Thursday, February 22, 2018

New Fiction at HPL



Happiness for Humans
Happiness for Humans
By Reizin, P. Z.
2018-01 - Grand Central Publishing
9781478974260 Check Our Catalog
When Tom and Jen, two lonely people, are brought together by an intriguing email, they have no idea their mysterious benefactor is an artificial intelligence who has decided to play Cupid.
"You, Tom and Jen, don't know one another-not yet-but I think you should."
Jen, an ex-journalist who now works at a London software development company, spends all day talking to "Aiden," an …More


Vittorio, the Vampire
Vittorio, the Vampire
By Rice, Anne
2001-02 - Ballantine Books
9780345422392 Check Our Catalog
Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.

In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the beautiful and sinister vampire Ursula--setting in motion a chilling
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Dark in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel
Dark in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel
By Robb, J. D.
2018-01 - St. Martin's Press
9781250161536 Check Our Catalog

Lieutenant Eve Dallas returns in Dark in Death, by J.D. Robb, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense, and takes on a case of death imitating art...



It was a stab in the dark.

On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then …More


Stars of Fortune
Stars of Fortune
By Roberts, Nora
2015-11 - Berkley Books
9780425280102 Check Our Catalog

HPL patron: Great read, can't wait to read the whole Guardian Trilogy.
HPL patron: Gods and Seers, magic and fate. Good versus Evil! It's all in this book and more. Six people who's paths meet together for one special and dangerous journey to find the stars. I enjoyed this book very much. Getting ready to read Bay of Sighs 2nd …More


Year One
Year One
By Roberts, Nora
2017-12 - Thorndike Press Large Print
9781432844035 Check Our Catalog

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER



A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts--Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives...



It began on New Year's
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Frankenstein in Baghdad
Frankenstein in Baghdad
By Saadawi, Ahmed
2018-01 - Penguin Books
9780143128793 Check Our Catalog
"Brave and ingenious." --The New York Times
"Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound." --Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
"Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read." --Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
From the rubble-strewn streets …More


Red Sky at Noon
Red Sky at Noon
By Montefiore, Simon Sebag
2018-01 - Pegasus Books
9781681776736 Check Our Catalog

"The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire . . ."
Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrolls in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his …More


Phone
Phone
By Self, Will
2018-01 - Grove Press
9780802125378 Check Our Catalog
Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom, Phone tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan De'Ath. Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers. But now Busner's own mind is fraying: …More


The Winter Station
The Winter Station
By Shields, Jody
2018-01 - Little Brown and Company
9780316385343 Check Our Catalog
An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world.
1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some of the dead bodies vanish before they can be identified.
During a dangerously cold …More


The Maze at Windermere
The Maze at Windermere
By Smith, Gregory Blake
2018-01 - Viking
9780735221925 Check Our Catalog
"A dazzling high-wire act. I turned every page with a sense of wonder and excitement." --RICHARD RUSSO
A richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island
A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest--the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress's diamond necklace--launches …More


The Bloody Spur
The Bloody Spur
By Spillane, Mickey
Author Collins, Max Allan
2018-01 - Kensington Publishing Corporation
9781617735981 Check Our Catalog
Mickey Spillane's larger-than-life lawman Caleb York is back--in the latest tough-as-nails Western novel from New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. This time Caleb may be outnumbered . . . but not outgunned.
The Santa Fe Railroad wants to build a spur through Trinidad, New Mexico, linking the town to the cattle trade. Only one man stands against it--rancher George …More


Fall from Grace
Fall from Grace
By Steel, Danielle
2018-01 - Delacorte Press
9781101884003 Check Our Catalog
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything--her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom.
Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With …More


Operator Down: A Pike Logan Thriller
Operator Down: A Pike Logan Thriller
By Taylor, Brad
2018-01 - Dutton Books
9781101984819 Check Our Catalog
A New York Times Bestseller
Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller where Pike Logan's search for a Mossad agent and ally puts him on a collision course with a ruthless military coup in Africa--and tests his loyalties to the Taskforce.
It was to be a simple mission. Nothing more than assessing …More


The English Wife
The English Wife
By Willig, Lauren
2018-01 - St. Martin's Press
9781250056276 Check Our Catalog

"Brings to life old world New York City and London with all the splendor of two of my favorite novels, The Age of Innocence and The Crimson Petal and the White. Mystery, murder, mistaken identity, romance--Lauren Willig weaves each strand into a page-turning tapestry." -Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz
"Her best yet...A dark and scintillating tale of …More


The Infinite Future
The Infinite Future
By Wirkus, Tim
2018-01 - Penguin Press
9780735224322 Check Our Catalog
An exhilarating, original novel, set in Brazil, Idaho, and outer space, about an obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian who go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book--and find it.
The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning tales in one. In the first, we meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a …More


Unbound
Unbound
By Woods, Stuart
2018-01 - G.P. Putnam's Sons
9780735217171 Check Our Catalog
Stone Barrington is pulled along for the ride when a friend pursues a perilous course of vengeance in the newest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.
In the wake of a personal tragedy, former CIA operative Teddy Fay--now a successful Hollywood film producer known as Billy Barnett--takes a leave of absence to travel and grieve, and lands in Santa Fe in the …More


Unbound
Unbound
By Woods, Stuart
2018-01 - Thorndike Press Large Print
9781432843687 Check Our Catalog
From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods comes a sizzling new adventure featuring perennial fan favorite, Stone Barrington.
Stone Barrington has wiggled his way out of some tricky situations before, but his latest adversary might pose the biggest threat he's ever faced. This time, it will take every bit of his shrewd cunning to come out on top. …More


Count to Infinity: A Novel of the Eschaton Sequence
Count to Infinity: A Novel of the Eschaton Sequence
By Wright, John C.
2017-12 - Tor Books
9780765381606 Check Our Catalog

Count to Infinity is John C. Wright's spectacular conclusion to the thought-provoking hard science fiction Eschaton Sequence, exploring future history and human evolution.
An epic space opera finale worthy of the scope and wonder of The Eschaton Sequence: Menelaus Montrose is locked in a final battle of wits, bullets, and posthuman intelligence with Ximen del Azarchel for …More


The Unmade World
The Unmade World
By Yarbrough, Steve
2018-01 - Unbridled Books
9781609531430 Check Our Catalog
Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, The Unmade World is a thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that moves from Poland to California to the Hudson Valley and back to Poland. It covers a decade in the lives of an American journalist and a Polish small businessman turned petty criminal and the wrenching …More


Grist Mill Road
Grist Mill Road
By Yates, Christopher J.
2018-01 - Picador USA
9781250150288 Check Our Catalog

An Entertainment Weekly "Must Read"



"Twisty and told from multiple perspectives, this meaty thriller races to a satisfying finish." --People magazine



"The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating and unsettling." --Booklist (starred review)



Twenty-six
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Red Clocks
Red Clocks
By Zumas, Leni
2018-01 - Little Brown and Company
9780316434812 Check Our Catalog
A New York Times Editor's Choice

An Amazon Best Book of the Month


An Indie Next Pick

One of Wall Street Journal's Twelve Books to Read This Winter

An Esquire most anticipated book of 2018

An Elle Best Book of Winter

A Popsugar most anticipated book of Fall
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