Summer and books just seem to go together. When it’s too hot to go outside, it’s nice to sit in your comfy chair or cozy reading nook with a good book ? Who doesn’t love taking a book vacation and reading with your toes in the sand or sitting near a cool mountain stream? We found an eclectic mix of books for August. Enjoy!
We Can Do Hard Things – Authors and podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wanbaugh,, and Amanda Doyle have come up with the ultimate guidebook for being alive.
The Note by Alafair Burke – Mix three friends with a complicated past and a prank gone wrong during a vacation in the Hamptons.
This Summer Will be Different by Carley Fortune – While Lucy is vacationing on Prince Edward Island, she hooks up with a local man named Felix. Things get complicated when she learns Felix is her best friend’s younger brother.
To Sicily with Love by Jennifer Probst – Aurora has a wonderful family, a steady relationship, and a promising career. When she loses both parents unexpectedly, her perfect life unravels quickly. Desperate to find a connection she takes a DNA test which uncovers a large extended family in Sicily. When Aurora travels to Italy, she finds a new family and a new love.
The Vacation by Emma Straub – The Post family travels to Mallorca with their extended family and friends to celebrate an anniversary and a high school graduation. Instead, secrets and petty jealousies threaten to ruin this special trip. Are some things better left unsaid, or will the truth set them free?
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara is a solar powered AI Friend Doll waiting patiently to be purchased until she’s chosen to be Josie’s companion. Josie is a child who has been genetically engineered to have exceptional academic ability. The process called “lifting” often causes serious health problems. When Klara becomes Josie’s friend, will she be able to convince the sun to recharge Josie’s failing body?
Happy Wife by Meridith Lavender and Kendall Shores – When a young woman’s husband goes missing in an ultra-wealthy Florida community people begin to gossip and she becomes the obvious suspect. Her only hope is to find him alive before she’s arrested for his murder.
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong – In East Gladness, an elderly woman battling Alzheimer’s convinces a nineteen-year-old not to end his life by jumping from a bridge, Both their lives change when he repays her kindness by becoming her caretaker.
Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles – Knowles shares the strength of the generations of strong Black woman in her family.
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin – At an English county fair, a fortune teller predicts that Frances will be murdered one day. She doesn’t say when or who the killer will be, but she insists it will happen. Frances tries to solve her own murder before it happens, but sixty years later she is killed. Can her great-niece Ann find out who the killer is, or will she be the next victim?