17 Aug Five Sizzling Summer Reads

Here are some great reads to get you through the last few weeks of summer!

The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows

Refusing to marry according to her senator father’s wishes before taking a job with the Federal Writer’s Project, Miss Layla Beck boards with an eccentric family in a backwater town before discovering long-kept secrets.

In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

Thirty-five years after a series of airplanes crashed in New Jersey, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth to attend a commemoration of the worst year in her life.

Go Set a Watchman by Lee Harper

Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Raised by her father and the Kipsigis tribe in 1920s Kenya, Beryl endures painful losses before entering a passionate love triangle and discovering her unconventional true calling.

Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova

When a beloved Irish Catholic police officer is diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease, his grown children witness the progression of their father’s illness and consider whether they want to be tested to see if they have inherited the condition.