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The NLS annotation follows: Be frank with me DB84263 Johnson, Julia Claiborne Reading time: 9 hours, 45 minutes. Celeste Lawson A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Human Relations Alice Whitley works for a publisher who sends her to California to help reclusive author Mimi Banning […]

The NLS annotation follows: The professor: [a legal thriller] DB112583 Bailey, Robert Reading time: 10 hours, 44 minutes. Doug Tisdale Jr. Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Legal Fiction “Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between

Do not listen to your screen readers because if I hear anyone pronounce the city as Biloxi instead of using the native pronunciation of Biluxi, I’m liable to kick you out of the room. The NLS annotation follows: The boys from Biloxi DB110627 Grisham, John; Beck, Michael Reading time: 17 hours, 25 minutes. Michael Beck

The NLS annotation follows: One step too far: a novel DB106637 Gardner, Lisa Reading time: 10 hours, 38 minutes. Dolly Lewis Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Bestsellers On a bachelor party weekend, groom Timothy O’Day goes missing. Frankie Elkin volunteers to help with the last search for him. The rescue team is reluctant, but

The NLS annotation follows: Do no harm DB110281 Pobi, Robert Reading time: 12 hours, 1 minute. Will Damron Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories “Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of five adopted children, bestselling author, and ex-FBI agent—emphasis on ex. Severely wounded after being caught in an explosion, Page left the

The NLS annotation follows: Sleeping bear: a thriller DB108828 Sullivan, Connor Reading time: 13 hours, 46 minutes. Hillary Huber Suspense Fiction Spy Stories “After her young husband’s untimely death, Army veteran Cassie Gale decides to take a few days of solitude in the Alaskan wilderness before she starts her new job. But when she fails

The NLS annotation follows: Demon Copperhead DB110786 Kingsolver, Barbara; Thurston, Charlie Reading time: 21 hours, 6 minutes. Charlie Thurston General “Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks

The NLS annotation follows: Sweetshop of dreams DB107835 Colgan, Jenny Reading time: 12 hours, 53 minutes. Beverley A. Crick Human Relations Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian’s sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. But as Rosie gets

The NLS annotation follows: The Christmas train DB55045 Baldacci, David Reading time: 7 hours, 37 minutes. L. J. Ganser A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Humor Romance Bestsellers Holidays Journalist Tom Langdon takes a cross-country train from the East Coast to Los Angeles to spend

The NLS annotation follows: Later DB102648 King, Stephen Reading time: 6 hours, 34 minutes. Seth Numrich Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Supernatural and Horror Fiction Bestsellers An NYPD detective draws Jamie, a young boy born with the unnatural ability to communicate with the dead, into the pursuit of a killer. But the cost of

The NLS annotation follows: Before she disappeared DB102104 Gardner, Lisa Reading time: 10 hours, 3 minutes. Dolly Lewis Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Bestsellers Middle-aged recovering alcoholic Frankie Elkin searches for missing people the world has stopped looking for. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood where Haitian teenager Angelique Badeau

The NLS annotation follows: Nightwork DB108296 Roberts, Nora; Damron, Will Reading time: 16 hours, 25 minutes. Will Damron Romance “Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother’s head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed