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
Fuse by Julianna Baggott
In a post-apocalyptic world where those who dwell within the Dome are safe, and those who live outside struggle to survive, Pressia decodes secrets from the past in an effort to set the Wretches free of their fusings forever.
Cold Days by Jim Butcher
Brought back to the mortal world as the Winter Knight to Mab, Harry Dresden is at the command of the Queen of Air and Darkness and is expected to kill an immortal, as he begins to realize there is a serious threat to endanger countless innocent victims unless he finds his way out of eternal subservience.
Daddy’s Gone A- Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark
When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family’s priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
Schroder by Amity Gaige
Ensconced in a correctional facility at the height of a custody battle with his estranged wife, Eric, a first-generation East German immigrant who changed his name as a youth, surveys his life to consider the disparity between his original and assumed identities.
Woman from Paris by Santa Montefiore
Revealing herself as the illegitimate daughter of a recently deceased English lord, young Frenchwoman Phaedra gradually overcomes her outraged relatives’ frosty reception, only to have her position threatened by a forbidden passion.
Midnight at Marble Arch by Anne Perry
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt’s quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
Don’t Go by Lisa Scottoline
Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.
The History of Us by Leah Stewart
Two decades after the tragic accident that killed their father, Theodora, Josh, and Claire return to their childhood home to confront painful realities about their incapable mother and the devoted aunt who raised them.
NONFICTION
Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander MD
A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon shares a minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.
Days That I’ll Remember by Jonathan Cott
A decades-long friend of John Lennon and Yoko Ono presents an intimate account of the couple’s relationship that reveals the profoundly positive influence of Ono on Lennon and the ways they inspired each other creatively before the latter’s death.
On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz
Draws on a series of walks the author took in her Manhattan neighborhood while accompanied by experts in various fields of knowledge to explore the nature of human perception and how individuals interact with the ordinary world around them.
Published on April 16, 2013.
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