Sandy’s Selections: Start Your Summer Reading List
June is the time to stock up on new books for your vacation season. This month’s most anticipated titles include memoirs, cookbooks, thrillers, and classics. Whether you’re shopping for graduation gifts or just filling up a bag for the beach, there is a book on June’s List for you! Enjoy this fun and robust summer reading list!
Anna is Anna Wintour, the most famous person in the fashion industry and one of the most powerful people in media today. Based on extensive interviews with Anna Wintour’s closest friends and collaborators, including some of the biggest names in fashion, journalist Amy Odell has crafted the most revealing portrait of Wintour ever published.
The Murder Rule is a mother-daughter story—one running from a horrible truth and the other fighting to reveal it—that twists and turns in shocking ways. It was inspired by the true story of a young law student who worked at the “Innocence Project” and eventually uncovered the story that saved an innocent man on death row. But no one is innocent in this story.
Managing Expectations reminds us of how life works out—even when it doesn’t. The book is written with razor-sharp humor and grace as it explores navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, and discovering the unmatched wonder and challenge of motherhood. This memoir is effortlessly charming, deeply funny, personal, and honest,
This Time Tomorrow delivers a different kind of love story about the lifelong relationship between a father and daughter.“What if you could go back in time to be with your elderly dying parent when they were young and healthy?” This book turns all the traditional time travel stories on their head with great humor, insight, and heart.
The Club is a slow-burn mystery that follows the fictional Home Group, a producer of exclusive celebrity clubs found worldwide. It is a dark, voyeuristic look at the underbelly of stardom today. Shady business practices, moral dilemmas, and a cast of characters who all have something to hide…but which one will kill to keep their secrets?
Platinum Jubilee Cookbook features 70 recipes in full color from British embassies and recipes inspired by local influences from around the world. Many of these recipes have actually been served during royal visits to various nations. The book also includes a selection of anecdotes from diplomatic dinners over the last 70 years.
Pride and Prejudice,written in 1813, opens with the saying, “a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” This novel tells the story of Mr. Bennet’s family of five unmarried daughters and their hope for a better marriage. It writes about universal problems in a way that is never moralizing but funny, ironic, and enlightening. A best seller for 200 years!
The first film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was in 1938, and the latest movie was released in 2020.
In Case You Missed It: Here’s Sandy’s summer reading list from June 2019!
The author L.M. Montgomery is credited with asking, “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June,” which is precisely what you will feel when you make your June reading list. Many of these titles offer tales of summer, provocative mysteries, and lots of adventure, so even if you don’t have a lot of travel to do this month, you’ll visit many new places all the same!
Based on actual events, Mistress of the Ritz is an American woman’s story who secretly worked for the French Resistance while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Ritz Hotel in Paris. Its famous setting and the famous people from the past make this a captivating suspense novel and give a different aspect to surviving WWII.
Park Avenue Summer is a delightful summer cocktail of a read! This fictionalized account of the first issues of Helen Gurley Brown’s Cosmopolitan Magazine is meant to entertain and intrigue. Read the Author’s End Notes to see how much of HGB that was portrayed is really true!
The Last Time I Saw You is filled with shocking twists and turns about the aftermath of a brutal high-society murder. Everyone is a suspect! Clues are cleverly and carefully planted all along the way, but no one will truly understand what is happening until the final reveal.
This remarkable memoir is filled with adventures of American women who travel to a farm in northern Iceland every June to ride Icelandic horses. In a beautiful, illustrative writing style, stories are told of their friendships with each other and their passion for Icelandic horses.
No Visible Bruises is an extraordinary book that explores the dark corners of intimate violence and the far-reaching consequences of domestic terrorism on our society. This well-written book provides ten years of research showing the critical need to change our attitudes and laws.
Turning fifty, reeling from divorce, and determined to reclaim her life, this mom dedicates a year to search for five new lovers. Seeking the rapture absent from her life of minivans and mom- jeans, she finds a profound new sense of self-worth. Rare, unexpected, and wildly entertaining!
Such a Perfect Wife is a fast-paced murder mystery with a true-crime writer who digs into the story and discovers the stunning and terrifying truth. This is a truly new spin on the classic woman-gone-missing tale that is a refreshingly original twist to an unforgettable conclusion.
