HPL Adult Summer Reading

Beautiful Roses By Loaec, Marie-Helene Photographer Boulay, Jacques 2004-03 - Sterling Publishing 9781402714344 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This book has much interesting trivia about roses, as well as some basic useful information. Good introductory read. …More

The Killing Joke By Moore, Alan Author Bolland, Brian 2008-03 - DC Comics 9781401216672 Check Our Catalog The acclaimed author of "V for Vendetta" offers his take on the disturbing relationship between The Dark Knight and The Joker, in this special 20th anniversary deluxe edition. HPL patron: I loved The Killing Joke. One of the best comics I've ever read. …More

Truly Madly Guilty By Moriarty, Liane 2016-07 - Flatiron Books 9781250069795 Check Our Catalog "Here's the best news you've heard all year: Not a single page disappoints....The only difficulty with Truly Madly Guilty? Putting it down." --Miami Herald "Captivating, suspenseful...tantalizing." --People Magazine The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's …More

Roses for Michigan By Lindley, Nancy Author Peters, Laura 2004-01 - Lone Pine Publishing 1551053675 Check Our Catalog 144 roses suited to Michigan's unique climate and conditions. Over 300 brilliant full-color photographs HPL patron: If you're new to roses and live in MI, get this book; if possible borrow it before planting or buying any rosebushes in order to make the best possible decisions for buying, planting, fertilizing, and otherwise caring for your roses. Also …More

Worst Case By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2010-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036221 Check Our Catalog From the authors of "The Quickie" comes their most action-packed series yet. When the children of many of New York's elite become murder victims, Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker set out to capture a killer before he sends out a deadly message for the entire city to witness. …More

Saga, Volume 7 By Vaughan, Brian K. 2017-04 - Image Comics 9781534300606 Check Our Catalog From the worldwide bestselling team of FIONA STAPLES and BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, "The War for Phang" is an epic, self-contained SAGA event Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee …More

The Color Purple By Walker, Alice 1992-05 - Houghton Mifflin 9780151191543 Check Our Catalog Awards: National Book Awards (1983) This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. "If it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple is the book that ran me down while I sat with my back to it in a field".--from Walker's new preface. HPL patron: Loved this book. Would recommend it to many people. Was …More

Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter By Weitz, Stefan 2014-11 - Bibliomotion 9781629560342 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This book made me want to unplug everything. …More

Good Earls Don't Lie By Willingham, Michelle 2016-09 - Montlake Romance 9781503939769 Check Our Catalog Lady Rose Thornton never expected to find a half-naked man in her garden. The handsome Irishman claims to be the Earl of Ashton, but was Iain Donovan truly robbed by thieves? Or is he merely an impoverished stranger lying to her? After losing everything in the potato famine, Iain is searching for a wife whose dowry will save his estate. The beautiful and charming Lady Rose, unable to walk …More

Laird of Her Heart By York, Sabrina 2016-04 - Sabrina York 9781941497210 Check Our Catalog LAIRD OF HER HEART Book 1 in the Dundragon Time Travel Trilogy By Sabrina York When Maggie Spencer is mysteriously transported to the Scotland of her ancestors, she is stunned to come face to face with him. Dominic Dundragon, the man she's been half in love with her whole life. A man who's been dead for 700 years. They both have enemies aplenty. Will she have a chance to win his love, or will this …More

The Little White Bird: Or Adventures in Kensington Gardens By Barrie, James Matthew 2016-06 - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform 9781533664556 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Copyright 1902, this loosely connected story by James Matthew Barrie marks the first appearance of Peter Pan who flies away from his mother one night because it was more amusing to be a bird. Everyone knows it's actually Solomon Caw on Serpentine Island who chooses which birds get sent to the ladies who want new babies. In my favorite part, the fairies …More

Behind the Moon By Bell, Madison Smartt 2017-05 - City Lights Books 9780872867444 Check Our Catalog When Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert, she finds herself the target of unwanted, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in fear, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave, and it takes two days for her to be rescued. Lying unconscious in her hospital bed, Julie hovers between life and death …More

Touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development By Brazelton, T. Berry 1994-01 - Da Capo Lifelong Books 9780201626902 Check Our Catalog "Touchpoints" are the spurts of development, and the trying periods of regression that accompany them, throughout childhood. From pregnancy to first gradxe, all the concerns and questions that parents have about their child's behavior, feelings, and development are anticipated and answered in both chronological and reference form.(Addison-Wesley) HPL patron: …More

Body Heat By Byrd, Adrianne 2010-07 - Kimani Press 9780373861682 Check Our Catalog Luxuriating in an empty villa in St. Lucia, playwright Nikki Jamison tells a lie that leads to a full-blown marital charade. But when Hyland Dawson, the homeowner, shows up unexpectedly, will the newlyweds fall into a bed of seduction? Original. …More

Lovers Premiere By Byrd, Adrianne 2010-11 - Kimani Press 9780373861842 Check Our Catalog After she discovers Limelight Entertainment is about to merge with its biggest rival--which is run by her childhood enemy Ram Jordan--Sofia Wellesley thinks her anger will get the best of her. So why is her heart clamoring for the man she hates most in the world? Original. …More

Funerals Are Fatal By Christie, Agatha 1979-06 - Pocket Books 9780671831738 Check Our Catalog …More

Seduced on the Red Carpet By Christopher, Ann 2010-10 - Kimani Press 9780373861811 Check Our Catalog Discovered at sixteen, supermodel Livia Blake has lived a life most women only dream of. But beneath the glitz and glamour is a small-town girl who yearns for babies, a permanent home--and the man to go with it. Then she meets Hunter Chambers at his family-owned Napa Valley winery. The sexy single father tempts Livia with a desire she's never known...and with a dream she was afraid wouldn't …More

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time By Craig, Michael 2006-06 - Warner Books (NY) 9780446694971 Check Our Catalog A tale of outsized egos, appetites, and ambitions, this completely true, heart-stopping story tells of one man, 20 million dollars, and the most expensive game of poker ever played. HPL patron: I was disappointed with this book. It advertised the richest poker game was written about. In reality only a chapter described it, and then only giving the …More

The First Rule By Crais, Robert 2010-01 - Putnam Adult 9780399156137 Check Our Catalog From the "New York Times"-bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime-writing comes a blistering thriller featuring Joe Pike and Elvis Cole. HPL patron: Great book. Lots of action and suspense. Joe Pike is the star and is an awesome hero. …More

Lost Empire By Cussler, Clive Author Blackwood, Grant 2010-08 - Putnam Adult 9780399156762 Check Our Catalog While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship named the "Shenandoah." An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery, and a rumored second artifact, but, unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. (Men's Adventure) HPL patron: The Gargos go on another …More

Scapegoat By du Maurier, Daphne 2000-01 - University of Pennsylvania Press 9780812217254 Check Our Catalog "Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon, ' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.I was looking at myself."Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are …More

Passion's Price By Forster, Gwynne 2011-02 - Kimani Press 9780373862009 Check Our Catalog Darlene Cunningham has made a name in the exciting yet dangerous world of criminal law. While in pursuit of a witness, she doesn't expect to be under the surveillance of rugged cop Mike Raines, who's determined to protect her at any cost. Original. …More

Sandman, The: Preludes & Nocturnes - Book I By Gaiman, Neil Author DC Comics Editor Hill, Michael 1993-12 - Vertigo 1563890119 Check Our Catalog /Neil Gaiman /Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg and /Malcolm Jones III, illustrators Critics, booksellers, and readers have spared no enthusiasm for Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN. His unique vision and crafting of this modern myth has made the Sandman one of comics' most popular and HPL patron: Neil Gaiman has written a masterpiece theater fo sorts with this genius …More

Sexual Assault: The Ultimate Teen Guide By Ghafoerkhan, Olivia 2016-12 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9781442252479 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: My review on this book is that many women have been sexually assaulted by their rapist and someone in their family. In the United States it stated that the average number (293,066) of victims have been raped and sexually assaulted every year. Out of 82% the assailant is someone they knew. …More