm, where his new wife— Valencia and Valentine Drue’s old schoolmate—also works. DB96812 10 hours 22 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. by Suzy Krause Belly Up read by Barbara Rappaport DB98169 9 hours 2 minutes Valencia, a timid debt collector with by Eva Darrows OCD, is afraid of many things, including read by Almarie Guerra flying. Valencia’s therapist suggests that Seventeen-year-old Serendipity “Sara” she fly somewhere before her upcoming planned on attending an Ivy League birthday. Meanwhile, Mrs. Valentine is college to study English. Instead, she’s an eccentric old woman desperate for moving in with her battle-ax of a grand- company, whose new cleaning girl pro- mother and about to start a new school— vides a listening ear for her life’s story. pregnant. Strong language and some 2019. explicit descriptions of sex. Commercial Sisters by Choice audiobook. For senior high and older DB98704 10 hours 45 minutes readers. 2019. by Susan Mallery The Black Cathedral read by Tanya Eby DB98689 6 hours 25 minutes Three cousins each face some big life by Marcial Gala decisions. Control-freak Sophie returns read by various narrators home after her business burns down, The newly-arrived Stuart family upends determined to rebuild. Kristine wants the marginal neighborhood they’ve to open a bakery, but worries about her moved to when patriarch Arturo hears marriage. Heather wants to go to college God commanding him to build a temple on the mainland, but her mother keeps

11 Adult Fiction Human Relationships having crises. Unrated. Commercial Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco audiobook. 2020. and Melody Grimshaw strive to survive It’s Not All Downhill from Here high school and break away from their DB98947 10 hours 12 minutes bleak factory town. But a quest for suc- by Terry McMillan cess and an independent study cause read by Terry McMillan a rift between them. Some strong lan- On the eve of her sixty-seventh birthday, guage. For senior high and older readers. Loretha Curry has a booming beau- 2019. ty-supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong Fugly friends, and a husband whose moves DB98985 8 hours 56 minutes still surprise her. She certainly doesn’t by Claire Waller think her best days are behind her. But an read by Eva Wilhelm unexpected loss turns her world upside Defined as nothing but fat in the real down. Strong language. Commercial world, Beth Soames specializes in audiobook. 2020. trolling beautiful girls online. But two Before I Go new friendships, one online and one DB98899 10 hours 31 minutes offline, make her question her behavior. by Colleen Oakley Strong language and some violence. For read by various narrators senior high and older readers. 2019. Daisy thought she had beat her breast Impossible Music cancer, only to find that it is back worse DB97913 6 hours 39 minutes than ever. Her biggest fear in the face of by Sean Williams death is what will happen to her brilliant read by David Linski but charmingly helpless husband, so she In a class for the newly deaf, musician decides to find him a new wife. Unrated. Simon meets G and his quest to create Commercial audiobook. 2015. an entirely new form of music helps him The Numbers Game better understand her, himself, and his DB98732 8 hours 32 minutes relationship to the hearing world. Strong by Danielle Steel language. Commercial audiobook. For read by Michael Braun senior high and older readers. 2019. Eileen Jackson was happy to set aside When You Were Everything her own dreams to raise a family with her DB98927 10 hours 19 minutes husband, Paul. But when Eileen discovers by Ashley Woodfolk that Paul is having an affair with a younger read by Imani Parks woman, she wonders whether it is too late New York City. Teenagers Cleo and for her to start over. Some strong language. Layla deal with the implosion of their Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. friendship in a nonlinear narrative. The Spaces between Us Strong language. Commercial audio- DB98247 8 hours 15 minutes book. For senior high and older readers. by Stacia Tolman 2019. read by Eva Wilhelm

12 Adult Fiction—LGBT Themes, Medical Themes, Mystery and Detective LGBT Themes Mystery and Detective Enter the Aardvark Victim 2117: A Department Q Novel DB98822 5 hours 42 minutes DB98723 14 hours 18 minutes by Jessica Anthony by Jussi Adler-Olsen read by Matt Amendt read by Graeme Malcolm Young Republican congressman The newspaper refers to the body only Alexander Paine Wilson is planning his as Victim 2117—the two-thousand-one- reelection campaign when a mysterious hundred-and-seventeenth refugee to die delivery arrives at his townhouse. Inside in the Mediterranean Sea. But the death is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. As he sets off a chain of events that throws tries to unravel the mystery of why it was Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases sent to him, he also struggles with his division led by Detective Carl Mørck, sexuality. Unrated. Commercial audio- into a deeply dangerous—and deeply book. 2020. personal—case. Translated from the Sugar Run Danish edition. Unrated. Commercial DB98942 11 hours 11 minutes audiobook. 2020. by Mesha Maren The Death of Kings read by Hillary Huber DB98779 11 hours 28 minutes Eighteen years ago, Jodi was sentenced by Rennie Airth to life in prison as a seventeen-year-old. read by John Curless Newly released, she heads south in In 1938, a beautiful actress was mur- search of a person she left behind. She dered on the estate of a close friend of meets Miranda, a troubled young mother, the Prince of Wales. The confession and they work together for a new start to of a local troublemaker swiftly brings their lives. Unrated. Commercial audio- the case to a close. But in 1949, the book. 2018. reappearance of a jade necklace raises enough questions to call Inspector Medical Themes Madden out of retirement. Unrated. Double Blind Commercial audiobook. 2017. DB98777 8 hours 54 minutes Beating about the Bush by Brandilyn Collins DB98330 6 hours 40 minutes read by Rebecca Gallagher by M.C. Beaton Suddenly widowed and the survivor of read by Penelope Keith a near-fatal attack, twenty-nine-year old After poor elderly Mrs. Dunwiddy is Lisa Newberry is wracked with grief and found dead, Agatha digs into the compli- despair. Then, she hears of a medical cated case, facing off with everyone from trial for a tiny brain chip that emits elec- secretive factory bosses to Russian offi- trical pulses to heal severe depression. At cials. Agatha also finds herself grappling rope’s end, Lisa offers herself as a can- with intensifying feelings for her friend didate. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. and occasional lover, Sir Charles Fraith. 2012. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

13 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective The Red Lotus LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in three DB98728 12 hours 4 minutes never-before-collected stories. In the title by Chris Bohjalian entry, the apparent suicide of a beautiful read by Rebecca Lowman young starlet turns out to be much more After six months of dating, Alexis and sinister than it seems. Also includes Austin go on a Vietnam bike tour so that “Cielo Azul” and “One Dollar Jackpot.” Austin can pay his respects to the place Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2011. where his father and uncle fought in the Rick Cahill, Books 5–6 war. But as Alexis waits for him to return DB98380 18 hours 41 minutes from a solo ride, Austin vanishes into by Matt Coyle thin air. Unrated. Commercial audio- read by Mark Ashby book. 2020. Two mysteries, written in 2018 and The Torso in the Town 2019, featuring California cop-turned-PI DB99017 8 hours 16 minutes Rick Cahill. In Wrong Light, someone by Simon Brett is stalking nighttime radio personality read by Ralph Cosham Naomi Hendrix. In Lost Tomorrows, after A dinner party at an English mansion Cahill’s former police partner dies, her with some stuffy, not-very-close friends sister hires him to investigate what might is not exactly Jude’s cup of tea—but the have been murder. Violence, strong lan- practically mummified torso of a woman guage, and some descriptions of sex. found in the cellar is right up her alley. 2019. Jude elicits the help of her reluctant Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist neighbor, Carole, to help solve the case. DB97957 6 hours 8 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2003. by Dorothy Gilman Big Lies in a Small Town read by Barbara Rosenblat DB98727 13 hours 21 minutes When an old CIA friend must collect by Diane Chamberlain an inflammatory manuscript smuggled read by Susan Bennett out of Iraq into Jordan, Emily Pollifax Serving a three-year stint in North agrees to provide cover during the trip Carolina for a crime she did not commit, by posing as his fun-loving elderly artist Morgan Christopher is promised cousin. But before the plane even lands, she will be released immediately if she danger begins stalking the sprightly Mrs. restores a 1940 post office mural. Under Pollifax. Unrated. Commercial audio- the grime is a painting of madness, vio- book. 1997. lence, and a conspiracy of small town Mr. Gryce, Books 2–4 secrets. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. DB98284 33 hours 26 minutes 2020. by Anna Katharine Green Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories read by various narrators DB97953 3 hours 19 minutes Three mysteries, written 1880–1883, fea- by Michael Connelly ture New York police detective Ebenezer read by Len Cariou Gryce and his colleagues. In A Strange

14 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective Disappearance a diplomat’s housekeeper biography. But when his biographer turns reports her fear that a missing servant up dead and the manuscript goes missing, girl has been abducted. Also includes it’s up to Sarah to dig up the truth. The Sword of Damocles and Hand and Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 1999. Ring. 1883. Guru Bones Bones on the Bayou: A Sarah Booth DB98720 2 hours 0 minutes Delaney Mississippi Delta Short Mystery by Carolyn Haines DB98718 1 hour 36 minutes read by Kate Forbes by Carolyn Haines Zinnia, Mississippi, rolls out the red read by Kate Forbes carpet for controversial food activist To honor a group of international inves- Priya Karsan. When the event turns tors, Shaw, Mississippi, resurrects bizarre—and downright deadly—PI the old custom of drifting miniature, partners Sarah Booth and Tinkie are on lighted Christmas floats down Silver the case. But it’s the detective agency’s Bayou. Among the investors is notorious four-legged gumshoes, Sweetie Pie, womanizer, Enzo Aceto, who meets Chablis, and Pluto, who save the day in his match in accomplished flirt Tinkie this novella. Unrated. Commercial audio- Bellcase Richmond, Sarah Booth’s PI book. 2015. partner. When Enzo disappears, suspi- Hallowed Bones cion falls on Tinkie’s husband. Unrated. DB98092 10 hours 29 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2014. by Carolyn Haines Bones to Pick read by Kate Forbes DB98093 9 hours 51 minutes Doreen Mallory claims to have the gift by Carolyn Haines of healing. So why did her own child read by Kate Forbes die mysteriously? Out to prove Doreen’s Exposé author Quentin McGee has innocence, sleuthing southern belle Sarah been murdered, and her lover Allison is Booth Delaney unearths an explosive, charged with the crime. Sarah is hired to long-buried secret. Unrated. Commercial find the real culprit, but the investigation audiobook. 2004. won’t be easy. Quentin has so many ene- Ham Bones mies, including her own family and all DB98094 9 hours 10 minutes those rich, powerful people mentioned in by Carolyn Haines her book. Unrated. Commercial audio- read by Kate Forbes book. 2005. When a big New York theater produc- Buried Bones tion of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof comes to DB98089 12 hours 5 minutes Zinnia, Mississippi, murder takes center by Carolyn Haines stage. Sarah Booth Delaney, it turns read by Kate Forbes out, is the star suspect, and must put her Local legend Lawrence Ambrose knows sleuthing skills to work clearing her own the secrets of everyone in town, and he name. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. isn’t above spilling the beans in a tell-all 2007.

15 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective Jingle Bones young boy disappeared during the DB98719 1 hour 13 minutes summer, and though he was found by Carolyn Haines safely, the incident stirred suspicion read by Kate Forbes among locals. When another child goes In this Christmas novella, pastor’s wife missing, Hester Thursby is summoned Theodora Prince comes calling with a to the island by a cryptic text. Unrated. year-old case and cash up front. Sarah Commercial audiobook. 2019. Booth must find the truth about the boys Hi Five: An IQ Novel who ruined last year’s Christmas pageant DB98657 12 hours 12 minutes in time to stop them from doing it again. by Joe Ide Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2015. read by Zeno Robinson Splintered Bones Christiana is the daughter of arms DB98090 12 hours 7 minutes dealer Angus Byrne. She’s also the by Carolyn Haines sole witness and number one suspect in read by Kate Forbes the murder of her boyfriend. If Isaiah Eulalee has confessed to murdering her Quintabe can’t prove her innocence, husband and she wants Sarah to dig up Angus will harm the brilliant PI’s new the dirt on the violent scalawag to prove girlfriend. The catch: Christiana has he got what he deserved. Sarah suspects multiple personalities—and no one per- that her friend is lying through her pearly sonality saw the entire incident. Unrated. whites, but why? Unrated. Commercial Commercial audiobook. 2020. audiobook. 2002. Island of the Mad Them Bones DB98774 11 hours 17 minutes DB98088 11 hours 10 minutes by Laurie King by Carolyn Haines read by Jenny Sterlin read by Kate Forbes Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are Sarah Booth Delaney is in a bad way: summoned when an old friend’s broke, unemployed, thirty and unwed, aunt fails to return following a super- about to lose her family’s plantation, and vised outing from Bedlam. After the pre- bossed around by an antebellum ghost. vious few weeks—with a bloody murder, But this Southern belle isn’t licked yet. a terrible loss, and startling revelations Involving herself in a slightly shady about Holmes—Russell is feeling a bit enterprise, Sarah soon gets roped into unbalanced herself, but she agrees to a decades-old murder investigation. help. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 1999. 2018. The Missing Ones Hunter Kincaid, Books 1-6 DB98598 11 hours 23 minutes DB96805 42 hours 17 minutes by Edwin Hill by Billy Kring read by Karen White read by Doug Tisdale Jr. Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, Six mysteries, written 2013-2018, is ruggedly beautiful and remote. A featuring female border patrol agent

16 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective Hunter Kincaid. In Degüello kidnappers reveals itself to be arson, compounded are snatching children off the streets of by murder, Gunther can’t help but inves- a Mexican border town. Also includes tigate. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Quick, Outlaw Road, The Empty Land, 1990. Tonton, and Hunter’s Moon. Violence, A Distant View of Everything strong language, and descriptions of sex. DB98669 7 hours 44 minutes 2018. by Alexander McCall Smith The Elephant of Surprise read by Davina Porter DB98833 4 hours 49 minutes Amateur sleuth and philosopher Isabel by Joe R. Lansdale Dalhousie is called upon to help when a read by Christopher Ryan Grant matchmaker begins to question her latest Amidst the worst flood East Texas has match. Meanwhile, a new baby brings an seen in years, crime-solving duo Hap and abundance of joy to Isabel Dalhousie and Leonard run across a woman who’s had her husband, Jamie—but four-year-old her tongue nearly cut out being pursued Charlie is none too keen on his newborn by a heavily armed pair of goons. Turns brother. Unrated. Commercial audio- out she survived a mob hit, and the boss book. 2017. has come to clean up the mess. Unrated. The Quiet Side of Passion Commercial audiobook. 2019. DB98659 9 hours 3 minutes The King’s Justice by Alexander McCall Smith DB98875 10 hours 54 minutes read by Davina Porter by Susan Elia Macneal Isabel now has a new au pair and an read by Susan Duerden assistant editor to share her workload. London, December 1943. When Winston Both women, though, have romantic Churchill’s secretary turned secret agent entanglements that threaten to interfere Maggie Hope is called upon to look into with their work, and Isabel must decide the theft of a Stradivarius, one of the how best to navigate this tricky domestic finest violins ever made, Maggie can’t situation. Should an employer ever inject resist. Meanwhile, there’s a serial killer herself into her employees’ affairs? on the loose in London, targeting consci- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. entious objectors. Unrated. Commercial Restoration Heights audiobook. 2020. DB98869 9 hours 13 minutes Borderlines by Wil Medearis DB98780 10 hours 26 minutes read by Angelo Di Loreto by Archer Mayor Reddick, a young, white artist, lives read by Tom Taylorson in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a historically Lieutenant Joe Gunther is in Vermont’s black Brooklyn neighborhood besieged Northeast Kingdom investigating a by gentrification. He spends his free minor embezzling case. It’s a pleasant time playing basketball at the local Y. distraction and a chance to reconnect He is also the last person to see Hannah with old friends, but when a house fire before she disappears, so he decides to

17 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective find out what happened to her. Unrated. The Aosawas, owners of a prominent Commercial audiobook. 2018. local hospital, host a large birthday Antique Lover’s Mystery, Books 1–5 party. The occasion turns into tragedy DB96876 36 hours 57 minutes when seventeen people die from cyanide by Deborah Morgan in their drinks. The only links to what read by Gary Tipton might have happened are a cryptic verse Five mysteries, written 2001–2006, fea- and the physician’s bewitching blind ture antiques picker and ex-FBI agent Jeff daughter, Hisako. Translated from the Talbot. In The Majolica Murders Jeff’s 2005 Japanese edition. Some strong lan- friend is accused of murdering a dishonest guage. 2020. dealer. Also includes Death Is a Cabaret, Blindside The Weedless Widow, The Marriage DB98664 7 hours 51 minutes Casket, and Four on the Floor. 2006. by James Patterson and James O. Born Trouble Is What I Do read by Danny Mastrogiorgio DB98724 3 hours 36 minutes New York’s mayor has a daughter who’s by Walter Mosley missing, and Detective Michael Bennett read by Dion Graham has a son who’s in prison. The two strike Ninety-two-year-old Mississippi a deal. Sources lead Bennett to a homi- bluesman Phillip “Catfish” Worry needs cide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to PI Leonid McGill’s help with a simple a sophisticated hacking operation—and task: deliver a letter revealing the black also to the mayor’s missing twenty-one- lineage of a wealthy heiress and her cor- year-old computer prodigy daughter. rupt father. But when a feared assassin Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. puts a hit on Catfish, Leonid must con- The Bags of Tricks Affair: A Carpenter front the ghost of his own felonious past. and Quincannon Mystery Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98328 6 hours 46 minutes All That’s Bright and Gone by Bill Pronzini DB98286 7 hours 10 minutes read by various narrators by Eliza Nellums Carpenter and Quincannon must split up read by Kristin Allison to tackle two separate con games, run by After six-year-old Aoife’s mother is hos- two villains with deadly bags of tricks pitalized for mental problems, Aoife— at hand. And when Sabina’s life is put in now cared for by her gay uncle—decides danger, John must rush to save her while that solving the mystery of what hap- grappling with the terrifying realization pened to her older brother Theo will of exactly how much she means to him. make her mother well enough to come Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. home. She and her friends—real and The Flimflam Affair: A Carpenter and imaginary—investigate. 2020. Quincannon Mystery The Aosawa Murders DB98329 6 hours 25 minutes DB99103 7 hours 12 minutes by Bill Pronzini by Riku Onda read by various narrators read by Peter Holdway 18 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective, Occult and Horror A self-styled medium extraordinaire been having an affair with the doctor’s and his partner use guile and trickery to surgeon husband, making her a suspect. swindle bereaved men and women eager But former homicide detective Will to contact the spirits of deceased loved Borders—just out of surgery—sees all ones. John and Sabina must not only the marks of a serial-killer case he sup- unmask these charlatans, but also solve posedly solved years before. Unrated. the riddle of an impossible murder in the Commercial audiobook. 2009. midst of a séance. Unrated. Commercial Powers of Arrest audiobook. 2019. DB98801 7 hours 30 minutes Hide and Seek: An Inspector by Jon Talton Rebus Mystery read by Lloyd James DB99114 8 hours 1 minute When a star Cincinnati cop is brutally by Ian Rankin murdered, injured detective Will Borders read by David Hartley-Margolin is assigned to find her killer. The crime A junkie is found dead in an Edinburgh bears a chilling similarity to killings on squat, his body laid out with ritual preci- the once-peaceful college campus where sion. A girl with a past is running scared. his friend Cheryl Beth Wilson teaches Detective Inspector John Rebus senses nursing. The two young victims were her something evil that must be investigated students. Unrated. Commercial audio- and brought up into the light. Strong lan- book. 2012. guage and some violence. 1990. The Guilty Dead Washington Whodunit, Books 4–5 DB97894 9 hours 7 minutes DB98243 14 hours 52 minutes by P.J. Tracy by Colleen J. Shogan read by Sarah Borges read by Kristin Allison Minnesota’s beloved philanthropist Two mysteries, written in 2018 and Gregory Norwood is found dead on 2019, feature sleuthing congressional the anniversary of his son’s overdose. staffer Kit Marshall. In K Street Killing a Detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino powerful wealthy man falls to his death Rolseth are called in to handle the del- during a fundraiser at a Capitol Hill icate case and realize Norwood’s death rooftop restaurant. In Gore in the Garden is no suicide. Magozzi calls on Grace a high-ranking government official is MacBride, Monkeewrench Software’s found dead in the US Botanic Garden. founder and chief computer genius for Some strong language. 2019. help. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. The Pain Nurse 2018. DB98800 7 hours 49 minutes by Jon Talton Occult and Horror read by various narrators The King of Crows: A Diviners Novel Cheryl Beth Wilson, a nurse at DB98619 22 hours 23 minutes Cincinnati Memorial Hospital, finds a by Libba Bray doctor brutally murdered. Wilson had read by January LaVoy

19 Adult Fiction Occult and Horror Led by a vision, the Diviners travel to early, which is how they come to witness Bountiful, Nebraska, where they must strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road, confront their greatest fears and trust where the Abernathys’ flirtation with each other in order to save the world the underworld accidentally calls forth from catastrophe. Sequel to Before the Satan. Can one small boy defeat evil? Devil Breaks You (DB89197). Strong lan- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2009. guage, some violence, and some descrip- The Infernals tions of sex. Commercial audiobook. For DB98661 9 hours 18 minutes senior high and older readers. 2020. by John Connolly Into the Pit: Five Nights at Freddy’s; read by Tim Gerard Reynolds Fazbear Frights, Book 1 The demon Mrs. Abernathy seeks DB97971 4 hours 52 minutes revenge for young Samuel Johnson’s by Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper part in keeping diabolical forces from read by Suzanne Elise Freeman invading Earth. And when Samuel—and Three novellas from the world of Five his faithful dachshund, Boswell—are Nights at Freddy’s. Oswald, Sarah, and pulled through a portal into the dark Millie’s deepest desires have a terrifying, realm, she gets her chance to sink her and unexpected cost. Some violence. claws into him. Unrated. Commercial Commercial audiobook. For senior high audiobook. 2011. and older readers. 2019. A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of The Creeps Cosmic Horror DB98662 8 hours 41 minutes DB97919 12 hours 43 minutes by John Connolly by John Horner Jacobs read by Tim Gerard Reynolds read by various narrators When a new toy shop’s opening goes Two horror novellas that explore vio- terrifyingly awry, Samuel must gather a lence and depravity in the human condi- ragtag band of dwarfs, policemen, and tion. The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky looks very polite monsters to face down the at life in a South American dictatorship, greatest threat the Multiverse has ever while My Heart Struck Sorrow features known. Plus there are assorted vampires, a librarian researching folk songs that a girl with an unnatural fondness for spi- might come from the Devil himself. ders, and highly flammable unfriendly Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. elves. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Cold Storage 2013. DB98949 8 hours 9 minutes The Gates by David Koepp DB98660 7 hours 4 minutes read by Rupert Friend by John Connolly When Pentagon bioterror operative read by Jonathan Cake Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a Young Samuel Johnson and his dachs- suspected biochemical attack, he found hund, Boswell, are showing initiative a highly mutative organism capable of by trick-or-treating a full three days extinction-level destruction. He contained

20 Adult Fiction Occult and Horror, Political Themes, Psychological Themes it and buried it in cold storage, but thought, and work for peace. Unrated. decades later the organism has escaped. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Diaz is the only one who can stop it. The Committee Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. DB99110 12 hours 3 minutes Devoted by Sterling Watson DB99060 15 hours 41 minutes read by Stephen Van Doren by Dean Koontz The residents of a 1950s Florida univer- read by Joe Wilson sity city find their lives disrupted by the Eleven-year-old Woody Bookman nefarious workings of the Committee. believes a monstrous evil was behind This shadowy group uses the powers of his father’s death and now threatens him government and the police to investigate and his mother. Even though the autistic and reveal the private lives of citizens. boy never speaks, a uniquely gifted dog Professor Tom Stall must confront this named Kipp can hear him. Kipp knows group when they threaten his life and he must get to Woody before it is too career. Violence, strong language, and late. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2020. descriptions of sex. 2020. Violet Psychological Themes DB98179 16 hours 48 minutes The Teacher by Scott Thomas DB99123 5 hours 58 minutes read by Cassandra Campbell by Michal Ben-Naftali When her husband dies, Kris Barlow read by Gabriella Cavallero takes her eight-year-old daughter back Fictional biography of Elsa Weiss, a to her family’s old summer house—the teacher who survived the horrors of the place where Kris lost her own mother to Holocaust, but later commits suicide. cancer. But a shadow has fallen over the Thirty years after her death, one of her lakeside town, and an old friend awaits former students imagines Elsa’s life her return. Unrated. Commercial audio- before, during, and after World War II. book. 2019. Translated from the Hebrew edition. Violence. 2019. Political Themes The Glass Hotel Apeirogon DB98955 10 hours 30 minutes DB98632 15 hours 22 minutes by Emily St. John Mandel by Colum McCann read by Dylan Moore read by Colum McCann Vincent Smith is a bartender at an Palestinian Bassam and Israeli Rami upscale hotel on Vancouver Island when come together after their daughters, she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a man run- ten-year-old Abir and thirteen-year-old ning an international Ponzi scheme. Smadar, are killed in violent acts. As She poses as his wife, but walks away they share their stories of their daugh- after Alkaitis is exposed. Years later, ters and their histories, they find they she disappears at sea. Strong language. have more in common than previously Commercial audiobook. 2020. 21 Adult Fiction Religious Themes Religious Themes Wanted: Sisters of the Heart, Book 2 Aiming for Love: Brides of Hope DB98908 6 hours 3 minutes Mountain, Book 1 by Shelley Shepard Gray DB98767 9 hours 4 minutes read by Kirsten Potter by Mary Connealy When Amish widower Jonathan Lundy read by Barbara McCulloh asks twenty-year-old Katie Brenneman Colorado, 1873. Josephine Nordegren to help him take care of his two young is a skilled archer and one of three sis- girls, she looks forward to getting to ters who grew up wild and isolated on know him better. A secret from her rum- Hope Mountain. When Dave Warden, a springa threatens to come out, leaving rancher, brings in a herd much too close Katie afraid her past will ruin her to the girls’ secret home, Jo is too inter- chances for love. Unrated. Commercial ested to stay away. Commercial audio- audiobook. 2009. book. 2019. A Place Called Hope The Promise of Jesse Woods DB97946 5 hours 39 minutes DB99037 10 hours 25 minutes by Philip Gulley by Chris Fabry read by Paul Bellantoni read by Chris Fabry Quaker pastor Sam Gardner is asked In 1972, Matt Plumley’s family moves by the ill Unitarian minister to oversee to Dogwood, West Virginia, where a wedding in his place. When Sam dis- he quickly bonds with two unlikely covers the couple to be married is two friends for a preacher’s kid: Dickie women, his reaction causes hurt feelings Darrel Lee Hancock, a mixed-race and endangers his job. He contemplates boy, and Jesse Woods, a tough-as-nails change and is offered a new beginning. Appalachian girl. Years later, Matt Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2014. comes back to Dogwood to confront his Mountains of Grace past. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. DB98905 11 hours 10 minutes 2016. by Kelly Irvin Forgiven: Sisters of the Heart, Book 3 read by Hayley Cresswell DB99043 5 hours 47 minutes Amish schoolteacher Mercy turned down by Shelley Shepard Gray her beau Caleb’s marriage proposal, read by Kirsten Potter afraid to wed a man who never told her When a fire destroys the Lundy’s barn, he loved her. After a wildfire causes Winnie Lundy is injured trying to save Mercy and her family to evacuate their the animals. Confined in the hospital, town, she meets Spencer, a smokejumper away from her Amish community, different from the men in her community. she forms a friendship with Englisher Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Samuel Miller. Meanwhile Winnie’s The Sacrament brother Jonathan looks into the cause DB98644 7 hours 37 minutes of the fire. Unrated. Commercial audio- by Olaf Olafsson book. 2009. read by Jane Copland

22 Adult Fiction—Religious Themes Young nun Johanna Marie has been Minnesota, dreaming of owning a farm sent to Iceland by the Vatican to investi- of their own. As Signe and her family gate misconduct allegations at a school. work themselves to the bone to repay the While she was there, a student witnesses cost of their voyage, she trusts in God to the headmaster fall to his death. Two get them through these trials. Unrated. decades later, the now-grown student Commercial audiobook. 2017. calls for Johanna’s return. Translated A Season of Grace from the 2017 Icelandic edition. Unrated. DB98714 9 hours 19 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2019. by Lauraine Snelling Cherished Mercy: Heart of the Frontier, read by Christina Moore Book 3 Since emigrating to Minnesota from DB97925 11 hours 1 minute Norway, Nilda Carlson’s dreams are by Tracie Peterson coming true. She and her brother have read by Stephanie Cozart their own house and are planning a dairy Mercy survived the Whitman Massacre herd. The only thing missing for Nilda is as a child, and prays for peace between love, but soon she has two new suitors. the native peoples and the white settlers Sequel to A Breath of Hope (DB98470). inhabiting the Oregon Territory. To help Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. a family friend, Mercy travels to the A Song of Joy Rogue River valley, where she meets DB98765 9 hours 52 minutes Adam, who is ministering to the local by Lauraine Snelling tribes there. Unrated. Commercial audio- read by Christina Moore book. 2017. Minnesota, 1911. New to America, Nilda A Breath of Hope: Under Northern Skies, Carlson is encouraged by her wealthy Book 2 mentor to better herself and her commu- DB98470 9 hours 31 minutes nity. While her ideas to help other immi- by Lauraine Snelling grants meet resistance, she finds delight read by Christina Moore in her piano lessons with a handsome Nilda Carlson has been saving to go to schoolteacher. Sequel to A Season of America to join her brother Rune and Grace (DB98714). Unrated. Commercial his family. When a letter from Einar audiobook. 2019. and Gerd Strand arrives, offering to pay Divas of Damascus Road the tickets for her and her brother Ivar, DB98936 12 hours 59 minutes she jumps at the chance. Sequel to The by Michelle Stimpson Promise of Dawn (DB98180). Unrated. read by Sharon Washington Commercial audiobook. 2018. Dianne Rucker swore she’d never The Promise of Dawn return home to Dentonville, Texas, but DB98180 10 hours 53 minutes her beloved Aunt Gloria is remarrying. by Lauraine Snelling She longs to see the family who took read by Christina Moore her in after her mother abandoned her. In 1909, Signe, her husband, and Back in town, her mother’s mental state their boys emigrated from Norway to 23 Adult Fiction Religious Themes, Romance is precarious, and other family mem- Daughters of the Promise, Books 1–4 bers hide secrets. Unrated. Commercial DB96561 41 hours 13 minutes audiobook. 2006. by Beth Wiseman The Land beneath Us: Sunrise at read by Jennifer Hubbard Normandy, Book 3 Four novels of women seeking love in DB98793 10 hours 50 minutes the Amish communities of Lancaster, by Sarah Sundin Pennsylvania, written 2008–2010. In read by Sarah Zimmerman Plain Perfect, Lillian visits her grandpar- Leah Jones works as a librarian at Camp ents and falls for an Amish widower with Forrest, where soldiers like Clay Paxton a son. Also includes Plain Pursuit, Plain receive Army Ranger training. When Promise, and Plain Paradise. 2010. Clay saves Leah from a brutal attack, he Home All Along: An Amish Secrets Novel offers her a marriage of convenience to DB97942 8 hours 4 minutes save her reputation. After he ships out to by Beth Wiseman train in England for D-day, they write to read by Clifton Harris each other. Unrated. Commercial audio- Charlotte and Daniel, from Love Bears book. 2020. All Things (DB87462), are making A Matter of Trust: Montana Rescue, their home together in Amish country. Book 3 Charlotte is even considering a perma- DB99041 10 hours 25 minutes nent conversion to the Amish way of life, by Susan May Warren but an unexpected death and mysterious read by Cynthia Farrell visitor have her questioning her faith and When state senator Ella Blair’s brother choices. Commercial audiobook. 2017. goes missing on a Montana mountain, A Tailor-Made Bride Gage Watson is part of the rescue team DB98799 10 hours 37 minutes tasked with finding him. His problem by Karen Witemeyer is that Ella wants to go along on the read by Nicole Poole mission, even though she and Gage Texas, 1881. J.T. Tucker wants nothing have a complicated history. Unrated. to do with Coventry’s new dressmaker, Commercial audiobook. 2017. Hannah Richards. He’s all too familiar Rescue Me: Montana Rescue, Book 2 with her kind—shallow women more DB98943 11 hours 40 minutes devoted to fashion than true beauty. Yet, by Susan May Warren except for her well-tailored clothing, this read by Cynthia Farrell seamstress is not at all what he expected. When Deputy Sam Brooks commits to Commercial audiobook. 2010. something, nothing can sway him—not just in work, but in his relationships. While Romance Sam is committed to Sierra Rose, he gets Undercover Bromance stranded with Sierra’s bleeding-heart DB98867 9 hours 10 minutes hippie sister, Willow, during a youth group by Lyssa Kay Adams trip into Glacier National Park. Unrated. read by Andrew Eiden Commercial audiobook. 2017. 24 Adult Fiction—Romance Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a Now her cruel, cheating husband has sous chef at Nashville’s hottest restau- been murdered — with Leila suspected rant. When she’s blackballed after of the crime. Determined to uncover the confronting the restaurant’s lecherous truth, the beautiful portrait painter turns owner, she turns to nightclub entrepre- to the enigmatic Comte d’Esmond for neur Braden Mack for help. To win her help. Some strong language and some heart he’ll need to call in reinforcements: explicit descriptions of sex. 1994. the Bromance Book Club. Unrated. Dead by Midnight: An I-Team Christmas Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB99059 7 hours 29 minutes Ride the High Lonesome by Pamela Clare DB99093 8 hours 17 minutes read by Joe Wilson by Rosanne Bittner I-Team members find themselves in read by Eva Wilhelm the same historic Denver hotel at dif- Kate Winters is stranded in outlaw ferent holiday parties. What starts out country when she stumbles across a as a fun winter evening with friends cowboy, strung up and left for dead. soon becomes a brutal fight to survive Luke Bowden vows revenge on the when the hotel is taken over by a group men who tried to kill him, but he’s of ruthless narco-terrorists. Strong lan- also grateful to Kate for saving him. guage, explicit descriptions of sex, and Some violence, some strong language, some violence. 2015. and some explicit descriptions of sex. Shadow’s Seduction 2019. DB98242 6 hours 27 minutes Royally Matched by Kresley Cole DB97928 8 hours 56 minutes read by Mare Trevathan by Emma Chase Out for a night of carousing the streets read by various narrators of Dacia, vampire Prince Mirceo and his Henry, Prince of Wessco, must assume new demon friend Caspion kiss on a dare responsibility when his grandmother the to impress their women. Their chemistry Queen is away. After a chance meeting proves explosive, but a mating bond with a television producer, Henry finally between the two men is not what either makes a decision all on his own: a reality expected. Violence, strong language, and TV dating game show featuring the explicit descriptions of sex. 2017. world’s most beautiful blue bloods vying Texas Free for his attention. Unrated. Commercial DB98473 8 hours 51 minutes audiobook. 2017. by Janet Dailey Captives of the Night read by Graham Winton DB99094 11 hours 56 minutes Rose Landro is on the run from her past. by Loretta Chase Seeking refuge at the Rimrock Ranch, read by Eva Wilhelm she is ready to claim her grandfather’s Nine years earlier, Leila Beaumont’s land and start fresh. Cattle start disap- criminal father died mysteriously. pearing just as she notices handsome

25 Adult Fiction Romance stranger Tanner McCade watching her a 10 Blind Dates little too closely. Unrated. Commercial DB98168 7 hours 53 minutes audiobook. 2018. by Ashley Elston Wrecking Ball: Hard to Love Series, read by Sophie Amoss Book 1 After an unexpected breakup, seventeen- DB98759 9 hours 12 minutes year-old Sophie lets members of her by P. Dangelico large, eccentric extended family set her read by Mare Trevathan up on ten blind dates during Christmas In one fell swoop, Cam has lost her job, vacation. Commercial audiobook. For her husband, her money, and her home. senior high and older readers. 2019. Desperate, she takes a job as a nanny to The Silence between Us the eight-year-old nephew of an NFL DB97850 6 hours 39 minutes star. Focused on winning a Super Bowl, by Alison Gervais Calvin isn’t interested in distractions— read by Chloe Dolandis including the new nanny. Strong lan- After moving to Colorado, seven- guage and some explicit descriptions of teen-year-old Maya, who is deaf, is sex. 2017. forced to attend a hearing school. As she Games People Play, Books 1–3 navigates her new life, Maya proves that DB96870 40 hours 4 minutes her lack of hearing will not stop her from by HelenKay Dimon pursuing her dreams. Commercial audio- read by Carol Jacobanis book. For senior high and older readers. Three novels and a novella of romantic 2019. suspense, written in 2017 and 2018. In Rosemary Beach, Books 1–3 , Emery believes a shadowy DB98300 19 hours 58 minutes man known only as Wren is responsible by Abbi Glines for the disappearance of her cousin. Also read by Theresa Conkin includes The Enforcer, The Negotiator, Three contemporary romances written in and The Pretender. Strong language, 2012 and 2013. In Fallen Too Far, Blaire some violence, and some explicit moves to Rosemary Beach, Florida, to descriptions of sex. 2018. live with her father after her mother dies The Protector: Games People Play and falls for her stepbrother, Rush. Their DB98900 9 hours 46 minutes relationship continues in Never Too Far by HelenKay Dimon and Forever Too Far. Strong language read by Jeremy York and explicit descriptions of sex. 2013. Cate Pendleton’s sister died while The Bachelor living in the secretive commune called DB98791 8 hours 17 minutes Salvation. Cate is determined to find out by Sabrina Jeffries what really happened to her and turns to read by Beverley A. Crick DC fixer Damon Knox for help. Sparks Lady Gwyn Drake has long concealed fly between them, but Damon has his an imprudent affair from her youth. But own history with Salvation. Unrated. when her former suitor appears, man- Commercial audiobook. 2018. handling the heiress and threatening to 26 Adult Fiction—Romance go public with her secrets, Gwyn needs The Charmer in Chaps protecting. Her twin brother hires Joshua DB98317 10 hours 7 minutes Wolfe, the estate’s gamekeeper, to keep by Julia London her safe in London during her debut. read by Tieran Wilder Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. After a childhood of living in foster Chasing Cassandra homes, Ella Kendall has returned to her DB98645 9 hours 1 minute hometown of Three Rivers, Texas, and by Lisa Kleypas the rundown house she inherited. Luca read by Mary Jane Wells Prince, a playboy from the wealthiest Railway magnate Tom Severin is looking family in the county, may not remember for the perfect wife, and from his first her from high school, but Ella definitely glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s remembers him. Unrated. Commercial determined to have her. But the beautiful audiobook. 2019. and quick-witted Cassandra is equally Jamison Valley, Books 4–6 determined to marry for love—the one DB96885 28 hours 45 minutes thing he can’t give. Unrated. Commercial by Devney Perry audiobook. 2020. read by Theresa Conkin The Thief of Lanwyn Manor Three contemporary romances, written DB98323 9 hours 45 minutes 2017–2019. In The Outpost, a reporter by Sarah E. Ladd on the run from the Russian mob takes read by Jude Mason refuge at a remote mountain outpost. , England, 1818. Julia Also includes The Bitterroot Inn and the Twethewey needs a diversion to mend novella The Candle Palace. Some vio- her broken heart, so when her cousin lence, some strong language, and some invites her to Lanwyn Manor, Julia explicit descriptions of sex. 2019. eagerly accepts. The manor is located at A Distance Too Grand the heart of Cornwall’s mining industry, DB99046 10 hours 27 minutes and Julia soon realizes something dark by Regina Scott lurks within the home’s ancient halls. read by Rachel Botchan Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. When Meg Pero’s photographer father 19 Love Songs dies, she takes his place on an Army DB98172 8 hours 44 minutes survey of the North Rim of the Grand by David Levithan Canyon in 1871. What she doesn’t read by various narrators realize is that the leader of the expedi- A collection of fiction, nonfiction, tion is none other than the man she once and a story in verse celebrating love. refused to marry. Unrated. Commercial Revisits characters from Two Boys audiobook. 2019. Kissing (DB78286) and Boy Meets Boy Wild Montana Skies (DBC00238). Strong language and DB98863 12 hours 7 minutes descriptions of sex. Commercial audio- by Susan May Warren book. For senior high and older readers. read by Cynthia Farrell 2020. 27 Adult Fiction Romance, Science Fiction Search and rescue pilot Kacey Fairing is terrain-mapping drone detects the home on leave in Mercy Falls, Montana, deadly microparticle’s presence. A team twelve years after she joined the mili- of experts investigates the threat, but tary to escape the mistakes of her past. the microbe is evolving. Sequel to The Kacey hopes to reconnect with her Andromeda Strain (DB37973). Unrated. daughter, only to learn that the man she Commercial audiobook. 2019. once loved is also back in town. Unrated. The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Commercial audiobook. 2016. Year’s Best Science Fiction DB96801 38 hours 4 minutes Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois Pass of Fire read by Stephen Van Doren DB98971 19 hours 53 minutes A curated collection of science fiction by Taylor Anderson short stories selected from two decades read by William Dufris of “Year’s Best Science Fiction” anthol- The time has come for Matt Reddy and ogies. Includes stories by Greg Bear, Ted the crew of the USS Walker to lead the Chiang, William Gibson, Nancy Kress, human and Lemurian army against the Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, reptilian Grik. Meanwhile, General Connie Willis, Gene Wolfe, and others. Shinya and his Army of the Sisters pre- Some violence, some strong language, pare to assault the mysterious El Paso and some descriptions of sex. 2005. del Fuego. Sequel to River of Bones The Resisters (DB91888). Unrated. Commercial audio- DB98882 8 hours 53 minutes book. 2019. by Gish Jen A Beginning at the End read by William DeMeritt DB98624 11 hours 41 minutes A future AutoAmerica is run by artifi- by Mike Chen cial intelligence and surveillance, and read by Emily Woo Zeller its people have been divided into the In the wake of a devastating global pan- privileged “Netted” and the under- demic, four survivors with disparate class “Surplus” depending largely upon backgrounds struggle to build new lives appearances. A girl with amazing tal- for themselves. But reports of another ents for baseball is born to a Surplus outbreak threatens America’s still-fragile family and attracts interest. Unrated. society and force the friends to face their Commercial audiobook. 2020. past lives. Unrated. Commercial audio- The Life Below book. 2020. DB98620 6 hours 2 minutes The Andromeda Evolution by Alexandra Monir DB97959 10 hours 7 minutes read by various narrators by Michael Crichton and Doubts continue to plague Naomi and Daniel H. Wilson the final teen astronauts selected for read by Julia Whelan the mission to Europa. Meanwhile, Decades after an extraterrestrial Leo searches for a way to warn them. microbe nearly ended humanity, a Sequel to The Final Six (DB90420). 28 Adult Fiction—Science Fiction Some violence, some strong lan- Starsight guage, and some descriptions of sex. DB98245 13 hours 8 minutes Commercial audiobook. For senior high by Brandon Sanderson and older readers. 2020. read by Kristin Allison Supernova After becoming a pilot and learning DB98098 7 hours 34 minutes some disturbing things about what hap- by Kass Morgan pened to her father, Spensa disguises read by various narrators herself and enters a Krell pilot training As secrets are revealed, Orelia, Arran, program, where she discovers the true Vesper, and Cormak, along with others at purpose of their program. Sequel to the Quatra Fleet Academy, face signifi- Skyward (DB93298). Some violence. For cant changes and new challenges. Sequel senior high and older readers. 2019. to Light Years (DB97150). Strong lan- Hell Divers IV: Wolves guage, some violence, and some descrip- DB97967 9 hours 27 minutes tions of sex. Commercial audiobook. For by Nicholas Sansbury Smith senior high and older readers. 2019. read by R.C. Bray The Last Day Xavier leads an expedition to search DB98877 12 hours 3 minutes for the Metal Islands. The team faces by Andrew Hunter Murray storms, sea monsters, and cannibals read by Gemma Whelan and uncovers difficult truths about the 2059. The world has stopped turning, history of the war that sent mankind leaving half of civilization in an endless fleeing for the sky. Sequel toHell Divers frozen night, while the other half suffers III: Deliverance (DB97916). Unrated. nothing but burning sun. In isolationist Commercial audiobook. 2018. Britain Ellen Hopper receives a letter Mission Critical containing a dangerous secret. Unrated. DB99104 13 hours 4 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2020. edited by Jonathan Strahan Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the read by Jonathan Taylor Sea: Stories This anthology of science fiction short DB98740 11 hours 8 minutes stories examines the fragility of human by Sarah Pinsker life, especially when it depends upon read by Christina Delaine engines, control systems, and other A collection of speculative short fiction machines to provide atmosphere, gravity, from the Nebula Award-winning author, and even food. Includes stories from including one previously unpublished Yoon Ha Lee, Greg Egan, Carolyn Ives story. Themes include music, memory, Gilman, Peter Watts, and others. Some technology, loss, and even multiple violence and some strong language. selves on generation ships with settings 2019. as varied as highways and high seas, Docile murder houses and treehouses. Unrated. DB98884 16 hours 35 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2019. by K.M. Szpara read by various narrators 29 Adult Fiction Science Fiction, Spies and Espionage, Suspense Elisha Wilder sells himself as a Docile her an odd and lucrative position: move to work off family debts, but he refuses to Los Angeles to become the body to take the drug that will make his ser- double of movie star Rosanna Feld. A vitude more pleasant after witnessing breakdown forced Rosanna out of the its long-term effects on his mother. public eye, and she needs a look-alike Unfortunately, his new owner’s family to take her place. Unrated. Commercial funded the drug and refuse to believe audiobook. 2020. it could have negative consequences. Bill Tasker, Books 1–3 Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98278 31 hours 55 minutes by James O. Born Spies and Espionage read by Joe Wilson The List: The Slough House, Book 2.5 Three novels, written between 2004 DB98096 1 hour 55 minutes and 2006, feature Florida lawman Bill by Mick Herron Tasker. Includes Walking Money, Shock read by Gerard Doyle Wave, and Escape Clause, in which In the time between books two and three Tasker investigates an inmate homi- of the series Slough House, Books 1–3 cide with prison inspector Renee Chin. (DB84464), aged spy Dieter Hess died. Violence, strong language, and some His handler discovers that Hess had a descriptions of sex. 2006. secret bank account and must investi- Long Range gate whether Hess was a double agent. DB98717 10 hours 38 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. by C.J. Box Suspense read by David Chandler Alone in the Wild: A Rockton Novel When the wife of a prominent local DB98597 10 hours 35 minutes judge is wounded on Wyoming game by Kelley Armstrong warden Joe Pickett’s turf, signs point read by Thérèse Plummer to the shot having been taken from an While on a much needed camping vaca- impossible distance. Joe’s best friend, tion with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Nate Romanowski—who is adjusting to Dalton, Detective Casey Duncan hears parenthood—is a suspect. Meanwhile, a baby crying in the woods. The sound Joe attempts to decipher a startling leads them to a tragic scene: a woman grizzly attack. Unrated. Commercial buried under the snow, murdered, a audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. baby still alive in her arms. Unrated. Bitter Falls Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98311 11 hours 54 minutes The Body Double by Rachel Caine DB98916 12 hours 29 minutes read by Pilar Witherspoon by Emily Beyda As Gwen and Sam and her kids continue read by Emily Rankin to face escalating threats, she accepts a A stranger approaches a young woman PI assignment—finding a male college at a small-town movie theater and offers student who went missing in Tennessee

30 Adult Fiction—Suspense after befriending an old-fashioned she receives an anonymous threatening looking girl in church. But the job puts text. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. her family in even more danger. Strong 2019. language and some descriptions of sex. Strangers She Knows 2020. DB98651 9 hours 10 minutes The Boy from the Woods by Christina Dodd DB98760 12 hours 28 minutes read by Vanessa Johansson by Harlan Coben Kellen Adams survived having a bullet read by Joe Wilson removed from her brain but offended Thirty years ago, Wilde was found as a maniacal killer. She hopes that living a boy living feral in the woods. Now, on an obscure, technology-free island no one seems to take teen Naomi’s off California will mean safety from the disappearance seriously. But attorney murderer who hunts her and her new Hester—whose grandson told her family. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at 2019. school—asks Wilde to use his unique When You See Me skills to find Naomi. Strong language DB98486 12 hours 14 minutes and some violence. Bestseller. 2020. by Lisa Gardner A Book of Bones read by Gabriella Cavallero DB98716 22 hours 30 minutes FBI agent Kimberly Quincy turns to by John Connolly Boston detective D.D. Warren, confiden- read by Jeff Harding tial informant Flora Dane, and true-crime On a lonely moor in England, the enthusiast Keith Edgar for help when the body of a young woman is discovered. skeletal remains of a long-missing young Another girl lies buried beneath a Saxon woman are found off a hiking trail in mound. To the southeast, the ruins of Georgia. Violence, strong language, and a priory hide a human skull. Each is a some explicit descriptions of sex. 2020. sacrifice, a summons—and something Scrublands has heard the call. But so has PI Charlie DB98663 13 hours 19 minutes Parker. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. by Chris Hammer 2019. read by Rupert Degas The Last Time I Saw You In Riversend—an isolated Australian DB97890 8 hours 42 minutes community afflicted by an endless by Liv Constantine drought—a young priest kills five parish- read by Julia Whelan ioners before being taken down himself. Not only is Dr. Kate English the heiress A year later, journalist Martin Scarsden to a large fortune; she has a gorgeous arrives to report on how the townspeople family, a high-flying career, and a beau- are coping. As he begins to hear a dif- tiful home. Then Kate’s mother is found ferent version of the story, a shocking brutally murdered in her own home. new crime occurs. Unrated. Commercial Kate’s grief quickly turns to horror when audiobook. 2018.

31 Adult Fiction Suspense Whistle in the Dark A masked stranger stands in the shadows, DB98333 10 hours 46 minutes watching his victim through the window. by Emma Healey He will kill him slowly—make him pay. read by various narrators Soon the Rabbit Hunter has claimed Jen and Hugh Maddox sit by the hospital another three victims and it’s up to Joona bedside of their fifteen-year-olddaughter, Linna and Saga Bauer to untangle one of Lana, who was found bloodied, bruised, the most complex cases of their career. and disoriented after going missing for Translated from the 2016 Swedish edi- four days during a mother-daughter tion. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. vacation in the country. When Lana 2019. claims she can’t remember, Jen secretly The Last Place You Look sets off to retrace her journey. Unrated. DB98870 10 hours 28 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2018. by Kristen Lepionka You Are Not Alone read by Allyson Ryan DB98913 11 hours 4 minutes Blonde teenager Sarah Cook disap- by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen peared fifteen years ago, the night her read by various narrators parents were brutally murdered in their Love eludes Shay Miller, her job is a dead Ohio home. Her Black boyfriend was end, and her life is increasingly lonely. convicted of the murders and is now on Then Shay meets the Moore sisters, death row. When his sister spies Sarah at who live a life of glamorous perfection. an area gas station, she hires PI Roxane When they invite Shay into their circle, Weary to find her. Unrated. Commercial everything seems better. Shay would die audiobook. 2017. for them to like her. She may have to. What You Want to See Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98871 9 hours 0 minutes After the Monsoon by Kristen Lepionka DB98778 14 hours 4 minutes read by Allyson Ryan by Robert Karjel Thinking Marin Strasser is being read by David Colacci unfaithful, her fiancé hires PI Roxane A Swedish army lieutenant drops Weary. But after Marin is shot to death dead on a shooting range in the desert. and Roxane’s client becomes a suspect, Was it an accident or something more Roxane discovers that Marin has two nefarious? Ernst Grip, an agent of the previous marriages, an adult son fresh Swedish security police, is sent to the out of prison, and a criminal record of Horn of Africa to find out. Translated her own. Unrated. Commercial audio- from the 2016 Swedish edition. Unrated. book. 2018. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Just Watch Me The Rabbit Hunter DB98331 12 hours 24 minutes DB98606 16 hours 59 minutes by Jeff Lindsay by Lars Kepler read by Jeff Lindsay read by Saul Reichlin

32 Adult Fiction—Suspense Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at of his first wife and son—now marries disguise, and not averse to violence. He Anna. After a heartbreaking miscarriage, despises the degenerate and immoral they meet young, pregnant, and home- rich. He now plans to steal the Crown , Lily, who agrees to give her baby Jewels of Iran. They are worth billions, to Gage and Anna in exchange for finan- but the true attraction for grabbing them cial support. But something isn’t right. is one simple fact: it can’t be done. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2014. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. A Small Town Unspeakable Things DB98421 11 hours 6 minutes DB98302 9 hours 16 minutes by Thomas Perry by Jess Lourey read by Christina Delaine read by Jessica Wortham A dozen convicts plan a federal prison Minnesota, 1983. Thirteen-year-old escape that releases over a thousand Cassie sleeps in her closet or under her raping, murdering prisoners into the bed, because she’s scared to death of her nearby town. Law enforcement catches drunken artist father, whom her teacher many but—two years later—the twelve mother refuses to divorce. But now there masterminds remain free. The town is another type of monster to consider— secretly sends cop Leah Hawkins to someone is assaulting the boys in her methodically track them down and kill school. Some violence and some descrip- them. Violence and descriptions of sex. tions of sex. 2020. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Missing Daughter Cross Her Heart DB98419 10 hours 56 minutes DB98804 10 hours 26 minutes by Rick Mofina by Sarah Pinborough read by Mark Owen read by Antonia Beamish Ryan and Karen Lane discover their When single mother Lisa’s sixteen- twelve-year-old daughter missing from year-old daughter, Ava, is in danger, Lisa her bed. A teenage boy was outside her turns to her best friend for help. But a bedroom window that night. A halfway long time ago, Lisa broke a promise. And house for convicts recently opened in the that betrayal hasn’t been forgiven. Now, neighborhood. Then detectives turn their someone is going to make her pay for sights on the Lane family. Days, weeks, her sin. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. months, then agonizing years go by 2018. without answers. Unrated. Commercial The Night Agent audiobook. 2019. DB97893 10 hours 50 minutes Desperate by Matthew Quirk DB98868 12 hours 13 minutes read by Chris Andrew Ciulla by Daniel Palmer In the White House Situation Room, read by Peter Berkrot young FBI Agent Peter Sutherland’s job Gage Dekker—who still blames himself is monitoring an emergency line for a for the car accident that claimed the lives call that finally comes. A terrified young

33 Adult Fiction Suspense woman tells Peter that her aunt and Saint X uncle have just been murdered. Their last DB98874 12 hours 27 minutes words prove there is a Russian mole in by Alexis Schaitkin the White House. Unrated. Commercial read by various narrators audiobook. 2019. Claire was seven when her college-age Cold Heart Creek sister, Alison, disappeared on their family DB99072 11 hours 49 minutes vacation at a resort on the Caribbean by Lisa Regan island of Saint X. Several days later, read by Madelyn Buzzard Alison’s body was found. Now, Claire A husband and wife are found dead at is working in New York City when she their campsite, and the third camper is encounters one of the men originally missing. A pendant is discovered shoved suspected of murdering Alison. Unrated. down the woman’s throat. As the detec- Commercial audiobook. 2020. tives interview members from a nearby The Absolution commune, another person dies, with DB98722 10 hours 59 minutes the same type of pendant in her throat. by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Violence and strong language. 2019. read by Lucy Paterson Her Silent Cry A Snapchat video shows a terrified teen. DB99122 10 hours 47 minutes When her body is found, it is marked with by Lisa Regan a number “2.” Detective Huldar brings in read by Elizabeth Rose child psychologist Freyja to help question Detective Josie Quinn is at the play- the victim’s friends. Then another teenager ground when young Lucy Ross disap- goes missing, more clips appear, and pears from the carousel. As Josie and her the body with a “3” is found. Translated colleagues race the clock to find the child from the 2016 Icelandic edition. Unrated. and her abductor, bodies start piling up, Commercial audiobook. 2019. and they realize Lucy’s overprotective A Madness of Sunshine mother has a mysterious past. Strong lan- DB97880 11 hours 1 minute guage and some violence. 2019. by Nalini Singh Every Last Breath read by Saskia Maarleveld DB97879 12 hours 24 minutes After her husband’s death, Anahera by Juno Rushdan Rawiri returns to her remote New read by various narrators Zealand hometown of Golden Cove. She Maddox Kinkade is an expert at man- learns a local woman has disappeared, aging the impossible. Tasked with neu- and cop Will Gallagher fears there might tralizing a lethal bioweapon, she turns be a connection to another missing per- to the one person capable of helping her sons case from years before. Unrated. stop the threat of pandemic in time: the Commercial audiobook. 2019. love of her life, back from the dead and Mr. Nobody mad as hell at her supposed betrayal. DB98658 11 hours 34 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. by Catherine Steadman read by Catherine Steadman 34 Adult Fiction—Suspense, Westerns A mute man is found on a British beach shows no signs of stopping until his with no identification. Neuropsychiatrist deadly objective is realized in full, Stone Dr. Emma Lewis is asked to come assess is left with no choice but to face the the patient. But Emma left this same problem head-on. Unrated. Commercial town fourteen years ago and has taken audiobook. 2020. great pains to cover all traces of her past. Treason Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB97951 7 hours 20 minutes Almost Missed You by Stuart Woods DB97956 9 hours 45 minutes read by Tony Roberts by Jessica Strawser Stone Barrington is notified of a delicate read by Thérèse Plummer situation within the country’s administra- Three years into their marriage, Violet tion. A close friend requires his expertise and Finn have a wonderful little boy. and subtlety to eradicate a destructive While vacationing, Finn leaves Violet presence in a classified agency—only it at the beach—packs up the hotel room soon becomes clear that this renegade and disappears with their son. Then Finn was sent by a rival Stone has encoun- shows up on his best friend Caitlin’s tered before. Unrated. Commercial doorstep, demanding that she hide audiobook. 2020. them from the authorities. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017. Westerns Not That I Could Tell Flintlock, Books 5–6 DB97955 11 hours 46 minutes DB98305 14 hours 42 minutes by Jessica Strawser by William W. Johnstone and read by Erin Bennett J.A. Johnstone When a group of neighborhood women read by Jack Fox gather around a fire pit one Saturday Books five and six of the series, - night, they drink too much, and the con- lished in 2017 and 2018. In Hell’s Gate, versation turns personal. By Monday young heiress Lucy Cully proposes morning, one of them is inexplicably to pay Sam Flintlock if he spends a gone. A sociable mom, college admin- full week in the haunted mansion of istrator, and doctor’s wife, the missing her murdered uncle. Also includes woman didn’t even seem bothered Pitchfork Pass. Sequel to A Time for by her impending divorce. Unrated. Vultures (DB95429). Violence and strong Commercial audiobook. 2018. language. 2018. Hit List A Jensen Family Christmas DB98834 7 hours 14 minutes DB97969 11 hours 21 minutes by Stuart Woods by William W. Johnstone and read by Tony Roberts J.A. Johnstone When Stone Barrington finds his name read by Danny Campbell on a hit list, he plans to lie low until The Jensen family gathers together at the culprit is caught. But when this foe the Sugarloaf Ranch for a Christmas homecoming. Smoke must defend his 35 Adult Fiction Westerns land, Sally strikes up a new friendship, Robert B. Parker’s Buckskin Ace and Chance prepare to fight a gang DB98360 9 hours 24 minutes of outlaws, Luke rescues three children by Robert Knott orphaned in a shootout, and Preacher read by Robert Knott catches the eye of a beguiling widow. After Cole and Hitch lay Appaloosa’s Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. sheriff to rest, several men are eager to Preacher’s Rage compete for the position. Meanwhile, DB98839 8 hours 29 minutes gold is discovered in the nearby foothills, by William W. Johnstone and bringing trouble with mining factions J.A. Johnstone and claim disputes. Sequel to Robert read by Jack Garrett B. Parker’s Revelation (DB88150). Preacher and Hawk rescue a woman Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. from ruthless trappers. Though she is white, Caroline was raised by the Crow since childhood. The father and son team face many dangers to escort her back to her people. Sequel to Preacher’s Kill (DB90454). Unrated. Commercial audio- book. 2018.

36 Adult Nonfiction—Arts, Biography Adult Nonfiction working beyond them, and addressing creative blocks. Unrated. Commercial Arts audiobook. 2020. Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight over a Biography Modernist Masterpiece The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes DB98889 8 hours 50 minutes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil by Alex Beam Genius read by Kimberly Farr DB98806 13 hours 11 minutes Chronicles the building of and fight over by Bob Batchelor Farnsworth House in the Chicago sub- read by Joe Barrett urbs from the time it was first contracted Historian recounts the exploits of in 1945. Discusses the relationship a notorious criminal mastermind’s between architect Mies van der Rohe and Prohibition-era bootlegging operation. client Edith Farnsworth, the resulting He discusses Remus’s role as the inspi- legal battle, and its architectural aspects. ration for The Great Gatsby (DB55714) Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. and details the sensational murder case Sargent’s Women: Four Lives behind the surrounding Remus’s ultimate downfall. Canvas Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. DB98079 10 hours 34 minutes The Yellow House by Donna M. Lucey DB98086 14 hours 21 minutes read by Elizabeth Wiley by Sarah M. Broom Profile of four women—Elizabeth read by Bahni Turpin Chanler, Sally Fairchild, Belle Gardner, Author relates a century of her family and Elsie Palmer—who posed for history and their collective relation- nineteenth-century high-society por- ship with a home in a neglected area traitist John Singer Sargent. Describes of New Orleans, even after Hurricane their lives, the impact of their portraits Katrina wiped it off the map. Discusses on the art world, and the scandals in pride, familial love, issues of class, which they were involved. Unrated. race, and internalized shame. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017. Commercial audiobook. 2019. How to Be an Artist Pearls of Wisdom: Little Pieces of Advice DB98823 2 hours 23 minutes (That Go a Long Way) by Jerry Saltz DB98970 5 hours 2 minutes read by Jerry Saltz by Barbara Bush Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic presents read by various narrators a combination of a meditation on what A collection of advice and life lessons it means to be an artist and a guide on from the former First Lady and author of becoming one. Discusses the mindset Reflections: Life after the White House of being creative, recognizing the con- (DB57178). Includes discussion of life, ventions of the art you are creating and love, family, and the world. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. 37 Adult Nonfiction Biography Children of the Land A memoir from a close DB98683 10 hours 9 minutes member of the royal circle and by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret, read by Tim Andres Pabon who was a friend of Princess Margaret Author recounts experiences growing and Queen Elizabeth II since childhood. up as an undocumented immigrant from Describes her experiences witnessing Mexico in the United States. Discusses landmark moments in royal history and the logistics and strain of remaining shares intimate stories from her time undetected, as well as his father’s even- as Princess Margaret’s closest confi- tual deportation. Unrated. Commercial dante. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. audiobook. 2020. 2020. Ordinary Girls: A Memoir Ordinary Hazards DB98783 10 hours 11 minutes DB98095 4 hours 39 minutes by Jaquira Díaz by Nikki Grimes read by Almarie Guerra read by Nikki Grimes Memoir about growing up in the housing Acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes projects of Puerto Rico and Miami explores the truth of a harrowing child- Beach. The author recounts her mother’s hood in verse. Growing up with a mother battle with schizophrenia, her own strug- suffering from paranoid schizophrenia gles with depression and sexual assault, and a mostly absent father, Grimes and her ultimate journey from despair describes her youth and the healing to hope and love. Unrated. Commercial power of words. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. audiobook. For senior high and older The Escape Artist readers. 2019. DB98784 8 hours 51 minutes When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My by Helen Fremont Father’s War and What Remains read by Gabra Zackman DB98842 10 hours 9 minutes Author recounts experiences growing by Ariana Neumann up in a household that kept its Jewish read by Rebecca Lowman identity secret due to her parents’ Author investigates her Jewish family’s trauma from their memories of the experiences during World War II, par- Holocaust. Discusses how this need for ticularly those of her father, who hid in secrecy and compartmentalization ulti- Berlin. Draws on letters, diaries, and mately affected her own life and relation- other memorabilia. Unrated. Commercial ships. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. audiobook. 2020. 2020. Jimmy Neurosis: A Memoir Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life DB97944 9 hours 57 minutes in the Shadow of the Crown by James Oseland DB98917 9 hours 11 minutes read by James Oseland by Anne Glenconner Former editor-in-chief of Saveur mag- read by Anne Glenconner azine and former judge of television

38 Adult Nonfiction—Biography, Business and Economics, Computers show Top Chef Masters shares his Journalist examines the history of coming of age in the underground punk Deutsche Bank and its relationship with scenes of San Francisco and Manhattan Donald Trump prior to his assuming in the late-1970s and early-1980s. the presidency of the United States. Discusses prominent people he met, the Discusses the bank’s partnerships creative influences on his life, and being with Nazis and Eastern Bloc rulers, gay. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. business practices in the 1990s, and 2019. deals with the Trump and Kushner fam- Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in ilies. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. America; Essays Bestseller. 2020. DB98878 7 hours 37 minutes The Velvet Rope Economy: How by R. Eric Thomas Inequality Became Big Business read by R. Eric Thomas DB98755 12 hours 35 minutes Author reflects on reconciling his by Nelson D. Schwartz Christianity with his sexuality, the read by Jason Culp exhaustion of code-switching, gaining Journalist examines the ways the accidental Internet fame, and covering American economy has created class- the 2016 election and its aftermath. He based access restrictions in all spheres reexamines the meaning of “normal” and of life, including health care, educa- discusses how to care about an increas- tion, transportation, and home security. ingly bleak future. Unrated. Commercial Discusses the ways those with monetary audiobook. 2020. means are able to cut red tape while the I Am Not Your Slave: A Memoir middle- and working-class fight for lim- DB98484 8 hours 40 minutes ited spots. Unrated. Commercial audio- by Tupa Tjipombo and Chris Lockhart book. 2020. read by Gabriella Cavallero Recounts being kidnapped and Computers suffering through life in a human traf- You Look Like a Thing And I Love You: ficking network spanning all of Africa. How Artificial Intelligence Works and Describes encounters with gangs, witch- Why It’s Making the World a Weirder doctors, corrupt police, smugglers, Place and fellow trafficking victims. Details DB98087 5 hours 36 minutes eventual escape. Strong language, some by Janelle Shane violence, and some descriptions of sex. read by Xe Sands 2020. Electrical engineer examines the ways artificial intelligence is already present Business and Economics in our daily lives and its potential uses Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald in the future. Topics discussed include Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction the mechanics behind the technology, the DB98854 13 hours 14 minutes ways it learns and becomes predictive, by David Enrich and its reliance on humans. Unrated. read by BJ Harrison Commercial audiobook. 2019. 39 Adult Nonfiction Cooking, Crime Cooking what are considered essential preserves. Life Is a Party: Deliciously Doable 2019. Recipes to Make Every Day a Celebration Ageless Vegan: The Secret to Living a DB98761 7 hours 40 minutes Long and Healthy Plant-Based Life by David Burtka and Adeena Sussman DB98757 5 hours 57 minutes read by Bill Wallace by Tracye McQuirter and Chef and actor shares more than one Mary McQuirter hundred recipes and sixteen party read by Kristin Allison themes—including playlists and plan- Vegan lifestyle expert teams with her ning tips. Includes rules for entertaining mother to share their secrets for main- such as using nice utensils and preparing taining a healthy, plant-based lifestyle for your mood beforehand. Recipes accom- more than thirty years. The pair discusses pany party themes and are divided into nutrition, building a vegan pantry, and seasons. 2019. creating a supportive lifestyle. Provides Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, fourteen-step guide to transitioning to and Food vegan foods and one hundred recipes. DB98941 6 hours 18 minutes 2018. by Ann Hood Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from read by Nina Alvamar the Heartland Author of Something Blue (DB33567) DB98764 12 hours 9 minutes and Knitting Circle (DB64963) shares a by Shauna Sever collection of essays on her connections read by Margaret Strom to food from her childhood through mar- Food Network contributor shares recipes riage, divorce, and remarriage. Includes with deep roots in the Midwest and its recipes matching the subject of each many immigrant populations. Shares typ- essay. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. ical pantry items and her top ten tools. 2018. Recipe categories include sweet doughs, The Food in Jars Kitchen: 140 Ways pastries, pies, cookies, cakes, bars, other to Cook, Bake, Plate, and Share Your desserts, savories, winter holidays, and Homemade Pantry core elements. 2019. DB98763 6 hours 37 minutes Crime by Marisa McClellan Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s read by Eva Wilhelm Search for Justice in Indian Country Over one hundred recipes to incorpo- DB98873 14 hours 59 minutes rate preserves—including jams, jellies, by Sierra Crane Murdoch salsas, and pickles—in everyday dishes. read by Sierra Crane Murdoch Includes a list of equipment needed. Follows Lissa Yellow Bird, whose home Recipes cover breakfast, dips, spreads, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation sauces, condiments, salads, sides, in North Dakota was transformed by the braises, soups, roasts, breads, desserts, Bakken oil boom, after her 2009 release drinks, and frozen treats. Shares a list of from prison. Describes her obsessive 40 Adult Nonfiction—Crime hunt for clues into the disappearance Biography of Chicago-born socialite of a young white oil worker three years Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962) and later. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. her work with dollhouse-scale dioramas 2020. to create eighteen scenes used by gen- American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, erations of criminal investigators for and the Birth of American CSI training. Discusses her early life and DB98812 10 hours 46 minutes relationships, fascination with legal med- by Kate Winkler Dawson icine, and the creation of the Nutshell read by Kate Winkler Dawson Studies. Unrated. Commercial audio- Using years of research and thousands book. 2020. of never-before-published primary Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and source materials, explores the life Criminal in 19th-Century New York of Edward Oscar Heinrich, who had DB98773 10 hours 14 minutes an uncanny knack for finding clues, by Stacy Horn establishing evidence, and deducing read by Pam Ward answers. In the 1930s, Heinrich pio- Discusses the history of Blackwell’s neered the forensic science techniques Island, which New York City purchased upon which the American legal system in 1828. Describes the construction of a now relies. Unrated. Commercial audio- lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, work- book. 2020. house, and almshouse on the island; the Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor lives of those sent there; and the work Exposes the Psychology and Politics of done by officials, reformers, and jour- Wrongful Convictions nalists, including Nellie Bly. Unrated. DB98803 11 hours 49 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2018. by Mark Godsey A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne read by BJ Harrison Sinclair Story; A Journey from Murder Former hard-nosed prosecutor who to Redemption inside America’s Worst later became an attorney for the Ohio Prison System Innocence Project shares how innate DB98489 14 hours 21 minutes psychological flaws in judges, police, by Billy Wayne Sinclair and lawyers, and juries coupled with a Jodie Sinclair “tough on crime” environment can cause read by Bill Wallace investigations to go awry, leading to the Memoir of a man written while serving convictions of innocent people. Unrated. life in prison for a murder that occurred Commercial audiobook. 2019. during a bungled 1965 convenience store 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of holdup. He became a respected jailhouse Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention lawyer, an award-winning journalist, of Modern Forensics a whistleblower, and a driving force DB99021 8 hours 38 minutes behind the integration of Louisiana’s by Bruce Goldfarb Angola State Penitentiary. Coauthored by read by Nan McNamara the journalist he married by proxy. 2000.

41 Adult Nonfiction Family, Folktales , Government and Politics Family Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Grandmothering: Building Strong Ties Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More with Every Generation Unjust America DB98808 8 hours 50 minutes DB98818 14 hours 18 minutes by Kathleen Stassen Berger by Adam Cohen read by Randye Kaye read by Dan Woren The author describes the many roles that The author of Imbeciles (DB84223) grandmothers can play in the lives of presents his views on the shifting polit- their children and grandchildren without ical leanings of the Supreme Court in overstepping, exploring the needs the time between the Nixon and Trump of each stage of childhood. Unrated. administrations. Surveys significant rul- Commercial audiobook. 2020. ings during that time period and assesses them for any perceived agenda. Unrated. Folktales Commercial audiobook. 2020. Mythos Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our DB97936 15 hours 28 minutes Presidents, Their Books, and the Shaping by Stephen Fry of American History read by Stephen Fry DB98626 15 hours 41 minutes Comedian, novelist, and actor provides by Craig Fehrman his own spin on the classic Greek myths read by Fred Sanders for the modern age. Retells the stories of Journalist provides an overview of books the titans and gods as a light account of written by American presidents, begin- ribaldry, revelry, warfare, worship, love ning with Thomas Jefferson and con- affairs, slayings, suicides, triumphs, and tinuing through Donald Trump. Discusses tragedies. Unrated. Commercial audio- the motivations for these publications, book. 2017. their contents, and their impact on the Government and Politics lives of the authors and society at large. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy Madness in the 21st Century DB98083 17 hours 23 minutes DB97961 9 hours 39 minutes by Brian Brown by Thant Myint-U read by Dan Warren read by Assaf Cohen Examines the unfounded American fears, Historian, former diplomat, and paranoias, and delusions of the Cold War as presidential advisor examines the dif- well as unsuspected real threats. Discusses ficulties faced by Burma after years of a spy cell of aristocratic Englishmen and hardship. Discusses the economic, envi- the true conflicts caused by fearmongering ronmental, social, and political factors leaders like J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph that may be threatening the fledgling McCarthy, and Richard Nixon. Unrated. democracy. Unrated. Commercial audio- Commercial audiobook. 2019. book. 2019. 42 Adult Nonfiction—Government and Politics, Home Management, LGBT Issues The Enigma of Clarence Thomas Portrays life in early twenty-first century DB98835 9 hours 53 minutes Russia through profiles of various individ- by Corey Robin uals. Examines politicians, artists, histo- read by Larry Herron rians, a television channel director, a priest, The author delves into the life, career, and and a humanitarian. Explores the varying beliefs of Supreme Court judge Clarence levels of cooperation with the government Thomas. Posits that the root of his conser- citizens must engage in to live their lives. vative views lies in his identity as a Black Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. nationalist and his views regarding racism. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Home Management Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life of Donald Trump DB98735 8 hours 8 minutes DB97884 12 hours 20 minutes by Joshua Becker by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch read by Joshua Becker read by Mark Deakins The author of The More of Less The founders of political opposition (DB88012) offers advice on decluttering, research company Fusion GPS recount suggests guidelines to simplify one’s being hired to investigate the finances lifestyle and live more purposefully, of Donald Trump and their subsequent and addresses underlying issues that findings. Discusses their involvement may contribute to over-accumulation. with former British intelligence agent Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Christopher Steele and the series of events Language that those communications set in motion. Consider This Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. DB97965 5 hours 54 minutes Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family by Chuck Palahniuk and a Planet in Crisis read by various narrators DB98923 7 hours 40 minutes Novelist who wrote Fight Club by Greta Thunberg and others (DB83519) provides a behind-the-scenes read by Maya Lindh look at life as a writer, discusses the Young climate activist and her family dis- power of storytelling, and gives writing cuss the internal family crisis that led to advice. Provides examples from both their involvement in activism. Recounts classics and his own work. Unrated. Greta’s intense distress about her imper- Commercial audiobook. 2020. iled future due to climate change and their collective determination to fight their LGBT Issues problems at home by taking global action. Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98739 4 hours 24 minutes Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and by Richie Jackson Compromise in Putin’s Russia read by Richie Jackson DB98134 15 hours 0 minutes Written as a letter to his son, a by Joshua Yaffa Broadway, TV, and film producer reflects read by Fred Sanders 43 Adult Nonfiction LGBT Issues, Literature, Medicine and Health on his experiences as a gay man in Medicine and Health America, as well as the progress and set- Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, backs that the American LGBTQ com- Our Economy, Our Communities, and munity has experienced over the past Our Planet—One Bite at a Time fifty years. Unrated. Commercial audio- DB98914 12 hours 18 minutes book. 2020. by Mark Hyman A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir read by Mark Hyman DB99111 9 hours 56 minutes Physician discusses how to grow, pro- by Edie Windsor and Joshua Lyon duce, and consume food to resolve the read by Kristin Allison world’s health, environmental, social, Author describes the path that led her and economic crises. Explains how food to sue the United States government for and agriculture policies are corrupted by federal recognition of her marriage to money and lobbies that drive the spread her partner of more than four decades. of obesity and food-related chronic dis- Recounts her childhood, realization ease, climate change, poverty, violence, that she was a lesbian, life in 1950s and educational achievement gaps. Greenwich Village, work in computing, Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. and marriages. Some strong language. Mastering Diabetes: The Revolutionary 2019. Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Literature Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature; Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes American Writers; English Writers DB98915 14 hours 17 minutes DB96662 58 hours 15 minutes by Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro by Henry James read by various narrators read by Stephen Van Doren Maintains that while eating a low- Collection of critiques by renowned carbohydrate, high-fat diet improves novelist Henry James (1843–1916). This short-term blood glucose control, that first volume features his critical writ- diet also increases the long-term risk for ings and appreciation of the works of chronic diseases. Proposes instead eating famous authors, from Edgar Allan Poe to a low-fat plant-based whole-food diet Nathaniel Hawthorne. Includes theoret- to reverse insulin resistance in all types ical essays “The Art of Fiction” and “The of diabetes. Includes more than thirty Future of the Novel.” 1984. nutrient-dense recipes and other supple- Dad Jokes: The Good. The Bad. mental material. Unrated. Commercial The Terrible audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. DB96807 1 hour 45 minutes Mindfulness Meditations for Anxiety: by Jimmy Niro 100 Simple Practices to Find Peace read by Bill Delaney Right Now A collection of jokes that a corny dad DB97954 5 hours 1 minute would tell his kids. The jokes are heavy by Michael Smith on puns and silly wordplay. 2018. read by Tim Pabon 44 Adult Nonfiction—Medicine and Health, Music, Nature and the Environment Psychologist and meditation instructor Author of Lab Girl (DB84436) exam- shares one hundred breathing and mind- ines the causes and outcomes contrib- fulness exercises to reduce nervousness uting to climate change. Topics covered and fear. Describes how the exercises include the ways humans arrived at life were developed to target specific types in the twenty-first century; industrialized of anxiety, whether they involve time of food production of products like grain, day, physical circumstances, or stressors meat, fish, and sugar; energy consump- like insomnia. Unrated. Commercial tion; and physical impacts on natural audiobook. 2019. formations. Unrated. Commercial audio- book. 2020. Music This Is Chance! The Shaking of an More Myself: A Journey All-American City, a Voice That Held DB98906 9 hours 58 minutes It Together by Alicia Keys DB98828 8 hours 25 minutes read by various narrators by Jon Mooallem Memoir of a multiple Grammy-winning read by Ray Porter musician who grew up in the Hell’s Chronicles the earthquake that Kitchen neighborhood of New York struck Anchorage, Alaska, in City, the only child of a single mother. 1964—rated as the most powerful Describes her journey as an artist and her in American history. Focuses on the recollections of those who helped her on work of part-time reporter Genie her rise to the top. Unrated. Commercial Chance, who provided real-time audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. coverage and instructions via radio Open Book: A Memoir station KENI for fifty-nine contin- DB98656 11 hours 24 minutes uous hours, and its impact on the by Jessica Simpson community. Unrated. Commercial read by Jessica Simpson audiobook. 2020. Memoir of the pop singer and reality TV Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save star. Examines her own life and famous the Florida Panther romantic relationships, sharing insights DB99023 9 hours 47 minutes about her own need to please and what by Craig Pittman it felt like to be thought of as a walking read by Mike Chamberlain blonde joke. Unrated. Commercial Journalist recounts efforts to bring the audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. Florida panther back from the brink of Nature and the Environment extinction, which pivoted on the acci- The Story of More: How We Got to dental death of one specific specimen. Climate Change and Where to Go Discusses the personalities involved, from Here positive and negative effects of scientific DB98827 6 hours 45 minutes study, and points of weirdness that seem by Hope Jahren specific to Florida. Unrated. Commercial read by Hope Jahren audiobook. 2020.

45 Adult Nonfiction Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology and Self-Help Philosophy British journalist and self-described Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die: The introvert describes her experiment of Complexities of Assisted Dying living like an extrovert for a year. She DB98989 3 hours 50 minutes tackles personal challenges such as by Nikki Tate talking to strangers, hosting a dinner read by Jean Cochran party, traveling on her own, and per- Examines the complex issue of medical forming stand-up comedy. Some strong assistance in dying from multiple per- language. 2019. spectives. Considers the context, the law, The Gift of Forgiveness: Inspiring Stories practical and philosophical views, the from Those Who Have Overcome the nature of suffering, and defining a good Unforgivable death. For junior and senior high readers. DB98912 4 hours 40 minutes 2019. by Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt read by Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt Poetry Collects interviews exploring The Crying Book forgiveness. Contributors—both famous DB98483 3 hours 44 minutes and not—include those who have by Heather Christle struggled with forgiveness, those still read by Kristin Allison struggling, and those who have been Poet wrestles with the concepts and able to forgive what might seem truly impacts of death, mental illness, grief, unforgivable. Unrated. Commercial joy, impending motherhood, and the role audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. of crying in female agency. Some strong Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan language. 2019. Created Its Own Lost Generation Poetry and Tales DB99067 12 hours 56 minutes DB96174 53 hours 38 minutes by Michael Zielenziger by Edgar Allan Poe read by Barry Bernson read by Stephen Van Doren Journalist explores societal shifts Collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry in modern Japan. Discusses trends and tales presented chronologically to emerging after the Japanese eco- showcase his development as a writer. nomic collapse of the 1990s, including Includes the five scenes from “Politian,” hikikomori—single men who close his one attempt at drama. Edited by themselves away like hermits in their Patrick F. Quinn. 1984. apartments. Describes how young Psychology and Self-Help women are breaking from tradition and rejecting marriage and motherhood. Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: 2006. One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes DB96264 10 hours 36 minutes by Jessica Pan read by Laura Godfrey Dunlop

46 Adult Nonfiction—Religion Religion Done with That: Escape the Struggle of D.L. Moody: A Life; Innovator, Your Old Life Evangelist, World-Changer DB98478 5 hours 58 minutes DB98084 8 hours 43 minutes by Bob Merritt by Kevin Belmonte read by David Hartley-Margolin read by Grover Gardner Pastor of megachurch presents a Biography of D.L. Moody (1837–1899), guide to better understanding a founder of the Moody Bible new life in communion with Christ. Institute among other endeavors. Discusses the struggles of leaving Discusses his early years growing up in behind your old way of living, being New England, his calling to serve Jesus, honest about what you value, working his evangelical work in Chicago, the through the transition, and understanding development of his missions, and his what you gain by giving up other things. legacy. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. 2014. Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your DB97948 3 hours 25 minutes Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Jack Miles DB97947 12 hours 18 minutes read by David Cochran Heath by Tara Brach Author of God (DB41337) and Christ read by Cassandra Campbell (DB55196) presents a meditation Psychotherapist and meditation teacher on the study of religion which is an presents a guide to developing an under- expansion of his introductions to the standing of ourselves in order to live Norton Anthology of World Religions, more richly. Provides personal stories, Volume 1 (DB82222) and Volume 2 case histories, interpretations of Buddhist (DB82210). Unrated. Commercial tales, and guided meditations. Unrated. audiobook. 2019. Commercial audiobook. 2003. Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed Fellowship, One of America’s Most an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Dangerous Cults Do It Again Today DB98634 12 hours 22 minutes DB97943 7 hours 38 minutes by Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr by Greg Laurie and Ellen Vaughn read by Vivienne Leheny read by Nan McNamara Examines the Word of Faith Fellowship, Recounts the revivalist movement of an evangelical Christian group which the 1960s and 70s and analyzes ways was formed in 1979 and has been it can impact faith movements of the accused of being a cult. Discusses the early-twenty-first century. Examines the life and leadership style of founder Jane social history of the movement, promi- Whaley, the experiences of those who nent figures, and its loss of traction in the have left the group, and accusations of 1980s. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. child abuse. Unrated. Commercial audio- 2018. book. 2020.

47 Adult Nonfiction Science and Technology, Social Sciences Science and Technology The Genius of Women: From Overlooked The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the to Changing the World Pursuit of the Unknown DB98816 10 hours 1 minute DB96675 5 hours 43 minutes by Janice Kaplan by Karen Olsson read by Janice Kaplan read by Nora Achrati The author of The Gratitude Diaries Author of All the Houses (DB83708) (DB82454) reflects on women geniuses examines the lives of siblings and their accomplishments throughout Simone Weil—a philosopher, mystic, and history. Also draws on interviews with social activist—and André—an influen- women geniuses at work in the early tial mathematician. Reflects on the ways twenty-first century, including Nobel math and intellectual history intertwine, Prize winner Frances Arnold and AI and the ways math has influenced her expert Fei-Fei Li. Unrated. Commercial own life. 2019. audiobook. 2020. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women Social Sciences That a Movement Forgot A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty DB98638 7 hours 0 minutes Writers on Immigration, Family, and the by Mikki Kendall Meaning of Home read by Mikki Kendall DB99082 6 hours 19 minutes Eighteen essays examining feminism edited by Nicole Chung and and its need to intersect with race, class, Mensah Demary and sexual orientation. Topics discussed read by Theresa Conkin include gun violence, food insecurity, Essays from various writers highlight access to quality education, safe neigh- the human side of immigration policies borhoods, earning a living wage, and and polarized rhetoric through personal access to medical care. Violence and stories. Authors include Victoria Blanco, strong language. Commercial audiobook. Nina Li Coomes, Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, 2020. and Porochista Khakpour. Strong lan- Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope guage and some violence. 2020. DB98135 9 hours 45 minutes Minor Feelings: An Asian American by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Reckoning WuDunn DB98817 6 hours 55 minutes read by various narrators by Cathy Park Hong The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of read by Cathy Park Hong Half the Sky (DB70300) examine life Author reflects on her experiences for working-class Americans and dis- living as an Asian American in the cuss the issues they face. Studies the early twenty-first century. Traces the disappearance of many blue-collar jobs, author’s relationship with language, deaths related to drugs and alcohol, sui- shame, depression, poetry, family, and cide, and the long-term damage of public female friendship. Unrated. Commercial policy mistakes. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. audiobook. 2020. 48 Adult Nonfiction—Social Sciences Busted in New York and Other Essays Before and after Loss: A Neurologist’s DB99066 16 hours 12 minutes Perspective on Loss, Grief, and Our by Darryl Pinckney Brain read by Jon Huffman DB98802 5 hours 59 minutes Essays from literary critic and by Lisa M. Shulman novelist about racial history that blend read by Donna Postel the personal and the social. Traces Neurologist describes a personal story the lineage of Black intellectual of loss and her journey to understand the history, discusses the literary Black science behind the mind-altering expe- diaspora, and reflects on Obama’s first rience of grief. Explores the emerging presidential campaign. Strong language. neuroscience of emotional trauma as the 2019. cause of brain injury and traces the inter- American Poison: How Racial Hostility face between the experience of profound Destroyed Our Promise loss and the search for emotional resto- DB98921 7 hours 17 minutes ration. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. by Eduardo Porter 2018. read by various narrators Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Examines the potential role of Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All racism in stunting the development the Other Words That Are Used to of nearly every institution crucial for Undermine Women building a healthy American society, DB98918 8 hours 5 minutes including organized labor, public edited by Lizzie Skurnick education, and the social safety net. read by various narrators Illuminates ways that America may Female writers explore the obvious be able to construct a more cohesive and subtle ways the hidden mean- society. Unrated. Commercial ings of words can limit or liberate audiobook. 2020. women. Includes essays from Laura Me and White Supremacy: Combat Lipmann, Meg Wolizer, Jennifer Weiner, Racism, Change the World, and Become Rebecca Traister, and others. Unrated. a Good Ancestor Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98751 5 hours 22 minutes Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can by Layla F. Saad Change the World read by Layla F. Saad DB98734 9 hours 11 minutes Twenty-eight day guide to examining the edited by Jessica Valenti and ways white supremacy influences your Jaclyn Friedman life. Provides exercises to assist in dis- read by various narrators mantling those thought processes. Topics Prominent women discuss the poten- include definitions, anti-Blackness, racial tial positive social impacts of taking stereotypes, allyship, power differentials, women seriously on a wide range of and continuing the work. Commercial issues. Essays explore topics including audiobook. 2020. reproduction, health care, and violence. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. 49 Adult Nonfiction Sports and Recreation, Stage and Screen Sports and Recreation abandoned horses, teaching both to trust. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Untold Story of 18 African Americans Sports Makes You Type Faster: The Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Entire World of Sports by One of Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics America’s Most Famous Sportswriters DB98792 9 hours 11 minutes DB98485 6 hours 13 minutes by Deborah Riley Draper and by Dan Jenkins Travis Thrasher read by David Hartley-Margolin read by Leon Nixon Essays from a sports journalist who was Discusses the turbulent backdrop of a a feature writer for Sports Illustrated for segregated United States and describes twenty-five years, as well as an essayist the dilemma of sixteen black men and for Golf Digest. While golf appears fre- two black women on whether to partic- quently, there are essays on many other ipate in or boycott the 1936 Olympic sports and sports personalities. 2018. Games in Nazi Germany. Focuses on five Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on of these athletes. Unrated. Commercial the Navajo Nation audiobook. 2020. DB97924 7 hours 46 minutes The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, by Michael Powell Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a read by Darrell Dennis College Basketball Season Journalist looks at a Navajo high school DB98811 14 hours 11 minutes basketball team from northern Arizona. by John Feinstein Examines the team members’ struggles read by John Feinstein with everyday challenges of high school, Legendary sportswriter and author of The adolescence, and family and chronicles Legends Club (DB84012) looks at the the broader challenges and obstacles underdogs of college basketball. Profiles facing Native Americans living on res- some of the smaller programs who no ervations. Unrated. Commercial audio- one expects to win, who can’t attract the book. 2019. most coveted high school recruits, and Stage and Screen who rarely send their players on to the The Movie Musical! NBA. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. DB98081 24 hours 22 minutes 2020. by Jeanine Basinger Half Broke: A Memoir read by Erin Bennett DB98796 8 hours 14 minutes Film historian chronicles the story of by Ginger Gaffney the movie musical, from Fred Astaire to read by Christa Lewis La La Land. Analyzes the many ways Top-ranked horse trainer describes song and dance have been used in film, her time at an alternative prison ranch portrays some of the iconic musical in New Mexico. Discusses bringing stars, and shares insights into musicals together emotionally shattered and often both famous and obscure. Unrated. drug-addicted prisoners with abused or Commercial audiobook. 2019. 50 Adult Nonfiction—Stage and Screen, US History The Office: The Untold Story of the Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker DB98954 14 hours 22 minutes DB98953 10 hours 9 minutes by Andy Greene by Barry Sonnenfeld read by various narrators read by Barry Sonnenfeld Oral history of the TV program The Successful director of films including Office, which ran from 2005 to 2013. Men in Black discusses his childhood Interviews the show’s creators, writers, in New York, his early work in the film and actors. Shares behind-the-scenes industry (including a memorable period stories and favorite moments from its as a cameraman in the porn industry), and origins on British TV to the slow rating the opportunities that helped him forge start of the American reboot. Unrated. a career as a film and television director. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. High on Arrival Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge DB96673 12 hours 0 minutes DB98702 13 hours 22 minutes by Mackenzie Phillips and Hilary Liftin by Sheila Weller read by Celeste Lawson read by Saskia Maarleveld Memoir of the actress best known for her Journalist examines the life of the actress role in the TV series One Day at a Time and writer most famous for her portrayal (1975-1984). Shares her unconventional of Princess Leia in the Star Wars films. childhood as the daughter of musician Explores her childhood as the daughter John Phillips, her own career, and her of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, long struggles with addictions. Strong her acting career, her struggles with language, some violence, and some addiction and mental illnesses, and more. descriptions of sex. 2009. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. The Way We All Became the Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became US History the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are You Never Forget Your First: A Still Talking about Today Biography of George Washington DB97923 7 hours 57 minutes DB98883 6 hours 42 minutes by Kimberly Potts by Alexis Coe read by Chloe Cannon read by various narrators Pop culture writer looks at the televi- In this biography of America’s first sion program The Brady Bunch, which president, the author examines George aired from 1969 to 1974. Examines the Washington’s life outside of his most show’s lasting influence—despite low famous moments. Discusses the changes ratings and critical reviews—and pro- he made after marrying Martha, his vides behind-the-scenes insight into lesser-known activities during the the production and casting of the iconic Revolutionary War, what happened sitcom. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. when he faced his own hypocrisy of 2019. owning slaves, and his death. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. 51 Adult Nonfiction US History, World History Franklin & Washington: The Founding read by Robert Fass Partnership The author recounts his experiences DB98625 11 hours 3 minutes when he and his wife were shipped to the by Edward J. Larson infamous Nazi Auschwitz concentration read by Andrew Tell camp. Describes the battle for survival Pulitzer Prize-winning historian offers up the pair faced and the difficulties they a dual biography examining the decades- underwent even as the war drew to a long relationship between Founding close. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Fathers George Washington and Benjamin 2019. Franklin. Discusses their teamwork in The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny achieving American independence and DB99105 9 hours 36 minutes then strengthening the new country. by Daisy Dunn Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Mark Ashby The Civil War: The First Year Told by A literary biography of Pliny the Those Who Lived It Younger, a survivor of the historic DB96532 32 hours 15 minutes Vesuvius eruption who became a Roman edited by Brooks D. Simpson and others lawyer, senator, poet, and representa- read by Kristin Allison tive of the Emperor. Also recounts his More than one hundred twenty pieces adoption by his uncle, the author of the drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, Natural History and explores the impact articles, poems, songs, military reports, of life with him. 2019. legal opinions, and memoirs that create a Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story firsthand narrative of the first year of the of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Civil War. 2011. Resisted the Nazis The Civil War: The Third Year Told by DB98849 7 hours 49 minutes Those Who Lived It by K. R. Gaddy DB96540 35 hours 13 minutes read by Natasha Soudek edited by Brooks D. Simpson Historian chronicles the efforts of the read by Ken Kliban Edelweiss Pirates, working-class German Presents firsthand accounts of the third teens who sabotaged the Nazis during the year of the Civil War, spanning the cru- Third Reich and suffered consequences cial months from January 1863 to March for their resistance during and after World 1864. Collection of letters, diary entries, War II. Strong language and some vio- speeches, articles, messages, and poems lence. Commercial audiobook. For junior from the participants and observers of and senior high and older readers. 2020. the time. 2013. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled World History Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of in the Middle East Survival from within the Camp DB98785 16 hours 36 minutes DB98813 7 hours 40 minutes by Kim Ghattas by Eliazar de Wind 52 Adult Nonfiction—World History read by various narrators Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the The author of Secretary: A Journey with Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Hillary Clinton (DBC02644) examines Operation the rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia DB98688 17 hours 49 minutes and Shia Iran, identifying its root in by Steve Vogel the 1979 Iranian revolution. Discusses read by Joel Richards the role this cultural tension played in the Describes the espionage operations con- 1991 US invasion of Iraq, 9/11 terrorist ducted using the Berlin Tunnel, a secret attacks, and rise of ISIS. Unrated. tunnel that crossed the border between Commercial audiobook. 2020. the American and Soviet sectors of The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing the city. Also conveys the actions of a of Dresden, 1945 traitor, code-named Agent Diamond, DB98814 13 hours 52 minutes who betrayed the enterprise. Unrated. by Sinclair McKay Commercial audiobook. 2019. read by Leighton Pugh Recounts a devastating attack conducted by British bombers on the German city of Dresden. Examines life in the city just prior to the attack, tracks the bombing itself, and reflects on the subsequent reconstruction and recovery Dresden faced. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate DB97958 9 hours 42 minutes by James Verini read by Ray Porter Journalistic account of the climactic Battle of Mosul in the struggle against the Islamic State. Follows the experi- ences of two brothers from Mosul and their families, an Iraqi major, Kurdish militiamen, and an American sergeant. Draws comparisons to historic conflict. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

53 Books for Children Books and magazines are also available for Family immediate download from the NLS Braille Clean Getaway and Audio Reading Download (BARD) site DB98099 3 hours 58 minutes at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. To order books or by Nic Stone sign up for BARD, contact your local coop- read by Dion Graham erating library. Regional library telephone When the run-ins at school have led numbers and email addresses are listed on to a lockdown at home, Scoob jumps the last pages of this magazine. at the chance to go with G’ma on an Books are listed alphabetically within the impromptu road trip using a strange, old headings Children’s Fiction and Children’s green pamphlet as their guide. But their Nonfiction by subject category, author Winnebago adventure soon turns into last name, and title. For example, the title uncertainty. Commercial audiobook. For Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown grades 5–8. 2020. would be listed in Children’s Fiction under Roll with It the Classics subject category and by the last DB97973 4 hours 32 minutes name Brown. by Jamie Sumner read by Candace Thaxton Children’s Fiction Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when Adventure she moves with her mother to small-town 96 Miles Oklahoma to help care for her grand- DB99009 8 hours 2 minutes father, who has dementia. Commercial by J.L. Esplin audiobook. For grades 5–8. 2019. read by Robbie Daymond After a massive blackout hits rural Fantasy Nevada, two brothers become desperate The Goblin War and decide to cross a deadly desert in DB99107 7 hours 0 minutes search of help. Commercial audiobook. by Hilari Bell For grades 6–9. 2020. read by Peter Holdway Pigboy After crossing over from the Otherworld DB98848 1 hour 17 minutes where they have been trapped in mortal by Vicki Grant danger, Tobin and Makenna must figure read by Narrator Unknown out how to help Jeriah stop an army of Targeted by bullies, Dan Hogg dreads barbarians from taking over their Realm. the field trip to a heritage farm that raises Sequel to The Goblin Gate (DB72299). pigs. When their tour guide happens to For grades 6–9. 2011. be an angry, tattooed farmer, Dan sus- Ancient, Strange, and Lovely: The pects something is off, but never imag- Dragon Chronicles ined how bad things can get. Commercial DB97908 6 hours 34 minutes audiobook. For grades 5–8. 2006. by Susan Fletcher read by Leslie Bellair

54 Children’s Fiction—Fantasy, Friendship, Growing Up, Holidays, Humor Fourteen-year-old Bryn must try to find Growing Up a way to save a baby dragon from a King and the Dragonflies dangerous modern world that seems to DB98682 5 hours 6 minutes have no place for something so ancient. by Kacen Callender Sequel to Sign of the Dove (DB52532). read by Ron Butler Commercial audiobook. For grades 5–8 In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, and older readers. 2013. one boy’s grief takes him beyond the Frostfire bayous of his backyard, to learn that DB98845 6 hours 10 minutes there is no right way to be yourself. by Jamie Smith Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. read by Catherine Ho 2020. Chosen for the honor of bonding with a frostsliver, a fragment of the sentient Holidays glacier, Sabira embarks on the dangerous Hanukkah Bear pilgrimage to the top of the mountain. DB97860 0 hours 13 minutes But when a huge avalanche traps her and by Eric A. Kimmel destroys the pass, Sabira is determined read by Laural Merlington to find another way home. Commercial On the first night of Hanukkah, Old Bear audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2018. wanders into Bubba Brayna’s house and receives a delicious helping of potato Friendship latkes when she mistakes him for the Here in the Real World rabbi. Commercial audiobook. For pre- DB98681 5 hours 30 minutes school-grade 2. 2013. by Sara Pennypacker read by Noah Galvin Humor Immersing himself in a fantasy world of The Best of Iggy knights and chivalry, introverted Ware is DB97976 1 hour 7 minutes sent to a summer camp designed around by Annie Barrows social interactions and begins building a read by Kate Reinders castle-like private space while clashing Relates three times that nine-year-old with a fellow misfit. Commercial audio- Iggy got into trouble, two of which he book. For grades 4–7. 2020. does not regret and one for which he is Nessie Quest very, very sorry. Commercial audiobook. DB98742 9 hours 33 minutes For grades 2–4. 2020. by Melissa Savage Dog’s Best Friend: Middle School read by various narrators DB99132 3 hours 14 minutes Twelve-year-old Adelaide Ru Fitzhugh by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts reluctantly joins her parents in Scotland read by Bryan Kennedy for the summer, where she and new When he spots his grandmother friends Dax and Hammy Bean search standing on the free-meal line at the for the Loch Ness Monster. Commercial local soup kitchen, Rafe creates a audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2020. 55 Children’s Fiction Humor, Mystery and Detective, Religious Themes dog-walking business plan. But his huge Mystery and Detective money-making neighborhood empire Andi Unstoppable: An Andi Boggs Novel gets competition. Sequel to Just My DB89065 3 hours 33 minutes Rotten Luck (DB99131). Commercial by Amanda Flower audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2016. read by Mare Trevathan Escape to Australia: Middle School Andi and her best friend Colin team DB99133 3 hours 15 minutes up with her rival Ava to compete in a by James Patterson and seventh-grade science project to be the Martin Chatterton first to spot a rare bird in the woods. read by Michael Crouch They run into the town’s resident ghost The trip to Australia Rafe has won instead and investigate. For grades 4–7. starts badly, but after connecting with 2015. a group of misfits he finds a way to do The Winterhouse Mysteries what he does best—create mayhem. DB97970 9 hours 51 minutes Sequel to Dog’s Best Friend (DB99132). by Ben Guterson Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. read by Sophie Amoss 2017. After finally settling in at the From Hero to Zero: Middle School Winterhouse Hotel, Elizabeth and Freddy DB99134 3 hours 35 minutes are drawn into an ominous mystery by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts involving unnatural tremors, eerie cries, read by Michael Crouch and a rare book. Sequel to The Secrets When Rafe is forced to work on a project of Winterhouse (DB93130). Commercial side by side with his crush and her audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. too-perfect boyfriend, he thinks it might be even worse than his roommate assign- Religious Themes ment for the London class trip. Sequel Best Family Ever: A Baxter Family to Escape to Australia (DB99133). Children Story Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. DB98679 5 hours 26 minutes 2018. by Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell Just My Rotten Luck: Middle School read by various narrators DB99131 4 hours 30 minutes When news comes that the Baxter by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts family must move from Michigan to read by Bryan Kennedy Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter A new year begins and it is starting to siblings are reluctant to leave the only look depressingly like the old one. But home and friends they have ever known. Rafe discovers a way of dealing with his Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. bullying nemesis and flag-football team- 2019. mate, Miller the Killer. Sequel to Save Rafe! (DB99130). Commercial audio- book. For grades 3–6. 2015.

56 Children’s Fiction—Scary Stories, Science Fiction, Sports Stories Scary Stories Sports Stories The Alchemist’s Shadow: Watch Hollow Black Brother, Black Brother DB98843 4 hours 27 minutes DB98876 4 hours 38 minutes by Gregory Funaro by Jewell Parker Rhodes read by Reba Buhr read by Barrie Buckner Shortly after the Kojima twins arrive Suspended unjustly from elite from England, claiming to be the rightful Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies heirs to Blackford House, a great evil fencing with a former champion, hoping enters the home, turning it into an ever- to put the racist fencing team captain in changing labyrinth. Lucy and Oliver join his place. Commercial audiobook. For forces with the twins to fight it. Sequel to grades 4–7. 2020. Watch Hollow (DB94147). Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2020. Revenge of the Invisible Boy: Goosebumps SlappyWorld DB98846 2 hours 47 minutes by R.L. Stine read by various narrators After an embarrassing failure at Magic Club, Frankie wants revenge against Ari, who ruins everyone’s tricks. A leg- endary magician comes to town to per- form his daring stunts, and Frankie sees an opportunity to get even with Ari. But then everything goes wrong. Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2019. Science Fiction The Last Book in the Universe DB99010 4 hours 27 minutes by Rodman Philbrick read by Jeremy Davies On a ruined post-apocalyptic Earth, young Spaz struggles to find his dying sister, helped by an old man who remem- bers how to read, a five-year-old, and a genetically improved girl. The haz- ardous trek through toxic regions ruled by gangs leads them to a forbidden Eden. Commercial audiobook. For grades 5–8 and older readers. 2000.

57 Children’s Nonfiction Biography, General, Sports and Recreation Children’s Nonfiction General Biography Scholastic Book of World Records 2020 DB98248 5 hours 16 minutes The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis by Cynthia O’Brien and others DB95974 1 hour 30 minutes read by Mark Ashby by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson Collection of amazing world records in read by Gary Telles the areas of popular culture, sports, sci- Recounts the life of US Representative ence, nature, and technology. Includes John Lewis, whose work for civil rights a section for the United States. For included chairing the Student Nonviolent grades 3–6 and older readers. 2019. Coordinating Committee and demon- strating on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Sports and Recreation Selma, Alabama. For grades 3–6. 2018. Scholastic Year in Sports 2020 The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer DB98249 7 hours 5 minutes and the Plot to Kill Hitler by James Buckley, Jr. DB94260 3 hours 56 minutes read by David DeBoy by John Hendrix Presents the most interesting, monu- read by Ryan Dalusung mental, and strange sports stories of Recounts the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2019, including championship statistics a pastor who started a church in in baseball, football, basketball, hockey, Germany that opposed Adolf Hitler’s golf, and tennis. For grades 3–6 and Nazi Party. Describes Bonhoeffer’s alli- older readers. 2019. ance with conspirators who sought to kill John Madden: Game for Life Hitler, his imprisonment, and his execu- DB95735 3 hours 27 minutes tion just weeks before Germany’s sur- by Peter Richmond render. For grades 6–9 and older readers. read by Chris Browning 2018. Explores the life of legendary NFL Reaching for the Moon: The coach, announcer, and video game per- Autobiography of NASA Mathematician sonality John Madden. As head coach Katherine Johnson of the Oakland Raiders, Madden won DB95871 5 hours 21 minutes more games than any other coach in by Katherine Johnson Raiders history and earned a spot in the read by Heather Alicia Simms Pro Football Hall of Fame. Commercial NASA mathematician discusses her audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2019. childhood, her exceptional aptitude in math, the challenges she faced as an African American girl growing up in an era of brutal racism and sexism, and her contributions to several space missions. Commercial audiobook. For grades 5–8 and older readers. 2019.

58 Foreign Language Español Patria (Homeland) DB92492 20 hours 32 minutes Los libros presentes en esta edición de por Fernando Aramburu Talking Book Topics (Temas de Libros leído por María Pino Parlantes) se enviaron recientemente a las Amigos de un pasado lejano—Bittori, bibliotecas de cooperación. La colección Txato, Miren, y Joxian—se enfrentan completa, que contiene una amplia gama de a una amarga cosecha de fanatismo y libros de ficción y no ficción, incluyendo violencia en Euskadi, el País Vasco. biografías, clásicos, de vaqueros, misterios, Violencia, lenguaje injurioso, y descrip- y romancias, se puede encontrar en ciones de índole sexual. 2016. (Friends www.loc.gov/nls. from a distant past—Bittori, Txato, Los usuarios registrados también pueden Miren, and Joxian—confront a bitter descargar de inmediato todos los títulos y harvest of fanaticism and violence in revistas del servicio de Descarga de Lectura Euskadi, the Basque Country. Violence, en Braille y Audio del NLS (BARD) en strong language, and descriptions of sex. https://nlsbard.loc.gov. La aplicación móvil 2016.) de BARD está disponible en la App Store, Via Rapida al Cielo (Fast Lane to Google Play, y en la Appstore de Amazon Heaven) para leer audiolibros en su teléfono inteli- DB93451 9 hours 31 minutes gente o su tableta personal. Para conocer por Ned Dougherty más sobre la colección o para registrarse leído por Nelson Brennes para utilizar BARD, comuníquese con Un ex agente inmobiliario de Nueva su biblioteca de cooperación local. Los York y dueño de un club nocturno números de teléfono y las direcciones de describe su experiencia cercana a la correo electrónico de las bibliotecas regio- muerte en 1984 que fue el catalizador nales se encuentran en las últimas páginas de un encuentro con un espíritu que más de esta revista. tarde reconoció como la Virgen María. Nota: Puede aparecer un aviso inmedia- Sin calificación. Audiolibro comercial. tamente a continuación de la descripción 2004. (A former New York real estate del libro para indicar escenas de violencia, broker and nightclub owner describes lenguaje violento o descripciones de sexo. his near-death experience in 1984 that La palabra “algunas” antes de cualquiera de was the catalyst for an encounter with a estos términos indica un hecho ocasional o spirit he later recognized to be the Virgin poco frecuente, como por ejemplo “lenguaje Mary. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. violento poco frecuente”. Los audiolibros 2004.) comerciales de los cuales el NLS no tiene acceso al libro impreso, pueden presentar el aviso “sin calificación”, lo que significa que el libro puede contener o no violencia, lenguaje violento o descripciones de sexo.

59 Foreign Language Cuentos Completos 2 (Complete Stories 2) Lo Que Fue de Ella (Where She Went) DB94595 22 hours 38 minutes DB95680 6 hours 41 minutes por Rubem Fonseca por Gayle Forman leído por Catherine Nunez leído por María Pino El segundo volumen de los cuentos Adam, una emergente estrella del rock, completos del autor brasileño Rubem y la exitosa violonchelista Mia, de Si Fonseca (nacido en 1925). Incluye los Decido Quedarme (DB95672), se reúnen libros Novela negra y otras historias en Nueva York y se vuelven a conectar (1992), Historias de amor (1997), y después de los horribles eventos que La Cofradía de los Espadas (1998). los separaron años antes. Traducido del Traducido del portugués. Violencia, len- inglés. Lenguaje injurioso y descrip- guaje injurioso, y descripciones de índole ciones de índole sexual. Para lectores sexual. 2018. (The second volume of the de alta secundaria y mayores. 2012. collected stories of the Brazilian author (Rising rock star Adam and successful Rubem Fonseca (born in 1925). Includes cellist Mia, from Si Decido Quedarme the books Novela negra y otras histo- (DB95672), reunite in New York and rias (1992), Historias de amor (1997), reconnect after the horrific events that and La cofradía de los espadas (1998). tore them apart years earlier. Strong lan- Translated from Portuguese. Violence, guage and descriptions of sex. For senior strong language, and descriptions of sex. high and older readers. 2012.) 2018.)

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Adult Fiction □ DB99102 □ DB96809 □ DB98631 Adventure □ DB98944 □ DB98798 □ DB97950 □ DB98810 □ DB98847 □ DB99044 □ DB98888 □ DB98082 □ DB98859 □ DB99029 Family □ DB99095 □ DB98952 □ DB98697 □ DB99032 □ DB98831 □ DB98696 Historical Fiction Human □ DB98769 ­Relationships □ DB95575 □ DB98750 □ DB98787 □ DB97949 General □ DB98482 □ DB95236 □ DB99031 □ DB98647 □ DB97945 □ DB98648 □ DB98747 □ DB98169 Fantasy □ DB98891 □ DB98997 □ DB98689 □ DB98902 □ DB98752 □ DB98896 □ DB98097 □ DB98862 □ DB98756 □ DB98853 □ DB96812 □ DB98850 □ DB98910 □ DB98995 □ DB98704 □ DB98653 □ DB98641 □ DB99112 □ DB98947 □ DB99049 □ DB98766 □ DB98655 □ DB98899 □ DB98771 □ DB98758 □ DB98690 □ DB98732 □ DB98901 □ DB98703 □ DB98825 □ DB98247 □ DB98951 □ DB99047 □ DB98819 □ DB98985 □ DB97920 □ DB98762 □ DB98824 □ DB97913 □ DB96721 □ DB97929 □ DB98481 □ DB98927 □ DB98928 cont. next page Please return your book and magazine cartridges. 63 Adult Fiction cont.

LGBT Themes □ DB96805 Political Themes Romance □ DB98822 □ DB98833 □ DB98632 □ DB98867 □ DB98942 □ DB98875 □ DB99110 □ DB99093 DB97928 Medical Themes □ DB98780 Psychological □ □ DB99094 □ DB98777 □ DB98669 Themes □ DB98659 □ DB99123 □ DB99059 Mystery DB98869 DB98955 □ DB98242 and Detective □ □ DB96876 □ DB98473 □ DB98723 □ Religious Themes DB98724 □ DB98759 □ DB98779 □ □ DB98767 DB98286 □ DB96870 □ DB98330 □ □ DB99037 DB99103 □ DB98900 □ DB98728 □ □ DB99043 DB98664 □ DB98168 □ DB99017 □ □ DB98908 DB98328 □ DB97850 □ DB98727 □ □ DB97946 DB98329 □ DB98300 □ DB97953 □ □ DB98905 DB99114 □ DB98791 □ DB98380 □ □ DB98644 DB98243 □ DB98645 □ DB97957 □ □ DB97925 DB98800 □ DB98323 □ DB98284 □ □ DB98470 DB98801 □ DB98172 □ DB98718 □ □ DB98180 DB97894 □ DB98317 □ DB98093 □ □ DB98714 □ DB96885 □ DB98089 Occult and Horror □ DB98765 □ DB99046 □ DB98720 DB98619 □ DB98936 □ □ DB98863 □ DB98092 □ DB97971 □ DB98793 □ DB98094 □ DB98662 □ DB99041 Science Fiction □ DB98719 □ DB98660 □ DB98943 □ DB98971 □ DB98090 □ DB98661 □ DB96561 □ DB98624 □ DB98088 □ DB97919 □ DB97942 □ DB97959 □ DB98598 □ DB98949 □ DB98799 □ DB96801 □ DB98657 □ DB99060 □ DB98882 □ DB98774 □ DB98179 cont. next page

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Adult Fiction cont. □ DB98311 □ DB98804 Adult Nonfiction □ DB98760 □ DB97893 □ DB98620 Arts □ DB98716 □ DB99072 □ DB98098 □ DB98889 □ DB97890 □ DB99122 □ DB98877 □ DB98079 □ DB98651 □ DB97879 □ DB98740 □ DB98823 □ DB98486 □ DB98874 □ DB98245 Biography □ DB98663 □ DB98722 □ DB97967 □ DB98806 □ DB98333 □ DB97880 □ DB99104 □ DB98086 □ DB98913 □ DB98658 □ DB98884 □ DB98970 □ DB98778 □ DB97956 □ DB98683 Spies and □ DB98606 □ DB97955 Espionage □ DB98783 □ DB98870 □ DB98834 □ DB98096 □ DB98784 □ DB98871 □ DB97951 □ DB98917 Suspense □ DB98331 Westerns □ DB98095 □ DB98597 □ DB98302 □ DB98305 □ DB98842 □ DB98916 □ DB98419 □ DB97969 □ DB97944 □ DB98278 □ DB98868 □ DB98839 □ DB98878 □ DB98717 □ DB98421 □ DB98360 □ DB98484 cont. next page

Please return your book and magazine cartridges. 65 Adult Nonfiction □ DB98626 Philosophy □ DB98918 cont. □ DB97961 □ DB98989 □ DB98734 Business and DB98835 □ Poetry Sports and Economics­ □ DB97884 □ DB98483 Recreation □ DB98854 □ DB98923 □ DB96174 □ DB98792 □ DB98755 □ DB98134 Psychology and □ DB98811 Computers Home Management Self-Help □ DB98796 □ DB98087 □ DB98735 □ DB96264 □ DB98485 DB98912 □ DB97924 Cooking Language □ □ DB99067 □ DB98761 □ DB97965 Stage and Screen □ DB98941 Religion □ DB98081 LGBT Issues □ DB98763 □ DB98084 □ DB98954 □ DB98739 □ DB98757 □ DB97947 □ DB96673 □ DB99111 □ DB98764 □ DB97943 □ DB97923 Literature DB98953 Crime □ DB98478 □ □ DB96662 DB98702 □ DB98873 □ DB97948 □ □ DB96807 □ DB98812 □ DB98634 US History □ DB98803 Medicine and Science and □ DB98883 □ DB99021 Health Technology­ □ DB98625 □ DB98773 □ DB98914 □ DB96675 □ DB96532 DB98489 □ DB98915 DB96540 □ Social Sciences □ □ DB97954 Family □ DB99082 World History □ DB98808 Music □ DB98817 □ DB98813 □ DB98906 DB98816 DB99105 Folktales □ □ □ DB98656 □ DB98638 DB98849 □ DB97936 □ Nature and the □ DB98135 □ DB98785 Government and Environment­ □ DB99066 □ DB98814 Politics □ DB98827 □ DB98921 □ DB97958 □ DB98083 □ DB98828 □ DB98751 □ DB98688 □ DB98818 □ DB99023 □ DB98802

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Children’s Fiction Humor Children’s DB97976 Nonfiction­ Adventure □ □ DB99132 □ DB99009 Biography □ DB99133 □ DB98848 □ DB95974 □ DB99134 □ DB94260 Family □ DB99131 □ DB95871 □ DB98099 Mystery and □ DB97973 General Detective □ DB98248 Fantasy □ DB89065 □ DB99107 □ DB97970 Sports and Recreation □ DB97908 Religious Themes DB98249 □ DB98845 □ □ DB98679 □ DB95735 Friendship Scary Stories □ DB98681 □ DB98843 □ DB98742 □ DB98846 Growing Up Science Fiction □ DB98682 □ DB99010 Holidays Sports Stories □ DB97860 □ DB98876

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