Don’t let the summer pass you by without reading for the total fun of it! No matter where you go, a good book is a good companion. To get started, check out the lists on National Public Radio, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble.
On the local front, Pease Public Library offers a great summer reading program and a slate of activities for the young and young at heart, and students at Plymouth Regional High School can join the summer reading blog and check out their library’s new arrivals.
Want a few quick suggestions? Try Mabod Seraji’s story of young love, set in pre-revolutionary Iran on the Rooftops of Tehran; live in Leningrad during World War II in City of Thieves by David Benioff; or experience life as The Leper, author Steve Thayer’s fictional account of life in two mid-20th Century leper colonies.
Email Anne Lebreche your favorite summer read and we’ll share it here.
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Sea Glass : A Novel
* Sea Glass : A Novel
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Attribution
Anita Shreve
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Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Little, Brown and Co, 2002
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Description
The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Tags
Stock Market Crash, 1929 · Fiction · Married people · Labor movement · New Hampshire · Shreve, Anita
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Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
(UPPER LEVEL) PS3569.H7385 S43 2002 AVAILABLE
New books from the NPR best novels of summer list have arrived!
The Scenic Route by Binnie Kirshebaum
Follow Me by Joanna Scott
The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
Readings I have done for the wee little children:
Bees, Snails, and Peacock Tails: About patterns and shapes that occur in plants and animals.
And Tango Makes Three: When life gives you penguins…
Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea: All about the horse-headed, monkey-tailed, color-shifting Hippocampus.