Summer Reading

Welcome to Summer Reading 2011!  At the end of 4 weeks we had 342 people signed up. This week, 25 new people participated and 55 people read 175 books, which brings the totals for the summer to 127 people and 505 books.

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House [With DVD] By Peretti, Frank E. Author Dekker, Ted 2006-04 - Westbow Press 9781595541550 Check Our Catalog From the minds of bestselling suspense authors Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker comes an epic supernatural thriller that gives a new meaning to the phrase "haunted house," as two couples seek refuge from a maniacal killer in an old Alabama house. HPL patron:  A good thriller. …More

Tempted by Fate By Perry, Kate 2010-12 - Forever 9780446564625 Check Our Catalog Willow Tarata is a Guardian who hunts those who prey on the vulnerable. And she's driven by a vengeful goal--find the man who murdered her mother. Yet suddenly Willow's quarry now has "her" on the run--straight into the sights of San Francisco's most dangerous detective. Original.   …More

The Dead and the Gone By Pfeffer, Susan Beth 2008-06 - Harcourt Children's Books 9780152063115 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title With haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage, this powerful novel--a companion to "Life As We Knew It"--explores how a young man takes on unimaginable responsibilities. …More

Life as We Knew It By Pfeffer, Susan Beth 2006-10 - Harcourt Children's Books 9780152058265 Check Our Catalog Winner 2010 Nutmeg Teen Award 2007 Teens' Top Ten Winner BookPage Notable Title When a meteor hits the moon, Miranda must learn to survive the unimaginable . . . …More

This World We Live in By Pfeffer, Susan Beth 2010-04 - Harcourt Children's Books 9780547248042 Check Our Catalog The struggle for survival continues in this heart-wrenching companion to "Life as We Knew It" and "The Dead & The Gone." …More

I, Monster: Serial Killers in Their Own Chilling Words By Philbin, Tom 2011-01 - Prometheus Books 9781616141639 Check Our Catalog Using court transcripts and police interviews, a veteran true-crime and crime-fiction writer has compiled the testimony of 20 infamous serial killers. Read exactly what goes through the dark minds of notorious killers as they commit horrible crimes. HPL patron: This is a disgustingly graphic  book.  One would think the subtitle would leave the readerduly warned, but I was not prepared for how disturbing the minds of these people truly were.  More heartbreaking (for the  victims and those who loved them) and sickening (descriptive) than scary. …More

The Complete Ibs Health and Diet Guide: Includes Nutrition Information, Meal Plans and Over 100 Recipes for Irritable Bowel Syndrome By Raman, Maitreyi Author Sirounis, Angela Author Shrubsole, Jennifer 2011-03 - Robert Rose 9780778802631 Check Our Catalog As many as one in five Americans have symptoms of IBS. HPL patron: I got this book for a relative of mine, so I could possibly help this young man with his health problems, but I found the book a little too technical for me to understand a lot of what the author was putting across.  I liked some of the recipes. …More

Wingshooters By Revoyr, Nina 2011-02 - Akashic Books 9781936070862 Check Our Catalog In Nina Revoyr's best novel to date, the events of 1974 forever change Michelle LeBeau, her town, and her family. HPL patron: Great novel, filled with thoughtful observations on life and deep heartache. …More

The Last Prejudice By Rivera, David, Jr. 2009-04 - Strebor Books 9781593092351 Check Our Catalog …More

Chasing Fire By Roberts, Nora 2011-04 - Putnam Adult 9780399157448 Check Our Catalog Number-one "New York Times"-bestselling author Nora Roberts--America's favorite writer ("The New Yorker")--delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline--men and women who wouldn't know how to live life if it wasn't on the edge. …More

The Chivalrous Rake By Rolls, Elizabeth 2006-06 - Harlequin Books 9780373294046 Check Our Catalog With a broken collarbone, Jack was in no fit mood to have relatives arrive. But the Reverend Dr Bramley and his daughter were penniless, so he couldn't turn them away. When Jack learnt the truth behind their plight, his chivalrous nature took over. Cressida was in need of a husband...but was he in need of a wife? …More

Wagons West Nebraska! By Fuller Ross, Dana Performed by Gigante, Phil 2009-12 - Brilliance Corporation 9781441816672 Check Our Catalog Autumn, 1837. Blazing onward from the eastern shores, to Missouri, the legendary wagon train sent by U.S. President Andrew Jackson has reached the last outpost of civilization. Now five hundred strong, these brave pioneers set a course across the great rolling plains toward the treacherous Rockies, hoping to stake a claim in the American West. Led by their new wagon master a oeWhipa Holt, they must unite as a team if they are to survive, despite their vast differences. For among them is an independent young woman who leaves everything she loves, a black man who dreams of freedom, a Native American who knows the harshness of the landa ]and hundreds of others willing to risk their lives for a new beginning. Set upon by Indians and enemies, nature and fate, this magnificent caravan will face any challenge to make their own destinya "and change the course of history forever. Their story is the story of America. …More

The Catcher in the Rye. By Salinger, J. D. 1951-07 - Little Brown and Company 9780316769532 Check Our Catalog Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. HPL patron: This book is so beautiful lbecause theboy growing up is so scared of his lost youth and you can't help but root for him and hope he sees how good the little things in his life are. …More

Lady Killer By Scottoline, Lisa 2008-02 - Harper 9780060833206 Check Our Catalog A young woman searches for her missing rival from high school--and gets more than she bargained for--in this latest high-octane thriller from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Daddys Girl." HPL patron: I loved it! …More

Blessed By Smith, Cynthia Leitich 2011-01 - Candlewick Press (MA) 9780763643263 Check Our Catalog With a wink and a nod to Bram Stoker, "New York Times"-bestselling author Smith unites the casts of "Tantalize" and "Eternal" in a delicious new dark fantasy. …More

Sweet Hush By Deborah Smith 2003-02 - Little, Brown 0316806501 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title The sorrows and secrets of Hush McGillen's life are as deeply rooted as the famed Sweet Hush apple orchards her family has tended for more than a century. Delivering the warmth, humor, and unforgettable characters that her readers have come to expect, Smith cooks up a passionate, page-turning story about a surprising, unexpected love. HPL patron: Imagine your son runningaway with the President's daughter!  A fun romance and great setting for a way of life-contrast with "the President's" …More

On Hummingbird Wings By Snelling, Lauraine 2011-04 - Faithwords 9780446582117 Check Our Catalog On a mission to restore her hypochondriac mother to health, Gillian Ormsby also sets about reviving her mother's wilted garden to its former glory, enlisting the help of Adam, a handsome man who owns a family gardening business with his father. HPL patron: A novel that will inspire and uplift you.  Of human nature with keen insight and sweet honesty. …More

The Matter of Desire By Paz Soldan, Edmundo Translator Carter, Lisa 2004-04 - Mariner Books 9780618395576 Check Our Catalog Paz Soldan--leading spokesperson for the McOndo literary movement, which embraces an urban vision of American pop culture in today's Latin America--combines elements of political thriller and family mystery with a torrid illicit love affair. HPL patron: This book:  a light illuminating the relationship between Latin America (Bolivia) and US-too little available material-especially afterthis author brings the reader into the experience of a Bolivian born N. American professional-plus a great mystery and ill-fated romance... …More

The Coldest Winter Ever By Sister Souljah 2005-09 - Washington Square Press 9780743270106 Check Our Catalog Now available in a trade paperback edition, Sister Souljah's debut novel about the daughter of a drug lord captures the allure and the danger of Brooklyn's streets. HPL patron: Good book. …More

The Informationist By Stevens, Taylor 2011-03 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9780307717092 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Stevens debuts with a tightly written thriller woven around an uncommon heroine with a knack for putting facts together and coming up with the right answers. HPL patron: Thrilling, intense and hard to put down. …More

Dracula the Un-Dead By Stoker, Dacre Author Holt, Ian 2010-10 - New American Library 9780451230515 Check Our Catalog Written by a direct descendant of Bram Stoker and a well-known Dracula historian, "Dracula: The Un-Dead" is a bone-chilling sequel based on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition. HPL patron: I love any book that has to do with Dracula.  This book was awesome. …More

The Last Siege By Stroud, Jonathan 2006-10 - Miramax Books 9781423101079 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Uses big world tell a lot about castles and a very good long story. …More

Cheaper to Keep Her By Unique 2010-12 - K.S. Publications 9780984529032 Check Our Catalog Lynise Carter was just your ordinary bartender at the Magic City strip club until this heavy hitter by the name of Duke Carrington walked in one night and swept her off her feet. He was known around town as a big time gambler and loan shark. The forty-something year old sugar daddy was also known to spare no expense when he had the right woman in his company, which made him the man of her dreams. Over the course of a few months, Duke became infatuated with Lynise and asked her to quit her job and move into one of the condos he owed. "Let me take care of you," he insisted. Lynise wasn't a college graduate but she had street smarts and she learned quickly that Duke was a very charismatic and persuasive man who got what he wanted, no matter the cost. Lynise got everything she want too. And while she was getting used to the red carpet treatment, Duke was making plans to replace her with another chick. Little did he know, Lynise wasn't going to let him go that easy. So, he will find out if it would've been Cheaper to Keep Her. HPL patron: Kiki has done it again.  I have to read number two.  I just hope that "Lynsie" gets her revenge. …More

HPL's New Books

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

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Restless Spirit By Tooley, S. D. 2011-04 - Full Moon Publishing 9780982035290 Check Our Catalog Seventeen years ago Catherine DeMarco spent one hot July night where she shouldn't have been doing something she shouldn't have been doing. This was a fatal mistake. Now Jimmy Taggart is sitting on death row. Details of that night are still hazy in his mind but the evidence was conclusive. No one believed in his innocence then. Only one person believes in it now. While walking through a construction site Sam Casey picks up a button, holds it in her hand, and suddenly sees the murder taking place, hears the name of the killer in her head...it's not Jimmy Taggart's. A perfect blend of mystery and paranormal in the third book in the Sam Casey series. Originally published in 2002 in hard cover. …More

Dirty Girls on Top By Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa 2008-07 - St. Martin's Press 9780312349677 Check Our Catalog Rich with sex, fun, and friendship, "Dirty Girls on Top" returns to the winning territory of Valdes-Rodriguez's first and most popular novel, "The Dirty Girls Social Club." …More

Dirty Girls Social Club By Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa 2004-05 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312313821 Check Our Catalog Filled with humor, drama and the redemptive power of friendship, this debut novel portrays the lives of six upwardly mobile Latina women in their late 20s who dish, dine and help each other over the bumpy course of life and love. …More

Jericho Cay By Wall, Kathryn R. 2011-04 - Minotaur Books 9780312601850 Check Our Catalog While restoring her Hilton Head home after a brush with a hurricane, P.I. Bay Tanner must unravel a suspicious death and even more suspicious disappearances from a secluded private island. …More

Something on the Side By Weber, Carl 2008-02 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758215789 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The First Lady" and "So You Call Yourself a Man" presents a straight-up novel about friendship and love, sex and betrayal, and how getting some on the side is never as simple as it seems. …More

Goodnight Nobody By Weiner, Jennifer 2005-09 - Atria Books 9780743470117 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title A young mother moves to a postcard-perfect Connecticut town where she unravels crime while her children are in nursery school. Investigating a death, she discovers disturbing truths. …More

Shadow Raiders: Book 1 of the Dragon Brigade By Weis, Margaret Author Krammes, Robert 2011-05 - Daw Books 9780756406622 Check Our Catalog The known world floats upon the Breath of God, a thick gas similar to Earth's oceans, with land masses accessible by airship. The largest of these land masses are ruled by the rival empires of Freya and Rosia. Magic is intrinsic to the functioning of these societies, and is even incorporated into their technological devices. But now a crucial scientific discovery has occurred that could destroy the balance of power and change the empires forever. …More

Gone with a Handsomer Man By West, Michael Lee 2011-04 - Minotaur Books 9780312571221 Check Our Catalog Take one out-of-work pastry chef . . . Teeny Templeton believes that her life is finally on track. She's getting married, she's baking her own wedding cake, and she's leaving her troubled past behind. And then? She finds her fiance playing naked badminton with a couple of gorgeous, skanky chicks. Add a whole lot of trouble . . . Needless to say, the wedding is off. Adding insult to injury, her fiance slaps a restraining order on her. When he's found dead a few days later, all fingers point to Teeny. And stir like crazy! Her only hope is through an old boyfriend-turned-lawyer, the guy who broke her heart a decade ago. But dredging up the past brings more than skeletons out of the closet, and Teeny doesn't know who she can trust. With evidence mounting and the heat turning up, Teeny must also figure out where to live, how to support herself, how to clear her name, and how to protect her heart. ""Gone with a Handsomer Man" is fun, funny, and fabulous!"---Janet Evanovich …More

The Glass Menagerie By Williams, Tennessee Introduction by Bray, Robert 1999-06 - New Directions Publishing Corporation 9780811214049 Check Our Catalog No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. …More

Old School By Wolff, Tobias 2003-11 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780375401466 Check Our Catalog Winner 2005 - ALA Notable Fiction Selection A BookPage Notable Title The author of the genre-defining memoir "This Boy's Life "and "The Barrack's Thief" now presents his first novel about a young boy at New England prep school obsessed with visiting authors. …More

The Uncoupling By Wolitzer, Meg 2011-04 - Riverhead Books 9781594487880 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Ten-Year Nap" comes a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. …More

Driftwood Cottage By Woods, Sherryl 2011-03 - Mira Books 9780778329473 Check Our Catalog Presenting the first book in a new trilogy, "New York Times"-bestselling author Woods again brings her signature heartwarming style to the community of Chesapeake Shores. Original. …More

Skyscraper By Zane 2004-10 - Atria Books 9780743457040 Check Our Catalog From bestselling author Zane comes a novel about sex and romance in the workplace that gives tantalizing new meaning to the term "office party." …More

Summer Reading

Welcome to Summer Reading 2011!  At the end of 4 weeks we had 342 people signed up. This week, 25 new people participated and 55 people read 175 books, which brings the totals for the summer to 127 people and 505 books.

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An Object of Beauty By Martin, Steve 2010-11 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446573641 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Lacey Yeager charms men and women with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the highs and lows of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today. …More

La's Orchestra Saves the World By McCall Smith, Alexander 2009-12 - Pantheon Books 9780307378385 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title From the bestselling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series: a delightful and moving story that celebrates the healing powers of friendship and music. La escapes World War II-ravaged London and a shattered marriage and relocates to a small African village. But can she really escape her past--or create a new life? HPL patron:  Great book, a joy to read.  Really llike McCall Smith.  I was introduced to him by the Ladies #1 Detective Agency books. …More

English Tea Murder By Meier, Leslie 2011-07 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758229311 Check Our Catalog Lucy Stone is saying cheerio to Tinker's Cove and jetting off to jolly old England! But when things get dodgy, it appears murder may have followed her across the Atlantic. …More

The Inner Circle By Meltzer, Brad 2011-01 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446577892 Check Our Catalog Number-one "New York Times"-bestselling author Meltzer returns with a pulse-pounding new novel of lies and deception at the highest levels of government. After reuniting with a childhood crush, a young archivist makes an astonishing discovery in the secret vault of the National Archives, where the president privately reviews classified documents. The two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well-kept secret of the U.S. presidency. HPL patron:  Ok read, slow moving. …More

Love to Love You Baby By Michaels, Kasey 2001-11 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780821768440 Check Our Catalog With his major league baseball career prematurely curtailed, Jack figures he's hit rock bottom--until he finds a basket on his porch with a baby inside. When interior designer Keely McBride enters the picture, Jack quickly recruits her as a nanny. But when he pitches her a curveball straight from the heart, it's a whole new ballgame. …More

The Butterfly's Daughter By Monroe, Mary Alice 2011-05 - Gallery Press 9781439170618 Check Our Catalog Four very different women embark on a transformational journey that follows the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico. While taking her grandmother's ashes home to Mexico, Luz attracts a collection of lost women, each seeking change in their lives. HPL patron:  A beautiful journey into the future by way of the past.  A few unexpected stops, some unplanned fellow travelers, and a "resurrection" lead finally to an understanding of self and an awakening.  Also lots and lots of monarchs! …More

Captain of the Sleepers By Montero, Mayra Translator Grossman, Edith 2005-09 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374118822 Check Our Catalog For fifty years, Andres Yasin has carried a grudge against J.T. Bunker. Now, Bunker, eighty-two years old and dying of cancer, wants to tell his side of a story, a story of his affair with Andres's mother. As a child Andres knew Bunker as the "Captain of the Sleepers"-so called because he transported the bodies of those who had died off the island, but wished to be buried at home. But what really happened between Bunker and Andres's mother, between his mother and her next lover, a leader in the Puerto Rican Nationalistic Insurrection, and what were the actual circumstances of Andres's mother's mysterious death? In this taut, erotic novel that slips effortlessly between past and present, remembrance and reality, Mayra Montero describes a feverish Caribbean childhood of secrets, disillusionment, and sexual awakening. Beautifully translated by Edith Grossman, "The Captain of the Sleepers" confirms Montero's stature as one of our finest prose stylists and as an international writer of the first rank. …More

The Headhunter's Daughter: A Mystery By Myers, Tamar 2011-02 - William Morrow & Company 9780061997648 Check Our Catalog Myers, the bestselling creator of the Den of Antiquity mysteries, delivers the second book in her new mystery series set in the Belgian Congo. HPL patron:  I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  First, the names of the characters were fascinating.  I especially appreciated the Afterword and the interview because each explained/supported Ms. Myers fiction. …More

Ottoman Cage By Nadel, Barbara 2005-02 - Minotaur Books 9780312337698 Check Our Catalog British Praise for "Belshazzar's Daughter": "Intriguing, exotic whodunnit set in the scruffy Turkish township of Balat...Local colour judiciously applied and ethnic differences (White Russian refugees, uxorious Turks, fraught British expats) skilfully explored...A first novel: exciting, accomplished and original." - "Literary Review" "Best crime fiction by a new writer was Barbara Nadel's "Belshazzar's Daughter." Set in Istanbul, with a battered, cynical and credible Turkish cop, and a great blooming baroque plot (ditto talent)." - "Books of the Year, Independent Weekend Review" "An unusual and very well written first novel...Although the murder mystery is intriguing, it is the characters who make this book so successful. The police team and their little feuds, the English teacher besotted with his mysterious Turkish girlfriend, and, most memorably, the chain-smoking little Inspector Ikmen, with his eight children and pregnant wife, contribute to this portrayal of an exotically different city." - "Sunday Telegraph" "This is an extraordinarily interesting first novel: the idea which drives its plot is an intriguing one; the Istanbul background is richly and thickly layered; the diverse cast of characters exhibits most of the psychoses known to man; while cetin Ikmen is a detective one hopes to see more of." - "Evening Standard" "This Istanbul-set-thriller combines a multi-layered description of its locale with an equally complex plot...Nadel presents a fully fledged psychological understanding worthy of the best of the genre and her plotting is satisfyingly labyrinthine. Inspector lkmen too, is a highly unusual protagonist, characterized in a way that owes little to her predecessors. An evocative and idiosyncratic debut novel." - "Good Book Guide" "In Inspector Ikmen, Nadel has created a sympathetic sleuth. Supported by his handsome side-kick, intellectual father and plaintive wife, Ikmen should go far." - "Scotsman" …More

One Day (Movie Tie-In Edition) By Nicholls, David 2011-05 - Vintage 9780307946713 Check Our Catalog It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. …More

What Is Left the Daughter By Norman, Howard 2010-07 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780618735433 Check Our Catalog Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books--"The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard," and "The Haunting of L"--in this erotically charged and morally complex story. HPL patron:  Good book.  Very sad and moving. …More

The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense By Oates, Joyce Carol 2006-01 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780151011797 Check Our Catalog In these gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. With wicked insight, Oates demonstrates why the females of the species are by nature more deadly than the males. …More

Hidden Witness By Oldham, Nick 2011-02 - Severn House Publishers 9780727869647 Check Our Catalog The new Detective Superintendent Henry Christie novel - When Detective Superintendent Henry Christie takes on the case of a brutal murder of a seemingly innocent old man, the investigation brings him into touch with old friend and FBI agent Karl Donaldson, who is trying to track down a hit man believed to have entered the UK illegally. It's obvious the two cases are connected, but it soon becomes clear there's more to the old man's murder than simple underworld retribution . . . …More

A Victorian Christmas Keepsake By Palmer, Catherine Joint Author Billerbeck, Kristin Joint Author Aiken, Ginny 2001-08 - Heartquest 9780842335690 Check Our Catalog …More

The Dark of Day By Parker, Barbara 2008-06 - Vanguard Press 9781593154615 Check Our Catalog A young woman vanishes from a celebrity-studded party on South Beach. The media descend, and the spotlight threatens to reveal the secret past of a high-profile criminal defense attorney. HPL patron:  Current-look at highlife in MIami South Beach-gangsters-politicians, media blind sides fun-entertaining and educational for young people-potential traps laying in wait. …More

The 9th Judgment By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2010-04 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036276 Check Our Catalog In the most exciting Women's Murder Club novel yet, Detective Lindsay Boxer spends every waking hour working to piece together clues in two area murders. One of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but will that be enough? …More

Cross Fire By Patterson, James 2010-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036177 Check Our Catalog Detective Alex Cross's wedding plans are put on hold when he is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington, D.C.'s, most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians. HPL patron:  Riveting, tense, exciting, and more! …More

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports By Patterson, James 2008-09 - Little, Brown Young Readers 9780316154277 Check Our Catalog In this #1 "New York Times" bestseller, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of a sinister experiment to reengineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race. …More

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas By Patterson, James 2001-07 - Little Brown and Company 9780316969444 Check Our Catalog Changing genres, the author of "Cradle and All" offers a moving and suspenseful novel about families, loss, new love, and hope. Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last, but one day he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. HPL patron:  Not  your  typical Patterson read, but well worth your time.  Read it without thinking Patterson. …More

Tick Tock By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2011-01 - Little Brown and Company 9780316037914 Check Our Catalog A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos and terrorizing everyone living there. Immediately, it becomes clear that these offenses are not the work of an amateur, but of a calculating, efficient, and deadly mastermind. All too soon, another appalling murder leads Detective Michael Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan. HPL patron:  Awesome.  James Patterson is a fantastic writer. HPL patron:  Great author, lots of suspense, plus human  interest. …More

Toys By Patterson, James Author McMahon, Neil 2011-03 - Little Brown and Company 9780316097369 Check Our Catalog Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problems in their perfect world: people, their toys, and the battle to save humanity. …More

Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America By Pattison, Eliot 2007-12 - Counterpoint LLC 9781593761851 Check Our Catalog Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and seeming suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners that thrusts him into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. As the only man aboard with any medical training, Duncan is ordered to assemble evidence to hold another prisoner accountable for the deaths--or face a lethal punishment. His conclusions--based on the cryptic, ceremonial nature of the killings--suggest that the wave of violence is somehow linked to the "savages" of the American wilderness. Duncan's suspicions that the prison company is to be sacrificed in the war seem to be confirmed when he learns that they are all indentured to Lord Ramsey's estate in the uncharted New York woodlands, a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions--the British, rogue Scots, the French, the Huron, and the Iroquois--are engaged in physical, psychological, and spiritual battle. Following a strange trail of clues that seem half Iroquois and half Highland Scot, mesmerized by Lord Ramsey's beautiful daughter--who has a forbidden knowledge of "heathen" ways--and frequently defying death in a dangerous wilderness populated by grizzled European settlers, mysterious scalping parties, and Indian sorcerers, Duncan McCallum, exiled chief of his near-extinct clan, finds the source of all evil at the site of an Indian massacre. HPL patron:  Sex  in 1760-story of a British convict and the mystery he must solve-upon transport  to the NY colony-instructive of Scotts and Iroquis' influence of Native American culture onto European immigrants-specifically the Morairans. …More

The Opposite of Me By Pekkanen, Sarah 2010-03 - Washington Square Press 9781439121986 Check Our Catalog A funny, poignant debut novel about the complicated bonds of sisterhood. When Lindsay's controlled life falls apart and she's forced to move home, she uncovers some revelations that call into question the identities she and Alex have developed their whole lives. …More