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Off the Shelf: Old Favorites and New Authors to Add to Your Summer Reading List

By Sharon Saye on May 23, 2018 from Off the Shelf via Connect-Bridgeport.com

Publishers Weekly, the magazine of the book publishing industry, provided an advance look at best books for the summer.  The list “Summer Reads 2018” is available on their website, but they are recommending some books by major authors and a host of books by little-known authors.
           
Broken done by genre, they recommend in the Fiction category, the newest book by Emily Griffin, “All We Ever Wanted,” followed by a debut novel by Zoje Stage, “Baby Teeth,” as well as “Brother” by David Chariandy which they describe as “powerful” and “Compulsory Games” by Robert Aickman which earns the terms “insidious and haunting.” Other books are: “The Ensemble” by Aja Gavel, “Confessions of the Fox” by Jordy Rosenberg, and “The Great Believers” by Rebecca Makkai.
           
Mystery lovers can choose from a debut thriller, “Caged” by Ellison Cooper, a Joe Biden-Barack Obama mystery, “Hope Never Dies” by Andrew Shaffer, a Hercule Poirot mystery by Sophie Hannah, “The Mystery of Three Quarters,” the Bill Clinton-James Patterson thriller, “The President is Missing” and Anthony Horowitz’s “The Word is Murder.”
           
Romance readers can choose between Madeline Hunter’s latest, “A Devil of a Duke,” a collection of wedding stories set in small-town Texas, “A Wedding on Bluebird Way,” and “Contraband Hearts” by Alex Beecroft described as a “Robin Hood-esque adventure.”
           
Science Fiction and fantasy fans are offered a horror-thriller with “The Cabin at the End of the World,” a futuristic mystery in “The Freeze-Frame Revolution, a fairy tale in “Spinning Silver” and a pun-laden quest in “Kill the Farm Boy.”
           
Nonfiction readers can move from learning the secret behind life in Italy with “Bella Figura” by Kamin Mohammadi, the epic flight mission to Pluto in “Chasing new Horizons” by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon, a previously unpublished manuscript by Zora Neale Hurston, “Barracoon,” and the history of the war-torn land between Scotland and England in “The Debatable Land.”
           
Remember these recommendations cover the entire summer and most of these books are not released yet.   There are many more with detailed descriptions available on the Publishers Weekly website.
 
Also, the library will be closed this weekend, May 26-May 28 for Memorial Day.  We return to our regular schedule, weekdays, 10 a.m. -8 p.m. and Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 29.



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