Summer Reading

Welcome to Summer Reading 2011! At the end of 3 weeks we had 311 people signed up. This week, 23 new people participated, 45 people read 102 books, which brings the totals for the summer to 330 books and 102 readers.

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The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel By McCall Smith, Alexander 2011-03 - Pantheon Books 9780307378392 Check Our Catalog One of Phuti Radiphuti's apprentices has gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi to help the couple work things out. In other developments, Mma Ramotswe investigates a case of rural jealousy in which cattle are being poisoned, in this 12th installment of the beloved, bestselling series. HPL patron: I have never read anything by this author. I like detective novels. This was uninteresting to me just not my cup of tea, I guess. …More

Wake By McMann, Lisa 2008-03 - Simon Pulse 9781416953579 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title For 17-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche--she is a participant.Simon Pulse …More

The Marshal's Own Case By Nabb, Magdalen 2008-09 - Soho Crime 9781569475317 Check Our Catalog " The lore and mystique of male transvestite lifestyles in Florence. . . . The marshal takes the case that no one wants, a situation underscoring the novel's theme of unloved and troubled children."-"Publishers Weekly" "Among the genre's most appealing cops."-"Booklist" "Surpasses the best of Simenon."-"Kirkus Reviews" The marshal must leave his snug world at the Pitti Palace to seek a criminal in the shadowy haunts of prostitutes, pimps, and tricks. No one believes that he can navigate in this milieu, much less identify a killer, but once again he confounds their expectations. …More

American Pilgrimage: Eleven Sacred Journeys and Spiritual Destinations By Riess, Jana Author Ogilbee, Mark 2006-06 - Paraclete Press (MA) 9781557254474 Check Our Catalog Readers will discover everything from a traditional walking pilgrimage to a small adobe chapel in Chimayo, New Mexico, to the prayers offered at the Shrine of St. Jude in Chicago, to the jam-packed football stadiums at a Billy Graham Crusade in this text which explores American places of spiritual meaning and purpose. …More

Cold Pursuit By Parker, T. Jefferson 2003-04 - Hyperion Books 9780786868056 Check Our Catalog When homicide cop Tom McMichael looks into the murder of an 84-year-old city patriarch named Pete Braga, the investigation soon expands to include Braga's business, family, the Catholic diocese, and the bad blood between the Braga clan and Tom's family. HPL patron: Tom Michaels is off to investigate the murder of Pete Braga, the man whose father is thought to have killed Tom's grandfather years before and whose son Tom's own father severly beat and brain injured years later. Will these relationships get in the way of an impoartial investigation or obscure justice? …More

7th Heaven By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2008-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316017701 Check Our Catalog As fire after fire consumes couples in expensive neighborhoods, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Womens Murder Club race to find the arsonists responsible, in a thriller with unexpected twists and emotional extremes of the kind only Patterson can deliver. HPL patron: Haven't read the series in years. It was fun to pick it up again. …More

10th Anniversary By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2011-05 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036269 Check Our Catalog Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. …More

Alex Cross's Trial By Patterson, James Author DiLallo, Richard 2009-08 - Little Brown and Company 9780316070621 Check Our Catalog Detective Alex Cross tells an ancestor's story, in this astonishing account of one man's bold pursuit of justice in the face of racism and violence. Unlike any story Patterson has ever told before, "Alex Cross's Trial" still offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel to date. …More

Don't Blink By Patterson, James Author Roughan, Howard 2010-09 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036238 Check Our Catalog While conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy, reporter Nick Daniels accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. HPL patron: How is a murder in a NY steakhouse related to other crimes. Follow investigative reporter Nick Daniels who investigates in depth rather than accepting "facts" at face value. …More

Maximum Ride By Patterson, James 2005-04 - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 9780759514188 Check Our Catalog Patterson's explosive debut in the young adult market. From Death Valley, California, to the bowels of the NYC subway system, 14-year-old Max leads her five feisty "family" members on a journey of action, adventure, and soul-seeking. HPL patron: Awesome. Good book for 10yrs and up. As a mom I enjoyed it tremendously and so did my 11 year old. …More

School's Out-Forever By Patterson, James 2007-03 - Warner Vision 9780446618892 Check Our Catalog This action-packed sequel in the "New York Times" bestselling Maximum Ride series features adventure, fighting, backstabbing--and love. HPL patron: Recommend series to all reader all ages. …More

Listen to the Dead By Peffer, Randall 2010-08 - Tyrus Books 9781935562191 Check Our Catalog Latina detective investigates cold case and hot romance. …More

The Hidden By Pronzini, Bill 2010-11 - Walker & Company 9780802718006 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title A series of murders along a 50-mile stretch of the rugged northern California coast is being committed by an unknown dubbed the Coastline Killer. Two couples are soon caught in a night of unrelenting terror, in Pronzini's chilling, twist-filled tale. …More

Indulgence in Death By Robb, J. D. 2010-11 - G. P. Putnam's Sons 9780399156878 Check Our Catalog First a limo driver is shot through the neck with a crossbow. Then a high-priced escort is found stabbed through the heart with a bayonet. Random hits, thrill kills, murderers with a taste for the finer things in life--and death--are making NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas angry. And an angry Eve can be just as an efficient and dangerous predator as the killer. …More

Strangers in Death By Robb, J. D. 2008-08 - Large Print Press 9781594132803 Check Our Catalog The new novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling series. New York may be a different place in 2060, but some events still receive more attention than others--especially those that involve the murder of a prominent businessman. HPL patron: Futuristic "who done it"-clever building of how and putting the clues together- a truly despicable murderess from high society-doesn't get away with it. …More

Blood Brothers By Roberts, Nora 2007-12 - Large Print Press 9781594132261 Check Our Catalog In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys--Caleb, Fox, and Gage--went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men--and the women who love them. …More

The Hollow By Roberts, Nora 2008-05 - Jove Books 9780515144598 Check Our Catalog The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Blood Brothers" continues the thrilling trilogy of a town plagued by evil--and the three men and three women brought together by fate to fight it. Original. …More

Key of Knowledge By Roberts, Nora 2003-11 - Jove Books 9780515136371 Check Our Catalog In the second novel of her thrilling Key trilogy, Roberts introduces Dana, whose passion for books puts her on the quest for the Key of Knowledge. Will her search lead her to find the truth hidden among deception and lies--or succumb to her worst nightmare? Original. …More

Savor the Moment By Roberts, Nora 2010-04 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425233689 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Wedding cake baker Laurel McBane appreciates a strong, intelligent man--a man just like Parker's older brother, Delaney. But Del is out of her reach and too protective of Laurel to ever cross the line with her, or so she thinks. After a mind-blowing kiss, Laurel will have to quiet the doubts in her mind to turn a moment of passion into forever. HPL patron: Saccarine sweet-fluff-working girl and rich boy-interesting if you're a wedding planner or cake designer. …More

Eater of Souls By Robinson, Lynda S. 1997-02 - Walker & Company 9780802732941 Check Our Catalog How did Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten, die? Lord Meren, the Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh, is certain the queen was murdered, and that the hand responsible belongs to a member of the royal court - a person who is still close to the presence of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Meren's questions threaten far too many people of power and bring the possibilities of vengeance and death to his very doorstep, placing the lives of his daughters and son in peril. Priests, courtiers, and others would like nothing more than to see Meren fall...and it appears that the gods, too, are toying with him as the royal city of Memphis is terrorized by a series of horrific slayings committed by the Devourer, the eater of souls, one of the most fearsome of the gods in the Egyptian pantheon. …More

Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing By Robinson, Lynda S. 2005-01 - Ballantine Books 9780345482921 Check Our Catalog "DELICIOUS . . . Robinson makes history live and breathe again." *The New York Times Book Review The small group gathered at Lord Meren's country house to celebrate his homecoming is soon to become yet smaller. Beautiful Anhai, Meren's cousin-in-law, falls victim to murder--an act of violence as inscrutable as the sphinx. True, she had myriad lovers and a scorpion tongue, but why was her body arranged so meticulously, as if for sleep? The most dreadful possibility is that the crime has to do with Lord Meren's awesome undercover mission for the pharaoh, for which his feast of rejoicing is in part a cover. This mission cannot, must not, fail. Ruthlessly stripping bare the deepest secrets of the nest of cobras who are his nearest relatives, Meren finds the thread that leads to the truth and the unmasking of a shocking crime in the court of the living god. . . . "As Robinson deftly juggles ancient Egyptian political intrigue and a riveting mystery, she proves again her mastery of the historical whodunit." *Publishers Weekly (starred review) "From the Paperback edition." …More

Dead Heat By Rosenberg, Joel C. 2008-08 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781414311623 Check Our Catalog The stage is set for war. *Oil prices are surging to record highs. * A new dictator is rising in Iraq. * China is threatening Taiwan * North Korean forces are ready to strike south. * Israel is feverishly trying to complete the Third Temple. And in the midst of a world ready to implode, American president James MacPherson's second term is ending. The battle to succeed him is heating up into the most fiercely contested presidential election in American history. Who will lead a bitterly divided country over the next four years? And just what role-if any-does the U.S. play in the last days? As the presidential campaign narrows into a dead heat, the Secret Service learns of a catastrophic terrorist plot to assassinate one of the candidates-but which one? Whom do they want dead, and can the U.S. forces stop the terrorist before millions lose their lives? From "New York Times" best-selling novelist Joel C. Rosenberg comes an explosive new political thriller to be released amid the 2008 presidential campaign . . . and God forbid it should ever come true. …More

Dark of the Moon By Sandford, John 2007-10 - Putnam Publishing Group 9780399154775 Check Our Catalog When three murders occur in the small town of Bluestem, Virgil Flowers knows two things: they had not been a coincidence and it had to be personal. As an officer with the Minnesota Bureau of Apprehension, he doesn't realize just how personal, and he may not find out until its too late. HPL patron: A new twist by John Sandford. This time his main protagonist, Lucas Davenport, plays a minor supporting role in the investigation of a number of seemingly unrelated murders in a small Minnesota town. …More