HPL's New Books

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

Using What You Got By Miller, Karen E. Quinones 2004-06 - Simon & Schuster 9780743246156 Check Our Catalog After being spoiled by a father who recklessly spares no expense when it comes to his girls' material desires, 18-year-old Tiara's life decisions threaten to destroy not only her, but her entire family. …More

Desperate Hoodwives: An Urban Tale By Mink, Meesha Author Diamond, De'nesha 2008-01 - Touchstone Books 9781416537526 Check Our Catalog The first in a drama-drenched new series of street lit novels set in the Atlanta housing projects chronicles four young women desperately trying to get out of the hood. …More

Real Wifeys: On the Grind By Mink, Meesha 2011-01 - Touchstone Books 9781439173114 Check Our Catalog The first of a new series featuring the scandalous life of a hood-fabulous wifey who uses her sex appeal and street smarts to make it big. …More

The Sherlockian By Moore, Graham 2010-12 - Twelve 9780446572590 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer. …More

The Border Lords By Parker, T. Jefferson 2011-01 - Dutton Books 9780525952008 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title A three-time Edgar Award-winner delivers his dark masterpiece. A crime novel of unprecedented scope, "The Border Lords" brings back Charlie Hood and revisits the fevered landscape of America's southern border--and confronts the unexplored depths of humanity's dark soul. …More

Cross Fire By Patterson, James 2010-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036177 Check Our Catalog Detective Alex Cross's wedding plans are put on hold when he is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington, D.C.'s, most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians. …More

Winter Break By Perrin, Kayla 2011-01 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312644581 Check Our Catalog In this chilling thriller, the "Essence"-bestselling author of "Spring Break" and "We'll Never Tell" explores a cruise vacation gone horribly wrong. …More

Too Much Drama By Phillips, Debra 2005-04 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312305260 Check Our Catalog Praise for The High Price of a Good Man: "Debra Phillips does an excellent job in telling a delightful story. And off-the-wall humor makes for a fast-paced read." --Romantic Times "A joy to read." --Rendezvous Review …More

Call Me Irresistible By Phillips, Susan Elizabeth 2011-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780061351525 Check Our Catalog The funniest love story of the year, the new novel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips that fans have been waiting for is filled with friends, family, and charm. "Call Me Irresistible" features characters from three previous books. …More

Reapers: A Botswana Mystery By Ramsay, Frederick 2010-12 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781590588062 Check Our Catalog In June, the World Cup means the arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries in southern Africa, particularly Botswana. Meanwhile, fanatics are pushing forward a plan, based on faulty science, to "Orgonise Africa," which they believe will purify the continent. To the north, "Patriarche," a silverback mountain gorilla, must share his habitat with coltan miners led by one of the Congo's bloody war lords. And Sanderson, Game Ranger in the Chobe National Park, finds a body. Tracking down the murderer leads to evidence of local bribery, smuggling, and finally to what could provoke an international incident. …More

Money Maker By Ridley, Tonya 2010-10 - Life Changing Books 9781934230695 Check Our Catalog Mena Austin is a certified paper chaser who knows no boundaries when it comes to money, especially the counterfeit kind. However, Mena s empire is threatened when her ex-boyfriend, Trick wants his operation back and will stop at nothing until he gets the ultimate revenge. When old friends turn into enemies and greed comes calling, Mena won t know who to trust. Money Maker will give an eye-opening glimpse into the world of counterfeiting and into a battle where winner-takes-all. …More

Citadel: Troy Rising II By Ringo, John 2011-01 - Baen Books 9781439134009 Check Our Catalog The second novel in the new military science fiction series by a "New York Times"-bestselling author. Once the Earth has been freed, how can the former conquerors be kept from returning to reclaim the planet--or even destroy it? …More

Survivor in Death By Robb, J. D. Author Roberts, Nora 2005-08 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425204184 Check Our Catalog In her newest novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling series, Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb returns to the New York city of 2059, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas will struggle to solve murder of a seemingly ordinary family, and protect one small, terrified survivor. …More

Northern Lights By Roberts, Nora 2005-09 - Jove Books 9780515139747 Check Our Catalog Roberts's latest #1 "New York Times" bestseller--a colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who find love and redemption in Lunacy, Alaska--is available in Jove's new Premium Format, with a trim size of 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 for more comfortable reading. …More

Love, Honor, and Betray By Roby, Kimberla Lawson 2011-01 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446572453 Check Our Catalog The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis' longtime mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together. Soon, Charlotte's resentment of the child affects her marriage. …More

The Twelfth Imam By Rosenberg, Joel C. 2010-10 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781414311630 Check Our Catalog As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program just as an obscure religious cleric known as the Twelfth Imam rises to power. …More

Sarah's Key By De Rosnay, Tatiana 2008-09 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312370848 Check Our Catalog An Indie Next Selection Haunting and suspenseful, life-affirming and beautiful, "Sarah's Key" offers a compelling portrait of occupied Paris and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this little-known episode in French history. …More

The Death Instinct By Rubenfeld, Jed 2011-01 - Riverhead Hardcover 9781594487828 Check Our Catalog A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, "The Death Instinct," by the author of "The Interpretation of Murder," takes readers back to 1920 to the first terrorist attack on Wall Street. …More

Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery By Sansom, C. J. 2011-01 - Viking Books 9780670022397 Check Our Catalog During the summer of 1545, England is at war, and Matthew Shardlake is about to encounter the most politically dangerous case of his career. …More

Return of the Cartier Cartel By Santiago, Nisa 2010-10 - Melodrama Publishing 9781934157305 Check Our Catalog Brooklyn empress Cartier knows the streets of Brooklyn like nobody's business. In fact, she successfully built her Cartier Cartel drug ring on the code of the streets, hustling and stacking paper. However, the life of crime is wearing her down, and she's ready to quit the game when two of her Cartel soldiers are gunned down in the same streets that fattened her bankroll. Now she's hell bent on seeking revenge for her friends, and she and her most loyal set out to solve the hood's whodunit. Along the way, tempers flare and love is tested as her prince steps out of line and sleeps with the enemy. Devastation reigns supreme in the streets of Brooklyn, while Cartier is constantly looking over her shoulder, wondering who will be the next to stab her in the back. …More

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand By Simonson, Helen 2010-11 - Random House Trade 9780812981223 Check Our Catalog Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside, is filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and contains a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of readers' own families. Their interactions are both hilarious and heartbreaking. …More

My One and Only Bomb Shelter By Smolens, John 2000-01 - Carnegie-Mellon University Press 9780887483295 Check Our Catalog There's danger -- sometimes palpable, sometimes faint or comic, but nonetheless real -- behind each of these beautifully crafted stories in John Smolens' collection. The sense of danger is what helps make these stories beautiful and compelling. Danger becomes a context for these stories and raises their stakes so that it seems that if no life is safe then no life is ordinary. Read the story "Cold", and you'll see the method at work; read "Cold", and you won't close this book again until you've read them all. …More

Guardian of the Veil: A Three-Dimensional Tale By Spencer, Gregory 2007-08 - Howard Books 9781416543411 Check Our Catalog The mysterious veil between the mythical realm of Welken is thinning--even as the danger for four teens swept up in its adventures is rapidly building. Morphed from misfits into heroes, can they rescue their trapped friends, repel the onslaught of a merciless army marching on a peaceful land--and face their own weaknesses? …More

Blackstone and the Wolf of Wall Street By Spencer, Sally 2010-10 - Severn House Publishers 9780727869166 Check Our Catalog The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery . . . - "August, 1900." William Holt, a reclusive millionaire businessman, has been kidnapped from his grand Coney Island home after the brutal murder of his two bodyguards. Soon, a huge ransom is demanded, and the victim's two sons are given just days to find the money. Inspector Sam Blackstone, now seconded to the New York Police Department, and his partner, Alex Meade, are charged with solving the case, but they'll need to keep their wits about them if they are to solve it in time . . . …More

Cold Shot to the Heart By Stroby, Wallace 2011-01 - Minotaur Books 9780312560256 Check Our Catalog Crissa Stones mentor and lover is up for parole and needs some money. There's an illegal card game set. Desperate, Crissa slaps a plan together. It's robbery, not murder. Then one of her crew shoots a player, a man with connections to hitman Eddie the Saint. …More