A subscription to HOTP Books is a gift from Friends of Encino-Tarzana Library. Information about selection and acquisition of books is at the bottom of this page. Our Librarians notify the Friends when HOTP Books are received and placed on shelves (see list and dates below).
January, 2012
1/31 -- Kristin Hannah - Home Front
Elmore Leonard - Raylan
1/30 -- Brad Taylor - All Necessary Force
1/24 -- Robert Crais - Taken
James Grippando - Need You Now
Walter Mosley - All I Did Was Shoot My Man
1/18 -- Nevada Barr - The Rope
Orson Scott Card - Shadows in Flight
Bernard Cornwell - Death of Kings
1/17 -- Thomas Frank - Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely
Comeback of the Right
Elizabeth George - Believing the Lie
Jayne Ann Krentz - Copper Beach (A Dark Legacy Novel)
T. Jefferson Parker - The Jaguar
Douglas J. Preston & Lincoln Child - Gideon's Corpse
Tom Robb Smith - Agent 6
1/11 -- Janet Evanovich - Love in a Nutshell
Jack Higgins - A Devil is Waiting
Sara Paretsky - Breakdown
1/7 -- Dean Koontz - Shadow Street
Fern Michaels - Deadline
Karen Robards - Sleepwalker
December, 2011
Robin Cook - Death Benefit
W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV - Covert Warriors
Tami Hoag - Down the Darkest Road
Jo Nesbo - Leopard
Stuart Woods - D. C. Dead
Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney - Locked On
Jeff Ashton & Lisa Pulitzer - Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony
Ann Beattie - Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines A Life
Erin Brockovich & C. J. Lyons - Hot Water
Jeff Ashton & Lisa Pulitzer - Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony
Stephen J. Cannell - Vigilante
Bill Clinton - Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
Michael Connelly - The Drop
Patricia Cornwell - Red Mist
Michael Crichton & Richard Preston - Micro [2 copies]
Clive Cussler & Graham Brown - Devil's Gate
Robert Ellis - Murder Season
Janet Evanovich - Explosive Eighteen [2 copies]
Diana Gabaldon - The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel (Lord John)
Dorothy Garlock - Come A Little Closer
Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly, & Jeffrey Zaslow - Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope
Sue Grafton - V is for Vengeance
Diane Keaton - Then Again
Stephen Hunter - Soft Target
Alexander McCall Smith - Forgotten Affairs of Youth: an Isabel Dalhousie Novel
Larry McMurtry - The BerryBender Narratives
James Patterson - Kill Alex Cross [2 copies]
Regis Philbin - How I Got This Way
Ian Rankin - The Impossible Dead
Andrew Weil - Spontaneous Happiness
November, 2011
Edna Buchanan - A Dark and Lonely Place
Joan Didion - Blue Nights
Tom Brokaw - The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation about America: Who We Are,
Where We've Been, and Where We Need to Go Now, to Recapture the American Dream
James Garner & Jon Winokur- The Garner Files: A Memoir
Mindy Kaling - Is Everyone HangSing Out Without Me (And Other Concerns)
Stephen King - 11/22/63
Chuck Pfarrer - SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill
Osama bin Laden
Condoleezza Rice - No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Danielle Steel - Hotel Vendome
David Baldacci - Zero Day
Jennifer Chiaverini - The Wedding Quilt
Catherine Coulter - Prince of Ravenscar
Bill Cosby - I Didn't Ask to Be Born: (But I'm Glad I Was)
John Grisham - The Litigators [2 copies]
Anthony Horowitz -
The House of Silk
Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs
Gregory Maguire - Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years
October, 2011
Iris Johansen - Bonnie
John Connolly - The Infernals
Philippa Gregory - The Lady of the Rivers
James Patterson - The Christmas Wedding
M.C. Beaton - As the Pig Turns
Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot
Nicholas Sparks - The Best of Me
Ozzy Osbourne - Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor
Michael Lewis - Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Ellen Degeneres - Seriously...I'm Kidding
Alice Hoffman - The Dovekeepers
Kyle Milles - Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision
Stephen R. Covey - The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems
John Sandford - Shock Wave
Richard Castle - Heat Rises
Lee Child - The Affair
William Shatner - Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse
and the World at Large
September, 2011
James Lee Burke - Feast Day of Fools
Charles Frazier - Nightwoods
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard- Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed
America Forever
Sandra Brown - Lethal
Roger Ebert - Life Itself: A Memoir
Florence Henderson & Joel Brokaw- Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby
to a Lovely Lady and Beyond
Jane Lynch - Happy Accidents
Michael Moore - Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life
Stuart Woods - Son of Stone
Denise Hamilton - Damage Control
Ruth Rendell - The Vault
Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, & Michael Jones - The Women of the Cousins' War:
the Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
J. D. Robb - New York to Dallas [2 copies]
John Connolly - The Burning Soul
Clive Cussler - The Race
Richard B. Cheney - In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir
Jude Deveraux - Heartwishes
Christine Feehan - Dark Predator
Thomas L. Friedman - That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World
It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Linda Howard - Prey
Laura Lippman - The Most Dangerous Thing
Rafael Nadal - Rafa: My Story
George P. Pelecanos - The Cut
August, 2011
Jeffrey Archer - Only Time Will Tell
Karl Marlantes - What It Is Like To Go To War
James Patterson & Marshall Karp - Kill Me If You Can [2 copies]
Louise Penny - A Trick of the Light
Tom Perrotta - The Leftovers
Kathy Reichs - Flash and Bones
Charlaine Harris (ed.) - Home Improvement: Undead Edition
Anne Perry - Acceptable Loss
Jane Fonda - Prime Time: Love, Health, Sex, Fitness, Friendship, Spirit -- Making the Most
of All of Your Life
Julie Garwood - The Ideal Man
W.E.B. Griffin - Victory and Honor
C. J. Box - Back of Beyond
Janet Dailey - Bannon Brothers: Trust
Lev Grossman - The Magician King
Sherrilyn Kenyon - Retribution
Diana Palmer - Merciless
Douglas J. Preston - Cold Vengeance
Don Winslow - The Gentlemen's Hour
July, 2011
Felix Francis - Dick Francis's Gamble
Mary Balogh - The Secret Mistress
Benjamin Black - A Death in Summer
Meg Cabot - Overbite
Catherine Coulter - Split Second
Barbara Delinsky - Escape
Tess Gerritsen - The Silent Girl
Andrew Gross - Eyes Wide Open
Alex Kava - Hotwire
Iris Johansen - Quinn
No Rest For The Dead [Twenty-Six Writers, One Mystery; Intro by David Baldacci]
Lynda LaPlante - Blind Fury
George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons
Ben Mezick - Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Eric van Lustbader - Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion
Karen Robards - Justice
David Rosenfelt - One Dog Night
Daniel Silva - Portrait of a Spy
Danielle Steel - Happy Birthday
Margaret Truman - Monument to Murder
Jennifer Weiner - Then Came You
MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Undermined
Melissa de la Cruz - Witches of East End
J.A. Jance - Betrayal of Trust
June, 2011
Elizabeth Adler - From Barcelona, With Love
James Patterson - Now You See Her [two copies]
Joseph Finder - Buried Secrets
Nancy Thayer - Heat Wave
Karen Slaughter - Fallen
Janet Evanovich - Smokin' Seventeen [two copies]
Alexander McCall Smith - The Dog Who Came In From The Cold
Jan Burke - Disturbance
Kate Christensen - The Astral
Elin Hilderbrand - Silver Girl
James Rollins - The Devil Colony
David Baldacci - One Summer
Tom Clancy - Against All Enemies [2 copies]
Clive Cussler - The Kingdom
Jeffrey Deaver - Carte Blanche: The New James Bond Novel
Dorothea Benton Frank - Folly Beach
Laurell Hamilton - Hit List
Lisa Jackson - Born To Die
Johanna Lindsey - When Passion Rules
Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
Bill Pronzini - Camouflage
Ruth Rendell - Tigerlily's Orchids
Robert K. Tanenbaum - Outrage
Steve Martini - Trader of Secrets
Lisa See - Dreams of Joy
Larry King - Truth Be Told: Off the Record about Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments,
Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions
