Adult Summer Reading - Week 11 - Tuesday

Desolation By Sturges, Matthew Illustrator Rossi, Luca Illustrator Marzan, Jose, Jr. 2012-08 - Vertigo 9781401234959 Check Our Catalog In this final volume, the big confrontation between Fig and the Conception, between Fig and Lotus Blossom, between Lotus Blossom and the Magical Physicians, between Fig and Lotus Blossom and Harry, between - okay, between everyone and everyone else, and it's been building since issue #1. What will become of the House of Mystery? There's only one way to find out... This volume collects issues …More

House of Mystery, Volume 6: Safe as Houses By Sturges, Matthew Illustrator Rossi, Luca 2011-05 - Vertigo 9781401231545 Check Our Catalog HOUSE OF MYSTERY focuses on characters trapped in a supernatural bar, trying to solve the mystery of how and why they're imprisoned there. Each one has a terrible past they'd like to forget, and with no books, newspapers or TV allowed in the House, they face an eternity of boredom. But stories become the new currency, and fortunately, the House attracts only the finest storytellers. In this sixth …More

The Book of Speculation By Swyler, Erika 2015-06 - St. Martin's Press 9781250054807 Check Our Catalog One of BuzzFeed's 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015 "As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the women in his family, he learns strange and fascinating secrets about their past. A tale full of magic and family mystery, "The Book of Speculation" will keep you up all night reading." Isaac Fitzgerald, BuzzFeed Simon Watson, a young …More

Under Tiberius By Tosches, Nick 2015-08 - Little Brown and Company 9780316405669 Check Our Catalog A work of dangerous and haunting beauty by America's last real literary outlaw. Under Tiberius is a thrilling story of crime and deceit involving the man who came to be called Jesus Christ. Deep in the recesses of the Vatican, Nick Tosches unearths a first-century memoir by Gaius Fulvius Falconius, foremost speechwriter for Emperor Tiberius. The codex is …More

Just Above a Whisper By Wick, Lori 2006-08 - Walker & Company 9781594151118 Check Our Catalog Book 2 in the < I>Tucker Mills Trilogy< /I>< P>A tender story of the power of faith over fear and the tie that truly binds. Indentured servant Reese Thackery's contract has fallen into the hands of the Tucker Mills bank. When Conner Kingsley, the son of the bank's owner, comes to investigate, he finds himself touched by her situation. Soon he releases Reese and hires her to keep house for …More

Leave a Candle Burning By Wick, Lori 2006-12 - Thorndike Press 9780786290871 Check Our Catalog Lori Wick's popular, bestselling Tucker Mills Series concludes with Leave a Candle Burning. Beloved Doc MacKay has left Tucker Mills to retire to warmer climes, but he gladly leaves the town's health in the capable hands of Dannan MacKay, his nephew. The townsfolk welcome Dannan, but the widowed physician misses his young daughter, who is staying with an aunt while he settles into his new life. …More

Moonlight on the Millpond By Wick, Lori 2005-06 - Thorndike Press 9780786277056 Check Our Catalog While helping his Uncle Woody run the sawmill in Token Creek, Jace Randall begins courting the visiting niece of the local storekeepers, but when Jace's sister undermines their new relationship with gossip, the new couple separates. …More

The Fifth Son By Wiesel, Elie 1998-04 - Schocken Books Inc 9780805210835 Check Our Catalog When a Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, the son also discovers that the Nazi is still alive. What begins as a quest for his father's love becomes a reenactment of the past, as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge. An unforgettable novel by the Nobel Prize …More

Waking Up in Charleston By Woods, Sherryl 2011-12 - Mira Books 9780778313267 Check Our Catalog Oh, God! She's in love with her preacher. But it's not as if Amanda O'Leary set "out" to fall for the most gorgeous (and unattainable) man this side of South Carolina Low Country. It's just that he organized building a cozy home for her and her children at a time when the future looked darker than blackstrap molasses. Not even her own father, the arrogant and wealthy Big Max, would have done as …More

Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches By Woolson, Constance Fenimore 2009-01 - BiblioLife 9780559988554 Check Our Catalog This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to …More

The Lost Time Accidents By Wray, John 2016-02 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374281137 Check Our Catalog In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, "The Lost Time Accidents," John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumors about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of World War Two, from the golden age of postwar pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artifacts of modern life. Haunted …More

A Little Life By Yanagihara, Hanya 2015-03 - Doubleday Books 9780385539258 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2016), Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (2016), Kirkus Prize (2015), Man Booker Prize (2015), National Book Awards (2015) NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into …More

Her Holiday Fireman By Y'Barbo, Kathleen 2012-10 - Love Inspired 9780373877799 Check Our Catalog From his first encounter with the feisty redhead, widower and fire marshal Ryan Owen knows he's in trouble. He's in Vine Beach to heal, not to find romance. As for Leah Berry, she's come home strictly to lay claim to her family's restaurant and fend off developers. Leah is infuriated when Ryan shuts down the restaurant on violations. Both are determined to have their way, even as …More

How to Retire the Cheapskate Way: The Ultimate Cheapskate's Guide to a Better, Earlier, Happier Retirement By Yeager, Jeffrey Author Yeager, Jeff 2013-01 - Crown Business 9780307956422 Check Our Catalog Combining Yeager's lovable humor and offbeat anecdotes that have garnered him an ever-growing fan base, this guide shares with readers hundreds of retirement secrets and tips. …More

Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor By Kim, Yong With Kim, Suk-Young 2009-05 - Columbia University Press 9780231147460 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: An informative book on life in North Korea and the prisons. At times it is difficult to read how low the people have to come to exist. To try to put oneself in his shoes is impossible, and the corroption that exists is understandable. …More