Hooked on Books
Amy Kay
The dog days of summer are here but there’s still time to squeak some summer reading into your schedule.
These titles have been popular with the readers of L&A over the past few months.
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens: Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.
Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel: In order to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, a detective travels hundreds of years in the past and meets a young Englishman exiled to Canada in 1912 and a famous writer who lives on a moon colony but is on a book tour on Earth in 2203.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry: Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn’t, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune: Persephone, a magazine writer, returns to her lake hometown for a funeral and lands straight into the orbit of her ex-best friend and lover. She must reconcile the choices she made since their breakup.
At Last Count by Claire Ross Dunn: Paisley’s compulsion to count in sets of eight had little effect on thwarting bullies, her father’s bad luck, and her mother’s mental illness. All of which return to haunt her as she tries to reclaim her abandoned home on Amherst Island after being evicted from her Toronto apartment.
The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager: Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher retreats to her family’s lake house in Vermont where she passes the time watching the glamorous couple across the lake until the wife disappears and she discovers that the most shocking of secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.
The Apothecary’s Garden by Jeanette Lynes: Lavender barely scrapes by, selling flowers at the Belleville train station, her position in life greatly diminished after the death of her father. When a famed spirit medium steps off the train, Lavender makes her acquaintance in hopes that she may be able to contact her dead mother for clues to the location of a secret cache of money.
The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda: When a journalist investigating a string of unsolved disappearances goes missing, Abigail Lovett, the manager of The Passage Inn in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass, decides to investigate and discovers how little she knows about her coworkers, neighbours and even those closest to her.
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin: Ava, a librarian at the Library of Congress, is given an offer by the U.S. military to go to Lisbon and work undercover as a spy gathering intelligence during World War II. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has started an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance.
The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell: In this sequel to The Family Upstairs, two women are faced with complicated mysteries that are linked to a cold case that left three people dead in a Chelsea mansion 30 years ago.
All of these popular titles can be reserved at your local County of Lennox and Addington Library or online at www.countylibrary.ca.