M M a a rr / / aa pprr//mmaayy 22001177 BBooookkss--BByy--MMaaiill BBOOOOKKLLIISSTT Large Print Best-sellers/Notable Debuts — Fiction Andrews, Mary Kay The Weekenders Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Others come only for the weekends, and the mix between the regulars and “the weekenders” can sometimes make the sparks fly. Riley Griggs has a season of good times with friends and family ahead of her on Belle Isle when things take an unexpected turn. While waiting for her husband to arrive on the ferry one Friday, Riley is confronted by a process server who thrusts papers into her hand, and her husband is nowhere to be found. When she turns to her island friends for help and support, it turns out that each has their own secrets, and the mystery she’s enveloped in deepens in a murderous way. Riley must find a way to investigate the secrets of Belle Isle and the husband she might not really know during the summer that could change everything. Told with humor and warmth, this is the perfect summer escape. Balogh, Mary Someone to Hold In this follow-up to “Someone to Love,” Miss Camille Westcott undertakes an emotional journey after leaving London in disgrace following the discovery of her aristocratic father's bigamy. Living with her grandmother and sister in Bath, the disenobled Camille is driven by an inexplicable need to see the orphanage that once housed her newly discovered (and legitimate) half sister, Anastasia. On impulse, she applies to be its resident teacher. Adding to her disconcerting new life is an initially thorny acquaintance with Joel Cunningham, a former orphanage resident-turned-portrait painter who volunteers there as an art instructor. Initially leery of each other because of Joel's affection for Anna, they learn that there is more to each other than they realized. As their attraction takes hold, Camille discovers how to engage with the family she has always had but kept at an emotional distance. Balogh's unique skill in casting an unromantic woman as the heroine of a romance is on full display as she unwraps the layers of reserve and years of privilege that made Camille so formidable and forbidding in the earlier novel of this family series. Barclay, Linwood The Twenty Three It’s May 23, and the small town of Promise Falls finds itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe with dozens dead from a flu-like virus. An investigation quickly zeros in on mass poisoning from a tainted water supply. When a college student is murdered, Detective Barry Duckworth recognizes a killer’s handiwork from the unsolved homicides of two women in town. Suddenly, the strange events from the last month start to add up: bloody mannequins in car 23 of an abandoned Ferris wheel, a fiery out-of-control bus with 23 on the back, and 23 on the hoodie of a man accused of assault. The motive for hurting the people of this town points to the number 23 and working out why will bring Duckworth closer to death than ever before. Batuman, Elif The Idiot The year is 1995, and email is new when Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With emotional and intellectual sensitivity and mordant wit, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. This is a novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. Berenson, Alex The Prisoner Evidence is mounting that someone high up in the CIA is doing the unthinkable — passing messages to ISIS and alerting them to planned operations. Finding out the mole's identity without alarming him will be very hard, and to accomplish it, John Wells will have to do something he thought he'd left behind forever. He will have to reassume his former identity as an Al Qaeda jihadi, get captured, and go undercover to befriend an ISIS prisoner in a secret Bulgarian prison. Many years before, Wells was the only American agent ever to penetrate Al Qaeda, but times have changed drastically. The terrorist organizations have multiplied: gotten bigger, crueler, more ambitious and powerful. Wells knows it may well be his death sentence, but there is no one else who can. Bohjalian, Chris The Sleepwalker When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre and devastating. Once, she destroyed the hydrangeas in front of her Vermont home. More terrifying was the night her older daughter, Lianna, pulled her back from the precipice of the Gale River bridge. The morning of Annalee's disappearance, a search party combs the nearby woods. Annalee's husband, Warren, flies home from a business trip. Lianna is questioned by a young, hazel-eyed detective. And her little sister, Paige, takes to swimming the Gale River to look for clues. When the police discover a small swatch of fabric, a nightshirt, ripped and hanging from a tree branch, it seems certain Annalee is dead, but Gavin Rikert, the hazel-eyed detective, continues to stop by the Ahlbergs' Victorian home. As Lianna peels back the layers of mystery surrounding Annalee's disappearance, she finds herself drawn to Gavin, but she must ask herself: Why does the detective know so much about her mother? Why did Annalee leave her bed only when her father was away? And if she really died while sleepwalking, where is the body? Box, C.J. Vicious Circle In his 17th adventure, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett goes another 15 rounds with surviving members of the toxic Cates family. Joe has run into ex-everything Dave Farkus too many times in too many unsavory ways to expect any favors from him, so he's surprised when Farkus phones him from Stockman's Bar to say he's overheard a conversation about Joe and his family before he's abruptly cut off. Joe's concern turns to alarm when Farkus disappears, and his blood is curdled by the discoveries of dead Farkus and disconcertingly alive Dallas Cates, the disgraced rodeo star who ran off with Joe's daughter April, dumped her out of his truck, and ended up in the prison he's just been released from, hungry for vengeance for the deaths of his father and two brothers. County attorney Dulcie Schalk has no trouble linking Dallas to the dead man, but high-priced defense attorney Marcus Hand, now married to Joe's scheming, useless mother-in-law, Miss Vankueren, has even less trouble getting the charges dropped, leaving Dallas and his two miscreant hirelings free to roam the trails of Ten Sleep County, virtually immune from prosecution, as they ponder new ways to menace the Picketts. Can Joe gather enough evidence to neutralize Dallas before the charismatic sociopath, whose paralyzed mother, Brenda, is the queen bee of the Wyoming Department of Corrections' Women's Center, neutralizes Joe and his whole family? Clark, Mary Higgins The Sleeping Beauty Killer Television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help Casey Carter who was convicted of murdering her fiancé, famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III, 15 years ago. Casey claims — has always claimed — she's innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living under suspicion. She hears whispers at the grocery store; she can't get a job; even her own mother treats her like she's guilty. When her story attracts the attention of Laurie and the Under Suspicion news team, it's Casey's last chance to finally clear her name. Then Laurie’s producers introduce a new on-air host named Ryan Nichols, a young legal whiz with a Harvard Law degree, Supreme Court clerkship, experience as a federal prosecutor, and regular stints on the cable news circuit. He's got a big reputation and the attitude to match. Ryan has no problems with steering and stealing the show, and even tries to stop Laurie from taking on Casey's case, because he's so certain she's guilty. An egomaniacal new co- host, a relentless gossip columnist who seems to have all the dirt (and a surprising informant), and Casey's longstanding bad reputation: Laurie must face this and more to do what she believes is right. Cline, Ernest Ready Player One It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Life on earth is bleak and sinister, thanks to a complete failure to avert global warming and the oil crisis. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts, an impoverished high school student who calls a vertically stacked trailer park home, lives primarily online, alongside billions of others spending his waking hours logged into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be — a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.