MAIL-A-BOOK 2019 Catalog No. 1 | SAVE THIS CATALOG | GOOD THROUGH DECEMBER 2020 5528 Emerald Avenue, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 55768 218-741-3840 | www.alslib.info | [email protected] Mail-A-Book Arrowhead Library System 5528 Emerald Avenue Mountain Iron, MN 55768-2069 218-741-3840 (Main Office) 1-800-257-1442 (Toll Free) 218-748-2171 (FAX) [email protected] www.alslib.info/services/mail-a-book www.facebook.com/alslibinfo Table of Contents Audiobooks ......................................... 1 Bestsellers ............................................ 4 Cookbooks, Health & Parenting ....... 10 DVDs ................................................. 11 Fiction ................................................ 16 Home & Garden ................................ 21 Inspirational ....................................... 23 Juvenile Non-Fiction ......................... 25 Middle Readers ................................. 25 Minnesota Books ............................... 28 Fiction....................................... 28 Non-Fiction .............................. 29 Music CDs ......................................... 31 Mystery .............................................. 31 Non-Fiction ....................................... 34 Old Favorites ..................................... 37 Picture Books .................................... 37 Board Books ............................. 39 Romance ............................................ 39 Harlequin Bookmark ................ 42 Love Inspired Bookmark ......... 43 Science Fiction & Fantasy ................ 44 Video Games ..................................... 46 Westerns ............................................ 46 Young Adult ...................................... 47 AUDIOBOOKS The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian (11.5 hrs.) When binge-drinking flight attendant Cassandra wakes up Believe Me by JP Delaney (9.5 hrs.) in a Dubai hotel next to a body, she has no idea what An out of work British actress pays the rent on her New happened, and all she can think to do is lie about it. She York City apartment the only way she can, as a decoy for lies to her coworkers, and eventually to the FBI agents a detective agency, hired to entrap straying husbands. who question her. Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk (7.5 hrs.) Good Clean Fun by Nick Offerman (6 hrs. – Abridged) Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, Offerman and his ragtag crew of champions want to share isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in their experiences of working at the Woodshop, tell Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift on a small boat listeners all about their passion for the discipline of when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are woodworking, and teach listeners how to make a handful Osh and Miss Maggie. of their most popular projects along the way. Calypso by David Sedaris (6.5 hrs.) Greasy Grass by Johnny D. Boggs (7 hrs.) David Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation The battlefield itself is a character in this retelling of toward middle age and mortality. This is Sedaris' darkest Custer's Last Stand, when George Custer led his soldiers and warmest book yet. to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876. Desolation Mountain by William Kent Krueger (9.5 hrs.) The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (15 hrs.) All his life, Stephen O'Connor has had visions of tragedies It is 1974 when Leni Allbright's impulsive father Ernt to come. When he experiences the vision of a great bird decides the family is moving to Alaska. But the Alaskan shot from the sky, he knows something terrible is coming. winter is just as unforgiving as Ernt, and life quickly becomes a struggle for survival. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (11 hrs.) Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King (2.5 hrs.) Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide But meeting two other loners may rescue them each from Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old their lives of isolation. Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Expelled by James Patterson (6 hrs.) Theo Foster's Twitter account used to be anonymous-- A Higher Loyalty by James Comey (9 hrs.) until someone posted a photo that got him and three other Former FBI director James Comey shares his never- students expelled, their futures ruined forever. Who took before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes the picture, and why target them? situations of his career in the past two decades of American government. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (15 hrs.) A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea (10 mentor activist at the center of the women's movement hrs.) who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take A beloved and ailing patriarch, Big Angel, has summoned her far from the traditional life she envisioned. his Mexican-American family for one last legendary birthday party. But then his mother dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader. 1 I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (9.75 writing passionately about his profession and of the joy of hrs.) seeing a vision for a space take shape. This is a simple This book offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in philosophy of a working life. American history and a chilling account of the Golden State Killer, the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who Me and Marvin Gardens by Amy Sarig King (6 hrs.) terrorized California for over a decade. Obe spends a lot of his time cleaning up the creek that runs through his family's once extensive farmland. One In Pieces by Sally Field (10.5 hrs.) day he finds a strange creature by his creek that eats In this memoir read by the author, Sally Field tells her plastic, and soon the animal he calls Marvin Gardens story for the first time, and in her own words, about a becomes his personal secret. challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that Miss Subways by David Duchovny (7 hrs.) shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother. A tale inspired by the myth of Emer and Cuchulain incorporates mythical figures from all over the world and Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier (10.5 hrs.) traces a New York City woman's mystical journey down Fourteen years after Angela's disappearance, her remains parallel tracks of time and love. are discovered near her friend Georgina's childhood home, Detective Kaiser must unravel the truth. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers (8.5 hrs.) Traces the story of Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a Yemeni- The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (12 hrs.) American in San Francisco, and his dream of resurrecting Follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood the ancient art of cultivating, roasting, and importing summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that Yemeni coffee, an endeavor that is challenged by the happened there fifteen years ago. brutal realities of Yemen's 2015 civil war. Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia (10 hrs.) Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca (12.5 hrs.) A riveting and suspenseful thriller about the mysterious This is the amazing true story of the first female US disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years District Attorney, a traveling detective who found a later. Fictional book based in Northern Minnesota. missing 18 year-old when the entire NYPD had given up. The Life List of Adrian Mandrick by Chris White (8.5 My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper (6 hrs.) hrs.) Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy In this evocative debut novel, a pill-popping Schmidt, Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting anesthesiologist and avid birder embarks on a quest to collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from spot the extremely rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Midwestern naivety to Hollywood semi-celebrity to allowing nothing to get in his way. outrageously reasonable New Yorker. Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich (7 hrs.) One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus (10.75 hrs.) There's nothing like a good deli and the Red River Deli in The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, this is the Trenton is one of the best. World famous for its pastrami, story of what happens when five strangers walk into coleslaw and for its disappearing managers. Over the last detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a month, three have vanished from the face of the earth; the suspect, and everyone has something to hide. only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The Outsider by Stephen King (18.5 hrs.) Making Things Right by Ole Thorstensen (5.5 hrs.) In the aftermath of a boy's brutal murder in Flint City, a Master carpenter Thorstensen gives a warm and often local detective is forced to arrest a popular Little League humorous portrayal of a tight-knit working community, coach who, in spite of an alibi, presents with open-and- 2 shut evidence that is called into question when the Skink – No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen (8 hrs.) suspect's true nature comes to light. When your cousin goes missing under suspicious circumstances, who do you call? There's only one man for Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman (10.75 the job: a half-crazed, half-feral, one-eyed ex-governor hrs.) named Skink. The actor known for roles in such productions as Parks and Recreation shares whimsical musings on a range of Strange Weather by Joe Hill (15 hrs.) topics from love and manliness to grooming and eating A collection of four chilling novels. meat, offering additional discussions of his life before fame and his courtship of his wife, Megan Mullally. The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton (10 hrs.) A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax (13.5 hrs.) power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death Japan, 2029.