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Summer Book Buzz
All the newest, buzzworthy releases.
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ONE LAST STOP SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER
6/1 by Casey McQuiston 6/1 by Ashley C. Ford
Twenty-something cynic August is As a kid, Ashley Ford faced down poverty,
convinced that true love is only something puberty, and sexual violence. Through the
that happens in the movies. Enter Jane: a darkest years of her childhood, she was at
mysterious, beautiful stranger on the NYC odds with her mother and left craving love
subway that August can’t help but crush on. and compassion from an absentee father.
The trouble is, Jane is not from here; she is One problem: he was incarcerated, and she
stuck in time—the 1970s to be exact. Can didn’t know why. In this unflinchingly honest
August push her many doubts aside to save account of growing up poor and black in
the girl and her own happily ever after? midwestern America, Ford shares her
From the author of Red, White & Royal Blue. personal struggles and powerful realization
Rom-com. that we are not always defined by what we
are born into. Memoir.
THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LENNI WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
6/1 AND MARGOT 6/1 by Alice Waters
by Marianne Cronin
Chef and food activist Alice Waters is on a
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson is mission to change the way we look at food.
dying. While she is in the hospital she meets A longtime champion of local sustainable
fellow patient Margot, an 83-year-old agriculture, Waters' “slow food” culture
purple-pajama-wearing, fruitcake-eating embraces pleasure in ingredients, an
spitfire who isn’t ready to give up. Together awareness of where our food comes from,
these unlikely friends devise a plan to create and building community around what we
100 paintings – one for every year of their eat. Nonfiction.
collective lives – to celebrate their personal
stories and what it means to truly have
lived. Contemporary Fiction.
THE OTHER BLACK GIRL THE JASMINE THRONE
6/1 by Zakiya Dalila Harria 6/8 by Tasha Suri
Things are looking up for editorial assistant Inspired by the history and epics of India,
Nella Rogers. Since Wagner Books brought this first installation in a new trilogy revolves
Harlem-born Hazel on board, Nella is no around Malini, a captive princess, and Priya,
longer the only black employee at the starkly a maidservant in possession of forbidden
white NYC publishing house. Even better, the magic. These two strong women become
women hit it off. But when sinister messages unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their
appear on Nella’s desk, she begins to suspect empire from the princess's traitor brother.
that Hazel is more of a master manipulator Fantasy.
than friend. Thriller.
BEWILDERNESS THE LETTER KEEPER
6/1 by Karen Tucker 6/8 by Caleb Azumah Nelson
In rural North Carolina, Irene and Luce are Murphy Shepherd is the guy who shoots first
young women with a fierce devotion to and asks questions later. His life’s mission: to
each other and dangerous addiction to help those who can’t help themselves,
opioids. Told in a riveting dialogue between especially victims of human trafficking
the girls' pill-fueled past and their hopes for crimes. In this sequel to The Water Keeper,
a better future, their story is at once a Shepherd finds himself questioning all that
beautiful celebration of friendship and the he thought to be true when his wife,
heartbreak of drug abuse. For fans of Julie stepdaughter, and two other teenaged girls
Buntin’s Marlena. Literary Fiction. are stolen. From the author of The Mountain
Between Us and When Crickets Cry.
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RABBITS THE MAIDENS
6/8 by Terry Miles 6/15 by Alex Michaelides
Players are dead and the body count is rising Edward Fosca is a charismatic and
in this fast-paced story about an adventure admired professor. Among his admirers
reality game set in the world of the hit are a secret society known as The
Rabbits podcast. There have only been nine Maidens. Mariana Andros is a troubled
winners since the game began in 1959, but therapist who becomes fixated on The
no one knows who they are. Enter K—a Maidens when a member is found dead.
Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to Mariana is convinced that Fosca is to
find a way into the game for years. A blame for the murder and she becomes
rumored winner gives K a chance to play, obsessed with proving his guilt, no
but something has gone wrong with the matter the cost. Thriller.
game and K needs to fix it before the whole
world pays the price. Science Fiction.
PACK UP THE MOON MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS
6/8 by Kristan Higgins 6/15 by Joshua Henkin
When Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal Renowned scholar Spence Robin is
illness, she writes letters to her beloved diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s,
Joshua, to be delivered to him each month and his family struggles to care for him.
for a year after her death. Joshua was not His wife, Pru, transforms from lover to
prepared for life without Lauren, but as he caretaker and one lonely day, she meets
receives the letters he embarks on a a man, and the possibility of new
bittersweet journey of anger, denial, and romance blooms. Spence and Pru are left
eventually, happiness. Readers will laugh to grapple with how to persevere when
and cry at this heartwarming new title by life does not turn out how you planned.
Kristan Higgins. Contemporary fiction. Literary Fiction.
A DARK AND SECRET PLACE SONGS IN URSA MAJOR
6/8 by Jen Williams 6/22 by Emma Brodie
After her mother’s unexpected suicide, Summer 1969. Aspiring musician Jane
Heather Evans makes an alarming discovery Quinn gets a big break when the
in the family home—stacks and stacks of headliner at a local concert festival is
carefully preserved letters from notorious injured in a motorcycle accident. When
serial killer Michael Reave, who has been in Jane and her band take the stage the
prison for more than two decades for the audience goes wild, and a star is born. As
brutal slaying of young women. Recently, she skyrockets to success, Jane soon
similar murders have Heather pushing finds herself immersed in the
police for answers. For fans of Jane Harper sometimes-dark 1970s American music
and Rachel Caine. Psychological suspense. scene. For fans of Daisy Jones and the
Six. Historical Fiction.
SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO GOD SPARE THE GIRLS
6/8 by Lionel Shriver 6/22 by Kelsey McKinney
Kay and Cyril have seen the pain that comes From the outside, the Nolan family has it
with aging. Fearing what may lie ahead, in all. Luke Nolan is the handsome,
their early fifties they agree to commit charming head pastor for his North Texas
suicide together once they have turned megachurch; his wife and two daughters
eighty. But then they turn eighty and are the picture of purity and
wonder what they might miss out on. righteousness. But when the sisters
Explore twelve possible futures for Kay and discover a life-changing secret about
Cyril from the hilarious to the somber. their seemingly perfect father, they must
Literary Fiction. choose between the two things most
important to them: faith or family.
Contemporary Fiction.
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BLACK ICE STEEL FEAR
6/29 by Carin Gerhardsen 7/13 by Brandon Webb & John David Mann
One horrific car accident, two crimes. On
The USS Abraham Lincoln is adrift at sea
an abandoned back road in the dead of
with one major problem: its crew is
winter, a group of ill-fated strangers meet
disappearing. With morale at an all-time
by disastrous chance and become
low, could the unexplained deaths be
entangled in a web of secrets. Only one
suicide or is there a serial killer on board?
person knows the truth…and is willing to
The prime suspect is disgraced Navy SEAL
keep it hidden at any cost. This chilling
Finn, who is being transported stateside
Nordic noir is a standalone from the author
for a failed mission in the Persian Gulf. It’s
of the bestselling Hammarby crime series.
a race against time to stop a murderer.
Thriller.
Military thriller.
MONA AT SEA THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP
6/29 by Elizabeth Gonzalez James 7/13 by Grady Hendrix
Mona Mireles graduated at the top of her The author of The Southern Book Club’s
college class and is ready to embark on Guide to Slaying Vampires returns with this
her perfect life. But thanks to a recession, new twisty slasher. Lynnette Tarkington is a
she is living at home with her parents, final girl, the sole survivor of a massacre
jobless and humiliated. Rather than that happened 22 years ago. She belongs to
continuing to live as a “sad millennial,” a support group for those who’ve also lived
Mona is determined to face her uncertain through the unthinkable. When one of the
future head-on with grit and wit. Coming- women in the group goes missing,
Of-Age. Lynnette’s worst fears are realized:
someone knows about them and is back to
finish the job. Horror.
ISLAND QUEEN SIXTEEN HORSES
7/6 by Vanessa Riley 7/20 by Greg Buchanan
In the seaside town of Ilmarsh, England,
This unforgettable novel is based on the
something insidious is lurking. When
true story of Dorothy “Doll” Kirwan
local detectives make a gruesome
Thomas, a larger-than-life free woman of
discovery, veterinary forensics expert
color who rose from slavery to become
Cooper Allen is called upon to examine
one of the wealthiest and most powerful
the mysterious deaths of 16 horses. Panic
landowners in the colonial West Indies.
and paranoia grip the community’s
Historical Fiction.
residents as more crimes occur and
everyone becomes a suspect. Mystery.
SUNSET ROUTE A WOMAN OF INTELLIGENCE
7/6 by Carrot Quinn 7/20 by Karin Tanabe
Carrot Quinn grew up in poverty in New York City, 1954. Wealthy socialite
Alaska, with a mentally ill mother and a Katharina Edgeworth has the perfect life,
childhood rife with tragedy. As a teen, but in the turbulent climate of post-war
she left home to travel the country via America, she wants to do more. When the
freight train and find her own definition FBI calls upon her to help catch a high-
of life outside of the one she has been level Soviet spy she once knew, Katharina
given. This brutally honest and uplifting jumps at the chance. She soon finds herself
memoir is for fans of Tara Westover’s embroiled in international undercover
Educated or Wild by Cheryl Strayed. missions that threaten her once-idyllic life
Memoir. and everyone in it. For fans of espionage
fiction. Historical fiction.
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NEW WOMEN IN THE OLD WEST THE PERFUME THIEF
7/20 by Winifred Gallagher 8/3 by Timothy Schaffert
Gallagher opens our eyes to the intrepid yet A Gentleman in Moscow meets “Moulin
mostly overlooked female pioneers who Rouge” in this stylish, sexy page-turner
settled the American West. From muddy set in Paris on the eve of World War II.
mining camps to dusty prairie settlements, Clementine, who left a jet-setting life of
these women worked equally hard crime to settle down amid the bordellos
alongside the men to scratch out a living in of Paris, is drawn out of retirement and
the unforgiving wilderness of the new into one last scam when the Nazis invade
territory. Through personal diaries and and her fellow misfits start to disappear.
letters, Gallagher uncovers the stories of Historical fiction.
these trailblazers who would play a crucial
early role in the women’s civil rights
movement. Nonfiction/History.
THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. Du BOIS CLARK AND DIVISION
7/27 by Honoree Fannone Jeffers 8/3 by Naomi Hirahara
The 2020 National Book Award– Chicago, 1944. Aki Ito, a 20-year-old, is
nominated poet makes her fiction debut leaving Manzanar, where she and her
with this sweeping story of a young black parents have been detained since the
woman poised between two worlds: a life aftermath of Pearl Harbor. When Aki learns
divided between home in a Northern city that her sister, who had been released
and family in a sleepy southern town. She months earlier, has died, she begins a hunt
tries to find her own identity through the to find the truth about her sister’s apparent
rich, and often shocking, stories of her suicide. Historical mystery.
ancestors. For fans of Yaa Gyasi’s
Homegoing or Water Dancer by Ta-
Nehisi Coates. Contemporary Fiction.
ALL THE LITTLE HOPES DOWN RANGE
7/27 by Leah Weiss 8/3 by Taylor Moore
DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect
In rural North Carolina during WWII, Lucy
his home on the Texas High Plains when
and Allie are two young teenagers who,
a vicious criminal enterprise comes after
like their idol Nancy Drew, find
his family. Unfortunately for the criminal
themselves wrapped up in a mystery
crew, besides being an elite undercover
when their quiet little town becomes a
officer, Kohl is a battle-hardened Green
Nazi POW camp and men begin to
Beret who spent the better part of his
disappear. An eclectic mix of colorful
career hunting terrorists. For fans of C.J.
characters and Southern atmosphere
Box. Susupense.
round out this wonderful read. From the
author of If the Creek Don’t Rise.
Historical Fiction/Coming-of-Age.
THE TURNOUT MURDER ALWAYS BARKS TWICE
8/3 by Megan Abbott 8/3 by Jennifer Hawkins
Dara and Marie were dancers trained by For Emma Reed and her beloved corgi,
their mother, founder of the Durant Oliver, opening a tea room in Cornwall was
Dance School. The sisters inherited the the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Emma is
school after their parents died in a tragic excited to be asked to help cater the local
accident over a decade ago. When a Daphne DuMaurier literary festival, but
suspicious fire occurs, just at the onset of when the festival organizer is found dead
the school's performance of The and foul play is suspected, Emma realizes
Nutcracker, an interloper arrives and it’s up to her and Oliver to uncover the
threatens the delicate balance of killer. Cozy mystery.
everything they've worked for. Thriller.
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A DIFFERENT DAWN THE GUIDE
8/10 by Isabella Maldonado 8/24 by Peter Heller
A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI A heart-racing thriller about a young man
Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an
team must determine if there is a link elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where
between this attack and another triple amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched
homicide from four years earlier and more streams and forests he uncovers a plot of
than two thousand miles away. In the shocking menace. Suspense.
process, they’ll discover a serial killer who
has gone undetected for nearly three
decades. Mystery.
A MILLION THINGS
IN THE COUNTRY OF OTHERS 8/24 by Emily Spurr
8/10 by Leila Slimani
For as long as ten-year-old Rae can
Mathilde, a young Frenchwoman, falls in remember, Mum has been disappearing for
love with Amine, a Moroccan soldier in the a while to clear her head, but she always
French army during World War II. After the comes back. When Rae wakes to the back
war, the couple settles in Morocco. Left door open and no Mum, she does as she’s
increasingly alone to raise her two children, always done and carries on, until her
Mathilde defies the country’s chauvinism grumpy, lonely neighbor Lettie needs her
and repressive social codes by offering help. What will happen to them both when
medical services to the rural population. For her mother’s absence is finally noticed?
fans of The Namesake. Literary fiction. Coming-of-age.
THE LAST MONA LISA A SLOW FIRE BURNING
8/17 by Jonathan Santlofer 8/31 by Paula Hawkins
August, 1911. The Mona Lisa is stolen by When a young man is found murdered in a
Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens London houseboat, it triggers questions
in the two years before its recovery is a about three women who knew him. Laura
mystery. Present day: Luke Perrone digs is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in
for the truth about his ancestor: Peruggia. the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken
His search attracts an Interpol detective aunt, already mourning the recent death.
and a curiously helpful woman. Soon, And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly
Luke finds himself deep in the dangerous keeping secrets. When it comes to revenge,
world of art and forgery. Historical fiction/ even good people might be capable of
Suspense. terrible deeds. Suspense.
THE GUILT TRIP THE LAST CHANCE LIBRARY
8/17 by Sandie Jones 8/31 by Freya Sampson
Jack and Rachel. Noah and Paige. Will Lonely librarian June Jones is a shy,
and Ali. Five friends who’ve known each reclusive thirty-year-old who has never left
other for years and Ali, Will’s fiancée, the English village where she grew up.
travel to Portugal for the destination When her library is threatened with
wedding. As secrets are revealed and closure, June joins a band of eccentric yet
relationships crumble, everything dedicated locals in a campaign to keep the
changes. Five people are left wondering if library. To save the place that means so
they really know each other so well after much to her, June must finally make some
all. For fans of Alice Feeney. Thriller. changes to her life. Contemporary
romance.
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Summer Reading and Learning Program
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Reading Challenges
To complete each challenge, read or listen to
instructions a book on these topics.
June 14 - August 14
1. BOOKS VS. MOVIES/TV
Read or listen to a title which was first
Complete your choice of listed a book and has now been made into a
Summer Reading Challenges, movie or series.
and check the boxes to track
your reading. 2. BOUND AND DETERMINED
Discover the grit and perseverance of
people or characters who are forced
Earn a chance to win a $50.00 to go it alone in unique settings or
Barnes & Noble gift card for circumstances.
each completed challenge.
3. IMAGINARY WORLDS
Submit your raffle entry for Explore a fantastical world unlike
each completed challenge at our own.
www.cecilcountylibrary.org or 4. TIME WARP
by visiting any branch of the Prepare for adventure as you travel
Cecil County Public Library. through space and time.
5. OLYMPIC FEVER
Follow real or imagined athletes on
their quest for glory.
Visit the library’s website or
the CCPL Readers Group
on Facebook to find
6. LAUGH ALONG
Lighten your mood with a funny or
recommendations for each of quirky read that makes you smile.
this year’s Summer Reading
Challenges. 7. BOOKS FROM THE DEEP
Set yourself adrift and read a book where
the ocean takes center stage.
8. DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
Solace, protection, inspiration; read
or listen to a book about dogs who
sometimes provide it all.
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