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Author Read Alikes: Summer Edition June 2024
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If you enjoy reading books over the summer, try these titles that are also accessible through Digital Library of Illinois (Libby) and Hoopla
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Shelterwood
by Lisa Wingate
In 1990 Oklahoma, Valerie, a Law Enforcement Ranger reporting for duty at Horsethief Trail National Park, is immediately faced with the long-hidden burial site of three children, and working with the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, unearths old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
Scheduled release date: June 4, 2024 - place holds on physical copy or Libby now.
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Summer Romance
by Annabel Monaghan
A professional organizer whose own life is a mess, newly single mom Ali Morris meets a man who looks at her like she's a version of herself she hasn't been in a long while and decides there's no harm in a little summer romance—or is there?
Scheduled release date: June 4, 2024 - place holds on physical copy or Libby now.
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One of Our Kind
by Nicola Yoon
Moving their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, hope to find a community of like-minded people, Jasmyn, perplexed and frustrated by most residents' outlook, discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders and must save her loved ones from embracing the Liberty way of life.
Scheduled release date: June 11, 2024 - place holds on physical copy or Libby now.
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The Rom-Commers
by Katherine Center
Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma, arriving in LA, discovers he's a jerk and doesn't even believe in love and refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her dreams into reality whether he likes it or not.
Scheduled release date: June 11, 2024 - place holds on physical copy or Libby now.
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Swan Song
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.
Scheduled release date: June 11, 2024 - place holds on physical copy or Libby now.
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Love Letters to a Serial Killer
by Tasha Coryell
Writing to William, a handsome lawyer accused of murdering four women, 30-something Hannah, using this an outlet for pent-up frustration and rage, is consumed by obsession when he writes back, and when he's acquitted, she moves in with him while secretly investigating him for serial murder.
Scheduled release date: June 25, 2024 - place holds on physical copy or Libby now.
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The Pairing
by Casey McQuiston
Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately. It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy.
Scheduled release date: August 6, 2024 - place holds on physical copy now.
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The House of Hidden Meanings : A Memoir
by RuPaul
From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Come and Get It
by Kiley Reid
A senior resident assistant at the University of Arkansas accepts an easy yet unusual opportunity offered by a visiting professor and things get messy when her new side-hustle is jeopardized by strange new friends and illicit and vengeful dorm antics.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Fury
by Alex Michaelides
Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Women of Good Fortune
by Sophie Wan
At a high-society Shanghai wedding, the reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own personal motives and fed up with the way society treats women, forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Summer Book Club
by Susan Mallery
In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club—devoted entirely to romance novels—and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Bright Young Women
by Jessica Knoll
In 1978, Tina Cannon, when two women vanish without a trace, believes they are targets of the All-American Sex Killer and learning about the massacre at a Florida State University sorority, heads to the Sunshine State where she is on a collision course with one last impending tragedy.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The List
by Yomi Adegoke
A celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, Ola Olajide is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time until she finds his name on “The List,” an anonymous account posting allegations on social media, in this razor sharp exploration of the real-world impact of online life.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Cleat Cute
by Meryl Wilsner
Sidelined with an injury, 26-year-old Grace Henderson, a star of the US Women's National Team, falls for Phoebe Matthews, whom she considers her rival, and as the World Cup approaches and Grace gets back in the game, they must decide what's more important—being together or making the roster.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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My Name is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand
In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in NY nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. Editor's note: A must-listen as an audiobook, as it includes song snippets!
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Good Material
by Dolly Alderton
After a bad breakup, Andy desperately tries solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship with Jen in order to win her back, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Everything I Know About Love.
Available on Libby.
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The Good Part
by Sophie Cousens
When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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How to Say Babylon : A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair
This stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia led to violence shows how found her own power and provides a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we know little about.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Opposable Thumbs : How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
by Matt Singer
An award-winning editor and film critic raises the curtain on the often-antagonistic partnership, which later transformed into genuine friendship, between Robert Ebert and Gene Siskel whose signature “Two thumbs up!” would become the most trusted critical brand in Hollywood—one that still lives on today.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Woman in Me
by Britney Spears
The noted pop star offers a moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Funny Story
by Emily Henry
After being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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The Women
by Kristin Hannah
In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words “Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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Just for the Summer
by Abby Jimenez
With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other's curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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More : A Memoir of Open Marriage
by Molly Roden Winter
The author, in this unputdownable memoir of love, desire and personal growth, shares how she and her husband embarked on an unexpected open marriage, allowing her to explore her sexuality but causing her to grapple with her past and what it means to be both a mother and her truest self.
Waitlist on Libby - place holds there now.
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After Annie
by Anna Quindlen
After Annie Brown dies suddenly, her family and her best friend struggle to maintain their lives and eventually discover that they are able to grow, change and become stronger due to their memories and the lasting power of love.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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There's Always This Year : On Basketball and Ascension
by Hanif Abdurraqib
One of our culture's most insightful critics and most of all, an Ohioan, reflects on the golden era of basketball during the 1990s and explores what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation and the very notion of role models.
Waitlist on Libby - place holds there now.
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The Guncle Abroad
by Steven Rowley
With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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