A week into summer reading and everyone has something they are busily devouring We know all you readers out there are anxiously flipping pages, working through your TBRs (to be read's) and trying to finish your summer reading programs, not to mention planning on attending all of our activities and talks and doing everything you can to work towards those grand prizes, and we at the library are doing our best to join you. We have our own challenge going for behind the scenes, reading and reviewing as many amazingly awesome, historical, trashy, sophisticated, juvenile, allegorical or whatever else tickles our funny bone. We thought you might want a peek at what we have in our hands this week. Maybe you'll find your next book too!
Title: Immortal Rising
Author: Lynsay Sands
What's It About: Book 34 in the Argeneau series. A paranormal romance between a one-of-a-kind vampire who was turned as a teen and a genetic experiment that is something not quite mortal or im- just looking for their place in the world. Oh, and escape the mad scientist that created one of them and has it out for the other.
Title: The Shadow House
Author: Anna Downes
What's It About: A deliciously mysterious and thrill-filled journey into a remote house with deadly secrets. A single mother's fight to escape a troubled past and protect her children at all costs in a story where not everything is as it seems.
Title(s): Spy x Family Vol. 1 & 2
Author: Tatsuya Endo
What's It About: The father is a master spy, the daughter is psychic, the mother is a trained assassin, only the daughter knows their secrets. In Cold-War-alternate-dimension Germany, three very different people come together to be a family and complete a mission. Hilarity ensues.
Title: Life & Spectrum: A Revealing Look at High Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome (2013)
Author(s): C G Meloy & Zachary Pullen
What's It About: An experientially informed book told with candid poignancy about what it's like living with autism. Illustrated by award-winning illustrator Zachary Pullen and pulled from the lives of real people.
Title: Upside Down Magic
Author(s): Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, & Emily Jenkins
What's It About: First title in the middle school series Upside Down Magic that would eventually be turned into a Disney+ movie. Nory doesn't mean to turn into a bitten (beaver kitten) or a dritten (dragon kitten) or any of the other impossible animals she can turn into whenever she tries to transform. It isn't easy when your magic goes wonky. But Nory isn't alone. There's Elliott who's fire conjuring freezes in its tracks, and Andres for whom flying isn't the problem, it's returning to the ground, and Bax who when he gets too excited, well, he'd rather not talk about it. And these are just four of the students in Dunwiddle middle school's Upside Down Magic class for those students who's magic turns... wonky.
Title: A Call for Kelp
Author: Bree Baker
What's It About: Fourth book in the Seaside Café mystery series. Everly Swan has had a busy time of it ever since she moved back home to Charm, North Carolina, and starting her own ice tea café is only the half of it. And it doesn't look like life will calm down soon, not when Mitzi Calgon, iconic Hollywood actress and family friend, in town to help with a beekeeping documentary, winds up dead in one of the family beehives. Never to mind her own beeswax, despite what a certain handsome detective might wish, Everly Swan is back on the case.
Title: Hollywood: Her Story: An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies
Author(s): Barbara Bridges & Jill Tietjen
What's It About: If you love film and ever need a book to read for Women's History Month, this is for you. Filled with over 1200 women throughout the film industry from its earliest moments until now and the amazing impacts they had on storytelling, cinematography, and everything else film related, this book will bring you many names and faces you know well and make you wonder why so many more you have never heard of before.
Title: The Library Book
Author: Susan Orlean
What's It About: Previous Brown Deer Book Club selection with questions available on our blog. Orlean chronicles the 1986 LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago.
Title: People We Meet on Vacation
Author: Emily Henry
What's It About: The definition of a fun beach read. Two friends, Alex & Poppy, have almost nothing in common except that they have always taken two weeks of summer vacation together since fateful ride share home from the airport over a decade ago in college, until two years ago when they ruined everything. Knowing that the last time she was truly happy was that trip, Poppy decides to take one more crack at a vacation to heal old wounds and reconnect. Unspoken sentiment, will-they-won't-they's, and a last chance to make things right.
Title: Shady Hollow
Author: Juneau Black
What's It About: Welcome to Shady Hollow! It’s a small town populated by friendly animal folks, from birds to bears. The calm is marred only by the occasional murder. Luckily, foxy reporter Vera Vixen is ready to investigate each time, along with her good friend (and local bookshop owner) skeptical raven Lenore Lee. Written by a local author, Shady Hollow is quickly gaining traction with two more books soon to follow.
Tile: The Four Winds
Author: Kristin Hannah
What's It About: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression.
Title: The Midwest Survival Guide
Author: Charlie Berens
What's It About: A hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture, from comedian and journalist Charlie Berens, creator of the viral comedic series "The Manitowoc Minute"
Title: HRH: So Many Thoughts On Royal Style
Author: Elizabeth Holmes
What's It About: Veteran style journalist Elizabeth Holmes expands her popular Instagram series, So Many Thoughts, into a nuanced look at the fashion and branding of the four most influential members of the British Royal Family: Queen Elizabeth II; Diana, Princess of Wales; Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge; and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex.
Title: How To Grill Everything
Author: Mark Bittman
What's It About: Advertised as the book to have if you want to grill "absolutely everything—from the perfect steak to cedar-plank salmon to pizza," this is an excellent book to have to up your grilling mojo and impress the summer cookout crowd.
Title: Dial A for Aunties
Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
What's It About: When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Told with a mixture of dark humor and an inside understanding of the Asian American experience, A for Aunties is a unique mixture of romantic comedy, murder mystery, and familial duty.
And to round out these excellent titles with a little class...
Title: National Enquirer
What's It About: Politics, Important People, Intellectual Debate... well it claims to have political figures, morally ambiguous situations, celebrities in gladiatorial legal battles and all the drama we can handle so we assume it's extremely sophisticated dialog and enlightened content with tons of educational material... just kidding. Sometimes it's fun to just read about the disfunction of others and realize we aren't alone in the world... just without the philosophizing or moralizing.
Did we wet your appetite for more yet?
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