Here are a list of the newest large print books available from the Irondequoit Public Library.
*Titles are in order of author’s last name
FICTION
The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell
Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist’s disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.
The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns by Margaret Dilloway
Enduring a strict schedule that balances her teaching job with the hospital regimen required by her kidney disease, Gal Garner devotes her spare hours to cultivating a new rose variation before her world is upended by the arrival of her teenage niece.
The Survivor by Gregg Hurwitz
Anticipating suicide only to foil a bank robbery and receive a blackmail note from one of the robbers, Nate, a traumatized former soldier with ALS, is kidnapped by a Russian mobster who threatens Nate’s family to force him to complete the robbery he interrupted.
You Don’t Want To Know by Lisa Jackson
After spending the past two years in and out of Seattle mental institutions, unable to remember the details of her son’s disappearance, Ava returns home and, secretly visiting a hypnotist, discovers that her son may still be alive.
Sleep No More by Iris Johansen
Entreated by her mother to help find a missing woman who has escaped from a mental hospital, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked to discover the woman’s true identity and enlists the help of rogue FBI profiler Kendra Michaels to survive a plot by a killer that is targeting her family.
The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury
Ryan Kelly spends plenty of time at The Bridge–the oldest bookstore in historic downtown Franklin, Tennessee–remembering the times he and Molly Allen–who moved to Portland–once spent there, and now, with the bookstore in deep financial trouble, it will take a miracle to keep tragedy from unfolding.
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
Old secrets are revealed and lives become unraveled when the children of a well-heeled New England family discover the body of murder victim near Tiger House, their estate on Martha’s Vineyard.
How I Came to Sparkle Again by Kaya McLaren
Three people in the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado, search for hope and love after painful losses, including a woman who discovered her husband’s infidelity after a miscarriage, a woman whose best romantic prospect is a ski bum best friend, and a girl who longs for messages from her cancer victim mother.
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Withdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career, and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures
The Risk Agent by Ridley Pearson
When a Chinese National and his security guard are kidnapped in broad daylight off the streets of Shanghai, an international hostage recovery organization recruits forensic accountant Grace Chu and combat specialist John Knox to pursue dangerous leads without exacerbating international tensions.
Christmas Garland by Anne Perry
In 1857 India, young Lieutenant Victor Narraway, with the help of two small children and a Christmas garland, defends a British medical orderly throughout a murder investigation.
Hostage by Elie Wiesel
In 1975, Shaltiel Feigenberg, a Jewish writer from Brooklyn, endures a nightmarish abduction by Arab and Italian captors by sharing poignant stories from his childhood years spent hiding from the Nazis.
NONFICTION
A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way by Lisa J. Edwards
The story of the author and her dog Boo, the runt of an abandoned litter, who became an unlikely hero when he changed countless lives–including hers–through his work as a therapy dog.
Killing Kennedy by Bill O Reilly and Martin Dugard
The host of The O’Reilly Factor recounts the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy–and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy Welch
Chronicles the efforts of the author and her husband to open and run a small bookstore in a struggling Virginia coal mining community, a pursuit challenged by the difficult economic environment.
Published on November 14, 2012.
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