HPL Adult Summer Reading

Dorothy Must Die By Paige, Danielle 2014-04 - HarperTorch 9780062280671 Check Our Catalog Awards: Delaware Diamonds Award (2015) 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 are no longer …More

Sisters of the Sword By Snow, Maya 2008-06 - HarperCollins 9780061243875 Check Our Catalog Set against the lush backdrop of ancient Japan, this tale of revenge, love, heartbreak, and swordplay is the first in Snow's exciting series in which two aristocratic sisters disguise themselves as boys and take refuge at a training school for samurai. HPL patron: This book was very fast paced and had an interesting plot. The pros of the book was the …More

Pretties By Westerfeld, Scott 2011-05 - Simon Pulse 9781416936398 Check Our Catalog Includes excerpts from Specials and from the new series Leviathan. …More

Uglies By Westerfeld, Scott 2011-05 - Simon Pulse 9781416936381 Check Our Catalog Now repackaged in an all-new edition--the bestselling novel that started the whole dystopian trend. …More

Ender's Game By Card, Orson Scott 1996-04 - Tor Books 9780812550702 Check Our Catalog The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic--the revised, definitive edition, from the bestselling author of Xenocide. The alien Buggers threaten humanity with extinction, and Earth's ultimate savior may be one small boy. Andrew "Ender" Wiggins thinks he is only playing computer games, but he is really commanding Earth's last great fleet. HPL patron: Very sad …More

Pekoe Most Poison By Childs, Laura 2017-03 - Berkley Books 9780425281680 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Great mystery! HPL patron: A really good cozy mystery. …More

Odd Numbers By Holt, Anne 2017-06 - Scribner Book Company 9781451634730 Check Our Catalog When bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council's headquarters in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case in the ninth and penultimate installment of the award-winning series from Norway's bestselling crime writer Anne Holt--"the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction" (Jo Nesbo). On an early April afternoon, a bomb goes off in the Islamic Cooperation Council's offices in Oslo, …More

Distress Signals By Howard, Catherine R. 2017-02 - Blackstone Audiobooks 9781504757522 Check Our Catalog A debut thriller that channels Gone Girl, from the newest writer to watch, Catherine Ryan HowardThe day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads -I'm sorry--S- sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her.Adam is puzzled when he …More

The Fashion Committee By Juby, Susan 2017-05 - Viking Books for Young Readers 9780451468789 Check Our Catalog "The Fashion Committee is another winner by one of my all time favorite authors."--Meg Cabot, New York Times bestselling author of the The Princess Diaries and Mediator series Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal sculptures in his garage and couldn't …More

Deeply Odd By Koontz, Dean R. 2013-05 - Bantam 9780553807738 Check Our Catalog Following the explosive success of "Odd Apocalypse," here is the gripping new adventure of Odd Thomas, Koontz's most celebrated character. In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver tricked up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a disturbing vision of a shocking multiple homicide that has not yet been committed. …More

From the Corner of His Eye By Koontz, Dean R. 2001-11 - Bantam 9780553582741 Check Our Catalog His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams. His story will change the way you see the world. On the heels of his #1 bestseller False Memory, Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work …More

Bagmen By Lashner, William 2014-08 - Thomas & Mercer 9781477822838 Check Our Catalog Victor Carl is back, and back in trouble. At a low point in his lowly career, Victor finds himself skulking through the streets of Philadelphia carrying a bag full of money for an ambitious politician. It is a rotten job on the wrong side of anyone's line, but with bag in hand Victor is suddenly hobnobbing with the city's elite, filling his bank account, and having sex with the politician's …More

Gone with the Wind By Mitchell, Margaret 1936-09 - Scribner Book Company 9780684830681 Check Our Catalog A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga. HPL patron: A classic novel of a woman ahead of her time during the Civil War and Reconstruction. From a Southern Belle to a poor plantation owner, and finally a rich woman, Scarlett O'Hara is one of a kind and ahead of her …More

Gap Creek By Morgan, Robert 1999-01 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1565122429 Check Our Catalog A "New York Times" Notable Book and Oprah Book Club selection from the "poet laureate of the Carolinas". "Gap Creek" is the gripping story of one young woman's courage in the face of the hardships of 19th-century country life. In Julie Harmon, a woman of strength, grace and immeasurable courage, Robert Morgan has created one of the most admirable and unforgettable heroines in modern American …More

Sweetgirl By Mulhauser, Travis 2016-02 - Ecco Press 9780062400826 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Mulhauser creates an extremely likeable, relatable heroine with Percy James. It's a turly believable story of bravery and survival, smartly written, with humor and tragedy mixing perfectly. …More

Blacklist By Paretsky, Sara 2004-08 - Large Print Press 9781594130465 Check Our Catalog A New York Times Bestseller One of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction, Paretsky is acclaimed for her fast-paced, complex plots; three-dimensional characters; nuanced social explorations; and, of course, V. I. Warshawski. This novel, however, is something special - a story of secrets and betrayals across four generations with particular resonance for today. As passionate, …More

Brush Back By Paretsky, Sara 2015-07 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399160578 Check Our Catalog Chicago's V. I. Warshawski confronts crooked politicians and buried family secrets in this gritty mystery from New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky. No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but she'd happily avoid tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that's what she ends up doing when she responds to a …More

Run for Your Life By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2009-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316018746 Check Our Catalog A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history. …More

Small Admissions By Poeppel, Amy 2016-12 - Atria Books 9781501122521 Check Our Catalog People's Book of the Week "The Devil Wears Prada meets Primates of Park Avenue." --The New York Times "Perfect for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep."--Booklist Top 6 Books You Need to Read--BuzzFeed Best Books to Give Every Book Lover on Your List--Town and Country One admission can …More

Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" By Ripley, Alexandra Based on a Book by Mitchell, Stephens 2007-09 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446502375 Check Our Catalog Readers can return to Tara . . . to Scarlett and Rhett . . . and to the greates love story in fiction--with the thrilling continuation of America's most beloved saga. HPL patron: Gone with the Wind fans rejoice! Finally we have an answer to the tangled love story of Scarlett and Rhett. Ripely admirable takes up the difficult task of continuing …More

This One Is Mine By Semple, Maria 2008-12 - Little Brown and Company 9780316031165 Check Our Catalog Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. "This One is Mine" is a compassionate and wickedly funny satire about the need for more--and the often disastrous choices made in the name of happiness. HPL patron: I really enjoyed this novel. It reads like a rom-com …More

The Last Death of Jack Harbin By Shames, Terry 2014-01 - Seventh Street Books 9781616148713 Check Our Catalog Awards: Macavity Award (2015) A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2014 Right before the outbreak of the Gulf War, two eighteen-year-old football stars and best friends from Jarrett Creek, Texas, signed up for the army. But Woody Patterson was rejected and stayed home to marry the girl they both loved, while Jack Harbin came back from the war badly damaged. The men haven't spoken since. …More

I Capture the Castle By Smith, Dodie 1999-03 - St. Martin's Press 9780312201654 Check Our Catalog The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in an English castle, "I Capture the Castle" is as brightly witty and adventuresome today as it was when it was first published 50 years ago. Illustrations. HPL patron: The way the author wrote mad ya feel as though you were part of Cassandra's family life. …More

The Nest By Sweeney, Cynthia D. 2016-03 - Ecco Press 9780062414212 Check Our Catalog Instant New York Times Bestseller; named a Best Book of 2016 by People, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Refinery29, NPR and LibraryReads. -Hilarious and big-hearted, The Nest is a stellar debut.- -- People -Her writing is like really good dark chocolate: sharper and more …More