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Welcome to Summer Reading 2011!  At the end of 4 weeks we had 342 people signed up. This week, 25 new people participated and 55 people read 175 books, which brings the totals for the summer to 127 people and 505 books.

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Wither By DeStefano, Lauren 2011-03 - Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 9781442409057 Check Our Catalog The first book in an exciting new series by first time author Lauren DeStefano. …More

The Jewel That Was Ours By Dexter, Colin 2000-05 - Charnwood 9780708987117 Check Our Catalog Fawcett starts to publish beloved sleuth Inspector Morse in just the right month--the new hardcover, The Way Through the Woods, is coming out and the PBS TV "Mystery" series is starting. In this whodunit, a wealthy American tourist has a heart attack in her room, and missing from the scene is the lady's handbag--which contained a priceless jewel. On the scene is Inspector Morse! Previous publisher: Crown. HPL patron:  The author is one of Britian's finest crime writers.  A theft, a murder, a busload of American tourists tax Morse's abilities to the fullest.  With the aid of his helper, long suffering Sargeant Lewis, the detective probes into a tangle of motives, means, opportunities, alibis to find, as usual, a startling solution. …More

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Diaz, Junot 2007-09 - Riverhead Books 9781594489587 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Fiction Rendering with warmth the endless human capacity to persevere, this is the long-awaited--and thrillingly satisfying--first novel from the unmistakable voice behind the short story collection "Drown." HPL patron:  Interesting about life in Santo Domingo.  Believable true life-too vulgar and coarse. …More

Peace Like a River By Enger, Leif 2001-08 - Grove/Atlantic 9780871137951 Check Our Catalog Through the voice of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboys living in 1960s Minnesota, the story is told of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been charged with murder. HPL patron:  A book that comes along with such wonderful characters, prose, moves in a current that can be poetic, slow, tumultuous as rapids.  A rich mixture of adventure, tragedy, healing. …More

Eleven on Top By Evanovich, Janet 2005-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312306267 Check Our Catalog Stephanie Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She wants something safe. She wants something normal. She's tired of creeps, weirdos, and stalkers. Then just when she thinks she's out, they pull her back in. HPL patron:  Another hilarious story about Stephanie Plum.  I was laughing out loud over and over!  Love the tension with Stephanie, Morelli, and Ranger!  Can't wait to read #12. …More

Smokin' Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel By Evanovich, Janet 2011-06 - Bantam 9780345527684 Check Our Catalog Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie's name is on the killer's list. With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanie's life looks like it's about to go up in smoke. …More

The Beholder By Farber, Thomas 2002-08 - Metropolitan Books 9780805069723 Check Our Catalog Written in taut, hypnotic prose, "The Beholder" plumbs the seductive depths of obsession and the paradoxes of the human heart. In his first novel in 15-years, Farber has delivered a rapturous evocation of erotic love. HPL patron:  Author who writes with economy, beauty of desire, love, irrevocable loneliness of the heart.  It's wonderful, word play.  Last page, the author has made the lovers loss, sorrow our own. …More

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven By Flagg, Fannie 2006-07 - Random House Large Print Publishing 9780375432149 Check Our Catalog Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner's nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner's neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch-and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, "What is life all about, anyway?" Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot's Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security. In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep. "Can't Wait to Get to Heaven" is proof once more that Fannie Flagg "was put on this earth to write" (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in. …More

Apple Turnover Murder By Fluke, Joanne 2010-02 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758234896 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling author Fluke never fails to satisfy readers' appetite for intriguing culinary mysteries. In the latest installment of the Hannah Swensen mystery series, the beloved baker and sleuth may have bitten off more than she can chew. …More

Protect and Defend By Flynn, Vince 2007-10 - Atria Books 9780743270410 Check Our Catalog In Flynn's most explosive thriller yet--a #1 "New York Times" bestseller--CIA operative Mitch Rapp returns and finds himself on a collision course with America's most feared enemy. Now available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

Whatever It Takes By Forster, Gwynne 2005-08 - Dafina Books 9780758206541 Check Our Catalog Lacette Graham's twin sister, Kellie, has been competing with her since they shared a crib--and in 33 years, nothing has changed, except the stakes have gotten higher. …More

Spider Web By Fowler, Earlene 2011-05 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425240984 Check Our Catalog The Memory Festival is a celebration of recollections and loved ones through crafts. But when a local cop is wounded by a mysterious sharpshooter who seems to have a vendetta against the police, Benni fears for "her" loved ones, especially her police chief husband. …More

The Jane Austen Book Club By Fowler, Karen Joy 2004-05 - Marian Wood Book 9780399151613 Check Our Catalog A Fiction Bestseller - 2004 Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. In this newest work, six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. …More

Get Some Love By Foxx, Nina 2003-08 - Avon a 9780060526481 Check Our Catalog Angelica Chappee stands to inherit a multimillion dollar trust from her grandfather. Before she can claim the money she must adhere to a few offbeat stipulations of her grandfather's will. Angelica has to "get some love" and Juan Delgado might be just the man for fulfilling the plan. …More

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman By Gaines, Ernest J. 1982-07 - Bantam Books 9780553263572 Check Our Catalog "This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in "The Sound And The Fury." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured, ' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works "The Odyssey for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and "Huckleberry Finn for the clarity of her voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story in it all." -- Geoffrey Wolff, "Newsweek. "Stunning. I know of no black novel about the South that excludes quite the same refreshing mix of wit and wrath, imagination and indignation, misery and poetry. And I can recall no more memorable female character in Southern fiction since Lena of Faulkner's "Light In August than Miss Jane Pittman." -- Josh Greenfeld, "Life …More

Any Man of Mine By Gibson, Rachel 2011-05 - Avon Books 9780061579110 Check Our Catalog It's been two years since wedding planner Autumn Haven has seen her Vegas husband Sam LeClaire. But when she's hired to organize the hockey player's team's Special Day, Sam makes a big play to pick up where he left off. Original. HPL patron:  Very good book.  I read every one of her books.  Cannot wait till theres another one. …More

Faith of the Fallen By Goodkind, Terry 2000-08 - Tor Books 9780312867867 Check Our Catalog New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind returns to tell the newest tale of The Sword of Truth, throwing Seeker Richard Rahl and Mother Confessor Kahlan Amnell to the opposite ends of the world in their struggle against the relentless and monolithic forces of the Imperial Order. When a Sister of the Dark captures Richard, he makes a desperate sacrifice to ensure that his beloved Kahlan remains free. Taken deep into the Old World and forced to help build a new Palace of the Prophets, he is determined to remain defiant even in the heart of darkness. Left behind and unwilling to abandon the cause of the Midlands, Kahlan violates prophecy and breaks her last pledge to Richard to raise an army against the advancing hordes of the Imperial Order. Finally she will come face to face with the force of terror sweeping her land -- the army of the mad dreamwalker, Emperor Jagang. Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be pushed to the limits of their endurance and tested in their love for one another. Terry Goodkind spins a tale of love and loss sure to enthrall readers around the world. …More

Pillars of Creation By Goodkind, Terry 2001-11 - Tor Books 9780765300263 Check Our Catalog The bestselling author of "Faith of the Fallen" has created his most lavish adventure yet. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Lauren seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. …More

Don't Blame the Devil By G'Orge-Walker, Pat 2010-09 - Dafina Books 9780758235428 Check Our Catalog An "Essence"-bestselling author spins a hilarious, inspiring novel of mistakes and second chances, heartache and love, sin and salvation--with an appearance by the beloved Sister Betty. …More

Mother Eternal Ann Everlastin's Dead By G'Orge-Walker, Pat 2005-07 - Dafina Books 9780758203809 Check Our Catalog In this hilarious and heartwarming new novel, the bestselling author returns with the parishioners from the Ain't Nobody Else Right But Us--All Others Goin' to Hell church, while introducing another congregation of hilarious and uplifting characters from the No Hope Now--Mercy Neva house of worship. HPL patron:  Spriitually uplifting, knee slapping funy, serve up a heartful of faith along with a generous dose of humor, hilarious, heartwarming novel. …More

Once in a Blue Moon By Goudge, Eileen 2010-12 - Vanguard Press 9781593155995 Check Our Catalog From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Diary" comes a new, emotionally charged family drama, focusing on two sisters and their turbulent lives. …More

Fadeaway Girl By Grimes, Martha 2011-02 - Viking Books 9780670022441 Check Our Catalog The beguiling young sleuth Emma Graham returns. Martha Grimes returns to her twelve-year-old heroine, Emma Graham, in this suspenseful sequel to the bestselling "Belle Ruin." Emma continues her investigation into the strange disappearance of the four- month-old Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel more than twenty years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father, Morris Slade, makes her even more determined to learn the truth. Then a mysterious drifter named Ralph Diggs appears at the Hotel Paradise, looking for work, ingratiating himself with everyone there. Everyone, that is, except Emma. The perceptive Emma is bound once again to delight fans of the previous books "Hotel Paradise, Cold Flat Junction, " and "Belle Ruin," and certain to win new readers with her intuition and humor. …More

Greedy Bones By Haines, Carolyn 2009-07 - Minotaur Books 9780312377106 Check Our Catalog Haines's delightful series returns to its Southern roots when a deadly virus threatens Sarah Booth Delaney's Mississippi hometown. …More