Summer Reading

Summer is a time to get lost in a good book. There’s no better way to spend a summer afternoon than curling up with a captivating novel. Whether you’re looking for great fiction, self-improvement, or something to escape to, these are a few books that we recommend. We hope this gives you some ideas for your own summer reading list.

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
	“Reid’s acerbic send-up of identity politics thrives in the tension between the horror and semiabsurdity of race relations in the social media era. But she is too gifted a storyteller to reduce her tale to, well, black-and-white….Clever and hilariously cringe-y, this debut is a provocative reminder of what the road to hell is paved with.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
	“Eric Berger has followed the exploits of SpaceX and its founder, Elon Musk, from its very early days. In Liftoff, Eric relates the many personal accounts collected in one-on-one interviews with Musk and many of his key leaders and associates. He chronicles the frenetic pace of Falcon 1 development and the toll it took on many of the early employees. This is a book that will hold your rapt attention from start to finish.” -- CHARLES BOLDEN, Former NASA Administrator and Four-Time Astronaut
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
	“Thrilling . . . Great Circle starts high and maintains altitude. One might say it soars. An action-packed book rich with character . . . Great Circle grasps for and ultimately reaches something extraordinary. It pulls off this feat through individual sentences and sensations—by getting each secondary and tertiary character right . . . What’s so impressive is how deeply we come to care about each of these people, and how the shape and texture of each of their stories collide to build a story all its own. It’s at the level of the sentence and the scene, the small but unforgettable salient detail, that books finally succeed or fail. In that, Great Circle is consistently, often breathtakingly, sound.” —The New York Times Book Review
His Majesty's Dragon: Book One of the Temeraire by Naomi Novik
	“Just when you think you’ve seen every variation possible on the dragon story, along comes Naomi Novik. . . . Her wonderful Temeraire is a dragon for the ages.”—Terry Brooks “Terrifically entertaining.”—Stephen King
Journey of the Pharaohs (The NUMA Files) by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
	“This nonstop thrill ride will leave readers breathless.”--Associated Press “Fast-paced, nonstop fun. Cussler fans will gobble it up.”--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Lively. . . The twist ending fits neatly into the Cussler canon. Series fans will be pleased.”--Publishers Weekly

Enjoy the summer reading and happy book shopping.