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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Silenced By Dupree, Kia 2011-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446547741 Check Our Catalog Falling on hard times, Nicola has to move her family into one of the most notorious projects in Washington, D.C. She knows she must work extra hard to keep her family from succumbing to the streets. When her eldest son Marquan faces murder charges, Nicola focuses her energy on his case, hoping that she can keep the family intact. 384 pp. …More

Silas Marner By Eliot, George 1981-09 - Bantam Books 9780553212297 Check Our Catalog Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear. …More

The Forgotten Waltz By Enright, Anne 2011-10 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393072556 Check Our Catalog A haunting story of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing. 288 pp. 50,000 print. Buyer's Choice …More

The Marriage Plot By Eugenides, Jeffrey 2011-10 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374203054 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title It's the early 1980s--the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. But real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. 416 pp. 400,000 print. (General Fiction) …More

Dark Predator By Feehan, Christine 2011-09 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425241974 Check Our Catalog As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias De La Cruz was a master executioner. Now his stark and savage journey has ended. For his brothers, Zacarias had walked to the edge of madness, but with centuries as a killing machine now left to the past and without a hunt to define him, Zacarias wonders, for the first time in his life, who he really is. …More

The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part I: The Witnesses By Foster, Sharon Ewell 2011-08 - Howard Books 9781416578031 Check Our Catalog The destinies of a young white man, a young African American woman, and a rebel called by God to massacre collide. …More

Even Money By Francis, Dick Author Francis, Felix 2010-08 - Berkley 9780425235904 Check Our Catalog On the first day of Royal Ascot, a man steps forward claiming to be Ned Talbot's long-lost father. Barely an hour later, the man is found stabbed to death. Ned embarks on a race to solve his father's murder. Available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

Nightwoods By Frazier, Charles 2011-09 - Random House 9781400067091 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title The extraordinary author returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while losing none of the transcendent prose, virtuosic storytelling, and insight into human nature that have made him one of the most beloved and celebrated authors in the world. 272 pp. (General Fiction) …More

Faking Reality By Garrison, Zaria 2011-09 - Urban Books 9781601627995 Check Our Catalog …More

The Omen Machine By Goodkind, Terry 2011-08 - Tor Books 9780765327727 Check Our Catalog From the beginning, with Wizard’s First Rule, Terry Goodkind set a new standard for epic storytelling. Now he returns with a powerful new tale from Richard and Kahlan’s world. …More

Bad Moon Rising: A Sam McCain Mystery By Gorman, Ed 2011-10 - Pegasus Books 9781605982601 Check Our Catalog A hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls. While the majority of the townspeople believe that the bohemians have the right to stay despite how bizarre some of their ways can seem as always, there is a minority that constantly accuses them of everything from criminal activities to Satanism. As usual, lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain finds himself in the middle of the controversy, especially when the teenage daughter of Paul Mainwaring, one of the town's wealthiest men, is found murdered in the commune s barn. …More

Heart of Evil By Graham, Heather 2011-06 - Mira Books 9780778329985 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling author Graham delivers the first novel in an ghostly new paranormal romance trilogy. Beyond the things that science can explain lurks another world, one steeped in danger where secrets refuse to stay buried. Original. …More

Deadline By Grant, Mira 2011-05 - Orbit 9780316081061 Check Our Catalog Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Available in a tall Premium Edition. Original. …More

The Lady of the Rivers By Gregory, Philippa 2011-10 - Touchstone Books 9781416563709 Check Our Catalog Gregory weaves witchcraft, passion, and adventure into the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the War of the Roses. A sweeping, powerful story based on history and rich in passion and legend, "The Lady of the Rivers" tells the story of the real-life mother to the White Queen. 448 pp. 350,000 print. (Historical) …More

The Partner By Grisham, John Author Grisham 1997-02 - Doubleday Books 9780385472951 Check Our Catalog They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well. But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes. From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his ex-law firm's offshore account. And Patrick fled some more. But they found him. …More

Ed King By Guterson, David 2011-10 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307271068 Check Our Catalog In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary--"a guy who weighs risk for a living"--takes a risk of his own, and makes the biggest error of his life. He sleeps with Diane Burroughs, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au pair who's taking care of his children for the summer. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, but not before turning the tables on Walter and setting in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted by an adoring family and named Edward Aaron King, grows up to become a billionaire Internet tycoon and an international celebrity--the "King of Search"--who unknowingly, but inexorably, hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape. …More

Dead Beat By Hall, Patricia 2011-09 - Creme de La Crime 9781780290041 Check Our Catalog …More

The Art of Fielding By Harbach, Chad 2011-09 - Little Brown and Company 9780316126694 Check Our Catalog At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. …More

A Secret Rage By Harris, Charlaine 2011-07 - Severn House Publishers 9780727880260 Check Our Catalog Former model Nickie Callahan moves to a sleepy Tennessee college town, where she is swept up in a string of brutally violent crimes and must take matters of justice into her own hands, in this long-out-of-print second novel by the author of the beloved Sookie Stackhouse novels. Reissue. …More

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion By Harris, Charlaine 2011-08 - Ace Books 9780441019717 Check Our Catalog The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author presents the definitive guide to the world of Sookie Stackhouse. Charlaine Harris has topped the bestseller charts and has become a nationwide phenomenon, thanks to the unconventional-and otherworldly- life of Sookie Stackhouse. Now, in her own words, Sookie gives readers a look at her family, friends, enemies, adventures, and-of course-the lovers who set her world on fire... Readers will: Tour Bon Temps, the small Louisiana town that Sookie calls home, and visit the houses of her Gran and her sometime vampire lover, Bill Prowl around the werewolf and were-panther communities Browse through her best friend Tara's dress shop Belly up to the bar in Merlotte's, where Sookie works Get must-have Bon Temps recipes-including Caroline Bellfleur's famous chocolate cheesecake Test themselves with trivia questions from the series …More

The Great Leader By Harrison, Jim 2011-10 - Grove Press 9780802119704 Check Our Catalog Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty and expertly crafted novel following one man's hunt for an elusive cult leader. On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson investigates a hedonistic cult near his home. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but Sunderson and his 16-year-old sidekick find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized. 288 pp. …More

Deception By Hill, Donna 2011-08 - Kimani Press 9780373534524 Check Our Catalog An unhappy marriage taught Terri Powers never to trust again. Instead, she put all her energy into developing the successful New York advertising agency she'd always dreamed of. Then she meets handsome businessman Clinton Steele. Reissue. …More

Intimate Betrayal By Hill, Donna 2011-03 - Arabesque 9780373534425 Check Our Catalog Determined to succeed despite her past, investigative reporter Reese Delaware accepts an assignment to profile millionaire computer whiz Maxwell Knight, who is fleeing a shadowy past of his own. The attraction between them is powerful, sparking a desire neither can deny. Original. …More