The Summer of.....
Check out some of the books below to delve into a summer read. These titles are either set in or written about summer - sunny vacations, sweltering mysteries, or summer months that changed history.
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: how brewers, barkeeps, rowdies, immigrants, and a wild pennant fight made baseball America's game by Edward Achorn
Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Von der Ahe picked up the team for one reason--to sell more beer. Then he helped gather a group of ragtag professional clubs together to create a maverick new league that would fight the haughty National League, reinventing big-league baseball to attract Americans of all classes.
The Summer of Good Intentions by Wendy Francis
Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacation--and they are carrying more secrets than suitcases.
Summer of the Dead by Julia Keller
High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments--a place where the dead rub shoulders with living and demand their due.
The Lost Summer of Louis May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O'Connor McNees imagines a love affair that would threaten Louisa's writing career-and inspire the story of Jo and Laurie in Little Women. Stuck in small-town New Hampshire in 1855, Louisa finds herself torn between a love that takes her by surprise and her dream of independence as a writer in Boston.
The Summer of Dead Toys by Antonio Hill
A riveting crime thriller set during a sultry Barcelona summer, introducing Inspector Hector Salgado. Ordered on probation, he fled to Argentina to cool off for a few months. Now he's back, eager for another big case. Hector begins to follow a trail that will lead him deep into the underbelly of Barcelona's high society where he'll come face-to-face with dangerous criminals, long-buried secrets, and, of course, his own past. But Hector thrives on pressure and he lives for this kind of case--dark, violent, and seemingly unsolvable.
Summer of '68: the season that changed baseball--and America--forever by Tim Wendel
The extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season--when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams. In Summer of ;68, Tim Wendel takes us on a wild ride through a season that saw such legends as Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, Don Drysdale, and Luis Tiant set new standards for excellence on the mound, each chasing perfection against the backdrop of one of the most divisive and turbulent years in American history.
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns by Elizabeth Kelly
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns introduces Riddle James Camperdown, the twelve-year-old daughter of the idealistic Camp and his manicured, razor-sharp wife, Greer. It's 1972, and Riddle's father is running for office from the family compound in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. When Riddle accidentally witnesses a crime close to home, her confusion and fear keep her silent. As the summer unfolds, the consequences of her silence multiply.
A Summer of Hummingbirds: love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey
Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protégé to the painter Heade-confesses her love for Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, and the players suddenly find themselves caught in the crossfire between the Calvinist world of decorum, restraint, and judgment and a new, unconventional world in which nature prevails and freedom is all.
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