Summer Reading Week 7 continued-what Muskegon is reading this summer

John Wilkes Booth: Beyond the Grave By Jameson, W. C. 2013-07 - Taylor Trade Publishing 9781589798311 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Lincoln assassination conspiracy theory that expects us to accept not just one but three cases of mistaken identity: mainly that James William Boyd died at Garrett's Farm and not John Wilkes Booth. The supporting players David Herold/Ed Henson and Lewis Payne/Lewis Powell were confused by authorities, the wrong men hung. The author claims to …More

Doctor Sleep By King, Stephen 2013-09 - Scribner Book Company 9781476727653 Check Our Catalog Awards: Bram Stoker Awards (2013) Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, "The Shining," in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. …More

The Good Guy By Koontz, Dean R. 2007-05 - Bantam Books 9780553804812 Check Our Catalog Timothy Carrier has a dry sense of humor, but his deadpan wit lands him in a precarious situation when a stranger Tim converses with mistakes him for a hit man. HPL patron:  Good-ending  predictable. …More

Bleach, Vol. 1 By Kubo, Tite Illustrator Kubo, Tite 2004-05 - Viz Media 9781591164418 Check Our Catalog Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a shinigami and member of the mysterious Soul Society. …More

The Riders of High Rock By L'Amour, Louis 1994-04 - Bantam 9780553567823 Check Our Catalog Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead. Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has …More

Maximum Ride 2. By Lee, NaRae 2009-10 - Arrow Books 9780099538394 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Do you like action? or people who can fly? Well then open up this amazing book. Fight the erasers with these six awesome kids. They kick butt and help people they don't even know. Plus after living in a house secluded from everyone the school wants them back. …More

The Days of Anna Madrigal By Maupin, Armistead 2014-01 - HarperTorch 9780062196248 Check Our Catalog The ninth and final novel in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, The Days of Anna Madrigal is the triumphant resolution to a saga of urban family life that has enchanted and enlightened readers around the world since 1976. HPL patron: This was the last book in the Tales of the City series I read and although it is the last book …More

Beautiful Disaster By McGuire, Jamie 2012-08 - Atria Books 9781476712048 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Hard to get into at first, then the characters connect you. …More

Red Hill By McGuire, Jamie 2013-10 - Atria Books 9781476759524 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Unable to put down from page 1, ending was a little let down. …More

Killer Gourmet By McKevett, G. A. 2015-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758276575 Check Our Catalog Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid and her pals at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency know a thing or two about fine dining. But when murder shows up on the menu, it's time to go back to the kitchen. . . When the Moonlight Magnolia gang learns their friends Ryan Stone and John Gibson are planning to open a chic new restaurant, they eagerly offer their input on everything from what …More

A Whale for the Killing By Mowat, Farley 2012-08 - Douglas & McIntyre 9781771000284 Check Our Catalog A compelling true story of the author's desperate attempts to save an eighty-ton fin whale trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon. As he tries to persuade wildlife authorities and the Canadian press to help him in his quest, he must fend off curious and uncaring locals, who want to harvest the helpless whale for sport. As it tells one of Mowat's most personal and moving stories, this book becomes an …More

It's a Long Story: My Life By Nelson, Willie With Ritz, David 2015-05 - Little Brown and Company 9780316403559 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Willie is such an amazing storyteller in his music. This book is just a longer story. A true American Legend. Willie Nelson is timeless. His turn of phrase is beautiful …More

The Children's Crusade By Packer, Ann 2015-04 - Scribner Book Company 9781476710457 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: The Children's Crusade is a wonderful novel about family life set primarily in the 60's. Penny, the very narcissistic mother, impacts her children's adult lives in a very recognizable fashion. I loved the recurring theme in whicjh families grow up, grow apart, and then return forming new bonds and friendships. I would definitely recommend …More

Dorothy Must Die By Paige, Danielle 2014-04 - HarperTorch 9780062280671 Check Our Catalog Amy Gumm, the other girl from Kansas, has been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked to stop Dorothy who has found a way to come back to Oz, seizing a power that has gone to her head -- so now no one is safe! HPL patron: Remember when we were little kids and our parents told us about The Wizard of Oz? Well, Dorothy and her friends …More

The Midwife's Tale By Parr, Delia 2015-06 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764217333 Check Our Catalog Martha Cade comes from a long line of midwives who have served the families of Trinity, Pennsylvania, for generations. A widow with two grown children, she's hopeful that her daughter will follow in her footsteps, but when Victoria runs off, Martha's world is shattered. Worse, a new doctor has arrived in town, threatening her job, and she can't remember a time when her faith has been …More

Don't Blink By Patterson, James Author Roughan, Howard 2011-09 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446568845 Check Our Catalog While conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy, reporter Nick Daniels accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. …More

Truth or Die By Patterson, James Author Roughan, Howard 2015-06 - Little Brown and Company 9780316407014 Check Our Catalog The truth will set you free-if it doesn't kill you first. After a serious professional stumble, attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride. He's found happiness with his girlfriend Claire Parker, a beautiful, ambitious journalist always on the hunt for a scoop. But when Claire's newest story leads to a violent confrontation, Trevor's newly peaceful life is shattered as he …More

The Museum of Innocence By Pamuk, Orhan 2010-10 - Vintage 9780307386243 Check Our Catalog It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie. In his pursuit of Fusun over the …More

Church of Marvels By Parry, Leslie 2015-05 - Ecco Press 9780062367556 Check Our Catalog A ravishing first novel set in vibrant, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all New york, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night-soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where …More

A String of Beads By Perry, Thomas 2015-01 - Mysterious Press 9780802123299 Check Our Catalog After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on a job that took a dangerous turn for the worse, Jane McKinnon, nee Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New Yorkor so she thinks. One morning as she comes back from a long run, Jane is met by an unusual sight: all eight clan mothers, the female leaders …More

Lone Wolf By Picoult, Jodi 2012-04 - Center Point 9781611733662 Check Our Catalog A prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father learns that his dad lies comatose in a hospital. He fights with his sister about the next steps in this heart wrenching look at the intersection of medical science and moral choices. …More

Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories By Rash, Ron 2014-11 - Ecco Press 9780062349347 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2015), SIBA Book Award (2015) HPL patron: Some of these short stories are very hard to read. The book starts right off with "Hard Times" but they are new and honest. Ron Rash is very good with what he does and the topic he covers is as familiar to him as the back of his hand. …More

Bed of Roses By Roberts, Nora 2009-10 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425230077 Check Our Catalog Love blooms in the second novel in Roberts's celebrated Bride Quartet series. Florist Emma Grant is enjoying career success at Vows, a wedding planning company. She hasn't found Mr. Right yet, but Jack Cooke is about to change that. …More

Born in Fire By Roberts, Nora 2013-09 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425266090 Check Our Catalog First in a stunning new trilogy featuring the Concannon sisters of County Clare, Ireland. Maggie, the sister who marches to her own tune, is a gifted glassblower who hides the wounds of her troubled past by perfecting her craft. When she is discovered by a Dublin gallery owner, Maggie finds in him much more than a devoted patron. Abridged. HPL patron: …More