HPL Adult Summer Reading

A Dark So Deadly By MacBride, Stuart 2017-04 - HarperCollins 9780007494682 Check Our Catalog Gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Welcome to the Misfit Mob... It's where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of, but wants to: the outcasts, the troublemakers, the compromised. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy turns up at the …More

A Highlander of Her Own By Mayhue, Melissa 2009-01 - Pocket Books 9781416572596 Check Our Catalog Time travel, faeries, and the medieval Scottish Highlands merge with passion and destiny, in this latest installment of the Daughters of the Glen series. Original. …More

Rain Dogs By McKinty, Adrian 2016-03 - Seventh Street Books 9781633881303 Check Our Catalog WINNER EDGAR(R) AWARD for BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career? When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are just a few …More

Heartless By Meyer, Marissa 2016-11 - Feiwel & Friends 9781250044655 Check Our Catalog The #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller that Gregory Maguire (Wicked and After Alice) calls "full of heart." Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all …More

American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream By Mickenberg, Julia L. 2017-04 - University of Chicago Press 9780226256122 Check Our Catalog If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia L. Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in …More

Two from the Heart By Patterson, James With Costantini, Frank 2017-04 - Little Brown and Company 9780316468909 Check Our Catalog From the #1 bestselling author of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and Sundays at Tiffany's, two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities. Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her …More

The Help By Stockett, Kathryn 2009-02 - Amy Einhorn Books 9780399155345 Check Our Catalog Awards: Colorado Blue Spruce Award (2014), Indies Choice Book Awards (2010), Mississippi Authors Award (2009), Nevada Young Readers' Award (2012), Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (2010), SIBA Book Award (2010) In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. HPL patron: Been meaning to read this book, finally got to it on audiobook. With 4-5 different …More

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are By Voskamp, Ann 2011-01 - Zondervan 9780310321910 Check Our Catalog Awards: Christian Retailing's Best (2012), Christianity Today Book Award (2012), INSPYs the Bloggers Awards for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature (2011), Retailers' Choice (2012) Drawing heartbreaking beauty out of the simplest of details, Ann Voskamp invites you into her grace-bathed life of farming, parenting, and writing---and deeper still into your own life. Here you will discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of becoming present to God that brings you deep and lasting joy. …More

The Maddie Diaries: A Memoir By Ziegler, Maddie 2017-03 - Gallery Books 9781501150661 Check Our Catalog THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Teen dance prodigy, breakout Dance Moms star, and judge on So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation presents her uplifting coming-of-age memoir about following her dreams and working hard to achieve success in both the dance world and in life. Maddie Ziegler had hoped to become a star--she just didn't know how soon …More