HPL's New Books

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

Grim Reaper: End of Days By Alten, Steve 2010-10 - Variance Publishing LLC 9781935142164 Check Our Catalog …More

Desperate Decisions By Anderson, Marilyn Mayo 2010-02 - Urban Books 9781601628466 Check Our Catalog This compelling tale is filled with page-turning drama about four women who are forced to make some very difficult decisions and search for help from God to get through very trying times. …More

Knot Gneiss By Anthony, Piers 2010-11 - Tor Books 9780765323521 Check Our Catalog Wenda Woodwife has a knotty problem--her mood swings have sent her beloved husband, Prince Charming, off on Adventure. She seeks the cure from the Good Magician Humphrey, only to discover that he has a knotty problem of his own and that only Wenda Woodwife can help him. She'll need Companions. Luckily, in Xanth magical companions are never far away, and all roads lead to Adventure. This 34th installment in the saga of the magical land of Xanth proves the enduring appeal of Piers Anthony's peerless creation. …More

The Cartel By Ashley Author Jaquavis 2009-01 - Urban Books 9781601621429 Check Our Catalog Miamor is a skilled contract killer who loses her heart to a ruthless gangster's son--and becomes torn between love and revenge. …More

Hell's Corner By Baldacci, David 2010-11 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446195522 Check Our Catalog On the night of a State Dinner honoring the British Prime Minister, a bomb detonates in what looks like a terrorist plot. The mysterious attackers have a special target in their sights, and it's up to the Camel Club to stop them, or face the catastrophic results. …More

Hull Zero Three By Bear, Greg 2010-11 - Orbit 9780316072816 Check Our Catalog A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination: unknown. Its purpose: a mystery. Its history: lost. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home--a new planet and the woman he was meant to loves--he finds himself, wet, naked, and freezing to death. …More

Bespelling Jane Austen: Almost PersuadedNorthanger CastleBlood and PrejudiceLittle to Hex Her By Balogh, Mary Author Gleason, Colleen Author Krinard, Susan 2010-09 - Harlequin Books 9780373775019 Check Our Catalog What if Jane Austen had believed in reincarnation and vampires? Four bestselling romance authors join forces as they channel the wit and wisdom of Austen into a betwitching new collection. Includes stories by Balogh, Colleen Gleason, Susan Krinard, and Janet Mullany. …More

The Emperor's Tomb By Berry, Steve 2010-11 - Ballantine Books 9780345505491 Check Our Catalog Former government operative Cotton Malone begins his most harrowing adventure to date--one that takes him from Denmark to Pakistan and then to China, in search of his kidnapped friend, Cassiopeia Vitt. He knows only one thing about this vast and mysterious land: danger awaits. …More

Predator By Blackstock, Terri 2010-05 - Zondervan 9780310250661 Check Our Catalog Bestselling author Terri Blackstock presents another stand-alone novel, Predator. The murder of Krista Carmichael's fourteen-year-old sister by an online predator has shaken her faith and made her question God's justice and protection. Desperate to find the killer, she creates an online persona to bait the predator. But when the stalker turns his sights on her, will Krista be able to control the outcome? Ryan Adkins started the social network GrapeVyne in his college dorm and has grown it into a billion-dollar corporation. But he never expected it to become a stalking ground for online Predators. One of them lives in his town and has killed two girls and attacked a third. When Ryan meets Krista, the murders become more than a news story to him, and everything is on the line. Joining forces, he and Krista set out to stop the killer. But when hunters pursue a hunter, the tables can easily turn. Only God can protect them now. …More

Breaking the Cycle By Zane 2005-03 - Strebor Books 9781593090210 Check Our Catalog This eagerly awaited collection is a stunning and moving anthology of stories, each of which focuses on an aspect of domestic abuse and points toward the steps to be taken to break the cycle that perpetuates it. …More

Cryoburn By Bujold, Lois McMaster 2010-10 - Baen Books 9781439133941 Check Our Catalog Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan has been cheating death his whole life. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out. …More

Riders of the Pale Horse Prepack By Bunn, T. Davis 2002-09 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764290381 Check Our Catalog …More

X'Ed Out By Burns, Charles 2010-10 - Pantheon Books 9780307379139 Check Our Catalog From the creator of "Black Hole" comes the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction. Doug wakes up to find a huge hole torn out of his bedroom wall and his beloved--and dead--cat Inky slinking in and out through the hole, beckoning for him to follow. …More

Parrot and Olivier in America By Carey, Peter 2010-04 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307592620 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early-19th-century America. …More

The Killing Storm By Casey, Kathryn 2010-10 - Minotaur Books 9780312379520 Check Our Catalog Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong investigates strange symbols found on butchered prizewinning bulls as a catastrophic hurricane looms in the Gulf. …More

Stories of Your Life: And Others By Chiang, Ted 2010-10 - Small Beer Press 9781931520720 Check Our Catalog One of the best short story collections of the last ten years, back in print in a new edition. …More

The Valcourt Heiress By Coulter, Catherine 2010-10 - Putnam Adult 9780399156755 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Set in medieval England, this lively historical romance delivers the trademark wit that fans have come to know and love from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author. When Garron of Kersey returns home from the king's service to claim his title as Baron Wareham, he's shocked to find Wareham Castle very nearly destroyed by a man called the Black Demon. …More

Crescent Dawn By Cussler, Clive 2010-11 - Putnam Adult 9780399157141 Check Our Catalog NUMA Director Dirk Pitt returns, in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author. In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? Pitt is about to find out. …More

Lost Empire By Cussler, Clive Author Blackwood, Grant 2010-08 - Putnam Adult 9780399156762 Check Our Catalog While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship named the "Shenandoah." An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery, and a rumored second artifact, but, unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. (Men's Adventure) …More

Edge By Deaver, Jeffery 2010-11 - Simon & Schuster 9781439156353 Check Our Catalog Acclaimed bestselling author Deaver takes readers on a brand-new adventure: a race to find and stop a professional criminal whose gruesome specialty lies in extracting information from his innocent victims by any means necessary. …More

Up Country By DeMille, Nelson 2003-04 - Warner Vision 9780446611916 Check Our Catalog Retired army homicide investigator Paul Brenner is asked by his former commanding officer to investigate a murder that took place in wartime Vietnam. Back in Vietnam, Brenner is plunged into a world of corruption and thrust back into a war that never ended. …More

Hustlin' Divas By Diamond, De'nesha 2010-11 - Dafina Books 9780758247551 Check Our Catalog From the award-winning, national bestselling author ("Desperate Hoodwives") hailed as the Duchess of Street Lit comes a steamy, sexy, gritty tale about Memphis's ride-or-die chicks, who'll do whatever it takes to get what they want. …More

Less Than Zero By Ellis, Bret Easton 1998-06 - Vintage Books USA 9780679781493 Check Our Catalog Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark. …More

Hold U Down By Ervin, Keisha 2006-07 - Triple Crown Publications 9780977880423 Check Our Catalog Robbing men, getting money and living lavishly is all they know. For Unique a.k.a. Nique, Kiara, Kay Kay and Zo', tomorrow isn't promised, love doesn't exist and men ain't shit. Stealing cars is their hustle and their way of doing it is Simply Unique. But jealousy, greed, love and envy are lurking in the shadows. For only the strong will survive and the weak shall fall. Unique knows this but the game of love has won her over. Once she decides to leave the only hustle she knows for the man she loves, her drama begins. When loyalty amongst family is questioned and their fate is unanswered, who will hold whom down? …More

Torn By Ervin, Keisha 2007-09 - Triple Crown Publications 9780977880492 Check Our Catalog Her female intuition told her he was a dog but yet still she lent him her soul, gave him her heart and allowed herself to fall in love. Torn between infatuation, lust, denial and playing wifey, the only thing Mo knows for sure is that she's been through hell, survived nine years, three miscarriages, numerous flings, heated arguments and a few knock-down drag-out fights only to realize she is further deep in love and more confused than ever. Come join National Best-Selling Author Keisha Ervin as she spins a classic tale about loving someone so much you lose yourself, only to find in the end that what you thought was real love was just a game. …More