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2024 Reading Challenge: Read a book about found families

July 2, 2024. Library Adminno Comments

Are you participating in the 2024 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year and every month we’ll feature one of the challenge prompts. This month we’re featuring the prompt “Read a book about found families.” Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt but there are plenty of other books you can pick up!

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Middle Grade

Details for: The trials of Morrigan Crow / #1. › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: All you knead is love / › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: Anne of Green Gables / #1 › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: The lightning thief / #1 › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)

Young Adult

Details for: The Raven Boys / #1 › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/Details for: Howl’s moving castle / #1 › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: In other lands : a novel / › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: One for all / › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ The Inexplicable Logic of My Life – Sunflower eLibrary – OverDrive

Graphic Novels

Details for: Lumberjanes : Beware the kitten holy, #1 / › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: Spy x family. Volume 1 / › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: Nimona / › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)

Adult

Details for: The long way to a small, angry planet / #1 › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: A man called Ove / › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: Every heart a doorway / #1 › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: A Deadly Education / #1 › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)/ Details for: Legends & lattes / #1 › Koha online catalog (bywatersolutions.com)

See a list of more books here!

Mid-Year Favorites of 2024!

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Books Coming to Screens: July 2024

July 1, 2024. Library Adminno Comments

Good Girl’s Guide to Murder / Colin O’Sullivan

Pip Fitz-Amobi, a brilliant woman, is unsure whether schoolgirl Andie Bell was killed by her lover Sal Singh five years ago. How far will they go to protect Pip from learning the truth if Sal Singh turns out not to be the murderer?

July 1st/BBC/ Put on hold

Sunny / Colin O’Sullivan

Follows Suzie, an American woman living in Japan, and Sunny, a domestic robot made by her husband’s company, as they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s husband and son who disappeared in a mysterious plane crash.

July 10th/Apple TV/ Put on hold

Touch / Olaf Olafsson

It centers on a widower’s journey to find his first love before time runs out.

July 12th/Limited Theatres/ Put on hold

Lady in the lake / Laura Lippman

Lady in the Lake (TV Mini Series 2024– ) - IMDb

The limited series takes place in 60s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother, Maddie Schwartz, played by Portman, to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood, played by Nyong’o, a hard-working woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore’s Black progressive agenda.

July 19th/ Apple TV/ Put on hold