{"id":37594,"date":"2013-09-06T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=37594"},"modified":"2013-09-06T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:59:53","slug":"great-summer-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=37594","title":{"rendered":"Great Summer’s End Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"

. .<\/span> by Renee Holden, Head Editor, INALJ Nebraska<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Great Summer’s End Reads<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"77491_539638406062729_675693252_o\"<\/a>We often have patrons frequent the reference desk around this time of year who are looking for some great books to read before the summer ends.\u00a0 Here are my top five books to enjoy before the summer passes us by and fall settles in.<\/p>\n

The Shining Girls<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Lauren Beukes<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a wonderfully written tale about a time-travelling serial killer.\u00a0 Harper Curtis is unlike any usual serial killer.\u00a0 Starting in Depression-era Chicago, he has found a way to travel through time, making his crimes almost impossible for the authorities to solve.\u00a0 But his 1989 victim, Kirby Mazrachi, has somehow managed to survive her encounter with Harper.\u00a0 Now Kirby is ready to give Harper a taste of his own medicine and make time run out before another person is killed.<\/p>\n

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton<\/b><\/em><\/a> by Elizabeth L. Silver<\/strong><\/p>\n

An unforgettable and unpredictable debut novel of guilt, punishment, and the stories we all tell ourselves to survive.\u00a0 Noa P. Singleton sits on death row in a maximum security prison, just six months away from her execution date.\u00a0 She is visited by a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is a heartbroken mother of the victim and now wants to see the death penalty delayed\u2026if only Noa reveals her motive.<\/p>\n

She Left Me the Gun: My Mother\u2019s Life Before Me<\/b><\/em><\/a> by Emma Brockes<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the story of a woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed simply to vanish, and a daughter who transcends her mother\u2019s silences and reclaims her past.\u00a0 The author grew up hearing only pieces of her mother\u2019s youth in South African and London.\u00a0 Her mother Paula was a strong, self-invented woman; glamorous, no-nonsense, and out of place in their small English village.\u00a0 Emma never asked why her mother emigrated to England or why she never returned to South Africa.\u00a0 After Paula\u2019s death, she began a search for the real Paula.\u00a0 This book is a good read if you like Jeannette Walls\u2019 The Glass Castle.<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

The Universe Versus Alex Woods<\/b><\/em><\/a> by Gavin Extence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alex Woods was struck by a meteorite when he was just ten years old, leaving scars that marked him for an extraordinary life.\u00a0 His mother calls him Lex because he\u2019s bald.\u00a0 The son of a fortune teller, bookish, an easy target for bullies, he hasn\u2019t had the most ordinary childhood.\u00a0 When he meets curmudgeonly Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend who tells him you only get one shot at life\u2026so you better make it count.\u00a0 So, when Alex turns seventeen, he is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of his friend\u2019s ashes on the passenger seat and an entire nation in uproar, he\u2019s fairly sure he\u2019s done the right thing.\u00a0 Or has he?<\/p>\n

The 5th<\/sup> Wave<\/b><\/em><\/a> by Richard Yancy<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a great book for those who enjoy Invasion of the body Snatchers, Ender\u2019s Game, <\/i>and Independence Day.\u00a0 <\/i>After the 1st<\/sup> wave, only darkness remains.\u00a0 After the 2nd<\/sup>, only the lucky escaped.\u00a0 And after the 3rd<\/sup>, only the unlucky survived.\u00a0 After the 4th<\/sup> wave, trust no one.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s the 5th<\/sup> wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie, armed only with an old rifle, runs from Them, the Beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see; who have scattered Earth\u2019s last survivors.\u00a0 To stay alone is to stay alive\u2026until Cassie meets Evan Walker.\u00a0 Quiet and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope for rescuing her brother from Them or even saving herself.\u00a0 She must choose before life and death and to give up or get up and fight.\u00a0 This is a perfect book if you like end of the world stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . by Renee Holden, Head Editor, INALJ Nebraska Great Summer’s End Reads We often have patrons frequent the reference desk around this time of year who are looking for some great books to read before the summer ends.\u00a0 Here are my top five books to enjoy before the summer passes us by and fall…<\/p>\n

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