Upcoming Events at HPL

Intro to Computers 10:30 am, Saturday, August 29: De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes on Saturdays from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Intro to Computers. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

6:00 pm, Tuesday, September 1 Astronomy for Everyone: Size & Scale of the Universe is an exciting family program for ages 8 to 100 about the universe from the very small to the very large that lasts approximately 1 ½ hours. The program starts off with a powerpoint presentation that includes exciting video footage. Following this indoor formal presentation, we all go outdoors to view celestial objects in the night sky through a powerful hand-crafted telescope, such as the ice crystal rings of Saturn, craters on the Moon, etc., weather permitting, or if it is still daylight, then a solar filter (same one NASA uses) is used to view sunspots on the sun. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Public Library

Intro to Word 10:30 am: Saturday, September 5 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes on Saturdays from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Word. Learn the basics of word processing, including opening and saving a document, entering text and making changes. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

BACK TO SCHOOL BINGO 2:00 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 We had such a great time with Back to School Bingo in August we're going it again! Come to the library for fun playing bingo and win some great school supplies.

Tech Wednesday-Overdrive 3:00 pm, Wednesday, September 9 Bring your laptop or tablet and follow along while we explain tech topics in an informal setting. This week we’ll look at Overddrive ebooks and eaudiobooks.

BACK TO SCHOOL BINGO 2:00 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Another round of Bingo! Bring your family, bring friends, have fun and see if you can win some more great school necessities.

MINECRAFT FOR KIDS 2:00 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 IT'S BACK...Minecraft for kids! Don't miss your opportunity to get in on the experience of surviving and building your own virtual world with a group of Minecraft players with different levels of expertise. Learn something, teach something, or just have a great time. REGISTRATION OPENS SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Call 231-722-7276, ext. 230

Summer Reading...what Muskegon is reading this summer

Resurrecting Midnight By Dickey, Eric Jerome 2009-08 - Thorndike Press 9781410417183 Check Our Catalog Set amid the exotic and vibrant streets of Miami and Buenos Aires, "Resurrecting Midnight" is an action-filled, pulse-pounding thriller from the bestselling author of "Dying for Revenge." HPL patron: This book was action packed with car chases, shoot-outs, fights, and explosions. The characters were interesting but violent. Too many details. …More

Simple Lessons for a Better Life: Unexpected Inspiration from Inside the Nursing Home By Dodgen, Charles E. 2015-05 - Prometheus Books 9781633880160 Check Our Catalog From the unique experiences of nursing home residents, an empathic psychologist derives lessons for living a better life, demonstrating how people find happiness, peace, and fulfillment despite challenging circumstances. Perfect for readers who seek inspiration for living a better life at any age and who enjoy books on inspiration/motivation, wellness, psychology, self-improvement, …More

The Little Women Letters By Donnelly, Gabrielle 2011-06 - Touchstone Books 9781451617184 Check Our Catalog Donnelly delivers a contemporary novel about sisters who are the descendants of "Little Women's" Jo March. …More

The Riptide Ultra-Glide By Dorsey, Tim 2013-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062092786 Check Our Catalog Brilliant Floridaphile, bighearted psychopath, and chipper tour guide Serge Storms takes a vacationing Midwestern couple (they're so nice!) on the ride of a lifetime in this insanely funny adventure from "New York Times"-bestselling author Dorsey. …More

Tiger Shrimp Tango By Dorsey, Tim 2014-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062092816 Check Our Catalog Determined to save a damsel in distress, the Sunshine State's favorite serial killer and encyclopedia of Florida lore Serge Storms dances a tango of death and mayhem in this funny and dementedly entertaining crime caper from Tim Dorsey, author of the New York Times bestseller The Riptide, Ultra-Glide. …More

The Fortress of Glass By Drake, David 2006-04 - Tor Books 9780765312594 Check Our Catalog The first volume in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude Drake's epic Lord of the Isles series, "The Fortress of Glass" begins the story of how the new kingdom of the Isles is finally brought into being by the group of heroes and heroines who have been central to all the books in the series. …More

The Complete Hammer's Slammers By Drake, David 2010-11 - Baen Books 9781439133965 Check Our Catalog The Third of Three Volumes Collecting the Complete Best-Selling Series That Rocketed David Drake to Military Science Fiction Stardom. This Omni-Trade paperback volume collects the two full-length novels, The Sharp End "and Paying the Piper," plus "The Darkness," a novelette which has not appeared in previous Slammers books. The Hammers are very flawed and imperfect human …More

A Wee Christmas Homicide By Dunnett, Kaitlyn 2009-10 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758216472 Check Our Catalog Dunnett returns to the small Maine town of Moosetookalook with the third mystery in a Scottish-themed series that offers high-kicking fun with characters as colorful as the tartans (Dorothy Cannell). …More

Nicky Epstein Crochet for Dolls: 25 Fun, Fabulous Outfits for 18-Inch Dolls By Epstein, Nicky 2013-09 - Nicky Epstein Books 9781936096596 Check Our Catalog Who better than design superstar Nicky Epstein to create an adorable collection of crochet patterns for today's wildly popular 18-inch dolls? Epstein's 25 playful, fashion-forward garments--from hats, coats, and jackets to dresses, skirts, tops, and pants--range from classic to chic to trendy, and she gives all the basics on measuring, getting a great fit, and choosing the right yarn and needles. …More

Faerie Tale By Feist, Raymond E. 1989-01 - Spectra Books 9780553277838 Check Our Catalog Phil Hastings was a lucky man-he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural of magic-and about to be altered irrevocably by a magic more real than any he dared imagine. For with the Magic came the Bad Thing, and the Faerie, and then the cool. . .and the resurrection of a primordial war with a …More

Fasting Journal: Your Personal 21-Day Guide to a Successful Fast By Franklin, Jentezen 2008-10 - Charisma House 9781599793863 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling author Franklin offers the necessary keys to experiencing powerful transformation in this 21-day fasting journal. Each day provides a specific focus for prayers and fasting, and includes specific reminders of what to expect both physically and spiritually during a fast. HPL patron: Awesome-great wisdom. …More

American Gods By Gaiman, Neil 2011-06 - William Morrow & Company 9780062059888 Check Our Catalog Featuring an author-preferred text, Gaiman delivers a special 10th anniversary edition of his critically acclaimed bestselling classic--winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Bram Stoker awards--a brilliant synthesis of mystery, satire, sex, horror, and poetic prose (Michael Dirda, "Washington Post Book World"). HPL patron: It was alright Not the best or …More

The Little Paris Bookshop By George, Nina 2015-06 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9780553418774 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Magical and sad yet the funny parts lift it up. For Perdu to have lost Manon-at the beginning you think he's a much older man. Then on his travel and discovery, everything changes and you see him as he really is. Lovely story. …More

No Mercy By Gilstrap, John 2015-04 - Pinnacle Books 9780786037070 Check Our Catalog From the author of the "New York Times"-bestseller "Nathan's Run" comes an action-packed novel that goes deep inside the dangerous world of rescue operations--a world where one anonymous hero pays no ransom, takes no prisoners, and breaks every rule. Original. HPL patron: Former military, Jonathan Graves goes and does what others cannot. His team tackles …More

Chainfire By Goodkind, Terry 2005-11 - Tor Books 9780765344311 Check Our Catalog The author of "Wizard's First Rule" returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring The Sword of Truth to its riveting culmination. …More

Deadly Night By Graham, Heather 2008-10 - Gale Cengage 9781410408921 Check Our Catalog Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the rumors the New Orleans plantation his family has inherited is haunted. After he finds a human bone on the grounds, Aidan is joined by the tarot card reader Kendall Montgomery to uncover the truth. Original. …More

Secrets: Volume 20 Surrender to Pleasure By Green, Amber Author Featherstone, Charlotte Author Wyndfield, Leigh 2007-07 - Red Sage Publishing, Inc. 9781603100007 Check Our Catalog The Subject-Contemporary (paranormal)-on the run one week Tyler is the hottest game designer in North America, in sight of her first million and ready to sign the deal of her life. The next week, she's on the run for her life. Who can she trust? A Woman-s Pleasure - In Victorian England, a woman's lot in life is to marry well, to tend to her husbands hearth and to bear his heirs. But what happens …More

Family Pictures By Green, Jane 2013-03 - St. Martin's Press 9780312591830 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestseller Green delivers a riveting novel about two women whose lives intersect when a shocking secret is revealed. From the author of "Another Piece of My Heart" comes the gripping story of two women who live on opposite coasts but whose lives are connected in ways they never could have imagined. HPL patron:  This was an …More

Death at Victoria Dock: A Phryne Fisher Mystery By Greenwood, Kerry 2006-12 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781590582381 Check Our Catalog Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. When she alights she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in her arms, and Phryne promises to find out who is responsible. …More

Murder on the Ballarat Train: A Phryne Fisher Mystery By Greenwood, Kerry 2006-10 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781590582411 Check Our Catalog When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives. …More

The Truth Is the Light By Griggs, Vanessa Davis 2010-09 - Thorndike Press 9781410430298 Check Our Catalog Originally published: New York: Dafina, 2010. …More

Need You Now By Grippando, James 2012-01 - Harper 9780061840302 Check Our Catalog In a new stand-alone novel from "New York Times"-bestselling author Grippando, a young Wall Street advisor and his girlfriend uncover a financial scheme that reaches into the halls of government. …More

National Geographic Atlas of World History By Grove, Noel Author National Geographic Society Foreword by Boorstin, Daniel J. 1998-08 - National Geographic Society 9780792270485 Check Our Catalog From the European cave painters of the Ice Age to the computer age, this bookpresents the amazing story of human development. 500+ color illustrations. 60maps. …More

Ballet Basics By Hammond, Sandra Noll Author Hammond Sandra, Noll 2003-08 - McGraw-Hill Education 9780072557145 Check Our Catalog Written for the adult beginner, "Ballet Basics" is a well-illustrated introduction to the fundamentals of ballet technique. The text also provides an overview of the history of ballet and introduces students to the world of ballet. …More

Summer Reading-What Muskegon is reading this summer

Doctor Cerberus By Aquirre-Sacasa, Roberto Read by Arkin, Adam Read by Williams, JoBeth 2010-12 - LA Theatre Works 9781580817455 Check Our Catalog A coming-of-age, coming-out cocktail with a twist of terror. Thirteen-year-old Franklin Robertson is trying to survive adolescence. His parents dont understand him, his brother torments him, he has no friends, and hes more interested in the high school quarterback than any girl. The one bright spot in his life is the glow of the black-and-white TV in his parents basement. Here, he worships at …More

To Win Her Favor By Alexander, Tamera 2015-05 - Zondervan 9780310343448 Check Our Catalog A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. But the one man who could help her has vowed to stay away from thoroughbred racing forever. An Irishman far from home, Cullen McGrath left a once prosperous life in England because of a horse racing scandal that nearly ruined him. He's come to Nashville for a fresh start, …More

Instant Love By Attenberg, Jami 2006-06 - Shaye Areheart Books 9780307337825 Check Our Catalog Sexy, edgy, and startingly revealing: three young women and the exact moments when they fall in and our of love. …More

The Kept Man By Attenberg, Jami 2008-01 - Riverhead Books 9781594489525 Check Our Catalog A riveting debut novel from a rising literary star, this story tells of a young woman whose husband has fallen into a coma, and her discovery of evidence that casts doubt on their marriage. …More

The Water Knife By Bacigalupi, Paolo 2015-05 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385352871 Check Our Catalog WATER IS POWER Paolo Bacigalupi, "New York Times" best-selling author of "The Windup Girl" and National Book Award finalist, delivers a near-future thriller that casts new light on how we live today and what may be in store for us tomorrow. The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while …More

Rag and Bone By Benn, James R. 2010-09 - Soho Press 9781569478493 Check Our Catalog As a diplomatic crisis looms, Billy must navigate the London underworld amidst a Luftwaffe bombing offensive to find a killer. …More

Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement By Bordewich, Fergus M. 2006-01 - Amistad Press 9780060524319 Check Our Catalog Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, this work shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change. HPL patron: Very informative. It gave me a new appreciation of the Underground Railroad. …More

Ballet Beautiful: Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer By Bowers, Mary Ellen 2012-06 - Da Capo Lifelong Books 9780738215907 Check Our Catalog A ballet-based fitness and well-being program--from the personal trainer to Natalie Portman for her Academy Award-winning performance in "Black Swan." …More

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust By Bradley, Alan Author Bradley, C. Alan 2015-01 - Delacorte Press 9780345539939 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A Flavia de Luce Novel. This 7th novel finds her at age 12 and far away from her beloved England and home. But the world opens up to her as she travels through Canada to attend school at Miss Bodycote's Female Academy, her mother Harriet's old school. …More

Santa Clawed By Brown, Rita Mae Author Sneaky Pie Brown Illustrator Gellatly, Michael 2008-10 - Thorndike Press 9781410409294 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling authors Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie, are back with a new mystery featuring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. Can they save the holiday season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town with murder? …More

Whisker of Evil By Brown, Rita Mae 2004-03 - Bantam Books 9780553801613 Check Our Catalog It's a summer full of turbulence for small-town Crozet, Virginia, with a movie star's homecoming, a spreading rabies epidemic, and the clues to an old murder unearthed. But what's unsettling for Harry is that the building of a new post office may depose her as postmistress. …More

Four Friends By Carr, Robyn 2014-03 - Harlequin Mira 9780778317180 Check Our Catalog From #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr comes the story of four friends determined to find their stride. Ultimately, they'll discover what it means to be a wife, mother, lover, friend...and most important--your true self. …More

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety By Carter, Jimmy 2015-07 - Simon & Schuster 9781501115639 Check Our Catalog Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. …More

My Antonia By Cather, Willa 1994-10 - Dover Publications 9780486282404 Check Our Catalog The story of Antonia Shimerda is told by on of the friends of her childhood, Jim Burden, an orphaned boy from Virginia. Though he leaves the prairie, Jim never forgets the Bohemian girl who so profoundly influenced his life. An immigrant child of immigrant parents, Antonia's girlhood is spent working to help her parents wrest a living from the untamed land. Though in later years she suffers …More

Pirate Latitudes By Crichton, Michael 2010-09 - HarperTorch 9780061929380 Check Our Catalog The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease--or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for …More

The Big Four By Christie, Agatha 2011-11 - Center Point 9781611732054 Check Our Catalog They are formidable enemies in their own rights: a French scientist, an American millionaire, a brilliant Chinese gentleman, and a master of disguise. But together they are the Big Four, a partnership with one simple goal--murder. Hercule Poirot has never come up against an opponent so vicious . . . or so deadly. …More

Gone for Good By Coben, Harlan 2002-04 - Bantam Doubleday Publishers 038533558X Check Our Catalog The bestselling author of "Tell No One" returns with a page-turning summer thriller about a man surrounded by deaths and disappearances. Everyone Will Klein loves seems to be harboring dark secrets--and each step toward finding out what is really going on takes him closer to the truth . . . a truth that is worse than anything he ever imagined. …More

The Melody Lingers on By Clark, Mary Higgins 2015-06 - Simon & Schuster 9781476749112 Check Our Catalog From #1" New York Times" bestselling "Queen of Suspense" comes a thrilling novel about missing billions, a disgraced financier, and those determined to learn the truth at any cost... As the sole assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon, mother to five-year-old Katie, is accustomed to visiting opulent homes around the tri-state area. A born optimist, Lane finds the …More

Pretend You Don't See Her By Clark, Mary Higgins 1998-05 - Pocket Books 9780671867157 Check Our Catalog After Manhattan real estate agent Lacey Farrell is witness to the dying words of a murder victim. The dying woman is convinced that the killer was after her daughter's journals. Lacey gives the journal to the police after making a copy for herself--an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed under the witness protection program, Lacey's life changes and she meets a man. Unable to live …More

The Alpine Yeoman: An Emma Lord Mystery By Daheim, Mary 2014-03 - Ballantine Books 9780345535337 Check Our Catalog A middle-aged honeymoon couple has to catch wedded bliss on the fly when murder and a car wreck upset their little town. …More

Bared to You By Day, Sylvia 2012-06 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425263907 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: An unlikely love story as Eva and Gideon try to discover what love means and how to trust and build a strong future from their broken pasts. They learn together that anything may be possible. Great follow up series to 50 Shades. …More

Entwined with You By Day, Sylvia 2013-06 - Berkley Books 9780425263921 Check Our Catalog The third book in the "New York Times"-bestselling Crossfire Trilogy following "Bared to You" and "Reflected in You." Day has written more than a dozen novels across multiple subgenres and has won the "Romantic Times" Reviewers' Choice Award and the National Readers' Choice Award twice. …More

Reflected in You By Day, Sylvia 2012-10 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425263914 Check Our Catalog The hotly anticipated second book of the Crossfire Trilogy continues the sensual saga of Eva and Gideon that began in "Bared to You." …More

Cheaters By Dickey, Eric Jerome 2001-05 - New American Library 9780451203007 Check Our Catalog Six African American urbanites look for love in this entertaining, sexy and candid novel about friendship and betrayal, adultery and secrets, and lust and love from the author of "Milk in My Coffee". HPL patron: This book had a lot of drama. I could relate to the characters. This book was too descriptive (too many details.) It talked about games people …More