New books

HPL's New Books Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for: 2012.  To see new books from other years try:  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

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Locked on By Clancy, Tom With Greaney, Mark 2011-12 - Putnam Adult 9780399157318 Check Our Catalog Tom Clancy's All-Star lineup is back. Jack Ryan, his son, Jack Jr., John Clark Ding Chavez and the rest of the Campus team are facing their greatest challenge ever. …More

The Look of Love: A Piper Donovan Mystery By Clark, Mary Jane 2012-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780061995569 Check Our Catalog Professional wedding cake decorator and amateur sleuth Piper Donovan is back in the second book in "New York Times"-bestselling author Clark's new Wedding Cake series. …More

Payback Is a Mutha By Clark, Wahida 2006-04 - Dafina Books 9780758212535 Check Our Catalog The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Every Thug Needs a Lady" tells the story of a woman who thinks she has everything, but who really has everything to lose--starting with her best friend and ending with her life. …More

Brute Strength By Conant, Susan 2011-08 - Severn House Publishers 9780727880673 Check Our Catalog The new 'Holly Winter' dog mystery - When Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter rejects applicants who want to adopt homeless dogs, she makes a lot of enemies. In dogs Holly trusts, and the dogs she trusts most are her beloved malamutes, Rowdy, Kimi and Sammy. But right now she could use a human friend. Lately, it seems wherever she turns, things go wrong: an anonymous call turns vicious, her husband is keeping secrets, and acquaintances die under mysterious circumstances. Then Holly's own life is threatened. Can the brute strength of Rowdy, Kimi, and Sammy protect her? …More

Lord Jim: A Tale By Conrad, Joseph Editor Simmons, Allan H. Notes by Stape, J. H. 2007-12 - Penguin Books 9780141441610 Check Our Catalog Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conrad's finest works, with new introductions Conrad's great novel of guilt and redemption follows the first mate on board the "Patna," a raw youth with dreams of heroism who, in an act of cowardice, abandons his ship. His unbearable guilt and its consequences are shaped by Conrad into a narrative of immeasurable richness. …More

Death Benefit By Cook, Robin 2011-12 - G. P. Putnam's Sons 9780399157462 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times"-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with another crackling tale of unchecked greed and medical malfeasance. Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist on cutting-edge diabetes research. When their mentor dies suddenly, they launch a quiet investigation. As they dig deeper, it becomes clear that the scientist's death was not from natural causes. Is it possible someone is manipulating private life insurance information to allow investors to benefit from the deaths of others? …More

Death of Kings By Cornwell, Bernard 2012-01 - Harper 9780061969652 Check Our Catalog The fate of a young nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in the thrilling sixth volume of the "New York Times"-bestselling Saxon Tales series. …More

Red Mist By Cornwell, Patricia D. 2011-12 - Putnam Adult 9780399158025 Check Our Catalog The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it. …More

Taken By Crais, Robert 2012-01 - Putnam Adult 9780399158278 Check Our Catalog When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike--and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the world of professional border kidnappers. Fortunately, the kidnappers don't yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. …More

Alpine Fury By Daheim, Mary 1995-10 - Fawcett Books 9780345388438 Check Our Catalog BANK ON MURDER For generations the venerable family-owned bank has served the old logging town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. But suddenly Marv Peterson, bank president and family patriarch, seems unnaturally distracted; his heirs and employees are jittery. And when a banker from Seattle comes to town, allegedly on a fishing vacation, Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, decides to do a bit of fishing herself. Abetted by her unsinkable house-and-home editor, Emma snoops for a story and ends up investigating murder--the strangling death of the bank's sexy blonde bookkeeper after a rendezvous at a local motel. Did she die because of whom she knew or what she knew? Sheriff Milo Dodge hasn't a clue, but Emma and The Advocate get set to roll with the shocking reality and the biggest story in history.... …More

The Mountain of Gold By Davies, J. D. 2012-01 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780547580999 Check Our Catalog In this thrilling Restoration-era sequel to "Gentleman Captain," Captain Quinton--beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs--sails to Africa in search of a fabled mountain of gold. …More

Broken Irish By DeLaney, Edward J. 2011-09 - Turtle Point Press 9781933527505 Check Our Catalog …More

Moonlight in the Morning By Deveraux, Jude 2012-01 - Thorndike Press 9781410444912 Check Our Catalog Deveraux, the author of 40 "New York Times" bestsellers including "Scent of Jasmine" and "Scarlet Nights," returns with another tale of scorching romance. …More

The Man in the High Castle By Dick, Philip K. 1992-06 - Vintage Books USA 9780679740674 Check Our Catalog It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. …More

Chasing Destiny By Dickey, Eric Jerome 2006-04 - Dutton Books 9780525949503 Check Our Catalog Billie (aka "Ducati") is known as much for her extraordinary beauty as for the sexy yellow Ducati motorcycle she rides through the mean streets of Los Angeles. Tough, talented, and self-assured, Billie's used to doing things her way--but that was before love threw an oil slick in the road and spun her life into chaos. …More

Thieves' Paradise By Dickey, Eric Jerome 2004-04 - New American Library 9780451211453 Check Our Catalog The sensational "New York Times" bestselling author of "Between Lovers, Liar's Game," and "Cheaters" returns with an irresistible novel about grifters and con artists, brothers and sisters, looking for love and making ends meet-on the wrong side of the law. …More

Waking with Enemies By Dickey, Eric Jerome 2008-07 - New American Library 9780451222749 Check Our Catalog "New York Times" bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's must-read follow-up to "Sleeping with Strangers." Gideon, the hit man introduced in "Sleeping with Strangers," returns in this ?high-octane?("Publishers Weekly") thriller to discover that a hit has been taken out on "him." Is it the man he left alive in Tampa, the cold beauty who taught him how to kill, the scorned woman he still desires, or an unknown enemy? As the hunter becomes the hunted, Gideon will need his friends?and his enemies?to get out of this crisis alive. …More

Baby Doll By Divine G 2008-06 - Q-Boro Books 9781933967455 Check Our Catalog During an after-school fight with jealous high school foes, Breana Baby Doll Winbush meets Big Daddy Blue, a reformed gangster, and discovers a whole new outlook on life. …More

My Soul to Take By Due, Tananarive 2011-09 - Washington Square Press 9781439176146 Check Our Catalog "Essence "bestselling and award-winning author Tananarive Due delivers a heart-stopping new novel continuing the story of descendants of an immortal line of people who are the only ones capable of saving the world. Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiance is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn't stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation. Fana and the Life Brothers are rushing to distribute their healing "Living Blood" throughout the world, hoping to eliminate most diseases before Fana is bound to marry Michel. Still, they cannot heal people faster than Michel can kill them. Due weaves a tangled web in this novel, including beloved characters from her bestselling "Joplin's Ghost," in a war of good against evil, making "My Soul to Take "a chilling and thrilling experience. …More

Bond Girl By Duffy, Erin 2012-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062065896 Check Our Catalog A fastpaced, hilarious odyssey in fourinch heels, "Bond Girl" is "The Devil Wears Prada" meets "Wall Street" with a touch of Emily Giffen--a novel set in the financial world leading up to the (infamously) tumultuous year of 2008. …More

Abigail's New Hope By Ellis, Mary 2011-04 - Harvest House Publishers 9780736930093 Check Our Catalog As an Amish midwife, Abigail Graber loves bringing babies into the world. But when a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn, Abigail is faced with some of the hardest choices she has ever had to make. Despite all her efforts, the young mother dies, but the baby is saved. A heartless judge confines Abigail to the county jail as the investigation begins, and the possibility of prison and separation from her husband, Daniel, and young children looms. Abigail's younger sister, Catherine, comes to care for the home and kinner while Daniel works in the barn and fields. Catherine makes a difference in all their lives, but in return her life is completely changed. She meets Daniel's cousin Isaiah, and an unexpected birth of another sort takes place in Wayne County. A deeply moving look at some of life's most tender and rewarding moments from beloved author Mary Ellis. …More

Explosive Eighteen By Evanovich, Janet 2011-11 - Bantam 9780345527714 Check Our Catalog With the arrival of "Explosive Eighteen", readers won't have to wait very long to find out what happens next in Evanovich's popular Stephanie Plum adventure series. 320 pp. (General Fiction) …More

Love in a Nutshell By Evanovich, Janet Author Kelly, Dorien 2012-01 - St. Martin's Press 9780312651312 Check Our Catalog Number-one bestselling author Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer. Filled with humor, heart, and lovable characters, "Love in a Nutshell" is delicious fun. …More