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A Book Set During the Current Season: Summer Edition Read More Reading Challenge 2019 |
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A Green and Ancient Light
by Frederic S. Durbin
In a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, a boy is sent to stay with his grandmother for the summer in a serene fishing village, but their peace is shattered by the crash of an enemy plane, the arrival of a man who knows the true story of Cinderella's slipper and the discovery of a riddle in the sacred grove of ruins behind her house.
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The Summer Cottage
by Viola Shipman
Memories of better times motivate a woman at a crossroads in her life to renovate a lakeside family cottage where she was most happy and where she discovers a cache of letters from the late-19th century.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by C. Alan Bradley
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man's murder where her father is the main suspect.
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Summer of Night
by Dan Simmons
It's the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. When a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the town residents know that it marks the end of their carefree days. Something sinister rises again, seeking the town's children.
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One Summer in Paris
by Sarah Morgan
Embarking on a solo Paris vacation after being dumped by her husband of 25 years, cautious Grace unexpectedly bonds with a rebellious London teen who helps her forge new understandings of family, love and self-confidence.
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Summer World: A Season of Bounty
by Bernd Heinrich
The award-winning author of Winter World presents an accessible discussion of animal survival in the hot season, exploring the ways in which animals make the most of the summer's short span by efficiently compacting most of their procreative and survival activities.
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Indelible
by Adelia Saunders
Possessing a supernatural ability to read private details about a person's life as if it was written on their skin, Magdalena embarks on a pilgrimage in the aftermath of a friend's death while bonding with a young man who would discover the truth about the late mother who abandoned him at birth. A first novel.
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