A Book With a Place Name in the Title
Read More Reading Challenge 2021
Go someplace new in a book that has a place name in the title. Click to learn more about Seymour Library's Read More Reading Challenge. You can subscribe to this and other email newsletters that bring book picks to your inbox.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri

A beekeeper and his artist wife have their lives upended and must flee after war destroys their home in Aleppo, Syria, and they set off on a dangerous journey through Turkey and Greece, towards an uncertain future in England. The ebook is available through Overdrive.
Black Bottom Saints
by Alice Randall

A celebrated columnist, nightclub emcee, and fine arts philanthropist draws inspiration from the Catholic Saints Day books to reflect on his encounters with black artists in Detroit's legendary Black Bottom neighborhood, from the Great Depression through the post-World War II years. The ebook is available through Overdrive.
Moonlight Over Manhattan
by Sarah Morgan

When she becomes a temporary live-in dog sitter for Dr. Ethan Black, Harriet Knight, who is determined to conquer a lifetime of shyness, challenges herself to explore their very unexpected chemistry—and to tell him how she really feels after her dog-sitting duties are over.
Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
by Mike Thomson

The award-winning BBC News presenter traces the remarkable story of a secret makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, where visitors risked their lives to read throughout the devastating height of the Syrian Civil War.
Iron Lake
by William Kent Krueger

Part Irish, part Native American, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor puts aside his grudge against the small Minnesota town that rejected him as a sheriff to investigate a sinister conspiracy responsible for the murder of the local judge. This is the first book in the intriguing Cork O'Connor series. Listen to the audiobook through Hoopla.
Arabella of Mars
by David D. Levine

A century after Captain Kidd's first expedition to Mars, Arabella Ashby is set to leave her Martian plantation home for London to learn to be a lady, until her home is threatened and she joins the crew of a Mars Trading Company ship disguised as a boy. The audiobook is available through Hoopla.
Joyland
by Stephen King

In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Read the ebook on Overdrive or listen to the audio version on Hoopla.
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