Upcoming events at HPL

INSTRUMENT PETTING DAY 2:00 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 Is there a musical instrument your child has dreamed of playing, or just can't make up their mind about? We have the perfect program for you. Come to HPL for West Michigan Symphony's "Instrument Petting Day." Drop in to check out an instrument--you child can hold it, play it, and find which musical instrument they like best!

FALL STORYTIME FOR AGES 3-7 6:45 MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 Celebrate fall with stories, songs and creative play with Ms. Cassandra.

Tablet Tips and Tricks 1:00 pm, Wednesday, October 12 Want to do more with your tablet? Bring it to HPL on Wednesdays at 1:00 to get tech help. Walk ins welcome.

MINECRAFT FOR KIDS 2:00 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. CALL 231-722-7276, EXTENTION 230. 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. You might learn something, teach something, or just have a great time!

FALL STORYTIME FOR AGES 3-7 6:45 MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 Playing creatively with stories, songs, and fingerplays is a great way to get ready to read. Come see Ms. Cassandra for storytime fun.

Tablet Tips and Tricks 1:00 pm, Wednesday, October 19 Want to do more with your tablet? Bring it to HPL on Wednesdays at 1:00 to get tech help. Walk ins welcome.

LEGOs FAMILY FUN

2:00 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

Let's play with LEGOs and build something great! Compete for candy prizes and ahow off your LEGO-building skills.

What to read while waiting for...

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Home By Coben, Harlan 2016-09 - Dutton Books 9780525955108 Check Our Catalog Ten years after the high-profile kidnapping of two young boys, only one returns home in Harlan Coben's gripping thriller. A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that …More

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

10th Anniversary By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2011-05 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036269 Check Our Catalog Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. …More

The Lake House By Morton, Kate 2015-10 - Atria Books 9781451649321 Check Our Catalog One of People magazine's Best Books of Fall Morton's moody, suspenseful latest is the perfect page-turner for a chilly night. From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. Living on …More

The Last Child By Hart, John 2009-05 - Minotaur Books 9780312359324 Check Our Catalog Awards: Anthony Awards (2010), Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2010), Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (2010), SIBA Book Award (2010) Fresh off the success of his Edgar Award-winning, "New York Times" bestseller "Down River," Hart returns with the story of a young boy's hunt for his missing sister, and the dark truths he uncovers in his North Carolina hometown. …More

Adult Summer Reading - Week 11 - Tuesday

Desolation By Sturges, Matthew Illustrator Rossi, Luca Illustrator Marzan, Jose, Jr. 2012-08 - Vertigo 9781401234959 Check Our Catalog In this final volume, the big confrontation between Fig and the Conception, between Fig and Lotus Blossom, between Lotus Blossom and the Magical Physicians, between Fig and Lotus Blossom and Harry, between - okay, between everyone and everyone else, and it's been building since issue #1. What will become of the House of Mystery? There's only one way to find out... This volume collects issues …More

House of Mystery, Volume 6: Safe as Houses By Sturges, Matthew Illustrator Rossi, Luca 2011-05 - Vertigo 9781401231545 Check Our Catalog HOUSE OF MYSTERY focuses on characters trapped in a supernatural bar, trying to solve the mystery of how and why they're imprisoned there. Each one has a terrible past they'd like to forget, and with no books, newspapers or TV allowed in the House, they face an eternity of boredom. But stories become the new currency, and fortunately, the House attracts only the finest storytellers. In this sixth …More

The Book of Speculation By Swyler, Erika 2015-06 - St. Martin's Press 9781250054807 Check Our Catalog One of BuzzFeed's 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015 "As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the women in his family, he learns strange and fascinating secrets about their past. A tale full of magic and family mystery, "The Book of Speculation" will keep you up all night reading." Isaac Fitzgerald, BuzzFeed Simon Watson, a young …More

Under Tiberius By Tosches, Nick 2015-08 - Little Brown and Company 9780316405669 Check Our Catalog A work of dangerous and haunting beauty by America's last real literary outlaw. Under Tiberius is a thrilling story of crime and deceit involving the man who came to be called Jesus Christ. Deep in the recesses of the Vatican, Nick Tosches unearths a first-century memoir by Gaius Fulvius Falconius, foremost speechwriter for Emperor Tiberius. The codex is …More

Just Above a Whisper By Wick, Lori 2006-08 - Walker & Company 9781594151118 Check Our Catalog Book 2 in the < I>Tucker Mills Trilogy< /I>< P>A tender story of the power of faith over fear and the tie that truly binds. Indentured servant Reese Thackery's contract has fallen into the hands of the Tucker Mills bank. When Conner Kingsley, the son of the bank's owner, comes to investigate, he finds himself touched by her situation. Soon he releases Reese and hires her to keep house for …More

Leave a Candle Burning By Wick, Lori 2006-12 - Thorndike Press 9780786290871 Check Our Catalog Lori Wick's popular, bestselling Tucker Mills Series concludes with Leave a Candle Burning. Beloved Doc MacKay has left Tucker Mills to retire to warmer climes, but he gladly leaves the town's health in the capable hands of Dannan MacKay, his nephew. The townsfolk welcome Dannan, but the widowed physician misses his young daughter, who is staying with an aunt while he settles into his new life. …More

Moonlight on the Millpond By Wick, Lori 2005-06 - Thorndike Press 9780786277056 Check Our Catalog While helping his Uncle Woody run the sawmill in Token Creek, Jace Randall begins courting the visiting niece of the local storekeepers, but when Jace's sister undermines their new relationship with gossip, the new couple separates. …More

The Fifth Son By Wiesel, Elie 1998-04 - Schocken Books Inc 9780805210835 Check Our Catalog When a Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, the son also discovers that the Nazi is still alive. What begins as a quest for his father's love becomes a reenactment of the past, as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge. An unforgettable novel by the Nobel Prize …More

Waking Up in Charleston By Woods, Sherryl 2011-12 - Mira Books 9780778313267 Check Our Catalog Oh, God! She's in love with her preacher. But it's not as if Amanda O'Leary set "out" to fall for the most gorgeous (and unattainable) man this side of South Carolina Low Country. It's just that he organized building a cozy home for her and her children at a time when the future looked darker than blackstrap molasses. Not even her own father, the arrogant and wealthy Big Max, would have done as …More

Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches By Woolson, Constance Fenimore 2009-01 - BiblioLife 9780559988554 Check Our Catalog This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to …More

The Lost Time Accidents By Wray, John 2016-02 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374281137 Check Our Catalog In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, "The Lost Time Accidents," John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumors about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of World War Two, from the golden age of postwar pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artifacts of modern life. Haunted …More

A Little Life By Yanagihara, Hanya 2015-03 - Doubleday Books 9780385539258 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2016), Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (2016), Kirkus Prize (2015), Man Booker Prize (2015), National Book Awards (2015) NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into …More

Her Holiday Fireman By Y'Barbo, Kathleen 2012-10 - Love Inspired 9780373877799 Check Our Catalog From his first encounter with the feisty redhead, widower and fire marshal Ryan Owen knows he's in trouble. He's in Vine Beach to heal, not to find romance. As for Leah Berry, she's come home strictly to lay claim to her family's restaurant and fend off developers. Leah is infuriated when Ryan shuts down the restaurant on violations. Both are determined to have their way, even as …More

How to Retire the Cheapskate Way: The Ultimate Cheapskate's Guide to a Better, Earlier, Happier Retirement By Yeager, Jeffrey Author Yeager, Jeff 2013-01 - Crown Business 9780307956422 Check Our Catalog Combining Yeager's lovable humor and offbeat anecdotes that have garnered him an ever-growing fan base, this guide shares with readers hundreds of retirement secrets and tips. …More

Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor By Kim, Yong With Kim, Suk-Young 2009-05 - Columbia University Press 9780231147460 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: An informative book on life in North Korea and the prisons. At times it is difficult to read how low the people have to come to exist. To try to put oneself in his shoes is impossible, and the corroption that exists is understandable. …More

Adult Summer Reading - Week 11 - Monday

Starlight: Hidden Star\Captive Star By Roberts, Nora 2015-11 - Silhouette Books 9780373281947 Check Our Catalog Diamonds can be a girls best friend--or her worst enemy. Two installments of the Stars of Mithra series by beloved, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts are collected in this single volume. Includes "Hidden Star" and "Captive Star." Reissue. …More

The Obsession By Roberts, Nora 2016-04 - Berkley Books 9780399175169 Check Our Catalog The riveting new novel from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Liar." " She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her. " Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped …More

Stolen: Nightshade\Night Smoke By Roberts, Nora 2016-05 - Silhouette Books 9780373282135 Check Our Catalog Two dark and dazzling fan-favorite tales of romantic suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author NORA ROBERTS Nightshade Colt Nightshade can't believe his luck: he's been partnered on a case with the stunningly beautiful lieutenant Althea Grayson. But Grayson works strictly by the book, and she has no use for Colt's easygoing, renegade style. The case itself is demanding enough, …More

No Cure for Love By Robinson, Peter 2016-02 - William Morrow & Company 9780062469304 Check Our Catalog Terrific . . . that rare book that entertains, enthralls, and also teaches. No Cure for Love] has something to say about right now. MICHAEL CONNELLY, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Broughton has come a long way. She's the star of a hit cop show on TV. She lives in a beautiful California beach house. And most important she's put her dark past behind her. . . as well as her old …More

Best Friends Forever By Roby, Kimberla Lawson 2016-01 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455526086 Check Our Catalog Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and her husband, Keith, have become routine. She resents that he's working long hours and staying out all night, and he accuses her of not giving him the attention he deserves. Their marriage is at a cross-roads and Celine worries how her 10-year-old daughter, Kassie, will be affected. But the …More

The First Hostage: A J. B. Collins Novel By Rosenberg, Joel C. 2015-12 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781496406156 Check Our Catalog What if the Islamic State captured the most valuable hostage in history? "The president of the United States . . . is missing." With these words, New York Times journalist J. B. Collins, report-ing from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists in Amman, Jordan, puts the entire world on high alert. The leaders of Israel and Palestine are critically injured, …More

The Rough Guide to New York City By Rough Guides Author Rough Guides 2016-02 - Rough Guides 9780241199213 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This book in electronic form is great. It has photos and itineraries. It has great maps and makes things easy to find. I'd recommend it to a first time traveler to New York, in particular. …More

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One & Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production By Rowling, J. K. Author Tiffany, John Author Thorne, Jack 2016-07 - Arthur A. Levine Books 9781338099133 Check Our Catalog The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London's West End on July 30, 2016. …More

Empire Falls By Russo, Richard 2001-05 - Alfred A. Knopf 9780679432470 Check Our Catalog Awards: Ambassador Book Awards (2002), Book Sense Book of the Year Award (2002), Pulitzer Prize (2002) Richard Russo--from his first novel, "Mohawk, to his most recent, "Straight Man--has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country. Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a …More

Board Stiff By Ryan, Annelise 2014-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758272768 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: An entertaining cozy mystery. …More

Stiff Competition By Ryan, Annalise Author Ryan, Annelise 2016-01 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781617734106 Check Our Catalog "The funniest deputy coroner to cut up a corpse since, well, ever." --Laura Levine Every fall, hunting season in Sorenson, Wisconsin, leads to some accidental injuries. Deputy coroner Mattie Winston just hopes the hunters don't bring any more business to her office. But somebody seems to have declared open season on land developers. One real estate developer who's recently come to town …More

Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran By Saberi, Roxana 2010-03 - Harper 9780061965289 Check Our Catalog Saberi, a journalist working in Iran, was dragged from her home and arrested, charged with espionage. In this compelling and inspirational story, she writes of her imprisonment, her trial, her ultimate release, and the faith that helped her through her captivity. …More

A Kind of Grief By Scott, A. D. 2015-10 - Atria Books 9781476756189 Check Our Catalog One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2015 Set against the grandeur of the Northern Scottish Highlands in the 1950s, here is the sixth evocative, fast-paced, suspenseful mystery in A.D. Scott's highly acclaimed series featuring beloved heroine Joanne Ross. Praised for their well-drawn characters (Publishers Weekly), ingenious plotting …More

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison By Senghor, Shaka 2016-03 - Convergent Books 9781101907290 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Very interesting book that was inspiring. However, I believe it would have been better if the athor would have written it in his life's sequence rather than jumping from prison to his youth and then back to a different prison. …More

Trustee from the Toolroom By Shute, Nevil 2000-09 - Queens House 9780892440160 Check Our Catalog When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, Keith Steward becomes the trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters. …More

The Rosie Effect By Simsion, Graeme 2014-12 - Simon & Schuster 9781476767314 Check Our Catalog The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Rosie Project, starring the same extraordinary couple now living in New York and unexpectedly expecting their first child. Get ready to fall in love all over again. Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But …More

The Justice Game By Singer, Randy 2009-07 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781414316345 Check Our Catalog After the target of an investigative report storms a Virginia Beach news studio, he executes one of the anchors on live television before the SWAT team is able to take him down. Following the victim's funeral, her family files a lawsuit against the gun company who manufactured the killer's weapon of choice. The lawyers for the plaintiff and defendant-Kelly Starling and Jason Noble-are young, …More

A Faint Cold Fear By Slaughter, Karin 2003-10 - William Morrow & Company 9780688174583 Check Our Catalog From the author of "Kisscut" comes the story of violence on a Georgia college campus, as medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver investigate several suicides and a brutal attack. …More

A Chance on Lovin' You By Snoe, Eboni 1999-09 - Avon Books 9780380795635 Check Our Catalog Sasha Townsend always plays it safe -- in life and in love -- until an unexpected inheritance brings her to the lushly tropical Florida Keys. There, beneath the hot sun of Magic Key, she begins to relax and renew...until she's summoned to the neighboring estate by its enigmatic owner, Cay Ellis. The handsome millionaire's highhanded ways and infuriating demands awaken Sasha to emotions and a world …More

The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time By Sobel, Dava Joint Author Andrewes, William J. H. Introduction by Sobel, Dava 1998-10 - Walker & Company 9780802713445 Check Our Catalog The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the thorniest scientific problem of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout the great age of exploration, sailors attempted to navigate the oceans without any means of measuring their longitude: All too often, voyages ended in total disaster when both crew and cargo were captured or lost upon the rocks of …More

Thicker Than Water: A British Police Procedural Set in 1970s By Spencer, Sally 2016-02 - Severn House Publishers 9780727885616 Check Our Catalog "DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates a case that could be the making or, more likely, breaking of her career " DCI Monika Paniatowski has only been back from maternity leave for three days when she is called in to investigate a nightmare of a case. Not only is the murder victim a mother of three small children, but her husband is a wealthy politician. Monika knows that if she can't …More

Property of a Noblewoman By Steel, Danielle 2016-03 - Delacorte Press 9780345531063 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Typical Steel-but you might learn a bit about jewelry. …More

Interior Darkness: Selected Stories By Straub, Peter 2016-02 - Doubleday Books 9780385541053 Check Our Catalog A MONUMENTAL COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION FROM ACCLAIMED MASTER OF HORROR AND"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLINGAUTHOR PETER STRAUB Peter Straub brilliantly defiesand blurs literary genres. LORRIE MOORE An American icon renowned for his bestselling novels, Peter Straub displays his full and stunning range in this crowning collection. He has consistently subverted the boundaries of genre …More

The Burgess Boys By Strout, Elizabeth 2013-03 - Random House 9781400067688 Check Our Catalog Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014) The acclaimed author of "Olive Kitteridge" returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature. Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, the Burgess brothers are called home from their successful lives in New York. HPL patron:  Newest book from the author of Olive …More