Adult Summer Reading-Week 3 Books

Here I Am By Alers, Rochelle 2011-03 - Kimani Press 9780373534418 Check Our Catalog The bestselling author of the Hideaway novels, Alers continues her breathtaking new series, The Wainwright Legacy, chronicling the lives and loves of two prestigious New York families. Original. …More

Gates of Paradise By Andrews, V. C. 2010-11 - Gallery Books 9781451628104 Check Our Catalog Annie Casteel Stonewall, crippled and orphaned by the car crash that killed her parents, continues to be haunted by the sinister Casteel spell. HPL patron: This is the 4th book in the series, they just keep getting better. I read this one in less than one day. Great book. Great author. …More

Heaven By Andrews, V. C. Editor Marrow, Linda 1990-11 - Pocket Books 9780671729448 Check Our Catalog Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father. HPL patron: Great book. I have read it twice, couldn't put it down either time. …More

Fullmetal Alchemist (3-In-1 Edition), Vol. 9: Includes Vols. 25, 26 & 27 By Arakawa, Hiromu 2014-11 - Viz Media 9781421554976 Check Our Catalog In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical ""auto-mail"" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother's bodies...the legendary Philosopher's Stone. As the Day of Reckoning dawns, the Elric brothers, their father …More

Haunted Battlefields By Asfar, Dan 2004-06 - Ghost House Books 9781894877435 Check Our Catalog Battlefields are places where concentrated suffering and death haunt visitors, long after the cannons are silenced and the dead are laid to rest. …More

The Middlesteins By Attenberg, Jami 2012-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455507214 Check Our Catalog Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize (2012) For more than 30 years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason: Edie's enormous girth. When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. …More

Saint Mazie By Attenberg, Jami 2015-06 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455599899 Check Our Catalog Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the …More

The Mermaid's Child By Baker, Jo 2004-05 - William Heinemann 9780434010127 Check Our Catalog Growing up motherless in an isolated community, Malin Reed has always been made to feel different from everybody else. The fact that, according to Malin's father, the absent mother was actually a mermaid only makes matters worse. When Malin's father dies, leaving behind nothing but his stories, Malin's choice at last becomes clear: stay, and never feel at home, or leave and go in search of …More

Far as the Eye Can See By Bausch, Robert 2014-11 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781620402597 Check Our Catalog Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets-settlers and native people-and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. "Far as the Eye Can See" is the story of …More

Mr. Timothy By Bayard, Louis 2003-11 - HarperCollins Publishers 9780060534219 Check Our Catalog In this absorbing mystery set in 1860 London, a grown-up Timothy Cratchit discovers the dead body of ten-year-old girl. …More

Quest By Binder, Pam 2000-01 - Goodfellow Press 9781891761102 Check Our Catalog A Celtic healer seeks a champion to free her unjustly imprisoned mother. In desperation, Ana de Dannon reaches with all the magic she inherited to invoke the legendary Irish warrior, Cuchulainn. To her chagrin, she instead conjures Kenneth "Mac" MacKinnon, a professional football player from the twenty-first century. In order to achieve her quest, the unlikely lovers must unlock the mysteries of …More

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis By Binelli, Mark 2012-11 - Metropolitan Books 9780805092295 Check Our Catalog Awards: Michigan Notable Books (2013), Society of Midland Authors Award (2013) The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and "Rolling Stone" reporter Mark Binelli. …More

Summer Sisters By Blume, Judy 1998-05 - Delacorte Press 9780385324052 Check Our Catalog A novel only Judy Blume could write, sweeping in scope and filled with memorable characters every reader will recognize, this unforgettable exploration of kinship, class, and family, of friendship, love, and ultimate fulfillment tells of the fundamental choices that everyone must make in the passage from innocence to knowledge. …More

In Dublin's Fair City By Bowen, Rhys 2008-03 - St. Martin's Press 9780312997021 Check Our Catalog "Plucky early-twentieth-century private investigator Molly Murphy is back in this sixth thrilling installment in Rhys Bowen's award-winning series." In Dublin's Fair City When New York theatre impresario Tommy Burke asks Molly to help him take care of some family business back in Ireland, Molly is happy to oblige. Tempted by the prospect of going home for the first time in years (and …More

Her Mother's Shadow By Chamberlain, Diane 2012-10 - Mira Books 9780778314806 Check Our Catalog Chamberlain tells the story of a woman who rebuilds her life years after witnessing the murder of her mother. When the murderer comes up for parole, Lacey O'Neill's thoughts return to that tragic episode and to the mother she never really knew. Reissue. …More

Kiss River By Chamberlain, Diane 2011-11 - Mira Books 9780778312857 Check Our Catalog In this sequel to "Keeper of the Light," sister and brother Lacey and Clay live in the keeper's house next to the dilapidated Kiss River lighthouse. When Gina arrives, she starts a chain of events that will change their lives. …More

The Silent Sister By Chamberlain, Diane 2014-10 - St. Martin's Press 9781250010711 Check Our Catalog In "The Silent Sister," Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those …More

The Lost Years By Clark, Mary Higgins 2013-03 - Pocket Books 9781451668926 Check Our Catalog Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a 70-year-old biblical scholar, believes he has discovered a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Soon, however, Lyons is found shot to death in his New Jersey home. His daughter Mariah believes that the key to her father's death is tied to another question: Where is the missing parchment? …More

Just Wanna Testify By Cleage, Pearl 2011-05 - One World 9780345506368 Check Our Catalog A mesmerizing slice of not-so-everyday life, brimming with wicked wit and spiced with a few supernatural surprises, "Just Wanna Testify" showcases Cleage's masterly storytelling at its soulful and satisfying finest. …More

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars By Collins, Paul 2012-04 - Broadway Books 9780307592217 Check Our Catalog "No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."--DAVE EGGERS On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed …More

The Black Box By Connelly, Michael 2013-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446556729 Check Our Catalog In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and …More

The Gods of Guilt By Connelly, Michael 2014-05 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455575992 Check Our Catalog Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his …More

Nine Dragons By Connelly, Michael 2010-07 - Vision 9780446561952 Check Our Catalog While investigating the murder of a Chinese liquor store owner, Harry Bosch gets word his daughter, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, has been kidnapped. Bosch drops everything and journeys across the Pacific to a new city where nothing is as it seems. Available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

Flesh and Blood By Cornwell, Patricia 2014-11 - William Morrow & Company 9780062325341 Check Our Catalog It sa sunny morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and alsoDr. Kay Scarpetta s birthday.She s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind theirhome. Is this a kids game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Hercell phonerings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her …More

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Tom Clancy Under Fire By Blackwood, Grant 2015-06 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399175756 Check Our Catalog On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth gives Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions!

Dead or Alive By Clancy, Tom With Blackwood, Grant 2012-10 - Berkley Books 9780425263532 Check Our Catalog Jack Ryan, Jr. and his Campus colleagues John Clark and Ding Chavez go after a vicious terrorist mastermind, the Emir, and they will bring him inNdead or alive. …More

Robert Ludlum's (TM) the Bourne Ascendancy By Lustbader, Eric Van Author Van Lustbader, Eric 2014-06 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455577538 Check Our Catalog In this thrilling and absorbing new novel Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. …More

Carte Blanche 007: The New James Bond Novel By Deaver, Jeffery 2011-06 - Simon & Schuster 9781451620696 Check Our Catalog Bestselling thriller superstar Deaver--author of such international hits as "Roadside Crosses, The Bodies Left Behind," and "The Bone Collector"--delivers the newest installment of the James Bond series, updated for the new millennium. …More

Upcoming Events at HPL

MR. JIM'S JUGGLING PROGRAM 2:00 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015 Mr. Jim's hands-on program is focused on setting a goal, staying focused on a task, coping with setbacks, dealing with "put downs," gaining gratification through personal effort, building self-confidence----and you learn to juggle, too!!

Saturday Computer Class-Web Surfing 11:00 am, Saturday, June 27 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic-Web surfing. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Saturday Computer Class-Web Surfing 12:15 pm, Saturday, June 27 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic-Web surfing. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Trouble with your Tablet? 1:30 pm, Wednesday, July 1 Having trouble with your tablet? Bring it to HPL on Wednesdays at 1:30 to get tech help.

Hungrytown 6:00 pm, Tuesdsay, July 7 Hungrytown is the musical and married duo of Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson. They have released two highly acclaimed CDs, Hungrytown (2008) and Any Forgotten Thing (2011), both of which continue to receive much airplay on folk and Americana stations worldwide. Rebecca and Ken tour full time; their adventures have taken them throughout the US, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. Their songs have been performed by many other artists, including Nashville songwriting legend David Olney and bluegrass veterans the Virginia Ramblers. Hungrytown’s music has also appeared on several television shows, including the Independent Film Channel’s hit series, Portlandia. Before Hungrytown, Rebecca made two well-received CDs under her own name (with help from Ken behind the scenes), Rebecca Hall Sings! (2000) and Sunday Afternoon (2002). Rebecca learned to sing in church as a child, and had developed into a skilled interpreter of jazz and blues standards by the time she was in her 20s. Her discovery of roots music coincided with the reissue of the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music in 1997, and inspired her to write her own material. She soon developed a reputation for crafting classic, instantly memorable songs, weaving modern themes into traditional song structures. “Rebecca Hall is a true rarity: a new folk classicist. ” wrote Daniel Gewertz of the Boston Herald . Ken is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist as well as a talented producer and arranger. He learned to play drums and keyboards as a child, and has since moved on to bass, guitar, mandolin, banjo and harmonica. He also has a remarkable gift for musical harmony, and is responsible for Hungrytown’s luxuriant vocal stylings. Having produced all of their recorded works, his artistry has been singled out for praise: “Anderson has a knack for crafting rich arrangements that don’t clutter things up,” writes Casey Rea of Seven Days (VT) magazine. When not touring with Rebecca, Ken is often hiding out in their home studio, Song Catcher Recording, working with other songwriters and instrumentalists. “When not performing, this duo is known as Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson and you will need to go a long way to find a more talented and likeable couple. Their music mixes the snow of their home in Vermont, the dew on the grass of a cool summer morning in the Appalachians, the hard-scrabble grittiness and pluck of common folk the world over together with the melancholy of lost loves, broken hearts, and shattered dreams,distilling it into an intoxicating, hauntingly seductive blend that you always want more of. Their music impresses with its range and depth, running from a shy lover’s soft,gentle caress to a hardened, bitter fist shaking against an evil fate, to a wry, ironic,self-mocking sense of humor. Their voices, each a thing of wonder in its own right,when combined completely bowl you over and by turn lift you to dizzy heights of joy and dash you to aching sadness. If you enjoy folk music with substance and style, your appetite for Hungrytown will never be satisfied.” -Mark Pendleton La Cruces (NM) Sun News

Trouble with your Tablet? 1:30 pm, Wednesday, July 8 Having trouble with your tablet? Bring it to HPL on Wednesdays at 1:30 to get tech help.

Intro to Computers 10:30 am, Saturday, July 11: De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes on Saturdays at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Intro to computers. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

TODDLERS! PLAY AT HACKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY! 12:00 PM SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2015 FOR AGES 0 - 4 Children learn to read through five different practices: talking, writing, reading, playing and singing. Have fun with Ms. Cassandra and increase our reading skills at the same time. This week's theme is: "Let's go shopping."

MACIEK THE MAGICIAN MAGIC SHOW 2:00 PM SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2015 Be prepared for WOW! entertainment and the wonderful world of Magic performed by Maciek. This performance is for ages 1 - 101!

Summer Reading-What Muskegon is reading this summer

The Love Letters By Lewis, Beverly 2015-03 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764213212 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I like this author because she has so much knowledge of the lives of her interesting characters. I like learning how others worship and how their everyday lives are controlled by their sincere beliefs. …More

The Magician's Lie By Macallister, Greer 2015-01 - Sourcebooks Landmark 9781402298684 Check Our Catalog "Smart, intricately plotted...a richly imagined thriller."- PEOPLE magazine "This is a book in which storylines twist, spiral and come together again in an ending as explosive as a poof of smoke from your chimney...or a top hat." - Oprah.com "It's a captivating yarn.... Macallister, like the Amazing Arden, mesmerizes her audience. No sleight of hand is necessary. An ambitious heroine and a …More

Living Courageously: You Can Face Anything, Just Do It Afraid By Meyer, Joyce 2014-09 - Faithwords 9781455517480 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Very positive as always. A big fan of her and all of her teachings. …More

You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television By Michaels, Al Author Wertheim, L. Jon 2014-11 - William Morrow & Company 9780062314963 Check Our Catalog One of America's most respected sportscasters--and the play-by-play voice of NBC's Sunday Night Football--gives us a behind-the-curtain look at some of the most thrilling games and fascinating figures in modern sports. No sportscaster has covered more major sporting events than Al Michaels. During the course of his forty-plus-year career, he has logged more hours on live primetime network …More

A Mercy By Morrison, Toni 2008-11 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307264237 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2010) A Mercy is a powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and is almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. HPL patron: This is the first Toni Morrison book I have read. While I listened to this through the audio book program of Overdrive, I enjoyed the …More

The Slave Ship: A Human History By Rediker, Marcus 2007-10 - Viking Books 9780670018239 Check Our Catalog Awards: George Washington Book Prize (2008) Much is known of the American slave trade, but little of the ships that made it all possible. Award-winning historian Rediker draws on 30 years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. HPL patron: An interesting book-but also a sad book of tragedy and …More

Portobello By Rendell, Ruth 2010-09 - Scribner Book Company 9781439148518 Check Our Catalog From Rendell, "reigning queen of crime fiction" ("Time Out"), comes a psychologically intense novel about a small crime and its devastating aftermath. …More

Temptation in a Kilt By Roberts, Victoria Taylor 2012-09 - Sourcebooks Casablanca 9781402270062 Check Our Catalog This hot new series follows a trio of Highland lairds, who are driving King James crazy with their constant clan battles and uproarious way of life. Original. …More

Gathering Prey By Sandford, John 2015-04 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399168796 Check Our Catalog The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport s adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a …More

Indelible By Slaughter, Karin 2011-05 - HarperTorch 9780062021908 Check Our Catalog Sometimes a past comes back to kill . . . Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors--including a class of grade-school children and medical examiner Sara Linton--are held hostage. In a tense standoff that could erupt at any moment …More

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail By Strayed, Cheryl 2012-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307592736 Check Our Catalog Awards: Discover Great New Writers (2012), Indies Choice Book Awards (2013), Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (2012), Oregon Book Awards (2013), Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (2013) A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. …More

Still Dirty By Stringer, Vickie M. 2009-06 - Atria Books 9781416563594 Check Our Catalog Following the phenomenal success of "Dirty Red, Essence"-bestselling author Stringer is back with a sizzling sequel featuring the notorious cast of characters--Red, Bacon, and Q--who made "Dirty Red" a hit. …More

Peacemaker By Swallow, James 2007-12 - BBC Books 9781846073496 Check Our Catalog The Doctor and Martha are about to find out if a sonic screwdriver is more powerful than a six-shooter in the latest in the bestselling series of Doctor Who novels. The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for 'the healer'. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns …More

Yu-GI-Oh! (3-In-1 Edition), Vol. 1: Includes Vols. 1, 2 & 3 By Takahashi, Kazuki 2015-02 - Viz Media 9781421579245 Check Our Catalog Tenth-grader Yugi always had his head in some game--until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing the spirit of a master gambler from the age of the pharoahs Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games...weird games with high stakes and high risks Let the games begin Meet Seto Kaiba, master of the …More

The Haunting of America: Ghosts & Legends of America's Haunted Past By Taylor, Troy 2001-09 - Whitechapel Productions 9781892523174 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: The most interesting story was the Dudley Town how everyone was cursed because of the Dudley Family. This book has legends that make you wanna jump out of your skin such as the Phelp House in Mass. This book was an interesting read. …More

Among the Mansions of Eden: Tales of Love, Lust, and Land in Beverly Hills By Weddle, David 2003-03 - William Morrow & Company 9780060198176 Check Our Catalog There is no place more synonymous with glamour and ostentatious displays of wealth than Beverly Hills. In "Among the Mansions of Eden, " a veteran journalist explores this wild, fascinating community that has become part of America's mythology. 16-page photo insert. HPL patron: It takes you behind the gates of the rich and famous. Interesting book. …More

Amber and Blood By Weis, Margaret 2008-05 - Wizards of the Coast 9780786950010 Check Our Catalog In the concluding volume of this post-War of Souls trilogy, Mina learns the truth about herself and the terrible knowledge nearly drives her insane. …More