Staff PIcks

We like to read, and we like to share what we read! This is a list of recent favorites.

The Book Stops Here By Carlisle, Kate 2014-06 - Obsidian Mysteries 9780451415981 Check Our Catalog HPL patron:  Intelligent, humerous, and keeps you guessing. …More

Lion Heart By Cartwright, Justin 2014-03 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781620401835 Check Our Catalog A contemporary tale of belief, identity, the nature of fiction and the power of romance, "Lion Heart "is Justin Cartwright's most inventive and powerful work to date. …More

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas By Robbins, Tom 1995-11 - Bantam 9780553377873 Check Our Catalog When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you -- an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker -- are convinced you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall …More

The Quick By Owen, Lauren 2014-06 - Random House 9780812993271 Check Our Catalog For fans of Anne Rice, "The Historian, "and" The Night Circus, "an astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society and finds love in …More