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Eldersburg Recommends Hot Summer Books: Carroll County Library
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Looking for recommendations for books to read this summer while relaxing poolside or enjoying yourself on the beach? Take a look at the books below, recommended by librarians at the , and see which interest you.
By Janet Evanovich
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The 17th book in the series by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich is Smokin’ Seventeen, a supernatural mystery thriller that will keep you in its clutches until you finish it … and then leave you wanting more. New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum lives on the edge. Her family is forcing her to choose between two long loves of her life, she’s a suspect in a murder investigation, and she has a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire on her bounty hitlist. Needless to say, she’s being pulled every which way, but she knows one thing is for sure: where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
This book is recommended for young adult to adult readers, and has 293 requests on the waiting list at the Eldersburg Library.
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By James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
From authors James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge comes the newest thriller, Now You See Her. Have you ever had a secret so big you had to flee in order to deal with it? Nina Bloom fled from her secrets in Key West in order to have a better life, but when a man is framed for a murder he did not commit, Nina must leave her family and successful New York City law career behind and defend the man to confront her demons.
This novel is recommended for adult readers and has 185 book requests on the waiting list at the Eldersburg Library.
By James Patterson
Two plots race alongside each other in the thriller crime novel Tenth Anniversary. Detective Lindsay Boxer is a newlywed and about to embark on a much-anticipated wedding celebration, only to be called out to investigate a gruesome case of a teenage mother and her missing newborn infant. Not only is Lindsay under pressure from her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, but the victim seems to be keeping secrets as well. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is under pressure as well to turn up a guilty verdict in the case of a woman suspected of killing her husband before her two young kids. But Yuki’s friendship with Lindsay is tested when Lindsay turns up evidence that could prove the woman innocent. Will Lindsay and Yuki be able to trust their friendship and do their jobs at the same time?
James Patterson is quite the popular author at the Eldersburg Library; this book has 151 book requests on the waiting list. Tenth Anniversary is recommended for adult readers.
By James Patterson and Marshall Karp
James Patterson’s newest adventure-filled thriller, Kill Me If You Can, makes a reader’s heart beat faster with the story of New York City art student Matthew Bannon. Matthew is trying to make a better life for him and his girlfriend Katherine when he stumbles upon a duffle bag full of diamonds during a hectic scuffle in Grand Central Station. He's immediately thrown into danger of being hunted by the infamous assassin known as Ghost. But another wrench is thrown into the works when another rival assassin is also hunting down Ghost. Will Matthew be able to pull himself out of this treacherous game of monkey in the middle?
Kill Me If You Can will not be released until August 29, 2011, so the 146 readers that have book requests on the waiting list at Eldersburg Library have quite a suspenseful wait! It is recommended for adult readers.
By David Baldacci
The power of love is a remarkable thing. All hope seems lost when terminally ill Jack lies on his deathbed, his wife Lizzie is killed in a tragic car crash, and their children must be sent about the country to live with various family members. It seems to be the end of the road, but Jack inexplicably begins to recover, and he is determined to bring together the family once more to recover from Lizzie’s death at Lizzie’s childhood home on the beach of South Carolina. Is one summer really enough to heal the whole family so they can learn to love again?
Certainly a change from David Baldacci’s usual crime thriller novels, One Summer has 139 book requests on the waiting list at Eldersburg Library and is recommended for young adult to adult readers.