Looking For Good Summer Reads? Try These.

Ann Etris of the has created the following list of books to read on a plane, beach or in your home this summer.

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FICTION BRO Rainwater by Sandra Brown
A romantic historical novel from the best-selling author of Smash Cut centers on an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas.

MYSTERY FIN The September Society by Charles Finch
Amateur detective and Victorian gentleman Charles Lenox heads for his alma mater at Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a student and encounters a series of bizarre clues, including a card bearing the name The September Society.

FICTION GAB Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself in the midst of a world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution, and haunted by her feelings for a young soldier.

FICTION GOW Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favor of a son, as two families--one in India, the other in the United States--are changed by the child that connects them.

MYSTERY GRA U Is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a 4-year-old girl who disappeared more than 20 years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of 6. By the best-selling author of T is for Trespass.

FICTION HAN Night Road by Kristin Hannah
When stay-at-home mom Jude Farraday takes in Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, the girl becomes inseparable from Jude's teenage twins before a shattering accident that rips the family apart and sets the stage for a sobering confrontation years later. By the best-selling author of Winter Garden.

FICTION MEA Roses by Leila Meacham
Having not married in spite of their true feelings, cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick struggle with deceit, secrets and tragedies that challenge their children and grandchildren in their small east Texas community.

FICTION PAT Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson
In a new book by the best-selling author, Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, in an astonishing account of a man's bold pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.

FICTION ROS Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.
Be sure to attend the Book Discussion of this title on June 12th at 7:00 p.m.

FICTION SAN Buried Prey by John Sandford
Investigating the discovery of two bodies in a house demolition, Lucas Davenport identifies the victims as two girls who disappeared in 1985, a cold case that overshadowed the early years of his career. By the best-selling author of Storm Prey.

MYSTERY SCO Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, the child looks exactly like her adopted son, Will, which prompts Ellen to launch an investigation that ultimately threatens both of their lives.

FICTION SIM Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.

FICTION STE Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and
dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor. A first novel.

FICTION WEI Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger
A woman supports her musician lover as he works his way to rock-star status, only to find herself dumped for a Brazilian supermodel, a tragedy that causes her to seek solace in a sisterhood of women who have been jilted by successful men — and are out for revenge. By the best-selling author of The Devil Wears Prada.