Summer Reading – Shelton Library System

Sunday, February 23, 2025

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Summer Reading Program for Adults

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New Items at the
Plumb Memorial Library

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America

Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust (Downloadable Audio)

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust (Downloadable Audio)

The Secret Lives of Candy Hearts (Electronic Format)

The Secret Lives of Candy Hearts (Electronic Format)

Dream State

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell

Tilda Is Visible

Tilda Is Visible

We Would Never

Beartooth

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right

Fagin the Thief

Fagin the Thief

Her Prodigal Husband

Her Prodigal Husband

I Might Be in Trouble

I Might Be in Trouble

Nothing Serious

Nothing Serious

Paranoia

The Cottage by the Sea (Electronic Format)

The Cottage by the Sea (Electronic Format)

The Medici Return

The Medici Return

Untouchable

Back After This

Back After This

To Sicily with Love

To Sicily with Love

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

Society

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

By Peter Beinart. A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our timeIn Peter Beinart’s view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of

Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America

Society

Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America

By Christopher Rivas. At a time when disinformation, hate crimes, inequality, racial injustice, and white supremacy are on the rise, Brown Enough, part memoir and part social commentary, emerges, asking readers to proudly put their bodies, their identities, into the conversations of race.Brown Enough

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust (Downloadable Audio)

Audiobooks & Courses

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust (Downloadable Audio)

By Adam Kahane. Downloadable Audio As society becomes more polarized and globalized and organizations become less hierarchical, more of us need to collaborate across increasingly heterogeneous groups than ever before. International consultant Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times in working

The Secret Lives of Candy Hearts (Electronic Format)

Entertainment

The Secret Lives of Candy Hearts (Electronic Format)

By Tommy Siegel. In Electronic Format Never have the secret lives of relationships been so clearly and amusingly on display as in Tommy Siegel’s Candy Hearts comics.Tommy Siegel’s Candy Hearts comics reveal the most awkward and amusing truths about relationships, and since their viral debut in 2020,

Dream State

Literature & Fiction

By Eric Puchner. Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws’ lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, though Cece can’t

Show Don't Tell

Literature & Fiction

Show Don't Tell

By Curtis Sittenfeld. A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic novel Prep—from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic ComedyIn

Tilda Is Visible

Literature & Fiction

Tilda Is Visible

By Jane Tara. A self-help book wrapped in a funny, poignant novel, Tilda Is Visible is for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and found fault within themselves.Tilda Finch is a successful businesswoman, a mother to two wonderful adult daughters, and besides an unexpected divorce, she’s living a

We Would Never

Literature & Fiction

By Tova Mirvis. A riveting literary page-turner that maps the extremes to which a family will go in order to protect their own.No one appears more surprised than Hailey Gelman when she comes under suspicion for the murder of her soon-to-be ex-husband Jonah. Hailey—nicknamed Sunshine by her mother for

Beartooth

Mysteries & Thrillers

By Callan Wink. “One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . . . Beartooth is unstoppable, the literary treasure you’ve been looking for.”—Junot DíazTwo brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut, propulsive novel

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right

Mysteries & Thrillers

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right

By Walter Mosley. Joe King Oliver’s beloved Grandma B has found a tumor, and at her age, treatment is high-risk. She’s lived life fully and without regrets, and now has only a single, dying wish: to see her long-lost son. King has been estranged from his father, Chief Odin Oliver, since he was a young

Fagin the Thief

Mysteries & Thrillers

Fagin the Thief

By Allison Epstein. A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London’s most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue.Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of

Her Prodigal Husband

Mysteries & Thrillers

Her Prodigal Husband

By Becky Masterman. Alice Einstein - known as "Malice" to her former schoolfriends - likes to tell herself stories. There's a good one she's workshopping about how, despite once being a critically acclaimed literary novelist, she's ended up blocked and uninspired, living in her timid, conflict-averse

I Might Be in Trouble

Mysteries & Thrillers

I Might Be in Trouble

By Daniel Aleman. A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a six-figure book deal, a loving boyfriend, and an exciting writing career. His debut novel was a resounding success, which made the publication of his second book—a total flop—all the more devastating. Now, David is single, lonely, and desperately

Nothing Serious

Mysteries & Thrillers

Nothing Serious

By Emily J. Smith. A scintillating debut about a disillusioned tech executive who goes into an obsessive spiral when her best friend-—and longtime crush—is implicated in a woman’s death.Edie Walker’s life is not going as planned. At thirty-five, she feels stuck: in her career, in her love life, and in

Paranoia

Mysteries & Thrillers

By James Patterson and James O. Born. Detective Michael Bennett has many admirers. One of them is killing cops and coming after his family.Detective Michael Bennett says a prayer every time he witnesses a death. In his line of work, it happens frequently. But Bennett’s attended so many police funerals

The Cottage by the Sea (Electronic Format)

Mysteries & Thrillers

The Cottage by the Sea (Electronic Format)

By Keri Beevis. In Electronic Format The BRAND NEW pulse-pounding, psychological thriller, from the international top ten bestselling author of The Sleepover and The Summer House.

The Medici Return

Mysteries & Thrillers

The Medici Return

By Steve Berry. From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series --- an adventure that takes Cotton to Italy and Tuscany to solve a five hundred year old mystery.Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century

Untouchable

Mysteries & Thrillers

By Mike Lawson. In the latest pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson, beloved Washington DC “troubleshooter” Joe DeMarco finds himself assigned an impossible case: help take down the President of the United States.Brandon Cartwright was a rich guy worth a couple billion

Back After This

Romance

Back After This

By Linda Holmes. A podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating—but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love? From the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo.Cecily Foster loves to make podcasts. She fiercely protects her colleagues,

To Sicily with Love

Romance

To Sicily with Love

By Jennifer Probst. When she learns she has a big Italian family she never knew about, a lonely woman travels to Sicily for a life-changing summer in the new romance from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.Aurora York had it all together: loving parents, a steady relationship, and a promising

New Items at the
Huntington Branch Library

Vienna Blood: Season 3

Vienna Blood: Season 3

Next Stop, Berlin: A Historical Sketch of the First Railroad Station at Berlin, Connecticut

Next Stop, Berlin: A Historical Sketch of the First Railroad Station at Berlin, Connecticut

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust (Downloadable Audio)

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust (Downloadable Audio)

The Secret Lives of Candy Hearts (Electronic Format)

The Secret Lives of Candy Hearts (Electronic Format)

Midnight Black

Paranoia

The Cottage by the Sea (Electronic Format)

The Cottage by the Sea (Electronic Format)

The Medici Return

The Medici Return

Fourth Wing

Losing Sight

Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown (Electronic Format)

Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown (Electronic Format)

The Last One

Danilo Was Here

Danilo Was Here

Looking for You

Looking for You

Paranoia

The Little Lost Library

The Little Lost Library

Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets

Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets

The Department of Stolen Heirlooms

The Department of Stolen Heirlooms

The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy-And Why It Failed

The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy-And Why It Failed

Vienna Blood: Season 3

DVDs

Vienna Blood: Season 3

1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Brilliant Dr. Max Liebermann is a student of Sigmund Freud, and together with Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, they investigate a series of unusual and

Next Stop, Berlin: A Historical Sketch of the First Railroad Station at Berlin, Connecticut

History

Next Stop, Berlin: A Historical Sketch of the First Railroad Station at Berlin, Connecticut

By John DiSarro III.

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust (Downloadable Audio)

Audiobooks & Courses

Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust (Downloadable Audio)

By Adam Kahane. Downloadable Audio As society becomes more polarized and globalized and organizations become less hierarchical, more of us need to collaborate across increasingly heterogeneous groups than ever before. International consultant Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times in working

The Secret Lives of Candy Hearts (Electronic Format)

Entertainment

The Secret Lives of Candy Hearts (Electronic Format)

By Tommy Siegel. In Electronic Format Never have the secret lives of relationships been so clearly and amusingly on display as in Tommy Siegel’s Candy Hearts comics.Tommy Siegel’s Candy Hearts comics reveal the most awkward and amusing truths about relationships, and since their viral debut in 2020,

Midnight Black

Mysteries & Thrillers

By Mark Greaney. With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration. The temperature barely rises above zero, and the

Paranoia

Mysteries & Thrillers

By James Patterson and James O. Born. Detective Michael Bennett has many admirers. One of them is killing cops and coming after his family.Detective Michael Bennett says a prayer every time he witnesses a death. In his line of work, it happens frequently. But Bennett’s attended so many police funerals

The Cottage by the Sea (Electronic Format)

Mysteries & Thrillers

The Cottage by the Sea (Electronic Format)

By Keri Beevis. In Electronic Format The BRAND NEW pulse-pounding, psychological thriller, from the international top ten bestselling author of The Sleepover and The Summer House.

The Medici Return

Mysteries & Thrillers

The Medici Return

By Steve Berry. From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series --- an adventure that takes Cotton to Italy and Tuscany to solve a five hundred year old mystery.Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century

Fourth Wing

Romance

By Rebecca Yarros. Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca YarrosTwenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general?also known

Losing Sight

Romance

By Tati Richardson. What if a mysterious pair of glasses helped you to see life—and love—clearly?Sports reporter Tanika “Nikki” Ryan is at the top of her game until she isn’t. Squinting at the teleprompter and flubbing lines, she loses her coveted Thursday Night football spot to a younger, less qualified

Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown (Electronic Format)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown (Electronic Format)

By Mike Mignola. In Electronic Format New folklore-inspired tales abound in this anthology of eight fantasy stories written and drawn Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, featuring a bonus sketchbook section.From a search for the beating heart of a long-dead sorcerer, to a pirate girl who makes a deal with

The Last One

Science Fiction & Fantasy

By Rachel Howzell Hall. The Witcher meets N. K. Jemisin in a new series from NYT bestselling author Rachel Howzell Hall where a young woman awakens in a field with no memory and learns that the world is dying—and that she is the only one who can save it from an evil, destructive force...herself.

Danilo Was Here

Children's Books

Danilo Was Here

By Tamika Burgess. From the acclaimed author of Sincerely Sicily, Tamika Burgess, comes a timely coming-of-age story about a young boy’s fight to save his family and his dreams in the aftermath of the US military invasion of Panamá. Perfect for fans of Janae Marks, Adrianna Cuevas, and Chrystal D. Giles!Danilo

Looking for You

Large Print

Looking for You

By Alexander McCall Smith. In this latest installment of The Perfect Passion Company, our favorite matchmaker, Katie Donald, continues her unwavering endeavor to help the lonely hearts of Edinburgh find love.After facilitating a handful of successful romances, Katie Donald is eager to continue helping

Paranoia

Large Print

By James Patterson and James O. Born. Detective Michael Bennett has many admirers. One of them is killing cops and coming after his family.Detective Michael Bennett says a prayer every time he witnesses a death. In his line of work, it happens frequently. But Bennett’s attended so many police funerals

The Little Lost Library

Large Print

The Little Lost Library

By Ellery Adams. In the latest in the mystery series hailed as “a love letter to reading” (Entertainment Weekly) from New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams, Nora Pennington helps her bookstore customers find healing through the perfect book—while solving the town’s real-life murders with the

Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets

Large Print

Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets

By Christopher Farnsworth.

The Department of Stolen Heirlooms

Large Print

The Department of Stolen Heirlooms

By Pam Jenoff.

The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy-And Why It Failed

Large Print

The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy-And Why It Failed

By Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch.

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