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.

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Pearl in the Sand By Afshar, Tessa 2010-09 - Moody Publishers 9780802458810 Check Our Catalog Can a Canaanite harlot who has made her livelihood by looking desirable to men make a fitting wife for one of the leaders of Israel? Shockingly, the Bible's answer is yes. At the age of fifteen Rahab is forced into prostitution by her beloved father. In her years as a courtesan, she learns to mistrust men and hate herself. Into the emotional turmoil of her world walks Salmone, a respected leader of Judah. Through the tribulations of a stormy relationship, Rahab and Salmone learn the true source of one another's worth in God and find healing from fear and rejection. HPL patron: An emotionally stirring book. I was fascinated by the way Tessa made these Biblical characters come to life. The message of God's love and mercy was beautifully portrayed. HPL patron: The story of Rahab in the bible. It was great! …More

Northanger Abbey By Austen, Jane 2000-10 - Dover Publications 9780486414126 Check Our Catalog In this spirited, early 19th-century comedy of manners, Catherine Morland meets and falls in love with handsome Henry Tilney while on holiday in Bath. Thinking she is wealthy, his father invites her to be a guest of the family's country estate. …More

Pride and Prejudice By Austen, Jane 1995-04 - Dover Publications 9780486284736 Check Our Catalog Austen's comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18-century drawing-room intrigues. Reissue. …More

Other Girls By Ayres, Diane 2002-05 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758201119 Check Our Catalog In this impressive debut, Ayres transports readers to picturesque Willard College, a place for young women to pursue education, and where, amidst the brick and ivy of academia, an unlikely love triangle is about to turn three lives upside down. …More

Not Less Than Gods By Baker, Kage 2010-03 - Tor Books 9780765318916 Check Our Catalog The new Company novel from Baker, set in Steampunk England, tells the story of Edward Fairfax, a young man who grows into a kind of superman--and becomes the most dangerous man alive. …More

Rude Mechanicals By Baker, Kage Illustrator Potter, J. K. 2007-04 - Subterranean Press 9781596060876 Check Our Catalog An Original Company Short Novel, illustrated by J. K. Potter! …More

Zero Day By Baldacci, David 2011-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446573016 Check Our Catalog John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. 416 pp. (Espionage/Thriller) …More

Fear the Worst By Barclay, Linwood 2010-02 - Dell Publishing Company 9780553591750 Check Our Catalog An ordinary man's desperate search for his daughter leads him into a dark world of corruption, exploitation, and murder. An increasingly sly cautionary tale about modern life . . . the book's pace is nonstop.--"Booklist." …More

Never Look Away: A Thriller By Barclay, Linwood 2011-07 - Dell Publishing Company 9780553591743 Check Our Catalog A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a nightmare after an inexplicable disappearance. A frantic search only leads to an even more shocking and harrowing turn of events. Until this terrifying moment, David Harwood is just a small-town reporter in need of a break. Now the only thing he cares about is restoring his family. Desperate for any clue, David dives into his own investigation--and into a web of lies and deceit. For with every new piece of evidence he uncovers, David finds more questions--and moves ever closer to a shattering truth. …More

Too Close to Home: A Thriller By Barclay, Linwood 2009-07 - Bantam 9780553590432 Check Our Catalog From the author of "No Time for Goodbye" comes another page-turner that promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats until the stunning finale. …More

The Sense of an Ending By Barnes, Julian 2011-10 - Alfred A. Knopf 9780307957122 Check Our Catalog 2011 Man Booker Prize Winner By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, "The Sense of an Ending" extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with "Arthur & George" and continued with "Nothing to Be Frightened Of" and, most recently, "Pulse." …More

The Snow Angel By Beck, Glenn With Baart, Nicole 2011-10 - Threshold Editions 9781439187203 Check Our Catalog Rachel Price's one happy memory from her childhood is of playing outside with her father, Mitch, on a cold and snowy day. Years later, Rachel's daughter, Lily, is the only light in her dark life. Rachel is consumed by an abusive marriage but too afraid to escape. As the snow falls on this Christmas Eve, Rachel learns that it's never too late to start over. 288 pp. 1,000,000 print. (General Fiction) …More

Twelve Gates to the City By Black, Daniel 2011-12 - St. Martin's Press 9780312582685 Check Our Catalog "Twelve Gates to the City" is the much-anticipated sequel to Black's acclaimed debut. In this novel, Sister assumes the voice of the narrator, speaking from the spirit realm, telling her brother TL things he could have never known about their family. She constructs the story as a series of spiritual revelations, exposing who she was in the years of TL's absence. …More

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows By Bradley, Alan 2011-11 - Delacorte Press 9780385344012 Check Our Catalog It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce--an 11-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving--is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. …More

Bones Under the Beach Hut By Brett, Simon 2011-12 - Five Star (ME) 9781432825683 Check Our Catalog …More

Lethal By Brown, Sandra 2011-09 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455501472 Check Our Catalog An FBI agent, deep undercover, is the prime suspect in a mass murder and must uncover the corrupt forces behind the killings to clear his name. …More

Sensible Shoes By Sharon Garlough Brown, Garlough Brown 2010-06 - WestBow Press 9781449701888 Check Our Catalog "Come take a sacred journey. " Meg Crane has never had a longing for adventure. She's never even traveled more than two hundred miles from home. But when she receives an invitation from the New Hope Retreat Center to travel deeper into the heart of God, Meg finds herself saying yes. Against her better judgment. What will she discover if she begins to walk the winding path through the broken pieces of her past? Meg isn't the only one who feels apprehensive about the journey. Though the other people gathered at New Hope appear to have life well put together, each of them has a story to tell. Join Meg, Hannah, Mara, and Charissa as they become unlikely companions on the road to healing, transformation, and self-discovery. Because the long walk leads through the unpredictable terrain of the inner life, the travelers will need courage, patience, perseverance, and of course... "Sensible Shoes." …More

Too Much Stuff By Bruns, Don 2011-12 - Oceanview Publishing 9781608090174 Check Our Catalog A 1935 hurricane in the Florida Keys destroyed the East Coast Railway, killed five-hundred people and blew away the town of Islamorada. Lost in that storm was Mathew Kriegel, a finance director for the railroad, and one and a quarter million dollars in gold. Now newly minted private investigators Skip More and James Lessor, of More Or Less Investigations have been hired to find that lost treasure. Fighting off competitors, scuba diving, digging in a spooky cemetery and almost getting killed is only part of their job. Skip and James have stumbled onto the biggest most dangerous adventure of their lives. …More

A Dark and Lonely Place By Buchanan, Edna 2011-11 - Simon & Schuster 9781439159170 Check Our Catalog For the first time, the Pulitzer Prize Award-winning author takes on a novel of romance and suspense in this gripping saga of star-crossed lovers in the Florida of past and present. "A Dark and Lonely Place" poses the question: can we change our destiny, or must our lives always end the same way? 320 pp. 50,000 print. …More

Comfort of a Man By Byrd, Adrianne 2003-07 - Kimani Press 9781583144282 Check Our Catalog Jaded by her cheating ex-husband, a woman seeking passion with no strings attached meets a successful businessman who's looking for true love. …More

King's Pleasure By Byrd, Adrianne 2011-11 - Kimani Press 9780373534494 Check Our Catalog The final installment of the House of Kings trilogy, about three sexy brothers who run a bachelor-party planning business yet somehow end up walking down the aisle themselves. Original. …More

Kitty-Kitty, Bang Bang By Cairo 2011-11 - Strebor Books 9781593093037 Check Our Catalog It was her cutthroat ambition and ruthlessness that got Katrina--or Kat for short--out of the hood and on top of her game. Having once used her alluring charm and exotic beauty to lure men to their deaths, Katrina has had a change of heart. She's settled for a simpler life--and life couldn't be any sweeter. At least that's what she wants to believe. …More

Vigilante By Cannell, Stephen J. 2011-12 - St. Martin's Press 9780312646110 Check Our Catalog In the latest novel by acclaimed producer and "New York Times"-bestselling author Cannell, LAPD detective Shane Scully and his partner Sumner Hitchens investigate a crime with ties to the sometimes violent world of reality TV. …More