New Books at HPL for August

The Bones of Paradise By Agee, Jonis 2016-08 - William Morrow & Company 9780062413475 Check Our Catalog The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land. Ten years after the …More

Die Like an Eagle By Andrews, Donna 2016-08 - Minotaur Books 9781250078551 Check Our Catalog The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The nineteenth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee-slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow and all the eccentric characters that make up her world. Meg is Team Mom and Michael is coach of their …More

No Breaking My Heart By Angell, Kate 2016-07 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781496703668 Check Our Catalog "Known for her charming beach reads." --"Kirkus Reviews" Relationship Status: Complicated Professional baseball player Halo Todd doesn't like failure, but he can never turn down a challenge. Especially when there's a pretty woman involved. How else would he end up dressed as a rooster, helping a complete stranger compete on a wacky game show? Even when they're eliminated …More

June By Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda 2016-08 - Thorndike Press Large Print 9781410492111 Check Our Catalog From the"New York Times"bestselling author of"Bittersweet"comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever. Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her her grandmother, June. But a knock on the …More

Hero Under Cover By Brockmann, Suzanne 2016-06 - Severn House Publishers 9780727885838 Check Our Catalog When Pete Taylor first offered his services as a bodyguard, Annie Morgan wanted nothing to do with him. She was sure that the death threats against her weren't serious. While the Native American mask she was working on was valuable, it wasn't worth killing for. One murder attempt later, Annie was glad to have Pete around. She owed him her life. Suddenly she was beginning to believe in …More

Sting By Brown, Sandra 2016-08 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455581207 Check Our Catalog "#1 "New York Times" and "USA Today" bestselling author Sandra Brown jolts the reader from the first page of this heart-pounding story of corruption, treachery, and ceaseless deception . . . where nothing is what it seems and every truth brought to light exposes a darker lie." When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely …More

The Killing Game By Bush, Nancy 2016-06 - Zebra 9781420134667 Check Our Catalog "Nancy Bush always delivers edge-of-your seat suspense " --Lisa Jackson, "New York Times " bestselling author From "New York Times "bestselling author Nancy Bush comes a tense, intricately plotted novel of suspense, as one woman becomes the focus of a killer's warped game of revenge and murder. The Rules Are Simple: It's the ultimate test of strategy and skill. …More

Melody of Murder By Cameron, Stella 2016-06 - Creme de La Crime 9781780290843 Check Our Catalog "The arrival of a talented, ambitious and unusual new family leads to mayhem and murder in the peaceful Cotswold village of Folly-on-Weir" The idyllic Cotswold village of Folly-on-Weir, with its traditional pub, sumptuous tea rooms and fragrant bakery, is a piece of paradise found until those incomer Quillams arrive. A young piano virtuoso and his neglected but talented half-sister, …More

Repo Madness By Cameron, W. Bruce 2016-08 - Forge 9780765377500 Check Our Catalog Ruddy McCann is back in "Repo Madness--the "laugh-out-loud, thrilling adventure from bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron Ruddy McCann, former college football star, now Kalkaska, Michigan repo man, is finally getting his life back on track. He has a beautiful fiance, Katie Lottner, a somewhat stable job stealing cars, and a lazy, lovable basset hound. With his job suddenly in jeopardy, his …More

The Swarm: The Second Formic War (Volume 1) By Card, Orson Scott Author Johnston, Aaron 2016-08 - Tor Books 9780765375629 Check Our Catalog Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their "Ender's Game" prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in "The Swarm." The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and …More

Surrender, New York By Carr, Caleb 2016-08 - Random House 9780679455691 Check Our Catalog Caleb Carr, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Alienist" and "The Angel of Darkness, "returns with a contemporary, edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring the brilliant but unconventional criminal psychologist Dr. Trajan Jones. In the small town of Surrender in upstate New York, Dr. Jones, a psychological profiler, and Dr. Michael Li, a trace evidence expert, teach online …More

Illusion Town By Castle, Jayne 2016-07 - Jove Books 9780515155754 Check Our Catalog A new adventure begins on Harmony With its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally unique and will take you on a thrill ride you'll never forget. Hannah West isn't the first woman to wake up in Illusion Town married to a man she barely knows, but she has no memory of the ceremony at all. For that matter, neither does Elias Coppersmith, her …More

The Hopefuls By Close, Jennifer 2016-07 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781101875612 Check Our Catalog A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriagefrom the best-selling author of"Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls"tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing …More

The Hamilton Affair By Cobbs, Elizabeth 2016-08 - Arcade Publishing 9781628727203 Check Our Catalog Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from passionate and tender beginnings to his fateful duel on the banks of the Hudson River. Hamilton was a bastard and orphan, raised in the Caribbean and desperate for …More

A Time of Torment By Connolly, John 2016-08 - Atria Books 9781501118326 Check Our Catalog Connolly again displays his mastery at combining the hard-boiled with the supernatural. "Publishers Weekly" (starred and boxed review) Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John Connolly's series, in which ungodly fears haunt a strange and isolated community. Jerome Burnel was …More

Insidious By Coulter, Catherine 2016-08 - Thorndike Press Large Print 9781410492180 Check Our Catalog "Insidious" is the twentieth thriller in #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Catherine Coulter's FBI series. FBI agents Savich and Sherlock must discover who is trying to murder eighty-six-year-old Venus Rasmussen, a powerful, wealthy society icon. They soon find out that the danger may be closer than expected. Venus Rasmussen, a powerful eighty-six-year-old woman who still runs …More

Malafemmena By Ermelino, Louisa 2016-08 - Sarabande Books 9781941411292 Check Our Catalog Louisa Ermelino's stories follow women living dangerously at home and abroad, whether in Italian-American neighborhoods or in the countriesIndia, Turkey, Afghanistanwhere they seek escape. At home, they break ancient Italian taboos and fall victim to mobsters. Overseas, they smoke opium-laced hashish and sleep with strange men. Ermelino's voice is boisterous and endearingly blunt. …More

A Natural History of Hell: Stories By Ford, Jeffrey 2016-07 - Small Beer Press 9781618731180 Check Our Catalog Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A couple are invited over to a neighbor's daughter's exorcism. A country witch with a sea-captain's head in a glass globe intercedes on behalf of abused and abandoned children. In July of 1915, in Hardin County, Ohio, a boy sees ghosts. Explore contemporary natural history in a baker's dozen of exhilarating visions. Praise for Jeffrey …More

Falling By Green, Jane 2016-08 - Thorndike Press Large Print 9781410493446 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Beach House," "Jemima J," and "Summer Secrets" presents a novel about the pleasure and meaning of finding a home and family where you least expect them... When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-crust British life for New York, she felt sure it would make her happy. Away from her parents and expectations, she felt …More

Three Sisters, Three Queens By Gregory, Philippa 2016-08 - Touchstone Books 9781476758572 Check Our Catalog There is only one bond that I trust: between a woman and her sisters. We never take our eyes off each other. In love and in rivalry, we always think of each other. From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author behind the upcoming Starz original series "The White Princess," a gripping new Tudor story featuring King Henry VIII's sisters Mary and Margaret, along with Katherine of …More

Deep Waters: A British Mystery Set in London of the Swinging 1960s By Hall, Patricia 2016-07 - Severn House Publishers 9780727886057 Check Our Catalog "A past crime causes new murder in the latest intriguing Kate O Donnell mystery" 1964. Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard has been ordered to track down notorious Soho club owner Ray Robertson, who hasn't been seen for several days. The case takes on a greater urgency when a battered body is discovered at the gym Ray owns. Is Ray the killer or is he a victim? Photographer …More

Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond By Harrison, Kim 2012-10 - Voyager 9780061974328 Check Our Catalog A true queen of urban fantasy--the "New York Times"-bestselling author of the wildly popular series featuring bounty hunter witch-turned-daywalking demon Rachel Morgan--the phenomenal Harrison explores the Hollows more deeply than ever before. …More

Once Upon a Time in Camelot By Hunt, James Patrick 2016-07 - Five Star Publishing 9781432831806 Check Our Catalog …More

Wars of the Roses: Bloodline By Iggulden, Conn 2016-07 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399165382 Check Our Catalog The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with "Bloodline," the gripping third novel in the new series from historical fiction master Conn Iggulden. Winter 1461: Richard, duke of York, is dead his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian queen, Margaret of Anjou, rides south with an …More

To the Bright Edge of the World By Ivey, Eowyn 2016-08 - Little Brown and Company 9780316242851 Check Our Catalog An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of "The Snow Child," finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. …More