Summer Reading Week 4 Monday

Scrapper By Bell, Matt 2015-09 - Soho Press 9781616955212 Check Our Catalog Awards: Michigan Notable Books (2016) HPL patron: Stunning. Unique, beautifully written and executed. Have to make this one of my top five books of all time. …More

The Wolves By Berenson, Alex 2016-02 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399176142 Check Our Catalog The latest thriller from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Twelve Days," Alex Berenson. John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator himself disappeared behind an impenetrable war of security. Now it's time for him to pay, and Wells has made it his personal mission. There are plenty of …More

The 14th Colony By Berry, Steve 2016-04 - Minotaur Books 9781250056245 Check Our Catalog "What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos." Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has …More

Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises By Blume, Lesley 2016-06 - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9780544276000 Check Our Catalog The making of Ernest Hemingway's"The Sun Also Rises," the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual …More

An Inheritance of Ashes By Bobet, Leah 2015-10 - Clarion Books 9780544281110 Check Our Catalog Awards: Cybils (2015) The strange war down south with its rumors of gods and monsters is over. And while sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister wait to see who will return from the distant battlefield, they struggle to maintain their family farm. When Hallie hires a veteran to help them, the war comes home in ways no one could have imagined, and soon Hallie is taking dangerous risks and keeping desperate secrets. But …More

The Guest Room By Bohjalian, Chris 2016-01 - Doubleday Books 9780385538893 Check Our Catalog From the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Midwives" and "The Sandcastle Girls" comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams. When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain …More

The Course of Love By de Botton, Alain 2016-06 - Simon & Schuster 9781501134258 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A must read for everyone entering into a relationship or as a reminder as to why you are in one. …More

Morning Star By Brown, Pierce 2016-02 - Del Rey Books 9780345539847 Check Our Catalog #1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER "Red Rising" thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. "Golden Son"changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: "Morning Star." Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged …More

Backup: A Story of the Dresden Files By Butcher, Jim 2008-10 - Subterranean Press 9781596061828 Check Our Catalog Let's get something clear right up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent …More

The Giving Quilt By Chiaverini, Jennifer 2012-10 - Dutton Books 9780525953609 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling author Chiaverini's artful, inspiring novel imagines what good would come from practicing the holiday spirit each and every day of the year. HPL patron: Her characters make you want to have friends just like them. …More

The Exiled Queen (a Seven Realms Novel) By Chima, Cinda Williams 2010-09 - Disney-Hyperion 9781423118244 Check Our Catalog Awards: Buckeye Children's Book Award (2011) Haunted by the loss of his mother and sister, Han Alister journeys south to begin his schooling at Mystwerk House in Oden's Ford. But leaving the Fells doesn't mean danger isn't far behind. …More

Sweetbitter By Danler, Stephanie 2016-05 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781101875940 Check Our Catalog INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. Perfect for readers of "Kitchen Confidential" and "Blood, Bones and Butter." Twenty-two, and knowing no one, Tess leaves home to begin her …More

Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums: Inside Abandoned Institutions for the Crazy, Criminal & Quarantined By Davis, Jamie With Queen, Sam 2013-09 - Llewellyn Publications 9780738737508 Check Our Catalog The Shadow Man haunts penitentiary cell blocks.A chilling wind runs through the Death Tunnel.The Red Eyes Apparition lurks in abandoned hallways. Explore frightening ghost stories and true paranormal encounters at ten well-known, haunted institutions across the United States. This unique collection of investigations is filled with terrifying photos, spooky highlights from on-site tours, and …More

The After Party By DiSclafani, Anton 2016-05 - Riverhead Books 9781594633164 Check Our Catalog One of the Best New Books for Summer 2016 "Good Housekeeping " One of the 3 Beach Reads You Won't Be Able to Put Down "O Magazine" DiSclafani's story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail. "People" From the nationally bestselling author of "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for …More

The Visconti House By Edgar, Elsbeth 2011-02 - Candlewick Press (MA) 9780763650193 Check Our Catalog Laura Horton has always been an outsider, more interested in writing, drawing, or spending time with her free-spirited family than in her fellow teens, but she is drawn to Leon, a new student, as together they explore the mysteries of her eccentric old house. …More

American Housewife: Stories By Ellis, Helen 2016-01 - Doubleday Books 9780385541039 Check Our Catalog Sharp, funny, and delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity. Features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line. These twelve irresistible stories take the listener from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation …More

Takedown Twenty By Evanovich, Janet 2013-11 - Bantam 9780345542885 Check Our Catalog New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore 'Uncle Sunny' Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in--not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even …More

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! By Evison, Jonathan 2015-09 - Algonquin Books 9781616202613 Check Our Catalog Awards: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (2016) Jonathan Evison is a ridiculously gifted storyteller: racing, breathless, and vibrant with his prose, hungry for personal truths, and clearly in love with the world around us all. That compassion and those writerly charms are deeply felt in "This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance , " an irresistible, inventive novel full of important ideas about how we live our lives as parents, children, partners, and …More

The Reappearing Act: Coming Out as Gay on a College Basketball Team Led by Born-Again Christians By Fagan, Kate 2014-05 - Skyhorse Publishing 9781629142050 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: An excellent coming of age story about a gay basketball player. The author now works for ESPN and can be seen and heard on their outlets. …More

Dark Promises By Feehan, Christine 2016-03 - Berkley Books 9780425277355 Check Our Catalog Lovers challenge destiny and risk their lives in the new Carpathian novel by the #1 "New York Times" bestselling queen of paranormal romance. * Gabrielle has had enough of battles, of wars, of seeing the man she's engaged to nearlylose his life when it isn't even his fight.Once Gary was a gentleand very human researcher. Now he's a fearless and lethal Carpathian warrior with the blood …More

Home by Nightfall By Finch, Charles 2015-11 - Minotaur Books 9781250070418 Check Our Catalog It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however, his grieving brother asks him to come down to Sussex, and Lenox leaves the metropolis behind for the …More

Black Girl Lost By Goines, Donald, Jr. 2006-11 - Holloway House Publishing Company 9780870679858 Check Our Catalog In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, Donald Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto experience the dark, despair-ridden world of a black girl's soul. Sandra took to the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs by shoplifting and moving into the profits of drug pushing. Then she met Chink, and with him she discovered love …More

Daddy Cool By Goines, Donald, Jr. 2014-08 - Holloway House Publishing Company 9780758294647 Check Our Catalog Goines, a career criminal and addict who took up writing during one of his seven prison sentences, has never been more hard-boiled that he is in this almost Shakespearean revenge fantasy about a hit man whose icy heart melts when his beloved daughter is lured astray by a smooth-talking pimp. …More

Open Your Mind, Open Your Life By Gold, Taro 2001-03 - Andrews McMeel Publishing 9780740714467 Check Our Catalog First published in April 2001, the Little Book edition of Open Your Mind, Open Your Life sold more than 50,000 copies in less than a year. Today, author Taro Gold introduces this new and expanded volume of the best-selling book, leading readers further along the path to lasting happiness and enlightenment. Open Your Mind, Open Your Life encourages and uplifts readers with more than 300 …More