Summer Reading Week 3 Friday

Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy By Tucker, Michael Photographer Walsh, Kristine 2007-07 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780871139627 Check Our Catalog From actor Michael Tucker comes this celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, written with an epicureans delight in detail and a gourmands appreciation for all things fine. …More

Ink and Bone By Unger, Lisa 2016-06 - Touchstone Books 9781501101649 Check Our Catalog An instant page-turner (Lisa Gardner) that straddles the line between thriller and horror... sure to appeal to a wide range of readers, including Stephen King fans ("Booklist," starred review). A young woman's mysterious gift forces her into the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance. Twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery is rarely alone. Visited by people …More

The Glass Castle: A Memoir By Walls, Jeannette 2009-10 - Scribner Book Company 9781439156964 Check Our Catalog Winner - 2006 ALA Notable Non-Fiction Selection Alex Award Winner - 2006 In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. HPL patron: …More

Highly Illogical Behavior By Whaley, John Corey 2016-05 - Dial Books 9780525428183 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I really enjoyed this book. This is my first book from this author and it was such an easy and enjoyable read. I did kind of guess what was going to happen in this story so it was a little unoriginal but still liked it. …More

Candlelight Christmas By Wiggs, Susan 2013-10 - Mira Books 9780778314745 Check Our Catalog As single father Logan O'Donnell prepares to give his son, Charlie, the best Christmas ever on the shores of Willow Lake, he just may be in for a Christmas surprise himself, in the form of sharp-witted and independent Darcy Fitzgerald. …More

The Last Star: The Final Book of the 5th Wave By Yancey, Rick Author Yancey, Richard 2016-05 - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers 9780399162435 Check Our Catalog The highly-anticipated finale to the "New York Times "bestselling 5th Wave series The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all …More

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry By Zevin, Gabrielle 2014-04 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 9781616203214 Check Our Catalog A faded sign hangs above the porch of the Victorian cottage that is home to Island Books. It bears the adage"NO MAN IS AN ISLAND; EVERY BOOK IS A WORLD."A. J. Fikry, the bookstore's irascible owner, is about to discover what that means. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry reminds us of what saves us all from a life of loneliness and isolation: our sense of empathy; our ability to love and be loved; …More