Long summer days are great for reading a new book, whether you’re relaxing on the beach or communing on the Metro.
Find these books and more in the Library catalog.
Fiction:
Be sure to check out the twelve linked stories in Morgan Talty’s gritty “Night of the Living Rez.” Monk and Robot return in the much-anticipated gentle novella, “A Prayer for the Crown Shy” by Becky Chambers.
Nonfiction:
Explore Josephine Baker’s exploits and adventures as a spy in “Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy,” by Damien Lewis. Chrysta Bilton’s childhood was anything but conventional with her free-spirited mother, and then she discovered she had at least 35 siblings — including her boyfriend! Read all about it in “Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings.”
Kids and Teens:
Middle Grade readers will be drawn into the Yoruban-influenced fantasy adventure “Children of the Quicksands” by Efua Traoré. Teen readers will be spell-bound by the students trying to end a town curse in “The Witchery.”