LibGuides: Adventure Begins at Your Library! (Adult Summer Reading 2024): Summer Book Buzz 2024

General Fiction

Bear: A Novel
by Julia Phillips Trapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection.
Call Number: Fict Phi
ISBN: 9780525520436
Publication Date: 2024-06-25
Tehrangeles: A Novel
by Porochista Khakpour When Ali and Homa Milani first immigrated from Iran to the United States, they struggled to make ends meet. Now multimillionaires and self-proclaimed American Fast-Food Moguls, they've established a name for themselves: they're the Milanis, derisively dubbed "Persian Royalty" by prominent Los Angeles gossip rags.
Call Number: Fict Kha
ISBN: 9781524747909
Publication Date: 2024-06-11
The Lion Women of Tehran
by Marjan Kamali Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls' high school in Iran, Ellie's memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie's privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.
Call Number: Fict Kam
ISBN: 9781668036587
Publication Date: 2024-07-02
All This and More
by Peng Shepherd Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her career is stagnant, her marriage has imploded, and her teenage daughter grows more distant by the day. Marsh is convinced she's missed her chance at everything--romance, professional fulfillment, and adventure--and is desperate for a do-over. She can't believe her luck when she's selected to be the star of the global sensation All This and More, a show that uses quantum technology to allow contestants the chance to revise their pasts and change their present lives.
Call Number: Fict She
ISBN: 9780063278974
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Long Island Compromise
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Carl has spent...years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband's emotional health. Their three grown children aren't doing much better...
Call Number: Fict Bro
ISBN: 9780593133491
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Bad Tourists
by Caro Carver Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwind and celebrate a new chapter in midlife - until they realize the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer.
Call Number: Fict Car
ISBN: 9781668058848
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Evenings and Weekends
by Oisín McKenna Strikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKenna's debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a searing look at what it takes to build a life there.
Call Number: Fict McK
ISBN: 9780063319974
Publication Date: 2024-07-02
The Heart in Winter
by Kevin Barry Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana.
Call Number: Fict Bar
ISBN: 9780385550598
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
The Lost Story: A Novel
by Meg Shaffer As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell vanished in a West Virginia state park, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they'd gone or how they'd survived.
Call Number: Fict Sha
ISBN: 9780593598870
Publication Date: 2024-07-16
Burn
by Peter Heller Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much from their long friendship unspoken. Although the state of Maine has convulsed all summer with secession mania--a mania that has simultaneously spread across other states--Jess and Storey figure it's a fight reserved for legislators or, worst-case scenario, folks in the capital.
Call Number: Fict Hel
ISBN: 9780593801628
Publication Date: 2024-08-13
A Great Marriage: A Novel
by Frances Mayes Austin hears unsettling news from London that threatens to wreck his plans. When Dara learns of the problem, she abruptly cancels the wedding. She refuses to reveal the reason, not even to her parents or grandmother, disrupting their family tradition of openness.
Call Number: Fict May
ISBN: 9780593498989
Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Mina's Matchbox: A Novel
by Yoko Ogawa At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life.
Call Number: Fict Oga
ISBN: 9780593316085
Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Someone in the Attic
by Andrea Mara You thought you were home alone. Think again... Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise in the roof. Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic hatch swing open, and a masked figure drops to the floor.
Call Number: Fict Mar
ISBN: 9780593831434
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
The Stranger at the Wedding: A Novel
by A. E. Gauntlett Before love at first sight, there were things no one saw. Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session for trauma survivors. Each recognizes somethingin the other, though both hide their own troubled pasts.
Call Number: Fict Gau
ISBN: 9781250343369
Publication Date: 2024-08-13

Mystery

Middletide: A Novel
by Sarah Crouch When the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found in front of failed writer Elijah Leith's home, the town turns against him. Elijah must fight for his innocence against an unexpected foe cunning enough to frame him for murder.
Call Number: Fict Cro
ISBN: 9781668035092
Publication Date: 2024-06-11
The Midnight Feast: A Novel
by Lucy Foley Welcome to the opening weekend of The Manor. A luxury resort built on top of old secrets in an ancient wood. The founder, the husband, the mystery guest, the kitchen help... All have an agenda. All have a past. But not everyone will survive...
Call Number: Fict Fol
ISBN: 9780063003101
Publication Date: 2024-06-18
What You Leave Behind: A Novel
by Wanda M. Morris A landowner fighting to keep his family's land dating back to the Civil War disappears...his property is quickly put up for sale, exposing a deadly scheme of illegal land grabs and property redevelopment
Call Number: Fict Mor Mystery
ISBN: 9780063359734
Publication Date: 2024-06-18
A Daughter of Fair Verona
by Christina Dodd The eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet rejects the betrothal planned by her parents and tries to find the groom-to-be a more suitable bride.
Call Number: Fict Dod Mystery
ISBN: 9781496750167
Publication Date: 2024-06-25
Only One Survives
by Hannah Mary McKinnon In order to survive the frigid night, the rest took shelter in a nearby abandoned cabin. But Vienna's dreams devolved into a terrifying nightmare as, one by one, her fellow band members met a gruesome end...and Madison simply vanished in the night.
Call Number: Fict McK Mystery
ISBN: 9780778305477
Publication Date: 2024-07-16
After Oz: A Novel
by Gordon McAlpine In vivid detail, Dorothy describes a fantastical land and its magical inhabitants, from the scarecrow, the tin man, and the cowardly lion to the wizard and the witch. Her recollections are not only regarded as delusional, but also as pagan and diabolical in nature, especially when the body of a local spinster is found. Making connections between the evil witch Dorothy claims to have defeated and the ill-tempered old crone, authorities find what they believe to be incriminating evidence, sentencing Dorothy to the Topeka Insane Asylum.
Call Number: Fict McA Mystery
ISBN: 9781639107858
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
The In Crowd
by Charlotte Vassell A fabulous whodunit about two cold cases in which things go missing: a fourteen-year-old girl and a multi-million-dollar pension fund.
Call Number: Fict Vas Mystery
ISBN: 9780593685976
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
The Queen City Detective Agency
by Snowden Wright A riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream
Call Number: Fict Wri Mystery
ISBN: 9780062963581
Publication Date: 2024-08-13

Romance

Birding with Benefits: A Novel
by Sarah T. Dubb Newly-divorced, almost-empty-nester Celeste is finally seeking adventure and putting herself first, cliches be damned. So when a friend asks Celeste to "partner" with his buddy John for an event, Celeste throws herself into the role of his temporary girlfriend. But quiet cinnamon roll John isn't looking for love, just birds-he needs a partner for Tucson's biggest bird-watching contest if he's ever going to launch his own guiding business.
Call Number: Fict Dub Romance
ISBN: 9781668037836
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
Isabel and the Rogue
by Liana De la Rosa When a daring Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it his new mission to protect her.
Call Number: Fict DeL Romance
ISBN: 9780593440902
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
Barely Even Friends: A Novel
by Mae Bennett As Bellamy restores the gleam to the Killington Estate, she’ll have to decide if the walls she’s built around herself are worth knocking down to make space for someone else.
Call Number: Fict Ben Romance
ISBN: 9781639107797
Publication Date: 2024-06-04

CD Audiobooks

When We Were Silent
by Fiona McPhillips An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this suspenseful debut novel.
Call Number: CD Fict Mcp (9 discs)
ISBN: 9781250365514
Publication Date: 2024-05-21
One Perfect Couple: A Novel
by Ruth Ware Not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival.
Call Number: CD Fict War (12 discs)
ISBN: 9781797174907
Publication Date: 2024-05-21
Lies and Weddings
by Kevin Kwan Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus's scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister's wedding at a luxury eco-resort, a veritable who's-who of sultans, barons, and oligarchs, and seduce a woman with money.
Call Number: CD Fict Kwa (12 discs)
ISBN: 9780593822296
Publication Date: 2024-05-21
The Summer Pact
by Emily Giffin Hannah is anticipating what should be one of the happiest moments of her life when everything is suddenly turned upside down. Calling on her closest friends, it soon becomes clear that they are facing their own crossroads. True to their promise, they agree to take a time out from lives headed in wrong directions and embark on a journey of self-discovery, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Call Number: CD Fict Gif (8 discs)
ISBN: 9780593910504
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Fire and Bones
by Kathy Reichs It's never easy working fire scenes, Tempe thinks. Called to Washington, DC, to analyze the victims of a building set ablaze amid mysterious circumstances, she sees all her misgivings justified. The building site is in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood with a colorful past and present, and the property's ownership becomes even more suspicious when Tempe delves into its past.
Call Number: CD Fict Rei (8 discs)
ISBN: 9781797174983
Publication Date: 2024-08-06

Sci-Fi

The Stardust Grail
by Yume Kitasei Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations -- until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Born off-world and infected by an alien virus from a young age, she receives the occasional vision of the future. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life on Earth as a graduate student of anthropology.
Call Number: Fict Kit Sci-Fi
ISBN: 9781250875372
Publication Date: 2024-06-11
A Sorceress Comes to Call
by T. Kingfisher Other mothers don't force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren't evil sorcerers.
Call Number: Fict Kin Sci-Fi
ISBN: 9781250244079
Publication Date: 2024-08-06

Nonfiction

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
by Michael Waters The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars.
Call Number: 796.086 Wat
ISBN: 9780374609818
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
by Julie Satow A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them
Call Number: 381.141 Sat
ISBN: 9780385548755
Publication Date: 2024-06-04

Adventure Begins at Your Library! (Adult Summer Reading 2024): Summer Book Buzz 2024

Book Buzz Program Highlights

Find out about great new books coming out this summer! At the Summer Book Buzz program on June 27, Librarians highlighted some of the summer's blockbuster releases and underground faves. Missed the program or want a recap? Click below for the program slides to help you find your next favorite read!

General Fiction

Mystery

Romance

CD Audiobooks

Sci-Fi

Nonfiction