HPL's New Books

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for: 2012.  To see new books from other years try:  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

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Heist By Swinson, Kiki Author Diamond, De'nesha 2010-12 - Dafina Books 9780758251787 Check Our Catalog Swinson, bestselling author of the successful Wifey series, teams up with Diamond, author of the Desperate Hoodwives series, for a riveting two-novella volume about women who know what they want and will do anything to get it. …More

Keeping Secrets & Telling Lies By Hickman, Trice 2012-02 - Dafina Books 9780758269072 Check Our Catalog In a sexy, thought-provoking story sure to appeal to fans of Cydney Rax and Niobia Bryant, Hickman, the award-winning author of "Unexpected Interruptions," spins an irresistibly compelling story of love and temptation. …More

Brave New World By Huxley, Aldous 2006-10 - HarperCollins Publishers 9780060850524 Check Our Catalog Huxley's story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world's population, this literary classic is a must-read. …More

Buffalo West Wing By Hyzy, Julie 2011-01 - Berkley 9780425239230 Check Our Catalog With a new First Family, White House executive chef Olivia Paras can't afford to make any mistakes. But when a box of take-out chicken mysteriously shows up for the First Kids, she soon finds herself in a "no-wing" situation. Includes recipes for a complete presidential meal. Original. …More

Born to Die: A Selena Alvarez/Regan Pescoli Novel By Jackson, Lisa 2011-05 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758252210 Check Our Catalog After the mysterious deaths of two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to Dr. Kacey Lambert, Detective Selena Alvarez suspects murder, and Kacey fears she may be the next victim when she starts to notice connections between herself and the dead women. …More

Wicked Lies By Jackson, Lisa Author Bush, Nancy 2011-05 - Zebra 9781420103397 Check Our Catalog Two bestselling authors team up once again in this stunning, edge-of-your-seat thriller, as a crazed killer--first introduced in their "New York Times" bestseller "Wicked Game"--continues a terrifying mission begun decades ago. Original. …More

Death Comes to Pemberley By James, P. D. 2011-12 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307959850 Check Our Catalog A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel "Pride and Prejudice" into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered. …More

Fatal Error By Jance, J. A. 2011-12 - Pocket Star Books 9781416566373 Check Our Catalog …More

Left for Dead By Jance, J. A. 2012-02 - Touchstone Books 9781451628586 Check Our Catalog When violence from the drug wars with the Mexican cartels crosses the border into Arizona, severely injuring an old friend, Ali Reynolds steps in to investigate in "New York Times"-bestselling author Jance's newest mystery. …More

Queen of the Night By Jance, J. A. 2011-03 - Harper 9780061239250 Check Our Catalog Every summer, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert--a sacred event commemorated throughout the Tohono O'odham Nation. But this year, one couple's celebration is prematurely destroyed by gunfire . . . and the sole witness to the carnage is a little girl who has lost the only family she's ever known. Dr. Lani Walker recognizes the trauma of her own childhood reflected in her devastated young patient. Joining Dan Pardee--a member of the unorthodox Shadow Wolves border patrol--Lani vows to keep the child safe while tracking down a ruthless killer. Meanwhile, Lani's adoptive father, retired homicide detective Brandon Walker, sees a break in his investigation of the long unsolved murder of an Arizona State University coed--while his wife, Diana Ladd, relives terrible memories of a man whose death haunts her still. …More

Deceit and Devotion By Johnson, R. M. 2012-02 - Simon & Schuster 9781439180570 Check Our Catalog "ESSENCE]"-bestselling author Johnson returns with the hotly anticipated follow-up to "Million Dollar Demise." This electrifying novel features the Million Dollar characters fans have grown to love coming face to face with members of the Harris family, the unforgettable characters of Johnson's other bestselling series. …More

Home Wrecker By Joseph, Dwayne S. 2008-09 - Urban Books 9781601620644 Check Our Catalog Lisette is a professional: women hire her to destroy their marriages. All goes well with her newest client until Lisette finds herself falling for the very man whose life she's been paid to ruin. …More

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories_abridged By Kafka, Franz Translator Appelbaum, Stanley 1996-04 - Dover Publications 9780486290300 Check Our Catalog Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Note. …More

Revan By Karpyshyn, Drew 2011-11 - Lucas Books 9780345511348 Check Our Catalog The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was high. His memories have been erased. All that's left are nightmares--and deep, abiding fear. What exactly happened beyond the Outer Rim? Revan can't quite remember, yet can't entirely forget. Somehow he stumbled across a terrible secret that threatens the very existence of the Republic. 272 pp. …More

Gun Games: A Decker/Lazarus Novel By Kellerman, Faye 2012-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062064325 Check Our Catalog In the next exciting installment of Kellerman's "New York Times"-bestselling series, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus face off against psychopath Chris Donatti and his son, Gabe. …More

Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel By Kellerman, Jonathan 2012-02 - Ballantine Books 9780345505712 Check Our Catalog Not since Jack the Ripper terrorized the London slums has there been such a gruesome crime scene. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadn't a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But despite his finely honed skills, even Alex is stymied when more slayings occur in the same ghastly fashion . . . yet with no apparent connection among the victims. …More

Rich or Famous...Rich Because You Can Buy Fame By King, Deja Author King, Joy 2011-03 - King Productions 9780984332595 Check Our Catalog What if you had a choice to be either rich or famous: which one would you choose? That had always been a simple answer for Lorenzo; money and he could never seem to make enough of it. Growing up, always desperate for a dollar made him cold and calculating. Being rich was his only objective in life until he met Dior. Dior is shallow and superficial. She only craves one thing; fame. That means walking red carpets and flashing lights. If you can't make that her reality then you serve no purpose. But can Lorenzo convince Dior that his money can buy her all the desires of her heart or will her thirst for fame destroy them both? One thing is for certain, when Lorenzo and Dior's paths cross, the course of their destiny will forever be changed. …More

I've Got Your Number By Kinsella, Sophie 2012-02 - Dial Press 9780385342063 Check Our Catalog Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, but in one afternoon her "happily ever after" begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect! Well, perfect except that the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn't agree. He wants his phone back and doesn't appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life. …More

The Daughter's Walk By Kirkpatrick, Jane 2011-04 - Waterbrook Press 9781400074297 Check Our Catalog Historical fiction writer Kirkpatrick delivers an engaging novel that chronicles a mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire, and the 7,000-mile journey that changed their lives. …More

Dragon Champion By Knight, E. E. 2010-11 - Roc 9780451463630 Check Our Catalog From the national bestselling and award-winning author of the Vampire Earth saga comes the first in a fantastic new series. …More

What the Night Knows By Koontz, Dean R. 2011-10 - Bantam 9780553593075 Check Our Catalog #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family--his wife and three children--will be targets, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. Includes the bonus novella "Darkness Under the Sun"! …More

Copper Beach By Krentz, Jayne Ann 2012-01 - Putnam Adult 9780399157875 Check Our Catalog A rare book. An ancient code. An all-new novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling master of passion and the paranormal. Within the pages of very rare books some centuries old lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes-and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as "The Key" has reappeared on the black market. Convinced that she needs an investigator who can also play bodyguard, she hires Sam Coppersmith, a specialist in paranormal crystals and amber-"hot rocks." Passion flares immediately between them, but neither entirely trusts the other. When it comes to dealing with a killer who has paranormal abilities, and a blackmailer who will stop at nothing to obtain an ancient alchemical code, no one is safe. …More

Clean Cut By La Plante, Lynda 2008-10 - Touchstone Books 9781416586661 Check Our Catalog From the internationally bestselling novelist and the creator of television's hit series "Prime Suspect" comes this hard-hitting new police procedural featuring detective Anna Travis and her supervisor/lover James Langton. …More