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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

Worlds of Books to discuss Lightning strike: a novel DB105655 by William Kent Krueger. Be aware that this is the eighteenth book in the Cork O’Connor series but is a prequel describing Cork’s backstory and should not affect those who insist on reading series in published order. The NLS annotation follows: Lightning strike: a novel

The NLS annotation follows: What happened to the Bennetts DB107276 Scottoline, Lisa Reading time: 10 hours, 17 minutes. Edoardo Ballerini Suspense Fiction Psychological Fiction After Jason Bennett and his family have an encounter with carjackers with ties to a drug trafficking organization, the Bennetts are enrolled in the witness protection program. But their lives begin