2024 Summer Sizzlers

SUMMER SIZZLERS Booktalks & Mocktails June 2024 on an image of a pile of books and summery drinks on a wooden table by the beach

2024 Summer Sizzlers

Alissa Recommends

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Family Family by Laurie Frankel
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg
Leaving by Roxana Robinson
How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

Andrea F. Recommends

Absolution by Alice McDermott
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Dearborn, Stories by Ghassan Zeineddine
Monsters: A Fan
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Lady Waiting by Magdalena Zyzak

Dawn Recommends

Shakespeare, the Man Who Pays the Rent by Judy Dench
Making It So by Patrick Stewart
The Watchmaker
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Desirée Recommends

James  by Percival Everett
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens by Raul Palmer
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

Elizabeth recommends

In Memoriam	by Alice Winn
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal
Chip War: The Fight for the World
Essex Dogs/The Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

Liz Recommends

Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
Swift River by Essie Chambers
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
The Book of Love by Kelly Link

Susanne Recommends

Eve: How the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution by Cat Bohannon
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
Mrs. Plansky
Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

Fiction

The Book of Love
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Dearborn. Stories
Fire Exit
The Fox Wife
The Frozen River
The Invisible Hour
Leaving
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Meet Me at the Lake
Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge
Role Playing
Sandwich
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
Swift River
Kelly Link
Julia Alvarez
Ghassan Zeineddine
Morgan Talty
Yangsze Choo
Ariel Lawhon
Alice Hoffman
Roxana Robinson
Tom Hanks
Carley Fortune
Spencer Quinn
Cathy Yardley
Catherine Newman
J. Ryan Stradal
Essie Chambers

Historical Fiction

Absolution
The House of Doors
In Memoriam
James
Lucky Red
North Woods
The Storm We Made
Wolves of Winter
Alice McDermott
Tan Twan Eng
Alice Winn
Percival Everett
Claudia Cravens
Daniel Mason
Vanessa Chan
Dan Jones

Literary Fiction

Family Family
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
The Lady Waiting
The Other Valley
Wellness
Laurie Frankel
Raul Palmer
James McBride
Magdalena Zyzak
Scott Alexander Howard
Nathan Hill

Non-Fiction

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
The Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
Making It So
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
Shakespeare, the Man Who Pays the Rent
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
The Watchmaker’s Daughter
Kara Swisher
Chris Miller
Cat Bohannon
Kate Zernike
Patrick Stewart
Claire Dederer
Judy Dench
Andy Greenberg
Larry Loftis

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