HPL Adult Summer Reading

Styles of Seduction By Thomas, Jacquelin 2013-08 - Kimani Press 9780373863211 Check Our Catalog Manhattan's most successful, cutting-edge designer, Kyle Hamilton, has a flair for what's hot and hip in the city's competitive fashion world. And with his sensual good looks, the dedicated bachelor has his choice of any womanNexcept Zoe Sinclair, the one who got away. Original. …More

Teach Me Tonight By Thomas, Jacquelin 2009-10 - Kimani Press 9780373861330 Check Our Catalog Sorority girl Tamara Hodges has never forgotten her tutor Micah Ross. And their class reunion offers her an opportunity to make amends. But Micah's after revenge for Tamara's cruel rejection years ago--until a night of blazing passion changes everything. Original. …More

Natural Beauty with Coconut Oil: 50 Homemade Beauty Recipes Using Nature's Perfect Ingredient By Bee, Lucy Photographer Loftus, David 2017-01 - Quadrille Publishing 9781849498944 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I love coconut oil! Great, easy recipes were included in the book. Why pay for chemical products when we can easily make beauty products? …More

Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII By Bruning, John R. 2016-10 - Hachette Books 9780316339407 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Excellent. What a family ma and warrior. My kind of WWII hero. …More

The Bitter Kingdom By Carson, Rae 2013-08 - Greenwillow Books 9780062026545 Check Our Catalog In the epic conclusion to Carson's Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy, 17-year-old sorcerer-queen Elisa will travel into the unknown realm of the enemy to win back her true love, save her country, and uncover the final secrets of her destiny. HPL patron: This series had me hooked from the very beginning till the very end. It was nearly impossible to put …More

Doctor Sleep By King, Stephen 2013-09 - Scribner Book Company 9781476727653 Check Our Catalog Awards: Bram Stoker Awards (2013), Iowa High School Book Award (2016) Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, "The Shining," in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. HPL patron: What happened to Danny Torrence from The Shining? Find out-great …More

Insomnia By King, Stephen 2016-02 - Gallery Books 9781501144226 Check Our Catalog Ralph's insomnia gets worse when Ed Deepneau gets out of control. Ed is obsessed with the notion that Derry is becoming the new Armageddon and that time is ticking away for the residents. An evil of unimaginable proportions has began and Ralph has the one chance to beat it. …More

Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin By Hockenos, Paul 2017-05 - New Press 9781620971956 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: The author describes how the musicians and artists were decisive in finally bringing down the Berlin Wall. He gives equal credit to those in both East and West Berlin. In my view, I thought there were many factors leading to the demise of the Wall and he gives the counter-culture too much credit. …More

Christmas in Alaska: Mail-Order Bride\The Snow Bride By Macomber, Debbie 2016-10 - Mira Books 9780778319139 Check Our Catalog TWO CHRISTMAS WEDDINGS--IN ALASKA Gold River, Alaska, isn't your average town. After being jilted by her fiance, Caroline Myers ends up there--thanks to her matchmaking aunts, who send her on what appears to be a vacation. Not surprisingly, they have something different in mind. Something that involves spending a snowy Christmas in handsome Paul Trevor's home--as his …More

A Man's Heart By Macomber, Debbie 2014-01 - Mira Books 9780778315872 Check Our Catalog www.DebbieMacomber.com There's an old saying about the way to a man's heart Meghan O'Day and Grey Carlyle couldn't be more different. He's a sophisticated professor of literature; she's a waitress with a high-school education and a love of the classics. He returns time and again to the diner where she worksand it's not just for the coffee and pie Or even for the conversation. No, it has …More

Powers That Be By McCaffrey, Anne Author Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann 1994-05 - Del Rey Books 9780345387790 Check Our Catalog Major Yanaba Maddock wasn't much good to the company anymore. With lungs practically destroyed by poison gas in a military debacle, she could barely breathe without coughing, much less do anything the least bit strenuous. But it wasn't the company's way to discard those they might still find some use for...and so they retired Yana to the icy planet Petaybee to do their spying. Strange things …More

The Blood Gospel: The Order of the Sanguines Series By Rollins, James Author Cantrell, Rebecca 2013-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780061991042 Check Our Catalog In his first-ever collaboration, "New York Times"-bestselling author Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with award-winning novelist Cantrell's talent for haunting suspense and sensual atmosphere in a gothic tale about an ancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book. …More

All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor By Stratton, Donald Author Gire, Ken 2016-11 - William Morrow & Company 9780062645357 Check Our Catalog THE FIRST MEMOIR BY A USS ARIZONA SURVIVOR: Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers an "epic,"* "powerful,"** and "intimate"** eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and his unforgettable return to the fight. A TOP-TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald …More

Mother Land By Theroux, Paul 2017-05 - Houghton Mifflin 9780618839322 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Sometimes funny, but 528 pages about one's mother and family. Didn't like it. …More

A French Wedding By Tunnicliffe, Hannah 2017-06 - Doubleday Books 9780385541848 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A light summer read set in France about a group of friends who met in college. The outsider and chef/baker, Juliette, had a knack for bringing everyone, everything together. The fact that I love kouign-amann, and she bakes it to perfection, endeared me to her and the story. …More

The Testament By Lustbader, Eric Van 2006-09 - Forge 9780765314635 Check Our Catalog Braverman Shaw--RBravoS to his friends--always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies does Bravo discover that his father belonged to a hidden sect that has guarded a lost Testament that could shake Christianity to its foundations. …More

Remembering Detroit's Olympia Stadium By Wimmer, Robert 2001-12 - Arcadia Library Editions 9781531613174 Check Our Catalog For over a half century Olympia Stadium was THE entertainment venue in Detroit. Almost every major sports and entertainment event was played there. The major tenant was the Detroit Red Wings. Most of the major touring ice shows also skated at the Olympia; great entertainers such as Elvis, the Beatles, KISS, Isaac Hayes, Alice Cooper, Lawrence Welk, John Denver, the Lone Ranger, and the …More

Spell Bound By Armstrong, Kelley 2011-07 - Dutton Books 9780525952206 Check Our Catalog In a story that will change the shape of the Otherworld forever, "New York Times"-bestselling author Armstrong gathers Elena, Clay, Paige, Lucas, Jamie, Hope, and other beloved characters, who soon learn that the greatest threat to supernaturals just may come from within. …More

Waking the Witch By Armstrong, Kelley 2010-07 - Dutton Books 9780525951780 Check Our Catalog One of the most popular writers of paranormal fiction and a #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author returns with a rollicking new novel in her Otherworld series. …More

Britt-Marie Was Here By Backman, Fredrik 2016-05 - Atria Books 9781501142536 Check Our Catalog The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry returns with an irresistible novel about finding love and second chances in the most unlikely of places. Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later …More

Ruin and Rising By Bardugo, Leigh 2014-06 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805094619 Check Our Catalog The stunning conclusion to the Grisha Trilogy. The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. …More

Siege and Storm By Bardugo, Leigh 2013-06 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805094602 Check Our Catalog Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret, in this follow-up to the "New York Times" bestseller "Shadow and Bone." …More

Etched in Bone By Bishop, Anne 2017-03 - Roc 9780451474490 Check Our Catalog THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders--a primitive and lethal form of the Others--the few cities left under human control are …More

The Shadow Queen By Bishop, Anne 2009-03 - Roc 9780451462541 Check Our Catalog Dena Nehele is a land decimated by its past. Now, only 100 Warlord Princes stand--without a leader and without hope--in the seventh book in the Black Jewels series. …More