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July is here and so is a new book challenge. This month you are challenged to read a book that is set in the summer.
Summer Reading continues through the month of July so, kids, keep reading! Bring your reading logs in to earn prizes and to zoom ahead on the Reading Race Track. Extreme Readers Club meets Thursdays at 1 P.M. for elementary students and the Read to Me program meets Tuesdays at 10 A.M. for infants and preschoolers. Lego Club is held Thursdays at 6 P.M.
Lisa Scottoline’s newest book is “Most Wanted.” Christine and Marcus, desperate for a baby and unable to conceive, decide to use a donor. Happily pregnant, Christine is shocked to see a young man arrested for murder on the TV news. He bears an uncanny resemblance to her donor. As Christine digs deeper she is faced with a terrifying reality. “What would you do if the father of your unborn child was a killer?”
The latest Longmire story by Craig Johnson is “The Highwayman.” Highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred from Walt’s jurisdiction to the Wind River Canyon. There she starts receiving mysterious radio messages that seem to be coming from a legendary Arapaho patrolman who died in that canyon more than a century ago. When Rosey’s supervisor begins to accuse her of losing her sanity, she calls in Walt and Henry Standing Bear for assistance. But they discover the mystery goes deeper than they’d imagined. Even skeptic Walt is considering the possibility of ghosts.
“End of Watch” completes the trilogy by Stephen King that began with “Mr. Mercedes” and “Finders Keepers.” The “Mercedes Killer” drives his enemies to suicide. Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney must stop him, or they’ll become his next victims.
“Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi follows the story of two half sisters born in Ghana. Effia marries a wealthy Englishman and lives in comfort in Cape Coast Castle. Unknown to Effia, Esi is kept in the castles dungeons, sold in the slave trade, and shipped to America. One story line takes readers through Effia’s descendants who face centuries of war as Ghana struggles with the slave trade and British colonization. The second story line follows Esi and her children though the Civil War, the Great Migration, the jazz clubs and dope houses of Harlem to the present day.
The first installment in a new mystery series is “A Girl Like You” by Michelle Cox. After the crash of ‘29 and her father’s suicide, Henrietta Van Harmon must care for her disagreeable mother and seven younger siblings. Desperate, Henrietta takes the job of a taxi dancer at a local club. When the floor matron turns up dead, Henrietta is persuaded to go undercover for Inspector Howard. As their investigation draws them into the gritty underworld of Chicago, Henrietta and the Inspector find themselves drawn to each other in ways they didn’t expect.
A great summer read is “The Island House” by Nancy Thayer. Courtney remembers fondly the summers spent at Nantucket with her college roommate, Robin, and Robin’s larger-than-life family. Now that Courtney is a college professor in Kansas City, she longs for one more magical summer where she also hopes to find if Robin’s brother, James, shares the feelings she has for him. As the summer unfolds, a crisis escalates, hidden truths are revealed, and Courtney will find where her heart and future lie.
Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison have collaborated to write “The Emperor’s Revenge.” “Boar Island” is the latest Anna Pigeon thrill by Nevada Barr and Barbara Taylor Bradford’s third Cavendon Chronicles novel is “The Cavendon Luck.”
