HPL's New Books

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Torn By Ervin, Keisha 2007-09 - Triple Crown Publications 9780977880492 Check Our Catalog Her female intuition told her he was a dog but yet still she lent him her soul, gave him her heart and allowed herself to fall in love. Torn between infatuation, lust, denial and playing wifey, the only thing Mo knows for sure is that she's been through hell, survived nine years, three miscarriages, numerous flings, heated arguments and a few knock-down drag-out fights only to realize she is further deep in love and more confused than ever. Come join National Best-Selling Author Keisha Ervin as she spins a classic tale about loving someone so much you lose yourself, only to find in the end that what you thought was real love was just a game. …More

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! By Flagg, Fannie 2001-02 - Ballantine Books 9780449005781 Check Our Catalog Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie). Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery. …More

Dick Francis's Refusal By Francis, Felix 2013-09 - G. P. Putnam's Sons 9780399160813 Check Our Catalog Dick Francis's beloved investigator Sid Halley returns in the riveting new mystery by New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis. …More

The Cuckoo's Calling By Galbraith, Robert 2013-04 - Mulholland Books 9780316206846 Check Our Catalog A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein. After an injury in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. But then opportunity walks through the door--and he must investigate a supermodel's suicide. …More

A Gangster and a Gentleman By Swinson, Kiki Author Diamond, De'nesha 2012-09 - Dafina Books 9780758251824 Check Our Catalog National bestselling authors Swinson and Diamond bring readers two irresistible novellas about men so bad, they're everything their heroines don't needNbut exactly what they want. …More

Under a Texas Sky By Garlock, Dorothy 2013-08 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446540230 Check Our Catalog Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides into Dalton Barnes. He's lived in Redstone all his life and hates how the big city out-of-towners are gawking at the small-town locals like him. It doesn't take long, though, for Anna and Dalton to discover fireworks of a different sort between them. But the movie is plagued by one trouble after another, including a fire that destroys an elaborate set and costumes ruined by huge splashes of paint. Who is sabotaging the film and why? To what lengths will they go? When Anna finds herself threatened, how will she and the love blossoming between her and Dalton survive? …More

Hotshot By Garwood, Julie 2013-08 - Dutton Books 9780525953012 Check Our Catalog #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Julie Garwood returns with a novel of family drama, suspense, and--of course--romance. …More

W Is for Wasted By Grafton, Sue 2013-09 - G.P. Putnam's Sons a Member of Penguin Group 9780399158988 Check Our Catalog Kinsey Millhone finds yet another way to be connected to a sudden death: as the victim's executor and sole heir. …More

Affliction By Hamilton, Laurell K. 2013-07 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425255704 Check Our Catalog Some zombies are raised. Others must be put down. Just ask Anita Blake. Before now, she would have considered them merely off-putting, never dangerous. Before now, she had never heard of any of them causing human beings to perish in agony. But that's all changed. …More

Enon By Harding, Paul 2013-09 - Random House 9781400069439 Check Our Catalog A stunning allegorical novel about one man's enduring love for his daughter. …More

The Scarlet Letter By Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1994-05 - Dover Publications 9780486280486 Check Our Catalog The familiar characters of Hawthorne's dark tale of pride and guilt in colonial New England are given new and added immediacy in the 24 wood engravings by master illustrator Barry Moser. …More

Second Watch: A J. P. Beaumont Novel By Jance, J. A. 2013-09 - William Morrow & Company 9780062134677 Check Our Catalog With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont. Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he's ever faced. His past collides with his present in this complex and thrilling story that explores loss and heartbreak, duty and honor, and, most importantly, the staggering cost of war and the debts we owe those who served in the Vietnam War, and those in uniform today. …More

Where You Can Find Me By Joseph, Sheri 2013-04 - Thomas Dunne Books 9781250012852 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title A week after his eleventh birthday, Caleb Vincent vanishes with hardly a trace. After a three-year search, he is found living a seemingly normal life under a new name with a man he calls his father. While outwardly stunned with joy at his safe recovery, Caleb's parents and sister are privately scrambling to gather together the pieces of a shattered family. To escape the relentless media attention surrounding her son's return, Caleb's mother, Marlene, decides to flee the country and seek refuge in Costa Rica with Caleb and his younger sister, against her estranged husband's wishes. There Marlene forms a makeshift household with her husband's expat mother and his charming, aimless older brother, all residing in a broken-down hotel perched at the blustery apex of the continental divide. In the clouds of their new home, the mystery of Caleb's time gone unfolds while new dangers threaten to pull him back toward his former life. …More

Sheisty Chicks By K, Kim 2011-12 - Melodrama Publishing 9781934157473 Check Our Catalog …More

Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco By Kamiya, Gary 2013-08 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781608199600 Check Our Catalog …More

Children of Fire By Karpyshyn, Drew 2013-08 - Del Rey Books 9780345542236 Check Our Catalog Karpyshyn introduces a brilliantly innovative epic fantasy of perilous quests, tormented heroes, and darkest sorcery--a thrilling adventure that vaults him into the company of such authors as Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson, and Peter V. Brett. …More

Welfare Wifeys By K'wan 2010-09 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312536978 Check Our Catalog After the deaths and arrests of his entire crew and an informant-fueled investigation into his past, the man known on the streets as Animal relocates to Texas and finds fame and stardom as the newest act signed to the notorious Big Dawg Entertainment. His girlfriend, Gucci, is thrilled when she gets the news that he's coming back to New York on a promotional tour, but when she discovers the hidden agenda behind his homecoming nothing can prepare her for the life-altering consequences that will come of it. There goes the neighborhood . . . again. HPL patron: It was ok. …More

Then We Take Berlin By Lawton, John 2013-09 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780802121967 Check Our Catalog Joe Wilderness is a World War II orphan, a condition that he thinks excuses him from common morality. Cat burglar, card sharp, and Cockney wide boy, the last thing he wants is to get drafted. But in 1946 he finds himself in the Royal Air Force, facing a stretch in military prison . . . when along comes Lt Colonel Burne-Jones to tell him MI6 has better use for his talents. Posted to occupied Berlin, interrogating ex-Nazis, and burgling the odd apartment for MI6, Wilderness finds himself with time on his hands and the devil making work. He falls in with Frank, a US Army captain, with Eddie, a British artilleryman and with Yuri, a major in the NKVD and together they lift the black market scam to a new level. Coffee never tasted so sweet. And he falls for Nell Breakheart, a German girl who has witnessed the worst that Germany could do and is driven by all the scruples that Wilderness lacks. Fifteen years later, June 1963. Wilderness is free-lance and down on his luck. A gumshoe scraping by on divorce cases. Frank is a big shot on Madison Avenue, cooking up one last Berlin scam . . . for which he needs Wilderness once more. Only now they're not smuggling coffee, they're smuggling people. And Nell? Nell is on the staff of West Berlin's mayor Willy Brandt, planning for the state visit of the most powerful man in the world: "Ich bin ein Berliner!" "Then We Take Berlin" is a gripping, meticulously researched and richly detailed historical thriller - a moving story of espionage and war, and people caught up in the most tumultuous events of the twenty-first century. …More

The Secret Keeper By Lewis, Beverly 2013-09 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764211485 Check Our Catalog …More

Dexter's Final Cut By Lindsay, Jeff 2013-09 - Doubleday Books 9780385536516 Check Our Catalog With 1.7 million copies of the Dexter novels sold, and ever-increasing critical acclaim, Jeff Lindsay returns to his groundbreaking and beloved character with his most entertaining book yet. Get ready for a grisly send-up of Hollywood, and a full dose of dark Dexter wit. …More

Beloved Enemy: A Jack McClure Novel By Lustbader, Eric Van 2013-09 - Forge 9780765337054 Check Our Catalog In the stunning follow-up to Father Night, Jack McClure faces a choice: help the woman he loves, or destroy her as the enemy she is. …More

Heart of Texas, Volume 2 By Macomber, Debbie 2013-07 - Mira Books 9780778314417 Check Our Catalog Promise, a ranching community in the Hill Country, is a place with a mysterious past and a secret or two hidden under its everyday exterior. It's also a place where family and friendship are the things that really matter. This two-in-one volume includes "Caroline's Child" and "Dr. Texas." Reissue. …More

Someone By McDermott, Alice 2013-09 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374281090 Check Our Catalog A fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, by the National Book Award-winning author. …More