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Recommended Summer Reads 2011
Picking page turners for summer bibliophiles
By Rochelle Eisenberg
What should you take to the beach this summer? iNSIDER asked a local bookseller and a local library for 2011 summer reading suggestions. Most of these also are available in e-book format.
Here is what they told us:
Children’s Books (The Ivy Bookshop)
“A Faraway Island”
by Annika Thor
(Delacorte Books for Young Readers, hardcover, 2010)
“Hothead”
by Cal Ripken Jr.
(Hyperion, hardcover, 2011)
“Lost Hero”
by Rick Riordan
(Hyperion, hardcover, 2010)
“A Tale Dark and Grimm”
by Adam Gidwitz
(Dutton Juvenile, hardcover, 2010)
“The Steps Across the Water”
by Adam Gopnik
(Hyperion, hardcover, 2010)
Fiction (The Ivy Bookshop)
“Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand”
by Helen Simonson
(Random House, hardcover, 2010)
“One Day”
by David Nicholls
(Vintage, paperback, 2010)
“The Invisible Bridge”
by Julie Orringer
(Vintage, paperback reprint, 2011)
“The Paris Wife”
by Paula McLain
(Ballantine Books, hardcover, 2011)
Non-Fiction (The Ivy Bookshop)
“Just Kids”
by Patti Smith
(Ecco, paperback reprint, 2010)
“Strength In What Remains”
by Tracy Kidder
(Random House, paperback reprint, 2010)
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
by Rebecca Skloot
(Broadway, paperback reprint, 2011)
“Zeitoun”
by Dave Eggers
(Vintage, paperback, 2010)
“Sisters of Fortune”
by Jehanne Wake
(Touchstone, hardcover, 2011)
Children’s Books (Pikesville Library)
“Kane Chronicles, Book Two: Throne of Fire”
by Rick Riordan
(Hyperion, hardcover, 2011)
“39 Clues, Book 11: Vespers Rising”
by Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman and Jude Watson
(Scholastic Press, hardcover, 2011)
“Emerald Atlas”
by John Stephens
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, hardcover, 2011)
Fiction (Pikesville Library)
“The Chesapeake Diaries: Almost Home”
by Mariah Stewart
(Ballantine Books, paperback, 2011)
“Night Road”
by Kristin Hannah
(St. Martin’s Press, hardcover, 2011)
“The Peach Keeper”
by Sarah Addison Allen
(Bantam, hardcover, 2011)
“One Summer”
by David Baldacci
(Grand Central Publishing, hardcover, 2011)
“Portrait of a Spy”
by Daniel Silva
(Harper, hardcover, 2011)
Non-Fiction (Pikesville Library)
“Secrets of the FBI”
by Ronald Kessler
(Crown, hardcover, 2011)*
* Not available until Aug. 2
“I’m All Over That: And Other Confessions”
by Shirley MacLaine
(Atria, hardcover, 2011)
“A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS”
by Jennet Conant
(Simon & Schuster, hardcover, 2011)
“Familyhood”
by Paul Reiser
(Hyperion, hardcover, 2011)
