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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Darker After Midnight By Adrian, Lara 2012-01 - Delacorte Press 9780345530875 Check Our Catalog The climactic novel in Adrian's "New York Times"-bestselling Midnight Breed series--and her hardcover debut--"Darker After Midnight" invites readers to enter a thrillingly sensual world where danger meets desire. …More

What You Have Left By Allison, Will 2007-06 - Free Press 9781416541394 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title In What You Have Left, Will Allison's powerful and beautifully written debut novel, the members of an unconventional working-class Southern family struggle to be their best selves--a good husband, a responsible parent, a loving granddaughter--and, failing that, find ways to carry on. …More

Me and You By Ammaniti, Niccolo Translator Doust, Kylee 2012-02 - Black Cat 9780802170903 Check Our Catalog …More

Lucky Penny By Anderson, Catherine 2012-01 - Signet Book 9780451236036 Check Our Catalog To support her orphaned niece, impoverished Brianna O'Keefe accepts work with a Colorado rancher. To guard herself from unwanted attention, she resorts to a harmless little lie: that she's married to a Denver gold miner named David Paxton. But when her "husband" shows up, Brianna is stunned--not the least by her desire. Original. …More

Firestorm: Destroyermen By Anderson, Taylor 2011-10 - Roc 9780451464170 Check Our Catalog Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS "Walker" find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect. …More

Rising Tides By Anderson, Taylor 2011-02 - Roc 9780451463883 Check Our Catalog In Taylor Anderson's acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds a extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, as Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the U.S.S. "Walker" continue their battle for both freedom and survival, the stakes become much more personal...and much more perilous. …More

Death of a Kingfisher By Beaton, M. C. 2012-02 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446547369 Check Our Catalog To bring in tourists, the quaint Scottish village of Braike markets its woods as The Fairy Glen, and tours soon begin to arrive. However, after a kingfisher is found hanging from a branch in the woods, the town turns to Police Constable Hamish Macbeth. And when violence strikes again, the lawman's investigation quickly turns from animal cruelty to murder. …More

The Shadow Patrol By Berenson, Alex 2012-02 - Putnam Adult 9780399158292 Check Our Catalog In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are dying, and at Langley the CIA's chiefs wonder if the unthinkable has happened, if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. When they ask John Wells to investigate, he reluctantly agrees to return to the country where his career as an undercover operative began. But there, he finds a vipers' nest of hostility and mistrust-and clues that hint at a drug-trafficking operation involving the Agency, the military, and the Taliban …More

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge: An Aimee Leduc Investigation By Black, Cara 2012-03 - Soho Crime 9781616950613 Check Our Catalog Aime Leduc is happy her longtime business partner Ren has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. But Aime's instincts tell her Meizi isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner. Minutes later, the body of a young man is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway--with Meizi's photo in his wallet. …More

Hush Now, Don't You Cry By Bowen, Rhys 2012-03 - Minotaur Books 9780312628116 Check Our Catalog In the latest installment of Bowen's award-winning historical series, Molly Murphy is supposed to give up sleuthing now that she's married, but the murder of an alderman puts her on the trail of a killer. …More

One Way or Another By Bowen, Rhonda 2012-03 - Dafina Books 9780758259585 Check Our Catalog From the author of "Man Enough for Me" comes a witty, compelling novel about a woman who thinks she has her job, family, and friends under control until the night she meets a man who changes everything. …More

Force of Nature By Box, C. J. 2012-03 - Putnam Adult 9780399158261 Check Our Catalog He never wanted to tell Joe Pickett about it, but Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it may not only be the battle of his life-but of Joe's. …More

Letter from a Stranger By Bradford, Barbara Taylor Author Bradford 2012-03 - St. Martin's Press 9780312631680 Check Our Catalog Justine Nolan is a documentary film maker who lost her beloved grandmother a decade ago--the person who was the only source of love and comfort in her life. Her own mother Deborah had always been distant and uninvolved, following her own agenda in pursuit of her career as an interior designer. But when Justine inadvertently opens a letter addressed to her mother, she discovers that not only is her grandmother Gabri alive, but that Deborah has deliberately estranged the family from her for all these years. Justine's search for her grandmother takes her to Istanbul where she begins to uncover the family's secrets that stretch all the way back to World War II. As the layers of deception peel away, Justine begins to understand a woman she never really knew...and she begins to ask questions about the true desires of her own heart. …More

Born to Darkness By Brockmann, Suzanne 2012-03 - Ballantine Books 9780345521279 Check Our Catalog As the "New York Times"-bestselling author of the Troubleshooters series, Brockmann has an acclaimed history of taking readers' breath away with her novels of hot passion and high adventure. Now she takes her talent for sexy, action-packed storytelling in a thrilling new direction: forward--into a future, both fantastic and frightening, that only the brilliant Brockmann could envision. …More

March By Brooks, Geraldine 2006-02 - Penguin Books 9780143036661 Check Our Catalog From Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, and has added adult resonance to portray the moral complexity of war and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism. …More

Raven Strike By Brown, Dale Author DeFelice, Jim 2011-11 - Harper 9780061713026 Check Our Catalog After an illegal CIA black ops mission goes wrong in Africa, Dreamland's Whiplash unit is called in to clean up the mess. Available in a tall Premium Edition. Original. …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

The Devil's Odds: A Mystery By Burton, Milton T. 2012-02 - Minotaur Books 9780312643355 Check Our Catalog December, 1942. Texas Ranger Virgil Tucker receives a plea for protection from Madeline Kimbell, a terrified young woman who witnessed a crime. Keeping Madeline safe from the men who want to hurt her turns out to be harder than he imagined. When a prominent attorney is murdered, Virgil is drawn into the dangerous world of the New Orleans Mafia. …More

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods By Byatt, A. S. 2012-02 - Canongate Books 9780802129925 Check Our Catalog Booker Prize winner Dame Antonia Byatt breathes life into the Ragnorak myth, the story of the end of the gods in Norse mythology. …More

One Book in the Grave By Carlisle, Kate 2012-02 - Signet Book 9780451236128 Check Our Catalog Ten years ago, Brooklyn's friend Max Adams fell in love with a stunning beauty, Emily, and gave her a rare copy of "Beauty and the Beast" as a symbol of their love. Soon afterward, Max died in a car crash, and Brooklyn has always suspected his possessive ex-girlfriend and her jealous beau. Original. …More

No True Gentleman By Carlyle, Liz 2002-06 - Pocket Books 9780743437844 Check Our Catalog Lady Catherine Wodeway knows the dark, mysterious Maximilian de Rohan is no true gentleman--especially when he gives her a scandalous kiss. But when a woman of means is brutally murdered--and Catherine's brother is suspected--Max is called in to investigate. Catherine knows it will take more than a gentleman to uncover the truth--and capture her heart. (July) …More

Timeless By Carriger, Gail 2012-02 - Orbit 9780316127189 Check Our Catalog Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, must answer a mystifying summons to Egypt in the final novel in the "New York Times"-bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. Original. …More

Deception By Chase, Naomi 2012-03 - Dafina Books 9780758253224 Check Our Catalog In a novel that combines the sensuality and suspense of Sasha Campbell and the streetwise edge of Kiki Swinson, Chase--author of "Exposed"--creates a scintillating story about two sisters and a secret that could destroy them both. …More