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22 Brittannia Road
by Amanda Hodgkinson.
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535 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
World War II has ended. Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England, to her husband, Janusz. But the war has changed them all. Silvana and Aurek spent the war hiding in Poland's forests. Aurek doesn't know how to sleep in a bed. Janusz is an Englishman now, determined to forget Poland and begin a new life as a proper English family. But for Silvana, forgetting is not a possibility.
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The affair : a Reacher novel
Lee Child.
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578 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover--to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish.
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The American heiress : a novel
by Daisy Goodwin.
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673 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
"Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. "For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness." --DAISY GOODWIN IN THE DAILY MAIL"-- Provided by publisher.
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Arguably : essays
by Christopher Hitchens.
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xxiv, 1201 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004,ARGUABLYoffers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for arthe enduring relevance of Karl Marx. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. In this fashion,ARGUABLYburnishes Christopher Hitchens' credentials as-to quote Christopher Buckley-our "greatest living essayist in the English language."
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The art of fielding : a novel
Chad Harbach.
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724 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
"At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended."--from publisher's description.
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The awakening
Kate Chopin.
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257 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her to all else.
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Before I go to sleep : a novel
S.J. Watson.
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500 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Without her husband's knowledge, Christine, whose memory is damaged by a long-ago accident, is treated by a neurologist who helps her to remember her former self through journal entries until inconsistencies begin to emerge, raising disturbing questions.
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The best of me
Nicholas Sparks.
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x, 496 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
This is the story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they have taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined, and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past.
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A bitter truth
Charles Todd.
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490 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help a bruised and battered woman return to her small village in Sussex
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Blood of the Reich : a novel
William Dietrich.
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652 p. ; 23 cm.
Decades after a team of Nazi SS officers and an American zoologist compete to locate a legendary energy source in the mountains of Tibet, modern-day software publicist Rominy Pickett searches for the truth about her family.
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Blue nights
Joan Didion.
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192 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.
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Burnt Mountain : a novel
Anne Rivers Siddons.
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409 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Every summer, Thayer Wentworth, the daughter of a wealthy Middletown, Georgia family, attended Camp Greyledge on Burnt Mountain. It was there were she learned the facets of love and heartbreak with a boy named Nick Abrams. Years later, she marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and moves a few miles away from her childhood camp, much to the disapproval of her family. However, when Aengus spends a lot of time at the camp, Thayer realizes her husband might not be the man she thought he was.
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