Solon Librarians Share Summer Reading Recommendations For Adults

Looking for something good to read this summer? Want to find a good book to read to your young one, or a ripping adventure yarn to help get your teen into reading?

The Solon librarians are here to help!

Solon Patch reached out to Branch Manager Lane Edwards, who provided us with three recommended reading lists, provided by the librarians. There's lists for , and adults.

We'll be running one of the list's for the next three days, so make sure you check them out. Up first is recommendations for children!

READING LIST FOR ADULTS

Click the title to pull up the book in the library system, where you can request it!

The Deep Zone by James M Tabor

A mysterious disease is appearing in soldiers who are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, and medical researchers are perplexed on the causality of this rare disease.  A possible cure is soon discovered, but it comes at great peril. It is a substance at the bottom of the deepest cave in the world may, but it may provide an antidote. It is up to a team of researchers and Special Operations forces to recover the cure, and prevent a potential global epidemic from unleashing. Tabor takes the best elements of a thrilling adventure, and combines it with a touch of science to keep it grounded, and enough political intrigue to add global suspense. He then takes readers on a subterranean ride that will leave you feeling a bit claustrophobic and into one of the world’s deepest caves. Deep Zone is a cross between Indiana Jones, Michael Crichton, and Richard Preston’s nonfiction ecological thriller, The Hot Zone. This first novel of fiction will keep you turning pages until the final descent. 

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarity

Fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she's in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.

For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn't what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora's relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.

Defending Jacob by William Landry

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.

Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He's his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive. 

A Good American by Alex George

The story begins in 1904 when Frederick and a pregnant Jette flee her disapproving mother’s wrath and their home in Germany for a better life in America. They find themselves bound on a ship to New Orleans instead of the originally planned New York. They marry on board the ship and later end up in Beatrice, Missouri. It seems the right place to start their family with its many other German residents. Narrated by their grandson, James, four generations of Meisenheimers come to life. James’s family is caught up in the sweep of history from Prohibition to sweet barbershop harmonies, the Kennedy assassination and beyond as each new generation discovers what it means to be an American. The writing is enchanting, and the stories told through the sometimes eccentric characters are all compelling. The Good American is a story filled with love, laughter, conflicts, happiness, sadness, secrets and life’s hurts. It’s an uplifting story about the families we create and the places we call home.

Life Boat by Charlotte Rogan

Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.  In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.  As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?