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Suggested Summer Reads from the Library Staff
Some of Our Favorites
Most of these books are in the library display case. A few are currently being enjoyed by others. Just ask at the main Circulation Desk if you would like to check any of them out!
Anil's Ghost / Michael Ondaatje. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Browsing - PR9199.3.O5 A84 (Resa)
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking / Malcolm Gladwell. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2005. Browsing - BF448 .G53 (Debbie)
Cold mountain / Charles Frazier. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Browsing - PS3556.R3599 C6 (Esther)
A Confederacy of Dunces / John Kennedy Toole; foreword by Walker Percy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. PS3570.O54 C6 (Patti & Resa)
The Corrections / Jonathan Franzen. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. Browsing - PS3556.R352 C67 (Patti)
The Debt to Pleasure / John Lanchester. New York: H. Holt, 1996. Browsing - PR6062.A4863 D43 (Resa)
The Deep End of the Ocean / Jacquelyn Mitchard. New York: Viking, 1996. Browsing - PS3563.I7358 D4 (Esther)
A Fine Balance / Rohinton Mistry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Browsing - PR9199.3.M494 F56 (Resa)
Interpreter of Maladies : Stories / Jhumpa Lahiri. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Browsing - PS3562.A316 I58 (Stephanie)
Life of Pi : A Novel / Yann Martel. New York: Harcourt, 2001. Browsing - PR9199.3.M3855 L54 (Stephanie)
Like Water for Chocolate : A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies / Laura Esquivel; translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen. New York: Doubleday, 1992. PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 (Patti)
The Lovely Bones : A Novel / Alice Sebold. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002. Browsing - PS3619.E26 L68 (Stephanie)
The Mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley. New York: Knopf, 1982. PS3552.R228 M5 (Patti)
The Notebook / Nicholas Sparks. New York: Warner Books, 1996. Browsing - PS3569.P363 N68 (Debbie)
The Other Boleyn Girl / Philippa Gregory. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Browsing - PR6057.R386 O84 (Dracine)
Please Understand Me : Character & Temperament Types / David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates. Gnosology Books; Del Mar, CA, 1984. BF698 .K357 (Patti & Ginny)
Poison / Kathryn Harrison. New York: Random House, 1995. PS3558.A67136 P65 (Resa)
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel / Barbara Kingsolver. New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998. Browsing - PS3561.I496 P65 (Stephanie)
The Red Tent / Anita Diamant. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Browsing - PS3554.I227 R43 (Debbie & Dracine)
The Saving Graces / Patricia Gaffney. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. Browsing -PS3557.A295 S29 (Esther)
Shelter / Jayne Anne Phillips. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. PS3566.H479 S48 (Resa)
Shutterbabe : Adventures in Love and War / Deborah Copaken Kogan. New York: Villard Books, 2000. TR140.K64 A3 (Dracine)
The Tomb of Tut·ankh·Amen, Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter / Howard Carter & A. C. Mace. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1963 [c1954]. DT87.5 .C4 vols. 1-3 (Dracine)