LibraryAware July 2023

MRLS Newsletter — July 2023

Summer Reading Program

Summer Reading at the Library

We are "All Together Now" at the library! Sign Up, Read, and ENJOY! Main events will begin July 6th with Jonathan Austin and will continue every Thursday this month. Events will be held at 10:30 am at BCL and 2:00 pm at RML.

BCL patrons can continue to sign up and turn in their reading logs and bingo cards through July 31th. RML patrons can begin signing up July 1st, continuing through August 31st.

Visit our website at https://tinyurl.com/2p927fpz to learn more and to view our info flyer and full event calendars.

These books are available to check out this summer!

Monthly Events

NoveList

Find your next read with NoveList Plus or NoveList K-8 Plus!

Novelist makes it easy to find books you'll love based on your preferences. You can view recommended reading lists, read honest book reviews from other readers, and find read-alike recommendations.

You can search for books based on elements like appeal factors, genre, and theme, or use the Appeal Mixer by selecting types of characters, illustrations, pacing, storylines, tones, and writing styles. Some examples include:

Strong female characters + engaging writing style + intricately plotted storyline = Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini and The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll
Large cast of characters + sweeping storyline + dramatic tone = The Year One trilogy by Nora Roberts, The Pillars of the Earth series by Ken Follet, and A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende.
World-building storyline + dramatic tone + compelling writing style = A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin and Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson.

Visit the Library Resources page on our website at https://bit.ly/3hvByIv to access NoveList Plus or https://bit.ly/3PzWBXg to access NoveList K-8 Plus.

July Closings

New Book Highlights

A little ray of sunshine
by Kristan Higgins

A Cape Cod bookstore owner has her life upended when the teenage son she put up for adoption seventeen years earlier walks into the store, in the new novel by the author of Out of the Clear Blue Sky. Original.

The covenant of water : a novel
by Abraham Verghese

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.

The little Italian hotel
by Phaedra Patrick

After her husband asks for a divorce on their anniversary, acclaimed radio host Ginny Splinter impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her on her holiday to Italy and, with her newfound friends, embarks on a vacation of healing and second chances

Central Park West : a crime novel
by James B. Comey

A federal prosecutor, Nora Carleton, enters into a high-stakes investigation involving conspiracy, corruption and danger when a mobster she is trying to convict offers information about an assassination in the first crime novel from the former director of the FBI.