Upcoming Events at HPL

LEGO MANIA FAMILY FUN DAY  2:00 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2014 Come join the family fun. Build fun items with LEGOs and DUPLOs. You might win a treat, and get to display your fabulous creation to all the youth services library patrons. Remember--we'll supply the LEGOs, you supply the imagination.

PATRIOTIC CRAFTS  2:00 PM MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014 Get ready for the 4th of July with patriotic make-and-take projects and enjoy special patriotic treats. Join in the fun and celebrate our nation's birthday.

CELEBRITY "LICHTENSTEIN" PORTRAIT  TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 TEENS -- DROP IN 3:00 - 4:00 PM Design your own "Lichtenstein" (named for the famous artist who used dots in his paint work) celebrity portrait using paint and pencil erasers. Sign your portrait and leave it to be placed on display in the library for a week.

LOOM BRACELET CRAFT  2:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014 Join us for the coolest new craft: Rubberband bracelet. We will supply an array of colored bands and teach you to make a bracelet without the loom.

JIM MERRILL'S MAGIC CAMP  2:00 PM THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 Want to learn how to do a magic trick? Join Mr. Jim as he teaches simple magic tricks and cunning optical illusions so you can amaze your family and friends.

Computer Class-Basic  11:00 am, Saturday, July 12 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Computer Class-Basic  12:15 pm, Saturday, July 12 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

ANIMALS AROUND THE WORLD  2:00 PM SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2014 Take an exciting look at animals from all around our world in this live animal presentation. Topics covered include habitats, senses, physical differences, defenses, myths, truths, and instincts. This program will be fun for the whole family.

Summer Reading 2014

Roses Are Red By Seerani, Sonia 1998-05 - Arabesque 9780786005147 Check Our Catalog Kendra Davenport runs her father's newspaper, the largest black newspaper in Europe. And she's about to lose half of it to Shay Brentwood, son of her father's worst enemy, unless she comes up with a huge sum of cash in seven days--and gives the arrogant man a kiss. The first demand seems impossible, the second sets her on fire. Desperate to come up with the money to save her father's newspaper from his arch rival, Kendra Davenport strikes a bargain with Shay Brentwood--the son of her father's enemy--and an unquenchable desire burns between them. Original. …More

Shattered Trust By Esdaile Banks, Leslie 2006-09 - Dafina Books 9780758213310 Check Our Catalog Ensconced in a luxurious villa in the Cayman Islands, newlyweds Laura and James have retired from the business of ridding the world--and their lives--of violence and deceit. But they can't shake the feeling that trouble isn't far behind. Financial genius Laura Caldwell and her new husband, detective James Carter, are trying to begin a new life. In a luxurious villa in the Caymen Islands, newlyweds Laura and James have retired from the business of ridding the world - and their lives - of violence and deceit. But they can't shake the feeling that trouble isn't far behind. …More

Brothers in Arms By Langan, Paul Author Alirez, Ben 2008-01 - Scholastic Paperbacks 9780439904902 Check Our Catalog Martin Luna is in deep trouble. Just months ago, a horrible tragedy took his little brother, and now it threatens to take him too. On one side are his desperate mother, a friendly teacher at Bluford High School, and a pretty girl named Vicky. On the other are his old neighborhood and his hunger for revenge. Torn between the two, Martin stands at a crossroad, with his life hanging in the balance. Which …More

A Wanted Woman By Dickey, Eric Jerome 2014-04 - Dutton Books 9780525954279 Check Our Catalog The twenty-first novel from "New York Times "bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey, a steamy thriller set in tropical Barbados. Her name is Reaper. She kills, and so does her sister. Wherever the Barbarians send her she goes, then gets out quickly. Within hours she's wearing a new disguise, a new accent, a new wig and is on the way to a new continent, a new assignment. But when a job goes bad in Trinidad and she kills two of the island's ruthless gangsters, the Laventille Killers, the Barbarians aren't best pleased. They send …More

Tears of a Tiger By Draper, Sharon M. 2013-07 - Atheneum Books for Young Readers 9781442489134 Check Our Catalog After the death of his longtime friend and fellow Hazelwood Tiger in a car accident, Andy, the driver, blames himself and cannot get past his guilt and pain. The lives of Andy and his friends are traced through a series of letters, articles, homework assignments, and dialogues, and it becomes clear that Tigers do indeed need to cry. Andy tackles his guilt and grief in the first book of Sharon M. Draper's award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy, now in trade paperback with a new cover. Tigers don't cry--or do they? After the death of his longtime friend and fellow Hazelwood Tiger in a car accident, Andy, the driver, blames himself and cannot get past his guilt and pain. While his other friends have managed to work through their …More

The Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled 2003-06 - Riverhead Books 9781573222457 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2004) Alex Awards (2004) Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2007) Iowa High School Book Award (2007) Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (2006) The "New York Times" bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, "The Kite Runner" is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility …More

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children By Riggs, Ransom 2011-06 - Quirk Books 9781594744761 Check Our Catalog Awards: Benjamin Franklin Award (2012) Charlotte Award (2014) Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2014) Grand Canyon Reader Award (2014) Green Mountain Book Award (2014) Kentucky Bluegrass Award (2013) Locus Awards (2012) Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (2014) Sequoyah Book Awards (2014) Volunteer State Book Awards (2014) Young Reader's Choice Award (2014) A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. HPL patron:  Scarier than a horror movie. 16-year-old Jacob has discovered the ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores the abandoned building, he realises that the children were more than just peculiar - they may have been dangerous. And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive. …More

Until the End of Time By Steel, Danielle 2013-01 - Delacorte Press 9780345530882 Check Our Catalog Two couples, four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die, they find each other again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the sky, together forever. Who knows how it really ends? Bestselling author Steel breaks new ground in her career with the poignant story of two parallel destinies, and the kind of love that will be everlasting. #1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Two couples, four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die, they find each other again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the sky, together forever. Who knows how it really ends? Danielle Steel breaks new ground in her career as a perennial "New York Times" bestseller with the poignant story of two parallel destinies, and the kind …More

Motorcycle Man By Ashley, Kristen 2014-01 - Forever 9781455599240 Check Our Catalog HPL patron:  Great wrap-up of Dream Man series! FIRST TIME IN PRINT Get ready to ride . . . Tyra Masters has had enough drama to last a lifetime. Now, she's back on track and looking forward to her new, quiet life. Until she meets the man of her dreams. The tattooed, muscled biker plies her with tequila-and the best sex of her life. She knows it isn't the tequila and hot sex talking. He's the kind of man she's always wanted. Unfortunately, …More

Wild Man By Ashley, Kristen 2013-10 - Forever 9781455599202 Check Our Catalog She's about to walk on the wild side . . . While filling the display case in her bakery, the bell over the door sounds and Tessa O'Hara looks up to see the man of her dreams. Within thirty seconds he asks her out for a beer. But after four months of dating, she discovers he's an undercover DEA agent-and he's investigating her possible role in her ex-husband's drug business. For Tess, this means …More

Mr. Mercedes By King, Stephen 2014-06 - Scribner Book Company 9781476754451 Check Our Catalog In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, …More

Death of a Valentine By Beaton, M. C. 2010-01 - Wheeler Publishing 9781410420879 Check Our Catalog Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors' police sergeant Hamish Macbeth' is planning to marry at last. Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween' Macbeth's ne Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, may actually marry at last. The entire village of Lochdubh adores Macbeth's bride-to-be. Josie McSween is Hamish's new constable, and she is a pretty little thing, with glossy brown hair and big brown eyes. The local folk think that Josie is quite a catch, but Hamish couldn't …More

Heat Wave By Castle, Richard 2009-09 - Hyperion Books 9781401323820 Check Our Catalog The bestselling mystery author (and hero of ABC's hit series "Castle") returns with a new series starring NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. HEAT WAVE is a tie-in to the ABC primetime show, CASTLE, that premiered in March 2009. The main character of the show, Richard Castle, is a bestselling mystery writer. HEAT WAVE is his next book: Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat …More

Sugar and Iced By McKinlay, Jenn 2014-04 - Berkley Books 9780425258927 Check Our Catalog Sugar and spice and murderous vice. That's what pageants are made of... Normally Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura wouldn't be caught dead at a beauty pageant, but when Mel's mom asks them to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annual Sweet Tiara contest as a favor for her best friend, they can't say no. Plus, between cooking up a daily display for the three-day event and sponsoring a cupcake …More

Birthday Party Murder By Meier, Leslie 2002-08 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781575668321 Check Our Catalog Mystery lovers are invited to return to Tinker's Cove, Maine, for the latest sleuthing adventures of small-town homemaker and amateur detective "extraordinaire" Lucy Stone. HPL patron:  The book caught  my attention instantly.  I couldn't put the book down for hours.  My biggest problem was some spelling errors and an error with a name.  …More

The Fault in Our Stars By Green, John 2012-01 - Dutton Books 9780525478812 Check Our Catalog Awards: Beehive Awards (2014) Black-Eyed Susan Award (2014) Buckeye Children's Book Award (2013) California Young Reader Medal (2015) Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2013) Colorado Blue Spruce Award (2014) Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2014) Florida Teens Read (2014) Gateway Readers Award (2015) Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (2014) Grand Canyon Reader Award (2014) Green Mountain Book Award (2014) Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (2013) Indies Choice Book Awards (2013) Iowa High School Book Award (2014) Kentucky Bluegrass Award (2013) Keystone to Reading Book Award (2014) Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice (2015) Nevada Young Readers' Award (2014) Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (2013) Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2014) South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (2014) Tayshas Reading (2013) Virginia Readers Choice Award (2014) Volunteer State Book Awards (2014) Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture TODAY Book Club pick TIME Magazine's #1 Fiction Book of 2012 "The greatest romance story of this decade." --"Entertainment Weekly" -Millions of copies sold- #1 "New York Times" Bestseller #1 "Wall Street Journal" Bestseller #1 "USA Today" Bestseller #1 International Bestseller #1 Indie Bestseller Despite the tumor-shrinking medical …More

Paper Towns By Green, John 2008-10 - Dutton Books 9780525478188 Check Our Catalog Awards: Anthony Awards (2009) Black-Eyed Susan Award (2011) Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2009) Grand Canyon Reader Award (2011) Green Mountain Book Award (2011) Iowa High School Book Award (2012) Nutmeg Book Award (2014) Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (2010) Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2010) Sequoyah Book Awards (2011) Tayshas Reading (2009) Volunteer State Book Awards (2011) Young Reader's Choice Award (2011) With his trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty, the Printz Medal-winning author of "Looking for Alaska" returns with a novel about a teenage girl who has mysteriously vanished, and the boy who looks for her by following the clues she left behind just for him. From the #1 bestselling author of "The Fault in Our Stars" Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery "New York Times "bestseller "USA Today "bestseller "Publishers Weekly "bestseller Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back in the middle of the night--dressed …More

Will Grayson, Will Grayson: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise By Green, John Author Levithan, David 2010-04 - Dutton Books 9780525421580 Check Our Catalog Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2011) Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2013) Grand Canyon Reader Award (2012) Indies Choice Book Awards (2011) Sequoyah Book Awards (2013) Stonewall Book Award (2011) Tayshas Reading (2011) Young Reader's Choice Award (2013) One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens--both named Will Grayson--are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history's most fabulous high school musical. HPL patron:  Two boys both …More

Not the End of the World By McCaughrean, Geraldine 2005-07 - HarperTempest 9780060760311 Check Our Catalog What was it really like when the heavens opened and the world drowned? Everyone knows the story of the Flood: The man called on by God to build an ark. The animals that came on board two by two. The rain that fell for forty days and forty nights. But what about the rest of the story? What about Noah's wife and daughters-in-law? And what if there was a daughter as well? How would …More

The God Delusion By Dawkins, Richard 2006-10 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780618680009 Check Our Catalog Discovery" magazine has recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwins Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. In his "New York Times" bestseller, Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. HPL patron:  Richard Dawkins is a scientist who is growing tired of an imaginary …More

A Manual for Creating Atheists By Boghossian, Peter Foreword by Shermer, Michael 2013-11 - Pitchstone Publishing 9781939578099 Check Our Catalog HPL patron:  Professor Boghossian believes that Americans are living in a far too scientific era that demands logic and reason to continue holding onto mythological beliefs.  He provides a detailed handbook to help talk people out of irrational faith-based worldviews. For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytising strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith - and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter …More

The Call of the Wild and Other Stories By London, Jack 1965-09 - Grosset & Dunlap 9780448060279 Check Our Catalog Classic tales based upon the special relationships that dogs have with man. The stories contained are 'The Call of the Wild', 'Brown Wolf', and 'That Spot'. …More

Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm By Link, Mardi Jo 2013-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307596918 Check Our Catalog Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: the memoir of a mother who, after ending her 19-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account and, with the help of her three young sons, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure and reclaims her life. Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most. It's the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link's dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband of nineteen years have just called it quits, leaving her with serious cash-flow …More

The Talisman By King, Stephen Author Straub, Peter 2012-11 - Scribner Book Company 9781451694918 Check Our Catalog The bestselling collaboration of two masters of the macabre is available once more. Thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer has been chosen for a quest across America and into another realm. To save his mother's life, Jack must search for a prize in an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, incredible dangers, and even more incredible truths. Unabridged. Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman--the only thing that can save Jack's dying mother. But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across the breadth of the United States but also through the wondrous and menacing parallel world of the Territories. In the Territories, Jack finds another realm, …More

Upcoming Events at HPL

SIDEWALK CHALK 11:00 AM SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2014 It's "Taste of Muskegon" downtown. Join us outside on the sidewalk on Third Street next to the Library for drawing, hopscotch, jump rope and other games that we can create using sidewalk chalk.

Teen Coloring Contest 3:00 PM Tuesday, June 24, 2014 We all learned to color in the lines when we were little, but have you tried the new adult coloring sheets? How good are you? Drop in between 3:00 & 4:00 PM to color a page -- the best picture wins a prize. Leave your art with your name and phone # on the back, to display. Follow us on Twitter MsCeethelibrarian@HackleyTeens

WACKY SCIENCE 2:00 PM THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2014 Kids can't tell if it's science or magic. "Dr. Science" Doug Scheer performs spectacular feats using hands-on science with everyday items to amuse and inform the audience. See how much you know about science in this fun, interactive program.

LEGO MANIA FAMILY FUN DAY 2:00 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2014 Come join the family fun. Build fun items with LEGOs and DUPLOs. You might win a treat, and get to display your fabulous creation to all the youth services library patrons. Remember--we'll supply the LEGOs, you supply the imagination.

PATRIOTIC CRAFTS 2:00 PM MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014 Get ready for the 4th of July with patriotic make-and-take projects and enjoy special patriotic treats. Join in the fun and celebrate our nation's birthday.

Summer Reading

The Wolves of Midwinter By Rice, Anne 2013-10 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385349963 Check Our Catalog Rice, in her signature elegantly descriptive style, does not disappoint in this follow-up to 2012's "The Wolf Gift", slowly doling out details about recurring characters like an hourglass, one grain at a time. HPL patron:  Not her best work. The tale of "The Wolf Gift" continues . . . In Anne Rice's surprising and compelling best-selling novel, the first of her strange and mythic imagining of the world of wolfen powers ("I devoured these pages . . . As solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early "Vampire Chronicles" fiction"--Alan Cheuse, "The Boston Globe"; "A delectable cocktail of old-fashioned lost-race adventure, …More

Any Other Name By Johnson, Craig 2014-05 - Viking Books 9780670026463 Check Our Catalog A sheriff's mysterious death spurs the new novel in the "New York Times" bestselling Longmire Mystery Series. Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into a high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Connally, asks him to take on a mercy case outside his jurisdiction. Detective Gerald Holman of neighboring Campbell County is dead, and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend, a by-the-book lawman with a wife and daughter, to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of Walt's first …More

Robert B. Parker's Damned If You Do By Brandman, Michael 2013-09 - Putnam Adult 9780399159503 Check Our Catalog The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. …More

Split Image By Parker, Robert B. 2011-02 - Large Print Press 9781594134401 Check Our Catalog The body in the trunk was just the beginning Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiful wife Rebecca in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife Robbie who also happens to be Rebecca's twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when …More

Motorcycle Man By Ashley, Kristen 2014-01 - Forever 9781455599240 Check Our Catalog HPL patron:  Great wrap-up of Dream Man series! FIRST TIME IN PRINT Get ready to ride . . . Tyra Masters has had enough drama to last a lifetime. Now, she's back on track and looking forward to her new, quiet life. Until she meets the man of her dreams. The tattooed, muscled biker plies her with tequila-and the best sex of her life. She knows it isn't the tequila and hot sex talking. He's the kind of man she's always wanted. Unfortunately, …More

Magician's End By Feist, Raymond E. 2013-05 - Voyager 9780061468438 Check Our Catalog After 29 books (authored and co-authored), Feist delivers the crowning achievement of his renowned bestselling career: "Magician's End," the final chapter in The Chaos Wars, the climax of his extraordinary Riftwar Cycle. HPL patron:  Great ending to a great series! As it began, so shall it end--in magic, mystery, and majesty. . . Magician's End Thirty years ago, Raymond E. Feist wrote his first novel, Magician, a story about an orphan boy named Pug who is thrust by a war into captivity in an alien world, only to rise from slavery to become a Master Magician. Magician introduced readers to Midkemia and the Riftwars, an epic series of battles between Good …More

California Connection By Chunichi 2008-12 - Urban Books 9781601620750 Check Our Catalog From the "Essence"-bestselling author of "The Naked Truth" and "Married to the Game" comes the powerful and provocative tale of a sexy, savvy woman who knows what she wants--and gets it. Jewel is young, beautiful and, with several hustles under her belt, all about making money. This doesn't leave much time for friends - but she'll always make time for Touch, the local hustler. He's been her friend since school, where they made a lifelong pact to look out for each other. The pact has never been put to the test - until now. …More

Country Bride By Macomber, Debbie 2014-04 - Severn House Publishers 9780727883483 Check Our Catalog Rorie Campbell has a pleasant, predictable life in San Francisco, where she's seeing a pleasant, predictable man. Then, one vacation, her car breaks down on an Oregon country road and horse rancher Clay Franklin comes to her rescue. Rorie soon discovers that a city girl can fall in love with a country man. But Clay has no right to return her feelings--because he's engaged to another woman. Kate …More

Against the Edge By Martin, Kat 2013-10 - Thorndike Press 9781410462473 Check Our Catalog Deep in the humid, rank heart of the Louisiana bayou, a survivalist group has something that belongs to former Navy SEAL Ben Slocum: his son. As Ben and social worker Claire Chastain band together to track the group down, their concern for the boy draws them closer, each fighting feelings there's no time to explore. Original. "A child he's never met. A danger he's never known." That he's a father is news former navy SEAL Ben Slocum was not expecting. But once the initial shock wears off for the confirmed bachelor, he takes in the rest of what social worker Claire Chastain tells him: that his son is missing, abducted by a man who wants revenge against Claire and Sam's dead mother. And that Ben is now the child's only hope. As …More

Welfare Wifeys By K'wan 2010-09 - Griffin 9780312536978 Check Our Catalog Awards: Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (2011) After the deaths and arrests of his entire crew and an informant-fueled investigation into his past, the man known on the streets as Animal relocates to Texas and finds fame and stardom as the newest act signed to the notorious Big Dawg Entertainment. His girlfriend, Gucci, is thrilled when she gets the news that he's coming back to New York on a promotional tour, but when she discovers the …More

California Connection 2 By Chunichi 2009-12 - Urban Books 9781601621658 Check Our Catalog "Essence"-bestselling author Chunichi delivers a formidable follow-up to "California Connection" with this gripping novel about revenge and retaliation, money, power, and greed. Jewel used to be content with being a ride or die chick, playing Bonnie while the men in her life played Clyde. But now she realises that it was her connections and street smarts that helped her man, Calico, rise to the top. But Jewel wants to be the one in control. She's tired of taking orders for men. …More

Hood Rats By McNair, E. R. 2008-10 - Triple Crown Publications 9780979951787 Check Our Catalog Experience life in the hood through the eyes of four friends, known around the way as The Hood Rats. As the girls go through the ups and downs of friendship and life on the streets, youll be taken on a roller coaster ride of love, heartache and pain. When tragedy strikes the group, the bond of friendship is tested and easily broken by lies, deceit and betrayal. Open your mind, and see that sometimes …More

Eviction Notice By K'wan 2011-09 - Griffin 9780312536985 Check Our Catalog Awards: Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (2012) From #1 Essence bestselling author, K'wan, comes the next installment in his bestselling Hood Rat series Porsha: the ghetto princess. Boots: the scandalous baby mama. Frankie aka Francine: the con artist. These three girls live in one apartment and are into all kinds of hood foolishness while having fun. Until one day they find an eviction notice taped to their door. Now they have seventy-two …More

Baltimore Chronicles Volume 1 By Hernandez, Treasure 2010-09 - Urban Books 9781601622921 Check Our Catalog From the author who brought readers the action-packed Flint series comes a powerful new street series chronicling both sides of Baltimore's black market. Derek Fuller is the head detective of the Baltimore Narcotics Division. His team has been assigned to take down the biggest drug operation in the city. There's only one problem - the head of the operation is his twin brother, Scar Johnson. Separated by Baltimore's foster care system, the brothers came from two different walks of life. …More

Baltimore Chronicles By Hernandez, Treasure 2011-01 - Urban Books 9781601624291 Check Our Catalog From the author of the action-packed Flint series comes the second book in a powerful new street series chronicling both sides of Baltimore's black market. Scar Johnson is the biggest drug dealer in Baltimore and with the help of his girlfriend, who happens to be a District Attorney, he has become the most untouchable. But is he really safe? A mysterious observer has come out of the shadows and infiltrated the Dirty Money Crew. …More

Baltimore Chronicles By Hernandez, Treasure 2011-07 - Urban Books 9781601624550 Check Our Catalog Hernandez, renowned for the action-packed Flint series, is sure to keep readers riveted with this explosive third book in her powerful street series chronicling both sides of Baltimore's black market. Scar Johnson is the biggest drug dealer in Baltimore and with the help of his girlfriend, who happens to be a District Attorney, he has become the most untouchable. But is he really safe? A mysterious observer has come out of the shadows and infiltrated the Dirty Money Crew. …More

Baltimore Chronicles By Hernandez, Treasure 2012-03 - Urban Books 9781601624826 Check Our Catalog Renowned for her action-packed Flint series, Hernandez is sure to keep readers riveted with this explosive final book of her powerful street series chronicling both sides of Baltimore's black market. Scar Johnson is the biggest drug dealer in Baltimore and with the help of his girlfriend, who happens to be a District Attorney, he has become the most untouchable. But is he really safe? A mysterious observer has come out of the shadows and infiltrated the Dirty Money Crew. …More

Sheisty Chicks By K, Kim 2011-12 - Melodrama Publishing 9781934157473 Check Our Catalog Get Money By Any Means Necessary The Waverly Girls Group Home is supposed to be a place where troubled teens come for reform. But Jazzy, Cha Cha, and Maya have different plans. Though the three girls hail from three different cities, they've had amazingly similar hard knock lives, and the thread that holds them together is their love of money. Soon, these sheisty chicks are backsliding into …More

Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale By Noire 2006-08 - One World 9780345486912 Check Our Catalog Combining erotica and street lit, #1 "Essence" bestselling author Noire has crafted an urban, erotic masterpiece--a sexy, authentic tale of the price to be paid for unchecked ambition. (Erotica) Combining erotica and street lit, #1 Essence bestselling author Noire has crafted an urban, erotic masterpiece--a sexy, authentic tale of the price to be paid for unchecked ambition. (Erotica) …More

We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success By Davis, Sampson Author Hunt, Rameck Author Jenkins, George 2006-04 - Puffin Books 9780142406274 Check Our Catalog This "New York Times" bestseller is the dramatic, inspiring story of three inner-city youths--Samson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt--whose strong friendship gave them the strength to continue their education and become doctors. Photos. This New York Times bestseller is the dramatic, inspiring story of three inner-city youths--Samson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt--whose strong friendship gave them the strength to continue their education and become doctors. Photos. …More

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before By Horwitz, Tony 2003-08 - Picador USA 9780312422608 Check Our Catalog Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of "Confederates in the Attic" takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today's Pacific. Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of "Confederates in the Attic," works as a sailor aboard a replica of Cook's ship, …More

Mystery Man By Ashley, Kristen 2013-08 - Forever 9781455599189 Check Our Catalog Gwendolyn Kidd has met the man of her dreams. He's hot, he's sexy, and what started as a no-names-exchanged night of passion has blossomed into a year and a half-long pleasure fest. Sure, it's a little strange that he only appears in her bed at night, but Gwen is so sure he's the one, she just can't turn him away. Original. Night time is the right time... Gwendolyn Kidd has met the man of her dreams. He's hot, he's sexy, and what started as a no-names-exchanged night of passion has blossomed into a year and a half-long pleasure fest. Sure, it's a little strange that he only appears in her bed at night, but Gwen is so sure he's the one, she just can't turn him away... Hawk Delgado knows more about Gwen than …More

Relentless Seduction By Lawrence, Kim 2011-07 - Harlequin Presents 9781459268692 Check Our Catalog ""You will be mine...on my terms...."" Nathan Audley was a powerful man. What he wanted, he usually got...and he wanted Annie He'd branded her a gold-digger, a widow in search of a rich husband; yet he was determined to control her life--to possess her beloved home, and her passionate heart. Annie had no desire to be "any" man's mistress, and knew she mustn't allow Nathan's brooding sensuality …More

The Way You Love Me By Ray, Francis 2008-08 - St. Martin's Press 9780312946845 Check Our Catalog "In "Only You*," "Essence" bestselling author Francis Ray introduced readers to confident, charismatic Shane Elliott. In her dazzling new romance, the sexy security expert is about to meet his match..." HE NEVER LETS HIS GUARD DOWN Nothing gets to Shane Elliott. A former Army Ranger, now head of security for a wealthy real estate tycoon, Shane can handle whatever life throws at him--until he …More