Staff Picks

Father's Day for Foodies Father's Day is June 17, and dads who are King of the Grill love new cooking toys and clever cookbooks. Daniel Duane's memoir How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession is all about cooking, eating and enjoying food in the manliest ways possible. Duane recounts an eight-year quest to further his kitchen skills, from butchering whole lambs and hunting pigs in Maui to fishing for salmon in Alaska. For family guys everywhere -- from new dads who hope to help out around the house to older dads who want to improve a favorite hobby -- How to Cook Like a Man is a timely Father's Day treat.

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Altar of Eden By Rollins, James 2010-12 - Harper 9780061231438 Check Our Catalog Baghdad falls, and armed men are seen looting the city zoo. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground lab is ransacked--and something horrific is set loose upon the world. Available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

Hot Under Pressure By Edwards, Louisa 2012-03 - St. Martin's Press 9780312534400 Check Our Catalog Loaded with the hottest dishes and sexiest chefs, the Rising Star Chef competition is about to boil over for one pair of all-star cooks who can't stand the heat--of working so close together. The third and final book in the Rising Star Chef trilogy. Original. …More

Sunrise Point By Carr, Robyn 2012-04 - Mira Books 9780778313175 Check Our Catalog Tom Cavanaugh may "think" he wants a traditional woman, but in Virgin River, the greatest tradition is falling in love unexpectedly. Original. …More

The Last Boyfriend By Roberts, Nora 2012-05 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425246030 Check Our Catalog The Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother are breathing new life into the town of Boonsboro, Maryland, by restoring its historic hotel. And they're finding their own lives revamped by love. …More

Songs of the Earth By Cooper, Elspeth 2012-02 - Tor Books 9780765331656 Check Our Catalog A former Knight of the Church now under sentence of death for heresy and witchcraft, Gair finds deliverance in the form of the mysterious Alderan, who spirits him away to the island location of the Chapterhouse of the Guardians of the Veil. …More

Breaking Stalin's Nose By Yelchin, Eugene Illustrator Yelchin, Eugene 2011-09 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805092165 Check Our Catalog In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs. …More

Further Tales of the City By Maupin, Armistead 1994-01 - Harper Perennial 9780060924928 Check Our Catalog The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in San Francisco park. …More

Babycakes By Maupin, Armistead 1994-01 - Harper Perennial 9780060924836 Check Our Catalog "An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." --"New York Times Book Review" When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, "Babycakes" was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS. "Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh." --Ian McKellen "Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop." "--Denver Post" "Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on." --" New York Times Book Review" …More

Sure of You By Maupin, Armistead 1994-01 - Harper Perennial 9780060924843 Check Our Catalog A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, "Sure of You" could only come from Armistead Maupin. …More

Significant Others By Maupin, Armistead 1989-09 - Harper Perennial 9780060964085 Check Our Catalog When a women's music festival sets up camp downriver from an exclusive all-male summer retreat, the cacophonous havoc which ensues could only be orchestrated by Armistead Maupin. Fifth in the celebrated Tales of the City series. …More

The Eyre Affair By Fforde, Jasper 2003-02 - Penguin Books 9780142001806 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times" bestseller is the first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative. …More

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime By Fforde, Jasper 2006-08 - Penguin Books 9780143037231 Check Our Catalog When D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death, all the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself. But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced. …More

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake By Bender, Aimee 2011-04 - Anchor Books 9780385720960 Check Our Catalog On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she's privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father's detachment, her mother's transgression, her brother's increasing retreat from the world. But there are some family secrets that even her cursed taste buds can't discern. …More

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron By Fforde, Jasper 2011-03 - Penguin Books 9780143118589 Check Our Catalog Fforde's latest "New York Times"-bestseller--part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller--about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors one can see. …More

Lost in a Good Book By Fforde, Jasper 2004-02 - Penguin Books 9780142004036 Check Our Catalog The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with "The Eyre Affair" continues with Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. …More

Moon Over Manifest By Vanderpool, Clare 2011-12 - Yearling Books 9780375858291 Check Our Catalog The winner of the 2011 Newbery Medal, "Moon Over Manifest" is a story of loss and redemption, powerful in its simplicity, featuring Abilene Tucker who, while searching for clues about her father's boyhood, uncovers the long-held secrets of a town suffering in silence. …More

Only Time Will Tell By Archer, Jeffrey 2011-08 - St. Martin's Press 9780312539559 Check Our Catalog From the internationally bestselling author of "Kane and Abel" and "A Prisoner of Birth" comes "Only Time Will Tell," the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. …More

How We Decide By Lehrer, Jonah 2009-02 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780618620111 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title From the acclaimed author of "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" comes a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making. Lehrer explores two questions: How does the human mind make decisions? and How can those decisions be made better? …More

The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice By Williams, Robin 2008-02 - Peachpit Press 9780321534040 Check Our Catalog A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training. This book is the one place they can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help from trusted design instructor Robin Williams. This revised classic--now in full color--includes a new section on the hot topic of Color itself. "In The Non-Designer's Design Book, """ 3rd" Editio""n, " Robin turns her attention to the basic principles that govern good design. Readers who follow her clearly explained concepts will produce more sophisticated and professional pages immediately. Humor-infused, jargon-free prose interspersed with design exercises, quizzes, and illustrations make learning a snap--which is just what audiences have come to expect from this best-selling author. …More

Last Night in Montreal By Mandel, Emily St John 2009-06 - Unbridled Books 9781932961683 Check Our Catalog Lila Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. Then her latest lover follows her from New York to Montreal, determined to learn her secrets. "Last Night in Montreal" is a story of love, amnesia, the depths and limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession. …More

The Paris Wife By McLain, Paula 2011-02 - Ballantine Books 9780345521309 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, "The Paris Wife" captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. HPL patron:  After a recent trip to Paris, this book caught my eye.  I knew nothing about Hemingway's time in Paris but wanted to draw a connection to my recent sight-seeing excursions and one of America's reknowned authors.  This "historical fiction" novel was fun to see a wife's perspective of events, very true to nonfiction accounts. …More

The Sun Also Rises By Hemingway, Ernest 2006-10 - Scribner Book Company 9780743297332 Check Our Catalog Capturing the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation, this poignantly beautiful story is now released in an 80th anniversary edition. …More