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The NLS annotation follows: Extinction: a novel DB120861 Preston, Douglas J Reading time: 12 hours, 10 minutes. David Aaron Baker Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories “Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought bac...

The NLS annotation follows: Me before you DB76161 Moyes, Jojo Reading time: 12 hours, 58 minutes. Jill Fox A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Disability Bestsellers Romance Working-class English girl Louisa “Lou” Clark is hired as an aide to wealthy Will Traynor, a former mogul who has been paralyzed since a road...

The NLS annotation follows: Have you seen Luis Velez?: a novel DB96316 Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Reading time: 9 hours, 46 minutes. Read by Kurt Elftmann. General Psychological Fiction Teenager Raymond leads a lonely life, shuttling between the homes of his divorced parents. Millie, an elderly blind woman who lives in his mother’s building, asks him if he has seen the man who was her caretaker....

The NLS annotation follows: The good good pig: the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood DB63822 Montgomery, Sy. Reading time: 7 hours, 38 minutes. Read by Faith Potts. Animals and Wildlife Naturalist and author of Search for the Golden Moon Bear (RC 59135) writes of Christopher Hogwood, her seven-hundred-fifty-pound pet pig. Reminisces about Chris’s life from sickly runt to celebrity ho...

The NLS annotation follows: Identity DB114782 Roberts, Nora Reading time: 15 hours, 7 minutes. January LaVoy Suspense Fiction Bestsellers Romance “Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan’s job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their f...

The NLS annotation follows: If the creek don’t rise DB91901 Weiss, Leah Reading time: 9 hours, 32 minutes. Kate Forbes A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Historical Fiction Young Sadie Blue Tupkin was warned about marrying her husband Roy, but she’s illiterate and expecting a baby. The community provides her suppo...

The NLS annotation follows: The long flight home DB107428 Hlad, Alan Reading time: 10 hours, 12 minutes. Simon Vance Historical Fiction England, 1940. Susan Shepherd and her grandfather raise homing pigeons, which leads Susan to become involved in an assignment to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. She meets Ollie Evans, a Maine crop-duster pilot who travels to Britain...

The NLS annotation follows: They’re watching DB71566 Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew Reading time: 14 hours, 6 minutes. Scott Brick A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Suspense Fiction Screenwriter Patrick Davis gets fired from his first film, is sued by an actor, and has problems in his marriage. But when he begins receiving thre...

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 deliver her long-awaited second novel. While M...

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 McMurtrie and headstrong stud...

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 Suspense Fiction Friendship Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Family Legal F...

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 once they enter the woods where Tim disappeared, F...

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 FBI behind and put his f...

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 to show up on her first day and her dog is dis...

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 and copper-colored hair, a ca...

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 Lilian back on her feet, breathes a new life into the candy sh...

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 Christmas with his girlfriend. On the trip...

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 using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine....

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 vanished from...

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 to cancer, he left Chicago–but kept up...

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 DB105655 Krueger, William Kent Reading time: 11 hours, 39 minutes....

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 to fall apart as they try...

The NLS annotation follows: The maid: a novel DB106298 Prose, Nita; Ambrose, Lauren Reading time: 9 hours, 40 minutes. Lauren Ambrose Suspense Fiction Mystery and Detective Stories Bestsellers Twenty-five-year-old Molly Gray doesn’t interact well with the world and misses her gran who codified it for her. She has gotten a job as a hotel maid and revels in her orderly duties. When she discove...

The NLS annotation follows: The wife between us: a novel DB86959 Hendricks, Greer; Pekkanen, Sarah; Whelan, Julia Reading time: 11 hours, 15 minutes. Julia Whelan A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Suspense Fiction Psychological Fiction A tangled love triangle isn’t what it seems. An exploration of the complexities of m...

Please join us to discuss this 2022 Audiobook of the Year Audie award winner. The NLS annotation follows: Project Hail Mary DB103718 Weir, Andy; Porter, Ray Reading time: 16 hours, 12 minutes. Ray Porter Science Fiction Bestsellers Ryland Grace awakens on a spaceship far from Earth with no memory and two dead crewmates. As he begins to remember the details of his impossible mission to try to save...