My LINKcat AccountThe countdown to the Summer Reading Program has begun. Registration will begin the last week or so of the May with the actually kickoff on June 6th. Assuming you are reading this on the publication date of Friday, May 10th, then there are exactly 27 days. That’s 27 days, or 648 hours, or 38,880 minutes. I could keep going with smaller measures of time, but I shall desist. This all goes to show that the Summer Reading Program will soon be upon us. It also goes to show that there is plenty of time for getting your reading list assembled, to get your eyes use to reading for long periods of time, and to establish a routine for recording the titles –or number of titles—that you read. There are many ways to keep track of your reading:1) you can use the BeanStack app on your phone or on a computer and type in the title, 2) You can scan the ISBN number into the app on our phone, 3) Using the app you can just say how many titles you have read and not type or scan in the titles, and 4) you can make a list and library staff will put that information into the app for you. There are probably more ways to record the titles you have read, but none leap to mind at this writing. Below you will find some of the new books which recently arrived at the library. You can put them on hold to read this summer or you can read them now and perhaps, finish them just as the Summer Reading Program begins. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty” by Alexander Larman. A master chronicler of the House of Windsor brings his acclaimed trilogy to a dramatic and poignant conclusion.
“Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett, and the Friendship That Changed the World” by Anthony McCarten. An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter presents this fascinating account of the extraordinary friendship between Warren Buffet and Bill Gates that impacted each man and led to change on a grander scale as they jointly addressed some of the world’s most critical problems by giving their wealth away.
“Alien Earth: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos” by Lisa Kaltenegger. An astrophysicist unlocks the mysteries of alien worlds, from lava planets to multi-sun systems, using Earth as a key and humanity's curiosity as fuel, in a thrilling quest to answer whether we are alone in the universe.
“Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life” by Jason Roberts. The best-selling author of A Sense of the World tells the story of two scientific rivals and their mission to survey all life and the clash of ideas that had profound consequences for humanity.
New Fiction
“Patchwork Quilt Murder, No. 30 (Lucy Stone Mysteries)” by Leslie Meier. When the director of the new community center and her young employee are found dismembered, part-time reporter Lucy Stone, trying to piece the clues together, discovers the truth rests somewhere between wild rumors, a trusted friend’s emotional new sewing project and the authenticity of a mysterious300-year-old patchwork quilt.
“An Unfinished Murder, No. 5 (Medlar Mysteries)” by Jude Deveraux. A novelist, Sara Medlar, and her friends use all their amateur sleuthing skills to solve a crime when a literal skeleton is discovered in a closet, in the fifth novel of the series following “A Relative Murder”.
“Just for the Summer” by Abby Jimenez. With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other’s curse out, but their quick fling turns something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.
“The Summer We Started Over” by Nancy Thayer. Returning to Nantucket to help her younger sister with the grand opening of her gift shop, Eddie Grant must face all she left behind: her father’s increased eccentricities; her sister’s resentment of her leaving; and a past love connection, discovering a long-buried family secret that will change them all forever.
“Tourist Season” by Brenda Novak. Trapped alone in her fiancé’s family “cottage” as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family—especially her fiancé.
“City in Ruins (Danny Ryan Trilogy)” by Don Winslow. A Las Vegas casino mogul with a spotty past must fight for the life he created and everything he holds dear after old enemies surface, in the third novel of the series following “City of Dreams”.
“Darlings Girl” by Sally Hepworth. Two women who escaped an overly strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse.
“Extinction” by Douglas Preston. Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.
“The Murder Inn” by James Patterson & Candice Fox. The owner of the Inn at Gloucester, a place open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson must defend his town, his chosen family and his home when a newcomer in town launches a series of attacks.
“Toxic Prey, No.34 (Prey)” by John Sandford. When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.