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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

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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

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The Great Alone By Hannah, Kristin 2018-02 - St. Martin's Press 9780312577230 Check Our Catalog "A TOUR DE FORCE." --Kirkus (starred review) Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive …More

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The Things They Carried By O'Brien, Tim 1998-01 - Broadway Books 9780767902892 Check Our Catalog One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one …More

The Reason You're Alive By Quick, Matthew 2017-07 - Harper 9780062424303 Check Our Catalog The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war. After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange …More

The Life We Bury By Eskens, Allen 2014-10 - Seventh Street Books 9780872721043 Check Our Catalog College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. …More

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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

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Troublemaker By Howard, Linda 2016-12 - Avon Books 9780062418999 Check Our Catalog A thrilling, fast-paced novel of romantic suspense from sensational New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard. For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out who's after the members of his elite squad--and why. Due …More

Dangerous Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel By Evanovich, Janet 2017-06 - Bantam 9780553392746 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about two hundred miles northeast of Samoa. It had a mountain, beaches, a rain forest, and a …More

Wait for Dark By Hooper, Kay 2017-03 - Berkley Books 9780425280942 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Enjoy her characters. Enjoy her paranormal abilities. …More

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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

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The Weekenders By Andrews, Mary Kay 2017-05 - St. Martin's Griffin 9781250065964 Check Our Catalog Tote bag, suitcase, backpack or duffle, it's time to pack for a summer of intrigue... Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Others come only for the weekends, and the mix between the regulars and "the weekenders" can sometimes make the sparks fly. Riley Griggs has a season of good times with friends and family ahead of her on Belle …More

The Interestings By Wolitzer, Meg 2014-03 - Riverhead Books 9781594632341 Check Our Catalog From bestselling author Wolitzer comes a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. …More

Someday Home By Snelling, Lauraine 2015-07 - Faithwords 9781455586202 Check Our Catalog A heartwarming story that celebrates how life-changing friendships can be found in all seasons of life. The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the water, to cookies baked in the kitchen with grandchildren in the fall. But since her husband's sudden passing two years ago, Lynn has been …More

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City of Endless Night By Preston, Douglas Author Child, Lincoln 2018-01 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455536948 Check Our Catalog "A consistently exciting and never predictable series."--Associated Press When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. …More

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The Apocalypse Codex By Stross, Charles 2013-06 - Ace Books 9780425256435 Check Our Catalog When Ray SchillerNan American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously healNbecomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, the beautiful and entirely unpredictable Persephone infiltrates his ministry to uncover the preacher's agenda. …More

Dead to Me By Staincliffe, Cath 2014-01 - Minotaur Books 9781250038548 Check Our Catalog A riveting, sharply observed and thoroughly modern police procedural, Dead to Me features a stellar but unlikely female detective team, and is perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Deborah Crombie. …More

Final Act By Gregson, J. M. 2016-09 - Severn House Publishers 9780727886040 Check Our Catalog Lambert & Hook discover that interrogating professional actors is an impossible business in the latest intriguing mystery. Sam Jackson is not a man who suffers fools - or anyone else - gladly. A successful British television producer who fancies himself as a Hollywood mogul, he makes enemies easily, and delights in the fact. It is no great surprise that such a man should …More

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The Wife Between Us By Hendricks, Greer Author Pekkanen, Sarah 2018-01 - St. Martin's Press 9781250130921 Check Our Catalog "A jaw-dropping psychological thriller." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Fiendishly clever...in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. This one will keep you guessing." -Anita Shreve, New York Times bestselling author of The Stars are Fire When you read this book, you will make many …More

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The Girl on the Train By Hawkins, Paula 2015-01 - Riverhead Books 9781594633669 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A thriller filled with a complex plot but also a surprise ending. There are three main characters all woven together. HPL patron: I found the book interesting. It had life and I enjoyed it. …More

The Kind Worth Killing By Swanson, Peter 2016-10 - William Morrow & Company 9780062267535 Check Our Catalog A devious tale of psychological suspense so irresistible that it prompts Entertainment Weekly to ask, "Is The Kind Worth Killing the next Gone Girl?" From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson, a name you may not know yet (but soon will), this is his breakout novel in the bestselling tradition of Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train--and is …More

Behind Closed Doors By Paris, B. A. 2017-07 - St. Martin's Griffin 9781250132369 Check Our Catalog THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? "A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive...A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night." --Mary Kubica, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Good …More

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The Woman in the Window By Finn, A. J. 2018-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062678416 Check Our Catalog "Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing." --Gillian Flynn "Unputdownable." --Stephen King "A dark, twisty confection." --Ruth Ware "Absolutely gripping." --Louise Penny For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade's most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages …More

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Behind Her Eyes: A Suspenseful Psychological Thriller By Pinborough, Sarah 2017-01 - Flatiron Books 9781250111173 Check Our Catalog THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "You should read Behind Her Eyes...It's bloody brilliant." --Stephen King "An eerie thriller...Pinborough keeps us guessing about just who's manipulating whom - until the ending reveals that we've been wholly complicit in this terrifying mind game." …More

I'm Thinking of Ending Things By Reid, Iain 2016-06 - Gallery/Scout Press 9781501126925 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Weird, strange, chilling. Read it in 3 hours then went back to the beginning. Couldn't stop. Wouldn't answer the phone. After the first 50 pages I wanted to stop-glad I stayed with it. What was that? …More

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Little Fires Everywhere By Ng, Celeste 2017-09 - Penguin Press 9780735224292 Check Our Catalog The instant New York Times bestseller Entertainment Weekly's #1 Must-Read Book for Fall * Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Selection * #1 Library Reads Pick * September IndieNext Pick "I am loving Little Fires Everywhere. Maybe my favorite novel I've read this year."--John Green "I read Little Fires …More

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The Almost Sisters By Jackson, Joshilyn 2017-07 - William Morrow & Company 9780062105714 Check Our Catalog With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are. Superheroes have always been Leia Birch …More

Seven Days of Us By Hornak, Francesca 2017-10 - Berkley Books 9780451488756 Check Our Catalog A family can't escape their secrets when they're forced to spend the Christmas holiday in quarantine in this "sharply funny" (People) novel--an Indie Next and #1 Library Reads Pick "Witty and deeply heartfelt."--Emily Giffin "Perfect for fans of cozy Christmas films like Love Actually and The Family …More

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Tom Clancy Power and Empire By Cameron, Marc 2017-11 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780735215894 Check Our Catalog A newly belligerent Chinese government leaves U.S. President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options in this continuation of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Tom Clancy series. …More

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Smooth Operator By Woods, Stuart Author Hall, Parnell 2016-08 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399185267 Check Our Catalog From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series comes the first novel in an extraordinary series starring an old fan favorite: Teddy Fay. When President Kate Lee calls Stone Barrington to Washington on an urgent matter, it's soon clear that a potentially disastrous situation requires the kind of help more delicate than even he can …More

Use of Force: A Thriller By Thor, Brad 2017-06 - Atria Books 9781476789385 Check Our Catalog "With his latest pulse-pounding adventure, Brad Thor puts the rest of the genre on notice--Use of Force is the thriller to beat in 2017."--The Real Book Spy From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor. As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore. Identified as …More

Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Deception By Lustbader, Eric Van 2009-06 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446546966 Check Our Catalog After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt-apparently by an Iranian …More