What to read while waiting for...

Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy By Follett, Ken 2014-09 - Dutton Books 9780525953098 Check Our Catalog Ken Follett's Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five intertwined families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. It has been called "potent, engrossing" ("Publishers Weekly") and "truly epic" ("Huffington Post"). "USA Today "said, "You actually feel like you're there." "Edge of Eternity," the finale, covers one of the most …More

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

The Best Laid Plans By Sheldon, Sidney 1998-08 - Warner Books (NY) 9780446604086 Check Our Catalog HE WANTED POWER. SHE WANTED REVENGE. Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry. That declaration sets Leslie Stewart on a destiny she could never have imagined. For she is engaged to Oliver Russell, a man fated to rise to the pinnacle of world power, the office of the President of the United States. And, in the aftermath of the shattering betrayal that follows, Leslie will amass …More

Dead Watch By Sandford, John 2006-05 - Putnam Publishing Group 9780399153549 Check Our Catalog From the author of the #1 bestselling Prey novels comes an extraordinary story of murder, passion, and deadly ambition--a political thriller like no other. HPL patron:  A slow start but keep going.  This is a good, fast moving "drama" with political overtones that embellish the plot.  Enjoy! …More

A Fall of Marigolds By Meissner, Susan 2014-02 - New American Library 9780451419910 Check Our Catalog A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away.... September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own …More

The Given Day By Lehane, Dennis 2008-09 - William Morrow & Company 9780688163181 Check Our Catalog Awards: Indies Choice Book Awards (2009) Set at the end of the Great War, "The Given Day" offers an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. …More

Only Time Will Tell By Archer, Jeffrey 2011-08 - St. Martin's Press 9780312539559 Check Our Catalog From the internationally bestselling author of "Kane and Abel" and "A Prisoner of Birth" comes "Only Time Will Tell," the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. …More

Upcoming Events at HPL

STORYTIME FOR AGES 3 - 7 6:45 PM, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014 Storytelling, picturebooks, fingerplays, holiday tales, and special fun. Each session ends with a craft project. Signup required. To register, phone 722-7276 ext 230

Michigan Ghost Towns 6:00 pm, Tuesday, October 7 Hundreds of 'ghost towns' dot Michigan's landscape throughout both the Lower and Upper Peninsulas. Some even still appear on state highway maps. Originally centered in logging, farming, and mining areas, these towns often faded into history when the natural resources were depleted. Only a handful remain standing, silent and abandoned, as a reminder of what once was. Settle in for an historic tour through Michigan’s past as you visit the ghost towns of the Great Lakes State. Presented by Dianna Stampfler of Promote Michigan. (http://www.promotemichigan.com/index.html). DIANNA STAMPFLER has been referred to as one of the most motivated, energetic and passionate leaders in Michigan’s tourism industry, with nearly 25 years of marketing, public relations and media relations experience. She launched Promote Michigan in August, 2004 and has successfully established herself as an independent marketing representative for an impressive list of clients including Traverse Tall Ship Company, The Homestead Resort, ShowSpan Inc. (including Grand Rapids International Wine & Food Festival, Michigan International Auto Show and Grand Rapids Boat Show), Michigan Brewer’s Guild, Food Dance and Northern United Brewing Company, among others. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Tech Wednesday-Publisher 3:00 PM, Wednesday, October 8 Bring your laptop or tablet and follow along while we explain tech topics in an informal setting. Today we will take a look at Microsoft Publisher.

TODDLER TIME FOR AGES 18 MONTHS - 3 YEARS 11:00 AM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 Storytelling, picture books, finger plays, holiday tales, songs, and special fun for younger children. Sign up is required. To register, call 722-7276, ext. 230

Saturday Computer Class-Excel 11:00 am, Oct 11 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. Today’s topic is Excel: An introduction to the spreadsheet program. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Saturday Computer Class-Excel 12:15 pm, Oct 11 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. Today’s topic is Excel: An introduction to the spreadsheet program. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

LEGO MANIA FAMILY FUN DAY 2:00 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2014 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!

Jeff Dwarshuis, Classical Guitar 6:00 PM, Monday October 13 Classical Guitarist Jeff Dwarshuis will be performing at The Hackley Public Library on October 13, 2014 from 6:00 - 7:00. The library is located at 316 W Webster Muskegon MI 49440. Questions or inquiries for Mr. Dwarshuis can be directed to (616) 443-1425 or at his email address jeffsemdr@tds.net. “Jeff is an accomplished talent and passionate about his music. His research into the history of the composers was a delightful addition. Jeff’s music brought the crowd to their feet. For it’s worth to note that our library program attendees have never given a performer a standing ovation before Jeff”--Larry Halverson, Community Relations Coordinator-Loutit District Library To get a taste of Jeff’s music, check the library’s YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/hackleyref. Look for Playlists, then performers. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

STORYTIME FOR AGES 3 - 7 6:45 PM, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014 Storytelling, picturebooks, fingerplays, holiday tales, and special fun. Each session ends with a craft project. Signup required. To register, phone 722-7276 ext 230

Terry Nolan-Reunion by Murder 6:00 pm, Tuesday, October 14: Terry Nolan-Reunion by Murder Terry Nolan will be at Hackley Public Library to talk about his new book, Reunion by Murder: “Criminal defense attorney Paddy O'Brien retired to a life of good friends, golf and relaxation in Arizona. He was financially well off, but estranged from his ex-wife and only child, Conner, for over thirty years. He didn't know if he'd ever see them again. Then the phone call came.” Terry Nolan is a local attorney and first time author.

Finances for Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Wednesday, October 15 Bring your lunch and learn about finances with employees from PNC Bank. This month’s topic is Financial Recovery

TODDLER TIME FOR AGES 18 MONTHS - 3 YEARS 11:00 AM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014 Storytelling, picture books, finger plays, holiday tales, songs, and special fun for younger children. Sign up is required. To register, call 722-7276, ext. 230

Saturday Computer Class-Powerpoint 11:00 am, Oct 18 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. Today’s topic is Powerpoint: Need to give a presentation? Learn about how to set one up in Powerpoint. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Saturday Computer Class-Powerpoint 12:15 pm, Oct 18 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. Today’s topic is Powerpoint: Need to give a presentation? Learn about how to set one up in Powerpoint. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

New Books at HPL

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.

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales By Atwood, Margaret 2014-09 - Nan A. Talese 9780385539128 Check Our Catalog A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think "Alias Grace." Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, "Moral Disorder," with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, …More

Dice By Baker, T. N. 2007-06 - Griffin 9780312355746 Check Our Catalog "Indecent Proposal" meets the streets in this explosive new novel from the #1"Essence" bestselling author of "Sheisty" and "Still Sheisty." 75,000print. …More

The Escape By Balogh, Mary 2014-07 - Dell Publishing Company 9780345536068 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER In this poignant novel of longing and salvation, a hopeful widow and a resilient war hero discover the promise of love's magic and new beginnings. After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in need of a healing touch. Never does Ben imagine that hope will come in the form of a beautiful woman who has …More

Taking It All By Banks, Maya 2014-08 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425272985 Check Our Catalog "MAYA BANKS...I'M READY FOR THE NEXT RIDE NOW " SAID "USA TODAY." AND NOW, MAYA BANKS IS READY TO DELIVER. FROM THE "MUST-READ AUTHOR" ("ROMANCE JUNKIES") OF "LETTING GO "AND "GIVING IN"--THE NEW NOVEL IN HER SURRENDER TRILOGY. In her sensational Breathless Trilogy, "New York Times" bestselling author Maya Banks tested the boundaries of desire. In her new trilogy, there's only one thing left …More

From a Distance By Barker, Raffaella 2014-07 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781620403341 Check Our Catalog In April 1946 Michael returns from war and finds he cannot face the life that awaits him at home. Impulsively he leaps on a train to the western tip of Cornwall, and in doing so changes his destiny. He finds himself in a bohemian colony of artists gathered on the Cornish coast, and his fate is shaped by his heart, his new environment, and the fragmented Britain to which he has returned.More than …More

Beyond the Pale Motel By Block, Francesca Lia 2014-09 - St. Martin's Press 9781250033123 Check Our Catalog Maternal, sexy Catt and her beautiful, daring best friend Bree are hairdressers at an L.A. salon called Head Hunter, and work out at a gym called Body Farm. They have over a decade of sobriety behind them and are getting close to living the lives they've always wanted. But when Catt's husband, Dash, leaves her, and then her neighbor is brutally murdered, possibly by a man being called the …More

Queen of Hearts By Bowen, Rhys 2014-08 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425260364 Check Our Catalog "Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal--but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene".".." My mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again--which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie …More

I'll Find You By Bush, Nancy 2014-06 - Zebra 9781420134629 Check Our Catalog Callie Cantrell has only fragmented memories of the car accident that killed her husband and son. One year later, she's still trying to start over, yet she can't shake her unease. Especially when former LA cop West Laughlin barges into her life, searching for his young nephew. At first he thinks Callie's lying about who she is and what she knows. But soon it's clear that Callie and West are linked …More

The Cartel's Daughter By Carmine, D. D. 2010-06 - Triple Crown Publications 9780982588857 Check Our Catalog There's a gruesome drug way going on in the Caribbean between the Haitian government and the largest Columbian drug cartel that's ever existed. Led by a ruthless and calculating leader known as El Plaga, the cartel will stop at nothing to get what it wants. The bloody war is claiming many Haitian lives as well as Columbian. As the Columbian cartel tries to convince the Haitian government to …More

Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel By Child, Lee 2014-09 - Delacorte Press 9780804178747 Check Our Catalog Jack Reacher returns in the latest fast-moving, action-packed, suspenseful book from #1 "New York Times "bestselling author Lee Child. "You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely, "notes Jack Reacher--and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA. Someone has taken a shot …More

Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot By Coleman, Reed Farrel 2014-09 - Putnam Adult 9780399169458 Check Our Catalog "Coleman keeps the characters and the somber atmosphere but makes the book his own stylistically." --"Booklist" "Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series." It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still longer since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a major league baseball career. When Jesse is …More

Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot By Coleman, Reed Farrel 2014-09 - Thorndike Press 9781410471390 Check Our Catalog Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the "New York Times"-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still longer since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a major league baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team at a hip New York city hotel, he is forced to grapple with his memories …More

A Dancer in the Dust By Cook, Thomas H. 2014-08 - Mysterious Press 9780802122728 Check Our Catalog Twenty years ago, Ray Campbell, now a cautious risk-management consultant, was a well-intentioned aid worker dedicated to improving conditions in Lubanda, a newly independent African country. He is forced to reconsider that year of living dangerously when a friend from his time in Lubanda is found murdered in a New York alley. Signs suggest that this most recent tragedy is rooted in the far more …More

To Dwell in Darkness By Crombie, Deborah 2014-09 - William Morrow & Company 9780062271600 Check Our Catalog In the tradition of Elizabeth George, Louise Penny, and P. D. James, New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie delivers a powerful tale of intrigue, betrayal, and lies that will plunge married London detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James into the unspeakable darkness that lies at the heart of murder. Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard …More

Perfidia By Ellroy, James 2014-09 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307956996 Check Our Catalog From "one of the great American writers of our time" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review")-a brilliant crime/historical novel, and his largest, most accessible novel yet: a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of …More

Dark Curse By Feehan, Christine 2008-09 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425223437 Check Our Catalog Nicolas De La Cruz has returned to the Carpathian Mountains--his homeland--on orders from his eldest brother, Zacarias, to bring news of a conspiracy to the prince of their people. There his path collides with that of Lara Calladine in an explosive adventure that rocks the Carpathian world. …More

Dark Wolf By Feehan, Christine 2014-01 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425270790 Check Our Catalog #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Christine Feehan now delivers her most eagerly awaited novel of all--ten years in the making--in the "the erotic, gripping series that has defined an entire genre" (J. R. Ward). …More

Dark Peril By Feehan, Christine 2010-08 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425236598 Check Our Catalog Dominic of the Dragonseeker Carpathians is on a desperate mission, in the very heart of enemy territory. Solange Sangria is one of the last jaguar people. She has long been fighting to save women who are able to shift from the hands of the man who slaughtered her family. They are two warriors who have lived their lives alone. Now, at the end of their time, they find each other, a complication …More

Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy By Follett, Ken 2014-09 - Dutton Books 9780525953098 Check Our Catalog Ken Follett's Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five intertwined families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. It has been called "potent, engrossing" ("Publishers Weekly") and "truly epic" ("Huffington Post"). "USA Today "said, "You actually feel like you're there." "Edge of Eternity," the finale, covers one of the most …More

The Secret Place By French, Tana 2014-09 - Viking Books 9780670026326 Check Our Catalog The sensational new novel from "one of the most talented crime writers alive" ("The Washington Post") The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption saysI KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder …More

A Breath of Snow and Ashes By Gabaldon, Diana 2005-09 - Delacorte Press 9780385324168 Check Our Catalog Awards: Quill Awards (2006) BookPage Notable Title Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire. …More

Under the Knife By Gerritsen, Tess 2014-09 - Severn House Publishers 9780727884152 Check Our Catalog From a former physician described as "the new queen of medical suspense" ("Romantic Times") comes the story of a doctor who must defend her reputation when a patient under her care and a nurse die after a routine operation. When another hospital worker turns up dead, and Kate begins to piece together the facts, she must save not only her career, but her life. …More

Something Borrowed By Giffin, Emily 2005-04 - Griffin 9780312321192 Check Our Catalog Everyone is raving about Emily Giffin and "Something Borrowed"! "Emily Giffin brings a fresh, new voice to women's fiction. "Something Borrowed" is a deftly written and convincing tale of a friendship gone comically---and at times poignantly---awry." - Meg Cabot, author of "The Boy Next Door" and "The Princess Diaries" ""Something Borrowed" is a winner; it has rare emotional depth. In …More

Severed Souls By Goodkind, Terry 2014-08 - Tor Books 9780765327741 Check Our Catalog From the far reaches of the D'Haran Empire, Bishop Hannis Arc and the ancient Emperor Sulachan lead a vast horde of Shun-Tuk and other depraved "half-people" into the Empire's heart, raising an army of the dead in order to threaten the world of the living. Meanwhile, far from home, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell must defend themselves and their followers from a series of terrifying threats, …More