New Books at HPL

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for 2015 .  To see new books from other years try: 2014  2013 , 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

The Girls of Mischief Bay By Mallery, Susan 2015-02 - Mira Books 9780778316022 Check Our Catalog "New York Times" bestselling author Susan Mallery is world renowned for her "insightful, funny, and poignant" stories ("Booklist"). With her brand-new Mischief Bay series, she brings vivid color to the story of three friends on the brink of a new life. Nicole Lord wants to be a good wife, but there's a difference between being supportive and "supporting "her husband, who quit his job to write …More

Death in Venice and Other Stories By Mann, Thomas Translator Chase, Jefferson P. Afterword by Swales, Martin 2006-11 - Signet Classics 9780451530325 Check Our Catalog This translation of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann's work includes his masterpiece, "Death in Venice" and six of the author's short stories," Tristian, Tonio Kroger, Man and Dog: An Idyll, Hour of Hardship, Tobias Mindernickel," and "The Child Prodigy." Revised and repackaged. …More

Against the Sky By Martin, Kat 2015-01 - Zebra 9781420133844 Check Our Catalog In America's last wilderness, there are no limits to what a man can do. For detective Nick Brodie, that means keeping the perps off the streets of Anchorage 24/7. Nick has never backed down from danger, but after the horrors he's seen, he's definitely in need of a break. Samantha Hollis never thought she'd meet anyone like Nick, especially in a place like Las Vegas. But after one reckless, …More

Too Bad to Die By Mathews, Francine 2015-03 - Riverhead Books 9781594631795 Check Our Catalog A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. November, 1943. Weary of his deskbound status in the Royal Navy, intelligence officer Ian Fleming spends his spare time spinning stories in his head that are much more exciting than his own life...until the critical Tehran …More

Crow Fair: Stories By McGuane, Thomas 2015-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385350198 Check Our Catalog From one of our most deeply admired storytellers, author of the richly acclaimed "Gallatin Canyon, "his first collection in nine years. Set in Thomas McGuane's accustomed Big Sky country, with its mesmeric powers, these stories attest to the generous compass of his fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words and the comic genius that has inspired comparison with Twain and Gogol. …More

The Marriage Charm By Miller, Linda Lael 2015-01 - Harlequin Books 9780373778928 Check Our Catalog The women of Bliss County have a pact--to find husbands. The right husbands. One already has: Hadleigh Stevens, who married rancher Tripp Galloway a few months ago. Now Melody Nolan thinks it's her turn. Melody has recently found success as a jewelry designer, and her work is the focus of her life. She's not exactly unhappy, but she wants more. She's always been attracted to Spence Hogan, the …More

Rebel Queen By Moran, Michelle 2015-03 - Touchstone Books 9781476716350 Check Our Catalog From the internationally bestselling author of "Nefertiti "and "Cleopatra's Daughter "comes the breathtaking story of Queen Lakshmi--India's Joan of Arc--who against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to defend her beloved kingdom. When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. India is fractured and divided into …More

Invincible By Palmer, Diana 2014-07 - Harlequin 9780373778805 Check Our Catalog He's everything she fears... and everything she wants Mercenary by name and by nature, Carson is a Lakota Sioux who stays to himself and never keeps women around long enough for anything emotional to develop. But working with his friend Cash Grier on a complex murder investigation provides Carson with another kind of fun--shocking Cash's sweet-but-traditional secretary, Carlie Blair, with …More

Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley: Novellas and Stories By Pancake, Ann 2015-02 - Counterpoint LLC 9781619024649 Check Our Catalog Ann Pancake's 2007 novel "Strange As This Weather Has Been" exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In "Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley," a follow-up collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, Pancake again features characters who are intensely connected to their land--sometimes through love, sometimes through hate--and …More

A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction By Pratchett, Terry Foreword by Byatt, A. S. 2015-03 - Doubleday Books 9780385538329 Check Our Catalog A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. …More

Courting Catherine By Roberts, Nora Author Morgan, Sarah 2015-01 - Silhouette Books 9780373010172 Check Our Catalog A LASTING LEGACY Catherine "C.C." Calhoun is determined to keep her family's estate, known affectionately as the Towers, "in" the family. She admits the cost of keeping up the crumbling mansion might be quickly exceeding what C.C., her sisters and her aunt can afford, but the only way to save the house can't be to sell it. Especially not to arrogant and handsome hotel magnate Trenton St. James …More

Hidden Riches By Roberts, Nora 2012-08 - Jove Books 9780515152951 Check Our Catalog When antiques dealer Dora Conroy becomes the target of a ruthless smuggler after she purchases a few curiosities at an auction, she turns to her new neighbor, ex-cop Jed Skimmerhorn, for help. …More

Life or Death By Robotham, Michael 2015-03 - Mulholland Books 9780316252058 Check Our Catalog Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent ten years in a Texas prison after pleading guilty to a robbery in which four people died and seven million dollars went missing. During that time he has suffered repeated beatings, stabbings and threats by inmates and guards, all desperate to answer the same question: where's the …More

Return of the Cartier Cartel By Santiago, Nisa 2010-10 - Melodrama Publishing 9781934157305 Check Our Catalog Brooklyn empress Cartier knows the streets of Brooklyn like nobody's business. In fact, she successfully built her Cartier Cartel drug ring on the code of the streets, hustling and stacking paper. However, the life of crime is wearing her down, and she's ready to quit the game when two of her Cartel soldiers are gunned down in the same streets that fattened her bankroll. Now she's hell bent on …More

Arsene Schrauwen By Schrauwen, Olivier 2014-12 - Fantagraphics Books 9781606997307 Check Our Catalog Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize (2014) In 1947, the author s grandfather, Arsene Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin s wife, Marieke. Whether delirious from love or a fever-inducing jungle virus, Arsene s loosening grip on …More

The Coldest Winter Ever By Sister Souljah 2006-02 - Pocket Star Books 9781416521693 Check Our Catalog Now available in a trade paperback edition, Sister Souljah's debut novel about the daughter of a drug lord captures the allure and the danger of Brooklyn's streets. …More

Midnight: A Gangster Love Story By Sister Souljah 2008-11 - Atria Books 9781416545187 Check Our Catalog Awards: Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (2009) Sister Souljah, renowned hip-hop artist, political activist, and bestselling author, delivers a powerful story about love and loyalty, strength and survival, in this follow-up to her riveting masterpiece, "The Coldest Winter Ever." HPL patron: Excellent read!  Great story about a young male stepping up to take care of his family and falling in love at the same time. I …More

A Gangster's Daughter 2 By Sullivan, Leo 2014-02 - Createspace 9781495449550 Check Our Catalog This is Gangster's Daughter 3 off of e-book. The urban classic continues as 17-year-old Kadisha Spencer finds herself entangled in a vicious web of murder, larceny, and intrigue as a host of enemies plot her demise. The precious possession of her father's safe is finally opened; inside she discovers a Pandora's Box of clues that hintto her father's whereabouts. Is he still alive? With no other …More

The Candy Shop By Swinson, Kiki 2010-01 - Dafina Books 9780758238917 Check Our Catalog In this drama-filled page-turner, an "Essence"-bestselling author presents the raw tale of one woman's struggle with her demons, and the depths she will go to feed her addiction to street candy. HPL patron: Kiki tells all about how Faith loses it all because of a drug addiction.  I had hoped it would have a happy ending, but Kiki had a dose of reality for you.  Not …More

The Lodger By Treger, Louisa 2015-04 - Thorndike Press Large Print 9781410477774 Check Our Catalog Dorothy Richardson is existing just above the poverty line, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office and living in a seedy boarding house in Bloomsbury, when she is invited to spend the weekend with a childhood friend. Jane has recently married a writer who is hovering on the brink of fame. His name is H.G. Wells, or Bertie, as they call him. Bertie appears unremarkable at first. But …More

A Spool of Blue Thread By Tyler, Anne 2015-02 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781101874271 Check Our Catalog Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2015) "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . ." This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. …More

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel By Walls, Jeannette 2009-10 - Scribner Book Company 9781416586289 Check Our Catalog Walls's "The Glass Castle" was nothing short of spectacular ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now Walls presents this magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hardworking, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. …More

A Dangerous Place By Winspear, Jacqueline 2015-03 - Harper 9780062220554 Check Our Catalog Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit, and danger. Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability--and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace …More

Standup Guy By Woods, Stuart 2014-01 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399164156 Check Our Catalog Stone Barrington's newest client does not seem the type to bring mayhem in his wake. A polite, well-deported gentleman, he comes to Stone seeking legal expertise on an unusual--and potentially lucrative--dilemma. Stone points him in the right direction and sends him on his way, but it's soon clear Stone hasn't seen the end of the case. Several people are keenly interested in this gentleman's …More

True to the Game By Woods, Teri 2010-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446571562 Check Our Catalog Includes excerpts from: True to the game II and True to the game III. …More

The Hot Box By Zane 2010-08 - Atria Books 9780743499279 Check Our Catalog Harmony, Bryce, and Lucinda are back with their friends Fatima and Colette as they embark on a new set of adventures involving love, fun, and of course, drama. But they are not alone. Tempest and Janessa from "The Heat Seekers" join the festivities. (Adult Fiction) …More