Library staff Cook Up a Celebration

Thursday, June 12, is the first day of summer reading programming. Join library staff as they “Cook Up a Celebration” at 1 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room. We will be playing with food as we celebrate summertime and the state’s 150th birthday. Thursday, June 19, at 1 p.m., youth ages 6 and above can join the library staff as we “Eat Our Words.” Come have fun playing with words and language, including creating a picture or object representing a word with prizes for cool designs.
Summer reading is possible for everyone, especially if the weather doesn’t warm up. We may spend the summer sitting by our fireplaces reading, instead of sitting on the beach. But reading can be done anywhere, in any weather and allows one to escape the drab, gray days we’ve been having. Here are a handful of titles to wile away an hour or two, or even a moment or two waiting in line.
The setting is Venice. Escape into The World Before Her by Deborah Weisgall and discover two Venices a hundred years apart where the canals reflect memory as much as light. In 1880, Marian Evans, whose pen name was George Eliot has come to Venice on her honeymoon hoping to achieve love again. In 1980 Caroline Spingold comes to Venice on the occasion of her tenth anniversary. Both women are facing the eternal dilemma of how to find love, sustain love and not lose one’s self.
Souvenir by Therese Fowler is a wonderful summer time romance of two people whom everyone believed were destined for each other, who find themselves 17 years later reacquainted, with one of them married and the other engaged. What do we do with the second chances we are given?
The End of East by newcomer Canadian author Jen Sookfong Lee is a timeless story of family conflicts set against the backdrop of Vancouver, B.C., Chinatown. The story begins in 1913 and weaves in and out of the past to the present and back as we follow the tale of the Seid Quan family.
Lisa Kleypas has written a summer romance in Blue-Eyed Devil. Hardy Cates is a self-made millionaire from the wrong side of the tracks. Haven Travis is an heiress with a mind of her own who made some bad choices and is back home guarding her heart. Hardy Cates is the family enemy and the last thing she needs is him darkening her door.
Dead Time by Stephen White is a compulsively readable stand alone as well as being the long awaited title starring Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory. Alan enlists the help of friend and detective Sam Purdy as they try and find the connection between the unexplained disappearance years ago at the Grand Canyon and his ex-wife’s missing surrogate today. They travel from New York to Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon as they uncover one by one a series of secrets that someone want to keep covered at all costs.