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5 Summer Reads to Add to Your List

Here are five book suggestions from the staff at Peters Township Public Library.

 

Last year, we assigned Michael Buzzelli to give you his personal Patch picks for summer reading. This year, the staff at Peters Township Public Library is sharing theirs. 

Here are five book suggestions to add to your summer reading list: 

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson:

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues—Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing.

Calico Joe by John Grisham:

A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball.

Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich:

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home.

The Lion by Nelson DeMille:

John Corey, former NYPD homicide detective and now a special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. Unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion."

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain:

Brilliantly capturing the voice and heart of Hadley Hemingway as she struggles with her roles as a woman—wife, lover, muse, friend and mother—and tries to find her place in the intoxicating and tumultuous world of Paris in the '20s.

Barefoot Contessa, how easy is that? by Ina Garten:

Quick and easy solutions for your summer entertaining!

These titles are all part of the library's collection. The facility is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

During the summer, the library will be closed on Sundays. Sunday hours will resume on Sept. 9. For more information, visit the library's website by clicking here.

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Related Topics: Barefoot Contessa, Calico Joe, Explosive Eighteen, Peters Township Public Library, Steve Jobs, Summer Reading, Summer Reads, The Lion, and The Paris Wife
What are you reading this summer? Tell us in the comments.

Steven C. Morreale, M.D./M.P.H.

9:49 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

I prefer DRM-FREE books. The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray Rothbard, For A New Liberty: A Manifest by Murray Rothbard, What Has The Government Done To Our Money? by Murray Rothbard, The Law by Frederic Bastiat, and What Is Money? by Frederic Bastiat all available gratis via mises.org. Since the 5th is more of an essay, then add It Is Dangerous To Be Right When The Government Is Wrong by Andrew P. Napolitano. These are all MUST reads over the summer before the November elections. Better a bit late than never though.

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Steven C. Morreale, M.D./M.P.H.

9:51 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Also if one will recommend reading about Steve Jobs, then please follow that book up with Free Software, Free Society and Free as in Freedom (2.0) by Richard Stallman available from fsf.org gratis online in PDF format or as a small donation for the hardcopy.

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