The large print collection is expanding with new and exciting book selections.

Black Woods, Blue Sky, by Eowyn Ivey, is the tale of single mom Birdie who is doing her best to get by in a tough Alaskan town. She waits tables at the roadside lodge often with her daughter Emaleen in toe. To ease the pressure of single parenthood Birdie sometimes drinks, maybe a little more than she should, but also she dreams of happier times. AS Birdie grows close to soft-spoken recluse Arthur Neilsen, who most people avoid, she finds herself falling for the woodsman and the land he knows so well. Soon Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains, on the far side of the Wolverine River. At first this isolated off-grid backwoods life is the idyllic adventure, but Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have ever imagined.

The Bright Sword, by Lev Grossman, what is a gifted young knight to do when he arrives at the gate of Camelot too late to meet his heroes? Collum travels to Camelot to compete for a place at the Round Table, only to find that King Arthur died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann. Only a handful of oddball Knights of the Round Table are left, like Sir Palomides, the Saracen Knight and Sir Dagonet, Arthur’s fool, who was knighted as a joke. The task of rebuilding Camelot is left up to a dysfunctional set of a characters. Can this group of misfits rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost it’s balance and restore glory to Arthur’s England or will it fade into the books of history?

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins, introduces not only North Carolina’s richest woman, but also its most notorious. Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore was the victim of a famous kidnapping as a child, a four time widower, and ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, refuses to take claim his inheritance and instead marries and settles into a normal life in Colorado. A decade later, Cam and his wife Jules are pulled back into the family dynamic when his uncle dies. The couple returns to Ashby House where more questions arise about the infamous heiress. Was there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? Soon, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will–and that the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.

The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear is a part of the award winning Maisie Dobbs series and is set in 1945 London. Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs is sent check on the vacant mansion on the behalf the owners who fled during heavy Luftwaffe bombing. At the home, Maisie finds four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history take shelter and a demobilized soldier. Maisie’s quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true.

By Corey Wiseman

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