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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).



July, 2010

7/28/10 -- Carl Hiaasen - Star Island
  J.A. Jance - Queen of the Night

7/23/10 -- Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen - Shadow Zone
  Alex Kava - Damaged: A Maggie O'Dell Novel

7/21/10 -- Daniel Silva - The Rembrandt Affair

7/14/10 -- Elizabeth Adler - It All Began in Monte Carlo
  James Lee Burke - The Glass Rainbow
  John Connolly - The Whisperers
  Christopher Reich - Rules of Betrayal
  Jennifer Weiner - Fly Away Home
  Anne Leigh Tuohy - In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving

7/7/10 -- Antonia Felix - Sonia Sotomayor: The True American Dream
  Sean Payton - Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life
  Tess Gerritsen - Ice Cold
  Susan Isaacs - As Husbands Go
  Robert K. Tanenbaum - Betrayed


June, 2010

6/30/10 -- Catherine Coulter - Whiplash
  Sharyn McCrumb - The Devil Amongst The Lawyers
  James Patterson & Maxine Paetro - Private (2 copies)
  Karin Slaughter - Broken
  Danielle Steel - Family Ties
  Nancy Thayer - Beachcombers: A Novel
  Brad Thor - Foreign Influence
  Karen Kingsbury - Take Four
  Dean Koontz - Frankenstein: Lost Souls  (2 copies)
  Meg Cabot - Insatiable
  Janet Evanovich - Sizzling Sixteen
  Dorothea Benton Frank - Lowcountry Summer
  Ann Brashares - My Name Is Memory
  Clive Cussler - The Spy
  Nelson DeMille - The Lion
  Johanna Lindsey - That Perfect Someone
  Elizabeth Lowell - Death Echo
  Jeffery Deaver - The Burning Wire
  Diana Palmer - Dangerous
  Eric Van Lustbader - Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective (2 copies)
  Laurell K. Hamilton - Bullet
  Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2 copies)
  Steve Martini - The Rule of Nine
  Fern Michaels - Cross Roads


May, 2010

  John Sandford - Storm Prey
  Robert Lusetich - Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most
    Tumultous Season
  Charlaine Harris - Dead in the Family
  Laura Ling & Lisa Ling - Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity
    in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
  Newt Gingrich with Joe Santis - To Save America: Stopping Obama's
    Secular-Socialist Machine
  Dave Barry - I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's
     Amazing Tales of Adulthood
  Robert B. Parker - Blue-Eyed Devil
  Thomas Perry - Strip
  Laura Bush - Spoken from the Heart
  Emily Giffin - Heart of the Matter
  Chuck Palahniuk - Tell-All
  Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - Fever Dream
  Jane Smiley - Private Life
  Queen Latifah - Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments
     on the Path to Queendom
  Debbie Macomber - Hannah's List
  Scott Turow - Innocent
  Fern Michaels - Return to Sender


April, 2010

  Andrew Gross - Reckless
  Amanda Quick - Burning Lamp
  James Patterson and Maxine Paetro - The 9th Judgment (2 copies)
  Stuart Woods - Lucid Intervals (2 copies)
  Elizabeth George - This Body of Death
  Alexander McCall Smith - The Double Comfort Safari Club
  Karen Robards - Shameless
  Jennifer Chiaverini - The Aloha Quilt
  Richard Paul Evans - The Walk
  Anne Lamott - Imperfect Birds
  Carol Higgins Clark - Wrecked: A Regan Reilly Mystery
  Mary Higgins Clark - The Shadow of Your Smile (2 copies)
  Martha Grimes - The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery
  Anna Quindlen - Every Last One: A Novel
  Heather Graham - The Killing Edge
  Elizabeth Peters - A River in the Sky
  Elizabeth Berg - The Last Time I Saw You
  Carol Burnett - This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
  Beverly Lewis - The Telling
  Sue Miller - The Lake Shore Limited
  Harlan Coben - Caught
  Lisa Jackson - Without Mercy
  Walter Mosley - Known to Evil (2 copies)
  Karen Robards - Shattered
  Raquel Welch - Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage
  Jonathan Kellerman - Deception (2 copies)
  Ian McEwan - Solar (2 copies)
  Anne Perry - The Sheen on the Silk


March, 2010

  A. E. Hotchner - Paul and Me: Fifty-three Years of Adventures and
    Misadventures with My Pal, Paul Newman
  William Bernhardt - Capitol Betrayal
  Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer - Wild Ride
  Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Secret of the Dragon
  Stephen Cannell - The Pallbearers
  Karen Kingsbury - Take Three
  Christopher Moore - Bite Me: A Love Story
  Clive Cussler - Silent Sea
  Linda A. Fairstein - Hell Gate
  Randy Wayne White - Deep Shadow
  Lisa Scottoline - Think Twice (2 copies)
  Frances Mayes - Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life
  Jodi Picoult - House Rules
  Erica Spindler - Blood Vines
  James Grippando - Money to Burn: A Novel of Suspense
  Joy Fielding - Wild Zone
  Danielle Steel - Big Girl
  Tim Lahaye - Matthew's Story
  Robert B. Parker - Split Image
  J. D. Robb - Fantasy in Death


February, 2010

  Joanne Fluke - Apple Turnover Murder: A Hannah Swenson Mystery
    with Recipes
  Fern Michaels - Game Over
  Dana Stabenow - A Night Too Dark
  Louise Erdrich - Shadow Tag
  Laurel K. Hamilton - Flirt
  Michael Palmer - Last Surgeon
  Jenny Sanford - Staying True
  Peter Straub - A Dark Matter
  Don Delillo - Point Omega
  Jackie Collins - Poor Little Bitch Girl
  Robert Harris - Conspirata
  Adrianna Trigiani - Brava, Valentine
  Chris Bohjalian - Secrets of Eden
  Kristin Hannah - Winter Garden
  James Patterson - Worst Case (2 copies)
  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


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.