Reading Recommendations:

Call Me Irresistible

, a novel, Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Lucy Jorik is the daughter of a former president of the United States.

Meg Koranda is the offspring of legends.

One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresistible, Ted Beandine, the favorite son of Wynette, Texas. The other is not happy about it and is determined to save her friend from a mess of headache.

But even though Meg knows that breaking up her best friend's wedding is the right thing to do, no one else seems to agree. Faster than Lucy can say "I don't," Meg becomes the most hated woman in town, a town she's stuck in with a dead car, an empty wallet, and a very angry bridegroom!

Broke, stranded, and without her famous parents at her back, Meg is sure she can survive on her own wits. What's the worse that can happen? Lose her heart to the one and only Mr. Irresistible? Not likely, not likely at all.

Call Me Irresistible

is the book Susan Elizabeth Phillips readers have long awaited. Ted, better known as "little Teddy," the nine year old heartbreak kid from Phillips first best-seller, Fancy Pants, and as "young Teddy" the hunky new college graduate in "Lady Be Good," is all grown up now, along with Lucy from First Lady and Meg from What I Did For Love. They're ready to take center stage in a saucy, funny, and highly addictive tale fans will love.

The Diviner's Tale

, a novel, Bradford Morrow

Walking a lonely forested valley on a spring morning in upstate New York, having been hired by a developer to dowse the land, Cassandra Brooks comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities to the site, the body has vanished, leaving in question Cassandra's credibility if not her sanity. The next day, on a return visit with the sheriff to have another look, a dazed, mute missing girl emerges from the woods, alive and eerily reminiscent of Cassandra's hanged girl.

What follows is the narrative of ever deepening and increasingly bizarre divinations that will lead this gifted, young woman, the struggling single mother of twin boys, hurtling toward a past she'd long since thought was behind her.

The Diviner's Tale

is at once a journey of self-discovery and an unorthodox murder mystery, a tale of the fantastic and a family chronicle told by an otherwise ordinary woman.

When Cassandra's dark forebodings takes on tangible form, she is forced to confront a life spiraling out of control. And soon she is locked in a mortal chess match with a real life killer who has haunted her since before she can remember.

Painted Ladies

, a Spencer novel, Robert B. Parker

Called upon by the Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange, money for a stolen painting.

The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and is unable to recover the valuable painting. Convinced that Ashton Prince played a bigger role than just ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat and mouse with the thieves. But this is a game where he might not come out alive.

Completed the year before the author passed away, Painted Ladies is Spenser and Robert B. Parker at their electrifying best.

And this one is in larger print than usual.

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