Three New Books, Great for Summer Reading, at the Brighton Library

Warm weather brings out the reader in me. I like to plan ahead and choose the perfect book for summer outings, beach time and vacations. The Brighton District Library has three newly released adult selections that are sure to be of interest you, or stop by the library, we’d be happy to help you find your perfect read. The library is open Monday - Wednesday 10am-9pm, Friday - Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm.

Salvage and Demolition by Tim Powers
Salvage and Demolition begins when rare book dealer Richard Blanzac opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse, an Ace Double Novel, and a scattering of very old cigarette butts. Without warning, Blanzac finds himself on a breakneck journey leading from the present day to the San Francisco of 1957 and Sophie Greenwald, a forgotten Beat poet. This short novel is at once a romance, a secret history, and an intricately constructed time travel story. Powers’ snappy dialog and clever plotting make this an affecting and dazzling ride.

The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M. L. Stedman
Set in post WWI Australia, Stedman’s novel finds Tom Sherbourne, a veteran of the war and new lighthouse keeper, on Janus Rock, a remote island off Australia’s southwest coast where he hopes to erase his terrible memories of war.   Finding love and brief happiness with Isabel, the couple suffers through two miscarriages and a stillbirth, and Tom loses hope for contentment. Then a boat carrying a dead man and a newborn baby girl washes ashore, and Isabel decides the baby is sent from God.  Two years later, on the mainland, they meet the mother of the child, and the story grows more complicated. A breathtaking story of love, loss and survival. 

Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Laura Petrosian, a writer living in New York, has never really considered her Armenian background. But when she discovers a box of her grandmother's letters, she becomes drawn into the 1915 romance between her grandparents, and into the horrors of the Armenian genocide. This book,  although fiction, still provides a shocking glimpse into the history that is many times hidden or ignored.