Staff Picks

Check here every month to see what the HPL staff recommends based on our reading.  You can also  find your next good book by stopping by or calling the Reference Desk, or by using our online form:  Your Next Good Book

Alison's Picks

Rebecca By du Maurier, Daphne 2002-07 - Avon Books 9780380778553 Check Our Catalog Rebecca has been dead for several months, but her sinister influence is still very much alive at Manderley, as Maxim de Winter's second wife soon comes to realize. …More

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine By Honeyman, Gail 2017-05 - Pamela Dorman Books 9780735220683 Check Our Catalog Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. "Warm and funny...plus Reese bought the rights to this one...You'll want to read it."--TheSkimm "A charmer...satisfyingly quirky."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Books to Breeze Through This Summer" "This wacky, charming novel...draws you in with humor, then …More

Diana's Picks

Full Wolf Moon By Child, Lincoln 2017-05 - Doubleday Books 9780385531429 Check Our Catalog The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist . . . featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often grounded in reality. This has been the guiding principle behind the …More

The Mountain Between Us By Martin, Charles 2010-06 - Broadway Books 9780767927000 Check Our Catalog Awards: Florida Book Award (2010) Bestselling author Martin returns with a captivating story about two strangers who crash into a frigid mountain wilderness and must rely on each other to survive. …More

Lockdown: A Novel of Suspense By King, Laurie R. 2017-06 - Bantam 9780804177931 Check Our Catalog A community comes together when threatened by someone with a thirst for revenge in this stunningly intricate, tautly plotted novel of rich psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell mysteries. Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: A day given to innocent hopes and youthful dreams. A day no one in attendance will ever …More

Thalia: A Texas Trilogy By McMurtry, Larry 2017-09 - Liveright Publishing Corporation 9781631493751 Check Our Catalog Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961), * Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)-- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, …More

Jocelyn's Picks

Origin By Brown, Dan 2017-10 - Doubleday Books 9780385514231 Check Our Catalog The #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Da Vinci Code Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement--the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever." The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a …More

At the Water's Edge By Gruen, Sara 2015-03 - Spiegel & Grau 9780385523233 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This is the highly unlikely story of a poor little rich girl who finds adulthood and happiness in a remote part of Scotland. On Good Reads I gave it 4 stars. That was stretching it about because of the setting. …More

The Muralist By Shapiro, B. A. 2015-11 - Algonquin Books 9781616203573 Check Our Catalog When Alizee Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee …More

Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One By Taylor, Jodi 2016-06 - Night Shade Books 9781597808682 Check Our Catalog The first book in the USA Today bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. "History is just one damned thing after another." --Arnold Toynbee Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time …More