Here’s some new large print titles you can find at both branches of the Irondequoit Public Library.
FICTION
- Bannon Brothers: Trust by Janet Dailey
With the two-million-dollar reward for the safe return of Ann Montgomery, who was kidnapped long ago, about to expire, R. J. Bannon, agreeing to take on this cold case, believes that talented local artist Erin Randall is Ann–a discovery that brings a legacy of lies and deception to a shocking climax.
- The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
Following the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico, Luz Avila arrives in San Antonio to find her aunt and meets her mother, who she had always believed dead. Now Luz must face her mother’s reappearance in her life and get her grandmother’s ashes to Mexico for the Day of the Dead. - From Barcelona With Love by Elizabeth Adler
Two years after popular singer Bibi Fortunata disappears amid rumors of her lover’s murder, the celebrity’s daughter implores Mac and Sunny for help, compelling the duo to finally solve the high-profile case. - The Dog Who Came In From the Cold by Alexander McCall Smith
A lighthearted follow-up to Corduroy Mansions finds Terence Moongrove’s estate turned upside-down by the cosmological experiments of two New Age operators, while literary agent Barbara Ragg takes on a companion of the Abominable Snowman and Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay is recruited by MI6. - Heat Wave by Nancy Thayer
After Carley has an affair with her carpenter, her husband ends up dead in a hotel room with her best friend; then her best friend comes begging for help. - The Ideal Man by Julie Garwood
After she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, Dr. Ellie Sullivan is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys; and, after Agent Max Daniels pledges to protect Ellie until she takes the witness stand, the two of them find their close quarters leading to passionate feelings. - Kindred Spirits by Sarah Strohmeyer
Bonding during a fateful PTA meeting, four young mothers share martinis and secrets until life-shattering circumstances tear them away from each other, a separation that ends two years later when one of their number passes away and reveals an astonishing secret.
- The Longevity Project by Howard S. Friedman
A full-length report on the landmark study featured in The Tipping Point challenges popular beliefs to identify the factors that actually influence the human lifespan, drawing on modern statistics to cite the benefits of such examples as singlehood and hard work.
- Quinn by Iris Johansen
A follow-up to Eve finds Navy SEAL-turned-cop Joe Quinn at the mercy of Eve Duncan’s former lover, John Gallo, who plays a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with CIA agent Catherine Ling, in an installment that recounts the story of how Joe and Eve met and fell in love 10 years earlier. - The Secret Mistress by Mary Balogh
A long-anticipated prequel to the best-selling Mistress series follows the coming-out of Lady Angeline Dudley, who harbors a secret desire for a simple marriage in spite of expectations that she marry a wealthy, titled man, a situation that is compounded by her unexpected love for an earl who does not return her feelings. - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Set against the back-drop of the great California Gold Rush, this darkly comic novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two hired guns, who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.
- Split Second by Catherine Coulter
While FBI agents Savich and Sherlock track down a female serial killer with possible ties to Ted Bundy, Special Agent Lucy Carlisle learns from her dying father that her long-missing grandfather may actually have been murdered by her grandmother years ago, an act connected to a mysterious group called The Protectors. - Three Seconds by Anders Roslund and Borge Hells
The powerful story of one man’s fight against the system he spent his life protecting which now seeks to destroy him.
- Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime, a situation also marked by her grown children and live-in caretaker. - 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by 8-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past.
NON-FICTION
- The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon S. Wood
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author evaluates the American Revolution as the nation’s most definitive event, presenting a series of essays that explores the ideological origins of the war, the founders’ attempt to create an American democracy and the gap between the views of the founders and present-day citizens.
Published on August 17, 2011.
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