Summer Reading-What Muskegon is reading this summer

Doctor Cerberus By Aquirre-Sacasa, Roberto Read by Arkin, Adam Read by Williams, JoBeth 2010-12 - LA Theatre Works 9781580817455 Check Our Catalog A coming-of-age, coming-out cocktail with a twist of terror. Thirteen-year-old Franklin Robertson is trying to survive adolescence. His parents dont understand him, his brother torments him, he has no friends, and hes more interested in the high school quarterback than any girl. The one bright spot in his life is the glow of the black-and-white TV in his parents basement. Here, he worships at …More

To Win Her Favor By Alexander, Tamera 2015-05 - Zondervan 9780310343448 Check Our Catalog A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. But the one man who could help her has vowed to stay away from thoroughbred racing forever. An Irishman far from home, Cullen McGrath left a once prosperous life in England because of a horse racing scandal that nearly ruined him. He's come to Nashville for a fresh start, …More

Instant Love By Attenberg, Jami 2006-06 - Shaye Areheart Books 9780307337825 Check Our Catalog Sexy, edgy, and startingly revealing: three young women and the exact moments when they fall in and our of love. …More

The Kept Man By Attenberg, Jami 2008-01 - Riverhead Books 9781594489525 Check Our Catalog A riveting debut novel from a rising literary star, this story tells of a young woman whose husband has fallen into a coma, and her discovery of evidence that casts doubt on their marriage. …More

The Water Knife By Bacigalupi, Paolo 2015-05 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385352871 Check Our Catalog WATER IS POWER Paolo Bacigalupi, "New York Times" best-selling author of "The Windup Girl" and National Book Award finalist, delivers a near-future thriller that casts new light on how we live today and what may be in store for us tomorrow. The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while …More

Rag and Bone By Benn, James R. 2010-09 - Soho Press 9781569478493 Check Our Catalog As a diplomatic crisis looms, Billy must navigate the London underworld amidst a Luftwaffe bombing offensive to find a killer. …More

Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement By Bordewich, Fergus M. 2006-01 - Amistad Press 9780060524319 Check Our Catalog Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, this work shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change. HPL patron: Very informative. It gave me a new appreciation of the Underground Railroad. …More

Ballet Beautiful: Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer By Bowers, Mary Ellen 2012-06 - Da Capo Lifelong Books 9780738215907 Check Our Catalog A ballet-based fitness and well-being program--from the personal trainer to Natalie Portman for her Academy Award-winning performance in "Black Swan." …More

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust By Bradley, Alan Author Bradley, C. Alan 2015-01 - Delacorte Press 9780345539939 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A Flavia de Luce Novel. This 7th novel finds her at age 12 and far away from her beloved England and home. But the world opens up to her as she travels through Canada to attend school at Miss Bodycote's Female Academy, her mother Harriet's old school. …More

Santa Clawed By Brown, Rita Mae Author Sneaky Pie Brown Illustrator Gellatly, Michael 2008-10 - Thorndike Press 9781410409294 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling authors Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie, are back with a new mystery featuring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. Can they save the holiday season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town with murder? …More

Whisker of Evil By Brown, Rita Mae 2004-03 - Bantam Books 9780553801613 Check Our Catalog It's a summer full of turbulence for small-town Crozet, Virginia, with a movie star's homecoming, a spreading rabies epidemic, and the clues to an old murder unearthed. But what's unsettling for Harry is that the building of a new post office may depose her as postmistress. …More

Four Friends By Carr, Robyn 2014-03 - Harlequin Mira 9780778317180 Check Our Catalog From #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr comes the story of four friends determined to find their stride. Ultimately, they'll discover what it means to be a wife, mother, lover, friend...and most important--your true self. …More

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety By Carter, Jimmy 2015-07 - Simon & Schuster 9781501115639 Check Our Catalog Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. …More

My Antonia By Cather, Willa 1994-10 - Dover Publications 9780486282404 Check Our Catalog The story of Antonia Shimerda is told by on of the friends of her childhood, Jim Burden, an orphaned boy from Virginia. Though he leaves the prairie, Jim never forgets the Bohemian girl who so profoundly influenced his life. An immigrant child of immigrant parents, Antonia's girlhood is spent working to help her parents wrest a living from the untamed land. Though in later years she suffers …More

Pirate Latitudes By Crichton, Michael 2010-09 - HarperTorch 9780061929380 Check Our Catalog The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease--or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for …More

The Big Four By Christie, Agatha 2011-11 - Center Point 9781611732054 Check Our Catalog They are formidable enemies in their own rights: a French scientist, an American millionaire, a brilliant Chinese gentleman, and a master of disguise. But together they are the Big Four, a partnership with one simple goal--murder. Hercule Poirot has never come up against an opponent so vicious . . . or so deadly. …More

Gone for Good By Coben, Harlan 2002-04 - Bantam Doubleday Publishers 038533558X Check Our Catalog The bestselling author of "Tell No One" returns with a page-turning summer thriller about a man surrounded by deaths and disappearances. Everyone Will Klein loves seems to be harboring dark secrets--and each step toward finding out what is really going on takes him closer to the truth . . . a truth that is worse than anything he ever imagined. …More

The Melody Lingers on By Clark, Mary Higgins 2015-06 - Simon & Schuster 9781476749112 Check Our Catalog From #1" New York Times" bestselling "Queen of Suspense" comes a thrilling novel about missing billions, a disgraced financier, and those determined to learn the truth at any cost... As the sole assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon, mother to five-year-old Katie, is accustomed to visiting opulent homes around the tri-state area. A born optimist, Lane finds the …More

Pretend You Don't See Her By Clark, Mary Higgins 1998-05 - Pocket Books 9780671867157 Check Our Catalog After Manhattan real estate agent Lacey Farrell is witness to the dying words of a murder victim. The dying woman is convinced that the killer was after her daughter's journals. Lacey gives the journal to the police after making a copy for herself--an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed under the witness protection program, Lacey's life changes and she meets a man. Unable to live …More

The Alpine Yeoman: An Emma Lord Mystery By Daheim, Mary 2014-03 - Ballantine Books 9780345535337 Check Our Catalog A middle-aged honeymoon couple has to catch wedded bliss on the fly when murder and a car wreck upset their little town. …More

Bared to You By Day, Sylvia 2012-06 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425263907 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: An unlikely love story as Eva and Gideon try to discover what love means and how to trust and build a strong future from their broken pasts. They learn together that anything may be possible. Great follow up series to 50 Shades. …More

Entwined with You By Day, Sylvia 2013-06 - Berkley Books 9780425263921 Check Our Catalog The third book in the "New York Times"-bestselling Crossfire Trilogy following "Bared to You" and "Reflected in You." Day has written more than a dozen novels across multiple subgenres and has won the "Romantic Times" Reviewers' Choice Award and the National Readers' Choice Award twice. …More

Reflected in You By Day, Sylvia 2012-10 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425263914 Check Our Catalog The hotly anticipated second book of the Crossfire Trilogy continues the sensual saga of Eva and Gideon that began in "Bared to You." …More

Cheaters By Dickey, Eric Jerome 2001-05 - New American Library 9780451203007 Check Our Catalog Six African American urbanites look for love in this entertaining, sexy and candid novel about friendship and betrayal, adultery and secrets, and lust and love from the author of "Milk in My Coffee". HPL patron: This book had a lot of drama. I could relate to the characters. This book was too descriptive (too many details.) It talked about games people …More