HPL's New Books

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Unspoken By Jackson, Lisa 1999-11 - Zebra 9780821764022 Check Our Catalog WHEN SECRETS ARE REVEALED Shelby Cole thought she'd put Bad Luck behind her. Bad Luck, Texas, that is. She'd left her hometown ten years ago, her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead. Now she's receiving anonymous letters claiming that her daughter is alive. But going home means demanding answers that her father, Judge Jerome Cole, won't be happy to give -- and facing Nevada Smith, the man who broke her heart... AND LIES ARE EXPOSED For Nevada, Shelby's homecoming is a bitter reminder that his half-breed blood was never good enough for a rich girl like the judge's daughter. Even now, his bad-boy reputation hovers around him like a cloud of Texas dust. But the years haven't changed the way Shelby makes him feel -- and he can't ignore the idea that he may be the father of the child she's looking for. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN...EVEN MURDER Yet Shelby's not the only person on her way back to Bad Luck. Falsely accused of murder and sent to prison for ten years, Ross McCallum is coming home to settle the score, especially with Shelby and Nevada. Now, as the temperature soars, Shelby's search for the truth promises to boil over into violence as a lethal web of revealed secrets threatens everything she believes about the man she loves -- and even her very own life... …More

Come to the Table By Jackson, Neta 2012-12 - Thomas Nelson Publishers 9781595548658 Check Our Catalog From the author of "The Yada Yada Prayer Group" comes the third novel in her touching SouledOut Sisters series. …More

The Uninvited By Jensen, Liz 2013-01 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781608199921 Check Our Catalog A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, "The Uninvited" is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo. …More

Sleep No More By Johansen, Iris 2012-10 - St. Martin's Press 9780312651244 Check Our Catalog From the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author comes a new thriller that will have Eve Duncan questioning everything she thought she knew about her family and her past when a sinister plot comes to light. …More

You Knew Betta By Johnson, Cachet 2010-06 - Triple Crown Publications 9780982588864 Check Our Catalog No one said living a double life was easy. When Raimone marries his high school sweetheart and starts a family, he's still not satisfied. What's more, Raimone's wife Sasha doesn't know that her husband fathered a child right under her nose with his mistress NaTaisha. After four years of sitting on the sidelines, NaTaisha will do whatever it takes to destroy Raimone's family and control him - even if it means putting him behind bars. After Raimone is released and a pregnant NaTaisha is found inside her home brutally murdered, the search is on for the killer. Filled with tension, sex appeal, and real-life events that happen on an everyday basis, the twist and turns of this love triangle will make your jaw drop. You'll tell yourself: YOU KNEW BETTA! …More

Hell Has No Fury By Johnson, Keith Lee 2009-06 - Urban Books 9781601621870 Check Our Catalog In this riveting page-turner, an FBI Special Agent finds himself investigating a series of seemingly related murders that are being committed by two serial killers. …More

A Memory of Light By Jordan, Robert Author Sanderson, Brandon 2013-01 - Tor Books 9780765325952 Check Our Catalog When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes to the The Wheel of Time] series would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Sanderson now re-creates the vision that Robert Jordan left behind. …More

Dollar Bill By Joy 2003-05 - Triple Crown Publications 9780970247292 Check Our Catalog …More

Sheisty Chicks By K, Kim 2011-12 - Melodrama Publishing 9781934157473 Check Our Catalog …More

Nightrise By Kelly, Jim 2013-01 - Creme de La Crime 9781780290331 Check Our Catalog Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident - he drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, 35 years before. At the same time, two unrelated cases are demanding Dryden's professional attention: a body riddled with bullets found hanging in the middle of a lettuce field, and a couple protesting that the local council has buried their baby daughter in a pauper's grave without permission. As Dryden pieces the clues together, he realizes that the three cases may be related after all. …More

Truth in Advertising By Kenney, John 2013-01 - Touchstone Books 9781451675542 Check Our Catalog A wickedly funny, honest, and poignant debut novel in the spirit of "Then We Came to the End" and "This Is Where I Leave You" about the absurdity of corporate life, the complications of love, and the meaning of family. First-time novelist Kenney, a regular "New Yorker" contributor, mines his own advertising background for spot-on, compelling insider detail. …More

A Killer in the Wind By Klavan, Andrew 2013-01 - Mysterious Press 9780802120670 Check Our Catalog Three years ago, working vice for the NYPD, Dan Champion uncovered a sex slavery ring run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Obsessed with bringing her down, Champion infiltrated a world of sexual obsession and perversity. He broke the case, but the case also broke him. …More

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure By Koontz, Dean R. 2013-01 - Bantam 9780345536594 Check Our Catalog Koontz's "New York Times"-bestselling three-part digital series is now available in one volume, in print for the very first time. A unique, stand-alone Odd Thomas adventure, "Odd Interlude" occurs between the events of "Odd Hours" and "Odd Apocalypse." Original. …More

Dream Eyes By Krentz, Jayne Ann 2013-01 - Putnam Adult 9780399158957 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title The death of her friend and mentor brings psychic counselor Gwen Frazier back to a small Oregon town and uncovers memories she would rather forget. Two years earlier, a killer stalked Gwen and other researchers. And though she survived while two others didn't, Gwen knows that a new death is related. …More

Legacy By Krentz, Jayne Ann 2013-01 - Severn House Publishers 9780727882073 Check Our Catalog Honor Mayfield thought her chance meeting with respected horseman Conn Landry was a stroke of good luck. Too late, Honor realizes she's been set up, and the man she is falling for seeks to avenge a legacy of murder and betrayal. Now, Honor and Conn are tangled together in a dangerous web of deception and desire. …More

Street Dreams By Foye, K'Wan Author K'wan 2004-10 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312333065 Check Our Catalog The son of a singer-turned-alcoholic and the daughter of an abusive father vow to do whatever it takes to make it out of the ghetto. But soon they find their backs against the wall when the streets come to claim their due. …More

Crown of Vengeance By Lackey, Mercedes Author Mallory, James 2012-11 - Tor Books 9780765324382 Check Our Catalog The world created by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory has its own history and legend--and one of the greatest is the story of the Elven Queen Vielissiar Faricarnon, who was the first to face the Endarkened in battle and the first to bond with a dragon. She worked some of the greatest magics her world has ever known, and paid the greatest Price. This is her story. …More

The Circle By Little, Bentley 2012-12 - Cemetary Dance Publications 9781587673009 Check Our Catalog The Circle tells the story of a normally quiet community, plunged into the kind of surreal nightmare only Bentley Little can deliver. …More

The Dunwich Horror and Others By Lovecraft, H. P. 2010-10 - Createspace 9781453875117 Check Our Catalog …More

Promises to Keep By Mallette, Gloria 2002-05 - Villard Books 9780375757440 Check Our Catalog New from the author of the national bestseller Shades of Jade: a story about the tragic loss of a son, the struggle to keep a family together, and the hunt for a murderer who didn't leave any clues behind After a bitter divorce, Troy Kirkwood and his five-year-old daughter, Meika, move in with his parents, Nola and Ron. Troy is a devoted father and son. During an outing with his daughter he is called away--and never returns. Nola and Ron know that something must be terribly wrong, and Meika can't stop asking where her daddy is. Four days later the police discover Troy's body, with two bullet holes in it. As soon as Vann, Troy's older brother, hears the news, he promises to find Troy's killer and bring him to justice. There's just one problem--the police have no leads and Troy had almost no enemies. To make matters worse, Troy's crack-addicted ex-wife has recently resurfaced and is demanding custody of their daughter. The Kirkwoods are not about to give up Troy's only child. But as they struggle through family court and Troy's murder investigation, it takes their combined emotional strength to keep the family intact. And they slowly begin to realize that even if Troy's murder is solved, the pain of losing a child never really goes away. …More

Rage Is Back By Mansbach, Adam 2013-01 - Viking Books 9780670026128 Check Our Catalog A fearless novel about the price of revenge from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Go the F*** to Sleep." The return of a notorious graffiti artist with a grudge against a New York City mayoral candidate means only one thing: the greatest graffiti stunt ever seen. …More

Tuf Voyaging By Martin, George R. R. 2013-01 - Bantam 9780345537997 Check Our Catalog …More

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie By Mathis, Ayana 2012-12 - Alfred A. Knopf 9780385350280 Check Our Catalog Oprah's Book Club 2.0 BookPage Notable Title A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. …More