New Fiction at HPL

This Fallen Prey By Armstrong, Kelley 2018-02 - Minotaur Books 9781250159892 Check Our Catalog In This Fallen Prey, the next installment of New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's thriller series, Casey Duncan is about to face her toughest job as police detective in Rockton yet. When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, …More

Complicated By Ashley, Kristen 2017-09 - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform 9781974503810 Check Our Catalog When small town Nebraska sheriff Hixon Drake meets Greta Dare, the connection couldn't be stronger, but the timing couldn't be worse. Dealing with the fallout of a divorce he never wanted and setting up a new home for his kids, Hix becomes that guy, that one he never wanted to be, and puts a stop to things before they can even start. Protecting his kids, and himself, is his only priority. Greta, …More

The Tangled Lands By Bacigalupi, Paolo Author Buckell, Tobias S. 2018-02 - Saga Press 9781481497299 Check Our Catalog From award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell comes a fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire--unless the people find a way to resist. Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. …More

Death of an Honest Man By Beaton, M. C. 2018-02 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455558315 Check Our Catalog Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series. DEATH OF AN HONEST MAN Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat. …More

The Deceivers By Berenson, Alex 2018-02 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399176166 Check Our Catalog The Russians don't just want to influence American elections--they want it all. Former CIA agent John Wells confronts a plot of astonishing audacity as New York Times-bestselling author Alex Berenson goes beyond today's headlines to tomorrow's all-too-real threats. It was supposed to be a terrorist sting. The guns were supposed to be disabled. Then why was …More

White Houses By Bloom, Amy 2018-02 - Random House 9780812995664 Check Our Catalog For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a love story inspired by "one of the most intriguing relationships in history"*--between Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok. Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and …More

Daphne By Boast, Will 2018-02 - Liveright Publishing Corporation 9781631493034 Check Our Catalog Elegantly written and profoundly moving, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast's reputation as a "new young American voice for the ages" (Tom Franklin). Born with a rare (and real) condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion, Daphne has few close friends and even fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake, even one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets …More

Zero Day By Boone, Ezekiel 2018-02 - Atria Books 9781501125102 Check Our Catalog In the thrilling, nerve-wracking finale of Ezekiel Boone's "hair-raising" (Parade) Hatching series, the United States goes to war against the queen spiders that threaten to overtake the human race forever. The world is on the brink of apocalypse. Zero Day has come. The only thing more terrifying than millions of spiders is the realization that those spiders work as one. But among …More

Semiosis By Burke, Sue 2018-02 - Tor Books 9780765391353 Check Our Catalog Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Semiosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke. SyFy Wire--9 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels to Read in February The Verge--18 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in February Unbound …More

The House of Impossible Beauties By Cassara, Joseph 2018-02 - Ecco Press 9780062676979 Check Our Catalog NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed - The Wall Street Journal - The Millions - Southern Living - Bustle - Esquire - Entertainment Weekly - Nylon "Cassaras's …More

Next Year in Havana By Cleeton, Chanel 2018-02 - Berkley Books 9780399586682 Check Our Catalog After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until …More

Halsey Street By Coster, Naima 2018-01 - Little a 9781503941168 Check Our Catalog A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong--not only to a place but to one another. Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has …More

The Trumpets of Jericho By Dolan, J. Michael 2017-09 - Bookbaby 9780998700809 Check Our Catalog The Trumpets of Jericho is the first book, and only novel, devoted in its entirety to one of the more remarkable episodes in the annals of Jewish resistance to the Nazis-- the defiant 1944 uprising at the SS death camp Auschwitz-- and the just as inspiring account of the four young female conspirators arrested and savagely tortured by the Gestapo during the investigation that followed. As one of …More

The Ghost Notebooks By Dolnick, Ben 2018-02 - Pantheon Books 9781101871096 Check Our Catalog A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum. When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they've reached a relationship stalemate. Hannah …More

The Storm King By Duffy, Brendan 2018-02 - Ballantine Books 9780804178143 Check Our Catalog "Deeply atmospheric, breathlessly suspenseful, with a ticking clock like no other--a terrific thriller."--Lee Child Haunted by dark secrets and an unsolved mystery, a young doctor returns to his isolated Adirondacks hometown in a tense, gripping novel in the vein of Michael Koryta and Harlan Coben. Burying the past only gives it strength--and …More

The French Girl By Elliott, Lexie 2018-02 - Berkley Books 9780399586934 Check Our Catalog I Know What You Did Last Summer meets the French countryside in this exhilarating psychological suspense debut about a woman trapped by the bonds of friendship--perfect for fans of The Widow and The Woman in Cabin 10. We all have our secrets... They were six university students from Oxford--friends and sometimes more than friends--spending an idyllic week …More

Freshwater By Emezi, Akwaeke 2018-02 - Grove Press 9780802127358 Check Our Catalog Ada has always been unusual. As an infant in southern Nigeria, she is a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents successfully prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry, as the young Ada becomes a troubled child, prone to violent fits of anger and grief. But Ada turns out to be more than just volatile. Born "with one foot on the other side," she begins to develop …More

Judgment Road By Feehan, Christine 2018-01 - Berkley Books 9780451488510 Check Our Catalog An outlaw motorcycle club sets up shop next door to Sea Haven in the dangerously sexy new series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. A brutal education in a Russian training facility for assassins has taught this group of men one thing: It's a long road to redemption. JUDGMENT …More

The Bad Daughter By Fielding, Joy 2018-02 - Ballantine Books 9780399181528 Check Our Catalog A gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller of family intrigue and dark secrets, from the author of Someone Is Watching and See Jane Run. There was no shortage of words she could use to describe her father, almost none of them complimentary. Serves you damn right, she thought. A voice mail from her estranged sister, Melanie, sends Robin's heart racing and …More

Raspberry Danish Murder By Fluke, Joanne 2018-02 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781617732249 Check Our Catalog Thanksgiving has a way of thawing the frostiest hearts in Lake Eden. But that won't be happening for newlywed Hannah Swensen Barton--not after her husband suddenly disappears . . . Hannah has felt as bitter as November in Minnesota since Ross vanished without a trace and left their marriage in limbo. Still, she throws herself into a baking frenzy for the sake of pumpkin pie and …More

Sunday Silence By French, Nicci 2018-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062819840 Check Our Catalog It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday. Read Sunday Silence, the new novel in the series that LOUISE PENNY calls "fabulous, unsettling, and riveting" -- and brace yourself for the breathtaking series finale in …More

Sunday Silence By French, Nicci 2018-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062819840 Check Our Catalog It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday. Read Sunday Silence, the new novel in the series that LOUISE PENNY calls "fabulous, unsettling, and riveting" -- and brace yourself for the breathtaking series finale in …More

Look for Me By Gardner, Lisa 2018-02 - Dutton Books 9781524742058 Check Our Catalog "An utterly absorbing story about troubled families and twisted fates. You won't be able to put it down--and it will haunt you long after you turn the final page."--Shari Lapena "A complex crime scene, a missing girl, a ticking clock: no one writes a more page-turning, gut-wrenching thriller."--Tess Gerritsen In #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner's latest …More

A Perfect Place to Pray By Goodwin, I. L. 2009-08 - Genesis Press (MS) 9781585712991 Check Our Catalog Winner of the 2006 "Romantic Times" First African-American Fiction Novel award, this is the harrowing tale of a woman who is hunted down by her abusive husband after she and her daughter escape and make a new life. …More

What to read while waiting for...

An American Marriage By Jones, Tayari 2018-02 - Algonquin Books 9781616201340 Check Our Catalog One of the most anticipated novels of 2018 according to Entertainment Weekly * Goodreads * Esquire * Elle * Cosmopolitan *BBC * Huffington Post * Bustle * Southern Living * Newsday * Bookish * Nylon * iBooks Store The author of Silver Sparrow returns with a stunning novel about race, loyalty, and love …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions.

The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart By Alice Walker 2000-10 - Random House 0679455876 Check Our Catalog Fictional stories based on Walker's life, "The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart" is a wise and moving treasure about love and life by the author of "The Color Purple" and "By the Light of My Father's Smile". …More

Friends and Lovers By Dickey, Eric Jerome 1998-08 - Dutton Books 9780451188038 Check Our Catalog In this sexy, soulful tale of love, betrayal, and friendship set in modern-day Los Angeles, the lives of four young African Americans--two men and two women--are chronicled through the love and the laughter, as well as the heartache and pain of not-so-everyday life. A witty, honest portrait of contemporary mores and humanity in which the gender gap isn't merely investigated but celebrated. …More

Gathering of Waters By McFadden, Bernice L. 2012-01 - Akashic Books 9781617750311 Check Our Catalog Following her best-selling, award-winning novel "Glorious, " McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of Emmett Till. …More

New Fiction at HPL

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 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 …More

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 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 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 …More

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 …More

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 …More