Time for Summer Beach Reading!

Looking for something fun to read during the long, hot days of summer?  The library has you covered!  All of the tiles below are available in our McNaughton Collection in the Browsing Lounge.

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

"Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It's a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light." -Amazon description

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

"For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there." -Amazon description

The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

"In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader in a single weekend. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life." -Amazon description

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

"In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom." -Amazon description

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

"How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages—and for the ages—about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness." -Amazon description

Find more on Primo or by browsing the McNaughton Collection.  Happy reading!

Some fun summer reading lists:

• The 39 Books We're Talking About This Summer (Washington Post)
• 73 Books to Read While the Sun is Out and the Days Are Long (The New York Times)
• The 32 Best Books to Read this Summer (Elle Magazine)
• The 20 Smart Books You'll Want to Read at the Beach This Summer (Esquire Magazine)