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