Summer Reading

Welcome to Summer Reading 2011!  At the end of 9 weeks we had 368 people signed up. This week, 4 new people participated and 32 people read 125 books, which brings the totals for the summer to 170 people and 1287 books.

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Naked Heat By Castle, Richard 2010-09 - Hyperion Books 9781401324025 Check Our Catalog In the thrilling sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller "Heat Wave," Richard Castle--from the hit ABC show "Castle"--continues the story of NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat. Readers will once again follow Nikki and hotshot reporter Jameson Rook as they trade barbs and innuendos, all while on the trail of a murderer. …More

Justify My Thug By Clark, Wahida 2011-04 - Cash Money 9781451617092 Check Our Catalog Tasha and Trae try to overcome their troubles and make their marriage work. Meanwhile, Jaz is facing drama of her own. In the torrid world of sex, drugs, and crime, author Clark continues her definitive hip-hop soap opera that fans have come to love. HPL patron: Loved it.  She's one of my favorite authors.  …More

The House on Salt Hay Road By Clevidence, Carin 2010-05 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374173142 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Suffused with a haunting sense of place--salt marshes in the summer, ice boats on the frozen Great South Bay, Fire Island at the height of a storm--this vivid and emotionally resonant debut captures the golden light of a vanished time, and the hold that home has. …More

Port Mortuary By Cornwell, Patricia D. 2010-11 - Putnam Adult 9780399157219 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title From the world's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. In "Port Mortuary," Cornwell brings Scarpetta together with Marino, Benton, and Lucy in an intimate way that is reminiscent of the early novels. …More

Blue Gold By Cussler, Clive With Kemprecos, Paul 2000-08 - Pocket Books 9780671785468 Check Our Catalog Earth is a paradox--a fertile world three-quarters covered with water, yet in danger of running dry. Overuse and pollution have drained most of its fresh water, and scientist Francesca Carval's brilliant formula for desalination has vanished with her plane over South America. But when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across a pod of dead whales, their investigation takes them to the Venezuelan jungle where a cadre is bent on controlling the world's supply of fresh water. …More

The Playboy's Proposition By Daniels, Angie 2008-02 - Kimani Press 9780373860531 Check Our Catalog Sheyna Simmons and her sexy boss Jace Beaumont have a long history of competition. Despite their mutual attraction, Sheyna refuses to fall for the playboy. But after Jace wins a trip with Sheyna at a bachelorette auction, the competitions not over--until he loses his heart. Original. …More

The Player's Proposal By Daniels, Angie 2008-11 - Kimani Press 9780373860906 Check Our Catalog Danica Danforth's sizzling affair with Jaden Beaumont had left her feeling foolish. Then fate reunites them when her car breaks down, stranding her in Jaden's body shop. Now Jaden is determined to find out why Danica left him, and just what game she's playing. Original. …More

A Maiden's Grave By Deaver, Jeffery 1996-10 - Signet Book 9780451188489 Check Our Catalog On a lonely highway in Kansas, eight young deaf girls and their teachers are taken hostage by three escaped killers. Pitted against them is the FBI's chief negotiator, a veteran of hundreds of such encounters. But somehow, he feels, this one may be different. …More

Sleeping Doll By Deaver, Jeffery 2009-06 - Simon & Schuster 9781439166413 Check Our Catalog Deaver is back with a dark and multilayered psychological thriller about a vicious killers escape from a California super-prison and the mysterious and deadly quest he embarks on once hes free. …More

Finger Lickin' Fifteen By Evanovich, Janet 2009-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312383282 Check Our Catalog From #1 bestselling author Evanovich comes the next book in her Stephanie Plum series, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten. HPL patron: Stephanie Plum is back to work as bail bond skip tracer in Trenton.  She trades time to work for Ranger, trying to help him find out who is by-passing alarms in his security firms clients.  Enjoy the exploits of Stephanie, her grandmother, Masur and others in her circle of friends, family, andthose in her love life. HPL patron: Laugh out loud fun and an exciting action-packed story line.  Great book! …More

Motor Mouth By Evanovich, Janet 2006-10 - HarperCollins Publishers 9780060584030 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title Alexandra Barnaby, known as Barney; her boyfriend, a NASCAR driver; and his St. Bernard inadvertently become involved in a murder investigation as they investigate a possible cheating scandal. …More

Plum Lucky By Evanovich, Janet 2008-01 - St. Martin's Press 9780312377632 Check Our Catalog Stephanie Plum is back and she's looking to get lucky in an Atlantic City hotel room, in a Winnebago, and with a brown-eyed stud who has stolen her heart. However, Diesel shows up and turns Stephanie's world upside-down. Martin's Press. …More

Plum Spooky By Evanovich, Janet 2009-01 - St. Martin's Press 9780312383329 Check Our Catalog Stephanie Plum is back in town, along with her sidekick Lula, her Grandma Mazur, and an ever-widening cast of freaks, criminals, deranged felons, and lunatics looking for love. And just when she thinks her life can't get any more complicated, in walks the mysterious Diesel. …More

Visions of Sugar Plums By Evanovich, Janet 2002-11 - St. Martin's Press 9780312306328 Check Our Catalog From the bestselling author of "Seven Up" and "Hard Eight" comes the perfect holiday gift. It's December in Jersey, and Stephanie Plum has bigger problems than the usual thugs, thieves, and hoodlums. HPL patron: Good to catch  up how Desel came into her life.  Funny stuff as usual. …More

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

Devil May Care By Faulks, Sebastian Author Fleming, Ian 2008-05 - Doubleday Books 9780385524285 Check Our Catalog James Bond is back. By invitation of the Fleming estate to mark the centenary of the Bond creator's birth, acclaimed novelist Faulks picks up where Fleming left off, writing a tour de force to electrify Bond fans everywhere. HPL patron: Bond is back!  Now he teams up with Scarlet to rescue her sister from a diabolical madman bent on destroying England and the rest of the Western World. …More

Protect and Defend By Flynn, Vince 2007-10 - Atria Books 9780743270410 Check Our Catalog In Flynn's most explosive thriller yet--a #1 "New York Times" bestseller--CIA operative Mitch Rapp returns and finds himself on a collision course with America's most feared enemy. Now available in a tall Premium Edition. HPL patron: Full of political intrique and twists of plot.  This time, Mitch  Rabb isout to prove that the US was not the force behind the destruction of an enemies nuclear facility. …More

Thirteen Moons By Frazier, Charles 2006-10 - Random House (NY) 9780375509322 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by the author of Cold Mountain, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man's passion for a woman, and how loss, longing, and love can shape a man's destiny over the many moons of a life. …More

For the Sake of Elena By George, Elizabeth A. 1992-09 - Thorndike Press 9781560544456 Check Our Catalog Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge--where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College--her father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve--until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, bludgeoned her to death. Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide murderous intentions. For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive. Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena and on those people who appeared to know her best--from an unsavory Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the Deaf Students Union. What's more, Elena's father, a Cambridge professor under consideration for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind to her blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal. …More

Rivals for the Crown By Givens, Kathleen 2007-07 - Pocket Books 9781416509929 Check Our Catalog Award-winning author Givens brings to life the passion, tumult, and political treachery of 14th-century Scotland, after a dynastic feud for the crown explodes into a war for Scottish independence. …More

Good Housekeeping Family Vegetarian Cooking: 225 Recipes Everyone Will Love By Good Housekeeping 2010-06 - Hearst Books 9781588167927 Check Our Catalog A vegetarian cookbook everyone in the family can love!From the most trusted name in America comes an all-purpose vegetarian cookbook for families looking to change their diet, in need of midweek meatless alternatives, or dealing with the demands of one vegetarian in the household. There's hearty fare for breakfast and brunch (so no one will miss the bacon and sausage!); a chapter stuffed with tasty cold-cut-free wraps and sandwiches; and a wealth of dinner choices from soups and stews to chilis, stir-fries, sautes, casseroles and more. A special bonus: The last chapter is especially tailored to families with one vegetarian member in the midst of meat eaters; these recipes yield both meatless and meat-filled portions with little extra fuss.Chock-full of fresh vegetable goodness, these 225 dishes are guaranteed to satisfy vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. …More

Deadly Night By Graham, Heather 2008-10 - Gale Cengage 9781410408921 Check Our Catalog Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the rumors the New Orleans plantation his family has inherited is haunted. After he finds a human bone on the grounds, Aidan is joined by the tarot card reader Kendall Montgomery to uncover the truth. Original. …More

Dying to Have Her By Graham, Heather 2001-03 - Onyx Books 9780451409881 Check Our Catalog Soap opera diva Serena McCormack's road to success takes a deadly turn when a co-star is murdered--and the clues point to Serena as the intended victim. When P.I. Liam Murphy is hired to protect her, Serena can't deny the attraction. But as ratings soar, so do the threats on Serena's life. …More