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Summer Reading 2025 July 2025 |
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Love redesigned
by Lauren Asher
Love Redesigned is a steamy, small town romance about two family friends-turned-childhood rivals. It is the first book in the standalone Lakefront Billionaires series and has a happy ending.
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Girl with a pearl earring
by Tracy Chevalier
A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town.
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The goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue in this new novel by the author of The Secret History.
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Lust for life
by Irving Stone
A Novel of the life of the tormented genius who put so much of himself into his art that he found it difficult to maintain himself in ordinary society.
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Girl in hyacinth blue
by Susan Vreeland
Chronicles the history of a painting and the lives with which it intersects, from the artist's inspiration to its admiration by two art scholars three hundred years later.
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Photography : history, art, technique
by Tom Ang
The pages of this photography guide book take you on a journey through the development of photography. Explore its history, how it became an art form and how to apply its techniques to your own photos to create stunning photographic works!
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Spark : how genius ignites, from child prodigies to late bloomers
by Claudia Kalb
"A look at genius, through portraits of 12 iconic figures in fields ranging from music to medicine, to explore what leads certain people to reach their creative heights early in life, whereas others don't uncover their potential until their later years."
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Aisha's colors
by Nabila Adani
Longing to go on vacations like her friends instead of taking the same trip from Jakarta to her Grandma's village in the countryside, Aisha learns to appreciate the simple beauties around her and the special warmth of family who welcome her with open arms.
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The orange wall
by Valerie Bolling
With her puppy Coco's help, Zoya gives her room a glittery makeover.
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Miss Aker is a maker!
by Dan Gutman
When Miss Aker, a special guest at Ella Mentry School, shows A.J. and his friends how to create cool things out of all kinds of materials, they accidentally build a robot smart enough to take over the world!
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Pinkalicious : the pinkerrific playdate
by Victoria Kann
When her new friend, Rose, comes over for a first play date, a delighted Pinkalicious enjoys such shared activities as making friendship bracelets, baking cookies and playing in a tree house. By the author of the best-selling Goldilicious.
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Rainbow bear
by Bill Martin
Young readers can learn the names of every color of the rainbow while following Little Bear as he wakes up from his hibernation and fills his hungry belly with berries!
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Children's Books Nonfiction
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Janie writes a play : Jane Yolen's first great story
by Heidi E. Y. Stemple
Janie Yolen loves to read, write, dance and sing, and when she rewrites her elementary school play because it's boring, it becomes a hit musical, in a story about how a writer became a writer, written by Yolen's daughter.
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iFiesta! = : A festival of colors
by Duncan Tonatiuh
This celebratory bilingual concept picture book uses an explosion of color to portray a street fiesta filled with green avocados, yellow tortillas, purple dance dresses and more!
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Dollar bill origami
by Jane Yates
Presents step-by-step instructions for creating origami projects out of dollar bills, including an airplane, a hat, a dog, and a box.
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Young Adult Books Fiction
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Red hood
by Elana K. Arnold
Living a quiet life with her grandmother in Seattle, Bisou Martel is attacked by a mysterious wolf on the night of her school's homecoming before confronting difficult questions about her past and her growing sense of empowerment.
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Out of blue comes green
by M. E. Corey
"After a killer school talent show performance in full masculine presentation, trans boy Kinkade is quickly knocked back down to earth when his crush rejects him, and the whole school sees him in the dress his mother forced him to wear for a family photo. So, when the new girl Madi assumes he is cis and asks him out, he accepts without correcting her. After years of being ignored by his old crush and bullied by other boys, Kinkade just wants to convince Madi that he's a regular guy's guy."
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Gideon Green in Black and White
by Katie Henry
Gideon’s short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective ended when middle school started, and everyone else—including his best friend, Lily—moved on while Gideon kept holding on to his trench coat, fedora, and his treasured film noir collection. Now he’s sixteen and officially retired. That is, until Lily shows up suddenly at Gideon’s door, needing his help.
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The fountains of silence : a novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Drawn back to his mother's homeland by the utopian promises of the Franco regime in 1957 Madrid, the photographer son of an oil tycoon bonds with a girl who raises his awareness about the lingering shadows of the Spanish Civil War.
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Sunrise nights
by Jeff Zentner
When aspiring photographer Jude and former dancer Florence, who has a degenerative eye disease, meet at their sleepaway camp's closing celebration, called Sunrise Night, they decide to take a chance with one rule - they can't contact each other after the sun has risen.
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Young Adult Books Nonfiction
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I will always write back : how one letter changed two lives
by Caitlin Alifirenka
Traces the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from an impoverished region of Zimbabwe, describing how 12-year-old Caitlin wrote to an unknown student for a class assignment and shared a life-changing six-year correspondence.
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The book of styling : an insider's guide to creating your own look
by Somer Flaherty
Features color illustrations, information on style through the decades and tips for budget shopping in a guide presented by an accomplished California stylist that counsels readers on how to identify a personal image, prepare for fashion emergencies and more. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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