HPL's Adult Summer Reading

Sphere By Crichton, Michael 2011-03 - HarperTorch 9780061990557 Check Our Catalog In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old. But even more fantastic--and frightening--is what waits inside . . …More

The Misfortune of Marion Palm By Culliton, Emily 2017-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781524731908 Check Our Catalog A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who …More

Spiders: The Ultimate Predators By Dalton, Stephen 2008-09 - Firefly Books 9781554073467 Check Our Catalog An exceptionally well-illustrated study of spiders and how they hunt by celebrated nature photographer. Chapters provide information on habitat, hunting techniques, anatomy, general characteristics as well as a guide to photographing spiders. …More

The Death Cure By Dashner, James 2011-10 - Delacorte Press 9780385738774 Check Our Catalog Awards: Buckeye Children's Book Award (2013), Colorado Blue Spruce Award (2014) Thomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test. What Wicked doesn't know is that …More

Plotted: A Literary Atlas By Degraff, Andrew Author Harmon, Daniel 2015-10 - Pulp 9781936976867 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This is a fun, beautifully and intricately drawn book of imagined maps of 19 different stories. A quick read that makes you linger a little longer than expected on the details of the maps. …More

Into the Shadow By Dodd, Christina 2008-07 - Signet Book 9780451224514 Check Our Catalog Blessed--or cursed--with the ability to change into a panther, and driven by a dark soul, Adrik Wilder pursues a life of wickedness. He excels at every vice, including kidnapping Karen Sonnet to use for his selfish purposes. But Karen's spirit and passion make him question the force of his family's curse. Original. …More

Touch of Darkness By Dodd, Christina 2007-08 - Signet Book 9780451221841 Check Our Catalog Awards: Rita Awards (2008) "New York Times" bestselling author Dodd delivers the second book of her seductive Darkness Chosen series. Handsome Rurik Wilder can transform himself into a fierce bird of prey. At last hes offered a chance to redeem himself. Only one woman stands in his way--a woman determined to wreak revenge on the assassins who murdered her family. Original. …More

Knife Creek: A Mike Bowditch Mystery By Doiron, Paul 2017-06 - Minotaur Books 9781250102355 Check Our Catalog When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery -- a dead baby buried in a shallow grave. Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed to have died four years earlier after she disappeared from a group rafting trip. As …More

Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel By Evanovich, Janet 2002-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312980146 Check Our Catalog New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the trail of semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch, an old man who can still slip out of sight. When a corpse is found in Eddie's garden and two of her friends vanish, Stephanie finds herself making a devil's bargain with her mentor, the Ranger, who'll give her all the help she needs--if she gives him everything he wants. Martin's Press. …More

The Widow's Kiss By Feather, Jane 2002-01 - Bantam 9780553581874 Check Our Catalog Dear Reader, When I first saw her, I realized that the miniature portrait I had shown to the king did not do her justice. Lady Guinevere Mallory's beauty transcended even a portrait painter's skill. It was nearly impossible to believe that this woman, who had buried four husbands before her thirtieth birthday, could have used murder and the dark arts of witchcraft to achieve her great …More

Dark Peril By Feehan, Christine 2010-08 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425236598 Check Our Catalog Dominic of the Dragonseeker Carpathians is on a desperate mission, in the very heart of enemy territory. Solange Sangria is one of the last jaguar people. She has long been fighting to save women who are able to shift from the hands of the man who slaughtered her family. They are two warriors who have lived their lives alone. Now, at the end of their time, they find each other, a complication …More

Power Game By Feehan, Christine 2017-01 - Berkley Books 9780399583919 Check Our Catalog In this sizzling and suspenseful GhostWalker novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Spider Game, two lovers discover there's no telling who will come out on top. When radical terrorists take hostages in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a supersoldier with enhanced …More

Water Bound By Feehan, Christine 2010-07 - Jove Books 9780515148244 Check Our Catalog Awards: Rita Awards (2011) From a #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author comes the first in a soul-stirring new series. Off the shores of Sea Haven, a beautiful diver rescues a man from drowning, a man with no memory of who he is--or why he seems to possess the violent instincts of a trained killer. But soon, he and his savior will be engulfed in a storm of dizzying passion and inescapable danger. Original. …More

Banana Cream Pie Murder By Fluke, Joanne 2017-02 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781617732201 Check Our Catalog A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen's marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, it seems the newlywed's homecoming won't be as sweet as she anticipated . . . After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But …More

Bewitched By Foster, Lori 2010-10 - Harlequin Books 9780373774951 Check Our Catalog Two steamy classics from a "New York Times"- and "USA Today"-bestselling author are collected in this single volume. Includes "In Too Deep" and "Married to the Boss." Reissue. …More

Getting Rowdy By Foster, Lori 2013-09 - Harlequin Books 9780373777792 Check Our Catalog Charismatic bar owner Rowdy Yates isn't the kind of man women say no to. So when he approaches waitress Avery Mullins, he fully expects to get her number. However, the elusive beauty has her reasons for keeping her distance--including a past that might come back to haunt them both. …More

A Perfect Storm By Foster, Lori 2012-03 - Harlequin Books 9780373776566 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling author Foster delivers the fourth sizzling novelin her Men Who Walk the Edge of Honor series. Original. …More

Run the Risk By Foster, Lori 2012-09 - Harlequin Books 9780373776955 Check Our Catalog Nothing can shake a cop from pursuing justice except a beautiful witness marked for death, in "New York Times"-bestselling author Foster's sexy new series, Love Undercover. Original. …More

When You Dare By Foster, Lori 2011-04 - Harlequin Books 9780373775712 Check Our Catalog A "New York Times"- and "USA TODAY"-bestselling author delivers the first smoldering tale in a brand-new series featuring men who walk the edge of honor. Original. …More

Even Money By Francis, Dick Author Francis, Felix 2009-08 - Putnam Adult 9780399155918 Check Our Catalog On the first day of Royal Ascot, a man steps forward claiming to be Ned Talbot's long-lost father. Barely an hour later, the man is found stabbed to death. Ned embarks on a race to solve his father's murder. Available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

Into the Fire By Frost, Jeaniene 2017-02 - Avon Books 9780062076403 Check Our Catalog In the explosive finale to New York Times bestselling author Jeaniene Frost's Night Prince series, Vlad is in danger of losing his bride to an enemy whose powers might prove greater than the Prince of Vampires' . . .In the wrong hands, love can be a deadly weapon For nearly six hundred years, Vlad Tepesh cared for nothing, so he had nothing to lose. His brutal reputation ensured …More

Our Endless Numbered Days By Fuller, Claire 2015-03 - Tin House Books 9781941040010 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A confusion on paper with lots of questions left unanswered. …More

The Cuckoo's Calling By Galbraith, Robert 2013-04 - Mulholland Books 9780316206846 Check Our Catalog Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize (2013) A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein. After an injury in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. But then opportunity walks through the door--and he must investigate a supermodel's suicide. HPL patron: Excellent mystery novel! Plenty of twists and turns making it hard to put the book down. Although the plot is different from …More

A Place Called Rainwater By Garlock, Dorothy 2003-05 - Warner Books 9780446611466 Check Our Catalog Garlock's Jones family trilogy that began with "The Edge of Town" and continued in "High on a Hill" concludes in this novel set in 1920s Oklahoma, where oil turns a small town into a boomtown--and danger is about to turn one woman's life upside down. HPL patron: Story of life in an Oklahoma oil town in the early 1900's. Likeable and believable characters, …More