Summer Reading-What Muskegon is reading this summer

The Girl on the Train By Hawkins, Paula 2015-01 - Riverhead Books 9781594633669 Check Our Catalog Instant #1" New York Times "Bestseller Nothing is more addicting than"The Girl on the Train." "Vanity Fair " "The Girl on the Train" has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since "Gone Girl." . . . It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership. "The New York Times" Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and …More

Hexed By Hearne, Kevin 2011-06 - Del Rey Books 9780345522498 Check Our Catalog A coven of witches, a fallen angel, a horde of Bacchants, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire are all vying for the attention of Atticus O'Sullivan--the last of the Druids--in this second installment of Hearne's back-to-back series. Original. HPL patron: Excellent follow up to a great series opener. Fun story with a good mix of characters. …More

The Old Man and the Sea By Hemingway, Ernest 1995-05 - Scribner Book Company 9780684801223 Check Our Catalog Hemingway's triumphant yet tragic story of an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic. …More

Malpractice in Maggody By Hess, Joan 2006-03 - Thorndike Press 9780786283682 Check Our Catalog Can police chief Arly Hanks get through small town Maggody's gossip and uncover the real goings-on behind an exclusive rehabilitation center before anyone else dies? …More

Pride V. Prejudice: A Claire Malloy Mystery By Hess, Joan 2015-04 - Minotaur Books 9781250011954 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This is the first of this author's books that I've read and I'm not sure I'll try another. I found her characters very different from anyone I've ever met and not very "real," so it was hard to relate to any of them. …More

Yu-GI-Oh! (3-In-1 Edition), Vol. 1: Includes Vols. 1, 2 & 3 By Takahashi, Kazuki 2015-02 - Viz Media 9781421579245 Check Our Catalog Tenth-grader Yugi always had his head in some game--until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing the spirit of a master gambler from the age of the pharoahs Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games...weird games with high stakes and high risks Let the games begin Meet Seto Kaiba, master of the …More

The Soul of Discretion: A Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mystery By Hill, Susan 2015-01 - Overlook Press 9781468301458 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I have found a new English detective. I'm always looking for new ones. Simon Serrailler is the newest one. He is as mysterious as the tale that Susan Hill has written. …More

The Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled 2003-06 - Riverhead Books 9781573222457 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2004), Alex Awards (2004), Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2007), Iowa High School Book Award (2007), Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (2006) An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, takes readers from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. As emotionally gripping as it is tender, "The Kite Runner" is an unusual and powerful debut. HPL patron:  Absolutely amazing.  I'd recommend this book to anyone. …More

AHA: Awakening. Honesty. Action: The God Moment That Changes Everything By Idleman, Kyle 2014-03 - David C Cook 9780781410496 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: No real Aha! moments for me, but pretty positive...basically long lesson on the prodigal son. …More

Building the Great Pyramid By Jackson, Kevin Joint Author Stamp, Jonathan 2003-02 - Firefly Books 9781552977194 Check Our Catalog Companion volume to The Discovery Channel's television program. The book looks at the building techniques used to create the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt and its history, both the pyramid's, and the theories about it. …More

The Perfect Witness By Johansen, Iris 2014-09 - St. Martin's Press 9781250020055 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Teresa wants a loving family and not to be used anymore. The way things are shaping up she will lose everything she has worked so hard to find. …More

Your Next Breath By Johansen, Iris 2015-04 - St. Martin's Press 9781250020086 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Catherine just wants a normal life, the way her life is going, though, she doesn't think it will ever happen. …More

Acheron By Kenyon, Sherrilyn 2008-08 - St. Martin's Press 9780312362157 Check Our Catalog From #1-bestselling author Kenyon comes the long-awaited story of Acheron, the god of final fate and the leader of the Dark-Hunters. Martin's Press. …More

Power By King, Joy Deja 2014-03 - King Productions 9780986004575 Check Our Catalog Alex and Deion were born in the projects of Atlanta. Their mutual determination to escape their poverty stricken existence fueled a friendship that was unbreakable. But as they grew from boys to men, the trappings of the streets introduced them to a life of crime and endless money. Those same streets may end up being their ultimate downfall. Can two men share all that power or can there only be …More

The Eyes of the Dragon: A Story By King, Stephen Illustrator Palladini, David 1987-12 - Signet Book 9780451166586 Check Our Catalog Awards: Colorado Blue Spruce Award (1989) The number-one "New York Times" bestselling prequel to King's Dark Tower series is available again with a beautiful new package and black-and-white artwork by David Palladini. Reissue. …More

Finders Keepers By King, Stephen 2015-06 - Scribner Book Company 9781501100079 Check Our Catalog A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in "Mr. Mercedes." "Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous …More

Mr. Mercedes By King, Stephen 2014-06 - Scribner Book Company 9781476754451 Check Our Catalog Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2015) In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. …More

Fifteen Minutes By Kingsbury, Karen 2013-10 - Howard Books 9781451647051 Check Our Catalog From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a dramatic story about fame, true love, and the cost of having it all. …More

Cripple Creek Days By Lee, Mabel Barbee Designed by Thomas, Lowell, Jr. Foreword by Thomas, Lowell, Jr. 1984-09 - Unp - Bison Books 9780803279124 Check Our Catalog Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole place turn to gold. With his divining rod, Mabel's father tapped gold ore on Beacon Hill but missed becoming a millionaire by selling his claim short. Nonetheless, life was rich for young Mabel in a …More

The Ripper By Lee, Tony Illustrator Currie, Andrew Illustrator Rayner, Richard Piers 2011-07 - IDW Publishing 9781600109744 Check Our Catalog The Eleventh Doctor era begins here! Join the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor and his latest companions, Amy Pond and her husband Rory Williams, as they travel to the far reaches of space - a planet populated by holograms - and the distant past - where they become embroiled in the Jack the Ripper murders in Victorian London …More

When Worlds Collide By Lee, Tony Illustrator Buckingham, Mark Illustrator Smith, Matthew Dow 2012-01 - IDW Publishing 9781613771044 Check Our Catalog Join the Doctor and his companions, Amy and Rory, as they travel to the far reaches of space to save their friend and the future of Britain …More

The Fall By Lescroart, John 2015-05 - Atria Books 9781476709215 Check Our Catalog From "New York Times" bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting new novel of legal suspense featuring Dismas Hardy and his daughter, Rebecca, now grown up and an associate in Hardy's law firm. Late one night, a teenage African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death from the overpass above San Francisco's Stockton tunnel. But did she fall...or was she pushed? …More

Child of Mine By Lewis, David Author Lewis, Beverly 2014-06 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764212598 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: You would never know two people wrote this book. It will keep you guessing til the end. Good characters, plot, and setting. …More

The Fiddler By Lewis, Beverly 2012-04 - Thorndike Press 9781410446053 Check Our Catalog When Amy DeVries, thoroughly modern and disillusioned, sets out on a road trip, she unexpectedly meets an Amish man--and community--that changes her life forever. HPL patron: I try to find a new author with a series each summer and I hit the jackpot. she pulls you right into the characters and their lives. You read this, wish you were in Hickory …More