HPL Adult Summer Reading

The Chalk Artist By Goodman, Allegra 2017-06 - Dial Press 9781400069873 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Started out great. About 2/3 of the way through it just tanked. The last part of the book was just read to get it done. …More

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter By Goss, Theodora 2017-06 - Saga Press 9781481466509 Check Our Catalog Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders--and the bigger mystery of their own origins. Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that …More

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust By Beer, Edith Hahn With Dworkin, Susan Preface by Beer, Edith Hahn 1999-10 - Rob Weisbach Books 068816689X Check Our Catalog For the first time, a Jewish woman tells, in vivid, wrenching detail, how she survived the Holocaust as the wife of a Nazi party member. Included are letters, photos--including those taken inside the labor camps--and falsified documents. …More

Go Set a Watchman By Lee, Harper 2015-07 - Harper 9780062409850 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: The manuscript should have stayed in the bank vault where Harper Lee hid it after her first editor said it didn't merit publishing. Only the flashbacks come alive. The rest is pretentious and preachy. …More

The Girl of His Dreams By Leon, Donna 2008-05 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780871139801 Check Our Catalog Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. "The Girl of His Dreams" offers a spectacular, heart-wrenching addition to the series. HPL patron: Don't care for this author at …More

Falling in Love: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery By Leon, Donna 2015-04 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780802123534 Check Our Catalog Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice, the first novel in her beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti series, introduced readers to the glamorous and cutthroat world of opera and one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli--then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to Venice and La Fenice to sing the lead in …More

The Last Place You Look By Lepionka, Kristen 2017-06 - Minotaur Books 9781250120519 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: A bad combination of Kinsey Milhone and Stephanie Plum. Quick enough read at least but too cookie cutter to be anything but unmemorable. …More

Flannery By Moore, Lisa 2016-05 - Groundwood Books 9781554980765 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This book talks about a sixteen year-old who was in love with a guy by the name of Tyrone. She was in love with him since they were teenagers, but he turned into something different as he got older. She couldn't be with him because he turned to a life of crime and that was hard for her. She wanted to finish school. He didn't want to finish school. Her …More

Love Finds a Home By Oke, Janette 2004-02 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764228551 Check Our Catalog Belinda finds that she once again faces decisions about her life, but now with God's peace. Love Comes Softly book 8. HPL patron: The book was an excellent read. It was about Belinda being the youngest and moving on like the rest of her family. Only instead of staying west she went east. She later moved back. Following and waiting on God because he …More

Rocks & Minerals By Pellant, Chris 1992-03 - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) 1564580334 Check Our Catalog Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy and accurate. …More

Devoted in Death By Robb, J. D. 2015-09 - Berkley Books 9780399170881 Check Our Catalog Eve Dallas tracks a pair of Bonnie and Clyde copycats whose heated passion for each other is fueled by cold brutality in this crime thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author of J. D. Robb. When Lieutenant Eve Dallas examines a fresh body in a seedy alleyway in downtown Manhattan, the victim's injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the …More

Blood Magick By Roberts, Nora 2014-10 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425259870 Check Our Catalog From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the final novel in a trilogy about the land we're drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love... Book Three of The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Blood Magick County Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O'Dwyer fully embraces in her …More

Chasing Fire By Roberts, Nora 2011-04 - Putnam Adult 9780399157448 Check Our Catalog Number-one "New York Times"-bestselling author Nora Roberts--America's favorite writer ("The New Yorker")--delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline--men and women who wouldn't know how to live life if it wasn't on the edge. HPL patron: A great insight into the world of smoke jumpers and all the dangers. …More

Trajectory: Stories By Russo, Richard 2017-05 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781101947722 Check Our Catalog Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In "Horseman," a professor …More

The Woman on the Stairs By Schlink, Bernhard Translator Hackett, Joyce Translator Schmidt, Bradley 2017-03 - Pantheon Books 9781101870716 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Very good. Started out a bit odd, like you coming into the story in the middle. Simple and elegant. …More

The Fifth Heart By Simmons, Dan 2015-03 - Little Brown and Company 9780316198820 Check Our Catalog In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance. …More

Shark By Deitsch, Jeremy Stafford Author Stafford-Deitsch, Jeremy Foreword by Gruber, Samuel H. 1988-08 - Sierra Club Books for Children 9780871567338 Check Our Catalog This exciting blend of first-person adventure and natural history is the story of a three-year global adventure by a renowned marine photographer and diver who takes a closeup look at all major species of shark. 130 full-color photographs. …More

A Man Called Ove By Backman, Fredrik 2014-07 - Atria Books 9781476738017 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This was a good book easy enough to read yet still had a message worth keeping. Characters were well developed and the back story on Ove was well done. HPL patron: I liked the story very much, the end made me cry. But I really didn't like the narrative style. Still, a very good story. …More

Broken Promise By Barclay, Linwood 2015-07 - Berkley Books 9780451472670 Check Our Catalog From New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes an explosive novel set in the peaceful small town of Promise Falls, where secrets can always be buried--but never forgotten... After his wife's death and the collapse of his newspaper, David Harwood has no choice but to uproot his nine-year-old son and move back into his childhood home in Promise …More

Overbite By Cabot, Meg 2011-07 - William Morrow & Company 9780061735103 Check Our Catalog "She is a master at entertaining and amusing readers." --Booklist Nobody does vampires like Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Queen of Babble novels. Overbite is Meg's sexy and hip sequel to her bestselling Insatiable, the story of a soap opera writer with precognitive powers who is recruited into the Vatican's war against demons and the …More

The Moth Catcher By Cleeves, Ann 2016-10 - Minotaur Books 9781250105424 Check Our Catalog Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they're away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane--a lonely place to die. When DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, she finds the body of a second man. …More

A Place Called Rainwater By Garlock, Dorothy 2003-05 - Warner Books 9780446611466 Check Our Catalog Garlock's Jones family trilogy that began with "The Edge of Town" and continued in "High on a Hill" concludes in this novel set in 1920s Oklahoma, where oil turns a small town into a boomtown--and danger is about to turn one woman's life upside down. HPL patron: Story of life in an Oklahoma oil town in the early 1900's. Likeable and believable characters, …More

The Second Silence By Goudge, Eileen 2000-06 - Viking Books 9780670891597 Check Our Catalog A mother's worst nightmare brought to life unites a family in this searing, taut new novel by the bestselling author of "One Last Dance". Romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling, "The Second Silence" takes readers into the breaking heart of Noelle Van Doren, whose only child is snatched away by her estranged husband. …More