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New large print, donated by Brenda Whittaker:
"The Bookstore Diaries" by Susan Mallery in memory of Doris S. Whittaker. Jax has a slight issue with control — as in, she needs it. Always. Too bad she has power only over the Painted Lady Bookstore, the Victorian mansion turned bookshop she inherited. No one else listens to a word she says. Still, she's living the bookworm dream — until an unhappy accident erases the names from the bookshop lock boxes where the town keeps their diaries. Which means the only way to find a diary's owner is...to read it. As secrets spill and scandals surface, life at the Painted Lady Bookstore gets a lot more colorful and chaotic.
"Bloodlust" by Sandra Brown in memory of "Tish" Holmes Washburn Morris. Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a vicious act of retribution, and has attributed her murder to two men: Roland Malone and the unidentified mastermind of the crime known only as Oz. Obsessively vowing to avenge his late wife's murder, Mitch has been on a downward spiral, jeopardizing his closest relationships and drinking excessively. After going one step too far, Detective John Bowie, his former best friend and now his boss, has forced Mitch to get therapy. Dr. Dylan Reede is immediately empathetic to the pain she senses beneath Mitch's cavalier attitude. But from the moment Mitch breezes into her office, Dylan finds it a struggle to maintain the professional and personal boundaries that keep her own tragic past at a safe distance. As Mitch begins to close in on Oz and Malone's operation, they're prepared to stop him by any means necessary. When it's revealed that Dylan might hold the key to bringing them to justice, Mitch and Dylan's irresistible attraction to each other may not only compromise both of them professionally, but place them in Oz's bullseye.
New adult fiction:
"The Magic of Untamed Hearts" by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland. Like her sisters, Sage and Teal, Sky Flores has a touch of magic, and it's caused nothing but heartache. Not only did she disappear into the woods years ago and reappear with no rational explanation, she's also more comfortable talking to animals than to people. Different and misunderstood, Sky is shunned in the small town of Cranberry. Her neighbor, Adam Noemi, has his own problems. After being laid off from a prestigious newspaper, Adam, ever the ambitious reporter, needs a big headline to redeem his career. Enter Sky, a girl with a story that news outlets have been chasing for years. Sky agrees to grant Adam an exclusive interview, and as Sky shares her experiences with Adam, something much bigger than a simple agreement begins to grow between them.
"Sunward" by William Alexander. Captain Tova Lir chose a life as a courier rather than get involved in her family's political business. Encouraged by friends, Tova begins mentoring baby bots on her courier runs, juvenile AI, and trains them how to interact within society, essentially becoming their foster mom. Her latest charge, Agatha Panza von Sparkles, named herself on their first run from Luna to Phoebe station. But on their return, they encounter a derelict spaceship and a lurking assassin, igniting a thrilling chase across the solar system by forces who want her captured and her family erased.
"Helen of Nowhere" by Makenna Goodman. Taking place over the course of one day, Helen of Nowhere introduces an intimate cast: an unnamed man at the end of both his career and marriage, a young realtor showing him an idyllic house in the countryside, and Helen, the mystifying former owner whose spectral presence seems to imbue the house's every grain of wood. Through stories of the remarkable woman, the man is presented with an alternate way of life. But, as evening fades into black, the specifics of how to live it become more than what he bargained for.
"The Keeper" by Tana French. On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Arknakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she's dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn't simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, but his fiancee Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty's tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. When they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel's death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.
