New Books

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for 2015 . To see new books from other years try: 2014 2013 , 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

Double Fudge Brownie Murder By Fluke, Joanne 2015-02 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758280404 Check Our Catalog Life in tiny Lake Eden, Minnesota, is usually pleasantly uneventful. Lately, though, it seems everyone has more than their fair share of drama--especially the Swensen family. With so much on her plate, Hannah Swensen can hardly find the time to think about her bakery--let alone the town's most recent murder. . . Hannah is nervous about the upcoming trial for her involvement in a tragic …More

Inside the O'Briens By Genova, Lisa 2015-04 - Gallery Books 9781476717777 Check Our Catalog From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Still Alice" Lisa Genova comes a powerful and transcendent new novel about a family struggling with the impact of Huntington's disease. Joe O'Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, …More

Harrison Squared By Gregory, Daryl 2015-03 - Tor Books 9780765376954 Check Our Catalog From award winning author Daryl Gregory, a thrilling and colorful Lovecraftian adventure of a teenage boy searching for his mother, and the macabre creatures he encounters. Harrison Harrison--H2 to his mom--is a lonely teenager who's been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished. One of the …More

At the Water's Edge By Gruen, Sara 2015-03 - Spiegel & Grau 9780385523233 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In this thrilling new novel from the author of "Water for Elephants, " Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. "At the Water's Edge "is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's awakening as she experiences the devastation of World War II in a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands. After …More

Mama Dearest By Harris, E. Lynn 2009-09 - Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing 9781439158906 Check Our Catalog From a "New York Times"-bestselling author comes the highly-anticipated return of diva supreme Yancey Harrington Braxton, one of Harris's most popular characters, in a story of sex, secrets, and betrayal. …More

Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars By Ballantine Author Hearne, Kevin 2015-03 - Lucas Books 9780345544858 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER " A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . ." A thrilling new adventure set between "A New Hope" and "The Empire Strikes Back, "and--for the first time ever--written entirely from Luke Skywalker's first-person point of view. Luke Skywalker's game-changing destruction of the Death Star has made him not only a hero of the Rebel Alliance but a valuable …More

Back to the Street By Hernandez, Treasure 2008-09 - Urban Books 9781601620804 Check Our Catalog header: The Newest Line-Up from Urban Books/KensingtonHernandez delivers the third novel in her powerful urban saga set in Flint, Michigan, where the good die young and the innocent don't stay that way for long. …More

Pride V. Prejudice: A Claire Malloy Mystery By Hess, Joan 2015-04 - Minotaur Books 9781250011954 Check Our Catalog Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police Chief Peter Rosen. Still the owner of the Book Depot, Claire has passed the day-to-day running of it on to …More

Fracture By Hooyenga, Melanie 2014-06 - Createspace 9781500214418 Check Our Catalog When seventeen-year old Biz wakes up from surgery after helping catch a kidnapper, she thinks she's lost her ability to flicker-travel back in time eighteen hours-but she soon discovers her ability is stronger than ever. And so are the mind-blowing headaches. But flickering isn't the only thing giving Biz headaches. Her newly shaved head brings out the bullies, her boyfriend Cameron is getting a …More

The Bone Tree By Iles, Greg 2015-04 - William Morrow & Company 9780062311115 Check Our Catalog Greg Iles continues the electrifying story begun in his smash New York Times bestseller Natchez Burning in this highly anticipated second installment of an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice, featuring Southern lawyer Penn Cage. …More

Sheisty Chicks By K, Kim 2011-12 - Melodrama Publishing 9781934157473 Check Our Catalog Get Money By Any Means Necessary The Waverly Girls Group Home is supposed to be a place where troubled teens come for reform. But Jazzy, Cha Cha, and Maya have different plans. Though the three girls hail from three different cities, they've had amazingly similar hard knock lives, and the thread that holds them together is their love of money. Soon, these sheisty chicks are backsliding …More

The Essential W. P. Kinsella By Kinsella, W. P. 2015-03 - Tachyon Publications 9781616961879 Check Our Catalog This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball's greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella ("Shoeless Joe"), as well as the 25th anniversary of "Field of Dreams," the film that he inspired. In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer. His satiric wit has been celebrated with numerous honors, including the Order of …More

Signature Kill By Levien, David 2015-03 - Doubleday Books 9780385532556 Check Our Catalog A stunning serial-killer novel from David Levien, featuring his acclaimed and indomitable investigator, Frank Behr . . . this is the bigger thriller we've been wanting for from Levien. A young woman's body is found on a side street in Indianapolis, horrifyingly arranged. Meanwhile, Frank Behr, who is down on his luck and virtually broke, takes on a no-win case to locate a single mother's …More

Pleasantville By Locke, Attica 2015-04 - Harper 9780062259400 Check Our Catalog Jay Porter, the hero of the critically acclaimed bestseller Black Water Rising, becomes embroiled in a toxic case involving politics, corruption, and murder in this electrifying and atmospheric tale from Attica Locke, a writer "akin to George Pelecanos or Dennis Lehane" (New York Times). Fifteen years after his career-defining case against Cole Oil, Jay Porter is broke and tired. That victory …More

A Real Prince: The Bachelor PrinceYesterday's Hero By Macomber, Debbie 2015-02 - Mira Books 9780778315513 Check Our Catalog www.DebbieMacomber.com A man who happens to be a prince... Stefano Giorgio Paolo is the heir to the throne of his small country, and he's come to America in search of a bride. A wealthy bride who can help save his kingdom from financial ruin. But the woman he actually wants is Hope Jordan--who has nothing to offer him except her love. Can The Bachelor Prince give up his throne for the …More

Emma: A Modern Retelling By McCall Smith, Alexander 2015-04 - Pantheon Books 9780804197953 Check Our Catalog The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series deftly escorts Jane Austen's beloved, meddlesome heroine into the twenty-first century in this delightfully inventive retelling. The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury to prepare for the launch of her interior design business. As she cultivates grand plans for the future, she …More

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Killer Gourmet By McKevett, G. A. 2015-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758276575 Check Our Catalog Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid and her pals at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency know a thing or two about fine dining. But when murder shows up on the menu, it's time to go back to the kitchen. . . When the Moonlight Magnolia gang learns their friends Ryan Stone and John Gibson are planning to open a chic new restaurant, they eagerly offer their input on everything from what dishes to …More

A Reunion of Ghosts By Mitchell, Judith Claire 2015-03 - Harper 9780062355881 Check Our Catalog Three wickedly funny sisters. One family's extraordinary legacy. A single suicide note that spans a century ... Meet the Alter sisters: Lady, Vee, and Delph. These three mordantly witty, complex women share their family's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They love each other fiercely, but being an Alter isn't easy. Bad luck is in their genes, passed down through the generations. …More

The Beekeeper's Daughter By Montefiore, Santa 2015-04 - Simon & Schuster 9781476735412 Check Our Catalog From the #1 internationally bestselling author, her first book set in America, the story of a mother and daughter searching for love and happiness, unaware of the secrets that bind them. To find what they are longing for they must confront the past, and unravel the lies told long ago. England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of …More

Inspector of the Dead By Morrell, David 2015-03 - Mulholland Books 9780316323932 Check Our Catalog Legendary thriller writer David Morrell transports readers to the fogbound streets of London, where a killer plots to assassinate Queen Victoria. …More

God Help the Child By Morrison, Toni 2015-04 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307594174 Check Our Catalog Spare and unsparing, "God Help the Child"--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which …More

The Illuminations By O'Hagan, Andrew 2015-03 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374174569 Check Our Catalog An arresting story of myth and memory from an acclaimed British novelist Anne Quirk's life is built on stories--both the lies she was told by the man she loved and the fictions she told herself to survive. Nobody remembers Anne now, but this elderly woman was an artistic pioneer in her youth, a creator of groundbreaking documentary photographs. Her beloved grandson Luke, now a captain with …More

The Children's Crusade By Packer, Ann 2015-04 - Scribner Book Company 9781476710457 Check Our Catalog From the "New York Times" bestselling, award-winning author of "The Dive From Clausen's Pier," a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before …More

Heartbreaker: In Bed with the Wrangler By Palmer, Diana Author Dunlop, Barbara 2015-02 - Harlequin 9780373010240 Check Our Catalog As a teenager, Gracie had worshipped her stepbrother, Jason, a silent young cowboy who had left home early to seek his fortune. When danger threatens the ranch, the now-adult Gracie can only hope that her long, tall Texan will come blazing home to save her. …More

Book Review-All the Light we Cannot See

World War II provides a rich ground for historical fiction. The recently named Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner is a case in point. Anthony Doerr, in All the Light We Cannot See, looks at the war from both the German and French sides as ordinary people get caught up in the conflict. On the German side we have the orphans Werner and Jutta. Werner loves working with radios and becomes the fix-it guy for his whole neighborhood by the time he is 12. He and his sister Jutta listen to radio broadcasts from all over Europe, but their favorite is from France. They listen to a Frenchman explaining science to children as often as they can. They live in a mining town and the only future that Werner can see for himself is going into the mines, like his father before him (who was killed in a mining accident.) When Werner sees a way out by going to a Nazi training school he jumps at the chance to learn engineering. Jutta, although younger, has been paying more attention to the Nazi propaganda and doesn't want Werner to go. On the French side is Marie-Laure who started to go blind when she was six. Her father, a locksmith at the museum, creates a 3-d model of their neighborhood out of wood so she can learn her way around. He also devises puzzle boxes for her as birthday gifts. She goes to the museum with him and learns about shells and mollusks. She learns about a great jewel that has a curse attached. As the Nazis approach Paris the museum has copies made of the jewel and sends it and the copies out into France to protect it. Marie-Laure's father is one of the carriers. They end up in Saint Malo, where Marie-Laure's grandfather and great uncle grew up. The book is told in short, alternating chapters, starting around 1934 but sometimes jumping forward to 1944-1945. Each person's story is intersting and well told and how they come together is very well done. I liked it because of the detail that went into each character's story and how the story built in tension. It was sad, but how could it not be considering the setting. Even though it was about war and the effects of war on ordinary people, it was somehow gentle, too. A very good book.

All the Light We Cannot See By Doerr, Anthony 2014-05 - Scribner Book Company 9781476746586 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2015), Alex Awards (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (2015), Colorado Blue Spruce Award (2016), Indies Choice Book Awards (2015), National Book Awards (2014), Pulitzer Prize (2015) From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. …More

Complimentary Reads

Sarah's Key By De Rosnay, Tatiana 2011-10 - St. Martin's Press 9781250004215 Check Our Catalog With more than two million copies sold, de Rosnay's debut novel has found its way into the hearts and minds of readers everywhere. Now with this beautifully designed hardcover edition complete with red ribbon, linen stock jacket with cloth binding, gold foil, and embossing, the gift of powerful storytelling can be shared at the holidays. 384 pp. 200,000 print. …More

Life After Life By Atkinson, Kate 2014-01 - Back Bay Books 9780316176491 Check Our Catalog In 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, and embarks upon a life that will be unusual. Does Ursula's infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? …More

The Book Thief By Zusak, Markus 2006-03 - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 9780375831003 Check Our Catalog Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award (2007), Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (2007), Cybils (2006), Garden State Teen Book Award (2009), Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (2008), Heartland Award (2008), Iowa High School Book Award (2010), Michael L. Printz Award (2007), National Jewish Book Award (2006), Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) (2006), Quill Awards (2006), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2008), Sydney Taylor Book Award (2007), Tayshas Reading (2008), Virginia Readers Choice Award (2008), Young Reader's Choice Award (2009) 2007 Virginia Readers' Choice BookPage Notable Title Set during World War II in Germany, Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich, scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids. This is an unforgettable story …More

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society By Shaffer, Mary Ann Author Barrows, Annie 2008-07 - Dial Press 9780385340991 Check Our Catalog Awards: Indies Choice Book Awards (2009) London, 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of Guernsey during the German occupation, and about a society as extraordinary as its name. …More

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Saturday Computer Class-Powerpoint 10:30 am, Saturday, May 9 De'ondra Pentecost teaches a computer class on Saturday at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Powerpoint. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

MOTHERS' DAY CRAFT 12:00 PM SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015 Make somthing special for Mothers' Day. Hackley Public Library will provide materials for you to make Mom's day the best ever.

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LEGOS FAMILY FUN DAY 2:00 PM SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2015 Build lifelong memories as well as creative constructions for friendly competition and a cool candy prize. LEGOs are fun for everyone.

Catbird Seat 6:00 pm, Monday, May 18: Wanda Degen & Kay Rinker-O'Neil: Celtic, Folk, Great Lakes, & Vintage Pop Music Lively & fun, educational & entertaining, performances by Wanda & Kay feature lovely harmony vocals with tasteful accompaniment on the autoharp, dulcimers, flute & guitar. Since June of 2013, this duo has been enthusiastically received by audiences in a wide variety of venues around Michigan, including: Soaring Eagle Casino, Mt. Pleasant; Wild Blueberry Festival, Paradise; Silver Bells in the City, Lansing; Original Dulcimer Players Club Funfest, Evart; Independence Village of East Lansing & of Grand Ledge; Children's Concert Series, East Lansing; Mid-Winter Singing Festival - Folk/Pop Favorites workshop, East Lansing. For more information about The Catbird Seat visit http://www.wandadegen.com/thecatbirdseat.html. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Thousand Letters Home 6:00 pm, Tuesday, May 19 One WWII Soldier's Story of War, Love and Life: the WWII Correspondence of Aarol W. "Bud" Irish. Teresa Irish's presentation of "A Thousand Letters Home" took our group of veterans back in time to WWII and the life many of them experienced as members of the "Greatest Generation". Her reaction to finding and reading her father's letters and the retelling of her family's story through those letters were emotional experiences that she freely shares with her audience. Everyone in attendance enjoyed the presentation and sharing Teresa's experiences. - J. C. Sosa, Secretary/Treasurer, MI Chapter 101st Airborne Division Association Come hear what audiences around Michigan are raving about. Born in Saginaw, MI, Teresa Irish is a 1984 graduate of Michigan State University. She has worked in higher education administration, the staffing industry, and most recently as a vice-president for a national home healthcare and hospice company. Five-and-a-half years after finding the letters, Teresa brought A Thousand Letters Home to print. As the book’s author, publisher and distributor, this has truly been a labor of love. The book has been printed in hardcover, softcover and e-book formats. Teresa retired in April, 2012 to devote her time to sharing the story through speaking engagements and book events. She has been featured at over 135 venues and has appeared on ABC News, NPR, Veterans’ Radio, Frontlines of Freedom, Military Author Radio, and the nationally syndicated National Defense radio show. Teresa lives Northville, MI and is married to COL Bradley J. Foster who is currently serving at U.S. Army Forces Command, Ft. Bragg, NC. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Finances for Lunch 12:00 pm, Wednesday, May 20 Bring your lunch and learn about finances with employees from PNC Bank. This month’s topic is “Keep it safe.”

Trouble with your Tablet? 1:30 pm, Wednesday, May 20 Having trouble with your tablet? Bring it to HPL on Wednesdays at 1:30 to get tech help. Please register in advance by calling 231-722-7276.