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Vol. 19 ◊ Issue 1 Jan / Feb 2018
Preble County District Library ensures that everyone in the county has access to books, movies, music, and more. The library’s homebound delivery program even reaches out to those who are limited in their ability to get to the library. It’s a free service to eligible Preble County residents which provides home delivery of any library material.
Any Preble County resident who is unable to leave their home, either because of long-term or short-term conditions is eligible. If you’re permanently disabled or have a temporary condition that keeps you from getting to the library, contact the library’s Outreach Coordinator at (937) 456-4376. We also do home delivery in the winter months if a condition leaves you hesitant to leave in the winter weather. The Outreach Coordinator will ask Inside about your reading, watching, and listening preferences and choose materials to fit your personal tastes. You can also request
specific titles, authors, musicians, and movies to be delivered.
The library generally delivers once a month to homebound patrons but can deliver more or less often, if needed. Outreach Services will work out the details with you over the phone.
Homebound patrons do not pay fines on library items, but are still responsible for the cost of any library materials lost or damaged.
This program gives homebound residents access to the millions of items available at Preble County District Library and nearly 100 library systems in Ohio. Call (937) 456-4376 for more information or to sign up for homebound delivery.
Library Admin. Office 450 S. Barron St. Eaton, OH 45320 (937) 456-4250 www.preblelibrary.org facebook/preblelibrary W ould you like to learn more about computers? Do you have a new tablet or smartphone you'd like to learn more about? The Reference Librarian is happy to help!
Emily Hackett, Reference Librarian B ook an appointment on Wednesday afternoons between 1-4 for assistance with: tablets/e-readers computers One Hour Microsoft Office Session Internet One-on-One resumes & job searching Assistance using the library catalog Research
C all 937-456-5562, email [email protected], or stop by the library in person to set up an appointment!
Welcome to PCDL's Maker Space -- a place that gives the community access to new technologies for all ages. Whether for professional, educational or personal interests, there are many items to use! MakerSpace is open from 10:00 am-4:00 pm each Friday. No registration necessary. Other hours/days by appointment at 937-456-4331. MakerBot 3D Printer Silhouette Cameo (Vinyl and other material cutter) Brother Computerized Sewing and Embroidery Machine Asus Computer with software: Blender, SketchUp, Gimp, Inkscape, Sound Forge, Movie Studio and more. Nikon D3400 Camera/Green Screen
Sometimes titles appear in the Library Ink Newsletter that are not listed in the library’s online catalog. What’s a patron to do? There are several options:
1. Visit your local PCDL branch and request the item from a staff member. Don’t be shy! We’re more than happy to do this for Library Admin. Office 450 S Barron St Eaton, OH 45320 Tues. - Thurs. 9-5 / Fri 9-3 / 1st & 3rd Sat. 9-5 you! Note: Patrons may request up to four items per month, within sixty days of publication or release date of the item.
2. Request the item yourself from the library’s online catalog:
The Ohio Homefront: Your Country Calls
Preble County Room staff has worked throughout the year compiling information on Preble County veterans who served in WWI. Our work culminated in a fascinating program on the subject. Susan Talbot-Stanaway presented, “World War I on the Ohio Home Front: Your Country Calls!” and Robert Coveney answered questions and told stories about the memorabilia he placed on display belonging to a close relative who served during WWI. Recommend a title to purchase is available from the library’s Overall, enough information was gathered regarding the Preble Welcome Page at www.preblelibrary.org.* County men and women who served during WWI that it filled *Remember to always check the online catalog first before making a thirteen 3-inch binders! request.
Adult Crafting Opportunities Every Month!
Tues, Jan 2, West Alexandria Branch at 5:30pm Winter Window Clings
Thurs, Jan 4, Eaton Branch at 6:30pm Fairy Lantern Winter is the Robert Coveney recounted Susan Talbot-Stanaway presented, perfect time to the stories behind the WWI Thurs, Jan 11, Camden Branch at 6:30pm “World War I on the Ohio Home craft! memorabilia that belonged to DIY Cleaning Supplies Front: Your Country Calls!” a close relative. Wed, Jan 17, West Manchester Branch at 4:30pm Painted Rock Picture Holder
Tues, Jan 23, Eldorado Branch at 4pm Painted Rock Picture Holder
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Bubble Guppies (Super Guppies) PJs…by downloading Guardians of Oz eeeeeeeebooks! Emerald City (Season One) Another Man Will The Librarian (Season Two) Bones (The Complete Eleventh Season) Bones (The Final Chapter) Download popular titles for FREE! Love to watch Life movies? Ohio Digital Library offers streaming and The Shack Read the book by William Paul Young! downloadable videos! In the Dog House Don’t Give Up the Ship Bokeh ohioebooks.org Victoria (The Complete First Season) Is the item you’re interested in unavailable? Keep in mind that returns are automatic, so the wait may not be too
awfully long. Items can be returned early too! My Mother and Other Strangers: With her English accent and her London ways, Rose Coyne is the only 'stranger' in her rural Northern Ireland town, until 4,000 Americans arrive at the nearby WWII airbase. As Rose finds herself acting as peacekeeper between the disgruntled locals and the soldiers, she is also drawn to the engaging young Captain Dreyfuss. Will Rose risk her family for this forbidden love?
Book2Movie Helen Beatrix Potter was born on July 28, 1866 to Rupert and Helen Peter Rabbit: Animation adventure comedy Potter in Kensington, London. based on The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak Growing up, she had two pet rabbits, Benjamin Bouncer, who into a farmer's vegetable garden. Among the favored buttered toast and family vacations to Scotland, and cast: The voices of James Corden (Peter the Peter Piper, who performed tricks like a circus pro. Rabbit), Daisy Ridley, and Margot Robbie. Actors include Domhnall Gleeson (Mr. McGregor), Rose Beatrix loved to draw and she loved nature. What better way to Byrne and Sam Neill. The film premieres Feb 9. honor these loves than by focusing her art on the world of nature? As a young woman, Beatrix was invited to study fungi at The Tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter: the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. While there, she developed The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British her drawing skills to become quite an adept scientific illustrator. children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix self published her first book (which began life as a picture Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous letter to a friend’s son) in 1901. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he such a success that the publishing company, Frederick Warne & is chased about the garden of Mr. Co. agreed to publish the book just so long as Beatrix agreed to McGregor. He escapes and returns home re-illustrate it in color -- which she did. It was published in to his mother who puts him to bed after October, 1902 and was an immediate bestseller. dosing him with camomile tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, The Tale of Peter Rabbit has since been translated into 36 son of Potter's former governess Annie languages and has sold 45 million copies, making it one of the Carter Moore, in 1893. best selling books of all time. A first edition copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit., 1902. A film based on the life of Beatrix Potter came out in 2006. Miss Potter starred Rene Zelweger and Ewan McGregor. “Enjoy the little things in life...for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things.” Beatrix Potter Jan
Still Me / JoJo Moyes Sunday Silence / Nicci French (Frieda Klein, 9) A Map of the Dark / Karen Ellis (The Searchers, 1) Unbound / Stuart Woods (Stone Barrington, 44) Heart of Spring Mountain: A Novel / Robin MacArthur: In this evocative first novel, a young Feb woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in Beautiful Days: Stories / Joyce Carol Oates the wake of a devastating storm to search for her Into the Black Nowhere / Meg Gardiner missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret. Mrs.: A Novel / Caitlin Macy
Poison / John Lescroart (Dismiss Hardy, 7) It’s August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just Self-Portrait with a Boy / Rachel Lyon wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and
destroying homes. One thousand miles away—while The Afterlives / Thomas Pierce: Jim Byrd died. tending bar in New Orleans—Vale receives a call and Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what--if look for her. anything--awaits us on the other side.
Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new Though the hometown Vale comes back to is not the one she left eight wife, Annie, find themselves tangling with holograms, psychics, years earlier, she finds herself falling back into the lives of the family she messages from the beyond, and a machine that connects the thought she’d long since left behind. As Vale begins her search, the living and the dead. As Jim and Annie journey through history narrative opens up and pitches back and forth in time to follow three and fumble through faith, they confront the specter of loss that generations of women—a farming widow, a back-to-the-land dreamer, looms for anyone who dares to fall in love. Funny, fiercely and an owl-loving hermit—as they seek love, bear children, and absorb original, and gracefully moving, The Afterlives will haunt you. In losses. All the while, Vale’s search has her unwittingly careening toward a good way. a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined.
Written with a striking sense of place, Heart Spring Mountain is an The Girls in the Picture / Melanie Benjamin: It arresting novel about returning home, finding hope in the dark, and of is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances the power of the land—and the stories it harbors—to connect and to Marion has left her (second) husband and her heal. It’s also an absorbing exploration of the small fractures that can Northern California home for the lure of Los make families break-and the lasting ties that bind them together. (1/18) Angeles, where she is determined to live
independently as an artist. But the word on Census: A Novel / Jesse Ball: When a widower everyone’s lips these days is “flickers”—the receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have silent moving pictures enthralling long left to live, he is struck by the question of who theatergoers. Turn any corner in this will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely burgeoning town and you’ll find made-up actors running loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse around, as a movie camera captures it all. in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town stories for this wondrous new medium. She also makes the with his son. acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, whose signature golden curls and lively spirit have earned her the title “America’s Sweetheart.” The two ambitious young women hit it off Traveling into the country, through towns named only by ascending instantly, their kinship fomented by their mutual fever to letters of the alphabet, the man and his son encounter a wide range of create, to move audiences to a frenzy, to start a revolution. human experience. While some townspeople welcome them into their homes, others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their But their ambitions are challenged by both the men around ribs are wary of their presence. When they press toward the edges of them and the limitations imposed on their gender—and their civilization, the landscape grows wilder, and the towns grow farther astronomical success could come at a price. As Mary, the apart and more blighted by industrial decay. As they approach “Z,” the man must confront a series of questions: What is the purpose of the world’s highest paid and most beloved actress, struggles to live census? Is he complicit in its mission? And just how will he learn to say her life under the spotlight, she also wonders if it is possible to good-bye to his son? find love, even with the dashing actor Douglas Fairbanks. Frances, too, longs to share her life with someone. As in any Mysterious and evocative, Census is a novel about free will, grief, the good Hollywood story, dramas will play out, personalities will power of memory, and the ferocity of parental love, from one of our clash, and even the deepest friendships might be shattered. most captivating young writers. (3/18) January Deputy Donut series by Ginger Bolton Survival of the Fritters: Emily Westhill runs the best donut
shop in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin, alongside her retired police chief father-in-law and her tabby Deputy Donut. But after murder claims a favorite customer, Emily can’t rely on a sidekick to solve the crime—or stay alive.
Poppy McAllister series by Libby Klein Class Reunions are Murder: Newly widowed and stuck in a middle-aged funk, Poppy has been running on cookies, infomercials, and one-sided chats with her cat for months. There’s no way on earth she’s attending her twenty-five-year class reunion—especially after receiving a very bizarre letter from Barbie, the popular cheerleader who taunted her all through high school. At least, not until Poppy’s best friend practically drags her to the event . . .
Using the dreaded homecoming as an excuse to visit her eccentric Aunt Ginny, Poppy vows to leave Cape May with pride and Spanx intact. Too bad Barbie is still the queen of mean at the reunion. And worse, that her dead body is lying right in front of Poppy’s old locker.
Lobster Shack mystery series by Shari Randall Curses, Boiled Again!: Allie Larkin was living her dream as a ballet dancer when a bad fall put her out of business. Now she’s back home in Mystic Bay to heal a broken ankle while also helping her dear Aunt Gully get her Lazy Mermaid Jessica Fellowes bases mystery series debut on an actual unsolved crime! Lobster Shack off the ground. Nothing would help Gully
Set amid the legendary Mitford household, a thrilling Golden Age-style more than winning the local food festival’s Best Lobster Roll mystery, based on a real unsolved murder, by Jessica Fellowes, author of contest. The competition is sure to be killer―especially after the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey books. one of the contest judges dies after eating a roll from one of Gully’s biggest rivals. The Mitford Murders: A Mystery: It's 1920, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of February poverty in London. Funeral Parlor mystery series by Lillian Bell A Grave Issue: After an on-air gaffe goes viral and Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford jeopardizes her career, journalist Desiree Turner retreats household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire home to Verbena, California for some peace and quiet. She countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, begins working one of the quietest jobs around: presiding especially sixteen-year-old Nancy, an acerbic, bright over funerals for her great-grandfather’s funeral parlor. But young woman in love with stories. the action seems to follow her as a fistfight breaks out between neighbors Rosemarie Brewer and Lola Hansen at But then a nurse―Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous one of the first funerals she’s in charge of running. It exposes namesake―is killed on a train in broad daylight, and Louisa and Nancy find a nasty dispute and Rosemarie’s husband, Alan, is found themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to murdered shortly after. hide their secret… Kebob Kitchen mystery series by Tina Kashian Jessica Fellowes is an English author and freelance Hummus and Homicide: When Lucy Berberian quits her journalist, who is also the niece of Lord Julian Philadelphia law firm and heads home to Ocean Crest, she Fellowes, creator of the critically acclaimed series, knows what she’s getting—the scent of funnel cake, the Downton Abbey. She is also the author of five sight of the wooden roller coaster, and the tastes of her official companion books related to the Downton family’s Mediterranean restaurant. But murder wasn’t on Abbey series. Her second fiction book, Bright Young the menu . . . Dead, will be published in October, 2018. “Flavia de Luce, the world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/ Available from publishers in January See a title you like? Request it at your library! sleuth,” returns in a twisty new mystery novel… (The Seattle Times) Title Author Series Title or FYI No. The Grave's a Fine and Dial M for Mousse Laura Bradford Emergency Dessert Squad 3 Private Place / Alan Another One Bites the Crust Ellie Alexander Bakeshop 7 Bradley: In the wake of Pre-Meditated Murder Tracy Weber Downward Dog 5 an unthinkable family Say No Moor Maddy Hunter Passport to Peril 11 tragedy, twelve-year-old The Hostess with the Ghostess E. J. Copperman Haunted Guesthouse 9 Flavia de Luce is struggling Many a Twist Sheila Connolly County Cork 7 to fill her empty days. For Murder Borrowed, Murder Blue Stephanie Blackmoore Wedding Planner 3 a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal Biscuits and Slashed Browns Maddie Day County Store 4 family servant, suggests a boating trip The Grave's a Fine and Private Place Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce 9 for Flavia and her two older sisters. As Lies that Comfort and Betray Rosemary Simpson Gilded Age Mystery 2 their punt drifts past the church where Available from publishers in February a notorious vicar had recently The Fast and the Furriest Sofie Ryan Second Chance Cat 5 dispatched three of his female Death and the Viking's Daughter Loretta Ross Auction Block 4 parishioners by spiking their Death By a Whisker T. C. LoTempio Cat Rescue 2 communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, Clairvoyant and Present Danger Lena Gregory Bay Island Psychic 3 an expert chemist with a passion for Claws for Concern Miranda James Cat in the Stacks 3 poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them Raspberry Danish Murder Joanne Fluke Hannah Swensen 9 in the water. She clamps down on the Pawprints and Predicaments Bethany Blake Lucky Paws Petsitting 22 object, imagining herself Ernest Dead Calm Annelise Ryan Mattie Winston 3 Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls It Takes a Coven Carol J. Perry Witch City 9 up what she expects will be a giant fish. I Know What You Bid Last Summer Sherry Harris Sarah W. Garage Sale 6 But in Flavia’s grip is something far Lethal Licorice Amanda Flower Amish Candy Shop 5 better: a human head, attached to a Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger Donald Bain Capital Crimes 2 human body. If anything could take Murder in an Irish Churchyard Carlene O'Connor Irish Village 30 Flavia’s mind off sorrow, it is solving a The Cat of the Baskervilles Vicki Delany Sherlock Holmes Bookshop 3 murder—although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave. Sarah Graves introduces Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree in a new series! Instead of home repair, Jake is now part owner of a chocolate- 9th book in the series. themed bake shop!
Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake: This new Previous titles: series features Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree as she starts a In a previous life, Jake Tiptree was the star sleuth in the Home new career! Jake and Ellie have been through a lot Repair is Homicide series. together, from home repair to homicide 1. The Dead Cat Bounce investigation. So when they decide to open a 12. A Face at the Window 2. Triple Witch 13. Crawlspace chocolate-themed bakery, they figure it’ll be a piece 3. Wicked Fix 14. Knockdown of cake. With Ellie’s old family recipes luring in 4. Repair to Her Grave 15. Dead Level customers, they expect to make plenty of dough this 5. Wreck the Halls 16. A Bat in the Belfry Fourth of July weekend. Having family home for the holiday only 6. Unhinged sweetens the deal for Jake—until the ill wind of an early-season 7. Mallets Aforethought 8. Tool and Die hurricane blows up her plans. But as bitter as the storm is, something even more sinister is brewing in the kitchen of The Chocolate Moose— 9. Nail Biter 10. Trap Door where health inspector Matt Muldoon is found murdered. 11. The Book of Old Houses Contemporary Romance Jan
Fall from Grace / Danielle Steel About that Kiss / Jill Shalvis (Heartbreaker Bay, 5)
A river divides Cottonbloom in two: the upscale enclave on the Feb Mississippi side and the rundown, rough and tumble side in Force of Nature / Jane Harper Louisiana. They’re worlds apart—but nothing can build a bridge Shot on Gold / Jaci Burton like love… Dreaming in Chocolate / Susan Bishop Crispell The Great Alone / Kristin Hannah Kiss Me That Way The First Kiss of Spring / Emily March Then He Kissed Me Till I Kissed You The Spring Girls: A Modern-Retelling of Little Women / Leave the Night On Anna Todd: The Spring Girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and When the Stars Come Out (1/18) Amy—are a force of nature on the New Orleans military Set the Night on Fire (7/18) base where they live. As different as they are, with their Laura Trentham father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding When the Stars Come Out: Willa Brown never something, their fears are very much the same. planned to stay in Cottonbloom. She was on the Struggling to build lives they can be proud of and that way to somewhere else when she landed there will lift them out of their humble station in life, one year and found work at the Abbot brothers’ garage. . will determine all that their futures can become. .and a sense of comfort and safety that she had never known. The same holds true for Jackson Abbott himself. With one glance in her direction, he can make Willa’s heart melt. But what begins Seven Sisters Series by Lucinda Riley as an unrequited crush turns into something far A sweeping, epic series inspired by the mythology surrounding the more powerful than Willa could have ever imagined. . . 1/17 famous Seven Sisters constellation. A planned seven book series.
Back list: After the death of their beloved father, Pa Salt, six adopted sisters are Kiss Me That Way: Cade Fournette never had it easy given the chance to learn about their origins. The catch: They have to Cottonbloom. He stuck around long enough to raise his orphaned search for the answers themselves. Each of them is handed a siblings and then hightailed it out West―and never looked back. tantalizing clue to her true heritage - a clue which takes each woman Even though he’s made a success of himself in Seattle, Cade never on a journey of self discovery. lost the toughness and the angry edge that helped him survive down South. His only weak spot: the girl he left behind… The Pearl Sister / Lucinda Riley: CeCe D’Aplièse has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her Then He Kissed Me: In a town torn apart by old resentments and father she finds herself more alone than ever. With rivalries, can Nash and Tally find their way back to the life they nothing left to lose, CeCe delves into the mystery of her once shared - and turn their long-lost dreams into a real and familial origins. The only clues she holds are a black and lasting love? white photograph and the name of a female pioneer who once traversed the globe from Scotland to Australia. 4th Till I Kissed You: It’s summertime in Cottonbloom, where two book in the series. lovers find themselves at a crossroads just as things heat up. Previous books in the Seven Sisters series: Leave the Night On: Love, betrayal, and sweet revenge--life in 1. The Seven Sisters Cottonbloom is about to get a whole lot hotter . . . 2. The Storm Sister 3. The Shadow Sister
Paranormal, Suspense, & Mystery Book Spotlight Jan A witty and emotionally charged novel that delves into the
Promise Not to Tell / Jayne Ann Krentz heart of a marriage, and how those we love and know best can Blood Fury / J R Ward (Black Dagger Legacy, 3) sometimes surprise us the most. A Treacherous Curse / Deanna Raybourn (Veronica Speedwell, 3) Dark in Death / J. D. Robb Surprise Me / Sophie Kinsella: After ten years Judgement Road / Christine Feehan together, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable Beyond Danger / Kat Martin (Texas Trilogy, 2) home, fulfilling jobs, and beautiful twin girls, and Breaking Point / Allison Brennan (Lucy Kincaid, 13) communicate so seamlessly they finish each Perish / Lisa Black (Gardiner & Renner, 3) other’s sentences. They have a happy marriage Moonlight Sins / Jennifer L. Armentrout (de Vincent, 1) and believe they know everything there is to know I’ll Stay / Karen Day about each other. Until it’s casually mentioned to Baby, I’m Howling for You / Christine Warren (Alphaville, 1) them that they could be together for another sixty-eight years . . Feb . and panic sets in. Look for Me / Lisa Gardner Hello Stranger / Lisa Kleypas They decide to bring surprises into their marriage to keep it fresh The Bad Daughter / Joy Fielding and fun. But in their pursuit to execute Project Surprise Me— Fatal Chaos / Marie Force from unexpected gifts to restaurant dates to sexy photo Up in Flames / Heather Graham shoots—mishaps arise, with disastrous and comical results. Collision Point / Lora Leigh Gradually, surprises turn to shocking truths. And when a scandal from the past is uncovered, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other after all.
Jan Historical Romance Carnegie’s Maid: A Novel / Marie Benedict The Trouble with True Love / Laura Lee Guhrke Beyond Scandal and Desire / Lorraine Heath Surrender to the Highlander / Lynsay Sands His Sinful Touch / Candace Camp (Mad Morelands, 5) The Devil in Scotland / Suzanne Enoch
Feb
Sins of Lord Lockwood / Meredith Duran (Rules for the Reckless, 6)
My Once and Future Duke / Caroline Linden (Wages of Sin, 1) Catherine Anderson’s path to becoming a published Devil in Tartan / Julia London (Highland Grooms, 4) author was a meandering one. She grew up with a Highland Conquest / Alison McLayne (Sons of Gregor MacLeod, 2) mother who was a writer, so storytelling was in her The Marquis and I / Ella Quinn (The Worthingtons, 4) blood. After marriage, Catherine went to college to study accounting, but numbers and spreadsheets couldn’t drown out her love for words and the stories that begged 4th in the Mystic Creek series by Catherine Anderson to be told. With the support of her husband, Sid, Catherine quit college and began the journey that would Spring Forward / Catherine Anderson: When a favorite ultimately lead her to the success she enjoys today as a customer on his delivery route needs a favor, Tanner best selling, award winning romance author. Richards agrees to help without a second thought. The last thing he expects is to face off against the man’s spitfire Mystic Creek granddaughter. 1. Silver Thaw (2015) 2. New Leaf (2016) Crystal Malloy is near her breaking point. Her beloved 3. Mulberry Moon (2017) grandfather constantly skirts the rules at the retirement 4. Spring Forward (2018) center where he’s recovering from surgery. She’s caring for his escape artist dog, even if it means abandoning her salon customers, and she has no time for a romantic attraction to the handsome new stranger.
After Tanner’s reassigned to Mystic Creek, Crystal can no longer ignore how much she misjudged the man’s good intentions. She has known too much sorrow to easily open her heart, but she can’t deny that Tanner and his children could gift her with a happiness beyond compare—if only she can For a complete list of Catherine’s books go to her forgive herself for the past and accept that she’s deserving of such a love. website: http://www.catherineanderson.com/ bookshelf.shtml or fantasticfiction.com. The following titles will be published in 2017. See something that interests you? Please search the library’s online catalog (www.preblelibrary.org). You may also request titles that are not available from the catalog. You may submit four requests per month (within 60 days of the item’s publication date.)
Jan Amish Palooza Judah's Wife / Angela Hunt (The Silent Years, 2) Troubled Waters / Susan May Warren (Mountain Rescue, 4) Jan The Lacemaker / Laura Frantz Beneath the Summer Sun / Kelly Irvin (Every Amish Season, 2) Out of the Ashes / Tracie Peterson (Heart of Alaska, 2) Amish Sweethearts / Amy Clipston (Four Amish Novellas) A Song Unheard / Roseanna White (Shadows Over England, 2) The View from Rainshadow Bay / Colleen Coble (Lavender Tides, 1) Feb Hearts Entwined / Karen Witemeyer, et al The Celebration / Wanda E. BrunstetterAmish ( Cooking Class) (Anthology - Historical Romance) A Home for Hannah / Amy Lillard (Amish of Pontotoc, 1)
Feb Words from the Heart / Kathleen Fuller: Ivy Yoder Harp on the Willow / BJ Hoff (Mt. Laurel Memoires, 1) hasn’t heard from John King in over a year. She knows Phoebe's Light / Suzanne Woods Fisher (Nantucket Legacy, 1) it’s time to let go of the idea that they will one day marry...When quirky Cevilla Schlabach asks her to help A Refuge Assured / Jocelyn Green clean out an attic, Ivy is grateful for the distraction. Keturah / Lisa T Bergren (Sugar Baron's Daughters, 1) Noah Schlabach isn’t from Birch Creek, or even Ohio. A Light on the Hill / Connilyn Cossette (Cities of Refuge, 1) His job as an auctioneer takes him around the country and away from a typical Amish life, but he still remains devoted to his family. So when his aging aunt asks him to help clean out her attic, he agrees. Plus, who knows what curious items he might find up there?
As Noah and Ivy work side by side, they come across a different kind of treasure: a packet of letters written during the Korean War. The Masterpiece / Francine Rivers: A Soon they are swept up in the story of two young people falling in love—even as they remain determined not to fall in love successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears themselves. (Amish Letters, 3) to have everything he could possibly want―money, women, fame. Only Grace Daughters of the Mayflower - Book 1 Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal The Mayflower Bride / Kimberley Woodhouse: Can a assistant, knows how little he truly has. The religious separatist and an opportunistic spy make it in demons of Roman’s past seem to echo the New World? through the halls of his empty mansion and A brand new series for fans of all things related to out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. doesn’t know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but More to come in the Daughters of the Mayflower series in 2018: unidentified graffiti artist―an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. The Mayflower Bride / Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1620 Atlantic Ocean (Feb) The Pirate Bride / Kathleen Y’Barbo – set 1725 New Orleans (Apr) Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her The Captured Bride / Michelle Griep – set 1760 during the French own. After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely and Indian War (Jun) off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams The Patriot Bride / Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1774 again. But as she gets to know the enigmatic man behind the Philadelphia (Aug) reputation, it’s as if the jagged pieces of both of their pasts The Cumberland Bride / Shannon McNear – set 1794 on the Wilderness Road (Oct) slowly begin to fit together . . . until something so The Liberty Bride / MaryLu Tyndall – set 1814 Baltimore (Dec) unexpected happens that it changes the course of their relationship―and both their lives―forever. The O’Malley Family Saga
Keeping your changing needs in mind A new western classic set in the lawless sprawl of an A Trip Down Memory Lane unforgettable Texas . . . Maud Hart Lovelace Author of the endearing Betsy -Tacy series
Author Maud Hart Lovelace was best known for her beloved children’s book The O'Malleys of Texas / Dusty Richards: As series, Betsy-Tacy. The adventures of these Civil War bloodies the nation’s ground, Texas sweet little girls began as stories Maud Rangers Harp and Long John O’Malley patrol a told her daughter at bedtime, but the vast, unguarded range, picking off the brutal characters (based on her real life) soon Comanche while protecting the families of clamored to be set down in print, which soldiers off fighting at the front. Maud proceeded to do, and in 1940 the first book, Betsy-Tacy, was published. It was so well-received that Bullet by bullet the O’Malleys distinguish themselves as Maud was encouraged to continue Betsy’s and Tacy’s two of the bravest gunfighters to ever wear the Ranger’s stories. Nine more books followed, tracing the lives of star. At war’s end, the Rangers are disbanded, but Harp two friends as they grew up in a small, fictional town known as Deep Valley during the early nineteen and Long John are not through fighting yet. They sign on hundreds. with a cattle drive that will take them across the most treacherous and deadly stretch of the American frontier: The books: the long trail from Texas to Sedalia. Beset by ruthless Betsy-Tacy (1940) enemies inside and outside the camp, Harp and Long John Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941) aim dead straight for the future—where a great ranching Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942) fortune awaits back in a Texas they will change forever. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943) Heaven to Betsy (1945) Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946) The Quantum Spy / David Ignatius: A hyper-fast Betsy Was a Junior (1947) quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a Betsy and Joe (1948) nuclear bomb; whoever possesses one will be able to Betsy and the Great World (1952) shred any encryption and break any code in existence. Betsy's Wedding (1955) The winner of the race to build the world’s first quantum machine will attain global dominance for generations to come. The question is, who will cross the finish line An interactive first: the U.S. or China? program for nursing home In this gripping cyber thriller, the United States’ top-secret residents. quantum research labs are compromised by a suspected Chinese informant, inciting a mole hunt of history-altering proportions. CIA January Topic: Story Starters officer Harris Chang leads the charge, pursuing his target from the February Topic: A Question of Romance towering cityscape of Singapore to the lush hills of the Pacific Northwest, the mountains of Mexico, and beyond.
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Danita Cook (L), Outreach Coordinator & Vicki Hoff (R), Outreach Assistant ‘THE GUY’ RECOMMENDS Mike Zimmerman Thrillers & Adventures Earlier this year, I read about an actor getting some early buzz for a Best Actor Oscar, and it was The God Gene / F. Paul Wilson (ICE Sequence, 2) a name I didn’t expect: Adam Sandler. He’s Darkness, Sing Me a Song / David Housewright usually the creator/star of juvenile comedies (Holland Taylor mystery, 2) (don’t take this as an insult to Sandler; I find most Robicheaux / James Lee Burke (Dave Robicheaux, 21) of his comedies entertaining, but certainly City of Endless Night / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child nowhere near anything award-winning). In recent (Agent Pendergast, 17) years, his comedies have failed to even live up to Operator Down / Brad Taylor his own prior level of a mix of comedy and an Dark State / Charles Stross underlying dramatic element, which led to falling box office Fools and Mortals / Bernard Cornwell numbers and a deal with Netflix hoping to capitalize on what is left Munich / Robert Harris of Sandler’s draw. Light It Up / Nick Petrie (Peter Ash) The Voice Inside / Brian Freeman Then comes Noah Baumbach’s film, The Meyerowitz Stories, in The Pharaoh Key / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child which Sandler plays a recently divorced unemployed man who (Gideon Crew, 5) moves in with his father (Dustin Hoffman) just as his daughter The Gatekeeper / Charles Todd (Ian Rutledge Mystery, 20) (Grace Van Patten) is heading to college. The film moves around to The Deceivers / Alex Berenson (John Wells, 12) different stories within the Meyerowitz family and their struggles. A Death in Live Oak / James Grippando (Jack Swyteck, 14) Ben Stiller plays Danny’s (Sandler) half-brother. It’s like watching a The Agent in Place / Mark Greaney (Gray Man, 7) short story collection with all the stories making up part of a whole Operator Down / Brad Taylor (Pike Logan, 12) piece. The scenes are interesting. The dialogue is well-written and pulls you along the story. Chicago / David Mamet: A big-shouldered, big-trouble And though Hoffman and Emma Thompson and Stiller and Van thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago—a city where Patten all do a wonderful job, Sandler really does steal the show. some people knew too much, and where everyone It’s his best performance since Punch Drunk Love. The Meyerowitz should have known better—by the Oscar-nominated Stories is a must-see. (No DVD release date. Developing…) screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize– winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Third in Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X Series Mike Hodge—veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry—probably shouldn’t have fallen in love with Hellbent / Gregg Hurwitz: Taken from a group Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. trained as an off-the-books government assassin:
The Take / Christopher Reich: Riske is a freelance Orphan X. After he broke with the Orphan industrial spy who, despite his job title, lives a mostly Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented quiet life above his auto garage in central London. He himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about is hired to perform the odd job for a bank, an only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate. insurance company, or the British Secret Service, when he isn't expertly stealing a million-dollar watch off the But this time, the voice on the other end is Jack Johns, the man who wrist of a crooked Russian oligarch. raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known. Secret
Riske has maintained his quiet life by avoiding big, messy jobs; until government forces are busy trying to scrub the remaining assets now. A gangster by the name of Tino Coluzzi has orchestrated the and traces of the Orphan Program and they have finally tracked greatest street heist in the history of Paris: a visiting Saudi prince down Jack. With little time remaining, Jack gives Evan his last had his pockets lightened of millions in cash, and something else. assignment: find and protect his last protégé and recruit for the Hidden within a stolen briefcase is a secret letter that could upend program. the balance of power in the Western world. The Russians have But Evan isn’t the only one after this last Orphan―the new head of already killed in an attempt to get it back by the time the CIA comes the Orphan Program, Van Sciver, is mustering all the assets at his knocking at Simon's door. disposal to take out both Evan (Orphan X) and the target he is trying to protect. Coluzzi was once Riske's brother-in-arms, but their criminal alliance Evan Smoak―government assassin gone rogue―returns ended with Riske in prison, having narrowly avoided a hit Coluzzi ordered. Now, years later, it is thief against thief, and hot on their in Hellbent, an engrossing, unputdownable thriller from trail are a dangerous Parisian cop, a murderous Russian femme Gregg Hurwitz, the latest in his #1 international fatale, her equally unhinged boss, and perhaps the CIA itself. bestselling Orphan X series. The Latest in Nonfiction The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature / Bill Anything but Simple: My Life as a Mennonite / Lucinda Goldstein: The World Broke in Two tells the J. Miller: Like her grandmother, Lucinda J. Miller wears fascinating story of the intellectual and long dresses and a prayer covering. But she uses a personal journeys four legendary writers, cellphone and posts status updates on Facebook, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and too. Anything but Simple is the riveting memoir of a D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of young woman’s rich church tradition, lively family life, one pivotal year. and longings for a meaningful future within her As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, Mennonite faith. With a roving curiosity and a sometimes confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in saucy tongue, Miller ushers us into her busy life as a the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published young schoolteacher. in February and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-old prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf Serial Killer Mystery / Bill James & Rachel McCarthy has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in James: Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the Eliot has finished―and published to acclaim―“The Waste deadliest serial killers in American history. Between 1898 Land." and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry and As Willa Cather put it, “The world broke in two in 1922 or valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together, faces thereabouts,” and what these writers were struggling with covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous Villasca, Iowa, that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on murders, received national attention. But few people believed the crimes original research, Bill Goldstein's The World Broke in were related. And fewer still would realize that all of these families lived Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense within walking distance to a train station. When celebrated baseball personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for statistician and true crime expert Bill James first learned about these greatness. horrors, he began to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony / Applying the same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, Matthew Parker: At the beginning of the he empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers, court England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel made an horizon was a vision of paradise called astonishing discovery: they learned the true identity of this monstrous Willoughbyland. When Sir Walter Raleigh criminal. In turn, they uncovered one of the deadliest serial killers in set out to South America to find the America. Riveting and immersive, with writing as sharp as the cold side of legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the an axe, The Man from the Train paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive way for an endless series of adventurers portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was who would struggle against the harsh reality of South regarded as a local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited America's wild jungles. Six decades later, when a group of a dysfunctional judicial system. English gentlemen expelled from England chose to establish a new colony there, they named the settlement in honor of its Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed founder--Sir Francis Willoughby. Located in the lush landscape Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, in what is now Woman / Tammy Mal: On Thursday, December 15, Suriname, Willougbyland experienced one of colonialism's 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, most spectacular rises. But as planters and traders followed went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, explorers, and mercenaries and soldiers followed political home. Four months later, when their bodies were found dissidents, the one-time paradise became a place of terror in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a and cruelty, of sugar and slavery. A microcosm of the history three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia of empire, this is the hitherto untold story of that fateful Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had never met colony. either victim—as the monster responsible. In Pennsylvania’s first use of mitochondrial DNA in a criminal case, Patricia Rorrer was quickly tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But did the jury
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Daring aviatrix who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; pioneer in advancing women in aviation.
Searching the online catalog for Amelia Earhart will net over 300 results for books, documentaries, and, yes, several novels. Click on the ‘Articles & Journals’ tab to access over 4,000 results! (1897 - disappeared 1937) DVDs Last Flight / Amelia Earhart: Amelia Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in Amelia - Feature film that starred Hilary Swank and Richard Gere 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight - A made-for-TV movie that starred Diane Keaton. adventure stories of all time. Last Flight compiles the Amelia Earhart (A & E Biography) letters, diary entries and charts that she sent to her Amelia Earhart: Queen of the Air (Biography Channel) husband, G.P. Putnam at each stage of her trip. In her The Extraordinary Life of Amelia Earhart own words, these dispatches offer a window into her Where’s Amelia Earhart? (National Geographic) experience on this groundbreaking journey and illustrate her cheerful, charming nature. Her story continues to intrigue and inspire people to this day. Amelia Earhart Found in Fiction The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and Flying Blind / Max Allan Collins: Nathan Heller is of Women in Aviation: Autobiography of the famous hired to protect Amelia Earhart after she begins flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a receiving threatening letters, but is unable to travel pilot and offers advice to others. with her during her flights, thus after her mysterious disappearance, Nathan is determined to find out Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance / Ric what happened to her. Gillespie: In the seventy years since the disappearance of Amelia
Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during a flight over the I Was Amelia Earhart / Jane Mendelsohn: In this Central Pacific, their fate has remained one of history s most debated brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us mysteries. Now a wealth of new information uncovered by the what happened after she and her navigator, Fred International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) allows Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea this book to offer the first fully documented history of what one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. happened. Facts about Amelia Earhart you may not know... There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . .There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to She took an auto repair course while in school G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to Served as a Red Cross nurse’s aid in Canada during WWI gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round- the-world flight would sell out before Christmas.
After the war enrolled as a pre-med student at Columbia There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or University exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"). Took her first plane ride in 1920 with famed WWI pilot Frank Hawks
Helped form the Ninety-Nines, an international organization for the advancement of female pilots
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