Relaxing Summer Reads
Relaxing Summer Reads Use this booklet to help you choose fabulous books to keep you amused this summer. Every time you borrow, put your borrower slip into the Relaxing Reading box to go in the draw to win a 2015 season subscription to the Civic Theatre! DVDs The library has lots of DVDs to choose from. Television series, films both old and new, documentaries, instructional and music DVDs. You can have the DVDs for two weeks! How to choose great books
Ask your library staff to help! See what others have borrowed on the Recent Returns shelf. Browse the face out shelves to see which covers appeal to you. Look up your favourite author in the Who Else Writes Like….? book. Check out the great websites and databases such as NoveList Plus, Fantastic Fiction and Gnooks on the library website’s Book Lovers page.
All you need is love
Love from Paris by Alexandra Potter
Ever after by Jude Deveraux
Clover’s child by Amanda Prowse
Letters to the end of love by Yvette Walker
The Japanese lover by Isabele Allende
Ask me to stay by Elise K. Ackers
The story of us by Dani Atkins
Beautiful liar by Tara Bond
Whisper at dawn by Frank Coates
After the rain by Reneé Carlino
The apple of her eye by Pamela Evans
A vintage wedding by Katie Fforde
The secret years by Barbara Hannay
The dandelion years by Erica James
The heat of betrayal by Douglas Kennedy
Last one home by Debbie Macomber
Emma by Alexander McCall Smith
After you by Jojo Moyes
Lone Star by Paulina Simons
See me by Nicholas Sparks
The illusionists by Rosie Thomas
Book Club Favourites
Summertime
All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
Summer on the river by Marcia Willet
Station Eleven by Emily St John
The woman who fell in love for a week by Fiona
The other side of the world by Stephanie Bishop
Life after life by Kate Atkinson
A fine summer’s day by Charles Todd
All that I am by Anna Funder
The summer’s end by Mary Monroe
Before I fall by Lauren Oliver
Leap of faith by Fiona McCallum
White crocodile by K.T. Medina
Lost lake by Sarah Addison Allen
The dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
Fadeaway girl by Martha Grimes
In her blood by Annie Hauxwell
The girls of August by Anne River Siddons
A man called Ove by Frederick Bachman
Summer at Little Beach Bakery by Jenny Colgan
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Paper daises by Kim Kelly
A walk in the woods by Bill Bryson
Summer at Shell Cottage by Lucy Diamond
Spirit house by Mark Dapin
The truth according to us by Annie Barrows
The light between oceans by M.L. Stedman
The life of houses by Lisa Gorton
The Martian by Andy Weir
The guest cottage by Nancy Thayer
The end of your life bookclub by Will Scwalbe
The beachside guest house by Vanessa Green
Euphoria by Lily King
Summer at Tiffany’s by Karen Swan
The bees by Laline Paull
Western skies by Nora Roberts
Burial rites by Hannah Kent
Villa America by Liza Klaussmann
The unknown terrorist by Richard Flanagan
The summer without you by Karen Swan
The miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Walker
War
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
Traitor’s field by Robert Wilton
The torch by Peter Twohig
The scent of death by Andrew Taylor
Oddfellows by Nicholas Shakespeare
Night strike by Chris Ryan
Northern heat by Helene Young
Hearts of stone by Simon Scarrow
Return to Moondilla by Tony Parsons
Blood & steel by Harry Sidebottom
Claiming Noah by Amanda Ortlepp
R&R by Mark Dapin
The Saddler boys by Fiona Palmer
The dust that falls from dreams by Louis de
The trivia man by Deborah O’Brien
Bernières
Spirits of the Ghan by Judy Nunn
Swords around the throne by Ian Ross
When there’s nowhere else to run by Murray
Devastation Road by Jason Hewitt
Running fire by Lindsay McKenna
Long Bay by Eleanor Limprecht
Beneath a rising sun by Peter Watt
Ash Island by Barry Maitland
The nightingale by Hannah Kristin
The world without us by Mireille Juchau
Where my heart used to beat by Sebastian Faulks
Tell the truth by Katherine Howell
Shadows of war by Michael Ridpath
The secrets of midwives by Sally Hepworth
A colder war by Charles Cumming
Sweet Wattle Creek by Kaye Dobbie
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Detective work by John Dale
The assassins by Gayle Lynds
Set in stone by Ros Baxter
Bloodline by Conn Iggulden
The secret son by Jenny Ackland
Iron Wolf by Dale Brown
Wild lands by Nicole Alexander
Ghost fleet by P.W. Singer
Down outback roads by Alissa Callen
Middleton
The Truth
Around the World
The promise by Jamie Zimmermann
Island home by Tim Winton
Betsy and the emperor by Anne Whitehead
The seventh day by Yu Hua
Aussie grit by Mark Webber
Journey under the midnight sun by Keigo Higashino
What my daughters taught me by Joseph Wakim
The undesired by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
The other son by Alexander Soderberg
The man who saved Smithy by Rick Searle
Natural histories by Guadalupe Nettel
The spirits of Gallipoli by Kim L. Phillips
The whispering city by Sara Moliner
To reach the clouds by Philippe Petit
The festival of insignificance by Milan Kundera
Keating by Kerry O’Brien
The little Paris bookshop by Nina George
Message to my girl by Jared Noel
The reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Girl in the woods by Aspen Matis
The silk tree by Julian Stockwin
Still travelling by Mal Leyland
All the stars in heaven by Adriana Trigiani
Henry and Banjo by James Knight
The way things were by Aatish Taseer
Born to fight by Mark Hunt
The lives of others by Neel Mukherjee
The bastard from the bush by John Jarratt
An empty coast by Tony Park
Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule by Jennifer Chiaverini
The white mouse by Peter Gouldthorpe
Wolf, wolf by Eben Venter
The country wife by Anne Gorman
The pale north by Hamish Clayton
Flesh wounds by Richard Glover
A year of marvellous ways by Sarah Winman
Girl alone by Cathy Glass
Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-Yong
The blue between sky and water by Susan Abulhawa
It’s Criminal
Watch it!
The dying season by Martin Walker
Paper planes
Corrupted by Lisa Scottoline
Foxcatcher
Close your eye by Michael Robothom
Maps to the stars
Even dogs in the wild by Ian Rankin
Before I go to sleep Woman in gold
Corridors of the night by Anne Perry
The water diviner
Midnight sun by Jo Nesbo
This is where I leave you
Falling in love by Donna Leon
The great Gatsby
Breaking Creed by Alex Kava
Gallipoli
The bone tree by Greg Iles
A good marriage
Do not disturb by A.R. Torre
Whitechapel
Asylum city by Liad Shoham
The whaler, Australia’s great war horse
Alone in the dark by Karen Rose
Utopia
Dark corners by Ruth Rendell
Still open all hours
Garden of lies by Amanda Quick
Peaky Blinders
Olive Kitteridge
Gathering prey by John Sandford
Miss Fisher’s murder mysteries
No cure for love by Peter Robinson
Love child
Above the waterfall by Ron Rash
Legends of the old west
The ice queen by Nele Neuhuas
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Brush back by Sara Paretsky
William Kelly’s war
Enough rope by Barbara Nadel
That sugar film
Inspector of the dead by David Morrell
The hobbit