Upcoming Events at HPL

Tech Wednesday-iPads 3:00 PM, Wednesday, September 10: Tech Wednesday Bring your laptop or tablet and follow along while we explain tech topics in an informal setting. This week we’ll look at iPads.

Computer Class-Basic 11:00 am, Saturday, September 13 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Computer Class-Basic 12:15 pm, Saturday, September 13 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

LEGO MANIA FAMILY FUN DAY 2:00 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2014 Come join in the family fun. Build a great structure, maybe win a treat, and get to display your fabulous creation to all the youth services library patrons. Remember--we supply the LEGOS, you supply the imagination.

Folias Flute and Guitar Duo 6:00 PM, Monday, September 15: Folias Flute and Guitar Duo American Record Guide calls the Folias Flute and Guitar Duo “daring in self written music.” Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan this unique performer/composer duo was founded in 2003 by husband and wife Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron. In performance, Folias combines their classical music training, their experience as tango dancers and bandleaders, their love of Astor Piazzolla and their knowledge of the jazz idiom. They have performed in concert halls, clubs and for tango events across the United States, in Europe and in Argentina. Folias’ four critically acclaimed albums on the Blue Griffin Recording label feature their work together as collaborative composers and arrangers. Andrew Bergeron is instructor of guitar, ear training, and music theory at Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Valley State University and Aquinas College. Andrew is a founding performer and composer with the Grand Rapids Guitar Quartet which feature his new works and arrangements. Andrew received his Bachelor of Arts in Music and Philosophy from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI with a focus on guitar performance, music composition and Chinese philosophy. He received his Master of Music in composition at Michigan State University School of Music where he was recipient of the “Paul Harder Composition Scholarship.” Andrew Bergeron’s main guitar teacher was Brian Morris at Grand Valley State University. He also studied with Nicholas Goluses and Scott Tennant while at the Eastman Guitar Festival. Andrew’s main composition teachers were Charles Ruggiero and Bob Schechtman and he studied theory with Sherman Van Solkema. Carmen Maret is an endorsed Pearl Flute artist and instructor of flute at Aquinas College. Carmen received her Bachelor of Music in flute performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and her Master of Music in flute performance from Michigan State University School of Music. She also received a second Master of Music degree in ethnomusicology at Michigan State University with a focus on Argentine tango music and dance. Carmen Maret is the founder of the Grand Rapids Tango Community. Carmen Maret’s primary teachers were Mary Posses and Richard Sherman. She attended the Eastern Music Festival in 1999 and also studied with Peter Lloyd at his summer flute seminar in St. Andrew’s, Scotland in 2000. Carmen has performed in masterclasses with William Bennett and Julia Bogorad and attended masterclasses with Carol Wincenc, James Galway, and Emmanuel Pahud. Carmen’s jazz teachers include Bobby Watson and Ron Blake. She also studied tango music with bassist Pablo Aslan. For more information and to hear some of their pieces, visit http://foliasmusic.com/ or check the library’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/hackleyref/ (look for playlists, then performers) Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Public Library

Finances for Lunch 12:00 pm, Wednesday, September 17: Financial Workshop sponsored by PNC Bank Bring your lunch and learn about finances with employees from PNC Bank. This month’s topic is Planning your Retirement.

Computer Class-Internet/Email 11:00 am, Saturday, September 20 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

Computer Class-Internet/Email 12:15 pm, Saturday, September 20 Computer Classes return to HPL! De'ondra Pentacost will teach computer classes this summer and fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. July 12-Basic July 19-Internet/Email July 26-Word August 2-Basic August 23-Internet/Email September 6-Word September 13-Basic September 20-Internet/Email September 27-Word Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to reserve your spot. Registration is required.

ROCK PAINTING 2:00 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 Make a crazy rock band! Check out a rock's shape and use it along with your imagination to create master "pieces" of artsy rocks. Paint and rocks will be supplied. Painting can be so much fun for kids of all ages.

What to read while waiting for...

Invisible By Patterson, James Author Ellis, David 2014-06 - Little Brown and Company 9780316405348 Check Our Catalog Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that …More

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

The 9th Girl By Hoag, Tami 2013-06 - Dutton Books 9780525952978 Check Our Catalog Number-one "New York Times"-bestselling author Hoag brings back her fan-favorite Minneapolis investigators Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska in a haunting new thriller. Hoag's most recent books have been among the biggest bestsellers of her career. …More

The Absence of Mercy By Burley, John 2013-11 - William Morrow & Company 9780062227379 Check Our Catalog A doctor and father in small town Ohio weighs the need to catch a killer against his fears for his family's safety in this debut psychological suspense novel. …More

Concealed in Death By Robb, J. D. 2014-02 - G.P. Putnam's Sons a Member of Penguin Group 9780399164439 Check Our Catalog The incomparable J. D. Robb presents the latest moving and suspenseful novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Eve Dallas series. In a decrepit, long-empty New York building, Lieutenant Eve Dallas's husband begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When the dust clears, there are two skeletons wrapped in plastic behind it. He summons his wife immediately-and by the …More

Everything to Lose By Gross, Andrew 2014-04 - William Morrow & Company 9780061656002 Check Our Catalog A determined, down-on-her-luck mother caring for her handicapped son becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried in this blistering thriller set during the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, from "New York Times" bestselling author Andrew Gross. HPL patron:  First time I read …More

Field of Prey By Sandford, John 2014-05 - Putnam Adult 9780399162381 Check Our Catalog The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. …More

Phantom Instinct By Gardiner, Meg 2014-06 - Dutton Books 9780525954316 Check Our Catalog In Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner's new stand-alone thriller, an injured cop and an ex-thief hunt down a killer nobody else believes exists. When shots ring out in a crowded L.A. club, bartender Harper Flynn watches helplessly as her boyfriend, Drew, is gunned down in the cross fire. Then somebody throws a Molotov cocktail, and the club is quickly engulfed in flames. L.A. …More

HPL's New Books

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for 2014.  To see new books from other years try: 2013 , 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

Last to Know By Adler, Elizabeth 2014-07 - Minotaur Books 9781250019929 Check Our Catalog Evening Lake: an idyllic, peaceful, western Massachusetts getaway with a close-knit community of families. Detective Harry Jordan sees his lake home as a respite from solving crimes on the streets of Boston...until crime comes to Evening Lake. Harry Jordan is out for a walk when the night is rocked by an explosion: the Havnel house is engulfed in a conflagration and Bea Havnel is seen fleeing, …More

Visions: A Cainsville Novel By Armstrong, Kelley 2014-08 - Dutton Books 9780525953050 Check Our Catalog As #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's new Cainsville series continues, Olivia's power to read omens leads to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections to her new hometown. "Omens," the first installment in Kelley Armstrong's exciting new series, introduced Olivia Taylor-Jones, daughter of notorious serial …More

The Cartel 4: Diamonds Are Forever By Ashley Author JaQuavis 2012-10 - Urban Books 9781601625236 Check Our Catalog The Diamond family have survived murder, deceit and betrayal. Through it all, they're still standing and a new era has begun. Young Carter has retired and moved away from the madness - that is, until he gets an unexpected visitor at his home. …More

Girls from Da Hood 4 By Ashley Author JaQuavis Author Ellis, Ayana 2008-03 - Urban Books 9781601620439 Check Our Catalog Disaya Morgan has never had anything, so she figures she's got nothing to lose when she gets involved in a dangerous game of mind-blowing sex and quick cash--but Disaya learns fast that in this game, no one wins. …More

The Forsaken By Atkins, Ace 2014-07 - Putnam Adult 9780399161797 Check Our Catalog The extraordinary new novel in "New York Times"-bestselling author Ace Atkins' acclaimed series about the real Deep South--"a joy ride into the heart of darkness" ("The Washington Post"). Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two …More

When Day Breaks By Banks, Maya 2014-06 - Berkley Books 9780425263785 Check Our Catalog THE ALL-NEW KGI NOVEL BY "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELING AUTHOR AUTHOR MAYA BANKS The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super-elite, top secret, family-run business. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock-hard body, military background. Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the U.S. government can't... Eden is said to be …More

Lucky Us By Bloom, Amy 2014-07 - Random House 9781400067244 Check Our Catalog ""My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us."" So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed "Away" was called "a literary triumph" ("The New York Times"). "Lucky Us" is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel …More

Mean Streak By Brown, Sandra 2014-08 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455581122 Check Our Catalog From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, "Does the end justify the means?" and turns it on its head. Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, …More

Wayfaring Stranger By Burke, James Lee 2014-08 - Wheeler Publishing 9781410467768 Check Our Catalog From "America's best novelist" ("The Denver Post"): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon …More

Burnt Tongues By Palahniuk, Chuck Editor Thomas, Richard Editor Widmyer, Dennis 2014-08 - Medallion Press 9781605427348 Check Our Catalog Transgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images--nothing safe or dry. Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive stories selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process and hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, as the best of The Cult workshop. These stories run the …More

One Kick By Cain, Chelsea 2014-08 - Simon & Schuster 9781476749785 Check Our Catalog From the author of the critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first in a nail-biting new series featuring Kick Lannigan, a young woman whose complicated past has given her a very special skill set. Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick captured America's hearts when she was rescued five years later. Now, twenty-one, she …More

Kitty-Kitty, Bang Bang By Cairo 2011-11 - Strebor Books 9781593093037 Check Our Catalog It was her cutthroat ambition and ruthlessness that got Katrina--or Kat for short--out of the hood and on top of her game. Having once used her alluring charm and exotic beauty to lure men to their deaths, Katrina has had a change of heart. She's settled for a simpler life--and life couldn't be any sweeter. At least that's what she wants to believe. …More

The Wolf By Carcaterra, Lorenzo 2014-07 - Ballantine Books 9780345483942 Check Our Catalog In this thrilling novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra--the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Sleepers, Gangster, " and "Midnight Angels--"organized crime goes to war with international terrorism in the name of one man's quest for revenge. My name is Vincent Marelli, though most people call me The Wolf. You've never met me, and if you're …More

Angels Make Their Hope Here By Clarke, Breena 2014-07 - Little Brown and Company 9780316254007 Check Our Catalog Russell's Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is home to a diverse population of blacks, whites, and reds who have intermarried and lived in relative harmony for generations. It is a haven for Dossie Bird, who has escaped north along the Underground Railroad and now feels the embrace of the Smoot family. Duncan Smoot presides as accidental …More

The Stager By Coll, Susan 2014-07 - Sarah Crichton Books 9780374268817 Check Our Catalog "The Stager "is a comedy of rabbits and real estate in the D.C. suburbs from Susan Coll, the author of Acceptance and Beach Week Dominique is one very bitter rabbit. His owner, Lars Jorgenson, is a former tennis pro who has blown out both knees, become obese, and is now addicted to a cocktail of prescription drugs containing the letters X and Z, one weird side-effect …More

The Quest By DeMille, Nelson 2013-09 - Center Street 9781455576425 Check Our Catalog After receiving a tip from a dying priest, four unlikely partners begin a quest to find the Holy Grail in the jungles of Ethiopia. …More

Hustlin' Divas By Diamond, De'nesha 2010-11 - Dafina Books 9780758247551 Check Our Catalog From the award-winning, national bestselling author ("Desperate Hoodwives") hailed as the Duchess of Street Lit comes a steamy, sexy, gritty tale about Memphis's ride-or-die chicks, who'll do whatever it takes to get what they want. HPL Patron:  Good book, can't wait to …More

Tabula Rasa: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire By Downie, Ruth 2014-08 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781608197088 Check Our Catalog The medicus Ruso and his wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge and are still smarting from the failure of a recent rebellion that claimed many lives. Then Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he …More

Nasty By Dr XYZ 2009-09 - Strebor Books 9781593092610 Check Our Catalog Extremely nasty things happen when a rich divorcee, an ambitious music mogul, and an extremely horny high school virgin all cross paths in a delicious web of insatiable lust, obsession, and revenge. Nicola is beautiful, wealthy -- and newly divorced. Angry and bitter with the world over her life's failures, she goes on a sexual rampage and destroys everything in her path. She begins …More

Your Fathers, Where Are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? By Eggers, Dave 2014-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781101874196 Check Our Catalog From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of "The Circle," a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. "Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?" is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers the only way he knows how. In a barracks on an abandoned military base, …More

Henna House By Eve, Nomi 2014-08 - Scribner Book Company 9781476740270 Check Our Catalog An evocative and stirring novel about a young woman living in the fascinating and rarely portrayed community of Yemenite Jews of the mid-twentieth century, from the acclaimed author of "The Family Orchard." In the tradition of Anita Diamant's "The Red Tent," "Henna House" is the enthralling story of a woman, her family, their community, and the rituals …More

When the World Was Young By Gaffney, Elizabeth 2014-08 - Random House 9781400064687 Check Our Catalog Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of "Wonder Woman" comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit--especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Gaffney's irresistible novel captures postwar …More

The Silkworm By Galbraith, Robert 2014-06 - Mulholland Books 9780316206877 Check Our Catalog Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller "The Cuckoo's Calling." …More

Fast Track By Garwood, Julie 2014-08 - Thorndike Press 9781410467638 Check Our Catalog A corrupt congressman, a mother's secrets, and a sizzling romance ignite passion and suspense in the new novel from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Julie Garwood. Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl--her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is …More