HPL's Adult Summer Reading

Let's Play Make-Believe By Patterson, James With Born, James O. 2016-08 - Bookshots 9780316317221 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I have to say this is one of my favorite bookshots by James Patterson. I would never have guessed the way it ended from the way it started. I had this book finished in about an hour and a half and it usually takes me longer due to distractions. …More

Little Black Dress By Patterson, James With Raymond, Emily 2016-07 - Bookshots 9780316276382 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This book kind of reminded me of 50 Shades of Grey. I wasn't a fan of this book. …More

Taking the Titanic By Patterson, James With Slaven, Scott 2016-11 - Bookshots 9780316504096 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This was a very good book. I love almost anything and everything about the Titanic. This book was full of suspense, romance, and it was a good easy read. …More

The Trial: A Bookshot By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2016-07 - Bookshots 9780316317153 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: This book by far was my favorite James Patterson book. It had the perfect amount of work, friend, romance, murder investigation and eveyrthing in this book. I absolutely loved it. …More

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband: A Bridgertons Prequel By Quinn, Julia 2017-05 - Avon Books 9780062674777 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Interesting book and the start to what I expect will be a wonderful series. I found myself stuck between wanting to trhottle Miss Harcort for her dishonesty, lining herself up to break her own heart, to understanding her situation. Especially for a woman in her time. rewarding ending with a cliff hanger lead in to the next book. …More

Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana By Rice, Anne 2008-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781400043521 Check Our Catalog Rice's second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous series on the life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism and concludes with the miracle at Cana. As with "Out of Egypt," this novel is based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. HPL patron: Anne Rice takes fascinating material and puts me to sleep …More

The Young Messiah By Rice, Anne 2016-01 - Ballantine Books 9780399594779 Check Our Catalog SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With the Holy Land in turmoil, seven-year-old Jesus and his family leave Egypt for the dangerous road home to Jerusalem. As they travel, the boy ponders the mysteries surrounding his birth. Anne Rice's dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel, based on the gospels and the most respected New Testament scholarship, summons up the voice, …More

A Density of Souls By Rice, Christopher 2014-11 - 47north 9781477826645 Check Our Catalog When four friends reunite five years after high school, new facts about their mutual history are revealed, and what was held to be a tragic accident is discovered to be murder. As the true story emerges, other secrets begin to unravel and the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of violence that threaten an entire city. Abridged. HPL patron: A …More

The Snow Garden By Rice, Christopher 2004-01 - Pocket Star 9780743470384 Check Our Catalog From the son of Anne Rice comes his electrifying "New York Times" bestseller of infidelity, murder, and betrayal on a college campus. "An enthralling narrative . . . "--"Booklist." HPL patron: This was my introduction to Christopher Rice, a better writter than his mother Anne Rice. His story, set in an East Coast college sort of like Harvard, follows three …More

The Macgregors: Alan & Grant By Roberts, Nora 2011-01 - Silhouette Books 9780373281343 Check Our Catalog #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nora Roberts enchants again with two more beloved classics about the passionate and headstrong MacGregor family. All the Possibilities Creative, compelling, unconventionalShelby Campbell was unlike any woman Senator Alan MacGregor had ever known. The cynical politician found himself falling in love with the …More

Portrait in Death By Robb, J. D. 2003-02 - Berkley Books 9780425189030 Check Our Catalog Awards: Rita Awards (2004) The "New York Times" #1 bestselling police thriller series featuring futuristic cop Eve Dallas continues in this brand-new, first-time-in-print novel. Author tour for Roberts's next hardcover, "Birthright, " to be released in March 2003. Original. …More

Purity in Death By Robb, J. D. 2002-08 - Berkley Books 042518630X Check Our Catalog For the first time in print comes the 15th installment in Nora Roberts's (writing as J.D. Robb) bestselling futuristic In Death series (following "Reunion in Death"), featuring New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas. …More

Reunion in Death By Robb, J. D. 2002-03 - Berkley Books 9780425183977 Check Our Catalog Awards: Rita Awards (2003) In the 14th installment of Robb's (aka Nora Roberts) futuristic In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, celebrate their first anniversary--which will be one they, nor fans of this series, never forget! …More

Collared By Rosenfelt, David 2017-07 - Minotaur Books 9781250055354 Check Our Catalog Lawyer Andy Carpenter's true passion is the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs with his friend Willie Miller. All kinds of dogs make their way to the foundation, and it isn't that surprising to find a dog abandoned at the shelter one morning, though it was accompanied by a mysterious anonymous note. But they are quite surprised when they scan the dog's embedded chip, and …More

Board Stiff By Ryan, Annelise 2014-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758272768 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: An entertaining cozy mystery. …More

Lucky Stiff By Ryan, Annelise 2013-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758272751 Check Our Catalog It's Christmas Day in the sleepy town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, and deputy coroner Mattie Winston is at the burnt remains of a house, where a charred body has been found. The victim is identified as Jack AllenNa paraplegic who had recently won a huge casino jackpot. Original. …More

Who-ology: Doctor Who: The Official Miscellany By Scott, Cavan Author Wright, Mark 2013-06 - BBC Books 9781849906197 Check Our Catalog The official miscellany, celebrating 50 years of "Doctor Who," a cult favorite around the world and the longest-running science fiction television show of all time. …More

Out-Of-Style: A Modern Perspective of How, Why and When Vintage Fashions Evolved By Shubert, Betty Kreisel 2012-11 - Flashback Publishing 9780983576167 Check Our Catalog Fascinated by fashion design and fashion history? Love vintage clothes & costume? Interested in Genealogy and how to time-date old family photos through fashion? Want a beloved fashion coffee table book filled with gems of social history? Need a stylish gift? Winner of FIVE AWARDS for Best Book ● 2017 …More

Dust By Slade, Arthur 2014-02 - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform 9781495470059 Check Our Catalog A rainmaker brings rain to a drought-stricken town, but the children begin to disappear... Strange things are happening in Horshoe, a Dust Bowl farm town in the Depression-era prairies. Young Matthew Steelgate has vanished on a walk into town. His brother, Robert, knows that he has to find Matthew. He has to figure out why the hens are frightened and their eggs full of blood. Why a broken jar he …More

The Good Daughter By Slaughter, Karin 2017-08 - William Morrow & Company 9780062430243 Check Our Catalog Instant New York Times Bestseller The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author -- a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense. Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind... Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and …More

Bone #9: Crown of Horns By Smith, Jeff 2009-01 - Graphix 9780439706315 Check Our Catalog It's full-fledged war as Briar, the rat creatures, and the Pawan army storm the city of Atheia. The Bone cousins, Thorn, and Gran'ma Ben are all there to defend the Valley and stop the return of the Lord of the Locusts. When Thorn goes inside a ghost circle, she hears a voice urging her to seek the Crown of Horns. What follows is another dangerous journey for Thorn and loyal Fone Bone as they race …More

The Cradle By Somerville, Patrick 2009-03 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036122 Check Our Catalog ""The Cradle" is a story of family and the connections across time that define our lives in secret and surprising ways. It is a vivid story of renewal and a new beginning. Patrick Somerville is a storyteller you will not forget--Robert Morgan, author of "Gap Creek." …More

Born to Run By Springsteen, Bruce 2016-09 - Simon & Schuster 9781501141515 Check Our Catalog "A virtuoso performance, the 508-page equivalent to one of Springsteen and the E Street Band's famous four-hour concerts: Nothing is left onstage, and diehard fans and first-timers alike depart for home sated and yet somehow already aching for more." --NPR "Richly rewarding...Bruce Springsteen proves that he has taken on life fully engaged both in living and examining it, and in doing …More