Spring 2017 Library News & Information

Spokane County Library District Outreach Services assists those in the community introduces Food for Fines who are unable to visit any of the District’s 10 Spokane County Library District is celebrating National Library Week, libraries. Outreach is April 9–15, 2017, with Food for Fines, a community food drive for the also the local liaison for Second Harvest Food Bank. Washington Talking Book Food for Fines works like this: for each donation of a non-perishable & Braille Library. food item, library members can reduce their overdue fines by $2—for a maximum $20 forgiven per library account. AIRWAY HEIGHTS Donations benefit the Second Harvest Food Banks and their expanded 509.893.8250 networks in Cheney, Deer Park, Fairfield, and Medical Lake. ARGONNE 509. 893.8260

Money Smart Week CHENEY 509.893.8280 During Money Smart Week, April 22–29, 2017, our focus is on DEER PARK helping you manage your personal 509.893.8300 finances, important for all ages and at all stages of life. FAIRFIELD We’re providing programs on wise buying, couponing, protecting your 509.893.8320 credit score, house scams, happiness in our consumer culture, investment clubs, and financial literacy for teens. MEDICAL LAKE 509.893.8330 Don’t miss The Ultimate Cheapskate Jeff Yeager as he delivers practical advice about money, happiness, and our consumer culture. Learn how to MORAN PRAIRIE live a happier, healthier, and fuller life—only if you are not willing to pay 509.893.8340 the price. For more information on our Money Smart Week programs, visit www.scld.org. NORTH SPOKANE 509.893.8350

The KEY to our collection! OTIS ORCHARDS 509.893.8390 We are pleased to offer a variety of The District offers eBooks and formats in our branches for reading digital audiobooks on our website. SPOKANE VALLEY and listening to books: These items require a computer or 509.893.8400 digital device, such as an eReader or HB – hardback book smartphone, for downloading. PB – paperback book CD – audiobook on CD EB – eBook MP3CD – audiobook on CD in MP3 format DAB – digital audiobook FICTION

BENEDICT, Marie COGMAN, Genevieve THE OTHER EINSTEIN THE INVISIBLE LIBRARY Most women Mitza’s age in 1896 are Irene is a professional spy for Library, a married, not studying physics at Zurich University. shadowy organization that collects important Mitza is the exception. When fellow student books. Her current mission has her contending Albert Einstein takes an interest, her world with supernatural creatures, strange magic, and turns sideways. a new assistant. 443 pages, HB DAB 495 pages, HB EB BROWN, Rita Mae CORNWELL, Bernard CAKEWALK THE FLAME BEARER Following World War I, America’s ideas about Now that Britain is enjoying an uneasy peace, sin, virtue, love, sex, women, men, politics and Uhtred of Bebbanburg has a chance to take back religion start to change, and sisters Louise and his home. Neither old foes nor new enemies will Julia Hunsenmeir are in the thick of it. keep him from his dream. 497 pages, HB CD EB 456 pages, PB MP3CD CAMERON, Barbara CORREA, Armando Lucas SEASONS IN PARADISE THE GERMAN GIRL Sam left his Amish community, and a chance On her 12th birthday, Anna Rosen receives a for love, after a disagreement with his father. strange package from an unknown relative in Elizabeth is determined to bring him back into the Cuba. This initiates a search to learn the truth fold by Christmas. about her family’s mysterious and tragic past. 445 pages, HB 559 pages, HB EB CHIAVERINI, Jennifer CUSSLER, Clive FATES AND TRAITORS ODESSA SEA Although John Wilkes Booth has been portrayed While searching for a shipwreck in the Black Sea, as a loner who became the most hated man in the NUMA team answers a distress call from a America, this is the story of the four women who nearby freighter. When the team boards the ship, loved him. all they find are dead bodies. 683 pages, HB CD EB 606 pages, PB CD CLARK, Mary Higgins DEV, Sonali THE SLEEPING BEAUTY KILLER A CHANGE OF HEART TV show Under Suspicion is investigating an After his wife’s murder, Nic spent his nights in a old murder case and Casey Carter’s claim of boozy haze until he meets a woman who claims innocence. The show’s host believes someone she received his wife’s heart in a transplant and on her team doesn’t want the truth revealed. has a message for him. 461 pages, HB CD EB 581 pages, HB EB COBBS, Elizabeth DODD, Christina THE HAMILTON AFFAIR BECAUSE I’M WATCHING An orphan, a bastard, and raised in the Alone in his darkened house, reliving the horrors Caribbean, Alexander Hamilton fell in love of war, Jacob wants to die. When his neighbor with respectable, wealthy Elizabeth Schuyler. Maddie drives her car into his house, she breaks Their love was forged and tested by the his world wide open. American Revolution. 495 pages, HB EB 629 pages, HB CD

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FLAGG, Fannie GRISHAM, John THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING THE WHISTLER The town of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is much Lacy Stoltz investigates corruption in the Florida like any other small town. But lately odd things courts for the Board on Judicial Conduct. Her have been happening out at Still Meadows, the latest complaint could be her most dangerous town cemetery. case ever. 535 pages, PB CD DAB EB 496 pages, PB CD DAB EB FLANERY, Patrick HARPER, Karen I AM NO ONE THE ROYAL NANNY Jeremy’s life has taken a strange turn when he’s Charlotte Bill is newly employed by the Duke and back in New York after a decade in England. Duchess of York to care for their children. No one Someone is watching his every move, harassing imagined the impact this mere girl would have on his family, and telling him about it. a generation of royals. 537 pages, HB EB 529 pages, HB EB GOODWIN, Daisy HARRISON, Kim VICTORIA THE DRAFTER At barely 18 years old, Victoria became Queen In 2030, Peri Reed is a drafter, a person with of England. Doubters were eager to relieve her the rare ability to alter time. Now she has been of her duties, but Victoria stood strong. double-crossed and begins the race to save her 653 pages, HB CD EB life. 622 pages, HB DAB EB GRAHAM, Heather DARKEST JOURNEY HIGGS, Bill On a movie location in Louisiana, Charlene EDEN HILL discovers the body of a murdered Civil War Virgil runs the town’s service station. Now a new reenactor and is shocked to learn that her father service station has opened across the street. How is a suspect. can you love your neighbor when he’s about to 465 pages, HB DAB EB put you out of business? 463 pages, HB EB GREANEY, Mark TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE JOHNSEN, Iris A massive information breach is putting American NIGHT WATCH military and intelligence personnel in harm’s way. Born blind, Kendra was twenty when a The only man who can stop it is President Jack revolutionary medical procedure restored her Ryan. sight. Her highly developed senses make her a 879 pages, PB CD top notch investigator, and a target for murder. 509 pages, HB CD EB GRIFFIN, W.E.B BROKEN TRUST KAVA, Alex Homicide Detective Matt Payne thought he had RECKLESS CREED seen everything, but when a young socialite’s Ryder Creed and FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell are death is ruled a suicide, Payne doesn’t buy it. trying to understand the connection between What he uncovers will shock him. suicides in and Alabama and hundreds 483 pages, HB CD EB of dead geese along the Missouri River. 417 pages, HB CD EB

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KIRKPATRICK, Jane NOVAK, Brenda THIS ROAD WE TRAVELED HER DARKEST NIGHTMARE Widow Tabitha Brown refuses to be left behind Evelyn is a psychiatrist who manages a maximum in Missouri when her son decides to join a wagon security facility in a small Alaska town. A place train to Oregon. The journey will be difficult, and where being cut off from the outside world is the impact on history great. about to become terrifying. 463 pages, HB 609 pages, HB EB KRAUS, Jim O’BRIEN, Edna THE DOG THAT WHISPERED THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS Vietnam vet and single professor Wilson Steele Desperate to have a child, Fidelma initiated lives alone and insists that he is too old for a an affair with the mysterious Vladimir Dragan. family. A rescued black Labrador retriever (who When Dragan is arrested, she flees to London seems to speak) may change his thinking. in disgrace and begins a difficult road to 423 pages, HB redemption. 357 pages, HB CD DAB EB LAMB, Wally I’LL TAKE YOU THERE PATTERSON, James Film scholar Felix Funicello has encountered the MISSING ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing director of The investigative team at Private Sydney are silent films. Lois invites Felix to view scenes from searching for high-powered CEO Eric Moss. Moss his past, played on his theater’s screen. has completely disappeared and powerful figures 325 pages, PB CD EB want him to stay gone. 543 pages, PB CD DAB EB MILLER, Louise THE CITY BAKER’S GUIDE PATTERSON, James TO COUNTRY LIVING CROSS THE LINE Following disaster as a pastry chef in Boston, There is a killer on the loose in Washington, D.C. Livvy accepts a job in a Vermont village where Alex Cross and his wife Bree are both working on she discovers the life she wants may be different the cases that are putting a strain on the police than the one she expected. and their marriage. 481 pages, HB DAB EB 465 pages, HB CD DAB EB MILLS, Kyle PETERSON, Tracie ORDER TO KILL A TAPESTRY OF HOPE CIA operative Mitch Rapp is trying to keep Jasmine married Bradley Houston as part of a nuclear weapons from terrorists, or the Russians, cotton deal brokered by her father. Kiara is an whoever gets there first. Mitch must go indentured servant. Both are suffering in the deep undercover as an ISIS recruit to prevent Houston household. Will God bring them hope? catastrophe. 553 pages, HB EB 493 pages, HB CD DAB EB PETERSON, Tracie MOORE, Liz A LOVE WOVEN TRUE THE UNSEEN WORLD Widow Jasmine Houston has been harboring At age 12, Ada was a shy prodigy, growing up in former slaves on her farm. When her son and the her father’s computer lab. The lab and her father slaves are kidnapped, it will take all her faith and were her world until he began the terrifying slide courage to set them free. into Alzheimer’s. 561 pages, HB EB 697 pages, HB DAB

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PHILLIPS, Michael SMITH, Zadie THE COTTAGE SWING TIME Loni arrived on the island of Whale’s Reef Two brown girls became friends in dance class. planning to sell the cottage she inherited and Only Tracey has talent, so their passion for dance leave. She didn’t anticipate being attracted to the takes them on very different paths. Though their place, and David Tulloch. childhood friendship is gone, its impact lasts forever. 567 pages, HB 594 pages, PB CD DAB EB PICOULT, Jodi SPARKS, Nicholas SMALL GREAT THINGS TWO BY TWO Ruth is an African-American pediatric nurse who When Russell Green’s marriage and career has been ordered not to care for the child of fall apart and he finds that he’s a single father white supremacist parents. Should she intervene of a six-year-old daughter, he faces the most when the child goes into cardiac arrest? challenging and rewarding time of his life. 727 pages, HB CD DAB EB 899 pages, HB CD DAB EB PRESTON, Douglas TAYLOR, Patrick THE OBSIDIAN CHAMBER AN IRISH COUNTRY LOVE STORY Agent Aloysius Pendergast is missing. His grief- Love comes in many forms in the Irish village of stricken ward Constance retreats into seclusion, Ballybucklebo—a couple making wedding plans, and then vanishes. Now Proctor, their longtime a pensioner missing a faithful dog, and Dr. Fingal bodyguard, must discern the truth before it’s too O’Reilly deeply caring for his home and practice. late. 653 pages, HB CD 550 pages, HB CD EB UNGER, Lisa SANDFORD, John INK AND BONE ESCAPE CLAUSE The Hollows, New York, is a small town where Virgil Flowers is trying to figure out who stole psychics Finley and Eloise are helping a P.I. to find two large, very rare tigers from the Minnesota a missing girl. But the town doesn’t want to give Zoo. Meanwhile, his girlfriend’s sister is up its secrets. researching some very scary people. 478 pages, HB DAB EB 500 pages, PB CD EB DAB WATSON, Larry SCHMITT, Gerry AS GOOD AS GONE LITTLE GIRL GONE Calvin abandoned his family when his wife died. On a frozen night in Minneapolis, a baby is Now Calvin’s son needs Calvin to care for his abducted. Family liaison officer Afton Tangler grandchildren for a week—a task that will either suspects this isn’t the first baby the criminals have redeem or break him for good. taken and won’t be the last. 493 pages, HB CD EB 539 pages, HB EB WOODS, Stuart SILVA, Daniel SEX, LIES & SERIOUS MONEY THE BLACK WIDOW Stone Barrington’s new client recently came into a Former spy Gabriel Allon must orchestrate one lot of money, and Stone is helping him manage it. last mission. It will require a brilliant, young Naturally some unsavory characters want a share female agent to become involved with the of the loot. dangerous terror group ISIS. 411 pages, HB CD DAB EB 706 pages, PB CD DAB EB

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BEATON, M. C. EVANOVICH, Janet PUSHING UP DAISIES TURBO TWENTY-THREE Lord Bellington scoffs at pleas to abandon Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking for Larry his plans to turn the community garden into Virgil. Larry stole a freezer truck with a load of ice a housing development. When Bellington is cream and a dead body, frozen and covered in murdered, Agatha Raisin knows there are plenty chocolate and nuts. of suspects. 328 pages, PB CD EB DAB 301 pages, HB CD EB FRANCIS, Felix BRADLEY, Alan TRIPLE CROWN THRICE THE BRINDED CAT British Horseracing Authority investigator Jeff HATH MEW’D Hinkley is on loan, covertly, to the U.S. Federal Happy to be home in England, twelve-year-old Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency. His stint Flavia de Luce has once again stumbled upon a undercover could be deadly. corpse. “It’s amazing what the discovery of 523 pages, HB CD EB a corpse can do for one’s spirits.” HARRIS, Charlaine 413 pages, HB CD DAB EB ALL THE LITTLE LIARS CHILDS, Laura Librarian Aurora Teagarden is enjoying married CREPE FACTOR life when disaster strikes. Her teenage brother Carmela and her friend Ava are enjoying the New Phillip and three others have disappeared. The Orleans Winter Market when hated restaurant sheriff’s investigation is progressing too slowly. critic Martin Lash falls dead at their feet, stabbed 369 pages, HB CD EB with a serving fork. HARRISON, Cora 431 pages, PB A SHAMEFUL MURDER CHRISTIE, Agatha Reverend Mother Aquinas knows dead DUMB WITNESS bodies aren’t unusual in poverty stricken Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a young Cork in 1923. But when a corpse is dressed woman claiming to be the victim of attempted in an evening gown, she sends for Police murder. Poirot sets out to solve the mystery of Sergeant Patrick Cashman. how the letter was mailed after her supposedly 348 pages, HB accidental death. HARROD-EAGLES, Cynthia 383 pages, HB ONE UNDER CORNWELL, Patricia DCI Bill Slider and his team are investigating two CHAOS seemingly unrelated deaths. On closer inspection, Forensic investigator Dr. Kay Scarpetta has dealt they discover other deaths and realize they are with her share of threats. The latest is a cyber- being led down a trail of horror. bully Tailend Charlie, who’s about to make her life 331 pages, HB a living hell. JAMES, P. D. 591 pages, HB CD EB THE MISTLETOE MURDER DOIRON, Paul This collection includes some of the best WIDOWMAKER Christmas stories written by mystery writer Mike Bowditch is searching the Maine backwoods P. D. James for magazines and newspapers. for a missing man who is allegedly his half-brother. 216 pages, PB The search resurrects long buried memories and presents new dangers at every turn. 455 pages, HB DAB EB 7 www.scld.org MYSTERY

JANCE, J. A. MCPHERSON, Catriona DOWNFALL QUIET NEIGHBORS Sheriff Joanna Brady is coping with the recent On a summer holiday in a small town, Jude found loss of family members, her advancing pregnancy, a treasure in an old bookshop. Now she has run and a reelection campaign. Now she is forced to away from her life to the bookshop—a haven in deal with a serial killer as well. a chaotic world. 489 pages, PB CD DAB EB 509 pages, HB JOHNSON, Craig MULLEN, Thomas AN OBVIOUS FACT DARKTOWN Sheriff Walt Longmire is called to investigate an Following World War II, the Police accident at a motorcycle rally where he runs afoul Department was forced to hire its first black of biker gangs, the ATF, and a real-life femme officers. Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith must fatale named Lola. navigate a dangerous new world. 431 pages, HB CD EB 639 pages, HB EB KIELY, Tracy O’CONNOR, Carlene KILLER COCKTAIL MURDER IN AN IRISH VILLAGE Nic and Nigel Martini recently uncovered some Siobhán and her siblings run the family bistro in old home movies taken behind the scenes on a Kilbane. Things look grim following the discovery Hollywood film set. Unfortunately this discovery of a dead man in the bistro, and suspicion is cast could lead to murder. upon the family. 289 pages, HB 519 pages, HB DAB EB LOVESEY, Peter RIGGS, Cynthia ANOTHER ONE GOES TONIGHT BLOODROOT Two police officers responding to the last call of a Victoria Trumbull is at the Martha’s Vineyard long shift are involved in a serious auto accident. Dental Office when one of the elderly patients Detective Peter Diamond’s investigation will reveal dies unexpectedly. Is it an unfortunate incident disturbing facts. or murder? Victoria has to investigate. 581 pages, HB EB 443 pages, HB EB MACNEAL, Susan Elia ROSENFELT, David THE QUEEN’S ACCOMPLICE THE TWELVE DOGS In 1942, the nightly London blackouts give OF CHRISTMAS cover to a madman targeting women involved in Lawyer Andy Carpenter steps in to defend Churchill’s war effort. To catch the killer, Maggie Martha, who rescues and raises homeless Hope must put herself in his path. puppies, when someone complains to the city 507 pages, PB CD EB about the puppies and then turns up dead. MCCALL SMITH, Alexander 367 pages, HB DAB EB PRECIOUS AND GRACE SEAY, Martin The ladies of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, THE MIRROR THIEF Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi, have Venetian glassmakers in the 16th century work worked together for years. Their most recent to perfect the art of mirror making—a skill investigation will reveal a difference of opinions. coveted worldwide. And sharing the secret is 373 pages, HB CD EB punishable by death. 945 pages, HB EB

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BARRY, Dan LASKAS, Jeanne Marie THE BOYS IN THE BUNKHOUSE HIDDEN AMERICA 362.3 BARRY 305.562 LASKAS A social worker and journalist worked to improve Jeanne Marie Laskas spent months getting to the lives of a group of men with intellectual know coal miners, air traffic controllers, truckers, disabilities who lived and worked in horrible migrant workers, and cheerleaders—the hidden conditions in an Iowa farm town. people who keep the American economy moving. 515 pages, HB EB 398 pages, HB BERGNER, Daniel LOVE, Mike SING FOR YOUR LIFE 782.109 BERGNER 782.42166 LOVE Ryan Speedo Green’s childhood was marred by are a uniquely American musical family violence and behavior problems resulting group. For over fifty-five years, they endured in incarceration. Twelve years later he was a rising incredible problems and celebrated amazing opera star. This is his amazing story. success. has been there through it all. 411 pages, HB 679 pages, HB CARLIN, Peter Ames MACDONALD, Helen HOMEWARD BOUND H IS FOR HAWK 782.42164 CARLIN 598.944 MACDONA Paul Simon was a boy from Queens who had To assuage her grief following her father’s his first hit record in 1957. He wrote the songs sudden death, Helen Macdonald, an experienced for Simon & Garfunkel, and his music defined falconer, decided to train a goshawk, a fierce a generation. predator whose temperament mirrored her own. 739 pages, HB 487 pages, HB CD DAB EB FRENCH, Kelley MAZZEO, Tilar J. JUNIPER IRENA’S CHILDREN 618.92011 FRENCH 940.5318 MAZZEO Juniper French was born four months early, Allowed into the Warsaw ghetto as a public an infant no taller than a Barbie doll, yet health specialist in 1942, Irena Sendler smuggled with a fierce determination to live. Juniper’s children out of the ghetto, saving them from the parents Kelley and Thomas share their horrible fate that would befall their families. heartwarming story. 587 pages, HB EB 433 pages, HB EB NELSON, Craig GOODAVAGE, Maria PEARL HARBOR SECRET SERVICE DOGS 940.54266 NELSON 363.283 GOODAVA With the culmination of years of research, Nelson Elite canine teams protect the President. Willing gives detailed accounts of why Japan attacked to run into danger, all that these dogs ask of Hawaii and heroic stories from those who their handlers is to throw a ball and talk in an survived “the day of infamy.” embarrassingly high voice. 845 pages, HB 423 pages, HB

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O’REILLY, Bill JOHNSON, Plum KILLING THE RISING SUN THEY LEFT US EVERYTHING 940.54 OREILLY B JOHNSON As World War II is escalating in the Pacific and After years of caring for their elderly parents, the Japanese are undeterred in their fight a Plum Johnson and her brothers must now empty deadly weapon is being tested in New Mexico, and sell the family home—a task both harder and and Harry Truman faces a difficult decision. more rewarding than they imagined. 513 pages, HB CD DAB EB 393 pages, HB RISEN, Alexandra RINALDI, Tom UNEARTHED THE RED BANDANNA 635 RISEN B CROWTHE The forest was a refuge during Alexandra’s Since childhood, Welles Crowther always carried difficult childhood. When she and her husband a red handkerchief. It was his signature. This is bought a home with an overgrown garden, the the story of Welles, who became a New York restoration of the garden became a restoration firefighter, lost when the Twin Towers fell. of her life. 321 pages, HB 414 pages, HB EB WEINER, Jennifer STRATTON, Donald HUNGRY HEART ALL THE GALLANT MEN B WEINER 940.54 STRATTO Bestselling author Jennifer Weiner delves into her On December 7, 1941, the USS Arizona life in these essays. No subject is taboo—money, exploded under Donald Stratton’s feet. He weight, sex, children, and family discussed with managed to make his way to a nearby ship wit, candor, and love. and survived to tell his remarkable story. 560 pages, HB DAB EB 317 pages, PB CD WILSON, Brian TOUTONGHI, Pauls I AM DOG GONE B WILSON 636.7 TOUTONG A founding member of The Beach Boys, Brian Marshall Fielding’s dog Gonker developed an Wilson writes about his life and career. The illness requiring monthly medication. When amazing success, the crushing lows, and finally, Gonker disappeared, the family began a search the calm stability provide an unforgettable story. organized with military precision and powered by 478 pages, HB EB love. 311 pages, HB EB ZIEGLER, Deborah WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE COX, Lynne B MAYNARD SWIMMING IN THE SINK Deborah’s daughter Brittany was stricken with a B COX terminal brain tumor at age 29. Brittany chose Elite swimmer Lynne Cox devoted her life to die with dignity, and this is her inspiring and to her sport and felt invincible. In 2012 her courageous story. body betrayed her, and she had to make a 563 pages, HB transformative examination of her life. 279 pages, HB

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BALOGH, Mary DAILEY, Janet SOMEONE TO LOVE CHRISTMAS ON MY MIND When Humphrey Westcott, Earl of Riverdale, With working and caring for his son and aging died, he left behind a fortune that would forever mother, Sheriff Ben Marsden had no plans to alter the lives of his family—particularly Anna, the attend the Cowboys’ Christmas Ball until he daughter no one knew he had. meets Jessica Ramsey. 527 pages, HB CD 319 pages, HB EB BALOGH, Mary DANIELS, B. J. IRRESISTIBLE LUCKY SHOT Sophia never thought of herself as attractive. When reporter Max Malone approached Kat Even her late husband treated her more like a regarding family secrets, she wouldn’t give him companion than a lover. Her feelings change the time of day. Now that Kat is in trouble, Max when she meets Sir Nathaniel Gascoigne. is the only one who can help. 497 pages, HB EB 415 pages, HB BROWN, Carolyn GIBSON, Rachel WHAT HAPPENS IN TEXAS JUST KISS ME Cathy’s biological clock is ticking, and the alarm is Vivien left Charleston to become a movie star, about to ring. Sadly she doesn’t envision happily- and succeeded. Henry left Charleston for Wall ever-after happening soon. Fortunately her Street. Now when they meet again in Charleston, friends are planning to stir things up. something surprising sparks between them. 483 pages, HB EB 319 pages, HB DAB EB CARR, Robyn GRAY, Shelley Shepard THE LIFE SHE WANTS A SISTER’S WISH Following her husband’s suicide, Emma is left Amelia is the perfect Amish woman except with nothing and returns home to Sonoma she’s in love with bad boy Simon Hochstetler. County where she realizes that hitting rock The feeling is mutual, but can they convince bottom was the best thing that ever happened the family that Simon has changed his ways? to her. 287 pages, HB DAB EB 511 pages, HB CD EB GRAY, Shelley Shepard CHASE, Samantha AN AMISH FAMILY CHRISTMAS LOVE WALKS IN Levi has returned to his Amish community but Hugh Shaughnessy lives a disciplined life and is struggling to fit in. When young widow Julia keeps his emotions in check. When he catches asks for help, Levi is glad to assist, but something Aubrey Burke climbing into his office window, about Julia doesn’t ring true. his world will never be the same. 320 pages, HB EB 481 pages, HB EB HARMS, Kelly COLLINS, Dani THE MATCHMAKERS BOUGHT BY HER ITALIAN BOSS OF MINNOW BAY Scandalous rumors are threatening Gwyn’s hard- Lily’s career is floundering, and she’s been evicted earned position with Donatelli International. from her apartment. While packing, she discovers Her handsome boss is willing to do anything to a 10-year-old letter in her junk drawer detailing protect the company—including falling in love. further action to annul her quickie Vegas wedding. 287 pages, HB 469 pages, HB

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HARTE, Marie ROBERTS, Nora A SURE THING ISLAND OF GLASS Landon loved the Marine Corps. Then a bullet Doctor Riley Gwin is a shapeshifting archaeologist. ended his military career. Now he’s teaching a Doyle McCleary is an immortal and one of the self-defense class, but combat skills are no help Guardians. Together they are searching for the against sexy Ava Rosenthal. last piece of a powerful treasure. 435 pages, HB 487 pages, HB CD EB JENKINS, Beverly SHALVIS, Jill FORBIDDEN THE TROUBLE WITH MISTLETOE Rhine survived the Civil War and knew he could A gorgeous guy walks into Willa’s pet shop have a successful life—but only if he continued to desperate for a cat sitter. He doesn’t remember pass for white. Will the beautiful Eddy Carmichael Willa, but she remembers him because back in change his destiny? high school he broke her heart. 382 pages, HB DAB 451 pages, HB DAB EB KRENTZ, Jayne Ann WARNER, Kaki WHEN ALL THE GIRLS TEXAS TALL HAVE GONE Ranger Tyree Benton always stops to see Lottie Charlotte’s stepsister Jocelyn has vanished. It’s not Weyland when he passes through Greenbroke. the first time, but this seems different. Charlotte Unfortunately something from her past may put asks struggling P.I. Max Cutler for help. What them on opposite sides of the law. they discover is chilling. 545 pages, HB 535 pages, HB CD WITEMEYER, Karen et al. MEIER, Susan WITH ALL MY HEART WEDDED FOR HIS ROYAL DUTY Five beautiful novellas—moving, faith-filled, and Playboy Prince Alexandros doesn’t want to marry, deeply romantic—about living love to the fullest, but it’s his royal duty. His plan to persuade collected from five authors in print. Princess Eva to break their engagement seems 647 pages, HB to be working. . . until he falls in love. WOODS, Sherryl 285 pages, HB TREASURED NOVAK, Brenda Ben prefers to be alone with his artistic talent and THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS painful memories in his rural Virginia home. Then Christmas isn’t a happy time for Eve. All her his aunt introduces him to Kathleen. Can she friends are married, and her small town job feels mend his wounded heart? confining. Then a handsome stranger with a 317 pages, HB CD EB mysterious past comes to Whiskey Creek. WOODS, Sherryl 531 pages, HB PRICELESS PUTNEY, Mary Jo Dr. Beth Browning has to admit that Mack ONCE A SOLDIER Carlton’s visits cheer her young patient. Beth also Rather than tend to his lands and title, Will doesn’t need a second opinion to diagnose her Masterson left England to fight the French. own reaction to his visits. Athena Markham has distinguished ancestors and 313 pages, HB CD EB a scandalous upbringing. Together they make quite a pair. 461 pages, HB

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BENDELL, Don HORST, John C. THE RIDER OF THE MULE TAMER PHANTOM CANYON Civil War veterans Arvel Walsh and Dick Wells Lawman Joshua Strongheart is bracing for a need all their guts and know-how to mold the showdown between railroad companies vying for fledgling Arizona Rangers into the fighting force land. He didn’t expect the most ruthless to be a necessary to tame this unsettled land. businessmen with a coal black heart. 381 pages, PB 305 pages, PB JOHNSTONE, William W. BRAND, Max THE TRAIL WEST TORTUROUS TREK Dooley Monahan became an accidental hero by Sammy heads for Alaska following “a little killing a dangerous outlaw. He just wants to claim accident” at the poker table in Montana. There the reward and live quietly. But fate and he lost his heart to Goldie who promised to the outlaw’s family have other plans. marry him, only if he survives his job for a year 326 pages, HB and a day. JOHNSTONE, William W. 334 pages, HB DEATH RIDES ALONE COGBURN, Brett On the way to White Fork with accused killer WIDOWMAKER JONES Judd Tyler, bounty hunter Luke Jensen is Newt Jones just made a serious mistake—he ambushed by a corrupt sheriff. Now Judd and trusted Javier Cortina who made off with Newt’s Luke are fighting on the same side. gold, his horse, and his gun. It’s enough to make 453 pages, PB EB a man want vengeance. MCCARTHY, Gary 505 pages, PB SODBUSTER COLT, Paul In 1870’s Wyoming, sodbusters are regarded as BOUNTY OF VENGEANCE little better than animals. Determined to escape, Former sheriff Ty Ledger and bounty hunter teenagers Zach and Carrie set out for Texas on Johnny Roth are pursuing the killer that murdered foot, on a journey they might not survive. Ledger’s wife. The bloody fight has them each 267 pages, PB CD saving one bullet for his final escape. PAINE, Lauran 449 pages, PB SIX-GUN CROSSROADS COTTON, Ralph Deputy Sheriff Perc Whittaker usually doesn’t BADLANDS have much to do in the small town of Ballester. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is used to bringing When two strangers come to town, that peace criminals to justice. Now a midnight jailbreak is about to be torn asunder. sends him deep into the Badlands after a cadre 206 pages, HB of trigger-happy killers. WHEELER, Richard S. 469 pages, PB EASY PICKINGS CRIDER, Bill March McPhee’s life goes from not too bad to OUTRAGE AT BLANCO terrible and terror-filled after her husband’s death. One bloody day, a gang of thugs robbed the Greedy townsfolk want her goldmine. She has a bank, killed a farmer, and assaulted his wife. Now few allies, but is the fight worth the risk? a dying Texas Ranger and a grieving widow are 294 pages, HB seeking vengeance. 281 pages, PB

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