Adult Summer Reading - Week 11 - Monday

Starlight: Hidden Star\Captive Star By Roberts, Nora 2015-11 - Silhouette Books 9780373281947 Check Our Catalog Diamonds can be a girls best friend--or her worst enemy. Two installments of the Stars of Mithra series by beloved, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts are collected in this single volume. Includes "Hidden Star" and "Captive Star." Reissue. …More

The Obsession By Roberts, Nora 2016-04 - Berkley Books 9780399175169 Check Our Catalog The riveting new novel from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Liar." " She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her. " Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped …More

Stolen: Nightshade\Night Smoke By Roberts, Nora 2016-05 - Silhouette Books 9780373282135 Check Our Catalog Two dark and dazzling fan-favorite tales of romantic suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author NORA ROBERTS Nightshade Colt Nightshade can't believe his luck: he's been partnered on a case with the stunningly beautiful lieutenant Althea Grayson. But Grayson works strictly by the book, and she has no use for Colt's easygoing, renegade style. The case itself is demanding enough, …More

No Cure for Love By Robinson, Peter 2016-02 - William Morrow & Company 9780062469304 Check Our Catalog Terrific . . . that rare book that entertains, enthralls, and also teaches. No Cure for Love] has something to say about right now. MICHAEL CONNELLY, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Broughton has come a long way. She's the star of a hit cop show on TV. She lives in a beautiful California beach house. And most important she's put her dark past behind her. . . as well as her old …More

Best Friends Forever By Roby, Kimberla Lawson 2016-01 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455526086 Check Our Catalog Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and her husband, Keith, have become routine. She resents that he's working long hours and staying out all night, and he accuses her of not giving him the attention he deserves. Their marriage is at a cross-roads and Celine worries how her 10-year-old daughter, Kassie, will be affected. But the …More

The First Hostage: A J. B. Collins Novel By Rosenberg, Joel C. 2015-12 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781496406156 Check Our Catalog What if the Islamic State captured the most valuable hostage in history? "The president of the United States . . . is missing." With these words, New York Times journalist J. B. Collins, report-ing from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists in Amman, Jordan, puts the entire world on high alert. The leaders of Israel and Palestine are critically injured, …More

The Rough Guide to New York City By Rough Guides Author Rough Guides 2016-02 - Rough Guides 9780241199213 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This book in electronic form is great. It has photos and itineraries. It has great maps and makes things easy to find. I'd recommend it to a first time traveler to New York, in particular. …More

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One & Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production By Rowling, J. K. Author Tiffany, John Author Thorne, Jack 2016-07 - Arthur A. Levine Books 9781338099133 Check Our Catalog The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London's West End on July 30, 2016. …More

Empire Falls By Russo, Richard 2001-05 - Alfred A. Knopf 9780679432470 Check Our Catalog Awards: Ambassador Book Awards (2002), Book Sense Book of the Year Award (2002), Pulitzer Prize (2002) Richard Russo--from his first novel, "Mohawk, to his most recent, "Straight Man--has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country. Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a …More

Board Stiff By Ryan, Annelise 2014-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758272768 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: An entertaining cozy mystery. …More

Stiff Competition By Ryan, Annalise Author Ryan, Annelise 2016-01 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781617734106 Check Our Catalog "The funniest deputy coroner to cut up a corpse since, well, ever." --Laura Levine Every fall, hunting season in Sorenson, Wisconsin, leads to some accidental injuries. Deputy coroner Mattie Winston just hopes the hunters don't bring any more business to her office. But somebody seems to have declared open season on land developers. One real estate developer who's recently come to town …More

Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran By Saberi, Roxana 2010-03 - Harper 9780061965289 Check Our Catalog Saberi, a journalist working in Iran, was dragged from her home and arrested, charged with espionage. In this compelling and inspirational story, she writes of her imprisonment, her trial, her ultimate release, and the faith that helped her through her captivity. …More

A Kind of Grief By Scott, A. D. 2015-10 - Atria Books 9781476756189 Check Our Catalog One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2015 Set against the grandeur of the Northern Scottish Highlands in the 1950s, here is the sixth evocative, fast-paced, suspenseful mystery in A.D. Scott's highly acclaimed series featuring beloved heroine Joanne Ross. Praised for their well-drawn characters (Publishers Weekly), ingenious plotting …More

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison By Senghor, Shaka 2016-03 - Convergent Books 9781101907290 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Very interesting book that was inspiring. However, I believe it would have been better if the athor would have written it in his life's sequence rather than jumping from prison to his youth and then back to a different prison. …More

Trustee from the Toolroom By Shute, Nevil 2000-09 - Queens House 9780892440160 Check Our Catalog When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, Keith Steward becomes the trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters. …More

The Rosie Effect By Simsion, Graeme 2014-12 - Simon & Schuster 9781476767314 Check Our Catalog The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Rosie Project, starring the same extraordinary couple now living in New York and unexpectedly expecting their first child. Get ready to fall in love all over again. Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But …More

The Justice Game By Singer, Randy 2009-07 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781414316345 Check Our Catalog After the target of an investigative report storms a Virginia Beach news studio, he executes one of the anchors on live television before the SWAT team is able to take him down. Following the victim's funeral, her family files a lawsuit against the gun company who manufactured the killer's weapon of choice. The lawyers for the plaintiff and defendant-Kelly Starling and Jason Noble-are young, …More

A Faint Cold Fear By Slaughter, Karin 2003-10 - William Morrow & Company 9780688174583 Check Our Catalog From the author of "Kisscut" comes the story of violence on a Georgia college campus, as medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver investigate several suicides and a brutal attack. …More

A Chance on Lovin' You By Snoe, Eboni 1999-09 - Avon Books 9780380795635 Check Our Catalog Sasha Townsend always plays it safe -- in life and in love -- until an unexpected inheritance brings her to the lushly tropical Florida Keys. There, beneath the hot sun of Magic Key, she begins to relax and renew...until she's summoned to the neighboring estate by its enigmatic owner, Cay Ellis. The handsome millionaire's highhanded ways and infuriating demands awaken Sasha to emotions and a world …More

The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time By Sobel, Dava Joint Author Andrewes, William J. H. Introduction by Sobel, Dava 1998-10 - Walker & Company 9780802713445 Check Our Catalog The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the thorniest scientific problem of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout the great age of exploration, sailors attempted to navigate the oceans without any means of measuring their longitude: All too often, voyages ended in total disaster when both crew and cargo were captured or lost upon the rocks of …More

Thicker Than Water: A British Police Procedural Set in 1970s By Spencer, Sally 2016-02 - Severn House Publishers 9780727885616 Check Our Catalog "DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates a case that could be the making or, more likely, breaking of her career " DCI Monika Paniatowski has only been back from maternity leave for three days when she is called in to investigate a nightmare of a case. Not only is the murder victim a mother of three small children, but her husband is a wealthy politician. Monika knows that if she can't …More

Property of a Noblewoman By Steel, Danielle 2016-03 - Delacorte Press 9780345531063 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Typical Steel-but you might learn a bit about jewelry. …More

Interior Darkness: Selected Stories By Straub, Peter 2016-02 - Doubleday Books 9780385541053 Check Our Catalog A MONUMENTAL COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION FROM ACCLAIMED MASTER OF HORROR AND"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLINGAUTHOR PETER STRAUB Peter Straub brilliantly defiesand blurs literary genres. LORRIE MOORE An American icon renowned for his bestselling novels, Peter Straub displays his full and stunning range in this crowning collection. He has consistently subverted the boundaries of genre …More

The Burgess Boys By Strout, Elizabeth 2013-03 - Random House 9781400067688 Check Our Catalog Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014) The acclaimed author of "Olive Kitteridge" returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature. Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, the Burgess brothers are called home from their successful lives in New York. HPL patron:  Newest book from the author of Olive …More