Ten NEW Must Read books for the Summer
Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:07pmIt seems like Summer has officially arrived in the Prairies, and boy is it a scorcher so far. So let's get into the season with some good Summer reading.
Bookish has come up with a list of the top ten must read books that're new this Summer, and it sure is full of some good picks:
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
- The Son by Philipp Meyer
- Fin and Lady by Cathleen Schine (released early July)
- TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
- Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown (coming soon!)
- The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan
- Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
- And Sons by David Gilbert (released late July)
- Night Film by Marisha Pessl (released mid-August)
Read the full list on Bookish's website, and look after the jump for the same titles as found on our website. Purchase online, or contact your nearest McNally Robinson Booksellers to reserve your own copy. For titles not yet released, we'd be happy to put in a pre-order just for you (there's no additional charge - we'll just reserve a book and call you when it arrives!).
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Fin & Lady
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From bestselling author Cathleen Schine comes Fin & Lady, a wise, clever story of New York in the '60s.
It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s. He soon learns that Lady-giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free-is as much his responsibility as he is hers.
So begins Fin & Lady, the lively, spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine, the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the '60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War-Lady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself.
From a writer The New York Times has praised as "sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting," Fin & Lady is a comic, romantic love story: the story of a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional family in increasingly unconventional times.
