Summer Reading Week 6 Monday

Dark Horse By Hoag, Tami 2004-06 - Bantam 9780553583571 Check Our Catalog In her latest thriller, "New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner--and the losers die trying. In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is running out for eighteen year-old Erin …More

Deeper Than the Dead By Hoag, Tami 2009-12 - Dutton Books 9780525951308 Check Our Catalog One of the most intense suspense writers around ("Chicago Tribune") returns with this thriller. California, 1984. Three children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially buried body--and that's just the start of this heart-pounding ride. …More

Down the Darkest Road By Hoag, Tami 2012-02 - Center Point 9781611732665 Check Our Catalog Deeper Than the Dead introduced Tami Hoag's millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed idyllic until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called "profiling" to put an end to the trauma. Secrets to the Grave brought Leone's teacher-turned-child- advocate wife, Anne, into a central role. Together …More

Forbidden Fantasy By Holt, Cheryl 2007-08 - St. Martin's Press 9780312942557 Check Our Catalog "Named One of the Top 25 Erotic Writers of All Time*, Cheryl Holt delivers a sizzling new novel about one woman's amorous adventures with a man who fuels her secret passions..." SHE SOUGHT LESSONS IN DESIRE...From girlhood, Lady Caroline Foster knew what her future held: marriage to an esteemed viscount, followed by a dignified high-society life. A sedate existence perhaps, but …More

Raintree: Inferno By Howard, Linda Author Barton, Beverly Author Jones, Linda Winstead 2008-10 - Harlequin Books 9780373773428 Check Our Catalog The bestselling Raintree trilogy is now in one exciting volume. This collection includes "Inferno" by Howard, "Sanctuary" by Beverly Barton, and "Haunted" by Linda Winstead Jones. Original. …More

Black River By Hulse, S. M. 2014-12 - Houghton Mifflin 9780544309876 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2016), Montana Book Award (2015) A tense Western and an assured debut, "Black River" tells the storyof a man marked by a prison riot as he returns to the town, and the convict, who shaped him. When Wes Carver returns to Black River, he carries two things in the cab of his truck: his wife's ashes and a letter from the prison parole board. The convict who held him hostage during a riot, twenty years ago, is being considered for …More

Rage: An Alex Delaware Novel By Kellerman, Jonathan 2005-05 - Ballantine Books 9780345467065 Check Our Catalog In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind." Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from the past that …More

Survival of the Fittest By Kellerman, Jonathan 1998-07 - Bantam Books 9780553840179 Check Our Catalog SPA In this riveting follow-up to Kellerman's bestselling "The Clinic", psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware confronts an almost unimaginably cruel, arrogant, and obsessed killer who takes as much pleasure in matching wits with the police as he does in robbing human life--all in the name of science. "Jonathan Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers--he owns the genre".--"Detroit Free …More

Stand Proud By Kelton, Elmer Afterword by Dalrymple, Terence A. 1988-10 - Texas Christian University Press 9780875650449 Check Our Catalog "Pain resulting from other men's follies causes "Stand Proud'""s"" "Frank Claymore to develop an iron will that heeds no man's judgment except his own, nor any woman's. Some of his decisions are wrong, and the price of pride proves high."-- Elmer Kelton "The jarring strike of the clock in the towering cupola drew Frank Claymore's unwilling eyes to the two-story courthouse." Frank Claymore …More

Badger Boy and the Way of the Coyote By Kelton, Elmer 2015-05 - Forge 9780765381477 Check Our Catalog "Badger Boy" The Texas Frontier, 1865: The Civil War is over, and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers who are spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" that protects settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red …More

Texas Standoff By Kelton, Elmer 2010-09 - Forge 9780765325792 Check Our Catalog In the ninth and final novel in the Texas Ranger series, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. …More

Born of Fire By Kenyon, Sherrilyn 2009-11 - St. Martin's Press 9780312942311 Check Our Catalog FROM THE CREATOR OF THE #1 BESTSELLING DARK-HUNTER NOVELS-- THE SPELLBINDING LEAGUE SERIES CONTINUES! "In a universe where assassins make the law, everyone lives in fear--except for Syn. Born of an illicit scandal that once rocked a dynasty, he always knew how to survive on the bloodthirsty streets. But that was then, and the future is now..." HE TAKES NO PRISONERS. Syn was …More

Son of No One By Kenyon, Sherrilyn 2014-09 - St. Martin's Press 9781250029911 Check Our Catalog In "Son of No One, "next in the blockbuster "The Dark-Hunters "series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, it's not easy being life's own personal joke, but Josette Landry has made an unstable peace with the beast. Completely down on her luck, Josette takes a job with a local paranormal group as a photographer and camerawoman. Yeah, they're even crazier than she is. The only paranormal thing she believes in is …More

The Murder of Mary Russell By King, Laurie R. 2016-04 - Thorndike Press Large Print 9781410486042 Check Our Catalog …More

The Bean Trees By Kingsolver, Barbara 1998-09 - Perfection Learning 9780780792876 Check Our Catalog Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come …More

Memories of the Future By Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund With Formozov, Nikolai Translator Turnbull, Joanne 2009-10 - New York Review of Books 9781590173190 Check Our Catalog Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s--but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher--the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling "everything you need for suicide"; an …More

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania By Larson, Erik 2015-03 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9780307408860 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2016) HPL patron: In typical Larson fashion-true history that reads like fiction, never boring. I now understand more about the beginnings of WWI. HPL pattron: If you want't oknow more about submarines and their deadly effects on World War I, this is the book to read. Very factual. …More

A Breath of Fresh Air By Malladi, Amulya 2003-06 - Ballantine Books 9780345450296 Check Our Catalog "On the night of December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her army officer husband to pick her up at the train station in Bhopal, India. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at his being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city air. Anjali miraculously survives. Her marriage does not. A smart, successful schoolteacher, Anjali is now remarried to …More

The Mango Season By Malladi, Amulya 2003-06 - Ballantine Books 9780345450302 Check Our Catalog From the author of "A Breath of Fresh Air, " comes a lushly written novel set in India at the height of the mango season--in which a young woman must decide whether to follow her heart or tradition. …More

The Kalahari Typing School for Men: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency By McCall Smith, Alexander 2003-09 - Center Point Large Print 9781585473311 Check Our Catalog The fourth installment in this wildly popular series funds Precious running her business from her fiance's garage. She continues to juggle her life and her intriguing cases with a special blend of love, investigative talent and common sense. HPL pattron: I just love these books! This is the fourth in his detective series, the cases that come to her detective agency are …More

Morality for Beautiful Girls By McCall Smith, Alexander 2003-09 - Center Point Large Print 9781585473304 Check Our Catalog "Morality for Beautiful Girls is the third in the "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series -- a mystery series that has taken the world by storm! This time, the intrepid Precious Ramotswe investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important "Government Man." HPL pattron: What a wonderful book. This is the third book I have read in his No. I Ladies Detective …More

Precious and Grace: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (17) By McCall Smith, Alexander 2016-10 - Pantheon Books 9781101871355 Check Our Catalog HPL pattron: This was a lovely book. Its mysteries are usually simple and solved quickly, but it is the surrounding story of Mma Ramotsue and her life that really draw you in. The book is colorfully simplistic. I intend on reading the rest of the series. …More

Tears of the Giraffe By McCall Smith, Alexander 2005-11 - Pantheon Books 9780375423888 Check Our Catalog The continuing story of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency--starring Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first lady detective--finds our wily heroine searching for a young man who disappeared into the African plains many years ago. HPL pattron: The second book of the series and I continue to love his writing style and stories. He delves deeper into the life of Mma Ramotsue and …More

The Mulberry Bush By McCarry, Charles 2015-10 - Mysterious Press 9780802124104 Check Our Catalog Author of "The Tears of Autumn" and "The Shanghai Factor," Charles McCarry is widely regarded as one of the finest modern espionage novelists. His latest masterpiece, "The Mulberry Bush," burns with the fury of the wronged, as personal vendetta and political idealism collide. In a rose garden in Buenos Aires, an unnamed American spy meets the beautiful daughter of a famous Argentinean …More