One of my favorite things about summertime is having a petty more than time to sit and read while my kids play in the sprinkler or at the park. I'yard always looking for new volume recommendations, so I thought I'd share 12 nifty books I've read in the past few months for you lot to put on your summer 2015 must-read book list. All of these are fiction; many are historical novels while some are gimmicky. Every single one is fantastic!
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1 – Secrets of a Charmed Life
by Susan Meissner
Emmy Downtree is just 15 when she and her younger sister are evacuated from their abode in London to escape the bombs that pelting down nightly during World War II. They, similar thousands of other children, leave their parents and are sent to the country to alive with whomever is willing to provide shelter and safety. But Emmy knows her dreams of becoming a hymeneals apparel designer will become nowhere so far from London, and then she sneaks back to the city, followed past her immature sister Julia. If she'd known they would make it on the starting time day of the Blitz she may have made a different pick, but instead she must alive with the unforeseen consequences. This is a story about love and loss, guilt and forgiveness, just it still manages to maintain a light, summer-read experience.
two – The Low-cal Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
This book starts as a lovely, gentle romance betwixt a lonely lighthouse keeper (Tom) and his new bride (Isabel). You fall in honey with both characters, so much so that when a boat washes up on their deserted shore with a newborn infant in it, you, like Isabel, hope this will be the solution to the heartbreak caused by two miscarriages and a stillborn babe. Unfortunately, hoping doesn't always make things so, and a few years later the couple realizes their idyllic life isn't going to terminal. While not necessarily a happy volume, information technology's such a beautifully rendered film of the human condition that it's worth the tears you lot might shed while reading.
3 – What Alice Forgot
by Liane Moriarty
The premise of this book sounds a little gimmicky: Alice wakes upward i 24-hour interval having forgotten the terminal 10 years of her life, including her three children and the fact that her marriage has almost completely disintegrated. Only somehow, the volume works anyway. It's actually quite thought provoking: how does a marriage that started out solid every bit a rock start to get incorrect? What would happen if spouses could wait at each other the way they did at the beginning, when love was more important than resentment or dissatisfaction? If things have gone wrong, is there a way back? There's lots to call back most equally you go along reading to find out if Alice will remember what she'south forgotten, and if she'll exist happier if she does. Content annotation: a few potent profanities.
4 – My Name Is Resolute
past Nancy Turner
Resolute Talbot lives a privileged life as the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner in early 1700's Jamaica, at to the lowest degree until pirates raid her home, kill her parents, and sell Resolute and her sister into slavery. And that's just the showtime of Resolute's adventures, which include ane twist after another until she finds herself in the midst of the dawning American revolution in Hold, MA. Information technology's a huge, amazing saga (606 pages!) with a cute love story woven through the latter half of the book. A fantastic read to lose yourself in this summer. (And if you haven't read These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (P.S.)
, too by Nancy Turner, you demand to practice so Correct Now!)
5 –Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League
by Jonathan Odell
This compelling volume is set during the early civil rights menstruum and tells the story of a black woman and a white woman whose lives become intertwined. Information technology reminded me of The Help
, but with a slightly grittier, more realistic feel. Both women are damaged; each is mourning the loss of a son, although one turns to acrimony and revenge while the other turns to alchohol and oblivion. Eventually, they are able to help each other effigy out what'south truly of import to them, all while they assistance plant the seed of modify in 1950's Mississippi. I loved both the women'due south stories and the historical details I picked up about the period – I had no idea women were so instrumental in beginning the civil rights movement. Content note: In keeping with the setting and time period, the N-word is used throughout the book, forth with a few other stiff profanities.
6 – Orphan Train
past Christina Baker Kline
A then and at present tale, Orphan Train alternates between the story of Molly, a girl who'southward about to age out of the foster care system and is assigned community service hours, and the woman she ends upwardly helping, who was an orphan herself fourscore years agone. From the mid 1800s through the depression, orphan children from large cities in the US were put on "orphan trains" which carried the children through different cities in center America to families who (hopefully) would want to adopt them. I sometimes don't like books that alternate between a by and present story, because oftentimes one story is so much more interesting than the other, but I found both stories compelling and emotional. At the same time, information technology'south a pretty easy-breezy read – perfect for poolside relaxing!
7 – The Magician's Lie: A Novel
past Greer Macallister
Some other like shooting fish in a barrel, intriguing read. The book, set in 1905, begins with a murder: the wizard'due south husband lies dead while the magician flees, with law enforcement in pursuit. Only things are non as they seem, with either the magician or the officer who apprehends and questions her, and the tension mounts as you get nearer and nearer to discovering the truth. This won't win book of the year and it won't change your life, but it will certainly provide you lot with entertainment and escapism for a few hours, which might be just what you're looking for on your summer vacation.
eight – The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale centers effectually two sisters living in Nazi occupied France during WWII. Once I got past the first 50 pages or and then I could not put this volume downwardly. I've read plenty of books gear up in this time menstruum, only never ane that gives a moving-picture show of what life was like for the French citizens during the Nazi Occupation that lasted for much of the state of war. Both sisters terminate upwardly fighting the Nazis in their own way, unbeknownst to each other (they're each trying to protect the other). This is the sort of book that will stay with you for days after you finish. Content note: there is mention of rape, beatings, and concentration camp violence as well equally a few stiff profanities.
ix – The Precious Ane: A Novel
by Marisa de los Santos
Maria de los Santos is one of my favorite authors (I've recommend Love Walked In
earlier – it's amazing!) and she doesn't disappoint with her newest novel, The Precious 1. Imagine this: your male parent, who was never around much anyhow, finally abandons your family to marry his significant girlfriend and makes information technology clear that he never wants to see yous or be involved in your life again. 15 years later when his health is failing he contacts you out of the blue and asks you to put your life on concur to come aid the half sister you've never met, the one he'southward obviously loved more than intensely and more completely than he ever loved y'all. What exercise you do? This is Taisy'south dilemma at the showtime of the novel. It's an interesting story that brings Taisy dorsum to the lost beloved of her life, but the existent reason I like this book is the aforementioned reason I like all of de los Santos' books: her writing is elegant and her characters experience real and quirky and troubled and likable and they are all, in 1 way or another, looking for love (and if you've read her other books, you know honey always wins – how realistic that is I don't know, but it's sure makes her books fun to read). Content annotation: Part of the storyline does involve a teen getting involved with a teacher. Nothing is explicit (non that much actually happens) just it is an uncomfortable storyline.
10 – The River King
by Alice Hoffman
Every one of Alice Hoffman's novels that I have read have two things in common: astonishing prose and a hint of magic. Yous'll detect both of these here in passages like this one: "When such girls walked past the breakable canes in the gardens backside St. Anne'southward, they felt something cold at the base of their spines, a bad case of pins and needles, as though someone were issuing a alarm: be careful who you lot choose to dear and who loves you in return." The River King is set in a posh boarding school in New England (which was reason plenty for me to choice it up – am I the only ane that loves boarding school tales?) and tells the story of two students on the fringes of schoolhouse society and the local law officer that gets involved when a mysterious death occurs. Office mystery, part dear story, it's a slap-up read. Content note: very occasional profanity.
11 – Me Before Y'all
past Jojo Moyes
The book jacket synopsis of this book (ordinary daughter gets a task caring for rich handsome man who happens to be wheelchair bound after an accident) made me recall this would exist a breezy, chick-lit story that steals one-half its plot from Jane Eyre and verges on being poorly written. Hooray for the fact that I was totally incorrect! The story does have a bit of a fairy tale experience throughout the outset half of the volume, but it'southward coupled with quirky characters and enough sense of humor that information technology doesn't experience cheesy. The second half of the book comes down to globe, however, with the realization that dearest might non solve every problem, and that sometimes making the person you lot love happy might break your ain heart. The story is and so engaging you'll fly through it, merely y'all'll be thinking of it long after you're done.
12 – The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel
by Gabrielle Zevin
I just can't not be interested in a book most a bookseller. Especially a slightly cantankerous bookseller who is all the same mourning the loss of his dear wife. This volume boasts a wonderful cast of quirky supporting characters, a small-scale town island setting, a mysterious theft, an engaging romance, and fifty-fifty an abandoned toddler who brings significant back into A.J.'s life. There is some strong profanity, merely for the about part this book is fun, cozy, and admittedly mannerly – correct upward my aisle.
What take you been reading lately? Have any recommendations for me? Exit them in the comments!
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