It’s June and summer is right around the corner! That means our Adult Summer Reading Challenge, All Together Now, will begin soon! Sign up starting on June 24 here: Summer Reading Challenge or in person. This month, there are new beach reads and books from some of our favorite authors. Start putting these new books on hold now to prepare for the Summer Reading Challenge!
S.A. Cosby. All the Sinners Bleed.
Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in his Southern hometown of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. As a former FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. He faces a questionable shooting, a Confederate pride march, and a serial killer
Lisa See. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like a proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in 15th-century China.
Elliot Page. Pageboy.
Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page’s debut memoir, full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world.
Kristin Harmel. The Paris Daughter.
Two mothers, Elise and Juliette, must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble—and Juliette nowhere to be found.
Elin Hilderbrand. The Five-Star Weekend.
After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket. It will be a weekend like no other.
Matthew Quirk. Inside Threat.
An attack on the White House sends the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top secret government facility buried deep underground—but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them.
Tom Brokaw. Never Give Up: A Prairie Family’s Story.
This moving story chronicles the values and lessons Brokaw absorbed from his parents and other people who worked hard to build lives on the prairie during the first half of the twentieth century.
Susan Wiggs. Welcome to Beach Town.
In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town, it’s graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. The students are worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. The class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer’s daughter who is there on scholarship. Nikki veers off script while giving her commencement address and reveals a secret that breaks open the whole community.
Check out the full list here: June Coming Soon
