Adult Summer Reading from Week 5

Broken By Slaughter, Karin 2011-01 - Large Print Press 9781594134555 Check Our Catalog When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. As he investigates, Trent unleashes a case filled with explosive secrets--and encounters a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed. …More

All the Way Home By Staub, Wendy Corsi Author Staub Producer Kensington 1999-09 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781575664477 Check Our Catalog Lake Charlotte. A quiet little town in upstate New York. The perfect place to raise a family. Or is it? People still talk about that summer ten years ago when four teenage girls mysteriously disappeared. No one remembers that summer more vividly than Rory Connelly. Her older sister Carleen vanished from her bed in the middle of the night, never to be seen again. The fear and uncertainty of …More

Herbs: Gardens, Decorations, and Recipes By Tolley, Emelie Joint Author Mead, Chris 1998-08 - Clarkson N Potter Publishers 9780609803523 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This is my "go to" Herb garden book when I want to sit with a cup of herbal tea and delight my senses with the beautiful pictures of herbal gardens. I find all the ideas and motivation to expand my own. It also has wonderful ideas and recipes to actually use your homegrown herbs. The Lemon Tea bread is a must to try, as well as the herbed vinegars and …More

Girl from the South By Trollope, Joanna 2003-07 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425193501 Check Our Catalog This is a wonderful story of family traditions in conflict, of new beginnings, and of the way whole families can fall in love with a person. …More

My Heart and Other Black Holes By Warga, Jasmine 2015-02 - Balzer & Bray/Harperteen 9780062324672 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I really enjoyed this book. Even though it was very depressing at times, the story was moving and loveable. I loved it! …More

The Age of Innocence By Wharton, Edith Editor Wolff, Cynthia G. Introduction by Wolff, Cynthia Griffin 1996-03 - Penguin Books 9780140189704 Check Our Catalog A Great Books Discussion Selection When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew …More

The Children By Wharton, Edith 1997-09 - Scribner Book Company 9780684831558 Check Our Catalog A bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton's "The Children" is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent "like bundles," are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the …More

Old New York By Wharton, Edith 1995-03 - Scribner Book Company 9780020383147 Check Our Catalog From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence come four masterly short novels of New York during the 19th century, revealing with subtle irony the customs and tribal codes that ruled Society. …More

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry By Zevin, Gabrielle 2014-04 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 9781616203214 Check Our Catalog A faded sign hangs above the porch of the Victorian cottage that is home to Island Books. It bears the adage"NO MAN IS AN ISLAND; EVERY BOOK IS A WORLD."A. J. Fikry, the bookstore s irascible owner, is about to discover what that means. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry reminds us of what saves us all from a life of loneliness and isolation: our sense of empathy; our ability to love and be loved; …More