Summer Library Challenge 2024
 
Congratulations, Kara K!
 
The SLC grand prize winner of a two-night stay at Sylvia Beach Hotel is Kara K.
 
Winners will be contacted directly.
 
Adult SLC 2024 Recap
 
A record 647 adults registered for this year's Adult Summer Library Challenge! Wahoo! We hope you reached your summer library challenge goals and had fun doing it! 
 
Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Lake Oswego Public Library, we awarded 12 Powell's gift cards as well as a couple of bonus gift baskets. Congratulations to Jen F and Ellen G! And in partnership with Sylvia Beach Hotel, we awarded a two-night stay at Sylvia Beach Hotel.
 
We certainly enjoyed meeting many of you at our Adult SLC craft, reading, and speaker events, as well as bringing you this weekly newsletter. We hope you'll stay in touch with library happenings by signing up for the library's Bi-Monthly Library eNewsletter.
 
See you next year!
 
Alicia & Shannon
 
Next Reads Newsletter
 
The Adult Summer Library Challenge newsletter may be taking a hiatus, but reading recommendations, curated by the book experts at NoveList, are available all year. The lists include award-winning, hand-written annotations delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up for the NextReads newsletters today!
 
Your SLC 2024 Recommendations
Dogland : passion, glory, and lots of slobber at the Westminster Dog Show
by Tommy Tomlinson

The author of Elephant in the Room offers an inside account of his time following the Westminster Dog Show to see if the dogs are happy and to develop a deeper understanding of the bond between humans and dogs.
Axiom's end : a novel
by Lindsay Ellis

The co-creator of the It's Lit! web series presents the alternate-history tale of a woman who becomes an interpreter for an unknown being when her estranged whistleblower father launches a media frenzy about a first-contact cover-up. 60,000 first printing.
The Unwinding of the Miracle : A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams

An unconventional memoir by a young mother with Stage IV metastatic cancer describes her experiences as a blind Vietnamese political refugee-turned-Harvard-educated lawyer before terminal illness inspired her blog to share the real-world guidance she wished she had.
All the colors of the dark : a novel
by Chris Whitaker

After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
Asian American histories of the United States
by Catherine Ceniza Choy

This history of Asian migration, labor and community formation in the U.S. emphasizes how the Asian American experience is essential to any understanding of both our history and current day crises.
The lost bookshop
by Evie Woods

"For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder... where nothing is as it seems"
Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion
by Jia Tolentino

A New Yorker writer presents nine original essays examining the fractures at the center of culture today, offering insights into the conflicts, contradictions, incentives and changes related to the rise of toxic social networking.
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