Summer Reading

Welcome to Summer Reading 2011! At the end of 5 weeks we had 355 people signed up. This week, 11 new people participated and 48 people read 150 books, which brings the totals for the summer to 138 people and 655 books.

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Don't Cry Now Don't Cry Now By Fielding, Joy 1996-03 - Avon Books 9780380711536 Check Our Catalog The bestselling author of Tell Me No Secrets once again unfurls her extraordinary talent to keep readers turning the pages--with the lights on and the doors bolted--in a domestic thriller in which terror and devotion spar for a place in a mother's heart. "Fielding handles her material with finesse".-- Publishers Weekly. …More

Kiss Mommy Goodbye By Fielding, Joy 1982-06 - Signet Book 9780451155061 Check Our Catalog …More

Missing Pieces Flr By Fielding, J. Ed. Author Fielding, Joy 1997-07 - Doubleday Books 9780385489157 Check Our Catalog …More

Tell Me No Secrets Tell Me No Secrets By Fielding, Joy 1994-03 - Avon Books 9780380721221 Check Our Catalog A gripping new novel from the bestselling author of See Jane Run. Still haunted by the inexplicable disappearance of her mother eight years ago, a no-nonsense prosecutor loses control of her life when her client vanishes into thin air, death threats arrive in the mail, and a killer begins to stalk her every move. …More

Whispers and Lies By Fielding, Joy 2002-08 - Atria Books 9780743446259 Check Our Catalog Set in lush Delray, Florida, Fielding's newest novel tells the story of a single, middle-aged woman living contentedly in her house near the beach until the day a mysterious young woman moves in the cottage behind her. Suddenly, her otherwise peaceful existence is changed forever. …More

Alone By Gardner, Lisa 2005-12 - Bantam Books 9780553584530 Check Our Catalog Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man's finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences. Alone . . . that's where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son's death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. Alone . . . a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he'd done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous . . . and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence--but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who's woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone. "From the Hardcover edition. HPL patron: Great Book! If you're gonna read it though read "Hide" also from Lisa Gardner after! …More

Hide By Gardner, Lisa 2007-01 - Bantam Books 9780553804324 Check Our Catalog Ex-sniper Bobby Dodge, from Gardner's "New York Times" bestseller "Alone," returns in this thriller about a woman who is thrust into the center of a 20-year-old crime with terrifying repercussions. HPL patron: Great book! Kept me guessing up to the end! …More

Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and Mix-And-Match Dressings By Goldstein, Joyce Photographer Baranowski, Andre Essay by Goldstein, Evan 2008-05 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393065008 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title A treasure trove of salad meals and mix-and-match dressings, "Mediterranean Fresh" features 140 of these delicious, healthful, easy-to-prepare dishes for a sensuous and satisfying meal. 34 color photographs. HPL patron: Absolutely didn't like this book. Would not recommend this to anyone and would not buy it. …More

Living in God's Love: The New York Crusade By Graham, Billy 2005-08 - Putnam Publishing Group 9780399153464 Check Our Catalog This essential new book will contain all three life-transforming sermons from Billy Graham's historic New York Crusade of June 24-26, 2005. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, it will also feature an original introduction and afterword written by the Reverend Graham exclusively for this book. HPL patron: Enlightening, spiritual, edifying, uplifting. 3 glorious days of a revival in New York City (Sin City) magnificant word of God was preached, many were saved (accepted Christ.) Lives were changed. …More

Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant By Grant, Jennifer 2011-05 - Alfred A. Knopf 9780307267108 Check Our Catalog The daughter of Cary Grant--who was 63 when she was born--writes of her enchanted but very real life with her father, playing, laughing, dining, and dancing together, including a look at his work, his travels, his friendships with old Hollywood royalty," and the lessons he taught her. …More

Madman By Groot, Tracy 2008-04 - Thorndike Press 9781410404299 Check Our Catalog IF THERE IS A WAY INTO MADNESS, LOGIC SAYS THERE IS A WAY OUT. LOGIC SAYS. Tallis, a philosopher's servant, is sent to a Greek academy in Palestine only to discover that it has silently disappeared. No one will tell him what happened, but he learns what has become of four or its scholars. One was murdered. One committed suicide. One now worships in the temple of Dionysus. And one...one is a madman. From novelist Tracy Groot comes the story of the Gerasene demoniac, a tale of mystery, horror, and hope in the midst of unimaginable darkness. TRACY GROOT is a novelist and playwright. In a starred review, Booklist called her first novel, The Borther's Keeper, "lyrical and affecting." Mad mad is Tracy's third novel and will be available April 1, 2006. HPL patron: Historical fiction-the story of the Demoniac in the Bible-Jesus cast out the demons into a herd of pigs and the man recovered. …More

Water for Elephants By Gruen, Sara 2006-05 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 9781565124998 Check Our Catalog Alex Award Winner - 2008 BookPage Notable Title A veterinary student during the Great Depression who almost earned his degree, Jacob Jankowski is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. There he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. …More

Blood Noir By Hamilton, Laurell K. 2008-06 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425222195 Check Our Catalog Doing a favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blake's werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a full-blown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean-Claude's reign--and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power. …More

Bullet By Hamilton, Laurell K. 2010-06 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425234334 Check Our Catalog The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman has made Jean-Claude one of the most powerful vampires in the U.S. He's consolidating power in himself and those loyal to him, doing in America what Belle Morte did in Europe. Jean-Claude's motives may be kinder, but as any lawyer will say: motives matter, but you're just as dead. …More

Flirt By Hamilton, Laurell K. 2010-02 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425235676 Check Our Catalog Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington and learns that he is willing to pay top dollar to have his recently deceased wife reanimated. But Anita knows that the creature that Anita could coerce out of the grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really . . . and not for long. …More

Skin Trade By Hamilton, Laurell K. 2009-06 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425227725 Check Our Catalog When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thinks, in the latest work in the bestselling Vampire Hunter series. …More

Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me: By Chelsea's Family, Friends and Other Victims By Handler, Chelsea 2011-05 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446584715 Check Our Catalog Friends, family, and co-workers who have all been tricked by Handler into believing stories of total foolishness and into behaving like total fools write about them for the first time. HPL patron: Chelsea Handler is sneaky and a good liar, but she is good to her friends-if you can stand the taunting, teasing, and tricks. Entertaining read, especially if you are a fan of her show, Chelsea Lately. …More

Magic Hour By Hannah, Kristin 2006-02 - Random House Large Print Publishing 9780739326053 Check Our Catalog Forced to give up her California practice, Julia Cates, fears she will never again do the work that truly makes her happy: healing hearts of troubled young children. But then a young mute girl is found abandoned and scaredin Rain Valley. If Julia's prestigious skills were ever desperately needed, this was the time. She calls the enchanting young girl, Alice. Through their work together, they establish a tender trusting bond. When Dr. Max Cerasin bcomes involved in Alice's case, Julia is drawn to the handsome, talented physician yet wary of his mysterious past. When Alice's hopeful future is threatened, they must fight for the young girl who taught them to trust. HPL patron: This is my second book reading of Kristen Hannah and I can't wait to start another. I read a lot of books but I love the way she writes. …More

Missy By Hannan, Chris 2008-09 - Wheeler Publishing 9781597228343 Check Our Catalog This wildly entertaining first novel from Scottish playwright Hannan takes place in the down-and-dirty Wild West and features 19-year-old Dol McQueen as an unlikely heroine--an intelligent, strong-willed hooker with a weakness for liquid opium, or "missy." HPL patron: A great book. Fille with brilliantly voice, wonderfully evocotive, the author evokes the rough, ready period in blistering detail, creates a vivid gallery of misfits, eccentrics. …More

True Colors By Hannah, Kristin 2009-02 - St. Martin's Press 9780312364106 Check Our Catalog In her most provocative, compelling, and heartwrenching novel yet, "New York Times"-bestselling author Hannah tells of three sisters whose once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, passion, and betrayal. HPL patron: This is my third book by this author. I am enjoying her books. …More

Every Which Way But Dead By Harrison, Kim 2008-09 - Eos 9780061567322 Check Our Catalog There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice. Between "runs," she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor. Rachel must also take a stand in the war that's raging in the city's underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpin--and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation. And now her dark "master" is coming to collect his due. …More

A Fistful of Charms By Harrison, Kim 2008-11 - Eos 9780060892982 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Every Which Way But Dead" returns to the spellbinding world of the Hollows with this latest supernatural adventure featuring bounty hunter/witch Rachel Morgan. Original. …More

For a Few Demons More By Harrison, Kim 2007-03 - Eos 9780060788384 Check Our Catalog The author of the sexy Hollows series returns with a new supernatural adventure--a "New York Times" instant bestseller in hardcover--featuring the bewitching bounty hunter, Rachel Morgan. A fiendish serial killer is terrorizing the Hollows, and a mysterious relic in Rachels possession may be the key to stopping him. Includes a brand-new, original short story. …More