Adult Summer Reading Week - Friday

Sahara By Cussler, Clive 2009-06 - Pocket Star Books 9781439135686 Check Our Catalog Cussler's breathtaking thriller featuring adventurer Dirk Pitt--the basis for the hit 2005 film starring Matthew McConaughey--is now available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue. …More

The Stranger I Married By Day, Sylvia 2012-08 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758290397 Check Our Catalog They are London's most scandalous couple: Isabel, Lady Pelham, and Gerard Faulkner, Marquess of Grayson. Their union is a most agreeable sham, until a shocking turn of events sends Gerard away from Isabel. He returns four years later--and he will stop at nothing to win her love. …More

Stolen By de La Cruz, Melissa Author Johnston, Michael 2014-11 - Putnam Publishing Group 9780399257551 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I thought this book was very well written. I loved it until it left you hanging on the last page. …More

Payback Time By Deuker, Carl 2010-09 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780547279817 Check Our Catalog Awards: Black-Eyed Susan Award (2013), Grand Canyon Reader Award (2013), Iowa Teen Award (2013), Isinglass Teen Read Award (2012), Sequoyah Book Awards (2013), Texas Lone Star Reading List (2011) Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonist--a fat high school journalist named Mitch--veteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football player named Angel. …More

Bad Little Falls By Doiron, Paul 2012-08 - Minotaur Books 9780312558482 Check Our Catalog Anthony- and Edgar-Award nominated author Doiron delivers another "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" ("Booklist") with his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm in Maine. …More

Fatal Harbor: A Lewis Cole Mystery By DuBois, Brendan 2014-05 - Pegasus Books 9781605985626 Check Our Catalog In the eighth novel of the acclaimed Lewis Cole series, award-winning author Brendan DuBois returns once again to one of the most appealing heroes in mystery fiction. …More

F Is for France: A Curious Cabinet of French Wonders By Eatwell, Piu Marie 2016-06 - Thomas Dunne Books 9781250087737 Check Our Catalog Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster "They Eat Horses, Don't They" is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage. From absinthe and catacombs to former French soccer player Zinedine Zidane, Eatwell leaves no stone unturned, …More

The Round House By Erdrich, Louise 2012-10 - Harper 9780062065247 Check Our Catalog Awards: ALA Notable Books (2013), Alex Awards (2013), Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (2013), Indies Choice Book Awards (2013), Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (2013), Minnesota Book Award (2013), National Book Awards (2012), Nautilus Award (2013) One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist "The Plague of Doves" with a story that transports readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. …More

Two for the Dough By Evanovich, Janet 1996-01 - Scribner Book Company 9780684196381 Check Our Catalog Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton's burg. He's fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he's just shot his best friend. With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers knee-deep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors. And nobody knows funeral parlors …More

Seven Days Dead: A Thriller By Farrow, John 2016-05 - Minotaur Books 9781250057693 Check Our Catalog During an epic storm in the Gulf of Maine a lone woman races--first by car, then by a life-threatening sea crossing--to the island of Grand Manan. Her father is dying will she make it in time? Others also venture out into the maelstrom that night, including a mysterious band of men and women who gather on Seven Days Work, the sheer cliff that overlooks the wild sea. A housekeeper, a pastor, …More

The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door By Finneyfrock, Karen 2013-02 - Viking Children's Books 9780670012756 Check Our Catalog Awards: Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2015) Fourteen-year-old Celia, hurt by her parents' separation, the loss of her only friend, and a classmate's cruelty, has only her poetry for solace until newcomer Drake Berlin befriends her, comes out to her, and seeks her help in connecting with the boy he left behind. HPL patron: It was an interesting book. …More

The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success By Gallo, Carmine 2010-10 - McGraw-Hill Education 9780071748759 Check Our Catalog Awards: Axiom Business Book Awards (2011) Author Gallo gets into the mind of Steve Jobs, one of today's more innovative leaders in business, to reveal his seven wonders for innovation and creativity. HPL patron: Not a book on Jobs, but this author's idea of what it takes to be an innovator. …More

What Remains of Me By Gaylin, Alison 2016-02 - William Morrow & Company 9780062369857 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Odd story. Compulsively readable. Last few chapters were pretty choppy with the "shocker" ending kind of rough. Like it had to be wrapped up quickly. …More

White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief By Goines, Donald, Jr. 2007-05 - Holloway House Publishing Company 9780870679483 Check Our Catalog …More

The Dark Days Club: A Lady Helen Novel By Goodman, Alison 2016-01 - Viking Books for Young Readers 9780670785476 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A stunning tale of uppercrust demon hunters. Set in the era of early 1800's Regency London. A must-read! Fast paced and engaging. …More

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn By Goodman, Alison 2008-12 - Viking Children's Books 9780670062270 Check Our Catalog Awards: Beehive Awards (2011), Tayshas Reading (2010) Eon has been studying the ancient art of Dragon Magic for four years, hoping he'll be able to apprentice to one of the 12 energy dragons of good fortune. But he also has a dark secret. He is actually Eona, a 16-year-old girl who has been living a dangerous lie for the chance to become a Dragoneye, the human link to an energy dragon's power. HPL patron: Fast-paced action …More

Umbrella Summer By Graff, Lisa 2009-06 - HarperCollins Publishers 9780061431876 Check Our Catalog Awards: Black-Eyed Susan Award (2011), Bluebonnet Awards (2011), Great Stone Face Book Award (2011), Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award (2012), Rhode Island Children's Book Awards (2011), Sequoyah Book Awards (2012), Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (2012) From the author of the Bluebonnet Award nominee "The Thing About Georgie" comes a touching novel about a young girl whose brother has just died, and how she rises above grief through the healing power of community. …More

Who I Kissed By Gurtler, Janet 2012-10 - Sourcebooks Fire 9781402270543 Check Our Catalog She killed him with a kiss . . . Overnight Sammy turns into the school pariah and a media sensation explodes. Consumed with guilt, abandoned by her friends, and in jeopardy of losing her swimming scholarship, she'll have to find a way to forgive herself before anyone else will. HPL patron: This is a great book. …More

Death at Breakfast By Gutcheon, Beth 2016-05 - William Morrow & Company 9780062431967 Check Our Catalog From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing, More Than You Know, and Gossip comes the first entry in a stylish and witty mystery series featuring a pair of unlikely investigators a shrewd novel of manners with a dark heart of murder at its center, set in small-town New England. Indulging their pleasure in travel and new experiences, recently retired private school …More

$10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles By Hall, Parnell 2012-05 - Gale Cengage 9781410447289 Check Our Catalog When young attorney Becky Baldwin hires Cora Felton to make a blackmail payment drop, it couldn't go worse: Cora stumbles over a corpse and a puzzle, and someone steals the money. This title in the entertaining series features new puzzles by Will Shortz that help readers solve the mystery. …More

Walter's Purple Heart By Hyde, Catherine Ryan 2002-04 - Simon & Schuster 9780684867236 Check Our Catalog From the author of "Pay It Forward" and "Electric God" comes a stunningly original and romantic story of a dead World War II soldier who reaches through time to touch the people he loved most. HPL patron: I loved this book! …More

After She's Gone By Jackson, Lisa 2015-12 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781617734656 Check Our Catalog In this explosive new thriller, #1 "New York Times "bestselling author Lisa Jackson delves into the deep bond between two sisters and their shared dream that becomes a harrowing nightmare of madness, hatred and jealousy Cassie Kramer and her younger sister, Allie, learned the hazards of fame long ago. Together, they'd survived the horror of a crazed fan who nearly killed their mother, former …More

Classified as Murder By James, Miranda 2011-09 - Wheeler Publishing 9781410440723 Check Our Catalog Aging eccentric James Delacorte asks Charlie the librarian to do an inventory of his rare book collection, but the job goes from tedious to terrifying when James turns up dead. Relying on his cat Diesel to paw around for clues, Charlie has to catch the killer before another victim checks out. Original. …More

File M for Murder By James, Miranda 2012-10 - Wheeler Publishing 9781410449344 Check Our Catalog Athena College's new writer in residence is native son and playwright Connor Lawton. After an unpleasant encounter, librarian Charlie Harris heads home to a nice surprise: his daughter Laura is subbing for another Athena professor. Unfortunately her old flame Connor got her the job. But before Connor finishes his newest play, he's murdered--and Laura is the prime suspect. Original. …More