John Tyler Community College Library Blog

Looking for something to read by the pool or on the sand? The John Tyler libraries have got you covered. Kick back with these recent releases:

11^th Hour: The Women’s Murder club back for the –you guessed it – 11^th installment.

Art of Fielding: Not just a baseball novel but also a coming-of-age story about friendship and family—perfect for reading before or after your visits to the ballpark.

Dead Locked: Book 12 in the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series, Sookie and Bill investigate yet another murder.

Family Fang: When your parents involve you in their performance art can you possibly grow up normal? And is their mysterious disappearance due to a crime or the perfect grand finale?

Game of Thrones:  Go where it threatens to be an endless winter and revel in political machinations, double-cross dealings and unbridled ambitions of the  characters in the Seven Kingdoms.

Grave Mercy: Take one young girl trained as an assassin, add lots of intrigue, a little romance, a little violence, set it in Medieval France, and you have Grave Mercy.

The Fault in our Stars: Teenagers Hazel and Augustus meet at a Cancer Kid Support Group and despite sharing a similar doom sparks fly. Sad, but funny and very irreverent.

The Innocent: (from the publisher) Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents’ disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.

Wolf Hall: Chronicling the rise of Thomas Cromwell, advisor to Henry VIII, Wolf Hall bears witness to the intrigues of the Tudor court.

For more summer reading ideas check out these lists:

• From the Huffington Post: Beach Reads: Your Super Cool, Definitely Not-For-School Summer 2012 Reading List
• From Bookpage: Best books for beach reading  
• From Men’s Health Magazine: The Manliest Must-Reads of Summer     
• From the Hollywood Reporter: Summer’s Best Beach Reads
• And 102 titles from Goodreads Listopia