Adult Summer Reading-Week 5

Eight Hundred Grapes By Dave, Laura 2015-06 - Simon & Schuster 9781476789255 Check Our Catalog Named "Best Book of the Summer" by "Glamour" * "Marie Claire" * "US Weekly" * "Good Housekeeping" * "Cosmopolitan" * "Elle Magazine" * "Wine Enthusiast" * "Health Magazine" * "Metro New York" * InStyle* Pop Sugar * CBS Local * BookTrib * AV Club * and as the #1 Library Reads Pick * There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide.... Growing up on her family's Sonoma vineyard, Georgia …More

The Broken Window By Deaver, Jeffery Read by Boutsikaris, Dennis 2008-06 - Simon & Schuster Audio 9780743570534 Check Our Catalog The mysterious 522 commits vicious crimes and then plants ironclad evidence to implicate innocent men. This timely thriller reunites Lincoln Rhyme with his partner and paramour Amelia Sachs as they face their toughest adversary yet. Unabridged. 13 CDs. HPL patron: Jeffrey Deaver spins fine tales. His level of suspense is always riveting as it is in The …More

Shattered By Dupree, Kia 2012-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446547772 Check Our Catalog Awards: Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (2013) Kiki's world is turned upside down when her partially deaf mother loses custody of her children, sending Kiki and her siblings into foster care. After running away, the two girls are held captive for months and their lives are in chaos. …More

Silenced By Dupree, Kia 2012-02 - Thorndike Press 9781410444714 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

Dark Guardian By Feehan, Christine 2010-12 - Avon Books 9780062019493 Check Our Catalog After centuries of soulless existence as the dark guardian of his people, Lucian suddenly craves lady cop Jaxon Montgomery. Jaxx would sacrifice anything to shield others, particularly since a deadly menace dogs her every step. Oddly, Lucian, a born predator who ran with the wolves, vows to guard her for all time. …More

Gone Girl By Flynn, Gillian 2012-06 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9780307588364 Check Our Catalog Awards: Anthony Awards (2013), Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2013), Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2013), Macavity Award (2013), Women's Fiction AKA Orange Prize (2013) Flynn's toxic mix of sharp-edged wit with deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds readers at every turn. When his wife disappears on their anniversary, Nick starts having cringe-worthy daydreams and becomes oddly evasive, eschewing his golden boy past. HPL patron:  Awesome …More

Dad Is Fat By Gaffigan, Jim 2013-05 - Crown Archetype 9780385349055 Check Our Catalog Stand-up comedian Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children--everything from cousins to toddlers' communication skills. …More

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures By Gladwell, Malcolm 2009-10 - Little Brown and Company 9780316075848 Check Our Catalog This anthology of Gladwell's "New Yorker" essays is like a greatest-hits compilation from one of the most gifted and influential journalists in America and author of the bestsellers "The Tipping Point, Blink," and "Outliers." …More

Naked Empire By Goodkind, Terry 2004-06 - Tor Books 9780765344304 Check Our Catalog The sweeping, bestselling adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth, arrives in paperback. …More

The Pillars of Creation By Goodkind, Terry 2002-11 - Tor Books 9780765340740 Check Our Catalog In this latest Sword of Truth novel, Jennsen Daggett, tormented her whole life by inhuman voices, struggles for salvation from inner demons and ancient injustice. Meanwhile, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan are reunited, but still face the dread of an occupying army. They must venture into a desolate land where their quest turns into terror as they become the helpless prey of a tireless hunter. …More

Severed Souls By Goodkind, Terry 2014-08 - Tor Books 9780765327741 Check Our Catalog From the far reaches of the D'Haran Empire, Bishop Hannis Arc and the ancient Emperor Sulachan lead a vast horde of Shun-Tuk and other depraved "half-people" into the Empire's heart, raising an army of the dead in order to threaten the world of the living. Meanwhile, far from home, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell must defend themselves and their followers from a series of terrifying threats, …More

The Third Kingdom By Goodkind, Terry 2013-08 - Tor Books 9780765335999 Check Our Catalog Enter the unique world of Terry Goodkind. A world of high adventure, brilliant storytelling, and people you will never forget. …More

In Some Other World, Maybe By Goldhagen, Shari 2015-01 - St. Martin's Press 9781250047991 Check Our Catalog In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last ditch effort to connect with something (actually, someone, the girl he's had a crush on for years) in his sleepy Florida town before he leaves for good. Passionate fan Sharon skips school in Cincinnati so she can fully appreciate the flick …More

The Evil Inside By Graham, Heather 2011-08 - Mira Books 9780778312536 Check Our Catalog For as long as it has stood overlooking New England's jagged coastline, the Lexington House has been a witness to madness . . . and murder. But in recent years, the inexplicable malice that once tormented so many has lain as silent as its victims. Until now. Original. …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

Phantom Evil By Graham, Heather 2011-03 - Mira Books 9780778329534 Check Our Catalog Heading a group of paranormal investigators for the government, Jackson Crow--part English, part Cheyenne--uses his link to the realm of spirits to help solve the mysterious death of a senator's wife with the help of Angela Hawkins, a police officer with paranormal intuition. …More

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life By Grazer, Brian Author Fishman, Charles 2015-04 - Simon & Schuster 9781476730752 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A look back at Brian Grazer's life and career through the lens of curiosity. This book discusses why curiosit is good, makes us better people and moves us forward. Grazer also talks about his curiosity conversations and how everyone can have them. …More

Calico Joe By Grisham, John 2012-04 - Doubleday Books 9780385536073 Check Our Catalog Joe Castle, from Calico Rock, Arkansas, took the baseball world by storm in 1973. He homered in his first three major league at bats for the Chicago Cubs. Two months later, he was still hitting more than .500. Then, in his next at bat after homering off Warren Tracey, a surly journeyman pitcher, Tracey drilled a fastball at Joe's head. The damage was severe. Joe's right eye socket …More

The Litigators By Grisham, John 2011-10 - Doubleday Books 9780385535137 Check Our Catalog The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pull-ing the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book." Maybe that's why, after more than twenty years of consecutive #1 "New York Times" best sellers, a new novel by …More

Stillwater By Helget, Nicole Lea 2014-02 - Houghton Mifflin 9780547898209 Check Our Catalog Awards: Minnesota Book Award (2015) Fraternal twins, separated at birth, are raised in the same small town, where they struggle for freedom from their families, their destinies, and, sometimes, each other-- all with the underground railroad as a haunting presence in their lives …More

Revenance By Hogue, Cynthia 2014-08 - Red Hen Press 9781597095419 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Okay. …More

About a Boy By Hornby, Nick 1998-05 - Riverhead Books 9781573220873 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (1999) Winner - 2000 ALA Notable Fiction Selection Will is thirty-six and doesn't really want children. Why does it bother people that he lives so happily alone in a fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers and a mammoth record collection, hardwood floors, and an expensive cream-colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on? Then Will meets Angie. He's never been out with …More

Funny Girl By Hornby, Nick 2015-02 - Riverhead Books 9781594205415 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: While the characters, particlarly Barbara, have all the potential of being clever and intriguing, Hornby's voice in this novel presents everyone with a detached-almost methodical-tone. As such, Funny Girl feels more like a screenplay (depending on an actress to deliver emotion) as oppsed to a novel. …More

Hitch By Ingold, Jeanette 2005-06 - Harcourt Children's Books 9780152047474 Check Our Catalog Awards: Christopher Awards (2006), South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (2008), Tayshas Reading (2007) As a teenager growing up during the Great Depression, Moss Trawnley doesn't have time to be a kid. He doesn't have a job, an education, or much in the way of purpose until he lies about his age and joins Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. HPL patron: Hitch by Jeanette Ingold tells the story of Moss Trawnley. A 17 year old boy whose life is