Summer Reading Week 4 Thursday

15th Affair By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2016-05 - Little Brown and Company 9780316407076 Check Our Catalog Detective Lindsay Boxer chases an elusive, possibly very dangerous suspect...her husband, Joe. Lindsay Boxer has a beautiful baby daughter and a husband she loves unconditionally. She'd always been too focused on her career as a San Francisco police detective to wonder what domestic bliss might feel like, but now she knows, and she's never been happier. She can't imagine …More

Cat & Mouse By Patterson, James 1997-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316693295 Check Our Catalog Two killers - one operating in America, one in Europe - believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned. And Alex must contend with something he hasn't known since the loss of his wife: he's falling deeply in love, and this romance will make him, and her, all the more vulnerable... HPL patron: Bone-chilling twists and turns. The Alex …More

Silent Witness By Patterson, Richard North 1999-02 - Random House Value Publishing 9780517361337 Check Our Catalog Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-seven years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide. Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see sixteen-year-old Marcie Calder alive, and as shocking forensic evidence …More

Cooking By Peterson, James 2007-10 - Ten Speed Press 9781580087896 Check Our Catalog Awards: IACP Crystal Whisk Award (2008), James Beard Foundation Book Awards (2008), James Beard KitchenAid Book Awards (2008) James Peterson, one of the country's most revered cooking teachers, provides the confidence-building instructions home cooks need to teach themselves to cook consistently with ease in success. This instructional manual details techniques, teaches basic recipes, and includes hundreds of photos. HPL patron: Recipes from past to present. …More

A Treasure Concealed By Peterson, Tracie 2016-03 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764213342 Check Our Catalog Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Launches Exciting New Series Set in 1890s Montana Emily Carver wants a home where she can put down roots instead of following her gold-hungry father from one mining camp to another. She also longs for tenderness and love, both of which are missing in her life. Yet when she realizes she's losing her heart to the intriguing new man in camp, she fiercely …More

Emperor Mage By Pierce, Tamora 2015-09 - Atheneum Books for Young Readers 9781481440271 Check Our Catalog Sent to Carthak as part of the Tortallan peace delegation, Daine finds herself in the middle of a sticky political situation. She doesn't like the Carthaki practice of keeping slaves, but it's not her place to say anything -- she's just there to heal the emperor's birds. It's extremely frustrating! What's more, her power has grown in a mysterious way. As the peace talks stall, Daine …More

Garden of Lies By Quick, Amanda 2015-04 - Berkley Books 9780399165153 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Otherwise Engaged" and "The Mystery Woman" presents an all-new novel of intrigue and murder set against the backdrop of Victorian London The Kern Secretarial Agency provides reliable professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern's employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end …More

'Til Death Do Us Part By Quick, Amanda 2016-04 - Berkley Books 9780399174469 Check Our Catalog The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Garden of Lies" returns to Victorian London in an all-new novel of deadly obsession. Calista Langley operates an exclusive introduction agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable …More

Golden State By Richmond, Michelle 2014-07 - Thorndike Press 9781410469113 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I loved this book. I couldn't put it down. It has everything, love-relationships with her sister-stalking. …More

No One You Know By Richmond, Michelle 2009-05 - Bantam 9780385340144 Check Our Catalog The author of the luminous work "The Year of Fog" returns with an intensely emotional, multilayered family drama--a woman's search for her sister's killer that spirals into a journey of secrets, revelations, and damaged lives. HPL patron: Fascinating. I read it in 1 day, I'm retired. …More

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge By Ridley, Matt 2015-10 - Harper 9780062296009 Check Our Catalog The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world. Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one …More

Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children By Riggs, Ransom 2015-09 - Quirk Books 9781594747588 Check Our Catalog The movie adaptation of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" is in theaters September 2016. The "New York Times "#1 best selling series A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. The adventure that began with "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" and continued in "Hollow City" comes …More

The House of Hades By Riordan, Rick 2013-10 - Disney Press 9781423146728 Check Our Catalog Awards: Colorado Children's Book Award (2015), Golden Archer Award (2015) In this fourth installment of the bestselling series, the Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophesy of Seven must work together to seal the Doors of DeathNand help Percy and Annabeth escape the Underworld in the process. HPL patron: It was a very good book but I don't really like the ending. I know it is part of a trilogy, but it is a little too much of a cliff-hanger. …More

Calculated in Death By Robb, J. D. 2013-02 - Putnam Adult 9780399158827 Check Our Catalog On Manhattan's Upper East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better. …More

Celebrity in Death By Robb, J. D. 2012-02 - Putnam Adult 9780399158308 Check Our Catalog Awards: Rita Awards (2013) Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's having a reasonably good time at a celebrity-packed bash celebrating a film based on one of her famous cases. But once a cast member drowns, she's at the center of a crime scene and more than ready to get out of her high heels. …More

Concealed in Death By Robb, J. D. 2014-02 - G.P. Putnam's Sons a Member of Penguin Group 9780399164439 Check Our Catalog Awards: Rita Awards (2015) The incomparable J. D. Robb presents the latest moving and suspenseful novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Eve Dallas series. In a decrepit, long-empty New York building, Lieutenant Eve Dallas's husband begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When the dust clears, there are two skeletons wrapped in plastic behind it. He summons his wife immediately-and by the …More

Delusion in Death By Robb, J. D. 2012-09 - Putnam Adult 9780399158810 Check Our Catalog After 12 minutes of violence at a downtown bar, 80 people lay dead. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things--monsters and swarms of bees. The patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone to temporary insanity--if not kill them. …More

Obsession in Death By Robb, J. D. 2015-02 - Berkley Books 9780399170874 Check Our Catalog Lieutenant Eve Dallas walks the thin line between love and hate in this fabulous 40th thriller from #1 "New York Times" bestseller J. D. Robb Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and gotten a lot of media. She and her billionaire husband are getting accustomed to being objects of attention, of gossip, of speculation. But now Eve has become the …More

Seduction in Death By Robb, J. D. Author Roberts, Nora 2009-09 - Thorndike Press 9781410416483 Check Our Catalog In this all-new original novel from bestselling author Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is back on the beat, and hot on the trail of a seductive killer in the "New York Times" bestselling series. …More

Insurgent By Roth, Veronica 2012-05 - Katherine Tegen Books 9780062024046 Check Our Catalog Awards: Buckeye Children's Book Award (2013), Sequoyah Book Awards (2015) YA book about a world made up of Factions…groups of people in the US that handle different aspects of life.  The selfless are in Politics, the ruthless and tough are in Dauntless (protectors), etc.  When the characters turn 16 they all go take a test to see which faction they …More

The Darkest Torment By Showalter, Gena 2016-05 - Harlequin Books 9780373779741 Check Our Catalog New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with her most explosive Lords of the Underworld tale to date, about a fierce warrior on the brink of sanity who will stop at nothing to claim the exquisite human with the power to soothe the beast inside him Driven to his death by the demon of Distrust, Baden spent centuries in purgatory. Now he's back, but at what cost? Bound to the …More

The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 By Shriver, Lionel 2016-06 - Harper 9780062328243 Check Our Catalog "A provocative and very funny page-turner..."--Wall Street Journal With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science …More

The Summer Before the War By Simonson, Helen 2016-03 - Random House 9780812993103 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A novel to cure your "Downton Abbey" withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community. "The Washington Post" The bestselling author of "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand "returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I …More

The Wander Society By Smith, Keri 2016-03 - Penguin Books 9780143108368 Check Our Catalog wan.der "verb" \ wan-d r\ to walk/explore/amble in an unplanned or aimless way with a complete openness to the unknown Several years ago when Keri Smith, bestselling author of"Wreck This Journal," discovered cryptic handwritten notations in a worn copy of Walt Whitman s"Leaves of Grass," her interest was piqued. Little did she know at the time that those simple …More