Forthcoming Titles @ LCPL
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| Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay |
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Young Katniss Everdeen has survived the dreaded Hunger Games not once, but twice, but even now she can find no relief. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy.
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| Evanovich, Janet. Wicked Appetite |
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Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston's North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down.
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| Francis, Dick. Crossfire |
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Capt. Thomas Forsyth makes his way home, where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, Josephine Kauri, a horse trainer. After learning that her stable has had a series of mishaps, Forsyth discovers that Kauri has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer's threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities.
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| Gregory, Philippa. The Red Queen |
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Margaret Beaufort is certain of one thing from a very young age: God has destined her for something great. She likens herself to Joan of Arc and longs to be a leader, a figure of importance. Unfortunately, the reality is that for much of her life she is but a pawn in others' games.
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| Griffin, W.E.B. The Vigilantes |
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There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims all seem to be poor people. The more Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne investigates, however, the more he gets a bad feeling.
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| Gruen, Sara. Ape House |
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A tale drawn from the author's extensive research into human-ape communications follows the story of a group of apes who are kidnapped from a language laboratory and subsequently cast on a reality television show that calls into question scientific assumptions about common DNA that is shared by apes and people.
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| Howard, Linda. Veil of Night |
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To many of us, wedding planning seems like a dream job, a profitable way to share the joyous nuptials of couples every month of the year. For Jaclyn Wilde, that bliss by association vanishes when her latest bride-to-be is found brutally murdered.
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| Hoyt, Elizabeth. Wicked Intentions |
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Demure widow Temperance Dews desperately needs funding for her orphanage. Lazarus Huntington, the famously debauched Lord Caire, needs to find out who murdered one of his mistresses. Lazarus offers Temperance an interesting bargain: if she will be his guide in the grimy neighborhood of St. Giles, he will pay the rent she owes and introduce her to more respectable nobility who might serve as patrons.
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| James, Eloisa. A Kiss at Midnight |
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When her stepmother forces her to attend a ball, impoverished Miss Kate Daltry meets her match in Prince Gabriel, who, promised to another, is drawn to this spirited beauty, but their irresistible attraction is ill-fated until one kiss at the stoke of midnight changes everything.
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| Kenyon, Sherrilyn. No Mercy |
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Shape-shifter Dev Peltier thought he knew it all. But one night when a Dark-Hunter, who is also an official member of the Dogs of War, walks into his bar, he realizes he might have met his match.
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| Nicholls, David. One Day |
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Dexter and Emma try to maintain the connection they shared on the eve of their college graduation with letters or meetings every year on the day they met, but conflicting personalities, careers, and misconceptions hinder their efforts.
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| Patterson, James. Postcard Killers |
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After his daughter and her boyfriend are murdered in Rome, NYPD detective Jacob Kanon heads to Europe where other young couples have been found dead in various cities. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim.
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| Phillips, Carly. Kiss Me If You Can |
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Now that Sam Cooper has foiled a jewelry-store robbery and been rewarded with the ring of his choice, single women all over New York City are fawning over the crime reporter. But Coop’s attention is centered solely on Lexie Davis, the only woman who claims not to be interested in his bachelor status. Instead, free-spirited Lexie is interested in Coop's antique ring, and its—potentially scandalous—history in her family.
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| Reichs, Kathy. Spider Bones |
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John Lowery was declared dead in 1968—the victim of a helicopter crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec and the corpse is later identified as John Lowery.
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| Rollins, James. The Devil Colony |
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After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
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| Smith, Alexander McCall. Corduroy Mansions |
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Set in present-day London, Smith's charming first in a new series offers a variation on his 44 Scotland Street books, centering on the eccentric occupants of Corduroy Mansions and their offbeat doings.
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| Sparks, Nicholas. Safe Haven |
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When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past.
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| Weiner, Jennifer. Fly Away Home |
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An unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.
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| Tuohy, Leigh Anne & Sean Tuohy. In a Heartbeat |
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For the first time, the remarkable Tuohys, depicted in the film "The Blind Side," tell their own deeply inspiring story. In this compelling, funny, and profoundly astonishing book, the Tuohys take readers on an extraordinary journey of faith and love--and teach unforgettable lessons about the power of giving.
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| Wilkinson, Kendra. Sliding into Home |
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The star of the "Kendra" reality show shares the story of her life from her childhood in San Diego and years with Playboy to her rise to celebrity on "The Girls Next Door" and marriage with NFL player Hank Baskett.
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