HPL's New Books

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for: 2011 . To see new books from other years try: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006. To sign up for this, or any of our newsletters, check out our Newsletter sign up page. Ecstasy By Moore, Shavon 2009-06 - Triple Crown Publications 9780982099667 Check Our Catalog …More Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual By Rhoads, Loren 2009-09 - Scribner Book Company 9781439124666 Check Our Catalog Featuring stories culled from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity," this highly-original anthology includes true tales of the unsavory, unwise, unorthodox, and unusual. …More The Cold Commands By Morgan, Richard K. 2011-10 - Del Rey Books 9780345493064 Check Our Catalog Morgan continues the riveting saga of Ringil Eskiath--Gil, for short--a peerless warrior whose love for other men has made him an outcast and pariah. Only a select few have earned the right to call Gil friend. One is Egar, the Dragonbane, a fierce Majak fighter who comes to respect a heart as savage and loyal as his own. 576 pp. …More The Night Circus By Morgenstern, Erin 2011-09 - Doubleday Books 9780385534635 Check Our Catalog To enter the black-and-white-striped tents of Le Cirque des Reves is to enter a world where objects really do turn into birds and people really do disappear. Even though visitors believe the performances are all illusion, they are obsessively drawn to this extraordinary night circus. Those who run and perform in the circus are its lifeblood. Marco Alisdair runs the operation from London as assistant to the eccentric proprietor. Celia Bowen holds it all together from her role as illusionist. As magicians, Marco and Celia are bound to each other in a deadly competition of powers, creating ever more fantastical venues for circus goers to marvel at. But falling in love was never part of the game, and the players struggle to extricate themselves from this contest while keeping the circus afloat. …More The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares: Novellas and Stories of Unspeakable Dread By Oates, Joyce Carol Read by Williams, Christine Read by Verner, Adam 2011-11 - Mysterious Press-Highbridge Audio Classics 9781611746013 Check Our Catalog A chilling volume of stories and novellas by Joyce Carol Oates, one of the world's greatest and most prolific writers. …More Facing Justice By Oldham, Nick 2011-11 - Severn House Publishers 9780727880758 Check Our Catalog The thrilling new Detective Superintendent Henry Christie novel - When DS Henry Christie sets off on a short winter break with his old friend FBI agent Karl Donaldson, he expects a pleasant hike through the countryside followed by an overnight stop in a picturesque village. But the hike turns into a fight for survival in the worst snowstorm for thirty years. And things only get worse when they stumble, exhausted and injured, into the village pub, only to find themselves in the middle of a blood-soaked stand-off between gangsters with deadly scores to settle . . . …More The Buddha in the Attic By Otsuka, Julie 2011-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307700001 Check Our Catalog Otsuka delivers the long-awaited follow-up to "When the Emperor Was Divine"--a stunning tour de force that tells the story of a group of women brought from Japan to San Francisco in the 1900s as mail-order brides. …More Mercury's Rise By Parker, Ann 2011-11 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781590589618 Check Our Catalog In summer 1880, many come to the fast-rising health resort of Manitou, Colorado, at the foot of Pike's Peak to "chase the cure" for tuberculosis. …More Kill Alex Cross By Patterson, James 2011-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316198738 Check Our Catalog The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes--one that may alter the fate of the entire country. 384 pp. (General Fiction) …More Tick Tock By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2011-01 - Little Brown and Company 9780316037914 Check Our Catalog A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos and terrorizing everyone living there. Immediately, it becomes clear that these offenses are not the work of an amateur, but of a calculating, efficient, and deadly mastermind. All too soon, another appalling murder leads Detective Michael Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan. HPL patron: Awesome. James Patterson is a fantastic writer. HPL patron: Great author, lots of suspense, plus human interest. HPL patron: Not his best. Too much violence. …More Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories By Pearlman, Edith 2011-01 - Lookout Books 9780982338292 Check Our Catalog In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these 21 vintage selected stories and 13 scintillating new ones take us around the world, from Jerusalem to Central America, from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from central Europe to Manhattan, and from the Maine coast to Godolphin, Massachusetts, a fictional suburb of Boston. These charged locales, and the lives of the endlessly varied characters within them, are evoked with a tenderness and incisiveness found in only our most observant seers. …More Acceptable Loss By Perry, Anne 2011-08 - Ballantine Books 9780345510600 Check Our Catalog To a superlative degree, "Acceptable Loss" provides colorful characters, a memorable portrait of waterfront life, and a story that achieves its most thrilling moments in a transfixed London courtroom, where Monk faces his old friend Oliver Rathbone in a trial of nearly unbearable tension--in sum, every delectable drop of the rich pleasure that readers expect from an Anne Perry novel. …More The Neon Graveyard: The Final Sign of the Zodiac By Pettersson, Vicki 2011-05 - Harper Voyager 9780061456794 Check Our Catalog Once she was a soldier for the Light, the prophesied savior who would decide the outcome of the eternal conflict raging unseen in the dark corners of her glittering hometown. Now Joanna Archer is just another mortal--still born of an impossible union of Shadow and Light . . . still hunted by both--and carrying the unborn child of a lover held captive by a depraved demon goddess. Joining forces with a band of rogue Shadow agents, Joanna's ready to storm the stronghold of her demonic foe, risking everything to enter this ghastly, godforsaken realm where the price of admission is her eternal soul. Because in a world that has stripped her of her power, identity, and fortune, Joanna has nothing left to lose--except her baby, her future, and the epic war poised to consume the city. …More Mozart's Last Aria By Rees, Matt 2011-11 - Harper Perennial 9780062015860 Check Our Catalog …More New York to Dallas By Robb, J. D. 2011-09 - Putnam Adult 9780399157783 Check Our Catalog The new novel from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before. The number-one "New York Times"-bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name-and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood. When a monster named Isaac McQueen-taken down by Eve back in her uniform days-escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago. …More The Next Always: Book One of the Inn Boonsboro Trilogy By Roberts, Nora 2011-11 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425243213 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title "America's favorite writer" ("The New Yorker") begins a new trilogy inspired by the inn she owns and the town she loves. The historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett's social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer. But there's another project he's got his eye on: the girl he's been waiting to kiss since he was 15. …More The Nine Lives of Christmas By Roberts, Sheila 2011-10 - St. Martin's Press 9780312594497 Check Our Catalog Bestselling author Roberts delivers a humorous, heartwarming Christmas novel about a matchmaking cat who brings a couple together just in time for the holidays. When a guy is in trouble, he starts making deals with his Creator . . . and Ambrose the cat is no exception. 208 pp. 125,000 print. …More Shock Wave By Sandford, John 2011-10 - Putnam Adult 9780399157691 Check Our Catalog The thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author. The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site itself. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage-and they do. Who's behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's job to find out . . . before more people get killed. …More Return of the Cartier Cartel By Santiago, Nisa 2010-10 - Melodrama Publishing 9781934157305 Check Our Catalog Brooklyn empress Cartier knows the streets of Brooklyn like nobody's business. In fact, she successfully built her Cartier Cartel drug ring on the code of the streets, hustling and stacking paper. However, the life of crime is wearing her down, and she's ready to quit the game when two of her Cartel soldiers are gunned down in the same streets that fattened her bankroll. Now she's hell bent on seeking revenge for her friends, and she and her most loyal set out to solve the hood's whodunit. Along the way, tempers flare and love is tested as her prince steps out of line and sleeps with the enemy. Devastation reigns supreme in the streets of Brooklyn, while Cartier is constantly looking over her shoulder, wondering who will be the next to stab her in the back. …More Abuse of Power By Savage, Michael 2011-09 - St. Martin's Press 9780312651619 Check Our Catalog From a "New York Times"-bestselling author and controversial radio talk-show host comes this lightning-paced first thriller, spanning the globe from Europe and Israel to the back alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown, in which a reporter must make the choice between protecting his own life and investigating a terrorist cell whose goal is nothing less than total political control--no matter what the cost. …More Midsummer Crown By Sedley, Kate 2011-06 - Severn House Publishers 9780727880192 Check Our Catalog …More The Coldest Winter Ever By Sister Souljah 2005-09 - Washington Square Press 9780743270106 Check Our Catalog Now available in a trade paperback edition, Sister Souljah's debut novel about the daughter of a drug lord captures the allure and the danger of Brooklyn's streets. HPL patron: Good book. …More The Best of Me By Sparks, Nicholas 2011-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446547659 Check Our Catalog Sparks' latest is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined--and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of their mentor, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past. 288 pp. (General Fiction) …More