New Fiction at HPL

Bachelor Girl By Alkemade, Kim Van 2018-03 - Touchstone Books 9781501173349 Check Our Catalog From the New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8 comes a fresh and intimate novel about the destructive power of secrets and the redemptive power of love--inspired by the true story of Jacob Ruppert, the millionaire owner of the New York Yankees, and his mysterious bequest in 1939 to an unknown actress, Helen Winthrope Weyant. When the owner of the New York Yankees …More

Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. By Allen, Danielle S. 2018-04 - Thorndike Press Large Print 9781432847760 Check Our Catalog So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy. In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her …More

The Hookup By Ashley, Kristen 2017-08 - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform 9781975750381 Check Our Catalog When the new girl in town, Eliza "Izzy" Forrester decides to hit the local drinking hole, she's not ready to meet the town's good, solid guy. She's definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him. Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble's bed and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny. Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm's length. But Johnny …More

The Promise By Ashley, Kristen 2014-04 - Kristen Ashley 9780692506127 Check Our Catalog Since his brother's death, Benny Bianchi has been nursing his grudge against the woman he thinks led to his brother's downfall. He does this to bury the feelings he has for Francesca Concetti, his brother's girl. But when Frankie takes a bullet while on the run with Benny's cousin's woman, Benny has to face those feelings. The problem is Frankie has decided she's paid her penance. Penance she …More

Awayland: Stories By Ausubel, Ramona 2018-03 - Riverhead Books 9781594634901 Check Our Catalog An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion. Acclaimed for the grace, wit, and magic of her novels, Ramona Ausubel introduces us to a geography both fantastic and familiar in eleven new stories, some of them previously published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Elegantly …More

The Simple Truth By Baldacci, David 2018-01 - Grand Central Publishing 9781538711903 Check Our Catalog THE SIMPLE TRUTH It's never what it seems... Young attorney Michael Fiske broke the law when he took Rufus Harms's prison letter from the Supreme Court. But he also sealed his own fate. Suddenly everyone who has anything to do with Harms or his appeal mysteriously dies. Now Michael's brother John, a cop turned attorney, comes to Washington to find out why his brother …More

Census By Ball, Jesse 2018-03 - Ecco Press 9780062676139 Check Our Catalog NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2018 BY The New York Times - The Chicago Reader - Nylon - The Boston Globe - The Huffington Post - The Rumpus - The AV Club - Southern …More

Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories By Barnhill, Kelly 2018-02 - Algonquin Books 9781616207977 Check Our Catalog A stunning new collection of short fictions for adult readers from the World Fantasy Award- and Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon. From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny characters whose stories unfold in worlds at once …More

Madness Is Better Than Defeat By Beauman, Ned 2018-02 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385352994 Check Our Catalog A wild, astonishing literary thriller by arguably England's most accomplished young writer, about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--the Man Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a …More

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for By Bechdel, Alison 2008-11 - Houghton Mifflin 9780618968800 Check Our Catalog Awards: Triangle Awards (2009) …More

Hot Mess By Belden, Emily 2018-03 - Graydon House 9781525811418 Check Our Catalog Twentysomething Allie Simon is used to playing by the rules--until Chicago's most sought-after, up-and-coming culinary genius, Benji Zane, walks into her world and pulls her into his. The only thing more renowned than Benji's mouthwatering masterpieces and equally luscious good looks? His struggle with addiction and his reckless tendency to live life on the edge, no matter the havoc he wreaks …More

The Brightest Sun By Benson, Adrienne 2018-03 - Park Row 9780778331278 Check Our Catalog An illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and familyLeona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely expat wife, follows her husband to the tropics and learns just how fragile life is. Simi, a …More

The Bishop's Pawn By Berry, Steve 2018-03 - Minotaur Books 9781250140227 Check Our Catalog The first case of New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's iconic hero, Cotton Malone. History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case. Now, fifty …More

Lake Silence  By Bishop, Anne 2018-03 - Ace Books 9780399587245 Check Our Catalog In this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her shape-shifting lodger find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets. Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others--vampires, shape-shifters, and even deadlier paranormal beings. And this is a fact that humans should never, …More

The Coincidence Makers By Blum, Yoav 2018-03 - St. Martin's Press 9781250146113 Check Our Catalog In this genre-bending novel, there is no such thing as chance and every action is carefully executed by highly trained agents. You'll never look at coincidences the same way again. What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just a random occurrence? What if it's all part of a bigger plan? What if there's no such thing …More

The Flight Attendant By Bohjalian, Chris 2018-03 - Doubleday Books 9780385542418 Check Our Catalog From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find …More

The Tuscan Child By Bowen, Rhys 2018-02 - Lake Union Publishing 9781503951822 Check Our Catalog From New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets... In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the …More

The Wild Inside By Bradbury, Jamey 2018-03 - HarperLuxe 9780062791528 Check Our Catalog Linda Martin feels she is in some wondrous, ecstatic dream while she is surrounded by the opulence and history of a French Chateau where she is working as a nanny. But there is a palpable terror crouching in the shadows, And then an accident that is no accident nearly kills her innocent nine-year-old charge. Republished with a distinctive new look. …More

Secrets of Cavendon By Bradford, Barbara Taylor 2018-02 - Center Point 9781683246664 Check Our Catalog It's the summer of 1949, and things have run smoothly at Cavendon Hall for years, with very few quarrels, dramas, or upsets between the two families. But since the end of World War II, changes have arrived at Cavendon. A new generation is at the helm, and also at the forefront of new scandal and intrigue. …More

Homecoming By Briggs, Patricia Illustrator Tsai, Francis Illustrator Woo, Amelia 2009-08 - Del Rey Books 9780345509888 Check Our Catalog Includes art gallery and an interview with the author. …More

Luckiest Cowboy of All By Brown, Carolyn 2018-01 - Forever 9781455597505 Check Our Catalog TWO FULL NOVELS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE--AN ALL-NEW CAROLYN BROWN BOOK PLUS HOMETOWN COWBOY BY SARA RICHARDSON A secret baby brings a second chance for love. Carlene Varner's homecoming isn't exactly going according to plan. She thought she'd have some time to adjust before introducing her daughter to Jace Dawson, the father her little girl has never known. Instead, within …More

Crazy Like a Fox By Brown, Rita Mae 2018-02 - Center Point 9781683246671 Check Our Catalog As the calendar turns, the crisp October winds bode well for this year's hunting season. But before the bugle sounds, Sister Jane takes a scenic drive up the Blue Ridge Mountains for a board meeting at the Museum of Hounds and Hunting. Brimming with colorful stories and mementos from hunts of yore, the mansion is plunged into mystery when a venerable hunting horn is stolen right out of its case. …More

Gods of Howl Mountain By Brown, Taylor 2018-03 - St. Martin's Press 9781250111777 Check Our Catalog "A fresh, authentic, and eloquent new voice in American fiction." - Robert Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of Gap Creek In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. Bootlegger Rory …More

Criminal, Vol. 3: The Dead and the Dying By Brubaker, Ed Illustrator Phillips, Sean 2008-07 - Marvel Comics 9780785132271 Check Our Catalog Winner of the Eisner Award for Best New Series, and Winner of the Harvey and Eisner Awards for Best Writer! The third collection of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' critically-acclaimed noir series follows a different twist of the knife this time -- telling three interlinking stories that take place during the early 1970s and swirl around the fate of a hard-luck Femme Fatale, a boxer and a thief and …More

Weeping Waters  By Brynard 2018-04 - Europa Editions 9781609454463 Check Our Catalog Winner of the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, ATKV Literature Prize, and twice winner of the M-Net Literature Awards "Brooding. Riveting. Brilliant." -- Deon Meyer, author of Blood Safari Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the …More