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Summer 2024 Featured Reads

Jun 17, 2024 - Waterloo Public Library
Featured Reads

Just in time for relaxing by the beach or the pool, we’ve curated a list of 12 new fiction and 12 new non-fiction books that we think you will love.

Fiction

Bear
Julia Phillips
Phantom Orbit
David Ignatius
This Book Won't Burn
Samira Ahmed
The Hunter's Daughter
Nicola Solvinic
The Road to the Country
Chigozie Obioma
I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
Peter S. Beagle
Very Bad Company
Emma Rosenblum
Out on a Limb
Hannah Bonam-Young
I Hope This Finds You Well
Natalie Sue
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Helen Simonson
Shanghai
Joseph Kanon
Spitting Gold
Carmella Lowkis

Non-fiction

Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko
Silk: a World History
Aarathi Prasad
Trippy: the Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
Ernesto Londoño
The Connection Cure: the Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging
Julia Hotz
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World
Kathryn Hughes
The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
Michael Norton
Paradise of the Damned: the True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
Keith Thomson
Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire
Peter Edwards
Crooked Teeth: a Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
Danny Ramadan
North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner
Marie Wilson
Challenger: a True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
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