Just a few more of the large print books that the libray has received lately.
When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow. Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale’s hometown of Nags Head, North Carolina.
When Ivy inherits her family’s beachfront cottage upon her grandmother’s death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the best friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago.
But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons in the closet than just her own. Amid the cottage’s clutter are clues from hergrandmother’spastatthe enchantingseasideresorther family once owned.
One fateful summer in 1950, the arrival of a dazzling singer shook the staff and guests alike and not everyone made it to fall. As Ivy contends with broken relationships and a burgeoning romance in the present, the past threatens to sweep her away.
But as she uncovers the strength of her grandmother and the women who came before her, she realizes she is like the legendary shipwreck: the sands may shift around her, but she has found her home here by the sea.
The Brighter the Light by Mary Ellen Taylor is one woman’s journey to discover the hidden stories of her family’s seaside resort.
After three marriages and a lot of living, resilient Billie Slate knows exactly what trouble love can bring. Now she’s reinvented herself as the Heartbreak Bunny, an on-call performance artist who can heal anyone who’s been burned by that four-letter word, LOVE, by hopping aboutandwhiskingawaysad mementos from their past relationships.
Call it magic. Call it peculiar. But her bunny costume is as perfect as her breakup mantra: SNAP OUT OF IT.
As Billie’s business goes viral and skyrockets her to suddenfame,hercomfortable life turns surreal: her daughter’s marriage begins to fail, and Victor, aka Worst Husband Ever, wants not only to bond with the daughter he left but to win Billie back.
Only, he’s got competition: acharmingwidowermightbe falling in love with a woman who no longer believes in love.
As every romantic notion Billiehadpushedawaystarts pushing back, the Heartbreak Bunny must confront the possibility that, just maybe, love has some tricks left up its sleeve. Snap Out of It by Maddie Dawson is a funny, warmhearted novel about falling in love, falling apart, and pulling it all together again .
The ten Guilty Guns had ravaged the village of sleeping Cheyennes at dawn, and when the sun came up Little Dry Creek ran crimson with blood. A hundred Indians were cut down that morning. One lived, a toddler, but not for revenge.
Johnny Ormsby had been born an Indian and as an infant was the sole survivor of the massacre of his village. Raised by Tom Ormsby, now the sheriff, Johnny was accepted by the community, until someone started killing the men who had wiped out his tribe twenty years ago.
Then fear and long-buried hate turned the town against Johnny and his only hope was to find and expose the real killer. Johnny wanted only to forget, to make his peace with the white man so the hunt began, one man against a desperate and unknown killer. The Guilty Guns a vintage western by Lewis B. Patten.