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Summer Fiction
Just because it's summer doesn’t mean we want to immerse ourselves entirely in “beach reads.” Away from the demands of class schedules and work meetings, a quiet vacation day with some interesting reading can keep the mind active. By all means, take the lemonade or iced tea, find a quiet spot in the shade and move to these other places that don’t look like home. If you can’t get away for the whole summer, at least get away for a few hours to read a book.
The Uncertain Places
Lisa Goldstein
813.54 G578
This is a magical story about the mysterious Feierabend sisters: Livvy, Maddie, Rose and Sylvia. Berkeley student Will Taylor meets them and must solve the riddle of their odd belief that luck and a life of ease are their birthright. Along with this is a long forgotten fairy story discovered by the Grimms and forgotten since the story of the Bondmaid. Will must solve the riddle of a supernatural bargain and save the family from a pre-determined fate. Goldstein is an author of books and stories and has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy prizes. She is also a winner of the American Book Award.
The Wedding
Nicholas Sparks
813.54 Sp26wd
Although Wilson Lewis is still in love with his wife after 30 years, he is forced to face up to the fact that she is no longer in love with him. It is his own fault -- spending too little time at home and too much at the office. With their daughter about to get married, Jane is also ready to leave. Wilson needs to find a way to bring her to fall in love with him again and it is the example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, which he is using as a guide. Wilson will do anything he can to save the marriage. Sparks is a best-selling author of love stories, with 43 million copies of his books in print. Some of his books have even been adapted into major motion pictures.
Requiem for a Gypsy
Michael Genelin
813.6 G286
Commander Jana Matinova of the Bratislava police must investigate the death of a politician’s wife. Was she the target, or were the bullets meant for him? Unfortunately, he and his son have disappeared, so they cannot be asked. Are there connections of this death with a death in Paris, a dead Turk and a vagabond girl? Jana must solve this while fighting her own government’s secrecy, traveling to Berlin and Paris while looking back into the dark parts of Slovakian history. This book is the fourth in a popular police procedural mystery set in a Europe unfamiliar to American readers. Genelin has served as a consultant for the U.S. State Department and USAID in Central Europe.
Steelhands
Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
813.6 J718sh
The fourth book in what has been called “magicpunk” style, thus continues the world of Thremedon, the Dragon Corps and the lives of those who have fought in the wars. Adamo has now been put out to pasture as a professor at the University. Balfour spends his time learning to manage his replacement hands, for his real hands were lost in the climactic battle of the war. The hands operate on the same magic as the dragons and have given him his nickname, the title of this book. Two new young people have come to join the older group, university students who must solve the mystery of a sudden illness. Events will change the cities of Volstov and Thremedon forever. Jones and Bennett are young fantasy writers who met with their writing on the Internet and wrote Havemercy without meeting in person.
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The information is provided by the authors and publishers of the works listed and compiled by Karen Chobot, Library Director.
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