We are Now in the Midst of July, By Catherine Gillier

We are now in the midst of July.  The Romaine and Swiss Chard and red leaf lettuces have matured enough to be mixed with the new green onions to form a delicious and colourful summer salad.

Here at the library, books that have been on the shelves only a short time are ready to be part of your large helping of summer reading.  Michael Shaara has written a Large Print book entitled THE KILLER ANGELS.  This is the story of the Battle of Gettysburg, told from the perspectives of Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet and other men who
fought there.  The author avoids historical opinion, and goes primarily to the words of the men themselves.  More than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields.  Bright futures and pristine beauty are also the casualties of war.

CENTURIES OF JUNE by Keith Donohue is a work of dazzling breadth.  It is a black comedy, an existential ghost story and a murder mystery.  It is also ingenious, sexy, inspiring and deeply moving.  A man is attempting to tell the story of how he was shot in the head.
But he keeps being interrupted by a series of eight suspects.  Each one tells a story drawn from centuries of American myth and legend.

Swiss author Peter Stamm has written a bold and compelling story about the pursuit of happiness in our modern times.  SEVEN YEARS tells the story of Alexander, lost between his highbrow marriage and his lowbrow love affair.  He becomes stuck in a spiraling threesome.  Perhaps happiness is never far from unhappiness.

Robert Rotenberg has written THE GUILTY PLEA.  It was said by Jeffery Deaver that Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.  In this page-turner, the youngest son of the Wyler food dynasty is found stabbed to death on the morning that his divorce trial is set to begin.  Detective Green soon discovers that the truth is never simple.  This book may be of particular interest to area patrons because Chapter 64 places the reader in New Liskeard.

So look over the summer reading menu and find a fresh mix of eclectic reading.  Discover the soldiers’ anxieties and hopes at Gettysburg.  Lose yourself in the myth and mystery of American story-telling.  Appreciate the dilemma of our modern times.  Search with
Detective Green to unravel the mysterious secrets of a family fortune, and stop off in downtown New Liskeard as you wind your way through the story.

Walk down to the library.  Open the door to so much more.