New Fiction at HPL

Haunted By Patterson, James Author Born, James O. 2017-09 - Little Brown and Company 9780316273978 Check Our Catalog Detective Michael Bennett and his family are about to be haunted... by a father's worst nightmare--the signs he should have seen and a son's desperate cry for help. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy lesser families, the Bennetts escape New York for a much-needed vacation. An idyllic country town in the Maine woods is haunted... by an epidemic emptying its streets …More

The Medical Examiner By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2017-08 - Bookshots 9780316504829 Check Our Catalog A #1 New York Times Bestseller A #1 USA Today Bestseller Two bodies arrived at the morgue--one was still breathing. A woman checks into a hotel room and entertains a man who is not her husband. A shooter blows away the lover and wounds the millionairess, leaving her for dead. Is it the perfect case for the Women's Murder Club--or …More

The Moores Are Missing By Patterson, James 2017-07 - Grand Central Publishing 9781478971634 Check Our Catalog From the world's #1 bestselling writer - 3 pulse-pounding novels in one book THE MOORES ARE MISSING with Loren D. Estleman: The Moore family just vanished from their home without telling a soul. A last-minute vacation? A kidnapping? A run for their lives? You'll never see the truth coming. THE HOUSEWIFE with Sam Hawken: Maggie Denning is a former …More

George and Lizzie By Pearl, Nancy 2017-09 - Touchstone Books 9781501162893 Check Our Catalog " A]n homage to true love, painful childhood experiences, and emotional scars that last a lifetime. It's a story of forgiveness, especially for one's self....Extraordinary." --The Washington Post From "America's librarian" and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotionally riveting debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie have …More

Under a Pole Star By Penney, Stef 2017-09 - Quercus Books 9781681441177 Check Our Catalog A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve, falling in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain and forging lifelong bonds with the Inuit people who have carved out an existence on its icy plains. She sets out to become a scientist and polar explorer, despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world, and in 1892, her …More

Once a Rebel By Putney, Mary Jo 2017-05 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781496703521 Check Our Catalog As Washington burns, Callista Brooke is trapped in the battle between her native England and her adopted homeland. She is on the verge of losing everything, including her life, when a handsome Englishman cuts through the violent crowd to claim that she is his. Callie falls into her protector's arms, recognizing that he is no stranger, but the boy she'd once loved, a lifetime ago. Lord …More

The Amber Shadows By Ribchester, Lucy 2017-08 - Pegasus Books 9781681774480 Check Our Catalog As reports begin filtering into Bletchley Park about the stolen loot, Honey receives a mysterious package, hand-delivered from a man that she has never seen before who claims that he works at the Park as well. The package is postmarked from Russia, and inside is a small piece of amber. It is just the first of several such packages, and when she examines them together she realizes that someone, …More

Secrets in Death By Robb, J. D. 2017-09 - Wheeler Publishing Large Print 9781432841584 Check Our Catalog A new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced. The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it's not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that's …More

I'll Always Have You: Once More with Feeling\Reflections By Roberts, Nora 2017-07 - Silhouette Books 9780373282333 Check Our Catalog Two fan-favorite stories about learning to live...and love on your own terms Once More with Feeling Musician Raven Williams was devastated when Brandon Carstairs broke her heart five years ago. Now he's back, asking for her help cowriting the score for a major film--an opportunity she can't refuse. Despite the undeniable heat between them, Raven vows to keep …More

Monster in the Closet By Rose, Karen 2017-08 - Berkley Books 9780399586767 Check Our Catalog The New York Times bestselling author of Every Dark Corner returns to Baltimore, where a father-daughter reunion puts innocent victims in the sights of a stone-cold killer... Baltimore PI Clay Maynard routinely locates missing children for clients, but his own daughter--stolen by his ex-wife--has eluded him for years. Until she turns up right under his nose... Since …More

Best Day Ever: A Psychological Thriller By Rouda, Kaira 2017-09 - Graydon House 9781525811401 Check Our Catalog "I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting with confidence. Today will be everything I've promised her...and more..."Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in a wealthy suburb. And he's the perfect husband: breadwinner, protector, provider. That's why …More

The Golden House By Rushdie, Salman 2017-09 - Random House 9780399592805 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of "the Gardens," …More

Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral By Russell, Mary Doria 2015-03 - Ecco Press 9780062198761 Check Our Catalog Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. A deeply divided nation. Vicious …More

Final Girls By Sager, Riley 2017-07 - Dutton Books 9781101985366 Check Our Catalog THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "The first great thriller of 2017 is here: Final Girls, by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl, you'll like this."--Stephen King Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a …More

Exposed By Scottoline, Lisa 2017-09 - Wheeler Publishing Large Print 9781432840891 Check Our Catalog "Plot twists aplenty raise the stakes." --People Magazine A BATTLE FOR JUSTICE PITS PARTNER AGAINST PARTNER... Mary DiNunzio wants to represent her old friend Simon Pensiera, a sales rep who was wrongly fired by his company, but her partner Bennie Rosato represents the parent company. When she confronts Mary, explaining this is a conflict of interest, an epic battle of wills …More

Sourdough By Sloan, Robin 2017-09 - MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux 9780374203108 Check Our Catalog In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood …More

Less Than a Treason By Stabenow, Dana 2017-05 - Head of Zeus 9781786695697 Check Our Catalog Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5'1" tall, carrires a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine--and she needs to be, to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her. And throw their worst the wilds have: …More

My Absolute Darling By Tallent, Gabriel 2017-08 - Riverhead Books 9780735211179 Check Our Catalog INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Impossible to put down." --NPR "A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping." --The Washington Post "The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." --Stephen King …More

A Casualty of War: A Bess Crawford Mystery By Todd, Charles 2017-09 - William Morrow & Company 9780062678782 Check Our Catalog From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed it--officers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford. Though the Great War is nearing its end, the fighting rages on. While waiting for transport back to her post, Bess Crawford meets Captain Alan Travis from the island of …More

Sisters By Tuck, Lily 2017-09 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780802127112 Check Our Catalog "Tuck's prose is elegant." -- New York Times Book Review Lily Tuck's critically-lauded, bestselling I Married You for Happiness was hailed by the Boston Globe as "an artfully crafted still life of one couple's marriage." In her singular new novel Sisters, Tuck gives a very different portrait of marital life, exposing the intricacies and scandals of a new …More

Sing, Unburied, Sing By Ward, Jesmyn 2017-09 - Scribner Book Company 9781501126062 Check Our Catalog Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is story--the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual and song...Ward's writing throbs with life, grief, and love, and this book is the kind that makes …More

No One Is Coming to Save Us By Watts, Stephanie Powell 2017-04 - Ecco Press 9780062472984 Check Our Catalog *THE INAUGURAL SARAH JESSICA PARKER PICK FOR BOOK CLUB CENTRAL* CHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BY The Wall Street Journal - The Washington Post - The Seattle Times NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017 BY …More

The Countess of Prague: Book One By Weeks, Stephen 2017-09 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781464208423 Check Our Catalog The Countess of Prague is the wonderfully exciting introduction to Beatrice von Falklenburg, known to her intimates as Trixie, who will lead us from Prague through Europe and occasionally beyond on a ten-book set of investigations that begins in 1904 and finishes in 1914. The assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo that summer effectively ended the Old Europe into which she was born to …More

A Summer of Firsts: The Goodbye Quilt\First Time in Forever By Wiggs, Susan Author Morgan, Sarah 2017-07 - Mira Books 9780778318019 Check Our Catalog changes lead to fresh starts and new connections in these two emotional tales The Goodbye Quilt--Susan Wiggs Linda Davis is driving her daughter, Molly, across the country to start college. As her only child readies for this big change, Linda is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Who will she be when she is no longer needed in her role as …More

Misadventures of a City Girl By Wild, Meredith Author Bliss, Chelle 2017-09 - Waterhouse Press 9781943893409 Check Our Catalog Fresh off a divorce from a Hollywood hotshot, Madison Atwood needs an escape. With the paparazzi fresh on her heels and her love life splashed on every tabloid, she runs away to a swanky retreat in Northern California. Avalon Springs is the mountainside haven she needs to find herself again. Luke Dawson lives off the grid, preferring solitude to society. When he finds a beautiful woman …More

What to read while waiting for...

Fairytale By Steel, Danielle 2017-10 - Delacorte Press 9781101884065 Check Our Catalog A wonderful, beautifully told tale from America's favorite novelist, Fairytale is a captivating example of the truths that will always withstand even the darkest storms, and a reminder that sometimes fairytales do come true, and good prevails over evil in the end. Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her …More

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

Summer in Napa By Adair, Marina 2013-05 - Montlake Romance 9781611099737 Check Our Catalog Now a Hallmark Channel original movie. When Alexis "Lexi" Moreau caught her husband, Jeff, sampling the sous-chef's more intimate wares in their New York restaurant, she ran--all the way back to her hometown of St. Helena, California. Six months later, Lexi has no husband and no restaurant. But she does have a three-step plan: First, convert her grandmother's bakery into her dream …More

The Stepmother By Diamond, Diana Narrated by Burney, Susanna Read by Birney, Susannah 2005-07 - Audiogo 9780792736912 Check Our Catalog When Steven Armstrong tells his children he has fallen in love, he expects them to be happy that his life as a lonely, 65-year-old widower is over. Instead their father's intended 33-year-old personal trainer Charlene Hendricks is exactly the kind of woman they fear: a rival for their father's fortune. An attack is made on her life; then a second attack backfires and mistakenly kills her husband. …More

The Second Bride By Swartz, Katharine 2017-11 - Lion Fiction 9781782642121 Check Our Catalog Ellen Tyson's idyllic village life is derailed when Annabelle moves in. The teenage daughter from her husband's first marriage, Annabelle is seventeen, surly, and defiant. And she has no interest in being part of her father's second family. When a death certificate from the 1870s, hidden beneath the floorboards of their attic, is discovered during a renovation, Ellen tries to use it as a …More

Upcoming events at HPL

Computer Class-Intro to Powerpoint 10:30 am- 12:00 pm, Saturday, October 21 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes on Saturdays from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-8000 or visit HPL Events to register.  Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library. Powerpoint.  Learn how to create a slide show.

MINECRAFT 2:00 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 Grab your (virtual) bow and arrows and take out as many Minecraft chickens as you can!. Please register online at hackleylibrary.org, or by phone at 231-722-8014.

Tips and Tricks for Phones and Tablets 1:00 pm, Wednesday, October 25 Having trouble with your tablet? Flustered by your phone? Bring it to HPL on Wednesdays at 1:00 to get tech help. Walk ins welcome.

STORYTIME! 10:30 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 Come to the Hackley Public Library for Halloween-themed story and activity fun! Kids and grownu-ups are welcome to wear their costumes.

Computer Class-YouTube 10:30 am - 12:00  pm, Saturday, October 28 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes on Saturdays from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-8000  to register or go to our online calendar.  Registration opens 1 month before the class.  Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library. Youtube:  Learn what YouTube is, how to search for videos, and how to save them for later.

MONTHLY MAKERS - SQUISHY CIRCUITS 2:00 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 Get hands on with electricity! Make circuits out of battery packs, LEDs, and balls of Playdoh. Ready to try something more advanced? Design your own Playdoh animals with light-up eyes!

Humans vs Zombies 8:00 pm, Monday, October 30 Humans vs. Zombies is a game of tag played at schools, camps, neighborhoods, libraries, and conventions around the world.  Human players must remain vigilant and defend themselves with socks and dart blasters to avoid being tagged by a growing zombie horde. We will meet in the lower level meeting rooms beginning at 7:30 pm to go over the rules and pick the Original Zombie.  The Library will be locked up at 8:00 pm, and the game will start shortly afterwards.   Bring a bandana and either a foam dart blaster or sock (the dart blaster must look like a toy-no realistic looking weapons will be allowed). The game will run about 90 minutes.  Participants must be at least 16 years old.  Attendance limited to the first 75 people.  Check our HVZ website http://hvzsource.com/hackleypl/ for more information and to pre-register (does not necessarily save a spot in the game.) Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Tips and Tricks for Phones and Tablets 1:00 - 2:00 pm, Wednesday, November 1 Having trouble with your tablet? Flustered by your phone? Bring it to HPL on Wednesdays at 1:00 to get tech help. Walk ins welcome.

Computer Class-Intro to Computers 10:30 am- 12:00 pm, Saturday, November 4 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes on Saturdays from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-8000 or visit HPL Events to register. Registeration opens one month before the class date. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library. Intro to Computers:  Intro to computers will offer an introduction to what a computer is and how to use it.  It is designed for beginners with little or no knowledge of computers.  Topics covered will include an explanation of Windows and files, how to turn on a computer, and how to use the mouse.

NERF! 11:00 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Back by popular demand! Players will run, dodge, and dive as they try to outwit and out-blast the competition during NERF Mobile Games! Weather permitting this event will take place on the lawn of Hackley Administraton Building. In case of rain, NERF will take place at Hackley Public Library, upstairs in the Youth Services Department.

Book review-Sourdough by Robin Sloan

A few years ago I read Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore  by Robin Sloan.  It was a really fun book with a touch of magical realism, which I enjoy.  When I saw that Sloan had a second book out, I immediately placed a hold on it! Sourdough is the story of Lois Clary, a 20 something engineer.  She recently moved from Michigan (!) to the San Francisco area to work at a robotics company.  The hours are brutal so she hasn't had time to make new friends-she barely has time to eat!  One day she comes home to find a flyer for a delivery service.  They only have 2 or 3 things on the menu, but she decides to give it a go.  The food is the ultimate comfort food, so she orders everyday and gets to know the brothers who are the owners and only employees.  They suddenly have to leave due to visa issues, so they give her their sourdough starter and give her some basic instructions on how to keep it alive.  And alive it is!  There aren't many books that have a food item as a main character, but this one sure does. I enjoyed this book very much.  There's technology (the robots that Lois is working on), food, character growth, mystery, and that sourdough.  It is light on the surface, but looks at some heady issues as well, but overall a fun read.

Sourdough By Sloan, Robin 2017-09 - MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux 9780374203108 Check Our Catalog In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood …More

Complimentary Reads

Kitchens of the Great Midwest By Stradal, J. Ryan 2015-07 - Pamela Dorman Books 9780525429142 Check Our Catalog "A sweet and savory treat." --People "An impressive feat of narrative jujitsu . . . that keeps readers turning the pages too fast to realize just how ingenious they are."--The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Pick Kitchens of the Great Midwest is a novel about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation palate who becomes…More

Chocolat By Harris, Joanne 2000-01 - Penguin Books 9780140282030 Check Our Catalog When beautiful, unmarried Vianne Rocher sweeps into the pinched little French town of Lansquenet on the heels of the carnival and opens a gem of a chocolate shop across the square from the church, she begins to wreak havoc with the town's Lenten vows. Her uncanny ability to perceive her customer's private discontents and alleviate them with just the right confection coaxes the villagers to abandon …More

The Night Circus By Morgenstern, Erin 2011-09 - Doubleday Books 9780385534635 Check Our Catalog Awards: Alex Awards (2012), Locus Awards (2012), Nutmeg Book Award (2014) To enter the black-and-white-striped tents of Le Cirque des Reves is to enter a world where objects really do turn into birds and people really do disappear. Even though visitors believe the performances are all illusion, they are obsessively drawn to this extraordinary night circus. Those who run and perform in the circus are its lifeblood. Marco Alisdair runs the operation from London as …More

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Origin By Brown, Dan 2017-10 - Doubleday Books 9780385514231 Check Our Catalog Whoever You Are. Whatever You Believe. Everything Is About To Change. The stunningly inventive new novel from the world's most popular thriller writer Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a …More

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

Chain of Events By Olsson, Fredrik T. 2014-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316335003 Check Our Catalog A stunning debut thriller about a code that threatens humanity - and the only man can crack it. William Sandberg, once a well-respected military cryptologist pursuing cutting-edge research, is a ruined man. His career is in shambles, his marriage is over, and he's succumbed to a dark depression. But William's talents haven't gone unnoticed. A nameless, …More

The Devil Colony: A SIGMA Force Novel By Rollins, James 2011-06 - William Morrow & Company 9780061784781 Check Our Catalog "Every James Rollins delivers mach-speed mayhem; throat-clutching suspense; high-style adventure; and a terrific story told terrifically. He makes the rest us look bad." --Steve Berry, author of The Emperor's Tomb "This guy doesn't write novels--he builds roller coasters." --Booklist New York Times bestselling thrill-master James Rollins is back with The Devil …More