HPL Adult Summer Reading

A Marriage of Convenience By Amethyst, Jewel 2009-08 - Leisure Books 9780843962987 Check Our Catalog After she's left standing at the altar, Tamara needs someone to share the new home she can't afford on her own. Enter Kwabena Opoku, a gorgeous Ghanian scientist in search of a green card, to fulfill Tamara's needs--and the desires she had not known she had. Original. …More

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl By Andrews, Jesse 2012-03 - Amulet Books 9781419701764 Check Our Catalog Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2013), Cybils (2012), Green Mountain Book Award (2014), Tayshas Reading (2013) Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia. …More

Floating By Bailey-Williams, Nicole Author Williams, Nicole Bailey 2004-05 - Broadway Books 076791564X Check Our Catalog From the gifted author of "A Little Piece of Sky: The poignant tale of a young woman who must come to terms with her biracial identity. Shana Washington is the product of two very different worlds. Her white mother is a socialite with an Ivy League education; Shana's black father has a weakness for whiskey and can't stay faithful to any woman, but when his daughter is in peril, he …More

A Little Piece of Sky By Bailey-Williams, Nicole 2002-10 - Broadway Books 9780767912167 Check Our Catalog Awards: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (2003) A poignant, powerful debut that combines the deep emotion of "The House on Mango Street with uniquely creative storytelling. Unfolding in a series of tiny vignettes, "A Little Piece of Sky introduces an endearing new novelist and a truly unforgettable main character. In the first few chapters we meet a little girl named Song Byrd, who keenly reports on the world around her. She is …More

Zero Day By Baldacci, David 2011-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446573016 Check Our Catalog John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. 416 pp. (Espionage/Thriller) …More

Another One Night Stand By Banks, Kendall 2014-02 - Dafina Books 9780758293022 Check Our Catalog On the run from a broken heart, and the police, Zaria has fled south to Philadelphia. With a rich new man, a sexy new look and an overflowing bank account, she's never felt hotter - or more hell-bent on revenge. Because the past isn't so easy to escape, and when things don't go her way, nothing can quiet the ruthless voice in Zaria's head that tells her every day is payback time. …More

I Ain't Sayin' She's a Gold Digger By Barnes, Erica 2011-05 - Urban Books 9781601624505 Check Our Catalog For Kentia Bradford, selling jewellery on Crenshaw simply isn't cutting it. Even getting a 'real job', she still can't seem to meet her needs. Beauty and trickery is what Kentia knows best and she uses that as her golden ticket to get a man with money. …More

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables By Bellos, David 2017-03 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374223236 Check Our Catalog A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Les Miserables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert's dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned, but only grown broader in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year life. Whether we encounter Victor Hugo's story on the page, onstage, or on-screen, Les Miserables …More

The Prisoner By Berenson, Alex 2017-01 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399176159 Check Our Catalog To unmask a CIA mole, John Wells must resume his old undercover identity as an al Qaeda jihadi--and hope he can survive it--in this cutting-edge novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It is the most dangerous mission of John Wells's career. Evidence is mounting that someone high up in the CIA is doing the unthinkable--passing messages to ISIS, …More

With Friends Like These By Billingsley, ReShonda Tate 2007-04 - Pocket Books 9781416525622 Check Our Catalog The exciting third book in Billingsley's Ten Commandments-based teen series continues the story of a group of girls who find faith and friendship in an after-school church group. …More

Second Sunday By Bowen, Michele Andrea 2009-03 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446549509 Check Our Catalog A #1 "Essence"-bestselling author takes readers on a hilarious journey into the inner sanctums of African-American church life. In 1970s St. Louis, members of Gethsemene Missionary Baptist connive to have their choice as pastor named. …More

Vicious Circle By Box, C. J. 2017-03 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399176616 Check Our Catalog The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box. The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it. And Joe …More

Make Me By Child, Lee 2015-09 - Delacorte Press 9780804178778 Check Our Catalog #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND SUSPENSE MAGAZINE - Stephen King calls Jack Reacher -the coolest continuing series character---and now he's back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child. -Why is this town called Mother's Rest?- That's all Reacher wants to know. …More

Murder on the Orient Express By Christie, Agatha 2000-01 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425173756 Check Our Catalog En route to Paris, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has booked winter passage on the fabled Orient Express. Among the curious assortment of passengers, a wealthy American is found dead in a night compartment. By dawn, 13 travelers, each with secrets, will find themselves suspect in the most ingenious crime Poirot has ever solved. HPL patron: Great book-not a …More

The Fever Code: Book Five; Prequel By Dashner, James 2016-09 - Delacorte Press 9780553513097 Check Our Catalog All your questions are answered in the fifth book in James Dashner's #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. The story that fans all over the world have been waiting for -- the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze -- is finally here. You do not want to miss it. Once there was a world's end. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, …More

The Kill Order By Dashner, James 2012-08 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers 9780375990823 Check Our Catalog Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the Earth and mankind fell to disease. "The Kill Order" is the story of that fall. …More

The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story By Davis, Miriam C. 2017-03 - Chicago Review Press 9781613748688 Check Our Catalog From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has …More

The Prey of Gods By Drayden, Nicky 2017-06 - Voyager 9780062493033 Check Our Catalog From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor. In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making …More

Earth Bound By Feehan, Christine 2015-07 - Berkley Books 9780515155570 Check Our Catalog #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan returns to the mysterious coastal town of Sea Haven where a woman is stalked by her inescapable past in the fourth novel in the Sisters of the Heart series. On the shores of Sea Haven, six women touched by great loss have come together in a sisterhood strengthened by the elements--a bond each will need as new love and …More

Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History By Haines, Tim 2000-03 - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) 9780789451873 Check Our Catalog Through expertly written text and rich visual images, this book vividly depicts the age of these super-beasts, the landscape in which they lived, and the brutal lifestyle they endured. "Walking with Dinosaurs" discusses the scientific debates on such controversial issues as whether dinosaurs were hot- or cold-blooded, whether they hunted in packs or alone, and how they came to be extinct. Based on …More

Wishbones By Haines, Carolyn 2008-06 - Minotaur Books 9780312377083 Check Our Catalog "Carolyn Haines's delightful Southern series heads out West when Sarah Booth Delaney lands a lead in a sultry Hollywood film...and an even hotter mystery.""" It's time for Sarah Booth to pack up her hound dog and her P.I. business and take a shot at stardom! Soon she aces the screen test for a racy remake of the movie "Body Heat" alongside leading man Graf Miliau. The chemistry between them …More

Enigma By Harris, Robert 1996-09 - Ballantine Books 9780804115483 Check Our Catalog "LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE." --The Washington Post Book World England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on their …More

Celine By Heller, Peter 2017-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780451493897 Check Our Catalog From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. Working out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, Celine has made a career of tracking down …More

Sister Girls 2 By Hunter, Angel M. 2008-03 - Urban Books 9781601620446 Check Our Catalog Elsie is still confused about her sexuality--until she reconnects with an old friend. Faith, a therapist, is married to a controlling man who offers stability at the price of her dignity, while Harmony wants to let go of her promiscuous past. Forced to make changes, each woman must discover her true self. …More