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HOTP are located on the "New Books" shelves, next to the Information Desk. HOTP may be borrowed for seven days, renewed only once in person; and must be returned to this Library. HOTP cannot be reserved. (However, the same titles may be reserved from the larger library collection through the Library's Reserve ("Hold") system, but may take much longer to obtain.) HOTP sign

A subscription to HOTP Books is a gift from the Friends of Encino-Tarzana Library. Information about selection and acquisition of the books is at the bottom of this page. Our Librarians notify the Friends when the HOTP Books are received and placed on the shelves (see list and dates below).


3/8/10 -- James Grippando - Money to Burn: A Novel of Suspense

3/2/10 -- Joy Fielding - Wild Zone
  Danielle Steel - Big Girl
  Tim Lahaye - Matthew's Story
  Robert B. Parker - Split Image
  J. D. Robb - Fantasy in Death

2/24/10 -- Joanne Fluke - Apple Turnover Murder: A Hannah Swenson
    Mystery with Recipes
  Fern Michaels - Game Over
  Dana Stabenow - A Night Too Dark

2/18/10 -- Louise Erdrich - Shadow Tag
  Laurel K. Hamilton - Flirt
  Michael Palmer - Last Surgeon
  Jenny Sanford - Staying True
  Peter Straub - A Dark Matter

2/9/10 -- Don Delillo - Point Omega
  Jackie collins - Poor Little Bitch Girl
  Robert Harris - Conspirata
  Adrianna Trigiani - Brava, Valentine

2/2/10 -- Chris Bohjalian - Secrets of Eden
  Kristin Hannah - Winter Garden
  James Patterson - Worst Case (2 copies)

2/1/10 -- Marian Keyes - Brightest Star in the Sky


January, 2010

  Kay Hooper - Blood Ties: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel
  M. C. Beaton - Death of a Valentine
  Bernard Cornwell - Burning Land
  Robert Crais - First Rule (2 copies)
  Jack Higgins - Wolf at the Door
  John T. Lescroart - Treasure Hunt
  Ian Rankin - Doors Open
  Kimberla Lawson Roby - Be Careful What You Pray For
  Stuart Woods - Kisser
  Tracy Chevalier - Remarkable Creatures
  Stuart Kaminsky - Whisper to the Living
  T. Jefferson Parker - Iron River (2 copies)
  Orson Scott Card - Hidden Empire
  Barbara Delinsky - Not My Daughter
  Julie Garwood - Sizzle
  Joyce Carol Oates - Fair Maiden
  Douglas J. Preston - Impact
  Anne Tyler - Noah's Compass


December
  Mary Balogh - Matter of Class
  Jude Deveraux - Days of Gold
  Stephen Hunter - I, Sniper
  W. E. B. Griffin - Honor of Spies
  Tami Hoag - Deeper than Dead
  Jayne Ann Krentz - Fired Up
  Dominick Dunne - Too Much Money
  Emma McLaughlin - Nanny Returns
  Stephen Coonts - Disciple: A Novel
  Sue Grafton - U is for Undertow (2 copies)
  Laurell K. Hamilton - Divine Misdemeanors: A Novel
  Alexander McCall Smith - LA's Orchestra Saves the World
  Colleen McCullough - Too Many Murders: A Carmine Delmonico Novel
  Sylvia Browne - Truth About Psychics: What's Real, What's
    Not, and How to Tell the Difference
  Steve Berry - Paris Vendetta: A Novel
  Michael Crichton - Pirate Latitudes: A Novel
  Judith A. Jance - Trial by Fire: A Novel of Suspense
  Sarah Palin - Going Rogue: An American Life
  Julie Powell - Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession


November
  Dean Koontz - Breathless
  Fern Michaels - Deadly Deals
  Joseph Wambaugh - Hollywood Moon (2 copies)
  Clive Cussler - Wrecker
  James Patterson - I, Alex Cross
  Garrison Keillor - A Christmas Blizzard
  Stephen King - Under the Dome: A Novel
  Barbara Kingsolver - Lacuna: A Novel
  Bill Minutaglio - Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life
  J. D. Robb - Kindred in Death
  David Spoto - High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly
  John Grisham - Ford County: Stories, Short Stories
  Gregory Maguire - Matchless: A Christmas Story
  Jeff Shaara - No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II
  John Irving - Last Night in Twisted River
  Andrew A. Rooney - Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
  Philip Roth - The Humbling

October
  David Baldacci - True Blue
  Patricia Cornwell - Scarpetta Factor
  Robert Jordan - Gathering Storm
  Laura Parker - Miracle on the Hudson: The Survivors of Flight 1549
    Tell Their Extraordinary Stories of Courage, Faith, and Determination
  Peter Mayle - Vintage Caper
  Suzanne Somers - Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are
    Curing Cancer - And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place
  Iris Johansen - Blood Game
  John Saul - House of Reckoning
  Barbara Taylor Bradford - Breaking the Rules
  Michael Connelly - Nine Dragons
  Mark Fuhrman - Murder Business: High Profile Crimes and the
    Corruption of Justice
  Robert B. Parker - Professional
  Stuart Woods - Hothouse Orchid
  Nevada Barr - 13 1/2
  Valerie Bertinelli - Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life
    without Opening the Fridge
  Marc Eliot - American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood
  Jonathan Kellerman - Evidence: An Alex Delaware Novel
  R. A. Salvatore - The Ghost King: Transitions, Book III
  Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith: A True Story
  John Sandford - Rough Country
  William Bernhardt - Capitol Offense

September
  M. C. Beaton - There Goes the Bride: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
  Garrison Keillor - Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance
  Sara Paretsky - Hardball
  James Patterson and Martin Dugard - The Murder of King Tut: The Plot
    to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller
  Diana Gabaldon - Echo in the Bone
  Michael, 1958 -2009 (Life Commemorative edition, July 2009)
  Andrew Weil, M.D. - Why Our Health Matters
  Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol (4 copies)
  Jacquelyn Mitchard - No Time to Wave Goodbye
  Ron Paul - End the Fed
  Nicholas Sparks - The Last Song
  E.L. Doctorow - Homer & Langley
  Barbara Hambly - Homeland
  Fern Michaels - Vanishing Act
  Dean Koontz - Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
  Dick Francis and Felix Francis - Even Money
  Richard North Patterson - The Spire
  J. Randy Taraborrelli - The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

August, 2009
  James Patterson and Richard Dilallo - Alex Cross's Trial
  Pat Conroy - South of Broad
  Joseph Finder - Vanished
  Philippa Gregory - White Queen
  Faye Kellerman - Blindman's Bluff
  Alana Stewart - My Journey with Farrah: What I've Learned about
    Life, Love and Friendship
  Larry McMurtry - Rhino Ranch
  Sandra Brown - Smash Cut
  Robin Cook - Intervention
  Christopher Reich - Rules of Vengeance
  Luanne Rice - Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
  Tilly Bagshawe - Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game
  Irene Spencer - Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets,
    and Blood Atonement
  Stephen White - Siege
  Iris Johansen - Storm Cycle
  Sophie Kinsella - Twenties Girl
  Steve Martini - Guardian of Lies
  Karin Slaughter - Undone
  Donald Westlake - Get Real
  Dorothy Garlock - The Moon Looked Down
  James Lee Burke - Rain Gods
  Nora Roberts - Black Hills
  Greg Iles - Devil's Punchbowl
  John Lescroart - Plague of Secrets

July, 2009
  Nancy Thayer - Summer House
  Fern Michaels - The Scoop
  James Patterson - Swimsuit
  Catherine Coulter - Knock Out
  Janet Evanovich - Finger Lickin' Fifteen
  Stephen Mansfield & David A. Holland - Paul Harvey's America
  Laurell K. Hamilton - Skin Trade
  Dean Koontz - Relentless
  Jeffery Deaver - Roadside Crosses
  Eric Van Lustbader - Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Deception
  Clive Cussler w/ Paul Kemprecos - Medusa


About HOTP:
HOTP Books are selected and ordered by the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) before publication dates; selection is based on patron holds, expected popularity, and strong pre-publication reviews. After publishing, the publishers immediately send HOTP Books to LAPL, where they are quickly processed and delivered to those branch libraries that have subscriptions.