A touching new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in which a woman sets out to find love for those closest to her - before its too late. 48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome, but theres no arguing with her results With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist.
Little, Brown and Company; Lrg edition
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9780316404679
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Hardcover
One Good Earl Deserves A Lover
By Maclean, Sarah
A New York Times Bestseller A Library Journal Best Romance A Kirkus Reviews Best Romance Shortlisted for the RUSA Award for Romance Rules of Scoundrels . Book 2 The brilliant, bespectacled Lady Philippa Marbury cares more for books than balls. Shes looking forward to marrying her simple fianc and living out her days quietly with her dogs and her scientific experiments. But before that, Pippa has two weeks to research the exciting parts of life. To do it right she needs a guide to Londons darker corners. She needs Cross, the clever, controlled partner in Londons most exclusive gaming hell.
Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
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9781410470539
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Hardcover
Power Play
By Steel, Danielle
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable choices they make, what drives them, and how others perceive them. The heady drug of power impacts everything they do. POWER PLAY Even though Harvard-educated Fiona Carson has proven herself under fire as CEO of National Technology Advancement, a multibillion-dollar high-tech company based in Palo Alto, California, she still has to meet the challenges of her world every day.
Random House Large Print; Lrg edition
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9780804121125
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Large Print
Fates and Furies
By Groff, Lauren
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.
Thorndike Press Large Print
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9781410484949
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Large Print Hardcover
The Possibilities
By Hemmings, Kaui Hart
From New York Times bestselling author Kaui Hart Hemmings comes the highly anticipated follow-up to The Descendants. IN THE IDYLLIC SKI TOWN of Breckenridge, Colorado, Sarah St. John is reeling. Three months ago, her twenty-two-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche. Though single, Sarah is hardly alone in her grief. Her father, a retiree, tries to distract her with gadgets from the QVC home shopping channel. Sarah's best friend offers life advice by venting details of her own messy divorce. Even Cully's father reemerges, stirring more emotions and confusion than Sarah needs. Still, Sarah feels she is facing the stages of grief - the anger, the sadness, the letting go - alone. Barely ready to face the fact she will never again hear the swoosh of her son's ski pants, or watch him skateboard past her window, Sarah is surprised when a strange girl arrives on her doorstep. Unexpected and unexplained, she bears a secret from Cully that could change all of their lives forever. Kaui Hart Hemmings highlights the subtle poignancies of grief and relationships in this stunning look at people faced with impossible choices in the wake of a tragedy. With the unsentimental and refreshingly wry style famous for presenting trouble in paradise in The Descendants, Hemmings in The Possibilities considers the difficult questions of what we risk to keep our loved ones close.
Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
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9781410469908
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Large Print Hardcover
The Visionist
By Urquhart, Rachel
When 15-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father, she and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called the City of Hope. It is the Era of Manifestations, when young Shaker girls all across the Northeast are experiencing mystical visions. The City of Hope had not yet been blessed with a Visionist ? but that changes when Polly arrives and is unexpectedly exalted. This Peer Pick title was selected by Abbey Stroop, the Reader?s Advisory Library and Fiction, Express and Large Print buyer at Herrick District Library in Holland, Michigan.
Macmillan Reference Usa
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9781410469083
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Large Print Hardcover
Mr. Mercedes
By King, Stephen
In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, backs up, and charges again. Eight are killed fifteen wounded. The killer escapes. Months later, retired cop Bill Hodges gets a letter threatening an even more diabolical attack, and is hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.,
Thorndike Press
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9781410469007
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Hardcover
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
By Horan, Nancy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHFrom Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium - with her three children and nanny in tow - to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can recuperate.
Random House Large Print
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9780307990938
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Paperback
What Alice Forgot
By Moriarty, Liane
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, THE HUSBAND S SECRET...SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADAA cheerfully engaging * novel for anyone who s ever asked herself, How did I get here? Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over she s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes.
Thorndike Pr
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9781410475046
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Hardcover
By Its Cover
By Leon, Donna
A New York Times Bestselling Author One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, it?s clear the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem the man fled the library earlier that day, and when they check his credentials, the American professor doesn?t exist.,
The Matchmaker
By Hilderbrand, Elin
A touching new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in which a woman sets out to find love for those closest to her - before its too late. 48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome, but theres no arguing with her results With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist.
One Good Earl Deserves A Lover
By Maclean, Sarah
A New York Times Bestseller A Library Journal Best Romance A Kirkus Reviews Best Romance Shortlisted for the RUSA Award for Romance Rules of Scoundrels . Book 2 The brilliant, bespectacled Lady Philippa Marbury cares more for books than balls. Shes looking forward to marrying her simple fianc and living out her days quietly with her dogs and her scientific experiments. But before that, Pippa has two weeks to research the exciting parts of life. To do it right she needs a guide to Londons darker corners. She needs Cross, the clever, controlled partner in Londons most exclusive gaming hell.
Power Play
By Steel, Danielle
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable choices they make, what drives them, and how others perceive them. The heady drug of power impacts everything they do. POWER PLAY Even though Harvard-educated Fiona Carson has proven herself under fire as CEO of National Technology Advancement, a multibillion-dollar high-tech company based in Palo Alto, California, she still has to meet the challenges of her world every day.
Fates and Furies
By Groff, Lauren
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.
The Possibilities
By Hemmings, Kaui Hart
From New York Times bestselling author Kaui Hart Hemmings comes the highly anticipated follow-up to The Descendants. IN THE IDYLLIC SKI TOWN of Breckenridge, Colorado, Sarah St. John is reeling. Three months ago, her twenty-two-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche. Though single, Sarah is hardly alone in her grief. Her father, a retiree, tries to distract her with gadgets from the QVC home shopping channel. Sarah's best friend offers life advice by venting details of her own messy divorce. Even Cully's father reemerges, stirring more emotions and confusion than Sarah needs. Still, Sarah feels she is facing the stages of grief - the anger, the sadness, the letting go - alone. Barely ready to face the fact she will never again hear the swoosh of her son's ski pants, or watch him skateboard past her window, Sarah is surprised when a strange girl arrives on her doorstep. Unexpected and unexplained, she bears a secret from Cully that could change all of their lives forever. Kaui Hart Hemmings highlights the subtle poignancies of grief and relationships in this stunning look at people faced with impossible choices in the wake of a tragedy. With the unsentimental and refreshingly wry style famous for presenting trouble in paradise in The Descendants, Hemmings in The Possibilities considers the difficult questions of what we risk to keep our loved ones close.
The Visionist
By Urquhart, Rachel
When 15-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father, she and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called the City of Hope. It is the Era of Manifestations, when young Shaker girls all across the Northeast are experiencing mystical visions. The City of Hope had not yet been blessed with a Visionist ? but that changes when Polly arrives and is unexpectedly exalted. This Peer Pick title was selected by Abbey Stroop, the Reader?s Advisory Library and Fiction, Express and Large Print buyer at Herrick District Library in Holland, Michigan.
Mr. Mercedes
By King, Stephen
In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, backs up, and charges again. Eight are killed fifteen wounded. The killer escapes. Months later, retired cop Bill Hodges gets a letter threatening an even more diabolical attack, and is hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.,
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
By Horan, Nancy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHFrom Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium - with her three children and nanny in tow - to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can recuperate.
What Alice Forgot
By Moriarty, Liane
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, THE HUSBAND S SECRET...SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADAA cheerfully engaging * novel for anyone who s ever asked herself, How did I get here? Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over she s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes.
By Its Cover
By Leon, Donna
A New York Times Bestselling Author One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, it?s clear the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem the man fled the library earlier that day, and when they check his credentials, the American professor doesn?t exist.,