Upcoming events at HPL

Computer Class-Word 11:00 am, Saturday, September 6 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Computer Class-Word 12:15 pm, Saturday, September 6 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Our Fires Still Burn 6:00 PM, Tuesday, September 9: Our Fires Still Burn The stories shared in Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience are powerful, startling, despairing and inspiring. They reflect an American history fraught with the systematic destruction of a people. Yet, amidst the debris of suffering and trauma, there is resilience and a profound remembering and healing taking place today, which will also benefit the next Seven Generations. This exciting and compelling one hour documentary invites viewers into the lives of contemporary Native American role models living in the U.S. Midwest. Presented by Audrey Geyer. She has been an independent video producer/director for over 15 years, and many of her programs have aired locally and nationally on PBS. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Visions, a non-profit 501(c)3 independent video production company located in Metro Detroit. Visions' focuses on the production of public affairs documentaries, which tell the stories of communities underrepresented in the mainstream media. Visions' recently completed a one hour documentary on Midwest Native American role models entitled, "Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience." (COPYRIGHT 2013) She graduated with a BA in Film/Video Studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and has a Masters degree in Social Work from NYU. As an independent video producer/director for over 15 years, Audrey Geyer has completed a number of successful public affairs documentaries. Many of her programs have aired nationally on the Public Broadcasting System, PBS, with corporate and foundation sponsorship support. The documentaries have also aired on cable television stations across the US, in Canada and other markets. For more information visit http://www.ourfiresstillburn.com/ Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Tech Wednesday-iPads 3:00 PM, Wednesday, September 10: Tech Wednesday Bring your laptop or tablet and follow along while we explain tech topics in an informal setting. This week we’ll look at iPads.

Computer Class-Basic 11:00 am, Saturday, September 13 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Computer Class-Basic 12:15 pm, Saturday, September 13 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

LEGO MANIA FAMILY FUN DAY 2:00 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2014 Come join in the family fun. Build a great structure, maybe win a treat, and get to display your fabulous creation to all the youth services library patrons. Remember--we supply the LEGOS, you supply the imagination.

HPL's New Books

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

Strange Bodies By Theroux, Marcel 2014-02 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374270650 Check Our Catalog Awards: John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2014) In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months, yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery involving unknown letters by the great Dr. Johnson grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul …More

Act of War: A Thriller By Thor, Brad 2014-07 - Atria Books 9781476717128 Check Our Catalog #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Brad Thor delivers his most frightening and pulse-pounding thriller ever After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There's just one problem--no one knows if she can be trusted. But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, …More

Denial of Murder By Turnbull, Peter 2014-06 - Severn House Publishers 9780727882974 Check Our Catalog "Two bodies, two similar causes of death . . . Harry Vicary and his team are plunged into a complex investigation where all is not as it seems." When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within twenty-four hours of each other at the same location, each with a similar cause of death, the Murder and Serious Crime Squad of New Scotland Yard realise they must be linked. …More

The City Son By Upadhyay, Samrat 2014-06 - Soho Press 9781616953812 Check Our Catalog Set in Samrat Updhyay's signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned woman's lifelong obsession to get revenge for her husband's infidelity, with devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man. Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyay--the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the …More

Sandman Mystery Theater: The Face-And-The-Brute By Wagner, Matt Illustrator Watkiss, John Illustrator Davis, Guy 2004-11 - Vertigo 9781401203450 Check Our Catalog SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE: THE FACE AND THE BRUTE finds the Sandman of 1939, Wesley Dodds, and his possible paramour Dian Belmont, involved in a series of grisly murders in New York's Chinatown--murders that threaten to reignite the terrifying former days of the Tong Wars, a time when blood ran in the streets like water. Following this drama of The Brute, Wesley and Dian are confronted with …More

The Replacement Wife By Warren, Tiffany L. 2014-02 - Dafina Books 9780758280602 Check Our Catalog Five years after his beloved wife's death, wealthy Quentin Chambers still hasn't returned to the church or his music ministry. Even his home is now devoid of music, and without his attention, Quentin's five children are getting out of control, until his mother steps in and hires him a live-in nanny. Montana is pretty, compassionate, church-going, and even has a beautiful singing voice. The …More

On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story By Weyer, Hannah 2013-07 - Nan A. Talese 9780385537322 Check Our Catalog "Willful, outspoken, and precariously naive, thirteen-year-old AnnMarie Walker dreams of a world beyond Far Rockaway, where the sway of the neighborhood keeps her tied to old ideas about success. Then one day, while attending a high school for pregnant girls, she comes across a flyer advertising movie auditions in Manhattan for an independent film. Astonishingly, improbably, and four months …More

Eyes on You: A Novel of Suspense By White, Kate 2014-06 - Harper 9780061576638 Check Our Catalog A rising media star must battle a diabolical enemy in this riveting tale of psychological suspense from Kate White, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sixes and Hush. After a painful divorce and losing her on-air job two years ago, Robin Trainer has fought hard to regain her career. Now, as the popular cohost of a nightly entertainment show and the author of a hot new …More

A Long Time Gone By White, Karen 2014-06 - New American Library 9780451240460 Check Our Catalog ""We Walker women were born screaming into this world, the beginning of a lifelong quest to find what would quiet us. But whatever drove us away was never stronger than the pull of what brought us back...." " When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine …More

The Beekeeper's Ball By Wiggs, Susan 2014-06 - Mira Books 9780778314486 Check Our Catalog #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich harvest...and family secrets that have long been buried. Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school--a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn …More

The Prayer Box By Wingate, Lisa 2013-08 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781414386881 Check Our Catalog When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house.Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls, but everything changes with the …More

The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War By Winspear, Jacqueline 2014-07 - Harper 9780062220509 Check Our Catalog By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on …More

Cut and Thrust By Woods, Stuart 2014-07 - Putnam Adult 9780399169113 Check Our Catalog Stone Barrington enters the cutthroat fray of politics in the exceptional new thriller from "New York Times"--bestselling author Stuart Woods. When Stone Barrington travels to Los Angeles for the biggest political convention of the year, he finds the scene quite shaken up: a dazzling newcomer--and close friend of Stone's--has given the delegates an unexpected choice, crucial …More

The Devaney Brothers: Michael & Patrick By Woods, Sherryl 2014-04 - Mira Books 9780778316305 Check Our Catalog www.SherrylWoods.com #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers two classic tales of the Devaneys...brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Michael's Discovery For years, Kelly Andrews has waited for her big brother's best friend to notice her. As the physical therapist assigned to his recovery, she's finally getting …More

What to read while waiting for...

Cut and Thrust By Woods, Stuart 2014-07 - Putnam Adult 9780399169113 Check Our Catalog Stone Barrington enters the cutthroat fray of politics in the exceptional new thriller from "New York Times"--bestselling author Stuart Woods. When Stone Barrington travels to Los Angeles for the biggest political convention of the year, he finds the scene quite shaken up: a dazzling newcomer--and close friend of Stone's--has given the delegates an unexpected choice, crucial …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions!

A Delicate Truth By Le Carre, John 2013-05 - Viking Books 9780670014897 Check Our Catalog International star le Carre delivers another sure-fire crowd pleaser. A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. …More

The Gods of Guilt By Connelly, Michael 2013-12 - Little Brown and Company 9780316069519 Check Our Catalog Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. …More

Hell Gate By Fairstein, Linda 2011-03 - Signet Book 9780451412997 Check Our Catalog Contraband cargo-young and female-from a wrecked Ukraine freighter washes up on Rockaway Beach. But one victim died before she even hit the dark waters of the Atlantic. Only one other story has the power to grab New York ADA Alexandra Cooper's attention-that of a New York congressman's dive into disgrace following a sordid sex scandal. When Alexandra discovers that the …More

Kill Alex Cross By Patterson, James 2011-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316198738 Check Our Catalog The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against …More

King and Maxwell By Baldacci, David 2013-11 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455521319 Check Our Catalog David Baldacci brings back Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators--in their most surprising, personal, and dangerous case ever . . . …More

What to read while waiting for...

Act of War: A Thriller By Thor, Brad 2014-07 - Atria Books 9781476717128 Check Our Catalog #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Brad Thor delivers his most frightening and pulse-pounding thriller ever After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There's just one problem--no one knows if she can be trusted. But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions!

Beloved Enemy By Lustbader, Eric Van 2013-09 - Forge 9780765337054 Check Our Catalog In the stunning follow-up to Father Night, Jack McClure faces a choice: help the woman he loves, or destroy her as the enemy she is. …More

The Black Box By Connelly, Michael 2013-04 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455526956 Check Our Catalog In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence. …More

The Counterfeit Agent By Berenson, Alex 2014-02 - Putnam Adult 9780399159732 Check Our Catalog John Wells goes undercover as the threat of nuclear war skyrockets between the United States and Iran, in the cutting-edge new novel from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author. …More

Dark of Night By Brockmann, Suzanne 2009-01 - Ballantine Books 9780345501554 Check Our Catalog From a "New York Times"-bestselling author comes a new novel of romantic suspense that picks up the day after the cliffhanger ending of her latest Troubleshooter blockbuster, "Into the Fire." …More

The English Girl By Silva, Daniel 2013-07 - Harper Torch 9780062073167 Check Our Catalog Daniel Silva delivers another spectacular thriller starring Gabriel Allon, The English Girl. When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems...and where the only thing more dangerous than …More

Upcoming Events at HPL

Computer Class-Internet/Email 11:00 am, Saturday, August 23 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Computer Class-Internet/Email 12:15 pm, Saturday, August 23 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Computer Class-Word 11:00 am, Saturday, September 6 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Computer Class-Word 12:15 pm, Saturday, September 6 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

HPL's New Books

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

High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread By Oates, Joyce Carol 2014-04 - Mysterious Press 9780802122650 Check Our Catalog Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human flaws. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals--a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway--in the fearless prose for which she's become so celebrated. …More

Tell Me You're Sorry By O'Brien, Kevin 2014-04 - Pinnacle Books/Kensington 9780786031603 Check Our Catalog A family is wiped out after a burglary gone wrong. An executive accused of embezzling kills himself and his loved ones. A house fire claims the lives of all its inhabitants. Separate incidents with two common threads--a first wife who took her own life, and a secret the victims took to their graves. . . …More

It Happens in the Dark By O'Connell, Carol 2013-08 - Putnam Adult 9780399165399 Check Our Catalog NYPD Detective Kathy Mallory takes over a murder investigation when a woman and a playwright are found murdered and clues lead to a play about a long-ago massacre. …More

It Happens in the Dark By O'Connell, Carol 2013-08 - Putnam Adult 9780399165399 Check Our Catalog NYPD Detective Kathy Mallory takes over a murder investigation when a woman and a playwright are found murdered and clues lead to a play about a long-ago massacre. …More

Bad Tidings: A Detective Superintendent Henry Christie Novel By Oldham, Nick 2013-07 - Severn House Publishers 9780727882660 Check Our Catalog The possibility of catching a serial killer is the bait used by Detective Superintendent Henry Christie's chief constable to lure him away from his planned Christmas festivities. Henry could have said no - but if there's one thing he can't refuse, it's the chance to bring a murderer to book. …More

Invisible By Patterson, James Author Ellis, David 2014-06 - Little Brown and Company 9780316405348 Check Our Catalog Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that …More

Invisible By Patterson, James Author Ellis, David 2014-06 - Little Brown and Company 9780316405348 Check Our Catalog Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that …More

Eden in Winter By Patterson, Richard North 2014-07 - Quercus 9781623651473 Check Our Catalog Number one "New York Times" best-selling author Richard North Patterson, author of more than twenty novels, including "Degree of Guilt" and "Silent Witness," returns with the dramatic conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: "Eden in Winter, " the final volume that completes the story begun in "Fall from Grace" and "Loss of Innocence." …More

All Things Hidden By Peterson, Tracie Author Woodhouse, Kimberley 2014-01 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764211195 Check Our Catalog Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse Team Up to Deliver a Stunning Depression-Era Drama Gwyn Hillerman loves being a nurse at her father's clinic on the beautiful Alaskan frontier. But family life has been rough ever since her mother left them, disdaining the uncivilized country and taking Gwyn's younger sister with her. In Chicago, Dr. Jeremiah Vaughan …More

Single with Benefits By Aaron, Relentless 2008-10 - Griffin 9780312359379 Check Our Catalog From one of the leaders of a hip-hop literature' revolution ("Daily News") comes another juicy story about the joy and pain of having friends with perks. …More

Gabriel's Redemption By Reynard, Sylvain 2013-12 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425266519 Check Our Catalog From the author of the "New York Times" bestsellers "Gabriel's Rapture "and "Gabriel's Inferno "comes the epic conclusion to the captivating romantic trilogy. Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. Together, he's confident that they can face any …More

No River Too Wide By Richards, Emilie 2014-06 - Mira Books 9780778316343 Check Our Catalog Some betrayals are like rivers, so deep, so wide, they can't be crossed. But--for those with enough courage--forgiveness, redemption and love may be found on the other side. On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddard finally resolves to leave her abusive husband. While she is reluctant to involve her estranged daughter, she can't resist a chance to see Harmony …More

A Change of Plans: Second NatureSummer Desserts By Roberts, Nora 2014-05 - Silhouette Books 9780373281800 Check Our Catalog Second Nature Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe is at the top of her game when she scores an exclusive interview with bestselling horror writer Hunter Brown. But the notoriously private author has one condition: the interview must be conducted over the course of a camping trip. Lee will do anything to get the story, but after some one-on-one time with her ruggedly handsome …More

Shaman By Robinson, Kim Stanley 2013-09 - Orbit 9780316098076 Check Our Catalog Awards: John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2014) "This book proves once again that Robinson's fascination with the human condition and mankind's journey transcends easy genre labels...Despite all his previous accolades, this may be Robinson's best work to date, focused so sharply as it is on the simplest way of being human." -- Library Journal …More

The Collector of Dying Breaths By Rose, M. J. 2014-04 - Atria Books 9781451621532 Check Our Catalog A suspenseful and enigmatic story, with gripping historical details and the paranormal subtext Rose has become famous for, which will please her many fans …More

Two Soldiers By Roslund, Anders Author Hellstrom, Borge Translator Dickson, Kari 2014-06 - Quercus 9781623651350 Check Our Catalog With over 4 million copies sold worldwide and translated in 28 languages "The New York Times "bestselling authors, ex-con Borge Hellstrom and investigative journalist Anders Roslund combine inside knowledge of the brutal realities of criminal life with searing social criticism in complex, intelligent plots that have propelled them into the forefront of international crime writing. Now in …More

Dominion By Sansom, C. J. 2014-01 - Mulholland Books 9780316254915 Check Our Catalog In the intriguing prologue of Sansom's solid what-if historical thriller, British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax succeeds Neville Chamberlain as prime minister on May 9, 1940, instead of Winston Churchill. Later that year, Britain makes peace with Germany. Flash forward to 1952. While the country is not technically under Nazi occupation, its citizens live in fear of speaking their minds, and …More

Secret Santa By Michaels, Fern Author Bostwick, Marie Author Levine, Laura 2013-10 - Zebra Books 9781420121452 Check Our Catalog Christmas is the time for miracles, mayhem, and holiday romance in these stories from Fern Michaels, Marie Bostwick, Laura Levine and Cindy Myers. …More

The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civil War By Shaara, Jeff 2014-06 - Ballantine Books 9780345527417 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with "A Blaze of Glory" and "A Chain of Thunder." In "The Smoke at Dawn," the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the …More

The Alligator Man By Sheehan, James 2013-10 - Center Street 9781455508648 Check Our Catalog Kevin Wylie's crooked boss wants to run him out of town, and Kevin's long-time girlfriend is ready to take a hike. He decides that now is the time to leave Miami, visit his father, who he hasn't seen in 28 years, and get some answers. Heading back to his hometown, he doesn't realize that he and his dad will become embroiled in a murder case. …More

The Darkest Craving By Showalter, Gena 2013-07 - Harlequin 9780373777754 Check Our Catalog "New York Times" bestselling author Gena Showalter is back with a breathtaking Lords of the Underworld tale about a warrior trapped by darkness and the woman determined to save him. Having endured weeks of torture in the bowels of hell, Kane wants nothing to do with his beautiful rescuer, Josephina Aisling. The half-Fae female threatens to awaken the demon of Disaster inside …More

The Girls of August By Siddons, Anne Rivers 2014-07 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446527958 Check Our Catalog Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of …More

Cop Town By Slaughter, Karin 2014-06 - Delacorte Press 9780345547491 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Karin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as "one of the best crime novelists in America" ("The Washington Post"). Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval, a serial killer targeting cops, and a divided police force tasked with …More

Brewster By Slouka, Mark 2013-08 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393239751 Check Our Catalog Awards: Alex Awards (2014) A powerful story about an unforgettable friendship between two teenage boys and their hopes for escape from a dead-end town. …More