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Consider joining the summer reading program this summer! Programs and prizes available for all ages, including adults. To learn more about signing up you and your family for summer reading at the library, view the detailed web page here, or talk with one of our librarians during your next visit. The library district also has plenty of physical and digital reading resources available year-round. Browse the library catalog here, or find additional online reading resources here. The rest of this newsletter highlights a variety of new books released just in time for the start of this summer.
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Summer on Highland Beach : a novel
by Sunny Hostin
In Highland Beach, the oldest Black resort community in America, Olivia Jones, amid tense family drama, must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor or finally achieve her dream of having a home and family of her own in Highland Beach.
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The second coming : a novel
by Garth Risk Hallberg
When he receives a call from New York that makes him fear his 13-year-old daughter is in deeper trouble than anyone realizes, Ethan, a convicted felon and recovering addict, decides it's time to return home where they navigate love, grief, betrayal and redemption. Illustrations.
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Daughter of mine : a novel
by Megan Miranda
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls. Simultaneous.
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Allow me to introduce myself
by Onyi Nwabineli
After growing up with her life being chronicled and monetized by her entrepreneurial step-mother, Anuri escapes as a young adult but vows to fight the cycle of abuse and save her younger sister from a similar fate. 50,000 first printing.
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Colton Gentry's third act : a novel
by Jeff Zentner
A grieving country star, haunted by tragedy and bad bourbon-based decisions, finds redemption and rediscovers himself in his Kentucky hometown while working alongside his high school sweetheart amidst flashbacks to their musical past. 50,000 first printing.
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The 24th hour
by James Patterson
While celebrating Cindy's engagement at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants, a woman is assaulted and Lindsay, Claire and Yuki spring into action, but when the victim's story keeps changing, Lindsay must expose a high-society killer before the Women's Murder Club is short a bridesmaid… or two.
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A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks
by David. Gibbins
A renowned underwater archaeologist presents a narrative of human history through the discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time such as The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great, Henry VIII's Mary Rose and the doomed HMS Terror. 50,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Alien earths : the new science of planet hunting in the cosmos
by Lisa Kaltenegger
An astrophysicist unlocks the mysteries of alien worlds, from lava planets to multi-sun systems, using Earth as a key and humanity's curiosity as fuel, in a thrilling quest to answer whether we are alone in the universe. 50,000 first printing.
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The situation room : the inside story of presidents in crisis
by George Stephanopoulos
A former senior advisor to President Clinton, and for more than 20 years, the anchor of This Week and the co-anchor of Good Morning America, takes us into the White House Situation Room, the epicenter of crisis management where decisions are made that affect the lives of every person on this planet. Illustrations.
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