Wednesday, February 8, 2017

New Books at HPL



Enigma Variations
Enigma Variations
By Aciman, Andre
2017-01 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374148430 Check Our Catalog


Andre Aciman, hailed as a writer of fiction at its most supremely interesting (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern

Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents cabinetmaker, or
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Selection Day
Selection Day
By Adiga, Aravind
2017-01 - Scribner Book Company
9781501150838 Check Our Catalog

From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricket stars, and whose coming of age threatens their relationship, future, and sense of themselves.

Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at
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Mulberry Moon
Mulberry Moon
By Anderson, Catherine
2017-01 - Jove Books
9780451488022 Check Our Catalog

The New York Times bestselling author of New Leaf returns to Mystic Creek, Oregon, where a wounded heart finds a place to call home. . . .

After a career on the rodeo circuit, Ben Sterling longs to settle down on his farm and start a family like his brothers. He's searched all over for the woman of his dreams. Yet the only one to spark his interest is the new
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All the Time in the World
All the Time in the World
By Angell, Caroline
2017-03 - Thorndike Press
9781410495518 Check Our Catalog


An unforgettable debut about a young woman's choice between the future she's always imagined and the people she's come to love.
Charlotte, a gifted and superbly trained young musician, has been blindsided by a shocking betrayal in her promising career when she takes a babysitting job with the McLeans, a glamorous Upper East Side Manhattan family. At first, the nanny gig is just a way of …More


The Bear and the Nightingale
The Bear and the Nightingale
By Arden, Katherine
2017-01 - Thorndike Press Large Print
9781410496171 Check Our Catalog

A magical debut novel for readers ofNaomi Novik sUprooted, Erin Morgenstern sThe Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.



At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the
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Someone to Love
Someone to Love
By Balogh, Mary
2016-11 - Signet Book
9780451477798 Check Our Catalog

The New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss launches a new series with the death of an earl and the revelation of a scandalous secret...



Humphrey Westcott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune that will forever alter the lives of everyone in his family including the daughter no one knew he had...

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Jane and the Waterloo Map
Jane and the Waterloo Map
By Barron, Stephanie
2017-01 - Soho Crime
9781616957995 Check Our Catalog

Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful Regency-era mystery

November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker, is about to declare bankruptcy dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside, believing him to be dying. While
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The Fifth Petal
The Fifth Petal
By Barry, Brunonia
2017-01 - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
9781101905609 Check Our Catalog

Beloved author Brunonia Barry returns to the world of THE LACE READER with this spellbinding new thriller, a complex brew of suspense, seduction and murder.

When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney, wonders if there is a connection between his death and Salem's most notorious
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The Sleepwalker
The Sleepwalker
By Bohjalian, Chris
2017-01 - Doubleday Books
9780385538916 Check Our Catalog

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.

When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre and devastating.
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Number 11
Number 11
By Coe, Jonathan
2017-01 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780451493361 Check Our Catalog

The long-awaited sequel to The Winshaw Legacy, the 1995 novel that introduced American readers to one of Britain's most exciting new writers--an acerbic, hilariously dark, and unflinching portrait of modern society.

The novel opens in the early aughts: two ten-year-olds, Alison and Rachel, have a frightening encounter with the "Mad Bird Woman" who lives down the road. As
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Transit
Transit
By Cusk, Rachel
2017-01 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374278625 Check Our Catalog


The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015



In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions personal, moral, artistic, and practical as she endeavors to
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Odessa Sea
Odessa Sea
By Cussler, Clive
2016-11 - G.P. Putnam's Sons
9780399575518 Check Our Catalog

Oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones *, Dirk Pitt responds to a mysterious Mayday signal from a deserted ship that draws him toward a deadly Cold War secret in this novel in the #1New York Times-bestselling series.

Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to
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Fearless
Fearless
By Dimon, HelenKay
2013-06 - Harlequin
9780373747559 Check Our Catalog

"His job had once torn them apartbut now it was the only thing that could bring them back together"

Davis Weeks had a sterling reputation for high-priority, under-the-radar rescue missions. His role in the prestigious undercover agency Corcoran Team trumped everything. Even Lara Bart. Though his loyalty to his position had once driven her away, Lara knew she had to tame her emotions if
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Clownfish Blues
Clownfish Blues
By Dorsey, Tim
2017-01 - William Morrow & Company
9780062429223 Check Our Catalog


A (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in this insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem, Tim Dorsey.
If you're loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own "episodes" of your favorite classic television show, Route 66
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Dracula vs. Hitler
Dracula vs. Hitler
By Duncan, Patrick Sheane
2016-10 - Inkshares
9781942645085 Check Our Catalog

A novel worthy of being called the true sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Patrick Sheane Duncan a writer rightfully deserving to be considered that author's successor. New York Journal of Books

Ravaged by the Nazi Secret Service during World War II, Romanian resistance forces turn to one of their leaders, Professor Van Helsing for any way out. To fight these
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Deception
Deception
By Ericson, Carol
2012-10 - Harlequin
9780373747009 Check Our Catalog

Columbella House, a crumbling Victorian mansion on the coast, is packed with secrets and danger. Now it all belongs to Mia St. Regis. For police chief Dylan Reese, the return of the beautiful heiress rekindles an old attraction, one he thought ended long ago. Before he can focus on their past, though, Mia's reappearance rouses a killer, someone who's made her the ultimate--and most prized--target. …More


The Wharf
The Wharf
By Ericson, Carol
2014-08 - Harlequin
9780373748396 Check Our Catalog

In Carol Ericson's next Brody Law book a police chief and a journalist keep their relationship professional--until she becomes a target...

True crime writer Kacie Manning vowed to expose the serial killer suspected of murdering her mother. And she was going to use the killer's son to do it. But Ryan Brody wasn't at all what she expected....

The sexy police chief hoped Kacie
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Leopard's Fury
Leopard's Fury
By Feehan, Christine
2016-11 - Jove Books
9780515156225 Check Our Catalog

A ruthless criminal unleashes his most feral desires in the new Leopard novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild Cat.

Passion melts the will of an ice-cold criminal when he meets the one woman who can tame the beast inside him.


Leopard's Fury

With her own bakery in San Antonio, Evangeline Tregre made a new life far from
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
Signals: New and Selected Stories
By Gautreaux, Tim
2017-01 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780451493040 Check Our Catalog

A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art."

After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life
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Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles, Volume I
Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles, Volume I
By Goodkind, Terry
2017-01 - Tor Books
9780765388216 Check Our Catalog


Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness will launch The Nicci Chronicles, Terry Goodkind's entirely new series with a cast of characters centered on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth.
One-time lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang, known as Death's Mistress and the Slave Queen, the deadly Nicci captured Richard Rahl in order to convince him …More


False Friend
False Friend
By Grant, Andrew
2017-01 - Ballantine Books
9780399594304 Check Our Catalog

The second installment in the extraordinary Cooper Devereaux mystery thriller series, which combines the atmosphere of James Lee Burke and Craig Johnson with the noir brilliance of Robert Crais

An arsonist is targeting schools in Birmingham, Alabama with devastating effect. Detective Devereaux a man you can't quite trust and should never ignore must put a stop to the elusive
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Different Class
Different Class
By Harris, Joanne
2017-01 - Touchstone Books
9781501155512 Check Our Catalog

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chocolat comes a dark, suspenseful tale in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith about a sociopathic young outcast at an antiquated prep school and the curmudgeonly Latin teacher who uncovers his dangerous secret.

After thirty years at St. Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, England, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all
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Avenging the Owl
Avenging the Owl
By Hart, Melissa
2016-04 - Sky Pony Press
9781634501477 Check Our Catalog

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Han Solo avenged the destruction of an innocent planet by helping Luke Skywalker blow up the Death Star. Han walked away with a gold medal and the love of his life. But when Solo Hahnnamed in honor of the beloved action herotries to avenge the death of his gray-and-white kitten, he gets eight months of community service. Eight months of working at the …More


The Midnight Bell
The Midnight Bell
By Higgins, Jack
2016-12 - G.P. Putnam's Sons
9780399185304 Check Our Catalog

The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it. Irish proverb

From the dean of intrigue novelists (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) comes a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge.

In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge.

In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the Prime
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Maitland
Maitland
By Hunt, James Patrick
2005-01 - Five Star (ME)
1594142726 Check Our Catalog

Evan Maitland is co-owner and operator of Collette's Antiques, an upscale furniture store in Chicago. He's also a bail enforcement agent/bounty hunter. On a cold January night, a bail bondsman hires Maitland to find Barry McDermott, a lawyer charged with statutory rape. What appears to be a simple retrieval turns into something far more complicated. Maitland is shot in a gunfight and kills a man …More

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