Jacqueline Winspear
If you haven’t gotten hooked yet on the Maisie Dobbs mysteries, this is the summer for you. Read them in order, starting with Maisie Dobbs, and then you have 12 wonderful books until you get to her latest, Journey to Munich.
The historical novels are beautifully written; the main character is recovering from the trauma of being a nurse on the front lines in England during WWI by taking on and solving problematic cases at home and back in Europe.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this book has been loved by everyone, and called “intelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny” by the Wall Street Journal. A story of espionage, love and friendship, as a Vietnamese army captain grapples with being a communist agent post-Vietnam War.
Eric Jay Dolin
Author of the best seller Leviathan is back with “an epic history of American lighthouses, telling the story of America through the prism of its beloved sentinels.” Meet the author for an evening presentation of this book and lighthouses July 9 at Warner Town Hall, part of the annual Tory Hill Author Series.
Michael J. Tougias and Alison O’Leary
Co-author of the bestseller, and now movie, The Finest Hours, Michael Tougias will discuss this story when he visits Warner Town Hall on July 23 as part of the Tory Hill Author Series. This book is destined to also be a bestseller, the true story of a U-boat in 1942, in the Gulf of Mexico, and an unforgettable portrait of the determination of the human spirit.
Richard Louv
One of my favorite writers who launched the children-and-nature movement with Last Child in the Woods, Louv is back with a practical manual to get the family outside. With more than 50 activities, inspiring and thought-provoking essays, informational websites, and tons of down-to-earth advice this book is for families who want children to be connected to the natural world.
(Katharine Nevins is co-owner of MainStreet BookEnds in Warner, an independent community bookstore since 1998.)