HPL's New Books

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for: 2013.  To see new books from other years try:  2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

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At Night We Walk in Circles By Alarcon, Daniel 2013-10 - Riverhead Books a Member of Penguin Group (US 9781594631719 Check Our Catalog A South American theater troupe revisits an anti-establishment play and generates some new drama in the latest political allegory by Alarcon. …More

The First Phone Call from Heaven By Albom, Mitch 2013-11 - Harper 9780062294371 Check Our Catalog The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief--and a page-turner that will touch your soul--Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected. …More

Duck the Halls: A Meg Langslow Mystery By Andrews, Donna 2013-10 - Minotaur Books 9781250028778 Check Our Catalog …More

Guilty Gucci By Antoinette, Ashley Author Ashley 2012-02 - Urban Books 9781601624819 Check Our Catalog A "New York Times"-bestselling author brings readers a sexy new street classic about the fallen leader of an infamous gang of girl bandits. …More

Burn By Banks, Maya 2013-08 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425267080 Check Our Catalog …More

The Best American Short Stories 2013 By Strout, Elizabeth Editor Pitlor, Heidi 2013-10 - Mariner Books 9780547554839 Check Our Catalog …More

Deadline By Brown, Sandra 2013-09 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455501519 Check Our Catalog Already coping with battle fatigue following his return from Afghanistan, journalist Dawson Scott receives a tip he cannot ignore about a potentially huge story involving the son of terrorists at-large for forty years. …More

Purgatory By Bruen, Ken 2013-11 - Mysterious Press 9780802126078 Check Our Catalog Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health. Show Less …More

Strait of Hormuz By Bunn, Davis 2013-11 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764211386 Check Our Catalog …More

Ten Things I've Learnt about Love By Butler, Sarah 2013-07 - Penguin Press 9781594205330 Check Our Catalog This soulful debut unpacks a family enigma involving a wandering daughter, a homeless father and their tenuous family ties. …More

The Dogs of Christmas By Cameron, W. Bruce 2013-10 - Forge 9780765330550 Check Our Catalog While nursing a broken heart, Josh Michaels is outraged when a neighbor abandons his very pregnant dog, Lucy, at Josh's Colorado home. But Josh can't resist Lucy's soulful brown eyes, and though he's never had a dog before, he's determined to do the best he can for Lucy--and her soon-to-arrive, bound-to-be-adorable puppies. …More

The Spymistress By Chiaverini, Jennifer 2013-10 - Dutton Books 9780525953623 Check Our Catalog "New York Times" bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another enthralling historical novel set during the Civil War era, this time inspired by the life of "a true Union woman as true as steel" who risked everything by caring for Union prisoners of war -- and stealing Confederate secrets. …More

Justify My Thug By Clark, Wahida 2013-02 - Cash Money Content 9781936399451 Check Our Catalog Tasha and Trae try to overcome their troubles and make their marriage work. Meanwhile, Jaz is facing drama of her own. In the torrid world of sex, drugs, and crime, author Clark continues her definitive hip-hop soap opera that fans have come to love. …More

Dust By Cornwell, Patricia 2013-11 - Putnam Adult 9780399157578 Check Our Catalog From the world's number-one bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. …More

Mirage By Cussler, Clive Author Du Brul, Jack B. 2013-11 - Putnam Adult 9780399158087 Check Our Catalog In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax--but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren't so sure. …More

The October List By Deaver, Jeffery 2013-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455576647 Check Our Catalog "Gabriela McKenzie's daughter has been kidnapped. In exchange for her safe return, her abductors demand two things: $400,000 in cash, and a document known only as the October List." --Provided by the publisher. …More

The Circle By Eggers, Dave 2013-10 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385351393 Check Our Catalog "The Circle" is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of "A Hologram for the King, "a finalist for the National Book Award. …More

Takedown Twenty: A Stephanie Plum Novel By Evanovich, Janet 2013-11 - Bantam 9780345542885 Check Our Catalog New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore 'Uncle Sunny' Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in--not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game, because 'just Stephanie's luck' the godfather is his actual godfather. And while Morelli understands that the law is the law, his old-world grandmother, Bella, is doing everything she can to throw Stephanie off the trail. …More

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells By Faulks, Sebastian 2013-11 - St. Martin's Press 9781250047595 Check Our Catalog Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years. …More

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion By Flagg, Fannie 2013-11 - Random House 9781400065943 Check Our Catalog Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. …More

The Signature of All Things By Gilbert, Elizabeth 2013-10 - Viking Books 9780670024858 Check Our Catalog A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Eat, Pray, Love" and "Committed". …More

Goodness and Mercy By Davis Griggs, Vanessa Author Griggs, Vanessa Davis 2013-11 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758263308 Check Our Catalog …More

Sycamore Row By Grisham, John 2013-10 - Doubleday Books 9780385537131 Check Our Catalog When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. …More