Here’s a list of our new Large Print titles in September:

FICTION

  • Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry

When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices. By the best-selling author of Execution Dock.

 

  • Beach Lane by Sherryl Woods 

When their friendship turns into something more, Susie O’Brien and Mack Franklin find the odds stacked against them as Susie faces a devastating diagnosis, Mack loses his job, and his ex-girlfriend returns to Chesapeake Shores.

 

  • Blood Ties by Sharon Sala

When she discovers that she is not the person she thought she was after the reading of her father’s will, and that she may be the heiress to a massive fortune, Savannah Slade, leaving the Montana ranges behind, arrives in Miami to find the truth, which comes at a high price.

 

  • Canyons of Night by Jayne Castle

Charlotte Enright, who can read auras, senses that something is not right with her former lover, police chief Slade Attridge, as they are drawn into a series of violent events that brings them closer together and closer to danger. 

 

  • Creed Legacy by Linda Miller

When a chance encounter with his long-estranged twin brother brings him “home” for the first time in years, rodeo cowboy Brody Creed meets his match in Carolyn Simmons who is even more restless than he is.

 

  • Prey by Linda Howard

Forced to relocate her successful camping and tour guide company when she is trounced by a new competitor, Angie Powell struggles with her attraction to her rival while finishing a last trip that turns unexpectedly treacherous.

 

  • Stagestruck by Peter Lovesey

When a pop diva is brutally attacked minutes before a highly anticipated theatrical performance and the chief suspect is promptly found dead, Detective Peter Diamond uncovers bitter rivalries among the cast and crew and is forced to confront his own mysterious theater phobia to find the killer.

 

  • The First Husband by Laura Dave

Her happiness shattered by her movie director boyfriend’s announcement that he intends to reconnect with a woman from his past, travel columnist Annie Adams impulsively marries a charming chef and attempts to restart her life in rural Massachusetts.

  • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past.

 

 

  • The Last Letter from Your Love by JoJo Moyes

Spanning forty years, two women’s stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this perfect reading group novel.

 

 

  • Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner

The plans of four women–including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter–are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman’s husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby’s guardian.

 

NONFICTION

  • That Used to be Us by Thomas L. Friedmand and Michael Mandelbaum

A three-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and director of the Johns Hopkins American Foreign Policy program make recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits and unbalanced energy consumption.

  • The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin

Never growing beyond two feet and eight inches, Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Bump spent much of her life in seclusion. However, when she impressed legendary showman P.T. Barnum, she suddenly became the world’s most unlikely celebrity. In this fictional autobiography, Vinnie recounts her life, her travels with Barnum, and her wedding to co-worker and fellow tiny superstar, General Tom Thumb.

 

  • Truth Be Told : off the record about favorite guests, memorable moments, funniest jokes, and a half century of asking questions by Larry King

The former CNN host looks back on his fifty-year career, reflecting on how much the world has changed during those years, the famous people he has met, and his own life behind the scenes.

 

  • Wilder Life : My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure

The author of I’m Not the New Me irreverently retraces the pioneer journeys of the Ingalls family as depicted in the famous Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, identifying its fictional and factual aspects while visiting the historical sites where young Laura grew up.

 


Published on September 13, 2011.


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