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.

Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories By Lynch, Thomas 2010-02 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393042078 Check Our Catalog From the award-winning author of "The Undertaking" comes this debut fiction collection of heart-rending stories of life and death. …More

Sticky Fingers By Martin, Nancy 2011-03 - Minotaur Books 9780312573737 Check Our Catalog Roxy Abruzzo barely escaped big trouble in her first adventure, "Foxy Roxy." Now Roxy is determined to stay on the straight and narrow--except that she gets in over her head doing a few jobs for her uncle Carmine, one of the last oldtime mob bosses in Pittsburgh. …More

Somebody Pick Up My Pieces By Mason, J. D. 2011-02 - St. Martin's Press 9780312368876 Check Our Catalog …More

Almost Heaven By McNaught, Judith 1991-06 - Pocket Books 9780671742553 Check Our Catalog Elizabeth Cameron's uncle--guardian of her estate--forces the scandal-ridden young woman to choose from three unlikely suitors. But the one she fancies sees her as a flirt; and she fears he is a fortune hunter. From London's salons to Scotland's highlands, Almost Heaven weaves a heart-capturing spell of romance. …More

When the Thrill Is Gone By Mosley, Walter Editor Jm 2011-03 - Riverhead Books 9781594487811 Check Our Catalog Leonid McGill is back, in the third--and most enthralling and ambitious--installment in Mosley's latest "New York Times"-bestselling series. The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard. So how can McGill say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? …More

The Headhunter's Daughter: A Mystery By Myers, Tamar 2011-02 - William Morrow & Company 9780061997648 Check Our Catalog Myers, the bestselling creator of the Den of Antiquity mysteries, delivers the second book in her new mystery series set in the Belgian Congo. …More

Hidden Witness By Oldham, Nick 2011-02 - Severn House Publishers 9780727869647 Check Our Catalog The new Detective Superintendent Henry Christie novel - When Detective Superintendent Henry Christie takes on the case of a brutal murder of a seemingly innocent old man, the investigation brings him into touch with old friend and FBI agent Karl Donaldson, who is trying to track down a hit man believed to have entered the UK illegally. It's obvious the two cases are connected, but it soon becomes clear there's more to the old man's murder than simple underworld retribution . . . …More

Tick Tock By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2011-01 - Little Brown and Company 9780316037914 Check Our Catalog A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos and terrorizing everyone living there. Immediately, it becomes clear that these offenses are not the work of an amateur, but of a calculating, efficient, and deadly mastermind. All too soon, another appalling murder leads Detective Michael Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan. …More

Toys By Patterson, James Author McMahon, Neil 2011-03 - Little Brown and Company 9780316097369 Check Our Catalog Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problems in their perfect world: people, their toys, and the battle to save humanity. …More

House Rules By Picoult, Jodi 2010-11 - Washington Square Press 9780743296441 Check Our Catalog Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger's syndrome, but he has a special focus on forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes and telling the cops what to do. And he's usually right. But when Jacob's small hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes to him. …More

Sing You Home By Picoult, Jodi 2011-03 - Atria Books 9781439102725 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Zoe Baxter has spent 10 years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare--one that takes away her unborn baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. Includes a CD of original songs created especially for this novel. …More

The Imperfectionists By Rachman, Tom 2011-01 - Dial Press 9780385343671 Check Our Catalog One of most acclaimed books of the year, @lt;i@gt;@lt;/i@gt;Tom Rachman's debut novel follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English-language newspaper in Rome …More

Treachery in Death By Robb, J. D. 2011-02 - G. P. Putnam's Sons 9780399157035 Check Our Catalog Detective Eve Dallas' partner, Peabody, overhears two fellow officers arguing. It doesn't take long to realize they're both crooked--guilty not just of corruption but of murder. Now Peabody, Eve, and Eve's husband, Roarke, are trying to get the hard evidence they need to bring the dirty cops down--knowing all the while that the two are willing to kill to keep their secret. …More

Three Seconds By Roslund, Anders Author Hellstrom, Borge 2011-01 - Silveroak 9781402785924 Check Our Catalog Ex-con Piet Hoffmann, who for the past nine years has led a double life as a family man and a police snitch infiltrating the Stockholm drug world, takes on his most dangerous assignment yet in Roslund and Hellstrom's thrilling follow-up to Box 21. …More

In the Teeth of the Evidence: And Other Mysteries By Sayers, Dorothy L. 1993-11 - Harper Paperbacks 9780060923976 Check Our Catalog Serial murder baffles local authorities, but for the ever-unshakable Lord Peter and the working-class sleuth Montague Egg, the killings are intriguing invitations to unravel postmortem puzzles, fascinating falsehoods, mysterious motives, and diabolical demises. Originally published in 1940. …More

The Three Weissmanns of Westport By Schine, Cathleen 2011-02 - Picador USA 9780312680527 Check Our Catalog A" New York Times Book Review "Editors’ Choice Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband’s mistress, she and her two middle-aged daughters, Miranda and Annie, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. In Schine’s playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility," the impulsive sister is Miranda, a literary agent entangled in a series of scandals, and the more pragmatic sister is Annie, a library director, who feels compelled to move in and watch over her capricious mother and sister. Schine’s witty, wonderful novel" “"is simply full of "pleasure": the pleasure of reading, the pleasure of Austen, and the pleasure that the characters so rightly and humorously pursue….An absolute triumph” ("Cleveland Plain Dealer"). …More

East of Eden By Steinbeck, John Introduction by Wyatt, David 1992-10 - Penguin Books 9780140186390 Check Our Catalog This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange and original work of art".--New York Times Book Review. …More

Promises to Keep By Tatlock, Ann 2011-02 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764208096 Check Our Catalog In the face of difficulty, new acquaintances must overcome their differences to help and protect each other in this contemporary story from an award-winning author …More

Aftermath By Turnbull, Peter 2011-02 - Severn House Publishers 9780727869692 Check Our Catalog The latest Hennessey and Yellich mystery - When five corpses in various states of decomposition are found chained to the walls of a kitchen garden, Hennessey and Yellich quickly begin their investigation. The recently deceased owner of the house was housebound for the last twenty-five years, and so would have had no idea of the appalling crimes taking place yards away. At first, there doesn't seem to be much to go on - the victims appear to have little in common - but Hennessey and Yellich know that the dead must hold the clues they need . . . …More

Cutting for Stone By Verghese, Abraham Author Verghese, A. 2010-01 - Vintage Books USA 9780375714368 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title A stunning debut novel from the author of "My Own Country, Cutting for Stone" offers an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home. …More

Blood Lies By Wallace, Patricia Author Wallace, P. 1991-05 - Zebra 9780821733943 Check Our Catalog …More

Night Vision By White, Randy Wayne 2011-02 - G. P. Putnam's Sons 9780399157059 Check Our Catalog Doc Ford is on a collision course with death in this extraordinary new novel from the "New York Times" bestselling author. Alot is going on in the trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited principally by illegal laborers. The park manager is the hired gun of a financial syndicate that wants to develop the property, and he's prepared to do whatever it takes-but he can't figure out what to do about the teenage girl, the one the laborers believe has some sort of gift. When she witnesses him killing a man, though, and runs, there's nothing left to figure: He's got to find her fast and shut her up good. Her only hope for survival: a marine biologist (and sometimes more) named Doc Ford, who along with his friend Tomlinson, must undertake a search through an underground, invisible nation...and just hope he reaches her first. …More

The Father Next Door By Wilkins, Gina Ferris 1997-02 - Silhouette Books 9780373240821 Check Our Catalog …More

Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time: Book 1: Predator By Wu, William F. 2004-12 - ibooks 9780743497701 Check Our Catalog An experimental robot and a team of human experts are on the trail of a renegade robot that has broken itself down into six pieces and launched them into the past. The team must retrieve all the pieces before the human past--and its future--is changed. Original. …More

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire By Zahn, Timothy Author Baron, Mike Author Vatine, Olivier 1996-09 - Dark Horse Comics 9781569712023 Check Our Catalog The Star Wars saga continues--starring Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and all the other beloved characters! …More