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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 Journey of the Pharaohs by NLS. The complete collection, con- DB99166 9 hours 57 minutes taining a wide range of fiction and nonfic- by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown tion books, including biographies, classics, read by Scott Brick westerns, mysteries, and romances, can be In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear found by visiting www.loc.gov/nls. from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. Registered users may also download all In 1927, a daredevil American aviator titles and magazines from the NLS Braille vanishes on a transcontinental flight. and Audio Reading Download (BARD) And now, a fishing trawler—along service at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. The free with its mysterious cargo—sinks off BARD Mobile app is available from the the coast of Scotland. What do these App Store, Google Play, and Amazon’s three events mean for the NUMA team? Appstore for reading talking books on your Unrated. Commercial audiobook. personal smart phone or tablet. To learn Bestseller. 2020. more about the collection or to sign up Family for BARD, contact your local cooperating A Place in the Country library. Regional library telephone numbers DB99526 8 hours 54 minutes and email addresses are listed on the last by Elizabeth Adler pages of this magazine. read by Charlotte Anne Dore Books within the headings Adult Fiction Single mom Caroline Evans and and Adult Nonfiction are listed alphabeti- her fifteen-year-old daughter Issy cally by subject category, author last name, are trying to adjust to their new life. and title. For example the title War and Issy is still resentful of Caroline Peace by Leo Tolstoy would be listed in leaving Issy’s father, James, despite Adult Fiction under the Classics subject his cheating, but life has a sense of category and by the last name Tolstoy. normal. When James mysteriously Note: A notice may appear immediately appears and disappears, their normality following the book description to indicate is upended. Unrated. Commercial occurrences of violence, strong language, audiobook. 2012. or descriptions of sex. The word “some” Belles before any of these terms indicates an occa- DB99451 9 hours 8 minutes sional or infrequent occurrence, as in “some by Jen Calonita strong language.” Commercial audiobooks read by Julia Whelan for which NLS does not have access to the Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her print book may display the notice “unrated,” impoverished North Carolina beach which means that the book may or may community. But when her grandmother not contain violence, strong language, or moves into a nursing home, Izzie descriptions of sex. is placed with rich, distant relatives 1 Adult Fiction Family, Fantasy she never knew—a state senator and Fantasy his family. Commercial audiobook. Fire Sail: A Xanth Novel For senior high and older readers. 2012. DB99285 12 hours 33 minutes The Grass Is Always Greener: by Piers Anthony A Belles Novel read by Alec Volz DB99453 7 hours 30 minutes Lydell, a shy man of twenty-one, and by Jen Calonita world-weary grandmother Grania read by Julia Whelan meet on the way to beseech the Good Amid preparations for their Southern Magician to add some excitement to town’s Founders Day celebration and their extraordinarily dull lives. He prom- their own birthdays, sisters Isabelle and ises to fulfill their hearts’ desires on the Mirabelle long to break free from the condition they pilot a fireboat to its new tight constraints that come with being the proprietors, whoever—and wherever— daughters of a prominent public figure. they may be. 2019. Sequel to Winter White (DB99452). Red Hood Commercial audiobook. For senior high DB99432 8 hours 16 minutes and older readers. 2013. by Elana K. Arnold Winter White: A Belles Novel read by January LaVoy DB99452 9 hours 35 minutes Since her grandmother became her by Jen Calonita caretaker, Bisou has lived a quiet life in read by Julia Whelan a little house in the Pacific Northwest. Still reeling from the knowledge that But then comes the night she finds they are sisters, Isabelle and Mirabelle herself running for her life—from a wolf. barely have time to process the news Violence, strong language, and some with cotillion season right around the explicit descriptions of sex. Commercial corner. Sequel to Belles (DB99451). audiobook. For senior high and older Commercial audiobook. For senior readers. 2020. high and older readers. 2012. Five Dark Fates Furious Thing DB99015 11 hours 32 minutes DB99126 9 hours 18 minutes by Kendare Blake by Jenny Downham read by Amy Landon read by Jenny Downham After the grim confrontation with Queen Lexi struggles to control her temper for Katharine, the rebellion lies in tatters. reasons she and her family don’t under- A curse has been unbound, and it is up stand. But as she works through the com- to one sister to find a cure. Sequel to plexities of her life, Lexi realizes that Two Dark Reigns (DB99014). Violence there is a reason why she is angry. Some and some strong language. Commercial violence and some strong language. audiobook. For senior high and older Commercial audiobook. For senior high readers. 2019. and older readers. 2019.

2 Adult Fiction—Fantasy Two Dark Reigns When the supernatural leaders of the DB99014 12 hours 18 minutes world meet up in Chicago to negotiate by Kendare Blake an end to ongoing hostilities, wizard read by Amy Landon and Winter Knight Harry Dresden The crown has been won. Katharine sits joins the White Council’s security on the throne of Fennbirn, but an unex- team to make sure the talks stay civil. pected renegade is about to wage a war Violence, some strong language, and of her own. The battle to be queen is far some descriptions of sex. Commercial from done. Sequel to One Dark Throne audiobook. 2020. (DB89215). Some violence. Commercial Sword and Pen: The Great Library, audiobook. For senior high and older Book 5 readers. 2018. DB99184 10 hours 30 minutes Part of Your World: A Twisted Tale by Rachel Caine DB99435 9 hours 59 minutes read by Julian Elfer by Liz Braswell The corrupt leadership of the Great read by Saskia Maarleveld Library has fallen. But with the Little mermaid Ariel is now the voice- Archivist plotting his return to power, less queen of Atlantica, while the sea and the Library under siege from out- witch Ursula runs Prince Eric’s kingdom side empires and kingdoms, its future is on land. But when Ariel discovers uncertain. Violence and strong language. her father might still be alive, she seeks Commercial audiobook. For senior high to overthrow the witch. Commercial and older readers. 2019. audiobook. For junior and senior high Mirror, Mirror: A Twisted Tale readers. 2018. DB99454 8 hours 20 minutes Straight on till Morning: A Twisted Tale by Jen Calonita DB99434 12 hours 29 minutes read by Emily Woo Zeller by Liz Braswell With the help of a group of dwarfs, a read by Lorna Bennett kind prince, and a mysterious stranger Wendy jumps at the opportunity to travel from her past, Snow White embarks on to Never Land on Captain Hook’s pirate a quest to stop her stepmother, the Evil ship. But when Captain Hook reveals Queen, and take back her kingdom. some rather permanent and evil plans Commercial audiobook. For junior and for Never Land, Wendy knows she must senior high readers. 2019. save Peter Pan and his world. Some The Brilliant Death violence and some strong language. DB99003 9 hours 46 minutes Commercial audiobook. For junior and by Amy Rose Capetta senior high readers. 2020. read by Carlotta Brentan Peace Talks: A Novel of the Dresden Files A young shapeshifter has to learn to DB99514 12 hours 55 minutes control her powers while simultaneously by Jim Butcher using them to transform herself into read by James Marsters a boy and confront the people who

3 Adult Fiction Fantasy murdered her father. Descriptions of A Play of Shadow: Mellynne sex and some violence. Commercial DB99089 20 hours 54 minutes audiobook. For senior high and older by Julie E. Czerneda readers. 2018. read by Mark Ashby The Storm of Life The law forbids Bannan from leaving DB99004 11 hours 37 minutes Marrowdell to help his sister search by Amy Rose Capetta for her missing husband in Mellynne. read by Carlotta Brentan But as a turn-born, Jenn has the power With her magic finally in hand and her to cross into the magical realm of the love at last confessed, a young shape- Verge—and take Bannan with her. shifter deals with a dictator and the threat Sequel to A Turn of Light (DB78161). of war. Sequel to The Brilliant Death Some violence. 2014. (DB99003). Descriptions of sex, some Tam Lin strong language, and some violence. DB99287 16 hours 56 minutes Commercial audiobook. For senior high by Pamela Dean and older readers. 2020. read by Jill Fox Chain of Gold: The Last Hours, Book 1 A re-telling of a traditional English DB99537 21 hours 25 minutes ballad, set at a midwestern college by Cassandra Clare in the 1970s. Janet is an English read by Finty Williams major at Blackstock College who falls Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter for Thomas Lane and gets pregnant. trained to battle demons, travels with her When Thomas is in danger, only brother to London. They reconnect with Janet can save him. Some strong childhood friends but soon must face language. 1991. devastating demon attacks in the quar- The Faceless Old Woman antined city. Violence, strong language, Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: and some explicit descriptions of sex. A Welcome to Night Vale Novel Commercial audiobook. For senior high DB99561 9 hours 16 minutes and older readers. 2020. by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor Rogues: A Novel of the Demon Accords read by Mara Wilson DB99140 10 hours 45 minutes In the town of Night Vale, there’s a by John Conroe faceless old woman who secretly lives read by James Patrick Cronin in everyone’s home, but no one knows When a hunter is brutally mauled in how she got there or where she came northern Maine, it’s presumed that a from—until now. Unrated. Commercial black bear is the killer. But an astute audiobook. 2020. local deputy suspects a more super- The Prince of Souls: A Novel of the natural element. If it takes a thief to Nine Kingdoms catch a thief, who do you use to catch DB99317 15 hours 48 minutes a werewolf? Unrated. Commercial by Lynn Kurland audiobook. 2016. read by Terry Donnelly

4 Adult Fiction—Fantasy Acair of Ceangail has shouldered the be within reach. Unrated. Commercial quest of saving the world. Armed audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. with nothing but his charm, a nose for Serpent & Dove trouble, and the determination to keep his DB99016 14 hours 15 minutes beloved safe, he marches off once again by Shelby Mahurin into the deepening gloom to engage in read by various narrators Noble Deeds. Some violence and some Living in a city where witches are feared, descriptions of sex. 2019. Lou has forsaken her magic—but she Reflection: A Twisted Tale cannot change what she is. When she DB99433 9 hours 40 minutes finds herself married to a witch hunter, by Elizabeth Lim she must make hard choices. Strong read by Emily Woo Zeller language, descriptions of sex, and some When Captain Shang is mortally violence. Commercial audiobook. For wounded by Shan-Yu in battle, Mulan senior high and older readers. 2019. must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, Blood of Empire in order to save him from certain death. DB99124 20 hours 42 minutes But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not by Brian McClellan willing to give Shang up easily. Some read by John Telfer violence. Commercial audiobook. For As the final battle approaches, a sells- junior and senior high readers. 2018. word, a spy, and a general must find The Kingdom of Back unlikely and dangerous allies in order to DB99220 10 hours 34 minutes turn the tides of war against the Dynize. by Marie Lu Sequel to Wrath of Empire (DB91454). read by Lauren Ezzo Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Desperate to be forever remembered for Trey of Swords: A Witch World Book her music, Nannerl Mozart makes a dan- DB99364 5 hours 37 minutes gerous pact with a mysterious stranger by Andre Norton from a magical land, which may cost her read by Steven Carpenter everything. Commercial audiobook. For Yonan never thought he was made for senior high and older readers. 2020. warfare. Then he discovers an ancient House of Earth and Blood blade of incredible power that will forge DB99138 27 hours 53 minutes Yonan into the greatest weapon in Witch by Sarah J. Maas World. With his friend Uruk, Yonan faces read by Elizabeth Evans a near-invincible warlock. 1977. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life until Ashlords a demon murdered her closest friends. DB99001 10 hours 3 minutes Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen by Scott Reintgen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels read by various narrators he once attempted to overthrow. He’s Alchemists Imelda, Adrian, and Pippa offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce reach for their dreams of glory riding find the murderer, and his freedom will phoenix horses at the Races, the modern

5 Adult Fiction Fantasy, General spectacle that has replaced warfare General within their empire. Strong language and Afterlife some violence. Commercial audiobook. DB99560 6 hours 28 minutes For senior high and older readers. 2020. by Julia Alvarez The Best of Uncanny read by Alma Cuervo DB99064 22 hours 25 minutes Antonia Vega has just retired from the edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael college where she taught English when Damian Thomas her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly read by Gregory Maupin dies. On top of that, her sister disappears, A collection of forty-four short stories and and she finds a pregnant, undocumented poems culled from the issues of Uncanny teenager on her doorstep. Strong lan- magazine. Curated by the science fiction guage. Commercial audiobook. 2020. and fantasy magazine’s co-editors, Godshot authors featured include Elizabeth Bear, DB99121 11 hours 32 minutes Neil Gaiman, Kat Howard, Seanan by Chelsea Bieker McGuire, and more. Some violence, read by Elizabeth Rose some strong language, and some explicit When fourteen-year-old Lacey May’s descriptions of sex. 2019. mother abandons her and her drought- Crier’s War stricken hometown of Peaches, California, DB99175 13 hours 40 minutes she moves in with her grandmother, by Nina Varela Cherry. Cherry is a devoted follower of read by Kim Mai Guest Pastor Vern, a zealot with a plan to end In the aftermath of a war where Automae the drought. Violence, strong language, took over the kingdom of Rabu, Ayla and explicit descriptions of sex. 2020. takes a job as a royal servant for one Nine Below Zero purpose: to get revenge for her family’s DB99088 11 hours 22 minutes death. Some violence, some strong by Kevin Canty language, and some descriptions of read by David DeBoy sex. Commercial audiobook. For senior Marvin Deernose, a Native American high and older readers. 2019. carpenter and recovering alcoholic, has A Treason of Thorns just returned to his Montana hometown DB99178 10 hours 32 minutes to find a new start. Early one snowy by Laura E. Weymouth morning, Marvin rescues the elderly read by Fiona Hardingham Senator Henry Neihart, who has just When Violet Sterling returns to Burleigh suffered a stroke, and is invited to the House after years in exile, she finds Senator’s estate. Strong language and Burleigh’s tormented magic ravaging some descriptions of sex. 1999. the countryside. Violet must save the What You Wish For house before it destroys everything she’s DB99569 10 hours 20 minutes ever known. Commercial audiobook. by Katherine Center For senior high and older readers. 2019. read by various narrators

6 Adult Fiction—General Samantha Casey loves being an elemen- buy a sailboat. With their two kids, tary school librarian in Galveston, Texas, the pair set off on a risky adventure. until her school gets a new principal: Strong language. Commercial Duncan Carpenter, Samantha’s former audiobook. 2020. crush. Unfortunately, Duncan is not Cooking with Fernet Branca the fun-loving goof she once knew and DB99362 8 hours 6 minutes soon turns the school into a veritable by James Hamilton-Paterson prison with his safety concerns. Unrated. read by Peter Holdway Commercial audiobook. 2020. Gerald, ghostwriter-to-the-stars, is The Party Upstairs enjoying the good food and beautiful DB99566 10 hours 1 minutes scenery of his Tuscany hilltop home by Lee Conell when he gets a new neighbor. Marta is a read by Sophie Amoss composer from eastern Europe avoiding Ruby grew up the super’s daughter in her criminally-inclined family. The two the basement of a co-op on New York’s soon clash, initiating an escalating turf Upper West Side, befriending some war. Strong language. 2004. of the building’s rich residents. After The Book That Matters Most graduating with an expensive college DB99035 9 hours 24 minutes degree but no job, Ruby moves back by Ann Hood with her parents. Unrated. Commercial read by Nina Alvamar audiobook. 2020. After 25 years of marriage and two The Falconer kids, Ava’s husband left her for another DB99518 8 hours 23 minutes woman. Reeling, Ava curls into herself, by Dana Czapnik until her best friend invites her to join read by Candace Thaxton her book club. Asked to select a book Seventeen-year-old Lucy plays a mean that was important in her life, Ava game of basketball on New York City’s searches for a book from her childhood. public courts and has an unrequited crush Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2016. on her best friend and pickup teammate, Sex and Vanity Percy. But despite her craving for male DB99405 9 hours 39 minutes approval, she is soon drawn into the by Kevin Kwan burgeoning world of feminist artists. read by Lydia Look Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. In Capri to attend her rich friend’s Sea Wife wedding, half-Chinese nineteen-year-old DB99402 9 hours 48 minutes Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George by Amity Gaige Zao and instantly doesn’t like him— read by various narrators until she does. Years later, they meet Juliet is juggling motherhood, a again in New York, but Lucie is stalled-out dissertation, and depression engaged to the very wealthy Cecil when her husband, Michael, informs Pike. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. her that he wants to leave his job and Bestseller. 2020.

7 Adult Fiction General Utopia Avenue an anonymous global server. Owners DB99667 25 hours 18 minutes of kentukis allow the eyes of a stranger by David Mitchell in their home, never knowing or read by Ralph Lister communicating with the controllers In London, the band Utopia Avenue operating the mechanical pets. Unrated. rises from their inglorious roots to chart Commercial audiobook. 2020. success and an appearance on Top of The Wedding Dress the Pops. But all is not well in their DB99193 10 hours 14 minutes world, and a trip to America reveals by Danielle Steel cracks and hidden agreements. Unrated. read by Todd McLaren Commercial audiobook. 2020. For richer or for poorer, in cramped The Beauty of Your Face apartments and grand mansions, a trea- DB99279 8 hours 21 minutes sured wedding dress made in Paris by Sahar Mustafah in 1928 follows each generation of a read by Abigail Maupin California family of women into their Afaf Rahman, principal of an all-girls new lives, and represents different Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs, is hopes for each bride as they marry very shocked when her school is attacked by different men. Unrated. Commercial a shooter. As she listens to his progress, audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. she reflects on her life before going to All Adults Here confront him. Violence, strong language, DB99194 11 hours 7 minutes and some descriptions of sex. 2020. by Emma Straub My Dark Vanessa read by Emily Rankin DB99442 15 hours 39 minutes When Astrid Strick witnesses a school by Kate Elizabeth Russell bus accident in the center of town, it read by Grace Gummer jostles loose a repressed memory from When Vanessa Wye was fifteen she her young parenting days decades had an affair with Jacob Strane, her earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was forty-two-year-old English teacher. not quite the parent she thought she’d Seventeen years later, Jacob is accused been to her three, now-grown children. of sexual abuse by another one of Unrated. Commercial audiobook. his former students, and Vanessa is Bestseller. 2020. forced to re-examine her past. Unrated. Friends and Strangers Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB99567 14 hours 6 minutes Little Eyes by J. Courtney Sullivan DB99674 7 hours 6 minutes read by Kate Rudd by Samanta Schweblin Journalist and new mother Elisabeth read by Cassandra Campbell is having a hard time adjusting after a Little mechanical stuffed animals known recent move from New York to a small as “kentuki” have cameras for eyes, town. She hires local women’s college wheels for feet, and are connected to student Sam as a babysitter, but the

8 Adult Fiction—General, Gothics, Historical Fiction gap between them comes into stark Gothics relief when Sam befriends Elisabeth’s Catherine House father-in-law. Unrated. Commercial DB99407 11 hours 3 minutes audiobook. 2020. by Elisabeth Thomas I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me read by Inés del Castillo DB99352 7 hours 48 minutes Catherine House, a college secluded in by Juan Pablo Villalobos the woods of rural Pennsylvania, offers read by Mark Ashby students an elite education, free of Mexican grad student Juan Pablo charge. The only catch is students must Villalobos is heading to Barcelona on remain completely cut off from the out- a scholarship when he’s kidnapped by side world for three years. New student gangsters. To protect his family, he Ines Murillo arrives at Catherine House agrees to make the daughter of a cor- hoping to escape her past. Unrated. rupt politician fall in love with him. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Translated from the 2016 Spanish edi- tion. Violence, strong language, and Historical Fiction some descriptions of sex. 2020. A Storm Blew in from Paradise The Jetsetters DB99087 6 hours 20 minutes DB99444 8 hours 5 minutes by Johannes Anyuru by Amanda Eyre Ward read by Peter Holdway read by Thérèse Plummer All P dreams of doing is flying. He has Septuagenarian Charlotte Perkins trained to be a fighter pilot, but Idi Amin’s entered an essay contest hoping to win a coup in his homeland derails his dreams. trip that would help her reunite with her As he is interrogated, he reflects on his estranged adult children. As Charlotte life. Years later, his son reflects on his own and her three children cruise through sense of displacement. Translated from the Europe, they slowly reveal their secrets 2012 Swedish edition. Violence. 2015. and dysfunctions. Unrated. Commercial Conjure Women audiobook. 2020. DB99224 14 hours 1 minutes Big Summer by Afia Atakora DB99247 10 hours 56 minutes read by Adenrele Ojo by Jennifer Weiner 1867. Rue reluctantly follows in the foot- read by Danielle Macdonald steps of her mother, Miss May Belle, who Years after the fight that ended their was a midwife. But secrets connect her friendship, plus-sized Instagram influ- life to that of Varina, whose father owned encer Daphne Berg is shocked when her the plantation where she was once enslaved. high school frenemy Drue Cavanaugh Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. asks her to be the maid of honor in Dreams of Silver her society wedding. Strong language DB99078 8 hours 30 minutes and some explicit descriptions of sex. by Mina Baites Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. read by Abigail Maupin

9 Adult Fiction Historical Fiction After reconnecting with her birth family missing the memories of the last ten years. in The Silver Music Box (DB98482), She remains haunted by her past. Unrated. Lilian Morrison tries to learn about Commercial audiobook. 2019. the last days of her sister, who died Africaville during the London Blitz after they were DB99653 12 hours 39 minutes separated. Clues lead her to Dublin. by Jeffrey Colvin Translated from the German edition. read by Robin Miles Some violence. 2018. Three generations of the Sebolt family Lady Clementine unfold in their small Nova Scotia town. DB99128 10 hours 53 minutes Kath Ella struggles for a better life by Marie Benedict during the Great Depression. Her love read by Elizabeth Sastre for her son, Omar, can’t erase the preju- 1908. Clementine Hozier is preparing to dice directed against them. Her grandson marry, but first she sneaks home to spend Warner explores a life away from family. time with her family. She is intimidated Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. by her fiancé, Winston Churchill, but The Lions of Fifth Avenue they marry in due course. Clementine DB99608 10 hours 39 minutes becomes a confidante of his, and saves by Fiona Davis his life more than once. Unrated. read by various narrators Commercial audiobook. 2020. 1913. Laura Lyons has made a home for The Slave Yards her family within the august walls of the DB99356 9 hours 31 minutes New York Public Library thanks to her by Najwa Bin Shatwan husband’s job. But her world is opened read by Steven Carpenter when she’s accepted to journalism school. Happily married and a mother, Atiga is Eighty years later, her granddaughter visited by a man she doesn’t know. He Sadie reckons with choices made. identifies himself as Ali Bin Shatwan— Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. her cousin. He wants to share stories Act of Valour: The Knightshill Saga, of her mother, Tawida, who had been a Book 3 slave in Atiga’s father’s house. Translated DB98987 15 hours 47 minutes from the 2016 Arabic edition. Violence by Emma Drummond and some descriptions of sex. 2020. read by Peter Holdway In Another Time 1914. The Ashleigh family of Knightshill DB99523 8 hours 50 minutes are drawn into World War I. Family by Jillian Cantor head Vere struggles with the estrange- read by various narrators ment from his brother Val. Val serves Germany, 1931. Bookshop owner with the Australian forces at Gallipoli. Max and violinist Hanna meet by chance. And their nephew, Tim, lives a charmed They fall in love, but the rising reign life as a young officer. Violence, some of the Nazis threatens them as Hanna is strong language, and some descriptions Jewish. In 1946, Hanna wakes in a field, of sex. 1996.

10 Adult Fiction—Historical Fiction Book of the Little Axe searches for her younger brother and DB99338 13 hours 17 minutes seeks to rebuild her shattered life. Some by Lauren Francis-Sharma violence. Commercial audiobook. For read by Erin Jones senior high and older readers. 2020. 1830. Victor, the son of a Crow nation Miss Austen chief, is preparing to seek his vision, but DB99543 10 hours 58 minutes secrets his Ma has kept block him. She by Gill Hornby must reveal those secrets to him, taking read by Juliet Stevenson them back to the island she came from. 1840. Over two decades after the death Violence and strong language. 2020. of her beloved sister Jane, Cassandra People of the Canyons Austen has returned to the small town DB99399 12 hours 13 minutes of Kintbury, hoping to find a cache by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and of Jane’s letters. When she does W. Michael Gear finally locate them, she must confront read by Nancy Peterson the secrets they contain. Unrated. Aged healer Tocho investigates the Commercial audiobook. 2020. murder of a priestess in his village. When The Jane Austen Society he finds out a neighboring ruler is in DB99145 9 hours 57 minutes search of a mystical object, Tocho recruits by Natalie Jenner the assistance of witch hunter Maicoh. read by Richard Armitage But Tocho’s adopted granddaughter, England, 1945. In the days after Tsilu, is caught in the middle. Unrated. World War II, the residents of Chawton Commercial audiobook. 2020. gather to preserve the legacy of Jane The Other Bennet Sister Austen, who spent her last days there. DB99609 18 hours 13 minutes All are dealing with legacies of trauma by Janice Hadlow and turmoil, but together they learn read by Carla Mendonça to find hope. Unrated. Commercial As her four sisters charm the countryside audiobook. 2020. with their beauty and wit, Mary Bennet Irish above All retreats into her intellectual pursuits. DB96531 21 hours 26 minutes When she attracts a potential partner, by Mary Pat Kelly she must decide if he is worthy of read by Kate Kiley her. Inspired by Pride and Prejudice 1923. After a decade spent in Paris (DB50549). Unrated. Commercial perfecting her craft, photographer Nora audiobook. 2020. Kelly, from Of Irish Blood (DB94316), They Went Left returns to Chicago and her family. DB99223 9 hours 9 minutes She builds her career, and in 1933 by Monica Hesse witnesses the attempted assassination read by Caitlin Davies of President-elect Roosevelt. She is 1945. Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, then drawn into international intrigue. travels across post-war Europe as she Violence and strong language. 2019.

11 Adult Fiction Historical Fiction Crossings Brooklyn, 1882. Shelby Ross, a mer- DB99605 24 hours 27 minutes chant ruined by the recent depression, by Alex Landragin begins working at the customs office read by various narrators for Herman Melville. He befriends On the eve of World War II, a book- a young man also working there. That binder has gained possession of a man- friendship is used to threaten Ross’s uscript that he discovers can be read standing. Ross struggles to avoid the multiple ways after he has bound it. The same fate as Ahab. Strong language and three stories intertwine to create a tale some violence. 2019. of love, longing. and empathy. Unrated. Once Night Falls Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB98307 12 hours 6 minutes Code Name Hélène by Roland Merullo DB99499 17 hours 20 minutes read by George Holmes by Ariel Lawhon 1943. Luca Benedetto has hidden his read by various narrators Jewish lover, Sarah Zinsi, in the hills 1944. Counterintelligence operative above Lake Como. As the Germans Nancy Wake, code name Hélène close in, Luca’s work with the partisans to the British and Madame Andrée to endanger them all. His mother devises the French, parachutes in to France. her own revenge, while others plot Her life has been building to this freedom. Violence. 2019. moment, from marrying industrialist Across the Way Henri Fiocca in the 1930s to her escape DB99497 9 hours 8 minutes through Spain to avoid capture by by Mary Monroe the Gestapo. Unrated. Commercial read by various narrators audiobook. 2020. The relationship between neighbors A Girl Divided Milton and Yvonne Hamilton and Odell DB99092 13 hours 47 minutes and Joyce Watson, from Over the Fence by Ellen Lindseth (DB95353) reach a boiling point. But read by Eva Wilhelm Odell’s plan to free himself and Joyce Eugenia “Genie” Baker is isolated from the Hamilton’s hold over them spi- from the events of World War II as she rals out of control. Unrated. Commercial works with her missionary father in a audiobook. 2020. remote region of China. Their rescue of The Ship of Brides a downed American pilot leads Genie DB99507 15 hours 35 minutes out of the life she has known and by Jojo Moyes forces her to change. Some descriptions read by Nicolette McKenzie of sex. 2018. Australia, 1946. Four women join a Feast Day of the Cannibals ship full of others en route to join the DB99253 6 hours 13 minutes husbands they married during the war by Norman Lock who are aboard the HMS Victoria. read by Stephen Van Doren As the Victoria travels back to England,

12 Adult Fiction—Historical Fiction all must observe naval rules, but Frances Thunder on the Mountain: Mackenzie finds her past haunting her. A Novel of 1936 Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2005. DB99284 16 hours 14 minutes The Last Bathing Beauty by David Poyer DB99298 10 hours 56 minutes read by Ray Foushee by Amy Sue Nathan Pennsylvania. W.T. Halvorsen, from Winter read by Deborah Desmone in the Heart (DB39035), wasn’t always an 1951. Everything seems possible for elderly hermit. In his youth, he was known eighteen-year-old Betty Stern as she as Kid Nitro. When a refinery disaster works at her grandparents’ resort. She exposes faults in worker safety procedures, participates in a beauty pageant and falls he helps coordinate a strike and faces down in love, but her dreams don’t turn out the those who rule Hemlock County. Violence way she expects. In 2017, she reflects and strong language. 1999. on the decisions she made that summer. The Two Mrs. Carlyles Some descriptions of sex. 2020. DB99665 12 hours 24 minutes Beheld by Suzanne Rindell DB99271 6 hours 47 minutes read by Elizabeth Romanski by TaraShea Nesbit In the wake of San Francisco’s great earth- read by Madelyn Buzzard quake, Violet and her two best friends New Plymouth, 1630. Ten years after find themselves independently wealthy. the Pilgrims’ arrival in their new world, She marries widower Henry Carlyle after a ship of newcomers arrives—and a a whirlwind romance and moves into his colonist is murdered. Alice Bradford and luxurious mansion. But the ghost of the Eleanor Billington occupy two different first Mrs. Carlyle haunts Violet. Unrated. classes and find themselves entangled in Commercial audiobook. 2020. the intrigues of the community. Violence, The Secret Messenger some strong language, and some descrip- DB99354 10 hours 29 minutes tions of sex. 2020. by Mandy Robotham Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, Books 1–2 read by Eva Wilhelm DB98994 22 hours 23 minutes In the wake of her mother’s death, Luisa by Ambrose Parry uncovers a relic in the attic. A photograph read by Eva Wilhelm of her late grandmother Stella and brittle Two crime novels, written in 2018 newspapers trigger a quest. Meanwhile, in and 2019, are set in nineteen-century 1943, Stella has joined the Venetian resis- Edinburgh and feature medical doctor tance movement and ferries messages. James Simpson, his apprentice Will Two men capture her attention. Violence Raven, and his housemaid Sarah Fisher. and some strong language. 2019. Includes The Way of All Flesh and The The Book of V. Art of Dying, in which Raven and Fisher DB99498 9 hours 11 minutes must clear Simpson’s name. Violence by Anna Solomon and some descriptions of sex. 2019. read by various narrators

13 Adult Fiction Historical Fiction, Holidays The effects of three women’s decisions Keller Nicholson will reverberate and lives intertwine through the years. through their lives. Unrated. Commercial Lily navigates her life as a second wife audiobook. 2013. and fading dreams of being a writer. How Much of These Hills Is Gold Senator’s wife Vee refuses a demand DB99144 9 hours 11 minutes from her husband as Watergate unfolds. by C Pam Zhang Esther tries to save her people. Unrated. read by various narrators Commercial audiobook. 2020. Twelve-year-old Lucy and eleven-year-old Call Your Daughter Home Sam lose their only parent, Ba. In a land DB99655 11 hours 9 minutes that is unwelcoming to the orphans of by Deb Spera Chinese immigrants, they begin a quest read by various narrators for two silver dollars with which to bury South Carolina, 1924. Gertrude’s life Ba. They must rely on each other to is rough, but a ray of hope is a job with claim their future. Unrated. Commercial the sewing circle run by Annie. To get audiobook. 2020. the job, she leaves her daughters with Retta, a formerly enslaved woman. The Holidays three women’s lives further intertwine. Grace: A Christmas Sisters of the Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Heart Novel Call upon the Water DB99400 6 hours 49 minutes DB99236 8 hours 26 minutes by Shelley Shepard Gray by Stella Tillyard read by Kirsten Potter read by various narrators It’s Christmastime at the Brenneman Bed Nieuw Amsterdam, 1664. Engineer Jan and Breakfast, and everyone is excited Brunt has set up a comfortable life for about closing down for the holidays. himself when he receives word that dis- But when two unexpected visitors appear turbs his peace. He remembers moving to seeking shelter, the family’s commit- England in 1649 and the woman he met ment to hospitality is tested. Unrated. there. Jan educates Eliza, but she uses Commercial audiobook. 2010. her learning to sabotage him. Unrated. The Christmas Collector Commercial audiobook. 2018. DB99384 3 hours 45 minutes A Man of His Own by Kristina McMorris DB99422 9 hours 57 minutes read by Elizabeth Rose by Susan Wilson Estate liquidator Jenna Matthews read by various narrators clashes with Reece Porter, grandson Rick Stanton’s bond with his dog Pax of her current client. He thinks she’s carries him through leaving baseball, a vulture taking advantage of an old war service, and return due to injury. widow at Christmas. When Jenna saves When he and wife Francesca send Pax a keepsake that reveals Porter family off to war as a service dog, they never secrets, they begin to bond. Some imagine Pax’s bond with handler strong language. 2017.

14 Adult Fiction—Human Relationships Human Relationships Amy is stunned when her boyfriend Leo Red Dress in Black and White is revealed to be the prince of a small DB99506 10 hours 24 minutes country. When an unexpected turn of by Elliot Ackerman events pushes Leo closer to the throne, read by Maggie-Meg Reed his family decide to step up Amy’s trans- American Catherine has been married formation from down-to-earth gardener to Turkish businessman Murat, and they to perfectly polished princess-in-waiting. have a son—William. When Catherine Some strong language. 2012. decides to leave Murat for her lover and The Edge of Anything take William to America, Murat elicits the DB99282 9 hours 15 minutes help of an American diplomat to block her. by Nora Shalaway Carpenter The intricacies of their lives are revealed. read by Erin Jones Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. After a chance encounter, loner pho- G. tographer Len and volleyball star Sage DB98990 11 hours 28 minutes develop an unlikely friendship that by John Berger enables them to begin facing their inner read by Steven Carpenter demons. Strong language. For senior G., the product of an extramarital affair high and older readers. 2020. between an American heiress and an Sunrise on Half Moon Bay Italian merchant, attempts to find his DB99553 9 hours 1 minutes way in life in the late nineteenth and by Robyn Carr early twentieth centuries. The people he read by Thérèse Plummer encounters and his relationships with Born twenty years apart, Justine was them are explored. Violence and explicit already an adult when her sister Adele descriptions of sex. Booker Prize. 1972. was born. Addie dropped out of uni- Harley in the Sky versity to care for their ailing parents, DB99313 9 hours 10 minutes with successful lawyer Justine covering by Akemi Dawn Bowman the expenses. But now that their par- read by Cecelia Riddett ents are gone, the future has changed Eighteen-year-old Harley dreams for both women. Unrated. Commercial of quitting school to join her parents’ audiobook. 2020. Las Vegas circus as a trapeze artist. A Santo in the Image of Cristóbal García When they refuse, Harley joins a rival DB99337 10 hours 30 minutes circus, where she must learn hard truths by Rick Collignon and face consequences. Strong language read by Jon Huffman and some descriptions of sex. For senior Flavio, from The Journal of Antonio high and older readers. 2020. Montoya (DB47520), is the aged scion The Runaway Princess of the Montoya family, tending his sister DB99119 13 hours 42 minutes Ramona’s fields. When fire erupts in the by Hester Browne mountains surrounding Guadalupe, he read by Lindsey Pierce is accused of starting it. Old and new

15 Adult Fiction Human Relationships mysteries of the village must be revealed. celebrating Black culture. When the Strong language. 2002. two worlds collide, a troll threatens We Come Apart Kiera’s creation. Strong language and DB99262 3 hours 8 minutes some descriptions of sex. Commercial by Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan audiobook. For senior high and older read by Mare Trevathan readers. 2019. A novel in verse. While serving a This Boy community service sentence for young DB99344 6 hours 34 minutes offenders in London, a Romanian immi- by Lauren Myracle grant boy and a troubled girl fall in love. read by Andy Pyle Strong language and some violence. For Paul coasts through high school with senior high and older readers. 2017. this faithful friend at his side, but When You Ask Me Where I’m Going things change when he finally catches DB99179 2 hours 59 minutes the interest of Natalia. Then a tragedy by Jasmin Kaur strikes, and Paul’s addictions spiral out read by Jasmin Kaur of control. Strong language and some A novel in verse. A woman flees a history explicit descriptions of sex. For senior of trauma and raises her daughter, while high and older readers. 2020. living undocumented in North America. Where I End & You Begin Commercial audiobook. For senior high DB99586 13 hours 21 minutes and older readers. 2019. by Preston Norton A Walk along the Beach read by Michael Crouch DB99515 9 hours 7 minutes As punishment for breaking into their by Debbie Macomber high school to watch the solar eclipse, read by various narrators four teens must perform in the school’s After their mother died and their father theater production. But before the first was lost in grief, Willa raised her rehearsal starts, two of them wake up in siblings, Harper, and Lucas. She put her each other’s bodies. Strong language. own life on hold as an adult to nurse Commercial audiobook. For senior high Harper through a terrifying illness, but and older readers. 2019. now that Harper is better, Willa has the The Year after You chance at her own dreams. Unrated. DB99076 10 hours 22 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Nina de Pass Slay read by Jessica Wortham DB99185 8 hours 29 minutes Consumed by survivor’s guilt after her by Brittney Morris best friend is killed in a car accident, Cara read by various narrators is sent to a boarding school in Switzerland. An honors student at Jefferson Academy, New friends Ren and Hector hope to seventeen-year-old Kiera enjoys devel- break down her emotional walls. Strong oping and playing SLAY, a secret, language and some descriptions of sex. multiplayer online role-playing game For senior high and older readers. 2019.

16 Adult Fiction—Human Relationships We Are Not from Here Zimbabwe, where she and Tanyaradzwa, DB99474 9 hours 33 minutes who is fighting cancer, form an by Jenny Torres Sanchez unexpected friendship. Commercial read by Marisa Blake audiobook. For senior high and older When the threats that lurk around every readers. 2018. corner suddenly become all too real, Girls of Summer three teens—Pulga, Chico, and Pequeña— DB99392 8 hours 43 minutes cross from Guatemala through Mexico in by Nancy Thayer search of a better life. Violence and strong read by Mare Trevathan language. Commercial audiobook. For Now that Lisa Hawley’s two kids are senior high and older readers. 2020. on their own, she hires Mack Whitney Snowflake, AZ to help her fix up her old house. Despite DB99183 7 hours 37 minutes his being ten years younger, Lisa and by Marcus Sedgwick Mack grow—closer until both her chil- read by MW Cartozian Wilson dren come home, bringing their own Ash finds his stepbrother, Bly, in Snowflake, romantic complications. Some strong Arizona, where an odd assortment language. 2020. of neighbors—and soon, Ash—are sick The Lost and Found Bookshop from their environment, paralleling the DB99671 12 hours 22 minutes planet’s decline. Some strong language. by Susan Wiggs Commercial audiobook. For senior high read by Emily Rankin and older readers. 2019. In the wake of a tragedy, Natalie Harper Latitudes of Longing knows that she should sell the run- DB99146 11 hours 47 minutes down San Francisco bookshop she has by Shubhangi Swarup inherited and use the money to pay for read by Vikas Adam her ailing grandfather’s care. Instead, she The lives of residents of India intercon- finds fixing up and running the store pro- nect in surprising ways across the sub- vides a welcome distraction to her grief. continent. Newlyweds Girija Prasad and Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Chanda Devi navigate a life together as This Is Happiness they learn to accommodate each other— DB99125 14 hours 29 minutes and Chanda Devi’s visions. Others seek by Niall Williams their own understanding of humanity. read by Dermot Crowley Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. In the small Irish village of Faha, the Hope Is Our Only Wing rain that no one remembers beginning is DB99180 4 hours 11 minutes stopping. Soon after, seventeen-year-old by Rutendo Tavengerwei Noel Crowe meets Christy, who is in read by Robin Miles search of his lost love. It is then that Noel After her journalist-father’s myste- realizes something truly has changed, and rious death in 2008, Shamiso must he examines life around him. Unrated. leave England for boarding school in Commercial audiobook. 2019.

17 Adult Fiction Humor, LGBT Themes, Mystery and Detective Humor Mystery and Detective Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe The Decent Inn of Death DB99539 9 hours 30 minutes DB99462 10 hours 27 minutes by Evan James by Rennie Airth read by Jonathan Davis read by John Curless Carol Widdicombe thinks her husband Snowed in at a country manor during an Frank is suffering from depression, unofficial investigation, former Scotland but that a summer at their new island Yard inspectors John Madden and Angus home on Puget Sound is the perfect pre- Sinclair find themselves with little to scription. Their household joins them, do at first but to analyze the case. Then and hijinks and misunderstandings a murder takes place, and everyone abound as they try to sort out love lives becomes a suspect. Unrated. Commercial and life itself. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. audiobook. 2019. A Dream of Death DB99470 9 hours 39 minutes LGBT Themes by Connie Berry Going Dutch read by Ruth Urquhart DB99420 9 hours 37 minutes Returning to the remote Scottish island by James Gregor where her husband died, American read by Michael David Axtell antiques dealer Kate Hamilton teams Twenty-nine-year-old graduate student up with a vacationing detective Richard has hit a roadblock in his life. inspector from Suffolk, England, to Exhausted by academia and the gay investigate a brutal killing, staged dating scene, he agrees to an offer from to recreate a two-hundred-year-old classmate Anne: in exchange for her unsolved murder. Unrated. Commercial writing his papers, he’ll become her audiobook. 2019. companion. Then he meets someone on The Midnight Witness a dating app. Unrated. Commercial DB99208 8 hours 49 minutes audiobook. 2019. by Sara Blaedel Fiebre Tropical read by Christine Lakin DB99258 9 hours 5 minutes A young woman is strangled in a park, by Juliana Delgado Lopera and a male journalist is killed behind the read by Gabriella Cavallero Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Detective Fifteen-year-old Francisca and her family Louise Rick investigates the first case, have moved from Colombia to Miami. but soon becomes entangled in solving She feels alienated in the city, especially the other homicide too because her best when her mother joins an evangelical friend, journalist Camilla Lind, knew church. But there she meets Carmen, and the victim. Translated from the 2004 they develop a relationship. Strong lan- Danish edition. Unrated. Commercial guage, some violence, and some explicit audiobook. 2018. descriptions of sex. 2020.

18 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective Homeward Hound Biscuits and Slashed Browns DB99425 9 hours 15 minutes DB99685 7 hours 20 minutes by Rita Mae Brown by Maddie Day read by Rita Mae Brown read by Laural Merlington When the Christmas hunt is interrupted Visitors for the annual maple extrav- by the discovery of a body, “Sister” Jane aganza include Professor Connolly, a Arnold and her company of loyal hounds know-it-all academic from Boston who find themselves faced with a pressing makes enemies everywhere he goes. This task—to uncover who has killed a time, bad manners prove deadly. Soon beloved club faithful. It’s no help that the after clashing with several scientists at a meddling, loathsome Victor Harris lurks maple tree panel, the professor is found in the shadows. Unrated. Commercial dead outside a sugar shack. Unrated. audiobook. 2018. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Probable Claws Death over Easy DB99446 10 hours 2 minutes DB99686 6 hours 59 minutes by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie by Maddie Day Brown read by Laural Merlington read by Kate Forbes Restaurateur Robbie Jordan is ready Harry Haristeen and her friends and for the boost in business a local music animal companions continue to pursue festival brings to South Lick, Indiana, the threads of a mystery dating back but the beloved event strikes a sour note to Virginia’s post-Revolutionary past. when one of the musicians is found Meanwhile, Harry’s new friendship choked to death by a banjo string. with Marvella Lawson, doyenne of the Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Richmond art establishment, will lead Flipped for Murder her back to her own artistic and aca- DB99682 8 hours 40 minutes demic interests. Unrated. Commercial by Maddie Day audiobook. 2018. read by Laural Merlington Outsider: A Kate Burkholder Novel Robbie Jordan put her skills as a cook DB99580 9 hours 40 minutes and a carpenter to use on a rundown by Linda Castillo country store in South Lick, Indiana. read by Kathleen McInerney Everyone in town shows up for the grand An Amish man discovers a car stuck re-opening of Pans ‘n Pancakes, but in a snowdrift with an unconscious when the mayor’s disagreeable assis- woman inside. When Chief of Police tant is found dead, Robbie must track Kate Burkholder arrives, she is shocked down a cold-blooded killer. Unrated. to discover the driver is fellow cop Commercial audiobook. 2015. Gina Colorosa, whom she hasn’t seen Grilled for Murder in ten years—and to learn Gina is DB99683 8 hours 18 minutes wanted for killing an undercover officer. by Maddie Day Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Laural Merlington

19 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective Erica Shermer may be the widow of hand- of dead bodies. The police then some local lawyer Jim Shermer’s brother, receive a claim of responsibility and but she doesn’t appear to be in mourning. the threat of more murders to come. At a homecoming party held in Robbie Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Jordan’s store, Erica is alternately obnox- Caselli and the eccentrically brilliant ious and flirtatious. When Erica turns up Dante Torre investigate. Translated dead in the store the next morning, the from the 2014 Italian edition. Unrated. police suspect Robbie’s friend Phil. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017. Commercial audiobook. 2016. Kill the King Strangled Eggs and Ham DB99417 15 hours 22 minutes DB99687 7 hours 48 minutes by Sandrone Dazieri by Maddie Day read by Cassandra Campbell read by Laural Merlington An apparently autistic teenager appears As a real-estate developer plans to build a in Colomba Caselli’s yard—covered towering luxury resort at one of the most in blood—and leads her to a brutal scenic hilltops in Brown County, Robbie’s crime scene. As Colomba investigates furious Aunt Adele begins concocting and the body count spirals upward, protests and road blockades. When a she is implicated in the violence. The vocal protester is silenced forever, Robbie only person who can help her is Dante, ditches the griddle to catch the killer. who is presumed dead. Translated Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. from the 2018 Italian edition. Unrated. When the Grits Hit the Fan Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB99684 8 hours 7 minutes Bullets and Beads by Maddie Day DB99252 8 hours 28 minutes read by Laural Merlington by Jana DeLeon Before she started hosting dinners for read by Kristin Allison the Sociology Department, Robbie It’s Mardi Gras time, and Fortune is never imagined they would be so hos- looking forward to seeing the spectacle tile. Professor Charles Stilton thrives firsthand. But when a visitor to Sinful on heated exchanges, and tensions flare is murdered during the celebration, one night after he disrespects graduate Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t help student Lou. Robbie and Lou go snow- but look into it. Their investigation sends shoeing the next morning and find the them to New Orleans. Some strong contentious academic frozen under ice. language. 2020. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017. Coconut Layer Cake Murder Kill the Angel DB99459 8 hours 55 minutes DB99413 16 hours 20 minutes by Joanne Fluke by Sandrone Dazieri read by Suzanne Toren read by Cassandra Campbell Detective Lonnie Murphy—the boy- A passenger train speeds into Rome’s friend of Hannah’s sister—remembers main station, its first-class car full little of the night he went to a bar

20 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective and ended up driving a very impaired some fabulous sardine crackers. But woman home. He remembers helping then the trio stumbles across a dead her to her bedroom, but doesn’t recall body by the river. Unrated. Commercial anything else until he woke up on audiobook. 2018. her couch the following morning and A Night’s Tail found her dead. Unrated. Commercial DB99447 7 hours 5 minutes audiobook. 2020. by Sofie Kelly The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope read by Cassandra Campbell DB99086 8 hours 13 minutes When Kathleen’s brother arrives in town by C.W. Grafton with his band, one of his bandmates read by Alec Volz gets into a fight with a man interested Gil Henry is the youngest attorney in a in investing in the town. When the small firm, not a hard-boiled sleuth. And businessman’s body is later found, the when young Ruth McClure walks into musician is implicated in the crime. his office and asks him to investigate Kathleen and felines Owen and Hercules the value of the stock she inherited from investigate. Unrated. Commercial her father, he thinks nothing of it—until audiobook. 2019. someone tries to kill him. Some violence Paws and Effect and some strong language. 1943. DB99430 8 hours 25 minutes The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Sofie Kelly DB99681 9 hours 55 minutes read by Cassandra Campbell by Elsa Hart Kathleen is excited to meet three old read by Barrie Kreinik pals of her beau, Detective Marcus London, 1703. Cecily Kay’s passion Gordon. But the reunion is cut short for plants brings her to Sir Barnaby when one of the friends is killed—and Mayne’s house, where she searches for the evidence points toward Marcus as specimens among his amazing collection the murderer. Kathleen and her feline of wonders. When Mayne is stabbed to partners-in-crime must determine who is death, Cecily finds the confession of the framing Marcus. Unrated. Commercial supposed killer unconvincing. Unrated. audiobook. 2016. Commercial audiobook. 2020. A Tale of Two Kitties The Cats Came Back DB99428 8 hours 32 minutes DB99424 7 hours 48 minutes by Sofie Kelly by Sofie Kelly read by Cassandra Campbell read by Cassandra Campbell The Janes brothers’ return has Mayville The charming Minnesota town of Heights buzzing. Victor once had an Mayville Heights is hosting a music affair with Leo’s wife, who then died festival. Librarian Kathleen Paulson in a car accident. The brothers appear is looking forward to some fabulous to be reconciling—until Kathleen finds performances—and her two cats, Owen Leo dead. The police suspect Leo’s and Hercules, are looking forward to son, Kathleen’s good friend Simon.

21 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective Kathleen and the cats must prove and died in a mysterious motorcycle him innocent, Unrated. Commercial accident. Unrated. Commercial audio- audiobook. 2017. book. 2020. The Burn Pretty as a Picture DB99142 10 hours 37 minutes DB99410 9 hours 37 minutes by Kathleen Kent by Elizabeth Little read by Christie Moreau read by Julia Whelan Following the events in The Dime After film editor Marissa Dahl accepts (DB87295), Detective Betty Rhyzyk a job on a small island off the coast of is rattled from a run-in with a cult and Delaware, she discovers that no one desperate for answers. She decides to knows what happened to the previous go rogue—but her investigation leads editor. Then she meets the intrepid and straight into the dark underworld of the incorrigible teenage girls who are deter- Dallas drug cartel. Unrated. Commercial mined to solve the real-life murder that audiobook. 2020. is the movie’s central subject. Unrated. Bianca Goddard Mysteries, Books 1–4 Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB99058 40 hours 51 minutes March of Crimes: A Mira James Mystery by Mary Lawrence DB99054 6 hours 39 minutes read by MacKenzie Beyer by Jess Lourey Four mysteries, written between read by Kristin Allison 2015 and 2019, are set in the 1540s A nursing home resident creates and feature Bianca Goddard, who helps life-sized dolls and puts them around London’s sick poor with medicinal town. When part-time PI Mira James plants. Includes The Alchemist’s sits next to one and realizes it’s a corpse Daughter, Death of an Alchemist, Death instead, she investigates. But that leads at St. Vedast, and The Alchemist of to her being both a jailed suspect, and Lost Souls. Some violence, some strong a potential target of the actual killer. language, and some descriptions of Some strong language. 2019. sex. 2019. Tracking Game Trace Elements DB99411 9 hours 12 minutes DB99464 10 hours 4 minutes by Margaret Mizushima by Donna Leon read by Nancy Wu read by David Colacci An explosion leads Mattie Cobb and When a hospice patient wants to speak Cole Walker to a burning van. Beside to the police, Commissario Guido it lies the body of outfitter Nate Brunetti and Claudia Griffoni go to Fletcher—who has two gunshots to the her. Benedetta Toso says her recently heart. Then they receive an emergency deceased husband was murdered. call from a man who has been shot in He collected samples of contamination the mountains. Mattie and K-9 Robo for a company that measures the rush to the scene. Unrated. Commercial cleanliness of Venice’s water supply audiobook. 2019.

22 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective A Murderous Relation: A Veronica A Divided Loyalty: An Inspector Ian Speedwell Mystery Rutledge Mystery DB99661 11 hours 43 minutes DB99463 11 hours 13 minutes by Deanna Raybourn by Charles Todd read by Angèle Masters read by Simon Prebble London, 1888. Lepidopterist Veronica Chief Inspector Brian Leslie—a colleague Speedwell and her enigmatic colleague of Ian Rutledge’s—is sent to Avebury, a Stoker, from A Dangerous Collaboration village set inside a great prehistoric stone (DB95694), are called on to stop a circle not far from Stonehenge. A young potential royal scandal. They go under- woman has been murdered next to a mys- cover at a high-class brothel, but terious, hooded, figure-like stone, but no danger looms in the form of an elusive one recognizes her. Rutledge—returning serial killer. Unrated. Commercial from a similar case—is asked to help. audiobook. 2020. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. A Conspiracy of Bones Staging Is Murder DB99617 11 hours 59 minutes DB99468 7 hours 49 minutes by Kathy Reichs by Grace Topping read by Linda Emond read by Emily Durante In sweltering Charlotte, North Carolina, Laura Bishop just nabbed her first dec- Temperance Brennan—still recov- orating commission—staging for sale a ering from neurosurgery following nineteenth-century mansion that hasn’t an aneurysm—is battling nightmares, been updated for decades. But when migraines, and what she thinks might a body falls from a laundry chute and be hallucinations when she receives lands at Laura’s feet, replacing flowered a series of mysterious text messages, wallpaper becomes the least of her prob- each containing a new picture of lems. She investigates to clear her young a corpse that is missing its face and assistant’s name. Unrated. Commercial hands. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. audiobook. 2019. Bestseller. 2020. The Coyotes of Carthage Ginger Gold, Books 5-7.5 DB99625 9 hours 8 minutes DB99323 17 hours 59 minutes by Steven Wright by Lee Strauss read by Glenn Davis read by Eva Wilhelm Political consultant Dre Ross’s aggres- Four entries in the series featuring sive tactics have put him on thin ice sleuthing fashionista war widow Ginger with his boss, who plucked him from Gold. Includes Murder at the Mortuary, juvenile incarceration and mentored his Murder at Kensington Gardens, Murder career. She exiles him to the backwoods at St. George’s Church, and the novella of South Carolina with dark money for a The Wedding of Ginger & Basil, in which ballot initiative to manipulate the locals her wedding to Chief Inspector Basil into voting to sell pristine public land. Reed involves a few snags. 2018. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

23 Adult Fiction Occult and Horror Occult and Horror When Alexis accidentally kills a class- We Ride upon Sticks mate on prom night using magic, her best DB99244 14 hours 47 minutes friends Roya, Iris, Paulie, Marcelina, and by Quan Barry Maryam join in using their powers to try read by Isabel Keating to set things right. Strong language, some 1989. The Danvers High School field violence, and some descriptions of sex. hockey team experiences a frustrating For senior high and older readers. 2020. losing streak. In this town that hosted The Year of the Witching witch trials centuries before, the girls DB99677 11 hours 39 minutes decide they will do anything to win— by Alexis Henderson even make a deal with the devil. Unrated. read by Brianna Colette Commercial audiobook. 2020. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s Lost word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very DB99013 12 hours 42 minutes existence is blasphemy due to her mother’s by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast union with an outsider of a different read by Caitlin Davies race. A mishap lures Immanuelle into the Things have settled down since Zoey forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, and the gang closed the tear between where four witches were once killed. worlds and sent Other Kevin back to Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. the Other World. But then trouble begins The Southern Book Club’s Guide to again. Sequel to Loved (DB97152). Slaying Vampires Strong language, descriptions of DB99550 13 hours 51 minutes sex, and some violence. Commercial by Grady Hendrix audiobook. For senior high and older read by Bahni Turpin readers. 2018. The one thing Patricia Campbell has Song for the Unraveling of the World: to look forward to is her book club Stories of Charleston women united by their DB96811 8 hours 21 minutes love of true crime. When James Harris by Brian Evenson moves into the neighborhood and joins read by Michael Russotto the club, Patricia senses there is some- The twenty-two short stories in this col- thing not right about the man. Unrated. lection range across genres, from surreal Commercial audiobook. 2020. science fiction to literary horror and All the Things We Never See more. The title story follows the frantic DB96806 6 hours 24 minutes search by a father for his daughter—who by Michael Kelly may or may not be missing. Violence read by Brit Herring and some strong language. 2019. Thirty-one short stories and poems When We Were Magic involving aspects of the weird and the DB99074 9 hours 49 minutes uncanny. Includes the story “The Face by Sarah Gailey That Looks Back at You,” about a read by Erin Jones couple who have lost touch with their

24 Adult Fiction— Occult and Horror, Political Themes relationship and who take a road trip. Maggie Holt returns to the house made Some strong language. 2019. famous by her father’s bestselling horror If It Bleeds memoir. Is the place really haunted by DB99554 15 hours 15 minutes evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are by Stephen King there more earthbound and dangerous read by various narrators secrets hidden within its walls? Unrated. Four novellas of suspense and horror. In Commercial audiobook. 2020. Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a dead teenager’s Odsburg phone communicates from beyond the DB99367 5 hours 31 minutes grave. Also includes The Life of Chuck, by Matt Tompkins Rat, and If It Bleeds, which features read by David DeBoy King’s recurring character Holly Gibney. Eccentric writer and self-proclaimed Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. “socio-anthropo-lingui-lore-ologist” Mexican Gothic Wallace Jenkins-Ross investigates DB99404 10 hours 42 minutes strange happenings in Odsburg, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Washington. When the residents are ner- read by Frankie Corzo vous to discuss their town with him, he Mexico City, 1950. After receiving a finds other means to garner information. frantic letter from her newlywed cousin Some strong language. 2019. begging for someone to save her from Survivor Song a mysterious doom, socialite Noemí DB99675 8 hours 56 minutes Taboada heads to High Place, a distant by Paul Tremblay house in the Mexican countryside. Both read by Erin Bennett the home and its owners seem to have a The world is overrun by a rabies-like dark past. Unrated. Commercial audio- virus that turns the afflicted into hom- book. Bestseller. 2020. icidal maniacs. Pediatrician Ramola The Homecoming Sherman receives a call from her DB99329 9 hours 40 minutes pregnant friend, Natalie, who needs by Andrew Pyper help after her husband is killed in a read by Alec Volz violent attack. Unrated. Commercial Surgeon Aaron Quinlan heads to the Pacific audiobook. 2020. Northwest for the reading of his father’s will. Along with his mother and two sisters, Political Themes Aaron will inherit a large sum of money, The Moscow Offensive but only if they stay at his father’s isolated DB99294 14 hours 5 minutes wooded property for thirty days. Violence by Dale Brown and strong language. 2019. read by Mark Ashby Home before Dark When the inept American president DB99512 11 hours 7 minutes fails to hold off a Russian threat, by Riley Sager Brad McLanahan and the Iron Wolf read by various narrators Squadron join forces with the newly formed Alliance of Free Nations in 25 Adult Fiction Political Themes, Psychological Themes, Religious Themes Eastern Europe to prepare to combat Goin’ Home the imminent attack. Sequel to Price of DB99266 7 hours 3 minutes Duty (DB89883). Violence and strong by Phyllis Staton Campbell language. 2018. read by Joe Wilson Most Likely Pastor Jim Miller and his wife, DB99651 8 hours 50 minutes Amy, from Where Sheep May Safely by Sarah Watson Graze (DB89912) have settled into read by Christie Moreau Pleasantville. When a notorious killer In 2049, as the President of the United is paroled and returns home, Jim and States waits to be sworn in, she reflects Amy find themselves in the middle of a on senior year, when she and her three divided town as everyone struggles with dear friends vied for the attention of forgiveness. Some violence. 2020. the future First Gentleman. Strong lan- A Broken Kind of Beautiful guage and some descriptions of sex. DB99115 10 hours 45 minutes Commercial audiobook. For senior high by Katie Ganshert and older readers. 2020. read by Gabriella Cavallero Twenty-four year old model Ivy Clark Psychological Themes believes her broken past doesn’t matter as When Never Comes long as she looks beautiful for the camera. DB99120 12 hours 54 minutes When her life starts to unravel, she moves by Barbara Davis to the quaint island town of Greenbrier, read by Elizabeth Rose South Carolina, to be the new face of her Christy-Lynn learned as the child of stepmother’s bridal wear line. 2014. an addict to rely only on herself. Her His Promise: An Amish Christmas in marriage is a refuge—until her husband Hart County unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a DB99659 6 hours 8 minutes secret daughter. The little girl is about to by Shelley Shepard Gray go into foster care. Violence, some strong read by Tavia Gilbert language, and some explicit descriptions Grace King is pet-sitting a difficult of sex. 2018. dachshund as Christmas closes in on Hart Religious Themes County. She misses her family, but dis- If I Were You covers John Michael Miller—her sister’s DB99370 14 hours 13 minutes ex-fiancée—is living next door. She no by Lynn Austin longer has a crush, but John Michael’s read by Faith Potts feelings are still engaged. Suspicious fires 1950. Widowed mother Audrey Barrett threaten their burgeoning relationship. has been living with her in-laws in Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. America since the end of the war. A Gathering in Hope Her world is turned upside down when DB99081 6 hours 31 minutes the real Audrey Barrett—her former by Philip Gulley friend—arrives with her son. 2020. read by Gary Tipton

26 Adult Fiction— Religious Themes, Romance Pastor Sam Gardner’s congregation is Ian Shaw and rescue worker Sierra Rose eager to begin expanding their meeting- scrambling for survival. Sparks ignite house, but the county’s department as they wait for help, but will a secret of natural resources puts a hold on the keep them apart? Unrated. Commercial project. Endangered bats have made their audiobook. 2018. home in part of the meetinghouse. When A Beautiful Arrangement: An Amish over-zealous Leonard Fink takes the Journey Novel initiative, he may end up in jail—with DB99614 7 hours 4 minutes Sam. 2016. by Beth Wiseman Someone Like You read by Lauren Berst DB99195 8 hours 31 minutes At seventeen, Lydia is married to Samuel by Karen Kingsbury and has a six-month-old daughter. They read by various narrators were forced to marry when she became Maddie Baxter West is stunned when she pregnant, but watching two friends finds out that she was adopted and had fall in love has made them look at a sister she never knew. Betrayed and their relationship. Meanwhile, Lydia is confused, Maddie leaves her new job drawn to the mystery of a local home- and fiancé, rejects her family’s requests less woman. Unrated. Commercial for forgiveness, and moves to Portland audiobook. 2020. to find out who she really is. Unrated. Seek Me with All Your Heart: A Land of Commercial audiobook. 2020. Canaan Novel The Bridge to Belle Island DB99345 9 hours 49 minutes DB99443 11 hours 18 minutes by Beth Wiseman by Julie Klassen read by Jennifer Hubbard read by James Langton After a tragedy, Emily’s family resettled England, 1819. After a humiliating mis- in a small Amish community in Canaan, take, lawyer Benjamin Booker resolves Colorado, where they hope the distance to never again trust a beautiful woman. will help erase painful memories. David When an old friend is killed, Benjamin is anxious to leave Canaan, but he is heads to a remote island in the river drawn to Emily despite his fears that Thames to investigate. There he falls for his health makes a future with anyone Isabelle Wilder, the main suspect in his impossible. 2010. friend’s murder. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Romance Troubled Waters Reborn Yesterday DB99191 11 hours 7 minutes DB99274 10 hours 1 minutes by Susan May Warren by Tessa Bailey read by Cynthia Farrell read by Theresa Conkin A three-day excursion turns into a night- It was a night like any other for funeral mare when a rogue wave washes the home director Ginny Lynn, until passengers overboard, leaving billionaire the exceptionally handsome—and

27 Adult Fiction Romance unfortunately deceased—young man his move. Explicit descriptions of sex on her embalming table sat up, opened and some strong language. 2015. his eyes and changed the course of her The Hook Up life forever. Strong language, some DB99265 13 hours 14 minutes violence, and some explicit descriptions by Kristen Callihan of sex. 2020. read by Lindsey Pierce For the Duke’s Eyes Only Anna Jones just wants to finish college DB99419 9 hours 9 minutes and figure out her life. Falling for star by Lenora Bell quarterback Drew Baylor is certainly not read by Beverley A. Crick on her to-do list. From the moment he Years ago, Daniel, heir to the Duke first sees her, Drew wants a relationship, of Ravenwood, broke Lady India but Anna wants to keep things casual. Rochester’s heart. Now India is an Strong language and explicit descriptions archaeologist searching for a stolen piece of sex. 2014. of the Rosetta Stone. She is forced to The Hot Shot: A Game On Novel work with Daniel, who she believes to be DB99387 10 hours 59 minutes a greedy relic-hunter and a cad. Unrated. by Kristen Callihan Commercial audiobook. 2018. read by Doug Tisdale Jr. The Widow of Rose House Photographer Chess Copper meets NFL DB99340 11 hours 38 minutes quarterback Finn Mannus when she is by Diana Biller hired to shoot Finn and his teammates read by Jennifer Hubbard for a nude calendar. When Chess needs New York City, 1875. Widow Alva a place to stay, she and Finn become Webster returns from Europe after the roommates. Strong language and explicit death of her abusive husband with a descriptions of sex. 2017. scandalous reputation. When the dilap- Getting Played idated mansion she purchased appears DB99117 7 hours 52 minutes to have a ghost, she needs the help of by Emma Chase inventor Samuel Moore. Some strong read by Gabriella Cavallero language and some explicit descriptions Dean keeps his life simple. He plays of sex. 2019. drums in a band and teaches at the same The Game Plan: A Game On Novel high school he attended. His love life DB99327 9 hours 49 minutes is simple, too—nothing permanent, by Kristen Callihan nothing complicated. Then his one-night read by Teresa Willis stand with Lainey becomes anything NFL player Ethan Dexter’s focus has but simple. Strong language and some always been football, but he has loved explicit descriptions of sex. 2019. Fiona Mackenzie for years. Fi just thinks Getting Schooled of Dex as her brother-in-law Gray’s DB99061 8 hours 18 minutes best friend. When he and Fi both visit by Emma Chase Gray and wife Ivy, Dex finally makes read by Gabriella Cavallero

28 Adult Fiction—Romance When Callie’s parents need help, she Calvin’s teammate Grant Hendricks returns to her hometown and takes a is also staying at the house. Strong temporary job teaching at the local high language and some explicit descriptions school. She reconnects with her old of sex. 2018. boyfriend, Garrett. As the most popular Sledgehammer: Hard to Love, Book 2 teacher at the school, he offers to show DB99057 10 hours 16 minutes Callie the ropes. Strong language and by P. Dangelico some explicit descriptions of sex. 2018. read by Gabriella Cavallero The Lion’s Daughter When Amber Jones almost burns down DB99053 13 hours 9 minutes her ex-fiancé’s house, she needs a good by Loretta Chase lawyer. Ethan Vaughn bails her out as a read by Kristin Allison favor to his friend Cal, and even gives Esme is determined to avenge the murder her a place to stay, but things soon get of her beloved father, an English aris- complicated. Strong language and some tocrat who lived in self-imposed exile. explicit descriptions of sex. 2017. She will let nothing and nobody stand in Every Reason We Shouldn’t her way—not even the handsome wastrel DB99186 9 hours 50 minutes who’s become entangled in her life. by Sara Fujimura Some strong language and some explicit read by Caitlin Kelly descriptions of sex. 1992. Daughter of Olympians, sixteen-year-old The Heir Affair figure skater Olivia Kennedy is trying DB99570 17 hours 48 minutes to enjoy life as a regular teenager—until by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan Jonah Choi starts training at her family’s read by Christine Lakin struggling rink. Jonah is driven, talented, After a scandalous secret turns their going for the Olympics in speed skating, fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, and completely annoying. Strong lan- Rebecca “Bex” Porter and her husband guage. Commercial audiobook. For Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile senior high and older readers. 2020. until the scandal dies down. All too soon, Dangerous Beauty, Books 1–3 a crisis forces them back to London. DB99048 21 hours 31 minutes Sequel to The Royal We (DB81265). by J.T. Geissinger Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by various narrators Bulldozer: Hard to Love Three novels of romantic suspense DB99113 8 hours 8 minutes which follow Eva, a woman on by P. Dangelico the run from her Russian mobster read by Kristin Allison boyfriend, and Naz, the man originally Single mother Amanda Shaw worked hired to track her down. Includes hard to put her life back together. She Dangerous Beauty, Dangerous Desires, moves into her brother Calvin’s beach and Dangerous Games. Violence, house at the Hamptons while she opens strong language, and some explicit a yoga studio nearby. To her surprise, descriptions of sex. 2019.

29 Adult Fiction Romance Only Mostly Devastated Ben Jernigan, the mysterious ex-military DB99221 7 hours 50 minutes man living alone in the mountains. When by Sophie Gonzales Ben gets word from a fellow veteran read by Mark Sanderlin that a catastrophic solar storm is coming, When his aunt’s illness keeps Ollie in North he must warn Sela. Unrated. Commercial Carolina, he hopes his summer fling with audiobook. 2020. Will can grow into something more, but The Inn at Blue Hollow Falls at school Will proves to be a completely DB99256 3 hours 15 minutes different—and firmly closeted—man. by Donna Kauffman Strong language and some descriptions of read by Kristin Allison sex. Commercial audiobook. For senior After a run of bad luck with men, Stevie high and older readers. 2020. is thrilled to help her best friend Sunny Flirting with the Frenemy launch her new greenhouse business in DB99254 6 hours 15 minutes Blue Hollow Falls. While staying at the by Pippa Grant local inn she meets hunky innkeeper, read by Kristin Allison Noah. Some strong language and some When her boyfriend dumps her on descriptions of sex. 2017. Christmas Eve, Ellie sleeps with her old Rakes and Roses: A Mayfield enemy—and her brother’s best friend— Family Romance Wyatt. Even though he told her it was DB99363 8 hours 24 minutes a mistake, he steps in when she needs a by Josi S. Kilpack pretend date for a pirate-themed wed- read by Jean Cochran ding. Strong language and some explicit Young rake Harry Stillman’s gambling descriptions of sex. 2019. has left him deep in debt. Out of options, Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire he turns to mysterious benefactor Lord DB99286 10 hours 27 minutes Damion for help—but not before thugs by Pippa Grant beat him badly. Widow Sabrina Carlisle read by Andy Pyle finds Harry and brings him to her estate Baseball player Tripp is a single father to heal. 2020. who has a hot encounter with Lila in a The Best Laid Plans club, but lies about his name. When he DB99759 11 hours 22 minutes finds out that Lila is the new owner of by Cameron Lund his team, he has to convince her to trust read by Rachel L. Jacobs him. Strong language and some explicit When eighteen-year-old Keely Collins descriptions of sex. 2020. decides to lose her virginity, she fears After Sundown Dean, a college student, will be turned DB99552 11 hours 40 minutes off by her inexperience, so she decides by Linda Howard and Linda Jones to start with lifelong friend Andrew. read by Melissa Moran Strong language and descriptions of sex. Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Commercial audiobook. For senior high Tennessee general store, is drawn to and older readers. 2020.

30 Adult Fiction—Romance Daring and the Duke Ryan Robertson. Back home in West DB99406 11 hours 1 minutes Texas, Anna and Ryan continue their by Sarah MacLean relationship, but things get complicated read by Justine Eyre when they decide to meet each other’s Betrayed as a child by Ewan, the boy children. Unrated. Commercial audio- she loved, Grace Condry grew up on book. 2020. the street and now hides in plain sight A Lady’s Guide to Passion and Property as queen of London’s darkest corners. DB99291 6 hours 53 minutes Ewan has since become the Duke of by Kate Moore Marwick, but he never stopped looking read by Faith Potts for the woman he still loves. Unrated. Lucy Holbrook inherits her father’s Commercial audiobook. 2020. London inn after his death. Her friends If I Never Met You urge her to sell and look for a husband, DB99548 11 hours 19 minutes but she doesn’t want to leave the inn or by Mhairi McFarlane Adam, the elderly blind man she cares for. read by Sara Novak A mysterious man arrives with an agenda. Laurie’s partner of over a decade ends Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2018. things, making it awkward at the law firm A Spy’s Guide to Seduction where they both work. After a chance DB99299 5 hours 33 minutes encounter in a broken elevator with Jamie, by Kate Moore the office playboy, Laurie decides to give read by Peter Holdway the rumor mill something else to talk about. When her mother sends her The Husband Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Hunter’s Guide to London, Emily Paris Is Always a Good Idea Radstock objects to the book of manners, DB99680 11 hours 35 minutes declaring that she should just wed the by Jenn McKinlay first “imbecile” she meets. Too bad gov- read by Brittany Pressley ernment agent Sir Ajax Lynley overhears Chelsea has been focusing on work as her outrageous proposal and holds her to a fundraiser for the American Cancer it. Some descriptions of sex. 2019. Coalition since her mother died seven years Close Up ago. When her father announces he is DB99248 8 hours 49 minutes remarrying, she realizes the last time she by Amanda Quick remembers being happy is her post-college read by Morgan Hallett year abroad and decides to retrace her trip. Vivian Brazier is an art photographer Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. by day and a crime scene photographer Fearless at night in 1930s Hollywood. When she DB99551 8 hours 29 minutes notices a detail in her pictures of a mur- by Fern Michaels dered actress that seems to link the crime read by Barbara McCulloh to other victims, she catches the atten- While on a singles cruise, widow Anna tion of the killer. Unrated. Commercial Campbell meets divorced professor audiobook. 2020.

31 Adult Fiction Romance, Science Fiction First Comes Scandal: A Bridgerton Syn has kept his side hustle as a mer- Prequel cenary a secret from the Black Dagger DB99245 9 hours 8 minutes Brotherhood. When he takes another hit by Julia Quinn job, he crosses the path of Jo, a half-breed read by Rosalyn Landor in danger of dying during her transition. Georgiana Bridgerton is abducted for Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. her dowry and then told she must marry Not like the Movies her abductor to save her reputation. DB99676 8 hours 38 minutes Childhood friend Nicholas Rokesby by Kerry Winfrey comes to the rescue, offering to marry read by Reba Buhr her himself, but Georgie always thought Chloe is tired of people assuming that she would wed for love. Unrated. the romantic comedy her screenwriter Commercial audiobook. 2020. friend Annie wrote is about her and War Nick, her boss at the local coffee shop. DB98235 18 hours 39 minutes Sure, they have chemistry, but Chloe by Laura Thalassa is too busy caring for her father with read by Carol Jacobanis Alzheimer’s to be interested in love. The four horsemen have come to earth, Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. and the streets run red with blood. As a traitorous army massacres every resident Science Fiction of Jerusalem, Miriam catches the eye The Best of Elizabeth Bear of War himself. Instead of killing her, DB98988 24 hours 20 minutes he claims her as his wife. Violence and by Elizabeth Bear explicit descriptions of sex. 2019. read by Margaret Strom Summer at Lake Haven A wide-ranging collection of nearly DB99403 8 hours 24 minutes thirty short stories and novellas from by RaeAnne Thayne across the career of the award-winning read by Vanessa Johansson science fiction and fantasy author. Samantha Freemont’s friend is getting Includes “Tideline,” “Shoggoths in married and has asked Sam to create her Bloom,” “Faster Gun,” and “In the wedding dress. It’s an honor—and some- House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal thing that could launch Sam’s career—if Burns.” Some violence and some strong only she could avoid the bride’s infu- language. 2020. riating brother, who’s temporarily the Future Tense Fiction: Stories of boy next door. Unrated. Commercial Tomorrow audiobook. 2020. DB99365 7 hours 59 minutes The Sinner: The Black Dagger edited by Kirsten Berg and others Brotherhood Series read by Duyen Washington DB99549 15 hours 40 minutes Previously unpublished speculative and by J.R. Ward science fiction short stories that explore read by Jim Frangione how emerging technologies may change society. Includes pieces by, among 32 Adult Fiction—Science Fiction others, Emily St. John Mandel, Charlie Perihelion Summer Jane Anders, Nnedi Okorafor, Paolo DB99332 5 hours 9 minutes Bacigalupi, and Annalee Newitz. Some by Greg Egan violence, some strong language, and read by Andy Pyle some descriptions of sex. 2019. With a black hole about to enter the Longer solar system, Matt and his friends flee DB99333 5 hours 0 minutes off-shore on a self-sustaining aquacul- by Michael Blumlein ture rig to wait out the encounter. Some read by Gregory Maupin strong language. 2019. Married couple Gunjita and Cav are per- The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday forming pharmaceutical R&D in space. DB99341 3 hours 44 minutes As Cav’s obsession with an unidentified by Saad Z. Hossain object they encounter and the possibility read by Gary Tipton of first contact grows, their marriage Djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes begins to struggle. Some strong language after millennia have passed to find and some descriptions of sex. 2019. the world vastly different from when The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded he last saw it. An exile from the nearby Edition; Star Wars city state of Kathmandu pushes the DB99173 9 hours 39 minutes djinn into ever-deeper conflicts. Strong by Rae Carson language. 2019. read by Marc Thompson Z-Day, Books 1–3 As Kylo Ren brings destruction in his DB99090 41 hours 33 minutes determination to discover any challenge by Daniel Humphreys to his control over the First Order, Rey read by Mark Ashby and her fellow heroes must face an unex- The first three books in the series, pub- pected threat. A mysterious signal broad- lished 2016-2018. In A Place outside the casts the return of the Sith Lord Emperor Wild, the remnants of humanity struggle Palpatine, long thought to be defeated to survive among the ravenous undead. and destroyed. Unrated. Commercial Also includes A Place Called Hope and audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. A Place for War. Violence and strong Verify language. 2018. DB99177 9 hours 40 minutes Goddess in the Machine by Joelle Charbonneau DB99477 15 hours 8 minutes read by Caitlin Kelly by Lora Beth Johnson Meri’s pride of living in a land of peace, read by various narrators prosperity, and truth crumbles when Seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up questions following her mother’s death from a cryogenic sleep one thousand reveal buried facts, especially that words years later than scheduled and on a can have great power. Some strong bizarre world where technology is con- language. Commercial audiobook. For sidered magic. Violence, some strong senior high and older readers. 2019. language, and some descriptions of sex.

33 Adult Fiction Science Fiction Commercial audiobook. For senior Hearts of Oak high and older readers. 2020. DB99275 5 hours 44 minutes Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Eddie Robson DB99342 2 hours 53 minutes read by Jill Fox by Vylar Kaftan Iona, the chief architect of an read by Jessica Wortham ever-expanding city, begins to investigate An inmate of prison planet Colel-Cab, the forces at work in her home after she telepath Bree does not remember the notices the people of the city behaving crime that she committed. Her only strangely. Meanwhile, the king confers fellow prisoner, Chela, says that they are with his closest friend and advisor, a both mass-murderers. Bree has never talking cat. Some strong language. 2020. doubted Chela—until she hears the Gravity of a Distant Sun: Shieldrunner voice of another telepath with answers. Pirates, Book 3 Some strong language and some explicit DB99467 14 hours 33 minutes descriptions of sex. 2019. by R.E. Stearns Triangulum read by Mia Barron DB97786 10 hours 52 minutes Adda and Iridian are on the run from the by Masande Ntshanga authorities and the evil AI that wants to read by Pilar Witherspoon control them. Trapped on a Jupiter black- In 2040, the South African National market space station, they will have to Space Agency receives materials con- cross an interstellar bridge to another taining a warning of the world’s end in galaxy and safety. Sequel to Mutiny at ten years’ time. The included materials Vesta (DB94300). Unrated. Commercial consist of a mysterious woman’s memoir audiobook. 2020. and recordings. Science fiction writer Light from Other Stars Naomi is hired to investigate the veracity DB98232 13 hours 55 minutes of this claim. Some violence, some by Erika Swyler strong language, and some descriptions read by Carol Jacobanis of sex. 2019. Nedda dreams of becoming an astro- The Hound of Justice naut. Meanwhile, her scientist father DB99276 10 hours 35 minutes obsesses over extending Nedda’s child- by Claire O’Dell hood after her newborn brother dies, and read by Erin Jones the resulting invention alters the fabric When an extremist faction called the of time. Years later, Nedda faces a crisis Brotherhood of Redemption attempts to while in space, but solving it will require assassinate the president and kills many facing her past. Some strong language others in the process, Holmes investigates. and some descriptions of sex. 2019. She disappears abruptly, and Watson learns Dahlia Black she has quit and is operating outside any DB99386 8 hours 15 minutes official capacity. Sequel toA Study in by Keith Thomas Honor (DB95770). Some violence. 2019. read by Doug Tisdale Jr.

34 Adult Fiction—Science Fiction, Short Stories Five years after Dr. Dahlia Mitchell Short Stories discovers an intergalactic species Life Is Short and Then You Die: capable of rewriting human DNA Mystery Writers of America Presents through a process called Elevation, First Encounters with Murder journalist Keith Thomas sets out to DB99181 12 hours 14 minutes record an oral history of the discovery edited by Kelley Armstrong and subsequent years. He presents read by various narrators his findings as a series of interviews, Sixteen short stories featuring teens’ first transcripts, and diary entries. Strong experiences with murder. In Jonathan language. 2019. Maberry’s “What I Did on My Summer Mazes of Power: The Broken Trust, Vacation,” a seventeen-year-old’s Book 1 bodyguard gig turns deadly. Contributors DB98992 15 hours 11 minutes include Y.S. Lee, Barry Lyga, R.L. Stine, by Juliette Wade Rachel Vincent, and more. Violence read by Mark Ashby and strong language. Commercial After the ruling Eminence dies, audiobook. For senior high and older young Tagaret represents his family readers. 2019. in the competition for Heir to the Hitting a Straight Lick with a Throne. But the fever that killed the Crooked Stick: Stories from the Eminence continues to rage amongst the Harlem Renaissance inbred nobles even as Tagaret and his DB99517 9 hours 0 minutes brother, Nekantor, grapple for power. by Zora Neale Hurston Some violence and some descriptions read by Aunjanue Ellis of sex. 2020. Short stories examining love, migra- A Pale Light in the Black: NeoG, tion, gender, class, racism, sexism, Book 1 and African American folk culture. DB99448 13 hours 23 minutes Includes eight of the author’s “lost” by K.B. Wagers Harlem stories. Unrated. Commercial read by Marisha Tapera audiobook. 2020. Rival military branches compete in Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung the Boarding Games—a competition DB99261 8 hours 39 minutes pitting service members against each by Nina MacLaughlin other in piloting, tactical problem- read by Kristin Allison solving, fencing, martial arts, and more. The female figures from Ovid’s Consisting of a band of retired vets Metamorphoses (DB26228) reclaim and raw recruits with sub-par equip- their own stories. These nymphs, demi- ment and the scorn of the military goddesses, she-monsters, and others establishment, the NEO-G are the ulti- revisit their experiences of love, loss, mate underdogs. Unrated. Commercial rape, revenge, and change. Some vio- audiobook. 2020. lence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019.

35 Adult Fiction Short Stories, Spies and Espionage Tales of the Peculiar A collection of short stories and a DB99176 4 hours 29 minutes previously unpublished novella featuring by Ransom Riggs CIA operative Condor from Six Days read by various narrators of the Condor (DB84864). Condor Collection of unusual fairy tales about faces 9/11, Russian cyber threats, con- wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued prin- finement in a CIA insane asylum, and cess, and the origins of the first ymbryne. more. Strong language, some violence, Edited and annotated by Millard and some descriptions of sex. 2019. Nullings, a peculiar child who is invis- One Minute Out ible. Companion to Miss Peregrine’s DB99143 16 hours 2 minutes Home for Peculiar Children (DB75853). by Mark Greaney Violence. Commercial audiobook. For read by Jay Snyder senior high and older readers. 2016. While on a mission to Croatia, Court You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories Gentry uncovers a human trafficking DB99255 6 hours 40 minutes operation. Court wishes to shut it down, by Mary South but his CIA handlers won’t move until read by Kristin Allison they gain intelligence about plans for In this debut collection of short stories, a terrorist attack from the operation’s characters attempt to use technology to ringleader. Sequel to Mission Critical escape their own feelings of grief, rage, (DB94148). Unrated. Commercial and despair. The author also explores audiobook. 2020. how technology can both create connec- Tom Clancy Firing Point tion and destroy it. Strong language and DB99599 11 hours 30 minutes some descriptions of sex. 2020. by Mike Maden read by Scott Brick Spies and Espionage After failing to save an old friend from Ian Ludlow, Books 1–3 a suicide bombing, Jack seeks out the DB99267 27 hours 6 minutes secrets that may have gotten her killed. by Lee Goldberg Sequel to Tom Clancy Code of Honor read by Joe Wilson (DB97885). Unrated. Commercial The first three books in the series, audiobook. 2020. published 2018-2020. In True Fiction, The Jerusalem Assassin: Marcus Ryker, a terrorism scenario that writer Ian Book 3 Ludlow posited for the CIA as a consul- DB99331 13 hours 30 minutes tant comes to pass. Also includes Killer by Joel C. Rosenberg Thriller and Fake Truth. Violence, strong read by Ray Foushee language, and some descriptions of When senior American officials who sex. 2020. support the president’s peace plan begin Condor: The Short Takes dying, President Clarke orders Ryker DB99268 12 hours 9 minutes and his team to hunt down those respon- by James Grady sible. Ryker soon uncovers a plot to kill read by Joe Wilson 36 Adult Fiction— Spies and Espionage, Sports Stories, Suspense the president, and it’s up to him to elim- Clock, The Assignment, Quick Study, inate the threat. Sequel to The Persian Lesson Plan, and Night Work. Written Gamble (DB94907). Some violence and 2011-2015. Violence and strong some strong language. 2020. language. 2015. The Unknown: A Jonathan Quinn Novel Sports Stories DB99357 11 hours 47 minutes We Are the Wildcats by Brett Battles DB99073 10 hours 40 minutes read by Jonathan Taylor by Siobhan Vivian Asleep in one of the private read by Jessica Wortham compartments of a train in Austria is After enduring a week of punishing try- a scientist who has created something outs for the girls varsity field hockey others desperately want. When the team, the players must participate in a scientist vanishes, Jonathan Quinn night of hazing, orchestrated by the most and his team are sent in to locate him senior members and manipulated by their before the secrets in the man’s head male coach. Strong language and some can be extracted—which would change descriptions of sex. For senior high and the world forever. Violence and strong older readers. 2020. language. 2019. Suspense The Woman in the Hotel Walk the Wire DB99085 1 hours 52 minutes DB99196 11 hours 59 minutes by Sara Blaedel by David Baldacci read by Theresa Conkin read by various narrators When her newspaper editor father is FBI agents Amos Decker and Alex badly assaulted, journalist Camilla Lind Jamison are called to London, North rushes to his town. A fire in the edi- Dakota, a thriving fracking town. Irene torial office makes Lind think it was Cramer’s body was expertly autopsied something he was working on. As she and then dumped in the open. They are temporarily takes over the paper, she shocked to discover that the woman— investigates. Translated from the Danish who was a prostitute—was also a teacher edition. Strong language and some for a local religious sect. Unrated. violence. 2018. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Wall of Silence Jonathan Quinn, Books 0.1, 0.2, 4.5, 7.5, DB99293 11 hours 30 minutes 8.1, 8.2, 8.5 by Tracy Buchanan DB99269 12 hours 46 minutes read by Jeff Allin by Brett Battles Melissa arrives home to find her three read by Joe Wilson children standing above her husband Becoming Quinn explains how a Phoenix Patrick, who lies bleeding on the floor. rookie cop came to freelance for the They claim not to know what happened, Office, a secret US intelligence agency. but a bloody knife is quickly hidden. Also includes Just Another Job, Off the As the investigation into who stabbed

37 Adult Fiction Suspense Patrick proceeds, Melissa’s family life— move. Claire has a plan to vanish by past and present—is dissected. Strong switching plane tickets with a woman language and some violence. 2020. in similar circumstances. Unrated. Savage Son Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB99473 12 hours 58 minutes Jay Porter, Books 2–5 by Jack Carr DB99063 33 hours 10 minutes read by Ray Porter by Joe Clifford Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman read by Ray Foushee is on the run, pursued by a man intent Four crime novels, written 2016–2019, on killing her. A traitorous CIA officer featuring down-on-his-luck New has found refuge with the Russian Hampshire handyman Jay Porter, mafia, with plans to kill former Navy last seen in Lamentation (DB81948). SEAL sniper James Reece. Meanwhile, Includes December Boys, Give up the Reece is recovering from brain surgery Dead, Broken Ground, and Rag and in the Montana wilderness, Unrated. Bone in which he thinks a fire was Commercial audiobook. 2020. started by his longtime nemeses. Strong A Brewing Storm; A Raging Storm; language, explicit descriptions of sex, A Bloody Storm and some violence. 2019. DB99263 9 hours 48 minutes Murder One: A David Sloane Novel by Richard Castle DB99264 14 hours 52 minutes read by Joe Wilson by Robert Dugoni Three prequel novellas to Storm Front read by Joe Wilson (DB81679) feature fixer Derrick Storm. Widowed David Sloane has an unex- His former CIA boss needs him to pected new love interest—fellow investigate a high-profile kidnapping. attorney Barclay Reid. She has asked Working alongside FBI investigator David to help her sue the drug dealer April Showers, Storm must sift through she holds responsible for her daughter’s a flurry of ransom notes and unravel a death. But when the dealer is shot, complicated web of personal relation- David finds himself defending Barclay ships and international politics from in the murder case. Strong language England to Uzbekistan. Violence and and some violence. 2011. strong language. 2012. The Blaze The Last Flight DB99574 10 hours 51 minutes DB99472 9 hours 26 minutes by Chad Dundas by Julie Clark read by Chris Henry Coffey read by various narrators Having lost much of his memory from Claire is married to the scion of a polit- a traumatic brain injury sustained in ical dynasty, with a Manhattan town- Iraq, Matthew Rose is called back to house and a staff of ten. But that perfect Montana after his father’s death. On his husband has a temper, and he’s not above first night back, Matthew sees a house using his staff to track Claire’s every go up in flames, which sparks a memory

38 Adult Fiction—Suspense of a different long-ago fire. Unrated. Lethal Legacy: Guardians of Justice, Commercial audiobook. 2020. Book 3 The Ninja Daughter DB99189 10 hours 39 minutes DB99412 8 hours 19 minutes by Irene Hannon by Tori Eldridge read by Brian Hutchison read by Natalie Naudus The police say her father’s death was After her sister is raped and murdered, suicide. Kelly Warren has evidence Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja it was murder. Detective Cole Taylor skills to the protection of women. She doesn’t put much credence in her lives above the Chinese restaurant owned claim, but when he digs deeper and by her Norwegian father and has to discovers startling information linking hide her true self from her tiger mom. Kelly to a long-buried secret, the Then a woman and child she helped are danger escalates. Unrated. Commercial in danger again. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2012. audiobook. 2019. Little Secrets Thief River Falls DB99199 10 hours 35 minutes DB99108 8 hours 53 minutes by Jennifer Hillier by Brian Freeman read by Kirsten Potter read by Mare Trevathan Marin and Derek’s world falls apart the Novelist Lisa Power finds a young boy day their son Sebastian is taken. A year outside her secluded Minnesota house later, the FBI search has gone cold and late one night. He can’t remember Marin hires a P.I. But instead of finding who he is or much of how he came to Sebastian, she learns that Derek is be there. As Lisa tries to help him, she having an affair with a younger woman. realizes that powerful people in town Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. want to stop her. Some violence and Into the Fire some strong language. 2020. DB98312 14 hours 7 minutes Camino Winds by Gregg Hurwitz DB99615 8 hours 45 minutes read by Doug Ramsdell by John Grisham Forensic accountant Grant Merriweather read by Michael Beck leaves his down-and-out cousin Max an Bruce of Bruce Cable’s Bay Books envelope to be delivered to an L.A. Times survives Hurricane Leo hitting Camino reporter in the event of his murder. But island. One of the dozen apparent when Grant and the reporter are both victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of killed, a panic-stricken Max must turn Bruce’s and an author of thrillers. But to Evan Smoak, the Nowhere Man. the nature of Nelson’s injuries suggests Violence and strong language. 2020. that the storm wasn’t the cause of his Dark Tribute death. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. DB99429 13 hours 20 minutes Bestseller. 2020. by Iris Johansen read by Elizabeth Rogers

39 Adult Fiction Suspense Despite her tragic childhood, violin When Bonnie was kidnapped by the prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found wealthy Zhang family, Nora made a peace in her career as a professional powerful enemy in Dao, a mysterious musician and stability in her relationship triad enforcer and former head of the with her guardians, forensic sculptor Zhangs’ private security. Now that Dao is Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe out for revenge, Nora forms an unlikely Quinn. But that ends when she is kid- partnership with an eccentric playboy napped by a mysterious man from her billionaire and reunites with PI Brazuca. grandfather’s past. Unrated. Commercial Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. audiobook. 2019. All the Broken People It All Falls Down DB99583 12 hours 49 minutes DB99622 8 hours 38 minutes by Leah Konen by Sheena Kamal read by Jesse Vilinsky read by Bahni Turpin Lucy King heads to rustic Woodstock, Finding the truth about her father’s eager to lose herself in a quiet life where life and violent death takes Nora from her past can never find her. When she Vancouver to Detroit, where Sam Watts meets the alluring couple next door, grew up far away from his place of his their friendship proves impossible to birth. Meanwhile, cop-turned-PI Jon resist. But they, too, need to escape their Brazuca’s investigation into the overdose troubles—and they need Lucy’s help. death of a billionaire’s mistress uncovers Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. a startling connection to Nora. Unrated. The Other Mrs. Commercial audiobook. 2018. DB99431 11 hours 54 minutes The Lost Ones by Mary Kubica DB99621 10 hours 22 minutes read by various narrators by Sheena Kamal Sadie and Will Foust have just moved read by Bahni Turpin their family from Chicago to small-town When the police won’t look for Maine when their neighbor Morgan fifteen-year-old chronic runaway Bonnie, Baines is found dead in her home. The her desperate adoptive parents reach out more Sadie discovers about Mrs. Baines, to her birth mother. A biracial product of the more she begins to realize just how the foster system, transient, and home- much she has to lose if the truth ever less, Nora Watts knows what happens to comes to light. Unrated. Commercial vulnerable girls. Caring despite herself, audiobook. 2020. she sets out to find Bonnie with her More Better Deals mutt Whisper. Unrated. Commercial DB99415 6 hours 1 minutes audiobook. 2017. by Joe Lansdale No Going Back read by Brad Sanders DB99623 9 hours 30 minutes Dreaming of a brighter future for himself by Sheena Kamal and his little sister, Ed Edwards wants read by Bahni Turpin to quit the used car business. After his

40 Adult Fiction—Suspense boss sends him to repossess a Cadillac, Adam’s sister, Meghan, and her lover, the man’s beautiful wife suggests to Will—a convicted but unrepentant lit- Ed—in the throes of their salacious erary forger—struggle to come to terms affair—that they kill him and claim his with the murder. Then Will begins insurance policy. Unrated. Commercial receiving threatening letters in the hand- audiobook. 2020. writing of long-dead authors. Unrated. The Woman in the Blue Cloak Commercial audiobook. 2014. DB99576 3 hours 12 minutes The Shadows by Deon Meyer DB99568 9 hours 8 minutes read by Simon Vance by Alex North Benny Griessel is called to a top-priority read by various narrators murder case. A woman’s body was dis- Even when they were teens together in covered, naked and washed in bleach, a small English town, Paul Adams knew draped on a wall beside a picturesque there was something wrong with Charlie road above Cape Town. The identity of Crabtree. It’s been twenty-five years the victim is a mystery, as is the reason since Crabtree disappeared after com- for her killing. Translated from the 2017 mitting a shocking murder that inspired Afrikaans edition. Unrated. Commercial more than one copycat, and Paul audiobook. 2018. is back home. Unrated. Commercial The Girl from Widow Hills audiobook. 2020. DB99578 9 hours 59 minutes The Dilemma by Megan Miranda DB99581 9 hours 12 minutes read by Rebekkah Ross by B.A. Paris Young Arden was swept away while read by various narrators sleepwalking during a terrifying rain- Livia’s husband Adam is throwing her a storm and went missing for days before blowout fortieth birthday party. Everyone being found clinging to a storm drain. will be there except her daughter Marnie, As soon as she was old enough, Arden who’s studying abroad. Livia recently changed her name and moved away. But uncovered a shattering secret about with the twentieth anniversary of her Marnie. She needs to tell Adam, but she’s rescue approaching, she begins sleep- waiting until the party is over so they walking again. Unrated. Commercial can have this last happy time together. audiobook. 2020. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. The Forgers 1st Case DB99416 7 hours 10 minutes DB99573 7 hours 18 minutes by Bradford Morrow by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts read by R.C. Bray read by Brittany Pressley Reclusive collector Adam Diehl is After genius programmer Angela Hoot found dead, hands severed, surrounded used her hacking skills on another grad- by valuable books and manuscripts that uate student’s computer, her mentor have been vandalized beyond repair. arranged a new beginning for her—as an

41 Adult Fiction Suspense intern in FBI’s Boston field office. Her and instead finds an arrangement first case—tracking murderous brothers of human bones. Violence and strong who go by the Poet and the Engineer— language. 2020. threatens everyone around her. Unrated. Masked Prey Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB99151 12 hours 7 minutes The 20th Victim by John Sandford DB99249 8 hours 28 minutes read by Richard Ferrone by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro A US Senator’s daughter finds a picture read by January LaVoy of herself on a strange blog, along- Three victims, three bullets, three cities. side other pictures of the children of Simultaneous murders in LA, Chicago, influential Washington politicians, and San Francisco—SFPD Sergeant walking or standing outside their schools, Lindsay Boxer’s jurisdiction, and local each identified by name. Surrounding reporter Cindy Thomas’s beat. The the photos are texts of vicious political shooters’ aim is as fearsomely precise as rants from a motley variety of radical their target selection. Lindsay realizes groups. Lucas Davenport investigates. that the fallen men and women excel in Unrated. Commercial audiobook. a lucrative, criminal activity. Unrated. Bestseller. 2020. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. What’s Left of Me Is Yours The Twin DB99582 11 hours 34 minutes DB99219 9 hours 17 minutes by Stephanie Scott by Natasha Preston read by various narrators read by Emma Galvin When Sat? hires Kaitar? to have an affair After sixteen-year-old Ivy’s twin sister, with his wife, Rina, in order to gain the Iris, moves in with her and their father, advantage in divorce proceedings, he Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her assumes it will be an easy case. But Sat? out of her own life—and may be respon- has never truly understood Rina or her sible for their mother’s death. Strong desires and Kaitar?’s job is to do exactly language and some descriptions of sex. that—until he does it too well. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For senior high Commercial audiobook. 2020. and older readers. 2020. Take Me Apart Find Her Alive DB99555 11 hours 31 minutes DB99330 11 hours 14 minutes by Sara Sligar by Lisa Regan read by various narrators read by Jessica Wortham Decades after famed photographer After an on-air mishap threatens Trinity’s Miranda Brand died mysteriously, her anchor job, she is determined to find a son Theo hires ex-journalist Kate Aitken career-boosting story. Angry at her sister to archive his mother’s work and Josie, Trinity retreats to a cabin to work. personal effects. As Kate sorts through But when Josie finally goes to apologize, the material, she becomes attracted she realizes Trinity is long missing, to Theo. When she finds Miranda’s

42 Adult Fiction—Suspense, War Stories diary, her curiosity spirals into a dan- lingering effects on the town’s women. gerous obsession. Unrated. Commercial Unrated. Commercial audiobook. audiobook. 2020. Bestseller. 2020. The Sun Down Motel Broken DB99575 11 hours 3 minutes DB99624 12 hours 28 minutes by Simone St. James by Don Winslow read by various narrators read by various narrators Carly Kirk—obsessed with the story Six short novels connected by the themes of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously dis- of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, appeared from the Sun Down Motel loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption. in 1982—decides to move to Fell, Explores a world of high-level thieves New York, and visit the motel. She learns and low-life crooks, obsessed cops strug- that nothing has changed since 1982 and gling with life on and off the job, private soon finds herself ensnared in the same detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters, mysteries that claimed her aunt. Unrated. and fugitives. Unrated. Commercial Commercial audiobook. 2020. audiobook. 2020. The Program The Club DB99079 12 hours 23 minutes DB99521 5 hours 27 minutes by James Swain by Takis Würger read by Andy Pyle read by various narrators A serial killer has kidnaped After the death of his parents, Hans is seventeen-year-old Wayne and is put- sent to boarding school—until his Aunt ting the boy through the Program, a Alex summons him to the university she project designed to turn young boys works at in Cambridge. She needs him to into raging killers. FBI Agents Vick and infiltrate a secretive institution known as Linderman—with some help from Jack the Pitt Club. Translated from the 2017 Carpenter—race to save Wayne before German edition. Unrated. Commercial he’s turned into a monster. Violence, audiobook. 2019. strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010. War Stories Valentine Death Is Hard Work DB99620 10 hours 23 minutes DB99522 5 hours 53 minutes by Elizabeth Wetmore by Khaled Khalifa read by various narrators read by Neil Shah 1976. Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp When Abdel Latif al-Salim dies, his son, of the next great oil boom. In the early Bolbol, promises to bury Abdel next to hours of the morning after Valentine’s his sister in his hometown. The family Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez comes together despite long-standing appears on the front porch of Mary differences to complete the task. But the Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken ongoing war challenges them. Translated and barely alive. The brutal crime has from the 2016 Arabic edition. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. 43 Adult Fiction Westerns Westerns Hired Guns Titus Bass, Books 7–8 DB99210 8 hours 28 minutes DB98552 34 hours 51 minutes by William W. Johnstone and by Terry C. Johnston J.A. Johnstone read by Jack Fox read by Corey M. Snow Two novels written in 1998 and 1999. Luke agrees to hunt down outlaw In Ride the Moon Down, Bass’s family Tom Eagle, who killed the son of a is kidnapped by members of a warring millionaire mine owner. His journey tribe. Also includes Death Rattle. Sequel takes him to Hard Rock, Montana, to Titus Bass, Books 5–6 (DB96954). where he finds a gang of hired guns also Violence, strong language, and descrip- hoping to collect the bounty. Sequel to tions of sex. 1999. Burning Daylight (DB99209). Unrated. Burning Daylight Commercial audiobook. 2019. DB99209 6 hours 54 minutes by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone read by Corey M. Snow When twelve-year-old Aaron puts up a wanted poster for his father, Three-Fingered Jack McKinney, Luke Jensen feels compelled to take the job. Aaron wants revenge on his daddy for abandoning him and his mom, and when he tags along with Luke, the result is a life-or-death reunion. Sequel to Legion of Fire (DB94972). Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

44 Adult Nonfiction—Animals and Wildlife, Biography Adult Nonfiction The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh DB98982 9 hours 41 minutes Animals and Wildlife by Candace Fleming Lost Companions: Reflections on the read by Kirsten Potter Death of Pets Portrait of Charles Lindbergh DB99408 6 hours 35 minutes (1902–1974), one of America’s most by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson complex and celebrated heroes. As the read by Barry Abrams first human to cross the Atlantic via air- Author of The Inner Life of Animals plane, Lindbergh’s accomplishments (DB89929) examines how people were also plagued with tragedy and flaws. grieve when they lose a pet. Discusses Commercial audiobook. YALSA Award. the psychology of grief and stresses For senior high and older readers. 2020. the importance of mourning the loss of Wow, No Thank You: Essays animals that share our lives. Unrated. DB99633 10 hours 5 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Samantha Irby Wag: The Science of Making Your read by Samantha Irby Dog Happy Author of We Are Never Meeting in Real DB98998 8 hours 28 minutes Life (DB89142) presents a collection by Zazie Todd of humorous essays about aging, mar- read by David DeBoy riage, step-parenthood, health food and Psychologist and dog trainer shares skincare obsessions, and money trou- recommendations from leading veteri- bles. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. narians, researchers, and trainers to help Bestseller. 2020. pet owners cultivate a rewarding and The Blind Truth: An Inside “Look” respectful relationship with your dog. at Living and Loving Life While Includes advice on socializing a new Visually Impaired puppies, enrichment exercises, and living DB99277 3 hours 9 minutes with aging dogs. 2020. by Woody Livingston Biography read by Jon Huffman Essays discussing life with Usher Untamed syndrome, which caused retinitis pig- DB98981 8 hours 25 minutes mentosa and eventual vision and hearing by Glennon Doyle loss. Recounts how, with the help of read by Glennon Doyle a cane, cochlear implants, and faith in Author of Carry On, Warrior (DB87208) God, the author has taken charge of and Love Warrior (DB85522) suggests his own life. 2020. that trusting one’s inner voice and ignoring Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the the world’s expectations can lead to joy and American Century peace. She speaks of her own experiences DB99301 17 hours 48 minutes learning to listen to herself at key moments by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph and reclaim her true, untamed self. Unrated. read by Eva Wilhelm Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. 45 Adult Nonfiction Biography, Blindness and Physical Disabilities Covers the life and work of a rebel known becoming a successful financier. Some for her activism and radical pacifism. strong language. 2019. Describes her many arrests, criticisms of Recollections of My Nonexistence: capitalism, identity as an anarchist, and A Memoir protests against the draft and the nuclear DB99172 6 hours 43 minutes arms race. Some strong language. 2020. by Rebecca Solnit Sontag: Her Life and Work read by Rebecca Solnit DB99490 22 hours 7 minutes Writer and feminist figure reflects on by Benjamin Moser her life in 1980s San Francisco within a read by Tavia Gilbert violently sexist society. Describes how, Examines work on which Susan Sontag’s as she became increasingly aware of the reputation was based, the conflicting epidemic of violence against women, ways in which she was portrayed, that knowledge shaped her identity and her hidden private life. Also dis- as a writer and public voice. Unrated. cusses her legacy of writing on art, Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. politics, feminism, homosexuality, celebrity, style, health, radicalism, and Blindness and Physical culture. Draws on interviews and the Disabilities subject’s archives. Unrated. Commercial Walk in My Paws: An Anthology; audiobook. Pulitzer Prize. 2019. Working Service Dogs Normal: A Mother and Her Beautiful Son DB97758 9 hours 22 minutes DB98993 9 hours 8 minutes edited by R. Rice by Magdalena Newman read by Celeste Lawson read by Deborah Desmone Collection of stories from those who Recounts experiences raising a child work with service dogs. Includes con- with a severe form of the craniofacial tributions from service dog handlers, condition known as Treacher Collins trainers, instructors, and puppy raisers. Syndrome. Discusses the shock she faced Shares the challenges they face and the when Nathaniel was born, the difficulties way their work with service dogs has he faces on a daily basis, and the inspi- enriched their lives. 2019. ration she has drawn from his strength. Reach for More: A Journey from Loss to Some strong language. 2020. Love and Fulfillment Out of the Gobi: My Story of China DB99056 4 hours 22 minutes and America by David M. Szumowski DB99303 14 hours 59 minutes read by Stephen Van Doren by Weijian Shan Author recounts experiences after read by Peter Holdway being blinded during military service in Author recounts experiences under Mao Vietnam. Discusses the difficulties he has Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, his own overcome in the intervening years and exile to the Gobi Desert at age fifteen, his the importance of his faith, family, and time as a hard laborer, and his journey to friendships in facing obstacles. 2019.

46 Adult Nonfiction—Business and Economics Business and Economics The Only Grant-Writing Book You’ll Deaths of Despair and the Future Ever Need: Fifth Edition of Capitalism DB99351 14 hours 52 minutes DB99290 11 hours 25 minutes by Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox by Anne Case and Angus Deaton read by Bob Moore read by Bob Moore Guide to writing effective grant applica- Economists—including a Nobel Prize tions. Topics covered include identifying laureate—examine the impact of cap- why and how to use grants, analyzing italism on the American populace and calls for applications for points of argue the system’s flaws are fatal for the interest to grant makers, standard style working class. Explore the disparities elements, developing a strong proposal, between classes and races, growing pinpointing and addressing organiza- wealth inequality, and the opioid crisis. tional weaknesses, and hosting on-site Propose policy changes to blunt and visits. 2019. deflect systemic failures. 2020. Capital and Ideology Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! Make Your DB98934 48 hours 59 minutes Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality by Thomas Piketty DB99295 8 hours 15 minutes read by Rick Adamson by Lori Greiner Author of Capital in the Twenty-First read by Jean Cochran Century (DB78789) examines the Panelist on Shark Tank and personality effects of politics, ideology, and his- on QVC shares her principles for devel- tory on the economy. Offers a poten- oping ideas, bringing them to market, tial structure for a fairer economic and building her business. Discusses system. Translated from the 2019 market research, funding opportunities, French edition. Unrated. Commercial manufacturing concerns, and marketing. audiobook. 2020. Emphasizes the importance of enjoying The Triumph of Injustice: How the life as you work to achieve your Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make dreams. 2014. Them Pay The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, DB99239 7 hours 41 minutes Hustle, and Heart Built America’s by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman #1 Wine Brand read by Steve Menasche DB99436 7 hours 16 minutes Economists examine the American tax by Michael Houlihan and others system and analyze the ways taxes for read by Alamada Karatihy the ultra-rich have declined and resulted Full-cast adaptation presenting the his- in a high level of wealth inequality. tory of the startup wine brand. Discusses Topics covered include sources of challenges faced, business principles wealth, policy decisions, and proposals necessary for success, and mindset to reform taxes. Unrated. Commercial advice for entrepreneurs. Commercial audiobook. 2019. audiobook. 2013.

47 Adult Nonfiction Computers, Cooking, Crime Computers The Best American Food Writing 2018 The Internet of Things: What Everyone DB97781 15 hours 11 minutes Needs to Know edited by Ruth Reichl and DB99371 6 hours 11 minutes Silvia Killingsworth by Scott J. Shackelford read by Carol Jacobanis read by Steven Carpenter Twenty-eight previously published Cybersecurity specialist analyzes the essays exploring topics related to food concept of the Internet of Things (IOT)— selected by the author of Save Me the where all physical items in our lives that Plums (DB94489). Jane Black explores humans use will be connected to the the impact of federal school food ser- Internet. Examines ethics, security con- vice funding in “Revenge of the Lunch cerns, privacy, governmental regulation, Lady.” 2018. and potential future scenarios. 2020. Always Home: A Daughter’s Recipes Talk to Me: How Voice Computing & Stories Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, DB99149 8 hours 43 minutes and Think by Fanny Singer DB99547 10 hours 32 minutes read by various narrators by James Vlahos Daughter of Alice Waters, author of read by James Vlahos Coming to My Senses (DB89129), shares Journalist examines the advancements her memories of growing up as a famed in artificial intelligence technology and chef and restaurateur. Discusses meals explores the ways those advancements shared, personalities she met, and life impact voice computing. Discusses in California and Provence, France. the efforts of technology giants Google, Includes recipes and foreword by Waters. Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Addresses ethical questions surrounding Crime the development and use of the technology. Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree Cooking that Terrorized Los Angeles Best Food Writing 2017 DB99469 6 hours 18 minutes DB99325 13 hours 48 minutes by Julia Bricklin edited by Holly Hughes read by Callie Beaulieu read by Gregory Maupin Reveals the events that brought Forty-eight previously published essays nineteen-year-old hairdresser Burmah from national and regional publica- Adams and ex-con Thomas White tions on food, cooking, and dining. together and details the robbing spree Explores food culture in the twenty-first and two shootings the newlyweds century, the claiming of specific cooking committed in the sweltering hot days traditions, updating classic recipes, and nights of Los Angeles in the height dining in particular cities, and personal of the Great Depression. Unrated. taste. Strong language. 2017. Commercial audiobook. 2019. 48 Adult Nonfiction—Crime, Family, Government and Politics The Last Book on the Left: Stories of menus. Provides advice for navigating Murder and Mayhem from History’s this landscape. Unrated. Commercial Most Notorious Serial Killers audiobook. 2019. DB99118 12 hours 33 minutes by Ben Kissel and others Government and Politics read by Bill Wallace The Room Where It Happened: Creators of “Last Podcast on the Left” A White House Memoir explore the minds and histories of noto- DB99187 20 hours 55 minutes rious serial killers Ted Bundy, Richard by John Bolton Chase, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, read by various narrators Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, BTK, President Trump’s former National Andrei Chikatilo, and Jeffrey Dahmer. Security Advisor describes his time Violence and strong language. 2020. with the Trump administration. Bolton Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of expresses his negative views of the American Incarceration president’s choices and priorities, com- DB99579 10 hours 11 minutes paring Trump’s presidency to those by Christine Montross of past presidents he served. Unrated. read by Christine Montross Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. Psychiatrist who treats the most severely I’m Your Emotional Support ill psychiatric patients investigates why Animal: Navigating Our All Woke, so many of her patients got caught up in No Joke Culture the legal system—and what happened DB99603 6 hours 33 minutes to them therein. Critiques policies that by Adam Carolla have criminalized mental illness, shifting read by various narrators large numbers of people who belong in Author of In Fifty Years We’ll All Be therapeutic settings into punitive ones. Chicks (DB73315) presents his negative Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. views on the state of American society and politics in 2020. Discusses social Family media, the #MeToo movement, freedom Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding of speech, social justice warriors, Children in a Highly Processed World and advertising. Unrated. Commercial DB99418 9 hours 8 minutes audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. by Bettina Elias Siegel The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of read by Vanessa Daniels Melania Trump Journalist examines the many chal- DB99597 9 hours 22 minutes lenges facing parents working to raise by Mary Jordan healthy eaters in early twenty-first read by Mary Jordan century American society. Discusses Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post the exploitation of the notion of “picky journalist examines the life of First Lady eating,” unhealthy school meals, Melania Trump, particularly her time misleading nutrition claims, junk food in the White House. Traces Melania’s marketing, and misguided children’s journey from Slovenia, her modeling 49 Adult Nonfiction Government and Politics, Journalism and the Media work, her relationship with President Let the People Pick the President: The Trump, and her role in Trump’s political Case for Abolishing the Electoral College career. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. DB99174 7 hours 53 minutes Bestseller. 2020. by Jesse Wegman Unholy: Why White Evangelicals read by Jesse Wegman Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump Legal journalist and editor reflects on the DB99487 12 hours 3 minutes use of the Electoral College in American by Sarah Posner elections and its long, controversial his- read by Cassandra Campbell tory. Criticizes the system, including its Examines the history of the religious role in increasing political polarization and right and theorizes connections between voter apathy, and calls for election reform. past trends of behavior and their support Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. of President Trump. Discusses possible American Ulysses: A Life of links between the agendas of the reli- Ulysses S. Grant gious right and the alt-right. Unrated. DB99349 28 hours 28 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Ronald C. White My Vanishing Country: A Memoir read by Mark Ashby DB99602 5 hours 12 minutes Argues that the once-admired Ulysses S. by Bakari Sellers Grant suffered a plummeting reputation read by Bakari Sellers in the twentieth century and proposes South Carolina politician reflects on his a reevaluation of Grant’s legacy. Using personal history as well as the pride and extensive primary documents, portrays pain that continue to plague his state. Grant’s character and details his work Traces his family’s involvement in the and accomplishments, including his civil rights movement and discusses efforts to battle the Ku Klux Klan. 2016. the plight of the South’s rural, Black working class. Unrated. Commercial Journalism and the Media audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. American Queenmaker: How Missy Too Much and Never Enough: How Meloney Brought Women into Politics My Family Created the World’s Most DB99070 12 hours 47 minutes Dangerous Man by Julie Des Jardins DB99251 7 hours 7 minutes read by Kerry Dukin by Mary L. Trump At a time when female editors-in-chief read by Mary L. Trump were rare, Marie “Missy” Mattingly President Trump’s niece, a clinical psy- Meloney (1878-1943) led and elevated chologist, reflects on her family’s history the profile of three prominent magazines. to theorize how her uncle became the man Documents Meloney’s accomplish- he is. A first-hand witness to countless ments as a journalist, editor-in-chief, and family interactions, she details events, political advisor and details her influence relationships, and patterns of behavior on advancing a women-centered agenda among the members of the Trump family. to the public and politicians. Some Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. strong language. 2019. 50 Adult Nonfiction—LGBT Issues, Language, Literature, Medicine and Health LGBT Issues Examines the lives and work of five Out of Step: A Memoir classic female novelists—Mary Shelley, DB99359 4 hours 39 minutes Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive by Anthony Moll Schreiner, and Virginia Woolf. Discusses read by James Konicek how each writer formed her own Author recounts experiences joining the identity, what they all had in common, military as a working-class bisexual man. and how that connects with readers Discusses his personal development, the throughout time. 2019. ways the army both broke and built relation- Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, ships in his life, and his coming to terms 1997-2019 with his role in foreign policy. Strong lan- DB99065 17 hours 6 minutes guage and some descriptions of sex. 2018. by James Wood read by Gregory Maupin Language Twenty-eight critical essays and reviews Who Said What? A Writer’s Guide covering topics in the arts originally to Finding, Evaluating, Quoting, and published between 1997 and 2019. Documenting Sources (and Avoiding Topics covered include Keith Moon, Plagiarism) Anton Chekov, Saul Bellow, Anna DB99353 3 hours 26 minutes Karenina (DB72059), Jane Austen, The by Kayla Meyers Road (DB63649), and Elena Ferrante. read by Julie-Ann Elliott Strong language. 2019. A guide to research, citation, and source evaluation aimed at students, writers, Medicine and Health bloggers, and anyone needing to write The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, with accuracy and clarity. 2019. Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care Truth about Language DB99471 5 hours 7 minutes DB98391 9 hours 2 minutes by Anne Boyer by David Shariatmadari read by Amy Finegan read by Damian Lynch Award-winning poet and essayist pro- Presents a primer on linguistics and vides a meditation on her experience examines myths about the science of of coping with cancer. Explores the language. Topics include word origins, experience of illness as mediated by dig- translation, and animal communication. ital screens, weaving in ancient Roman Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, Literature John Donne, pro-pain “dolorists,” the Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who ecological costs of chemotherapy, and Changed the World the many little murders of capitalism. DB99278 13 hours 27 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. by Lyndall Gordon Pulitzer Prize. 2019. read by Teresa Willis 51 Adult Nonfiction Medicine and Health, Nature and the Environment The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to over the centuries from the dangerous Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss guesswork of ancient Greek physicians DB99358 11 hours 3 minutes through the world-changing implant by Sandra Marinella revolution of the twentieth century. read by Deborah Desmone Highlights the personalities of the dis- Describes how she used journaling and cipline’s most dynamic figures and con- expressive writing to navigate her own templates what will come next. Unrated. challenges, including breast cancer and Commercial audiobook. 2020. postpartum depression, and discusses The Elephant in the Room: One Fat teaching these techniques while vol- Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a unteering with veterans and cancer Growing America patients. Uses their stories to illustrate DB99423 7 hours 28 minutes her methods for understanding, telling, by Tommy Tomlinson and editing personal stories in ways that read by Tommy Tomlinson foster resilience and renewal. 2017. Journalist’s memoir chronicling living Deadliest Enemy: Our War against as a fat man who, as he neared the Killer Germs age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and DB99152 11 hours 29 minutes decided he had to change his life. by Michael T. Osterholm and Includes the practical steps he took Mark Olshaker to finally lose weight after years of read by Jamie Renell failed attempts. Unrated. Commercial World-leading epidemiologist explains audiobook. 2019. how to prepare for epidemics that chal- lenge world order. Argues that outbreaks Nature and the Environment of COVID-19, Ebola, MERS, and Zika Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, have demonstrated we are woefully and Extraordinary Power of Life’s underprepared. Using the latest medical Fundamental Bond science, case studies, policy research, DB99068 11 hours 15 minutes and epidemiological lessons, explores the by Lydia Denworth resources and programs needed to stay read by Jennifer Hubbard safe from infectious disease. Unrated. Journalist examines the biological, Commercial audiobook. 2017. psychological, and evolutionary foun- The Invention of Surgery: A History of dations for friendship. Covers forming Modern Medicine; from the Renaissance attachments, development of a brain to the Implant Revolution attuned to being social, sharing food, DB99465 23 hours 7 minutes the impact of social bonds on our by David Schneider development as humans, ways close read by various narrators ties influence our health, and friendship Surgeon provides an encompassing his- in the digital age. Some strong tory of the practice that has leapt forward language. 2020.

52 Adult Nonfiction— Nature and the Environment, Philosophy The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made A Meaning to Life History 1300–1850 DB99237 5 hours 19 minutes DB99350 9 hours 44 minutes by Michael Ruse by Brian Fagan read by John Lee read by Eva Wilhelm Philosopher meditates on one of the History of climatic shifts and adapta- essential questions of the field. Examines tions Europeans made to them. Covers the topic of the Darwinian view of the last ten centuries, describing the human nature and its relation to the con- Medieval Warm Period to the era of cept of God. Argues that it is through global warming that began in the 1850s. accepting our true nature that humankind Examines human vulnerability in the can find meaning. Unrated. Commercial face of sudden climate change. Includes audiobook. 2019. author’s afterword from 2019. 2000. Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Keeping Bees with a Smile: Principles Conservation That Starts in Your Yard and Practice of Natural Beekeeping; DB99080 8 hours 0 minutes Second Edition by Douglas W. Tallamy DB99283 11 hours 22 minutes read by Gary Tipton by Fedor Lazutin Entomologist argues for building per- read by Jack Fox sonal gardens of native plants to support Guide to beekeeping practices that wildlife in order to create what he calls emphasizes paying close attention to corridors of conservation at the grass- and following the bees’ natural rhythms. roots level. Discusses the impact of Discusses principles of natural api- lawns, choosing which plants are best, culture, development of hive systems, and the importance of insects to the and tasks required through the seasons. ecology. 2019. Includes strategies for successful win- tering of colonies. Translated from the Philosophy Russian edition. 2020. The Longing for Less: Living with Natural: How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Minimalism Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, DB99273 8 hours 36 minutes and Flawed Science by Kyle Chayka DB99188 8 hours 50 minutes read by Alec Volz by Alan Levinovitz Journalist looks beneath the fads sur- read by Joe McQuillan rounding minimalism to examine our Religious studies scholar examines the deeper desire for simplicity and con- reverence of nature and the ways that siders how to find better ways to claim reverence can cause harm. Covers the the time and space we crave. Argues linking of natural to goodness and unnat- that our longing for less has deep roots, ural to evil, marketing practices, and giving examples from philosophy, reframing attitudes to achieve solutions. religion, art, architecture, music, and Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. design. 2020.

53 Adult Nonfiction Poetry, Psychology and Self-Help Poetry A selection of translated poems from Words like Thunder: New and Used across the career of the Swedish Anishinaabe Prayers laureate of the 2011 Nobel Prize in DB99355 3 hours 2 minutes Literature. 2017. by Lois Beardslee Psychology and Self-Help read by Mark Ashby The Stress Survival Guide for Teens: Poetry and prose exploring the lives CBT Skills to Worry Less, Develop of Native peoples from the upper Grit & Live Your Best Life Midwest while also being reflective of DB99091 6 hours 17 minutes indigenous people around the world. by Jeffrey Bernstein “The Anishinaabe Children’s Strawberry- read by James Johnson Picking Rule” reflects on the joys and Clinical psychologist offers practical lessons of childhood and the transmission and easy-to-learn tips based in cogni- of culture between generations. 2020. tive behavioral therapy (CBT) and pos- Obit itive psychology to show teens how to DB99260 1 hours 51 minutes keep stress and worry from taking over by Victoria Chang their lives. For senior high and older read by Kristin Allison readers. 2019. Poetic obituaries and reflections on loss Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country written after the death of the author’s Fight against the Drug Companies That mother. Explores loss of language after Delivered the Opioid Epidemic a stroke, of an expected child, of memo- DB99516 8 hours 10 minutes ries, and of the life you will no longer be by Eric Eyre able to live. Some strong language. 2020. read by Michael David Axtell The Best American Poetry 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist inves- DB96983 7 hours 30 minutes tigates the corporate and governmental edited by Major Jackson and actions that brought the opioid crisis David Lehman to small Appalachian towns. Recounts read by Nora Achrati Debbie Preece’s legal battle for justice Seventy-five previously published poems. after the death of her brother and the Includes works by Margaret Atwood, long reaching consequences for these Ocean Vuong, Naomi Shihab Nye, and towns with the highest overdose rates former United States poet laureates in the country. Unrated. Commercial Natasha Trethewey, Juan Felipe Herrera, audiobook. 2020. and Tracy K. Smith. Violence and How to Be Fine: What We Learned from strong language. 2019. Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books The Half-Finished Heaven: DB99000 4 hours 57 minutes Selected Poems by Jolenta Greenberg and DB99302 2 hours 28 minutes Kristen Meinzer by Tomas Tranströmer read by various narrators read by James Johnson

54 Adult Nonfiction— Psychology and Self-Help, Religion Cohosts of the “By the Book” podcast Collection of twenty-seven essays share their experiences following the reflecting on the author’s relationship advice in self-help books. They examine with the world through the lens of her what advice helped improve their lives Christian faith. Discusses her experiences and what didn’t work for them, and as a Black woman in predominantly describe the kinds of philosophies they white spaces, and then moving into pre- wish they had seen in more books. dominantly Black spaces. Advocates Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. for interacting with others with radical Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of kindness at the forefront. 2020. an American Family American Covenant: A History of Civil DB99192 13 hours 10 minutes Religion from the Puritans to the Present by Robert Kolker DB99101 16 hours 22 minutes read by Sean Pratt by Philip Gorski Journalist examines the case of the read by David DeBoy Galvin family and their twelve chil- Sociologist examines the evolution of the dren, six of whom were diagnosed with concept of civil religion in America from schizophrenia in the 1970s. Uses scien- colonial times to the early twenty-first tific research and interviews with family century. Argues for the need to develop members to show the personal devas- a sense of civic unity. Explores the inter- tation of the disease and the shadowy twining of secular republican and liberal history of its study. Unrated. Commercial political philosophy with Jewish and audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. Christian scripture. 2017. Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Making Positive Changes That Stick Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil DB99045 9 hours 9 minutes War Era by Wendy Wood DB99289 12 hours 10 minutes read by Wendy Wood by April E. Holm Psychology professor asserts we spend read by Faith Potts almost half our day doing things by habit Historian examines the role of Christian and without thinking about them. Uses evangelical churches before, during, neuroscience, case studies, and experi- and after the Civil War. Discusses the ments in her lab to examine how we form three main churches’ positions regarding habits—and how we can disrupt bad ones. slavery prior to the war’s outbreak, impact Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. of the war on church policies, and legacy of their abilities to reunite or not. 2017. Religion Frequency: Tune In. Hear God. Human(Kind): How Reclaiming Human DB99540 6 hours 3 minutes Worth and Embracing Radical Kindness by Robert Morris Will Bring Us Back Together read by Steven Roy Grimsley DB99297 5 hours 43 minutes Author of Take the Day Off (DB97301) by Ashlee Eiland presents a guide to interpreting the ways read by Duyen Washington 55 Adult Nonfiction Religion, Science and Technology, Social Sciences God speaks to you based on biblical A collection of speeches, articles, inter- scripture. Covers recognizing God’s views, and letters from civil rights leader voice, valuing what is being said, dis- Julian Bond. Shares thoughts on many cerning the general from the specific, social issues, including police brutality, and growing closer to God. Unrated. Black civil rights, abortion, same-sex Commercial audiobook. 2016. marriage, and more. 2020. The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life Silence: A Social History of One of the DB99272 15 hours 44 minutes Least Understood Elements of Our Lives by Alexander Norman DB99527 9 hours 35 minutes read by Barry Bernson by Jane Brox Biography of the fourteenth Dalai read by Andrea Gallo Lama (born 1935). Discusses his early Author of Five Thousand Days Like This childhood and identification as the next One (DB49980) presents an examination incarnation of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s of the ways the experience of silence occupation by China, and years he has can be transformative both positively spent in exile. Examines the role he plays and negatively. Pays particular attention both as Tibet’s spiritual leader and his to the history of monastic communities worldwide political influence. 2020. and Eastern State Penitentiary. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Science and Technology The Second Chance Club: Hardship and From Immigrant to Inventor: Hope after Prison Autobiography of the Serbian-American DB99427 9 hours 18 minutes Physicist, Chemist and Pioneer by Jason Hardy of Electrical Transmission and the read by Jacques Roy Long-Distance Telephone Line Parole officer delves into life after DB98555 15 hours 56 minutes prison, profiling seven parolees striving by Michael Idvorsky Pupin to get by after serving their time. read by J.P. Linton Discusses the common difficulties faced Memoir of Serbian-American physi- by former convicts and the individual cist (1858–1935) who contributed to and systemic factors that often lead to his the extension of the range of the long- charges ending up back in prison or dead. distance telephone line. Discusses immi- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. grating to the United States as a teen in Those Who Wander: America’s Lost the 1870s; studies in America, England, Street Kids and Germany; and work to advance DB99083 6 hours 11 minutes scientific discoveries. 1922. by Vivian Ho Social Sciences read by Teresa Willis Race Man: Selected Works, 1960–2015 Journalist examines the 2015 murders DB99360 12 hours 33 minutes of Audrey Carey and Steve Carter in by Julian Bond and Michael G. Long the San Francisco Bay Area. Explores read by Bob Moore the broad community of runaways and

56 Adult Nonfiction—Social Sciences transients, who were vilified as scape- by young men in the early twenty-first goats, in extension of the individuals century. Covers locker room talk, responsible for the crimes. Discusses the pornography, hookup culture, consent, wider community of at-risk youth. Strong sexual violence, media stereotypes, and language and some violence. 2019. more. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Night in the American Village: Women Bestseller. 2020. in the Shadow of the US Military Bases Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You in Okinawa DB98926 4 hours 14 minutes DB99069 13 hours 0 minutes by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi by Akemi Johnson read by various narrators read by Kerry Dukin National Ambassador for Young People’s Portrays life in the Japanese “border Literature adapts Ibram X. Kendi’s award- towns” surrounding American military winning book Stamped from the Beginning bases. Describes the tension and compli- (DB89293). Discusses how racist ideas cated politics surrounding these bases, started, spread, and can be discredited. particularly examining the fallout of the Commercial audiobook. For junior and murder of an Okinawan woman by an senior high and older readers. 2020. ex-serviceman in 2016. Some violence Girls Resist! A Guide to Activism, and some strong language. 2019. Leadership, and Starting a Revolution The Fifth Vital DB99589 5 hours 50 minutes DB99389 9 hours 29 minutes by KaeLyn Rich by Mike Majlak and Riley J. Ford read by Soneela Nankani read by Doug Tisdale Jr. Handbook for activism, social justice, Social media personality with millions and resistance. Discusses how to pick a of followers, entrepreneur, marketer, cause, plan a protest, raise money, and podcaster, and YouTuber describes being promote awareness on social media. a seventeen-year-old from a loving, Commercial audiobook. For junior and middle-class family in Connecticut who senior high readers. 2018. got caught up in the opioid epidemic. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories Explains how he lost the trust and sup- from the Twenty-First Century port of everyone in his life. Strong lan- DB99604 8 hours 4 minutes guage and some violence. 2020. by Alice Wong Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, read by various narrators Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the Collects first-person writings on the New Masculinity joys and challenges of life in the DB99626 7 hours 31 minutes twenty-first century with a disability. by Peggy Orenstein Includes pieces from activists, authors, read by Peggy Orenstein lawyers, politicians, artists, and others Draws on interviews with young men, to glimpse the complexity of the dis- psychologists, academics, and experts to abled experience in America. Unrated. discuss the social sexual landscape faced Commercial audiobook. 2020.

57 Adult Nonfiction Sports and Recreation, Stage and Screen Sports and Recreation Why We Swim Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an DB99409 6 hours 38 minutes American Heiress, and a Legendary by Bonnie Tsui Car Beat Hitler’s Best read by Angie Kane DB99563 9 hours 54 minutes Journalist and lifelong swimmer explores by Neal Bascomb the many reasons why humans, who read by Edoardo Ballerini are not natural-born swimmers, have Historian tells the story of an underdog always been drawn to water. Shares sto- Grand Prix racing team that took on ries of swimming experiences from ath- the best drivers from Hitler’s Germany. letes like Michael Phelps to an Icelandic Describes how the team was put together fisherman who had to swim to survive by an ambitious American heiress, in frigid waters. Unrated. Commercial who hired a driver banned from all audiobook. 2020. the top European teams because of his Spirit Run: A 6000-Mile Marathon Jewish heritage. Unrated. Commercial through North America’s Stolen Land audiobook. 2020. DB98794 5 hours 22 minutes Running to Glory: An Unlikely Team, by Noé Álvarez a Challenging Season, and Chasing the read by Ramon De Ocampo American Dream Memoir of a marathoner and son of DB99062 10 hours 57 minutes Mexican immigrant farm workers. by Sam McManis Describes the Peace and Dignity read by Doug Tisdale Jr. Journeys, epic marathons meant to Journalist and marathoner tells the renew cultural connections across North story of the cross country running America. Explains ways the 6,000-mile team from Eisenhower High School in relay run from Alaska to the Panama Yakima, Washington. Profiles some of Canal celebrates indigenous peoples and the runners, most of which are the chil- works to renew cultural connections. dren of migrant farm workers, as well Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. as their inspiring coach. Some strong Stage and Screen language. 2019. Officer Clemmons: A Memoir The Best American Sports Writing 2019 DB99300 8 hours 22 minutes DB98229 18 hours 38 minutes by François S. Clemmons edited by Charles P. Pierce read by Bob Moore read by Richard Davidson Memoir of an actor who appeared on Collects twenty-four essays from US Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, becoming newspapers, magazines, and online out- the first African American to have a recur- lets in 2018. Includes “Fists of Fury,” ring role on a children’s television show. which looks back at two sprinters who He shares about his early life, his sexu- raised their fists in a Black power pro- ality, his friendship with Fred Rogers, and test at the 1968 Olympics. Some strong his career on tv and as an operatic tenor. language. 2019. Some strong language. 2020. 58 Adult Nonfiction— Stage and Screen, Travel The Simpsons: A Cultural History Film professor examines the life and DB99270 9 hours 26 minutes career of one of Hollywood’s first female by Moritz Fink movie producers. Describes Harrison’s read by Bill Wallace career from her 1933 hiring as personal Examines the cultural phenomenon of assistant to director Alfred Hitchcock to the animated TV show The Simpsons. her eventual successes as an Academy- Follows it from its start as short vignettes award nominated screenwriter and pro- on The Tracey Ullman Show to the over ducer. Some strong language. 2020. thirty seasons of episodes that made it Sitcommentary: Television Comedies the longest running prime-time scripted That Changed America TV show and argues that it has had a DB99390 8 hours 17 minutes deep impact on modern television. Some by Mark A. Robinson strong language. 2019. read by Doug Tisdale Jr. A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir Examines the history of comedy on tele- DB99679 7 hours 43 minutes vision using forty examples, arranged by Colin Jost chronologically from the 1940s to the read by Colin Jost present. Argues these shows, in addition Memoir from a head writer and cast to making audiences laugh, used humor member of Saturday Night Live. Shares to tackle taboo subjects and present ideas stories of growing up as an overweight kid that led to social change. 2019. in a family of firefighters on Staten Island, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life his time attending Harvard, behind-the- DB99678 4 hours 38 minutes scenes stories of SNL, and more. Unrated. by Alex Trebek Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by various narrators I’m Your Huckleberry: A Memoir Longtime host of the TV game show DB99246 7 hours 12 minutes Jeopardy! shares stories of his life and by Val Kilmer career. Alongside anecdotes about the read by various narrators show and its contestants, he discusses The star of movies including The Doors marriage, parenthood, spirituality, edu- and Batman Forever shares the stories cation, philanthropy, and his own battle behind his most beloved roles, remi- with cancer. Unrated. Commercial nisces about his star-studded career and audiobook. 2020. love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles with throat cancer. Travel Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Driving While Black: African American Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Travel and the Road to Civil Rights Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman DB98855 9 hours 11 minutes behind Hitchcock by Gretchen Sorin DB99280 15 hours 48 minutes read by various narrators by Christina Lane Examines the role of the automobile in read by Kerry Dukin the development of the travel industry in Black American life. Discusses the 59 Adult Nonfiction Travel, US History impact of racism; the influence of the The diary of British officer Arthur J. L. Green Book, first introduced in 1936; Fremantle, who spent a few months and access to the leisure activity of touring the Confederate States of America family vacations. Unrated. Commercial during the American Civil War. Includes audiobook. 2020. a description of the Battle of Gettysburg, Overground Railroad: The Green Book along with biographical vignettes of Lee, and the Roots of Black Travel in America Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and others. DB99296 8 hours 43 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 1863. by Candacy Taylor When It Was Grand: The Radical read by Duyen Washington Republican History of the Civil War Documentarian examines the influence DB99096 11 hours 34 minutes and impact of the Green Book on the by LeeAnna Keith travel practices of Black Americans pri- read by Bob Moore marily in the United States—but also This group biography recounts the internationally—during its publication actions taken by a powerful abolitionist from the 1930s to 1960s. Discusses faction of the Civil War-era Republican safety issues facing Black Americans Party. The author describes the founding and the guide’s role in the Civil Rights of the party and profiles key figures like Movement. Some strong language. 2020. Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Brown, John Fremont, and Abraham Lincoln. US History Some strong language. 2020. A Black Women’s History of the Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of United States Slavery and Restitution in America DB98977 10 hours 5 minutes DB99488 9 hours 53 minutes by Daina Ramey Berry and by W. Caleb McDaniel Kali Nicole Gross read by Paul Heitsch read by Janina Edwards Portrays former slave Henrietta A history of Black women’s contribu- Wood’s fight for justice and reparations. tions throughout four hundred years of Describes her emancipation and subse- American history that challenges histor- quent kidnapping and re-enslavement. ical stereotypes and myths while offering Explains how, after gaining her freedom a contemporary understanding of Black a second time, Wood successfully women in America. Highlights diverse sued her abductor for damages. Unrated. voices and lives across class lines— Commercial audiobook. Pulitzer from activists and sex workers to con- Prize. 2019. victs, athletes, and musicians. Unrated. The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot Commercial audiobook. 2020. to Kill America’s 16th President—and Three Months in the Southern States: Why It Failed April-June 1863 DB99601 10 hours 45 minutes DB99169 7 hours 9 minutes by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle read by Scott Brick read by Michael Page 60 Adult Nonfiction— US History, World History Authors of The First Conspiracy American Rebels: How the Hancock, (DB93794) recount an earlier, failed Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the attempt to assassinate President Lincoln Flames of Revolution on his way to Washington, DC, for his DB99493 15 hours 57 minutes first inauguration. They explore the con- by Nina Sankovitch spirators’ participation in a pro-Southern read by Suzie Althens secret society and the details of their Examines the longstanding ties among plot. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Bestseller. 2020. families, even prior to their prominent San Francisco Year Zero: Political roles in American history. Discusses how Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place the desire for independence cut across Baseball Team class lines and bound many colonists DB99071 14 hours 26 minutes together long before the Revolutionary by Lincoln A. Mitchell War. Unrated. Commercial read by Alec Volz audiobook. 2020. Political science professor looks at Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, 1978 in San Francisco and the events Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and he believes made the city what it is Visionaries Who Forged Victory and today. Focuses on the assassinations Shaped a Nation of George Moscone and Harvey DB99106 9 hours 59 minutes Milk, the explosion of the local punk by Jeffry D. Wert scene, and the baseball season of the read by Robert Sams San Francisco Giants. Some strong Examines the influence of high-profile language. 2019. industrial barons on the American The Three-Cornered War: The Union, Civil War to sustain troops, affect mili- the Confederacy, and Native Peoples tary strategy and tactics, and refashion in the Fight for the West America’s economy. Profiles individ- DB98979 10 hours 18 minutes uals such as John Deere, Gail Borden, by Megan Kate Nelson the Studebaker brothers, and Robert read by Cynthia Farrell Parrott. 2018. Narrative account of the struggle for the American West during the Civil War World History that explores the connections among The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in the Civil War, the Indian wars, and Extraordinary Times western expansion. Profiles nine key DB99598 12 hours 43 minutes figures, including legislators, soldiers, by Anthony DePalma and frontiersmen. Draws on letters, read by Robertson Dean diaries, military records, and oral histo- Examines the realities of daily life in ries of the time. Unrated. Commercial Communist Cuba through the inter- audiobook. 2020. woven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. 61 Adult Nonfiction World History A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered 82 Days on Okinawa: A Memoir of the Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Pacific’s Greatest Battle Escape from the Nazis DB99449 8 hours 52 minutes DB98975 6 hours 29 minutes by Art Shaw by Francoise Frenkel read by Jim Seybert read by Jilly Bond The first American officer ashore at the The memoir of a Jewish woman from World War II Battle of Okinawa recounts Poland who opened a French book- his experiences of the infamous conflict shop in Berlin in the 1920s. Describes with Japanese forces. The last major the rise of Nazi ideology in Berlin, the battle of World War II, the outcome terror of Kristallnacht, and her own sub- played a crucial role in the decision sequent flight to Paris and then across to bomb Japan. Unrated. Commercial southern France. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. audiobook. 2019. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution DB98313 27 hours 4 minutes by Jeremy D. Popkin read by J.P. Linton Historian recounts the events and principles of the French Revolution and describes its key figures, including Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton. Examines the consequences of such a systemic overthrow and the subsequent formation of a new society. 2019.

62 Books for Children Books and magazines are also available for Jeevan, embark on a journey to find her immediate download from the NLS Braille father and save her home. Commercial and Audio Reading Download (BARD) site audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2019. at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. To order books or Survival Tails: Endurance in Antarctica, sign up for BARD, contact your local coop- Book 2 erating library. Regional library telephone DB98986 4 hours 50 minutes numbers and email addresses are listed on by Katrina Charman the last pages of this magazine. read by Jonathan Taylor Books are listed alphabetically within the When their ship becomes trapped in sea headings Children’s Fiction and Children’s ice, the sled dogs will have to put aside Nonfiction by subject category, author their differences and band together to last name, and title. For example, the title rescue their humans—and themselves. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown For grades 3–6. 2019. would be listed in Children’s Fiction under Survival Tails: World War II, Book 3 the Classics subject category and by the last DB99055 3 hours 58 minutes name Brown. by Katrina Charman read by Stephen Van Doren Children’s Fiction 1940. When Francis, an injured mes- senger pigeon, lands in Ming’s enclo- Adventure sure, the panda bear knows she must do Amelia Fang, Books 3–5 her part in the war effort. Ming enlists DB99343 7 hours 6 minutes the help of other brave zoo animals to aid by Laura Ellen Anderson Francis in his mission. For grades 3–6. read by Jill Fox 2019. Three adventures, written in 2018 and Magic Tree House, Books 29–30 2019, featuring a young vampiress and DB99216 2 hours 13 minutes her pet pumpkin, Squashy. Includes by Mary Pope Osborne Amelia Fang and the Memory Thief, read by Mary Pope Osborne Amelia Fang and the Half-Moon Two adventures, written in 2017 and Holiday, Amelia Fang and the Lost Yeti 2018, featuring siblings that travel Treasures. Sequel to Amelia Fang and through time in their magic tree house. the Unicorns of Glitteroplis (DB95708). In A Big Day for Baseball, Jack and For grades 2–4. 2019. Annie pretend to be batboys at Jackie Asha and the Spirit Bird Robinson’s first game. In Hurricane DB99476 6 hours 44 minutes Heroes in Texas, they travel to a major by Jasbinder Bilan natural disaster. Commercial audiobook. read by Reena Dutt For grades 2–4. 2018. While her father is away working in Diana and the Island of No Return the city, a wicked aunt tries to seize the DB99587 4 hours 48 minutes family’s farm in rural India. Guided by a by Aisha Saeed majestic bird, Asha and her best friend, read by Kristen DiMercurio

63 Children’s Fiction Adventure, Animals and Wildlife, Family, Fantasy Young Princess Diana of Themyscira and When You Know What I Know her best friend have an adventure, facing DB99222 1 hours 43 minutes a booby-trapped island, a forbidden vis- by Sonja K. Solter itor, and a demon. Commercial audio- read by Caitlin Kelly book. For grades 3–6. 2020. A novel in verse. Over the course of a year, young Tori endures a difficult Animals and Wildlife and emotional journey after revealing Raising Lumie that she has been sexually abused by DB99479 5 hours 20 minutes her uncle. Commercial audiobook. by Joan Bauer For grades 3–6. 2020. read by Rachel L. Jacobs The Colossus of Roads Newly orphaned and living with her DB99478 5 hours 41 minutes older sister that she hardly knows, young by Christina Uss Olive rediscovers hope and love when read by Robbie Daymond she starts training a guide dog puppy. Eleven-year-old Rick Rusek, nearly Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. homebound by motion sickness, wants 2020. to help his family’s catering business by Coo unsnarling Los Angeles traffic, but first DB99456 8 hours 1 minutes he must help a Girl Scout troop with by Kaela Noel an art project. Commercial audiobook. read by Jesse Vilinsky For grades 4–7. 2020. Coo, a girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, Fantasy but quickly learns that our world is more Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror cruel and complicated than she could DB99585 3 hours 6 minutes have guessed. Commercial audiobook. by Natasha Farrant For grades 3–6. 2020. read by Becky King A magic mirror reveals itself to diverse Family princesses when each needs it most. The Battle of Junk Mountain The mirror illuminates how their power DB99097 5 hours 7 minutes comes not from titles or beauty, but from by Lauren Abbey Greenberg inner strength. Commercial audiobook. read by Deborah Desmone For grades 3–6. 2019. Twelve-year-old Shayne looks forward When You Trap a Tiger to spending her summers with her DB99005 7 hours 24 minutes grandmother on the Maine coast. But by Tae Keller when her grandmother’s hobby becomes read by Greta Jung a hoarding problem and her best friend When Lily, her sister Sam, and is only interested in boys, Shayne’s their mother move in with her sick beloved vacation unravels. For grades 4–7. grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and 2018. makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.

64 Children’s Fiction—Fantasy, Friendship Asian/Pacific American Award for dying around Sparkle Lake. Commercial Literature. Commercial audiobook. audiobook. For grades 2–4. 2018. Newbery Medal. For grades 3–6. 2020. Scarlett and Blaze: Unicorn Academy Knights vs. the End (of Everything) DB99483 1 hours 33 minutes DB99050 2 hours 17 minutes by Julie Sykes by Matt Phelan read by Kristin Atherton read by Stephen Van Doren Magical Sparkle Lake is starting to The four daring knights and one intrepid freeze, and Unicorn Academy might archer search for a special realm. On have to close. Can ten-year-old Scarlett their journey they find dangerous war- and her unicorn, Blaze, find out who’s locks, a mysterious knight, and one freezing the lake and save the school? very nasty dragon. Sequel to Knights vs. Commercial audiobook. For grades 2–4. Monsters (DB95287). For grades 3–6. 2018. 2020. Sophia and Rainbow: Unicorn Academy Ava and Star: Unicorn Academy DB99482 1 hours 30 minutes DB99484 1 hours 31 minutes by Julie Sykes by Julie Sykes read by Kristin Atherton read by Kristin Atherton After ten-year-old Sophia meets her When the sky berries that unicorns need unicorn, Rainbow, at Unicorn Academy, to survive disappear, Ava and her uni- they’re off on their first amazing adven- corn, Star, must find more special berries ture! The pair must discover who before every unicorn’s magic fades away. is tampering with the lake that gives Commercial audiobook. For grades 2–4. unicorns their magic. Commercial 2018. audiobook. For grades 2–4. 2018. Isabel and Cloud: Unicorn Academy The Fall of the Readers DB99485 1 hours 33 minutes DB98983 7 hours 53 minutes by Julie Sykes by Django Wexler read by Kristin Atherton read by Cassandra Morris Isabel is having trouble getting along After defeating her uncle, Alice embarks with other students, her teacher, and on a quest to find a force to overturn the even her unicorn, Cloud. But a threat old Readers in order to save the magical to Unicorn Academy brings them back creatures she promised to help. Sequel together. Commercial audiobook. to The Palace of Glass (DB85258). For grades 2–4. 2018. Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. Layla and Dancer: Unicorn Academy 2017. DB99486 1 hours 31 minutes by Julie Sykes Friendship read by Kristin Atherton Miss Impossible: Best Babysitters Ever Layla must overcome her cautious nature DB99007 5 hours 42 minutes and take her unicorn, Dancer, on a dan- by Caroline Cala gerous ride to find a cure for the trees read by various narrators

65 Children’s Fiction Friendship, Growing Up, Historical Fiction Malia, Dot, and Bree are psyched to Historical Fiction land their highest paying job yet—until The Blackbird Girls they get to the house and realize they’re DB99217 10 hours 9 minutes babysitting Zelda, Bree, and Malia’s by Anne Blankman archnemesis since preschool. Sequel read by various narrators to The Good, the Bad, and the Bossy On a spring morning, neighbors (DB96409). Commercial audiobook. Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko For grades 5–8. 2020. wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor The Only Black Girls in Town at the nuclear power plant where DB98925 7 hours 30 minutes their fathers work—Chernobyl—has by Brandy Colbert exploded. Before they know it, the two read by Jeanette Illidge girls, who’ve always been enemies, find In a predominately white California themselves fleeing together. Commercial beach town, the only two Black audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find Blue Skies hidden journals that uncover family DB99051 4 hours 42 minutes secrets and speak to race relations in by Anne Bustard the past. Commercial audiobook. For read by Gabriella Cavallero grades 3–6. 2020. Gladiola, Texas. When France sends Maybe He Just Likes You the Merci Train to the United States DB99006 5 hours 24 minutes to thank America for helping France by Barbara Dee during and after WWII, Glory Bea read by Emily Rankin hopes for the greatest miracle—that her When boys in her class start touching missing-in- action father will be on the seventh-grader Mila and make her feel train. For grades 3–6. 2020. uncomfortable, she doesn’t want to tell A Ceiling Made of Eggshells her friends or mother until she reaches DB99584 9 hours 32 minutes her breaking point. Commercial audio- by Gail Carson Levine book. For grades 5–8. 2019. read by Carlotta Brentan Growing Up From age seven, Loma relishes traveling Bat and the End of Everything with her beloved grandfather across DB99455 2 hours 42 minutes fifteenth-century Spain, working to keep by Elana K. Arnold Jewish people safe, but soon realizes she read by Patrick Lawlor must also make sacrifices. Commercial Bat grows anxious as his third-grade audiobook. For grades 5–8. 2020. year comes to an end and the time to Starting from Seneca Falls release his pet skunk, Thor, out into the DB99480 4 hours 36 minutes wild approaches. Sequel to Bat and the by Karen Schwabach Waiting Game (DB91064). Commercial read by Bernadette Dunne audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2020. In 1848, eleven-year-old Bridie, an Irish orphan, runs away to Seneca Falls,

66 Children’s Fiction— Historical Fiction, Holidays, Humor, Mystery and Detective New York, where she meets a free Black succeed. Sequel to Ultimate Showdown girl named Rose and gets caught up in (DB = 99129). Commercial audiobook. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s plans for a For grades 3–6. 2014. women’s rights convention. Commercial Ultimate Showdown: Middle School audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2020. DB99129 2 hours 7 minutes by James Patterson and Julia Bergen Holidays read by various narrators Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year Opinionated siblings Rafe and Georgia Parade, Book 2 debate a variety of topics relating to DB99227 1 hours 9 minutes the ups and downs of middle school by Lyla Lee life. Sequel to How I Survived Bullies, read by Jaine Ye Broccoli, and Snake Hill (DB79398). Mindy Kim is excited to go to the Lunar Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. New Year parade with her father and her 2014. best friend, Sally. She decides to make traditional Korean New Year food, a Mystery and Detective rice-cake soup that’s her favorite, but Samantha Spinner and the Boy things don’t go as planned. Commercial in the Ball audiobook. For grades K–3. 2020. DB99002 6 hours 3 minutes by Russell Ginns Humor read by various narrators Born to Rock: Middle School After finally finding Uncle Paul, DB99136 3 hours 32 minutes Samantha realizes her brother, Nipper, by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts is now missing and must find him. But read by Caitlin Kelly the mysterious and nefarious CLOUD When her favorite rock band Lulu and is hot on her heels. Sequel to Samantha the Handbags announces a contest, Spinner and the Spectacular Specs Georgia is determined the all-girl rock (DB94125). Commercial audiobook. For band she’s in will win—even if she has grades 3–6. 2020. to ask her brother Rafe for help. Sequel Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit to From Hero to Zero (DB99134). DB99754 4 hours 47 minutes Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. by Lilliam Rivera 2019. read by Frankie Corzo Save Rafe! Middle School St. Pascal, Florida. When a diamond- DB99130 4 hours 1 minutes encrusted swim cap goes missing during by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts the filming of a movie at the Crossed read by Bryan Kennedy Palms Resort, aspiring detective Goldie Rafe faces his greatest challenge yet as investigates. Based on the Goldie Vance he struggles to complete a week-long comics created by Hope Larson and wilderness survival course to prove to Brittney Williams. Commercial audio- his school administrators that he can book. For grades 3–6. 2020.

67 Children’s Fiction Mystery and Detective, Scary Stories, School, Science Fiction The Newspaper Club not live in houses. Commercial audio- DB99084 3 hours 37 minutes book. For grades 2–4. 2020. by Beth Vrabel Library Books Are Not for Eating! read by Abigail Maupin DB99594 0 hours 7 minutes Shortly after moving to a sleepy town, by Todd Tarpley aspiring journalist Nellie is on the scene read by Tara Sands when some residents gather to report Students try to find a way to get their being victims of crime at their local beloved teacher, Ms. Bronte, to stop park. Determined to get the scoop, Nellie eating the library books. Commercial searches for volunteers to create her audiobook. For preschool–grade 2. 2020. own newspaper, The Cub Report. For The Humiliations of Pipi McGee grades 4–7. 2020. DB99109 10 hours 6 minutes by Beth Vrabel Scary Stories read by Gabriella Cavallero They Call Me the Night Howler! Fearing that her humiliations will Goosebumps SlappyWorld eventually follow her to high school, DB99592 2 hours 45 minutes Pipi McGee decides to right the by R.L. Stine wrongs of her early education and read by various narrators save others from being bullied. For On a trip to his favorite place, the Comic grades 5–8. 2019. Book Characters Hall of Fame Museum, Mason Brady explores every exhibit and Science Fiction comes across the very real Night Howler. Sal & Gabi Fix the Universe But when the villains start terrorizing DB99475 11 hours 4 minutes his town, Mason realizes that his whole by Carlos Hernandez life is about to change. Commercial read by Anthony Rey Perez audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2020. When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when School they altered the universe to help their Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is- families, they end up creating even Possible Poem: Tales from Deckawoo more chaos. Sequel to Sal & Gabi Break Drive, Volume 5 the Universe (DB94118). Commercial DB99481 0 hours 50 minutes audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. by Kate DiCamillo Target: Earth; Klawde, Evil Alien read by Bahni Turpin Warlord Cat Excited about a project for class, DB99593 3 hours 8 minutes Stella Endicott crafts a beautiful poem by Johnny Marciano and about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives Emily Chenoweth next door. But Horace Broom, Stella’s read by various narrators irritating classmate, insists that Stella’s With Klawde now stuck on this dismal poem is full of lies and that pigs do planet, he sets his sights on a new target

68 Children’s Fiction—Science Fiction to conquer: Earth. But to succeed, Space Taxi: The Galactic B.U.R.P. he needs two simple things: an army DB99307 1 hours 24 minutes of zombie squirrels and lots of money. by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer Sequel to The Spacedog Cometh read by Steven Carpenter (DB98436). Commercial audiobook. While trying to stop thieves, Intergalactic For grades 2–4. 2020. Security Force deputy Archie is mis- Space Taxi: Aliens on Earth taken for someone very important and DB99309 1 hours 18 minutes directed by his trainer, Pockets the cat, by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer to go on a spy mission aboard a B.U.R.P. read by Steven Carpenter ship. Sequel to Space Taxi: Archie’s Alien When the space taxi navigation systems Disguise (DB99306). For grades 2–4. go down, stranding dozens of aliens 2016. on Earth, Intergalactic Security Force Space Taxi: Water Planet Rescue deputy Archie needs to think quickly DB99305 1 hours 25 minutes to keep them hidden from his unsus- by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer pecting neighbors! Sequel to Space Taxi: read by Steven Carpenter B.U.R.P. Strikes Back (DB99308). For Young Archie Morningstar, his taxi grades 2–4. 2017. driver dad, and a talking cat named Space Taxi: Archie’s Alien Disguise Pockets are on an intergalactic mission DB99306 1 hours 19 minutes to save an underwater planet in peril. by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer Sequel to Space Taxi: Archie Takes read by Steven Carpenter Flight (DB78730). For grades 2–4. 2014. Archie, his dad, and their talking cat Bloom: The Overthrow, Book 1 travel to a planet that closely resembles DB99218 8 hours 35 minutes medieval Earth in order to rescue a prin- by Kenneth Oppel cess from the clutches of the intergalactic read by Sophie Amoss criminal organization B.U.R.P. Sequel After a downpour, odd plants begin to Space Taxi: Water Planet Rescue to shoot up everywhere. Their blooms (DB99305). For grades 2–4. 2015. throw off toxic pollen—and feed. Space Taxi: B.U.R.P. Strikes Back Strangely, three Salt Spring Island DB99308 1 hours 31 minutes teens are immune and desperately by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer need to figure out why. Some violence. read by Steven Carpenter Commercial audiobook. For grades 5–8 The gang travels to Akbar’s Floating and older readers. 2020. Rest Stop, where Pockets is going to receive an award for bravery. But when all the tuna fish goes missing, they must discover who is behind the nefarious plot. Sequel to Space Taxi: The Galatic B.U.R.P. (DB99307). For grades 2–4. 2017.

69 Children’s Nonfiction Animals and Wildlife, Biography, Government, Sports Children’s Nonfiction Government and Politics Animals and Wildlife Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box Back from the Brink DB99588 4 hours 53 minutes DB99361 3 hours 51 minutes by Evette Dionne by Nancy F. Castaldo read by Karen Chilton read by Mark Ashby Black feminist writer and editor traces Notable nature author explores the the history of Black women as a force in threats to seven animal species: the suffrage movement and how fellow whooping cranes, wolves, bald eagles, suffragists did not accept them as equal Galápagos tortoises, California condors, partners in the struggle. Commercial American alligators, and American audiobook. For grades 5–8 and older bison. Discusses the scientific and polit- readers. 2020. ical efforts to coax the endangered ani- mals back from the brink of extinction. Sports and Recreation For grades 5–8. 2018. Serena Williams: Legends in Sports Biography DB98996 3 hours 2 minutes by Matt Christopher and Awesome Achievers in Science Stephanie True Peters DB99099 1 hours 20 minutes read by Alejandro Ruiz by Alan Katz Notable sports writer chronicles the life, read by James Johnson career, and many achievements of pro- Twelve short biographies of innova- fessional tennis player Serena Williams. tive scientists whose contributions Ranking No. 1 in singles on several are often overlooked. Profiles include occasions and a four-time Olympic gold George de Mestral, who created a medalist, Serena Williams continues gadget to keep your clothes from to challenge herself by breaking new falling off, and Stephanie Kwolek, who records. For grades 3–6. 2017. invented a bullet-stopping fiber. For grades 3–6. 2019.

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Talking Book Topics For Postage-Free Mailing May–June 2021 1. Complete the order form and enclose in an envelope. Name 2. Do not seal envelope. Tuck the flap in. Address 3. Address envelope to your local cooperating library. City 4. In the place of a stamp, write “Free Matter for the Blind or Handicapped.” State ZIP

Adult Fiction □ DB99004 □ DB99088 Historical Fiction DB99087 Adventure □ DB99537 □ DB99569 □ □ DB99224 □ DB99166 □ DB99140 □ DB99566 □ DB99089 □ DB99518 □ DB99078 Family □ DB99287 □ DB99402 □ DB99128 □ DB99526 □ DB99561 □ DB99362 □ DB99356 □ DB99451 □ DB99317 □ DB99035 □ DB99523 □ DB99453 □ DB99433 □ DB99405 □ DB99653 □ DB99452 □ DB99220 □ DB99667 □ DB99608 □ DB99126 □ DB99138 □ DB99279 □ DB98987 Fantasy □ DB99016 □ DB99442 □ DB99338 □ DB99285 □ DB99124 □ DB99674 □ DB99399 □ DB99432 □ DB99364 □ DB99193 □ DB99609 □ DB99015 □ DB99001 □ DB99194 □ DB99223 □ DB99014 □ DB99064 □ DB99567 □ DB99543 □ DB99435 □ DB99175 □ DB99352 □ DB99145 □ DB99434 □ DB99178 □ DB99444 □ DB96531 □ DB99514 DB99247 □ DB99605 General □ □ DB99184 □ DB99499 □ DB99560 Gothics □ DB99454 □ DB99092 □ DB99121 □ DB99407 □ DB99003 □ DB99253 cont. next page Please return your book and magazine cartridges. 73 Adult Fiction cont.

□ DB98307 □ DB99344 □ DB99417 □ DB99404 □ DB99497 □ DB99586 □ DB99252 □ DB99329 □ DB99507 □ DB99076 □ DB99459 □ DB99512 □ DB99298 □ DB99474 □ DB99086 □ DB99367 □ DB99271 □ DB99183 □ DB99681 □ DB99675 DB98994 DB99146 DB99424 □ □ □ Political Themes □ DB99284 □ DB99180 □ DB99447 □ DB99294 □ DB99665 □ DB99392 □ DB99430 □ DB99651 □ DB99354 □ DB99671 □ DB99428 □ DB99498 □ DB99125 □ DB99142 Psychological Themes □ DB99655 □ DB99058 Humor □ DB99120 □ DB99236 □ DB99464 □ DB99539 □ DB99422 □ DB99410 Religious Themes □ DB99144 LGBT Themes □ DB99054 □ DB99370 □ DB99420 DB99411 DB99266 Holidays □ □ □ DB99258 □ DB99661 □ DB99115 □ DB99400 □ DB99617 □ DB99659 □ DB99384 Mystery and Detective □ DB99323 □ DB99081 Human □ DB99462 □ DB99463 □ DB99195 Relationships □ DB99470 □ DB99468 □ DB99443 □ DB99506 □ DB99208 □ DB99625 □ DB99191 □ DB98990 □ DB99425 □ DB99614 □ DB99313 Occult and Horror □ DB99446 □ DB99345 □ DB99119 □ DB99244 □ DB99580 □ DB99282 □ DB99013 Romance □ DB99685 □ DB99553 □ DB96811 □ DB99274 □ DB99686 □ DB99337 □ DB99074 □ DB99419 □ DB99682 □ DB99262 □ DB99677 □ DB99340 □ DB99683 □ DB99179 □ DB99550 □ DB99327 □ DB99687 □ DB99515 □ DB96806 □ DB99265 □ DB99684 □ DB99185 □ DB99554 cont. next page □ DB99413 74 Please return your book and magazine cartridges. Adults—Order Form

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Adult Fiction cont. □ DB99291 □ DB99275 Suspense □ DB99299 □ DB99467 □ DB99196 □ DB99387 □ DB99248 □ DB98232 □ DB99269 □ DB99117 □ DB99245 □ DB99386 □ DB99357 □ DB99061 □ DB98235 □ DB98992 □ DB99085 □ DB99053 □ DB99403 □ DB99448 □ DB99293 □ DB99570 □ DB99549 □ DB99473 □ DB99113 Short Stories DB99676 □ DB99263 DB99057 □ DB99181 □ □ □ DB99472 DB99186 Science Fiction DB99517 □ □ □ DB99063 DB99048 DB98988 DB99261 □ □ □ □ DB99264 DB99221 DB99365 DB99176 □ □ □ □ DB99574 DB99254 DB99333 DB99255 □ □ □ □ DB99412 DB99286 DB99173 □ □ Spies and Espionage □ DB99108 □ DB99552 □ DB99177 □ DB99267 □ DB99615 □ DB99256 □ DB99332 □ DB99268 □ DB99189 □ DB99363 □ DB99341 □ DB99143 □ DB99199 □ DB99759 □ DB99090 □ DB99599 □ DB98312 □ DB99406 □ DB99477 □ DB99331 □ DB99429 DB99548 DB99342 □ □ □ DB99622 DB99680 DB97786 Sports Stories □ □ □ DB99621 □ DB99551 □ DB99276 □ DB99073 cont. next page

Please return your book and magazine cartridges. 75 Adult Fiction cont. Adult Nonfiction Computers Language □ DB99371 □ DB99353 □ DB99623 Animals and DB99547 DB98391 □ DB99583 Wildlife □ □ □ DB99431 □ DB99408 Cooking Literature □ DB99415 □ DB98998 □ DB99325 □ DB99278 □ DB99576 Biography □ DB97781 □ DB99065 DB99578 DB99149 □ □ DB98981 □ Medicine and DB99416 □ □ DB98982 Crime Health □ DB99568 □ DB99633 □ DB99469 □ DB99471 □ DB99581 □ DB99277 □ DB99118 □ DB99358 □ DB99573 □ DB99301 □ DB99579 □ DB99152 □ DB99249 □ DB99490 □ DB99465 Family □ DB99219 □ DB98993 □ DB99423 □ DB99418 □ DB99330 DB99303 □ Nature and the □ DB99151 □ DB99172 Government Environment □ DB99582 and Politics Blindness and □ DB99068 □ DB99555 □ DB99187 Physical Disabilities □ DB99350 □ DB99575 □ DB99603 □ DB97758 □ DB99283 □ DB99079 □ DB99597 □ DB99056 □ DB99188 □ DB99620 □ DB99487 □ DB99237 □ DB99624 Business and □ DB99602 Economics □ DB99080 □ DB99521 □ DB99251 DB99290 □ □ DB99174 Philosophy War Stories DB99295 □ □ DB99349 □ DB99273 □ DB99522 □ DB99436 Journalism and Poetry Westerns □ DB99351 the Media □ DB99355 □ DB98552 □ DB98934 □ DB99070 □ DB99260 □ DB99209 □ DB99239 □ DB96983 □ DB99210 LGBT Issues □ DB99302 □ DB99359 cont. next page

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Adult Nonfiction Science and Sports and US History cont. Technology Recreation □ DB98977 DB98555 DB99563 Psychology and □ □ □ DB99169 DB99062 Self-Help Social Sciences □ □ DB99096 □ DB98229 □ DB99091 □ DB99360 □ DB99488 □ DB99409 □ DB99516 □ DB99527 □ DB99601 □ DB98794 □ DB99000 □ DB99427 □ DB99071 □ DB99192 □ DB99083 Stage and Screen □ DB98979 □ DB99045 □ DB99069 □ DB99300 □ DB99493 □ DB99106 Religion □ DB99389 □ DB99270 □ DB99297 □ DB99626 □ DB99679 World History □ DB99101 □ DB98926 □ DB99246 □ DB99598 □ DB99289 □ DB99589 □ DB99280 □ DB98975 □ DB99540 □ DB99604 □ DB99390 □ DB98313 □ DB99272 □ DB99678 □ DB99449 Travel □ DB98855 □ DB99296

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78 Children—Order Form

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Children’s Fiction Fantasy Historical Fiction Scary Stories DB99585 DB99217 DB99592 Adventure □ □ □ □ DB99005 □ DB99051 □ DB99343 School □ DB99050 □ DB99584 □ DB99476 □ DB99481 □ DB99484 □ DB99480 □ DB98986 □ DB99594 □ DB99485 □ DB99055 Holidays □ DB99109 □ DB99486 □ DB99216 □ DB99227 □ DB99483 Science Fiction □ DB99587 □ DB99482 Humor □ DB99475 Animals and □ DB98983 □ DB99136 □ DB99593 Wildlife □ DB99130 □ DB99309 Friendship □ DB99479 □ DB99129 □ DB99306 □ DB99007 □ DB99456 □ DB99308 □ DB98925 Mystery and Family Detective □ DB99307 □ DB99006 □ DB99097 □ DB99002 □ DB99305 □ DB99222 Growing Up □ DB99754 □ DB99218 □ DB99478 □ DB99455 □ DB99084 cont. next page

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