HPL Adult Summer Reading

Candy Corn Murder By Meier, Leslie 2015-08 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758277077 Check Our Catalog Halloween is coming to Tinker's Cove, Maine, and local reporter Lucy Stone is covering the town's annual Giant Pumpkin Fest for the Pennysaver. There's the pumpkin-boat regatta, the children's Halloween party, the pumpkin weigh-in...even a contest where home-built catapults hurl pumpkins at an old Dodge But not everything goes quite as planned... Lucy's getting very …More

Monk's Hood By Peters, Ellis 2014-11 - Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road 9781504001977 Check Our Catalog Using his knowledge of both herbs and the human heart, Brother Cadfael deciphers a deadly recipe for murder. …More

Dinner with Dimaggio: Memories of an American Hero By Positano, Rock Author Positano, John Foreword by Coppola, Francis Ford 2017-05 - Simon & Schuster 9781501156847 Check Our Catalog The real Joe DiMaggio, remembered by one of the few who really knew the man behind the legend--candid and little-known stories about baseball icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and others off the field. As told by Dr. Rock Positano, DiMaggio's closest confidante in New York during the final years of his life, Dinner with …More

The 6th Extinction By Rollins, James 2014-08 - William Morrow & Company 9780061784811 Check Our Catalog A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead-and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria. The land is entirely sterile-and the blight is …More

Subterranean By Rollins, James 2010-03 - William Morrow & Company 9780061916175 Check Our Catalog Far beneath the Antarctic ice, a hand-picked team of specialists makes its way toward the center of the world. And they are not alone. Over the rocks, across yawning caverns and raging underground rivers, they venture further into the darkness--where breathtaking wonders await them, and terrors beyond imagining--as they draw ever nearer to a miracle that cannot be and a mystery older than time. …More

A Bite to Remember By Sands, Lynsay 2006-06 - Avon Books 9780060774073 Check Our Catalog The bestselling author of "A Quick Bite" continues her popular vampire series. Sexy private eye Jackie Morrisey admits Vincent Argeneau is the hottest guy she's ever met--dead or alive--but she's supposed to protect him from a killer, not fall in love with him. Original. …More

A Quick Bite By Sands, Lynsay 2005-10 - Avon Books 9780060773755 Check Our Catalog The "USA Today" bestelling author's delectable vampire series continues. Lissianna Argeneu is a vampire who hates the sight of blood. Yet she feels a different kind of hunger for psychoanalyst Greg Hewitt. Original. …More

Bride of the Mist By Skye, Christina 2004-06 - Avon Books 9780380782789 Check Our Catalog Bridal editor Kara Fitzgerald receives an urgent psychic summons to England's Draycott Abbey, where her encounter with enigmatic larid Duncan MacKinnon convinces her that they share a secret destiny. As Drayton's guardian ghost warns them of approaching danger, they travel to Duncan's rugged Highland Castle, where they must confront a callous enemy who stalks them. …More

Draycott Eternal: What Dreams May Come & Season of Wishes By Skye, Christina 2008-04 - Harlequin Books 9780373772940 Check Our Catalog A "New York Times" bestselling author invites readers to return to the world of Draycott Abbey in two haunting classics of mystery and timeless love. Reissue. …More

Worth Fighting for: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward By Niemi Swayze, Lisa Author Swayze, Lisa Niemi 2012-01 - Atria Books 9781439196359 Check Our Catalog From the author of The Time of My Life (written with her husband Patrick Swayze) a remarkable, new account of grief, loss, caregiving, and moving on, with never before revealed stories of the Swayzes' final months together. Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother's dance studio. He was older and just a bit cocky; she was the gorgeous waif who refused to …More

The Lying Game By Ware, Ruth 2017-07 - Gallery/Scout Press 9781501156007 Check Our Catalog New York Times Bestseller From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware's chilling new novel, The Lying Game. On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she …More

Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence By Abouzeid, Leila Translator Parmenter, Barbara Introduction by Harlow, Barbara 2009-10 - Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University 9780292721722 Check Our Catalog Includes glossary and interview with the author. HPL patron: Read for a trip off a travel read list. …More

Ines of My Soul By Allende, Isabel 2006-11 - HarperCollins Publishers 9780061161537 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title From the New York Times bestselling author of Portrait in Sepia comes a captivating new novel that chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of Ins Surez, a spirited woman who journeys to the New World and helps establish the nation of Chile. HPL patron: To understand a battle from 2 sides is …More

Kaleidoscope By Ashley, Kristen 2014-12 - Forever 9781455599165 Check Our Catalog "I adore Kristen Ashley's books " --- Maya Banks, New York Times bestselling author When old friends become new lovers...anything can happen. Sexy, gifted, and loyal, PI Jacob Decker is a tall, cool drink of perfection who had Emmanuelle Holmes at "hello." His relationship with Emme's best friend kept them apart for years, but things have changed. Now that a case has …More

Sweet Dreams By Ashley, Kristen 2014-06 - Forever 9781455599080 Check Our Catalog "I adore Kristen Ashley's books "---Maya Banks, New York Times bestselling author She's ready for the ride of her life . . . Lauren Grahame is looking to reinvent herself. After leaving her cheating husband, Lauren moves to Carnal, Colorado, and gets a job as a waitress in a biker bar called Bubba's. It's a nothing job in a nowhere joint . . . until Tatum Jackson walks in. …More

Hag-Seed By Atwood, Margaret 2016-10 - Hogarth Press 9780804141291 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This is one of several (5!) Shakespear do-overs. The Tempest seen through Atwood's imagination. Well done. We'll never view The Tempest the same again. …More

Volume Fourteen By Pomplun, Tom Author Austen, Jane Author Poe, Edgar Allan 2007-06 - Eureka Productions 9780978791902 Check Our Catalog Gothic Classics presents Ann Radcliffe's archetypal gothic novel The Mysteries of Udopho, adapted by Antonella Caputo and Carlo Vergara. Plus: Jane Austen's gothic parody Northanger Abbey" by Trina Robbins and Anne Timmons; and Poe's "The Oval Portrait" by Malaysian illustrator Leong Wan Kok. Also "At the Gate," a ghost story with dogs by Myla Jo Closser, illustrated by Shary Flenniken;, and J. …More

A Just Clause By Barrett, Lorna 2017-06 - Berkley Books 9780399585913 Check Our Catalog Just when things are getting back to normal in Booktown, Tricia and Angelica have their lives turned upside down by a shocking visitor from their past in this latest entry in Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling series. Tricia Miles, mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth, is in for a surprise when her ne'er-do-well father, John, comes to town--and promptly becomes a prime …More

Daria Diaries By Bernstein, Anne 1998-01 - MTV Books 9780671017095 Check Our Catalog Featuring the writing and illustration that has made the animated MTV sitcom a hit, the inside story of the high-school misfit reveals her true opinions about her parents, sister, and companions. Original. HPL patron: As someone who has watched the TV show and both movies, this was a great way to see more of a television show I found quite funny. …More

The Darkest Part of the Forest By Black, Holly 2015-01 - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 9780316213073 Check Our Catalog Awards: Indies Choice Book Awards (2015) HPL patron: Holly Black's YA lit is delightfully dark-the fairy courts she portrays, as well as the solitary Fey are not bright and cheery Tinkerbells in flitty clothes. They rely on old mythology and are dangerous creatures willing to happily damage the mortal world. This danger and darkness is a huge part of why some of her books delight me-the main characters …More

Fahrenheit 451 By Bradbury, Ray 2012-01 - Simon & Schuster 9781451673319 Check Our Catalog Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in …More

A Dog's Purpose By Cameron, W. Bruce 2010-07 - Forge 9780765326263 Check Our Catalog Surprised to find himself reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey wonders if he will ever find his purpose, in this beautifully crafted work that teaches that love never dies and that every creature on Earth is born with a purpose. …More