Upcoming Events at HPL

Vintage Views along the West Michigan Pike 6:00 PM, Tuesday, November 27 Join Christine and Tom for a road trip on the old West Michigan Pike, now US-31. This historic road was the first continuous, improved route between Michigan City and Mackinaw City. The road along the Lake Michigan coast opened West Michigan to automobile travel and tourism. The authors depict the adventure and romance of motoring showing vintage postcards, photographs, maps, and ephemera to illustrate this journey. Time-travel with them through the beautiful West Michigan landscape and quaint towns to hotels and cabins, tourist camps and state parks, and other stops along the road. Christine and Tom share a love of Michigan and a fascination with its history. They are especially interested in the history of Michigan’s tourism industry. Their collection of antique postcards and tourist and travel ephemera was the inspiration for all of their books: Vintage Views Along the West Michigan Pike (2011), Vintage Views of the Mackinac Straits Region (2007), Vintage Views of the Charlevoix – Petoskey Region (2005) and Vintage Views of Leelanau County (2002). Three of their books have won Michigan Notable Book awards from the Library of Michigan, with the most recent for Vintage Views Along the West Michigan Pike. Christine Byron retired in July from her position as the Local Historical Collections librarian for the Grand Rapids Public Library. She is an avid reader of Michigan history and has collected old Michigan tourist memorabilia for over twenty years. Tom Wilson retired from Sears Roebuck and Company, where he held various positions in his thirty-seven year career. He is a dedicated postcard collector and has collected Michigan real photo postcards for over sixteen years. Tom operates a business creating prints from old Michigan and Great Lakes tourist and travel ephemera. Christine and Tom are married and live with their dogs, Max and Willy, in a 1912 Arts and Crafts bungalow in Grand Rapids. Held in the Julia Hackley Room. Brought to you through the generosity of the PNC Foundation.

Tech Wednesday-Twitter 2:30 pm, Wednesday, November 28 Tech Wednesdays are 30-60 minute long mini watch-and-learn classes on technical topics. They are held in the Julia Hackley Room twice a month at 2:30 pm and are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring your own laptop and follow along.

Good Yarn Knitters 5:30 – 7:00 pm, Wednesday, November 28 Meets in the Julia Hackley Room All levels of knitters are welcome, including beginners. Come to learn how to knit, have a problem solved, or just for camaraderie. If you are just starting out, bring a pair of size 7 or 8 needles and a light colored ball of worsted weight yarn, otherwise bring your latest project or your problem project. For more information call 231-722-7276 and ask for Jocelyn

Computer Class 11:00 am, Thursday, November 29 Computer classes return! De Ondra Pentecost will teach computer skills in the Julia Hackley Room every Thursday during October and November. Registration is required, and opens 2 weeks before the classes start. Oct 4 and 11: Basic Computers Oct 18 and 25: Word Processing Nov 1 and 8: Internet/Email Nov 15 and 29: Facebook/Twitter

Computer Class 2:00 pm, Thursday, November 29 Computer classes return! De Ondra Pentecost will teach computer skills in the Julia Hackley Room every Thursday during October and November. Registration is required, and opens 2 weeks before the classes start. Oct 4 and 11: Basic Computers Oct 18 and 25: Word Processing Nov 1 and 8: Internet/Email Nov 15 and 29: Facebook/Twitter

Phone & Mail Safety 6:00 PM, Tuesday, December 4 Senior Brigade, a Michigan Seniors Initiative, will speak at Hackley Public Library about phone and mail safety. Learn to: � Recognize common scams initiated over the phone or by mail/email � Reduce unwanted phone calls and junk mail � Report a problem or scam The Senior Brigade initiative is designed to assist seniors with financial and health care decisions and protect them against scam artists and other predators. For more information visit their website at www.michigan.gov/seniorbrigade.

Tech Wednesday-Learning Express Library 2:30 pm, Wednesday, December 5 Tech Wednesdays are 30-60 minute long mini watch-and-learn classes on technical topics. They are held in the Julia Hackley Room twice a month at 2:30 pm and are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring your own laptop and follow along.

Good Yarn Knitters 5:30 – 7:00 pm, Wednesday, December 5 Meets in the Julia Hackley Room All levels of knitters are welcome, including beginners. Come to learn how to knit, have a problem solved, or just for camaraderie. If you are just starting out, bring a pair of size 7 or 8 needles and a light colored ball of worsted weight yarn, otherwise bring your latest project or your problem project. For more information call 231-722-7276 and ask for Jocelyn

Computer Class-Basic 11:00 am, Thursday, Dec 6: Computer classes at Hackley Public Library Hackley Public Library will be offering computer classes this winter. Space on library-owned computers is limited to 18 people, with the possibility of two people sharing a machine.; advanced registration is required for each class. Two identical sessions of each class are available: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. De’Ondra Pentecost will be teaching the classes, which will be held in the Julia Hackley Room. Call the Library’s main desk at 722-7276 to register. Registration starts two weeks before the class. Brought to you through the generosity of the PNC Foundation. Computer Class—Basic Computing Basic Computing will offer an introduction to what a computer is and how to use it. It is designed for beginners with little or no knowledge of computers. Topics covered will include an explanation of Windows and files, how to turn on a computer, and how to use the mouse.

Computer Class-Basic 2:00 pm, Thursday, Dec 6: Computer classes at Hackley Public Library Hackley Public Library will be offering computer classes this winter. Space on library-owned computers is limited to 18 people, with the possibility of two people sharing a machine.; advanced registration is required for each class. Two identical sessions of each class are available: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. De’Ondra Pentecost will be teaching the classes, which will be held in the Julia Hackley Room. Call the Library’s main desk at 722-7276 to register. Registration starts two weeks before the class. Brought to you through the generosity of the PNC Foundation. Computer Class—Basic Computing Basic Computing will offer an introduction to what a computer is and how to use it. It is designed for beginners with little or no knowledge of computers. Topics covered will include an explanation of Windows and files, how to turn on a computer, and how to use the mouse.

New Books at HPL

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for: 2012.  To see new books from other years try:  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

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The Giving Quilt By Chiaverini, Jennifer 2012-10 - Dutton Books 9780525953609 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling author Chiaverini's artful, inspiring novel imagines what good would come from practicing the holiday spirit each and every day of the year. …More

Buffalo Bill's Dead Now By Coel, Margaret 2012-09 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425252710 Check Our Catalog Rancher and Indian artifact collector Trevor Pratt has Arapaho Chief Black Heart's western regalia shipped to a museum from Germany, but thieves may have stolen the relics en route to the Arapaho museum. …More

The Orchardist By Coplin, Amanda 2012-08 - Harper 9780062188502 Check Our Catalog Set in the untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a makeshift family whose dramatic lives are shaped by violence, love, and an indelible connection to the land. …More

Caliban's War By Corey, James S. a. 2012-06 - Orbit 9780316129060 Check Our Catalog A Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from re-igniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes. …More

Red Mist By Cornwell, Patricia 2011-12 - Putnam Adult 9780399158025 Check Our Catalog The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it. …More

The Race By Cussler, Clive Author Scott, Justin 2011-09 - Putnam Adult 9780399157813 Check Our Catalog It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates-an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost-and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. …More

The Tombs By Cussler, Clive Author Perry, Thomas 2012-09 - Putnam Adult 9780399159268 Check Our Catalog Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. …More

The Jewel Box By Davis, Anna 2009-06 - Pocket Books 9781416537366 Check Our Catalog From the author of "The Shoe Queen" comes a jazz-age tale of love set in the world of London's high society. …More

Lucky Bunny By Dawson, Jill 2012-10 - Harper Perennial 9780062202505 Check Our Catalog …More

Seven Years to Sin By Day, Sylvia 2012-08 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758290410 Check Our Catalog …More

The Panther By DeMille, Nelson 2012-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446580847 Check Our Catalog John Corey returns in the new novel from #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author DeMille. Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his FBI agent wife have been posted overseas to Yemen to track down one of the masterminds behind the "USS Cole" bombing. …More

Stranger in the Moonlight By Deveraux, Jude 2012-08 - Pocket Books 9781416509752 Check Our Catalog In the second novel in her bestselling Edilean trilogy, Jude Deveraux returns to the idyllic Virginia town where three best girlfriends joyfully reunite as they each seek out their heartfelt dreams and desires. …More

Astray By Donoghue, Emma 2012-10 - Little Brown and Company 9780316206297 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Here are fascinating characters have all gone astray: emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of "Room" goes from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings. …More

A Hire Love By Dow, Candice 2007-02 - Dafina Books 9780758219381 Check Our Catalog In this witty, romantic new novel from the author of "Caught in the Mix" and "Ain't No Sunshine," a woman learns that writing her own happy ending comes with a few surprises. …More

The Round House By Erdrich, Louise 2012-10 - Harper 9780062065247 Check Our Catalog 2012 National Book Award Winner-Fiction BookPage Notable Title One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist "The Plague of Doves" with a story that transports readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. …More

The Marriage Plot By Eugenides, Jeffrey 2011-10 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374203054 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title It's the early 1980s--the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. But real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. 416 pp. 400,000 print. (General Fiction) …More

A Winter Dream By Evans, Richard Paul 2012-10 - Simon & Schuster 9781451628036 Check Our Catalog From the wonderful storyteller and author of the bestselling phenomenon "The Christmas Box, " comes a new holiday novel based on the story of Joseph and the coat of many colors, set during the present day. …More

Borders of the Heart By Fabry, Chris 2012-09 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781414348629 Check Our Catalog …More

The Double Game By Fesperman, Dan 2012-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307700131 Check Our Catalog Spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he'd once considered spying for the enemy. Soon, Cage discovers that Lemaster's past eerily, and dangerously, begins intersecting with his own. …More

The Last Dragonslayer By Fforde, Jasper 2012-10 - Harcourt Children's Books 9780547738475 Check Our Catalog In his witty first novel for young readers, "New York Times"-bestselling author Fforde introduces 15-year-old Jennifer Strange, who runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away. But when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to JenniferNand Big Magic. …More

The Woman Who Died a Lot: Now with 50% Added Subplot By Fforde, Jasper 2012-10 - Viking Books 9780670025022 Check Our Catalog The newest tour de force starring Thursday Next in the "New York Times"-bestselling series. The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt. …More

Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller By Flynn, Vince 2012-02 - Atria Books 9781416595205 Check Our Catalog Flynn is back with another nail-biting political thriller that follows the young Mitch Rapp on a deadly mission to hunt down the men responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Rapp has become a liability, and he absolutely cannot be allowed to be taken alive by the French authorities. But it will soon become clear that nothing is more dangerous than a wounded and cornered Mitch Rapp. 448 pp. 850,000 print. (Espionage/Thriller) …More

Forfeit By Francis, Dick 2005-04 - Berkley 9780425201916 Check Our Catalog When reporter Bert Checkov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone thinks he can prove it was murder. But there's not such thing as a sure thing. …More

Get Help Paying Your Home Heating Bills this Winter

From the USA.gov Blog:

If you can’t afford to pay your winter heating bill, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) may be able to help with:

• Home energy bills
• Energy crisis
• Weatherization and energy-related home repairs

Assistance is available to low-income families who spend a large portion of income on home heating and cooling.
Contact your state or Indian tribe or tribal organization agency for eligibility requirements and to apply. For help applying, you can also call 1.866.NRG.NEAR (674.6327)

Staff Picks

At our staff meetings we take a few minutes to talk about the books we are reading. This is a list of recent favorites. STAFF PICKS

Make the Holidays Green Winter is the season of parties, from Thanksgiving to Christmas to New Year's Eve. But sometimes a host's budget doesn't allow new decorations for each celebration and holiday. Enter Danny Seo and his new book Upcycling Celebrations, which shows us how to use what we have to decorate, entertain and even give gifts. In the era of green living, Seo promises that the holidays can be good for the environment as well as your wallet.

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The Witches By Dahl, Roald Illustrator Blake, Quentin Photographer Blake, Quentin 1983-10 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374384579 Check Our Catalog This rollicking story of a heroic boy's fight to save the children of England from the Grand High Witch of the World is "a fast-moving, well-paced adventure that children will love".--School Library Journal. ALA Notable Children's Book. …More

The Casual Vacancy By Rowling, J. K. 2012-09 - Little Brown and Company 9780316228534 Check Our Catalog What lies behind the facade of Pagford is a town at war. The empty seat on the town's council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations? Rowling's first novel for adults is blackly comic, thought-provoking, and constantly surprising. …More

The Woman Who Died a Lot: Now with 50% Added Subplot By Fforde, Jasper 2012-10 - Viking Books 9780670025022 Check Our Catalog The newest tour de force starring Thursday Next in the "New York Times"-bestselling series. The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt. …More

Cold Cereal By Rex, Adam 2012-02 - Balzer & Bray/Harperteen 9780062060020 Check Our Catalog A boy who may be part changeling, twins involved in a bizarre secret experiment, and a clurichaun in a red tracksuit try to save the world from an evil cereal company whose ultimate goal is world domination. …More

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas By Pagels, Elaine 2003-05 - Random House 9780375501562 Check Our Catalog Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of Thomas Elaine Pagels, one of the world's most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work "The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first century. This bold new book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945. When her infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, Elaine Pagels's spiritual and intellectual quest took on a new urgency, leading her to explore historical and archeological sources and to investigate what Jesus and his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of doctrine-and before the invention of Christianity as we know it. The astonishing discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, along with more than fifty other early Christian texts unknown since antiquity, offers startling clues. Pagels compares such sources as Thomas's gospel (which claims to give Jesus' secret teaching, and finds its closest affinities with kabbalah) with the canonic texts to show how Christian leaders chose to include some gospels and exclude others from the collection we have come to know as the New Testament. To stabilize the emerging Christian church in times of devastating persecution, the church fathers constructed the canon, creed, and hierarchy-and, in the process, suppressed many of its spiritual resources. Drawing on new scholarship-her own, and that of an international group of scholars-that has come to light since the publication in 1979 of The Gnostic Gospels, Pagels shows that what matters about Christianity involves much more than any one set of beliefs. Traditions embodied in Judaism and Christianity can powerfully affect us in heart, mind, and spirit, inspire visions of a new society based on practicing justice and love, even heal and transform us. Provocative, beautifully written, and moving, "Beyond Belief, the most personal of Pagels's books to date, shows how "the impulse to seek God overflows the narrow banks of a single tradition." Pagels writes, "What I have come to love in the wealth and diversity of our religious traditions-and the communities that sustain them-is that they offer the testimony of innumerable people to spiritual discovery, encouraging us, in Jesus' words, to 'seek, and you shall find.'" …More

Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation By Pagels, Elaine 2012-03 - Viking Books 9780670023349 Check Our Catalog A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of "Beyond Belief."…More

Vagina: A New Biography By Wolf, Naomi 2012-09 - Ecco Press 9780061989162 Check Our CatalogBookPage Notable Title One of our bestselling and most respected cultural critics, Wolf brings an astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how the vagina and women are understood. …More

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution By Dawkins, Richard 2009-09 - Free Press 9781416594789 Check Our Catalog In a brilliant follow-up to his blockbuster "The God Delusion," world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author Dawkins lays out the evidence for evolution. …More

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths By Shermer, Michael 2011-05 - Times Books 9780805091250 Check Our Catalog Bestselling author Shermer presents a comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. …More

Delusion in Death By Robb, J. D. 2012-09 - Putnam Adult 9780399158810 Check Our Catalog After 12 minutes of violence at a downtown bar, 80 people lay dead. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things--monsters and swarms of bees. The patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone to temporary insanity--if not kill them. …More

Last to Die By Gerritsen, Tess 2012-08 - Ballantine Books 9780345515636 Check Our Catalog For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at 14, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family's mass murder. …More

Stranger in the Moonlight By Deveraux, Jude 2012-08 - Pocket Books 9781416509752 Check Our Catalog In the second novel in her bestselling Edilean trilogy, Jude Deveraux returns to the idyllic Virginia town where three best girlfriends joyfully reunite as they each seek out their heartfelt dreams and desires. …More

Zoo By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2012-09 - Little Brown and Company 9780316097444 Check Our Catalog Young biologist Jackson Oz watches escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. …More

You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness By Sellers, Heather 2011-10 - Riverhead Books 9781594485404 Check Our Catalog A "poignant" ("Boston Globe") family memoir that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. Heather Sellers is face-blind-that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. The truth was revealed two decades later when Heather took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and discovered the astonishing truth about her family and about herself. In this uplifting memoir, Sellers illuminates a deeper truth: that even in the most chaotic and heartbreaking of families, love may be seen and felt. …More

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics By Derbyshire, John Author John Derbyshire 2003-04 - Joseph Henry Press 9780309085496 Check Our Catalog In August 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a little-known 32-year old mathematician, presented a paper to the Berlin Academy titled: "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." In the middle of that paper, Riemann made an incidental remark a guess, a hypothesis. What he tossed out to the assembled mathematicians that day has proven to be almost cruelly compelling to countless scholars in the ensuing years. Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the question remains. Is the hypothesis true or false? Riemann's basic inquiry, the primary topic of his paper, concerned a straightforward but nevertheless important matter of arithmetic defining a precise formula to track and identify the occurrence of prime numbers. But it is that incidental remark the Riemann Hypothesis that is the truly astonishing legacy of his 1859 paper. Because Riemann was able to see beyond the pattern of the primes to discern traces of something mysterious and mathematically elegant shrouded in the shadows subtle variations in the distribution of those prime numbers. Brilliant for its clarity, astounding for its potential consequences, the Hypothesis took on enormous importance in mathematics. Indeed, the successful solution to this puzzle would herald a revolution in prime number theory. Proving or disproving it became the greatest challenge of the age. It has become clear that the Riemann Hypothesis, whose resolution seems to hang tantalizingly just beyond our grasp, holds the key to a variety of scientific and mathematical investigations. The making and breaking of modern codes, which depend on the properties of the prime numbers, have roots in the Hypothesis. In a series of extraordinary developments during the 1970s, it emerged that even the physics of the atomic nucleus is connected in ways not yet fully understood to this strange conundrum. Hunting down the solution to the Riemann Hypothesis has become an obsession for many the veritable "great white whale" of mathematical research. Yet despite determined efforts by generations of mathematicians, the Riemann Hypothesis defies resolution. Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed biography and history, Prime Obsession is a fascinating and fluent account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to challenge and excite the world. Posited a century and a half ago, the Riemann Hypothesis is an intellectual feast for the cognoscenti and the curious alike. Not just a story of numbers and calculations, Prime Obsession is the engrossing tale of a relentless hunt for an elusive proof and those who have been consumed by it. …More

Gone Girl By Flynn, Gillian 2012-06 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9780307588364 Check Our CatalogBookPage Notable Title Flynn's toxic mix of sharp-edged wit with deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds readers at every turn. When his wife disappears on their anniversary, Nick starts having cringe-worthy daydreams and becomes oddly evasive, eschewing his golden boy past. …More