Wednesday, October 6, 2010

HPL's New Books


Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for: 2010.  To see new books from other years try:  2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.
Treachery



Treachery
By Furth, Robin
Author David, Peter
Director King, Stephen
2009-04 - Marvel Comics
9780785135746 Check Our Catalog


Originally published in magazine form as Dark tower: treachery, #1-6. …More


Immanuel's Veins



Immanuel's Veins
By Dekker, Ted
2010-09 - Thomas Nelson Publishers
9781595540096 Check Our Catalog



This story is for everyone--but not everyone is for this story.
It is a dangerous tale of times past. A torrid love story full of deep seduction. A story of terrible longing and bold sacrifice.
Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what it should flee. Forgetting it once had a truer lover.
With a kiss, evil will ravage body, soul, and mind. Yet there remains hope, because the heart knows no bounds.
Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.
Because the battle for the heart is always violently opposed. For those desperate to drink deep from this fountain of life, enter.
But remember, not everyone is for this story. …More


Baby Doll



Baby Doll
By Divine G
2008-06 - Q-Boro Books
9781933967455 Check Our Catalog


During an after-school fight with jealous high school foes, Breana Baby Doll Winbush meets Big Daddy Blue, a reformed gangster, and discovers a whole new outlook on life. …More


Room



Room
By Donoghue, Emma
2010-09 - Little Brown and Company
9780316098335 Check Our Catalog


Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, "Room" is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another. …More


Dracula in Love





Dracula in Love
By Essex, Karen
2010-08 - Doubleday Books
9780385528917 Check Our Catalog


In this wonderfully transporting novel, award-winning author Essex turns a timeless classic inside-out, spinning a haunting, erotic, and suspenseful story of eternal love and possession. From the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast, Dracula's eternal muse, Mina Murray, vividly recounts the intimate details of what really transpired between her and the Count. …More


Roy & Lillie: A Love Story



Roy & Lillie: A Love Story
By Estleman, Loren D.
2010-08 - Forge
9780765322289 Check Our Catalog


Roy is Judge Roy Bean, the infamous, notorious real-life Justice of the Peace. Lillie is Lillie Langtry, the celebrated "Jersey Lily" of the British stage. They have never met, but they write letters to each other. This is their story. …More


Wicked Appetite



Wicked Appetite
By Evanovich, Janet
2010-09 - St. Martin's Press
9780312652913 Check Our Catalog


The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author is back with a brand-new series. Diesel, the man with unmentionable talents, leaves the world of Stephanie Plum for the North Shore of Boston, where he partners with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker to stop his criminal mastermind cousin, Gerewulf Grimorie, from intercepting a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins. …More


Dark Peril



Dark Peril
By Feehan, Christine
2010-08 - Berkley Publishing Group
9780425236598 Check Our Catalog


Dominic of the Dragonseeker Carpathians is on a desperate mission, in the very heart of enemy territory. Solange Sangria is one of the last jaguar people. She has long been fighting to save women who are able to shift from the hands of the man who slaughtered her family. They are two warriors who have lived their lives alone. Now, at the end of their time, they find each other, a complication neither saw coming. …More


Can't Wait to Get to Heaven





Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
By Flagg, Fannie
2007-06 - Ballantine Books
9780345494887 Check Our Catalog


Combining Southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? …More


Fall of Giants



Fall of Giants
By Follett, Ken
2010-09 - Dutton Books
9780525951650 Check Our Catalog


The first novel in The Century Trilogy follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. …More


Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet





Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
By Ford, Jamie
2009-10 - Ballantine Books
9780345505347 Check Our Catalog
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Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, the times and places are brought [stirringly] to life (Jim Tomlinson, author of "Things Kept, Things Left Behind"). …More


The Cobra



The Cobra
By Forsyth, Frederick
2010-08 - Putnam Adult
9780399156809 Check Our Catalog


A cutting-edge thriller from the "New York Times"-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense. Paul Devereaux ran Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked. The war against the drug cartels is on--though, who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell. …More


Bryant & May Off the Rails: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery





Bryant & May Off the Rails: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
By Fowler, Christopher
2010-09 - Bantam
9780553807202 Check Our Catalog


To catch the most ingenious killer they've ever faced, the beloved oddballs ("New York Times") of the Peculiar Crimes Unit must venture into the London Underground, where they all may end up six feet deep. …More


Crossfire



Crossfire
By Francis, Dick
Author Francis, Felix
2010-08 - Putnam Adult
9780399156816 Check Our Catalog


Shell-shocked and missing a foot, lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Captain Tom Forsyth uses his finely honed military skills to find the person blackmailing his estranged mother--the first lady of British racing--who is being forced to make her horses lose. …More


Freedom



Freedom
By Franzen, Jonathan
2010-08 - Farrar Straus Giroux
9780374158460 Check Our Catalog
An Oprah Book Club Selection
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From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections" comes a darkly comedic novel about family. Franzen's intensely realized characters struggle to learn how to live in an ever-confusing world--one with the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire. …More


Zero History



Zero History
By Gibson, William
2010-09 - Putnam Adult
9780399156823 Check Our Catalog


When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide, but in the post-crash economy, she's a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend, twisted genius of global marketing, but there's no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do with him. …More


The Widower's Tale





The Widower's Tale
By Glass, Julia
2010-09 - Pantheon Books
9780307377920 Check Our Catalog
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In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, 70-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but mostly solitary life until, in a complex scheme to help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn. The abrupt transformation of Percy's rural refuge into a lively, youthful community compels him to reexamine the choices he's made. …More


Death on the D-List



Death on the D-List
By Grace, Nancy
2010-08 - Hyperion Books
9781401323134 Check Our Catalog


The second Hailey Dean thriller by bestselling author, attorney, and TV personality Grace. Like the first novel, "The Eleventh Victim," this new installment is inspired by Grace's own life and experiences, and uncovers treachery, deception, and murder on the other side of the camera. …More


Ape House





Ape House
By Gruen, Sara
2010-09 - Spiegel & Grau
9780385523219 Check Our Catalog
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Gruen's "Water for Elephants" has become one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of our time. Now the author has moved from a circus elephant to a family of bonobo apes kidnapped from a language laboratory and their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show. (Literary Fiction) …More


The Laughing Corpse



The Laughing Corpse
By Hamilton, Laurell K.
2002-09 - Jove Books
9780515134445 Check Our Catalog


Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter for Animators, Inc., is offered a cool mil to raise a 283-year-old corpse. But she knows that "the older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it". Only a human sacrifice is "big" enough to raise this old soul--and Anita's no murderer. …More


The Evolutionary Void





The Evolutionary Void
By Hamilton, Peter F.
2010-08 - Del Rey Books
9780345496577 Check Our Catalog


In one of his most eagerly anticipated offerings, Hamilton brings his acclaimed Void trilogy to a stunning close. …More


Tinkers



Tinkers
By Harding, Paul
2009-01 - Bellevue Literary Press
9781934137192 Check Our Catalog
2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner

An astonishing first novel of memory, consciousness, and man's place in the natural world. …More


Groove





Groove
By Holliday, Geneva
2005-06 - Broadway Books
9780767921145 Check Our Catalog


Geneva Holliday's juicy novel brings a lighter touch to African American erotica, setting the sexual escapades amid the real-life folly and drama of four very different friends during one incredibly hot summer in New York City. This funny, sexy book has something for everyone! …More


Veil of Night





Veil of Night
By Howard, Linda
2010-08 - Ballantine Books
9780345506894 Check Our Catalog


A "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers another on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale of romantic suspense in her latest novel. There is nothing quite like a sexy and suspenseful story by the amazing Linda Howard!--"Romantic Times." …More


Bridger



Bridger
By Hunt, James Partrick
2010-08 - Five Star (ME)
9781594148613 Check Our Catalog


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