Book lists: A summer reads preview!

Your summer reading list is here! Our bimonthly presentation of new and recently released books highlighted many great titles for vacations, stay-cations, or just mini-escapes on your lunch break. Highlights from the presentation on May 22th are listed below. Hover your cursor over each book cover to view a brief description. Click on the image to go to the item in our catalog. The full list of books is available on our website. Join us for our next presentation, in two months, on July 17th.

Twenty-three-year-old Elaine Kelly doesn't earn much as a bank teller, and most of her salary goes toward caring for her terminally ill mother. When a lonely old man who deposits money at her bank every week gets hit and killed by a delivery truck, Elaine--a good Irish girl from Queens--thinks she's found the answer to her problems. She'll just transfer $1 million from the dead man's account into hers. Except that the lonely old man may not have been who he seemed. And when you take $1 million that isn't yours, it can cost you... way more

Love May Fail, by Matthew Quick: Inside the O'Briens, by Lisa Genova: In the Unlikely Event, by Judy Blume: God Help the Child, by Toni Morrison: Festival of Insignificance, by Milan Kundera: Eight Hundred Grapes, by Laura Dave: The Dream Lover, by Elizabeth Berg: Delicious Foods, by James Hannaham: The Daylight Marriage, by Heidi Pitlor: The Cake Therapist, by Judith Fertig: The Bone Tree, by Greg Iles: The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George: