Staff Picks

We like to read, and we like to share what we read! This is a list of recent favorites. STAFF PICKS

Garden for the Blind By Fordon, Kelly 2015-04 - Wayne State University Press 9780814341049 Check Our Catalog Awards: Michigan Notable Books (2016) In "Garden for the Blind, "trouble lurks just outside the door for Kelly Fordon's diverse yet interdependent characters. As a young girl growing up in an affluent suburb bordering Detroit, Alice Townley witnesses a tragic accident at her parents' lavish party. In the years that follow, Alice is left mostly in the care of the household staff, free to forge friendships with other pampered and …More

Scrapper By Bell, Matt 2015-09 - Soho Press 9781616955212 Check Our Catalog Awards: Michigan Notable Books (2016) For fans of "The Dog Stars" and "Station Eleven," "Scrapper" traces one man's desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit. "Has the feel of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" set in present-day Motor City... powerful." "Publishers Weekly" Detroit has descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part …More

Aya By Abouet, Marguerite Illustrator Oubrerie, Clement 2007-02 - Drawn & Quarterly 9781894937900 Check Our Catalog Awards: Quill Awards (2007) Nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors star in this breezy and wryly funny story of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yopougon, a.k.a. Yop City. Full color. Young adult. …More

Love of the Game By Wilde, Lori 2016-04 - Avon Books 9780062311436 Check Our Catalog A sexy sports superstar discovers his body isn't the only thing that needs healing in this newest Stardust, Texas novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde. With major league good looks and talent, Dallas Gunslingers relief pitcher Axel Richmond was living the good life. Even if the roar of the crowd could never distract him from the loss of his young son. But now with an …More

Best of My Love By Mallery, Susan 2016-04 - Harlequin Books 9780373789191 Check Our Catalog "An irresistible new love story from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of the Fool's Gold series, set in a town "Library Journal" calls "so appealing, readers will want to start scoping out real estate."" To overcome her painful past, baker Shelby Gilmore goes on the hunt for a frienda "male" friendto convince her stubborn psyche that men can be trusted. But where in a town as …More

Shadow Play: An Eve Duncan Novel By Johansen, Iris 2015-09 - St. Martin's Press 9781250020109 Check Our Catalog Eve Duncan: the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a girl whose body has …More

Hide Away By Johansen, Iris 2016-04 - St. Martin's Press 9781250075826 Check Our Catalog DARK SECRETS World-famous forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has landed in a well-guarded hospital room in Carmel, California. But hidden danger looms for Eve, her beloved Joe Quinn, and Cara Delaney, the young girl they've both sworn to protect. With Cara's enemies on the move, Eve has no choice but to flee the hospital no matter what the doctors say. Her protective instincts in full …More

The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible By Tigay, Chanan 2016-04 - Ecco Press 9780062206411 Check Our Catalog A gripping account of one man's quest to find the world's oldest bible, and to solve the riddle of the man accused of forging it In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira archaeological treasure hunter, inveterate social climber, and denizen of Jerusalem's bustling marketplace arrived unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the world's oldest Bible scroll. Written centuries …More

Wit's End By Fowler, Karen Joy 2008-05 - Putnam Adult 9780399154751 Check Our Catalog The author of The Jane Austen Book Club presents another highly inventive novel, one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the truth from fiction. …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

Pax By Pennypacker, Sara Illustrator Klassen, Jon 2016-02 - Balzer & Bray/Harperteen 9780062377012 Check Our Catalog From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come. Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and …More

What to read while waiting for...

15th Affair By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2016-05 - Little Brown and Company 9780316407076 Check Our Catalog Detective Lindsay Boxer chases an elusive suspect...her husband. As she settles into motherhood and a happy marriage, Lindsay Boxer thinks she has found domestic bliss. But when a beautiful, alluring blonde woman with links to the CIA disappears from the scene of a brutal murder at a downtown luxury hotel, Lindsay's life begins to unravel. Before she can track down the woman for …More

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

Night Work By King, Laurie R. 2000-11 - Bantam Books 9780553578256 Check Our Catalog Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and frail -- and has an airtight alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until a second body turns up -- also zapped, cuffed, and …More

Fall from Grace By Phillips, Clyde 2013-08 - Thomas & Mercer 9781611098129 Check Our Catalog Homicide inspector Jane Candiotti is assigned to investigate the brutal killing of socialite Jenna Perry and is quickly pulled into the dark, disturbing case--and into a whirlwind relationship with Jenna's estranged husband, who happens to be the prime suspect. …More

Damage By Lescroart, John 2012-01 - Signet Book 9780451235428 Check Our Catalog From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Treasure Hunt" and "A Plagueof Secrets" comes an explosive look at the seductive power of revenge and theterrible costs of justice. Available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

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Book Review-Little Paris Bookshop

Books about books, libraries, or  bookstores always interest me, so I just had to read The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. The story starts out in Paris.  Jean Perdu runs a bookstore on a converted barge on the Seine.  He calls himself a literary apothecary because he can tell, after asking a few questions, just the book that a person needs at that point in their life.  Unfortunately, he can not do the same for himself.  We learn that he had a great love, Manon, who suddenly left him one day.  She left a note, but fearing what it would say he never read it and then shut himself off from any other relationship. One day, a new woman moves into his apartment building.  Her husband decided he needed a newer model, so she is bereft.  The landlady asks M. Perdu to loan Catherine some furniture.  In order to do so, he must open up the room he'd blocked off when Manon left.  He gives a table to Catherine, but has to leave it outside her door.  He eventually meets her and they hit it off.  Catherine finds the letter that Manon left (she doesn't read it) and gives it to M. Perdu.  He finally reads it and discovers it is not at all what he thought. While on his boat/store shortly afterwards he decides to set sail to the south of France.  A moody first novelist, who is working on a second book after a huge hit with the first, joins him.  Together they take a journey of discovery. I liked this book because they story was told slowly and gently.  The characters were very interesting and you get to care about them.  Sometimes the word choice was a bit odd, but it was translated from German, so it may be a translation issue.  I would recommend this to people who like character driven books, books set in France, or books about personal discovery.

Complimentary Reads

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper By Patrick, Phaedra 2016-05 - Mira Books 9780778319337 Check Our Catalog In this poignant and curiously charming debut, a lovable widower embarks on a life-changing adventure Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on …More

The Atomic Weight of Love By Church, Elizabeth J. 2016-05 - Algonquin Books 9781616204846 Check Our Catalog In the spirit of "The Aviator's Wife" and "Loving Frank, " this resonant debut spans the years from World War II through the Vietnam War to tell the story of a woman whose scientific ambition is caught up in her relationships with two very different men. For Meridian Wallace--and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s--being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, …More

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand By Simonson, Helen 2010-07 - Thorndike Press 9781410427526 Check Our Catalog Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside is filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and contains a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of readers' own families. Their interactions are both hilarious and heartbreaking. …More

New Books at HPL

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Sizzling Sixteen By Evanovich, Janet 2010-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312383305 Check Our Catalog This 16th Stephanie Plum adventure will wear the blockbuster crown for grand scale fun, it's a surefire bet. Someone wants to kill Vinnie, but who? The list is long, and it's up to Stephanie to whittle it down to one. Typical Stephanie Plum, fast read, popcorn for the brain! …More

Terrible Virtue By Feldman, Ellen 2016-03 - Harper 9780062407559 Check Our Catalog In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal cost, shaped the sexual landscape we inhabit today. The daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free …More

Long Man By Greene, Amy 2014-02 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307593436 Check Our Catalog Awards: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (2015), SIBA Book Award (2015), Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction (2014) In the summer of 1936, the TVA plans to build a dam in a Tennessee town at the same time a little girl goes missing--possibly stolen by a drifter determined to blow up the dam. …More

Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House By Grissom, Kathleen 2016-04 - Simon & Schuster 9781476748443 Check Our Catalog A novel of family and long-buried secrets along the treacherous Underground Railroad. The author of the "New York Times" bestseller and beloved book club favorite "The Kitchen House "continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. Published in …More

The Excellent Lombards By Hamilton, Jane 2016-04 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455564224 Check Our Catalog From the internationally bestselling author of "The Book of Ruth "and "A Map of the World, "a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic...a book you will read and reread." Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days …More

The Ancient Minstrel: Novellas By Harrison, Jim 2016-03 - Grove Press 9780802124562 Check Our Catalog Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years . . . Harrison] remains at the height of his powers. Dwight Garner, "The New York Times" on "The River Swimmer" "New York Times" bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In "The Ancient Minstrel," Harrison delivers three novellas that …More

Girls from Da Hood 8 By Hernandez, Treasure Author Weber, Natalie 2016-04 - Urban Books 9781622869930 Check Our Catalog Gabby Davenport spent the first fifteen years of her life in the suburbs, living a privileged and sheltered existence. When her mother dies unexpectedly, she is forced to move from her middle class neighborhood into Cumberland Projects in Brooklyn. Gabby's life will never be the same. Mika, the queen bee of the projects, doesn't appreciate the arrival of this private-school good girl. …More

Heartbreaker By Howard, Linda 2016-03 - Severn House Publishers 9780727885685 Check Our Catalog "Michelle Cabot has inherited her father's Florida cattle ranch - and a mountain of debt." To make matters worse, a huge chunk of that debt is owed to the neighbouring rancher, her nemesis John Rafferty. Nothing shocks Rafferty more than discovering that the spoiled, pampered rich girl he once despised is painstakingly trying to run the Cabot ranch herself, working the land …More

The Evening Chorus By Humphreys, Helen 2015-02 - Mariner Books 9780544348691 Check Our Catalog Awards: Governor General's Literary Awards (2015) "The Evening Chorus" serenades people brutally marked by war, yet enduring to live and relish the tiny pleasures of another day. With her trademark prose exquisitely limpid Humphreys convinces us of the birdlike strength of the powerless. Emma Donoghue Downed during his first mission, James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide the time, he studies a nest of redstarts at the edge of …More

Revenge By Jackson, Lisa 2016-02 - Zebra 9781420136036 Check Our Catalog Dear Reader, In the early 1990s, I visited eastern Oregon for the first time. Inspired by its breathtaking scenery, I wrote "Love Letters," a trilogy about a town called Rimrock--whose secrets come to light when the patriarch of its wealthiest family is murdered. Now here it is, collected in one volume, with a new cover, and a new title, "Revenge" Over the years, Jonah …More

First Fix Your Alibi: British Police Procedural By James, Bill 2016-04 - Creme de La Crime 9781780290829 Check Our Catalog "When a major drugs dealer seeks vengeance for the death of his family, policemen Harpur and Iles must do all they can to prevent a bloodbath" Following the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him. Having heard of the movie Strangers on a Train, in which two men agree to …More

Hide Away By Johansen, Iris 2016-04 - St. Martin's Press 9781250075826 Check Our Catalog DARK SECRETS World-famous forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has landed in a well-guarded hospital room in Carmel, California. But hidden danger looms for Eve, her beloved Joe Quinn, and Cara Delaney, the young girl they've both sworn to protect. With Cara's enemies on the move, Eve has no choice but to flee the hospital no matter what the doctors say. Her protective instincts in full …More

The Other Side of Silence By Kerr, Philip 2016-03 - Marian Wood Books/Putnam 9780399177040 Check Our Catalog From "New York Times" bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by "The Daily Beast" as the best crime novels around today. Once I'd been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent. Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down …More

Trife Life 2 Lavish By King, Deja 2009-02 - King Productions 9780975581179 Check Our Catalog Tierra Thompson has a chip on her shoulder and an ax to grind. She was born in the hood, and at twenty-one she's grown tired of calling it home. After hustling and being hustled by the dealers around the way, the hard truth is setting in and Tierra has to decide if she's willing to sell her soul to escape the grittiness of the streets. Nichelle Martin has been Tierra's best friend since …More

The Murder of Mary Russell: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes By King, Laurie R. 2016-04 - Bantam 9780804177900 Check Our Catalog Laurie R. King's bestselling Mary Russell Sherlock Holmes series weaves rich historical detail and provocative themes with intriguing characters and enthralling suspense. Russell and Holmes have become one of modern literature's most beloved teams. But does this adventure end it all? Mary Russell is used to dark secrets her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock …More

Under the Dome By King, Stephen 2009-11 - Scribner Book Company 9781439148501 Check Our Catalog Awards: Colorado Blue Spruce Award (2011) On a beautiful fall day, the town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one knows what this barrier is and when--or if--it will go away. …More

Battlestorm By Krinard, Susan 2016-03 - Tor Books 9780765332103 Check Our Catalog "Battlestorm" an all-new urban fantasy from "New York Times" bestselling author Susan Krinard, author of "Mist "and "Black Ice." Centuries ago, the Norse gods and goddesses fought their Last Battle with the trickster god Loki and his frost giants. All were believed lost, except for a few survivors...including the Valkyrie Mist, forgotten daughter of the goddess Freya. But the battle isn't …More

Murder at the 42nd Street Library: A Mystery By Lehane, Con 2016-04 - Minotaur Books 9781250009968 Check Our Catalog This first book in an irresistible new series introduces librarian and reluctant sleuth Raymond Ambler, a doggedly curious fellow who uncovers murderous secrets hidden behind the majestic marble facade of New York City's landmark 42nd Street Library. "Murder at the 42nd Street Library" follows Ambler and his partners in crime-solving as they track down a killer, shining a light on the dark …More

Wildfire in His Arms By Lindsey, Johanna 2015-06 - Gallery Books 9781501105418 Check Our Catalog #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Johanna Lindsey's passionate new tale about a gunfighter running from his past who finds his future when he escorts a beautiful outlaw to her hanging. Featuring one of Lindsey's most intriguing heroes: the dangerous and mysterious Degan Grant from "One Heart to Win." With his work in Montana completed now that the Callahan-Warren feud has ended in …More

Before the Wind By Lynch, Jim 2016-04 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307958983 Check Our Catalog Following "The Highest Tide, Border Songs, "and "Truth Like the Sun, "Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion." Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work …More

The Man Who Smiled By Mankell, Henning Translator Thompson, Laurie 2006-09 - New Press 9781565849938 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title The long-awaited fourth mystery in the bestselling Kurt Wallander series finds the detective deep in crisis after killing a man in the line of duty. Vowing to quit the police force, he instead becomes involved in solving a friend's murder. …More

Titans By Meacham, Leila 2016-04 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455533831 Check Our Catalog A sweeping new drama from the beloved, bestselling author of "Roses." Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable …More

Burning Down the House By Mendelsohn, Jane 2016-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781101875452 Check Our Catalog It begins with a child . . . So opens Jane Mendelsohn's powerful, riveting new novel. A classic family tale colliding with the twenty-first century, "Burning Down the House" tells the story of two girls. Neva, from the mountains of Russia, was sold into the sex trade at the age of ten; Poppy is the adopted daughter of Steve, the patriarch of a successful New York real estate clan, the Zanes. She …More