{"id":3819,"date":"2016-07-14T23:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2016-07-14T23:37:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T23:37:52","slug":"theres-still-time-to-enjoy-more-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/2016\/07\/14\/theres-still-time-to-enjoy-more-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s Still Time to Enjoy More Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two<\/em><\/span><\/strong>Sisterland<\/em> by Curtis Sittenfeld<\/strong><\/p>\n

From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar \u201csenses\u201d\u2014innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people\u2019s secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them.<\/p>\n

Now, years later, their different paths have led them both back to their hometown of St. Louis. Vi has pursued an eccentric career as a psychic medium, while Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. But when a minor earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the normal life Kate has always wished for begins to shift. After Vi goes on television to share a premonition that another, more devastating earthquake will soon hit the St. Louis area, Kate is mortified. Equally troubling, however, is her fear that Vi may be right. As the date of the predicted earthquake quickly approaches, Kate is forced to reconcile her fraught relationship with her sister and to face truths about herself she\u2019s long tried to deny.<\/p>\n

Funny, haunting, and thought-provoking, Sisterland<\/i> is a beautifully written novel of the obligation we have toward others, and the responsibility we take for ourselves. \u2013 Penguin Random House. Location information: http:\/\/suncat.csun.edu\/record=b3027633<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AfterAfter You<\/em> by Jojo Moyes <\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?<\/p>\n

Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can\u2019t help but feel she\u2019s right back where she started.<\/p>\n

Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding\u2014the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will\u2019s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .<\/p>\n

For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await. \u2013 Penguin Random House. Location information: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jqfgzmv<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe Circle<\/em> by Dave Eggers<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world\u2019s most powerful internet company, she feels she\u2019s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users\u2019 personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company\u2019s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can\u2019t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world\u2014even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman\u2019s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge. \u2013 Knopf. Location information: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/h3gfnbu<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Where'dWhere’d You Go Bernadette?<\/em> by Maria Semple<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.<\/p>\n

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette’s intensifying allergy to Seattle–and people in general–has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.<\/p>\n

To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence–creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s role in an absurd world. \u2013 Hachette Book Group. Location information: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/j75xzfj<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe Royal We<\/em> by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister, Lacey, has always been the romantic who fantasized about glamour and royalty, fame and fortune. Yet it’s Bex who seeks adventure at Oxford and finds herself living down the hall from Prince Nicholas, Great Britain’s future king. And when Bex can’t resist falling for Nick, the person behind the prince, it propels her into a world she did not expect to inhabit, under a spotlight she is not prepared to face.<\/p>\n

Dating Nick immerses Bex in ritzy society, dazzling ski trips, and dinners at Kensington Palace with him and his charming, troublesome brother, Freddie. But the relationship also comes with unimaginable baggage: hysterical tabloids, Nick’s sparkling and far more suitable ex-girlfriends, and a royal family whose private life is much thornier and more tragic than anyone on the outside knows. The pressures are almost too much to bear, as Bex struggles to reconcile the man she loves with the monarch he’s fated to become. Which is how she gets into trouble.<\/p>\n

Now, on the eve of the wedding of the century, Bex is faced with whether everything she’s sacrificed for love-her career, her home, her family, maybe even herself-will have been for nothing. \u00a0\u2013 Hachette Book Group. Location information: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jga8ut3<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AnotherAnother Day<\/em> by David Levithan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A girl falls in love with someone who wakes up in a different body each morning in this enthralling and poignant follow-up to the\u00a0New York Times bestseller\u00a0Every Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n

David Levithan (co-author of\u00a0Will Grayson, Will Grayson<\/i>\u00a0with John Green)\u00a0turns his\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestseller\u00a0Every Day<\/i>\u00a0on its head\u00a0by flipping perspectives in this exploration of love and how it can change you.<\/p>\n

Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don\u2019t be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up.<\/p>\n

Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see<\/i> her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day\u2014a perfect day Justin doesn\u2019t remember the next morning. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person . . . wasn\u2019t Justin at all. \u00a0\u2013 Penguin Random House. Location information: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/j6znhs4<\/a><\/p>\n

\"FatesFates and Furies<\/em> by Lauren Groff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart. \u2013 Penguin Random House. Location information: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/z2m9rs9<\/a>\u00a0<\/section>\n

– All summer reading picks by Susanna Eng-Ziskin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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