After the long rainy spring and early summer, the sun is finally shining. For book lovers, that means lazy hours reading on the beach, by a pool, or even in a patch of sunshine in your own backyard.
Summer is the perfect time to enjoy a thriller that will keep you turning the pages until sunset. For a B.C. flavour, try Still Missing by Chevy Stevens. The debut novel from this Vancouver Island author features a woman held hostage by a psychopath for one terrifying year. Her ordeal will have you gripping your lawn chair in terror.
For the beach, Maine by J. Sullivan Courtney and The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine are made-toorder. Maine follows three generations of women in the Kelleher family during their annual pilgrimage to their seaside cottage. Tense family drama ensues as the four main characters struggle to get along.
For something more light-hearted, Cathleen Schine's novel is a humorous but heartfelt modern-day retelling of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
For non-fiction aficionados, sip a little history with your lemonade when you savour the saga of Second World War service men who crash into a jungle full of Stone Age tribesmen in Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff.
If biographies are more your style, kick back with From This Moment On by Shania Twain. Meanwhile, escape the heat and travel to the North Pole in The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler.
And what summer reading list would be complete without the season's most sizzling blockbusters? Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich, Against all Enemies by Tom Clancy, One Summer by David Baldacci, and Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver are all sure to please fans.
Still unsure about what books to pack on your vacation or stay-cation? Drop by the library and ask one of our librarians for more suggestions.
