HPL Adult Summer Reading

The Rowan By McCaffrey, Anne 2012-02 - Ace Books 9780441735761 Check Our Catalog The Rowan was one of the strongest Talents ever born, but she was also lonely and without family, friends --or love. Then a telepathic message came from a distant world facing an alien threat, a message sent by an unknown Talent named Jeff Raven, and be it power, danger, or love--the Rowan is about to meet her match. HPL patron: Good read. …More

Guilty Wives By Patterson, James Author Ellis, David 2012-03 - Little Brown and Company 9780316097567 Check Our Catalog Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter in Monte Carlo and enter the most luxurious, sumptuous hotel they have ever been to. Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and …More

A Small-Town Bride By Ramsay, Hope 2017-03 - Forever 9781455564842 Check Our Catalog Amy Lyndon is tired of being the Poor Little Rich Girl of Shenandoah Falls. In her prominent family, she's the ordinary one - no Ivy League education and no powerful career. But when her father tries to marry her off, she knows it's finally time to stand up for herself, despite the consequences. Now that she's cut off from the family fortune, her first challenge is to fight her attraction …More

Two Nights By Reichs, Kathy 2017-07 - Bantam 9780345544070 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A standalone thriller featuring a "tough-talking, scarred heroine"* from the author of the Temperance Brennan series, the basis for the hit TV show Bones. Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct. . . . Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which …More

From This Day By Roberts, Nora 2017-03 - Severn House Publishers 9780727886880 Check Our Catalog When B. J. Clark, the young and pretty manager of the Lakeside Inn, met the new owner, Taylor Reynolds, she was fully prepared to dislike him. For she feared - with good reason -that he planned to transform her sleepy old hotel into a resort for jet-setters. That sparks should fly between them was inevitable. But that these should be fanned by a mutual passion was no in her plans. Against all …More

The Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World By Rockaway, Kristin 2017-06 - Center Street 9781455597536 Check Our Catalog Fans of Sophie Kinsella and The Devil Wears Prada will love this smart, sexy debut novel of wanderlust. Objectively, Sophie is a success: she's got a coveted job at a top consulting firm, a Manhattan apartment, and a passport full of stamps. It isn't quite what she dreamed of when she was a teenager dog-earing pages in exotic travel guides, but it's secure. Then her …More

Run to Ground By Ruggle, Katie 2017-06 - Sourcebooks Casablanca 9781492643043 Check Our Catalog "Vivid and charming."--CHARLAINE HARRIS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series He lost his mentor. He lost his K9 partner. He almost lost his will to live. But when a ruthless killer targets a woman on the run, Theo and his new K9 companion will do whatever it takes to survive--and save the …More

Bone White By Staub, Wendy Corsi 2017-03 - William Morrow & Company 9780062349774 Check Our Catalog New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub revisits Mundy's Landing--a small town with a blood-soaked past. The town of Mundy's Landing was founded on a horrifying secret, but stark white bones of the dead never lie... "We shall never tell." Spurred by the cryptic phrase in a centuries-old letter, Emerson …More

Scared to Death By Staub, Wendy Corsi 2010-12 - Avon Books 9780061895074 Check Our Catalog Two women, strangers whose once-perfect lives had been cruelly shattered, are bound by a long-lost child, a fragile strand of newfound maternal hope--and mutual loneliness. Yet Elsa and Marin are never truly alone. Original. …More

Serenity Harbor: A Heartwarming Small Town Romance By Thayne, RaeAnne 2017-06 - Harlequin Books 9780373799398 Check Our Catalog In the town of Haven Point, love can be just a wish--and one magical kiss--away... Computer-tech millionaire Bowie Callahan is about the last person that schoolteacher Katrina Bailey wants to work for. As far as she can see, he's arrogant, entitled and not up to the task of caring for his young half brother, Milo. But Kat is, especially if it brings her closer to her goal of …More

Murder in the Bowery By Thompson, Victoria 2017-05 - Berkley Books 9781101987117 Check Our Catalog The latest Gaslight Mystery from the bestselling author of Murder in Morningside Heights finds Sarah Brandt and Frank Malloy searching for a connection between a murdered newsie and a high society woman with dangerous habits. Frank Malloy's latest client is the well-dressed Will Bert. He's searching for his brother, a newsboy named Freddie, so he can share his new financial good …More

The Undateable By Title, Sarah 2017-02 - Zebra Shout 9781420141832 Check Our Catalog One San Francisco librarian would rather check out a good romance than dare to experience it herself. Luckily, her own next chapter is full of surprises... Melissa "Bernie" Bernard isn't familiar with fame. After all, she works at a college library with hardly any visitors. But when a video of a marriage proposal in her stacks goes viral, it's not the bride and groom who …More

Blown Away By Tate, Clover 2017-02 - Berkley Books 9780425283547 Check Our Catalog In the all-new Kite Shop Mystery series set in the beachside community of Rock Point, Oregon, kite shop owner Emmy Adler gets swept up in a murder investigation. Emmy is finally living her dream. She's moved to the coastal town of Rock Point, Oregon, and is starting a kite business. Strings Attached features her own unique designs, inspired by everything from Picasso to …More

A Man Called Ove By Backman, Fredrik 2014-07 - Atria Books 9781476738017 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This was a good book easy enough to read yet still had a message worth keeping. Characters were well developed and the back story on Ove was well done. HPL patron: I liked the story very much, the end made me cry. But I really didn't like the narrative style. Still, a very good story. HPL …More

Native Plants of the Midwest: A Comprehensive Guide to the Best 500 Species for the Garden By Branhagen, Alan 2016-11 - Timber Press (OR) 9781604695939 Check Our Catalog Native Plants of the Midwest, by regional plant expert Alan Branhagan, features the best native plants in the heartland and offers clear and concise guidance on how to use them in the garden. Plant profiles for more than 500 species of trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, ground covers, bulbs, and annuals contain the common and botanical names, growing information, tips on using the plant in a …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

The Hunger Games By Collins, Suzanne 2008-10 - Scholastic Press 9780439023481 Check Our Catalog Awards: Beehive Awards (2010) Buckeye Children's Book Award (2009) California Young Reader Medal (2011) Charlotte Award (2010) Colorado Blue Spruce Award (2010) Cybils (2008) Delaware Diamonds Award (2010) Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2010) Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2011) Evergreen Young Adult Book Award (2011) Florida Teens Read (2010) Garden State Teen Book Award (2011) Gateway Readers Award (2011) Georgia Children's Book Award (2012) Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (2010) Golden Archer Award (2011) Golden Sower Award (2011) Grand Canyon Reader Award (2011) Heartland Award (2010) Indies Choice Book Awards (2009) Iowa High School Book Award (2011) Isinglass Teen Read Award (2010) Kentucky Bluegrass Award (2010) Land of Enchantment Book Award (2011) Maine Student Book Award (2010) Nevada Young Readers' Award (2010) Nutmeg Book Award (2012) Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (2010) Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award (2011) Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2010) Sequoyah Book Awards (2011) South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (2011) Tayshas Reading (2009) Texas Lone Star Reading List (2009) Truman Readers Award (2011) Virginia Readers Choice Award (2011) Volunteer State Book Awards (2011) Young Hoosier Book Award (2011) Young Reader's Choice Award (2011) The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Underland Chronicles series delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to the present. HPL Patron: A very enjoyable book.  Even if you've seen teh movie, you're still compelled to read on because …More

The Scorch Trials By Dashner, James 2010-10 - Delacorte Press 9780385738750 Check Our Catalog After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race. …More

Broken Harbor By French, Tana 2012-07 - Viking Books 9780670023653 Check Our Catalog Awards: Dilys Award (2013) L.A. Times Book Prize (2012) With her signature blend of police procedural and psychological thriller, French's fourth book of the Dublin murder squad goes full throttle with a heinous crime, creating her most complicated detective character and her best book yet. …More

Fates and Furies By Groff, Lauren 2015-09 - Riverhead Books 9781594634475 Check Our Catalog Awards: Kirkus Prize (2015) National Book Awards (2015) National Book Critics Circle Award (2015) HPL patron: Kind of confusing to follow but I had to finish. I was very surprised at the ending. …More

Strange Empire By Howard, Joseph Kinsey Foreword by Devoto, Bernard 1994-11 - Minnesota Historical Society Press 9780873512985 Check Our Catalog With passion and verve, Howard narrates the tragic story of Louis Riel, the Metis people, and their struggle for a homeland on the plains of the U.S.-Canada border. HPL patron: Riel led the bi-racial Metis as westward expansion settled the Canadian prairie. The French-Cree struggle ended in defeat at the battle of Batoche in Saskatchewan, 1885. Author …More

Louis Riel: With Profiles of Gabriel Dumont and Poundmaker By Knight, Robert Other World Book 2007-01 - World Book 9780716618249 Check Our Catalog …More

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason By Kohn, Alfie, Etc 2006-03 - Atria Books 9780743487481 Check Our Catalog From a nationally respected educator, the author of "Punished by Rewards" and "The Schools Our Children Deserve," comes a provocative challenge to the conventional wisdom about raising children. HPL patron: A huge amount of research on discipline that challenges parents to have a different perception of how to discipline children. …More

Parentspeak: What's Wrong with How We Talk to Our Children--And What to Say Instead By Lehr, Jennifer 2017-01 - Workman Publishing 9780761181514 Check Our Catalog A provocative guide to the hidden dangers of "parentspeak"--those seemingly innocent phrases parents use when speaking to their young children. Imagine if every time you praise your child with "Good job " you're actually doing harm? Or that urging a child to say "Can you say thank you?" is exactly the wrong way to go about teaching manners? Jennifer Lehr is a smart, funny, and fearless …More