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Dear Friends,
It looks like summer is finally here and so are many of our summer residents and visitors, welcome!
We are ready to help you find just the right book to read at the beach, at the pool, on the deck or wherever you like to read.
We are packed full of great books as well as gifts and keepsakes. We look forward to your visit!
Above is the summer solstice sunset taken at 9:49 pm. (Thanks Karen H)
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Happy July, summer is here!
Jenny, Kim, Anne, Amy, Patti, Sue, Kelsey, Kirsten and Brian
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July Book of the Month
See You’ve Called in Dead
By John Kenney
Zibby $18.99
Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn't really living his best life. He's fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He's not doing his job well. He's given up on dating. And he's about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can't legally fire a dead person). As Bud awaits his fate at work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again.
~Recommended by Anne and Brian
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At the Cook Out
By Nadia Fisher
Putnam $19.99
CiCi just can't wait to get to her Grandma's house for the family's first big cookout of the summer. There's plenty to look forward to: the food, the games, the music, and seeing all her aunties and uncles. But most of all, Cici is excited to catch up with her big cousin Chase. There's just one problem: she can't seem to find him anywhere! CiCi searches all over the party, asking everyone she meets if they've seen Chase, until she finally thinks to look for him in the most unexpected of places . . . (Ages 2 and up)
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At the Summer Lake
By Daniela Kulot
Charlesbridge $17.99
t's so hot! Squirrel knows the best thing to do: Jump into the cool lake! The others hesitate and don't want to get wet, but Squirrel has already jumped off the shore with a splash. The problem is: he can't figure out how to get back out! Not to worry! Fox, Crow, and Mouse know what to do! The summer day ends with a wonderful surprise for everyone. (Ages 2 and up)
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A Cozy Summer Day
By Eliza Wheeler
Nancy Paulsen $18.99
The animals of Acorn Village love spending summer days together. As soon as the sun comes up, they slip into shorts and sunsuits and run outside to enjoy an abundance of cozy activities, whether it's putting up a playhouse, snacking in the strawberry patch, partaking in a picnic, or napping in a leafy nook. And when the day heats up, who can resist cooling off in a sparkling swimming hole before drying off in a cozy sun-kissed towel. When the sun disappears from the sky, it's time to gather round the campfire to share stories and marshmallows and fall asleep under the stars.
(Ages 2 and up)
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Summer Solstice Wish
By Kate Allen Fox
Illustrated by Elisa Paganelli
Beaming Books $18.99
A community comes together to savor the golden days of summer and celebrate the summer solstice, by gathering in a large community flower garden. Children pick flowers and weave flower crowns, symbolizing their friendship and connection to the earth, spreading happiness and kindness. Summer Solstice Wish is a joyful celebration of the glorious long days of summer that seem to pass all too quickly. (Age 2 and up)
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Glen Lake Book Club
Meet at Glen Lake Community Library
at 10:00 a.m
July 21
The Member of the Wedding
By Carson McCullers
Mariner $18.99
August 18
Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese
Restaurant: A Memoir
By Curtis Chin
Little Brown $19.99
Lakeshore Readers
Meet the last Wednesday of the month at Glen Lake Library at 11:00 a.m
July 29
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By Timothy Egan
Penguin $18.00
August 26
The UnlikelyPilgrimage of Harold Fry
By Rachel Joyce
Random House $19.00
Please shop locally!
Books available at Cottage Book Shop
(15% off on book club books)
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Country People
By Daniel Mason
Random House $30.00
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses, in Kate's words, a great capacity "to fall in with anyone, anywhere." And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world's delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas.
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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
By Ben Reeves
Avid Reader $28.00
Travis is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life, which he does without complaint or judgement. He's stoic, gentle, and a little naive, despite who he is, but he never tries to change anyone's fate. He is responsible for maintaining the balance of nature, and every life must eventually end. Then Travis meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall, and despite his best attempts to keep his distance, he finds himself wholeheartedly embraced by other people for the first time. So it is with this seemingly unremarkable family that Travis begins to understand what it means to be truly alive--and what might be irrevocably lost in death.
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The Man
By Laura Sims
Putnam $30.00
The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new photography instructor, she's unprepared to hear his astonished praise. "Stunning," he calls her photos. “Extraordinary.” Emboldened by Paul's encouragement, Judith ventures out beyond her quiet neighborhood to the city in search of increasingly striking images. When she starts to notice the dark shape of a man in the corner of her self-portraits, Judith is certain he's an attacker from her past. She doesn't know why he has returned, but she's sure of his presence: the hoarse sound of his breathing, his hard grip on her elbow. Perhaps it would appease the man if she were to put her camera down and give up her private passion. But she can't; she refuses. Until one night when the man finally emerges from the shadows, and Judith's story suddenly and irrevocably becomes his own.
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The Shampoo Effect
By Jenny Jackson
Pamela Dorman $30.00
When Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, Massachusetts, she falls head-over-heels for Van Whittaker, a fleece-wearing, litter-collecting, kayak enthusiast with long, floppy hair and the personality of a Border collie. Born and raised in this picturesque coastal village, Van runs with the same crowd he did as a kid.Together, the group runs wild through the marshes, beaches, and bars of Greenhead, drinking on houseboats, spending long afternoons sunbathing with their children, and playing games the way they always have. But when Bailey discovers that she is pregnant with Van's baby, the delicate balance of the group's friendship is thrown off. Soon Caroline is cast out of the circle and what she does next--in a potent mix of fury and heartbreak--exposes long-held secrets and works the entire town of Greenhead into a lather.
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Summerland Cove
By Ellen Baker
Mariner $30.00
Lindy has the summer of a lifetime planned at her family's beloved cottage in Summerland Cove, Maine, where she's spent summers all her life and where she and her husband David met as teenagers. She's slated big events three weekends in a row but when David doesn't show up for his own party, everything about the life they've created together is thrown into question, as the shattered family sets out looking for him. The agonizing days tick by and still no David. Lindy's four nearly grown children are panicked. Lindy struggles to remain calm, even as long-buried details of the family's past begin to surface, offering distressing clues. Meanwhile, her mother seems to be harboring secrets of her own, her father has grown alarmingly absent-minded, and Hailey wrestles with whether she should get married at all--even if her father does turn up.
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Top of the World
By Ethan Joella
Scribner $28.00
June 1975. Maggie Bishop has just graduated high school, the future hers to embrace--but she's still reeling from the death of her older brother, Chip. A devastating diagnosis the summer before prompted Chip to leave home for a few months, never revealing where he went. Maggie's search for clues leads her to The Red Maple Inn, a mountaintop resort in the Poconos.
At the Red Maple, Maggie is welcomed into a tight-knit community. As she unravels secrets about her brother's final days, she begins to connect with the people he loved, and whose lives he touched. Through the warmth of strangers, Maggie begins to heal and is able to help others cope with loss.
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Wasp’s Nest
By Kat Stoddard
Celadon $27.99
Tess wants nothing more than for her upcoming society wedding to overshadow the failure of her first marriage. Her fiancé Warren, a steady soon-to-be state senator, is nothing like her first husband. Tess's relationship with working-class artist Peter was a passionate crash-and-burn, and a chapter of her life that she's ready to forget. Peter hasn't seen Tess in five years, so he's shocked to receive an invitation to her wedding. But he's moved on too, and it wouldn't hurt to prove it by showing up with a handsome younger man as his plus-one. Mitch, an aspiring writer, is intrigued by Peter and jumps at the chance to pry into the lives of his Waspy ex-in-laws. What he's not bargained for is developing serious feelings for both Peter and Peter's ex--Tess, the bride. But Peter and Tess have complex desires of their own, and Mitch is dangerously close to uncovering them.
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