Summer is officially here! Well, on the 21st anyway. Make sure to stop by the Library to pick up some supplies to help you get the season started off right! If you need some suggestions, here are this week’s Staff Picks!
Avalon Summer Solstice Festival
This Saturday between 5pm and 8:30pm make sure to stop by Surfside Park for the annual Summer Solstice Festival! Featuring a concert by Jimmy and the Parrots, a variety of food vendors, beer and wine, balloon artists, face painting, and a fairy tinsel hair booth, there is something for everyone! It will be the perfect way to wrap up a beautiful day at the beach! – Sean Farrell
Toy Story 5
Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and pals are back for another adventure. This time they find themselves forced to contend with increased demands for attention from the myriad electronic devices that have permeated our world. I suspect they won’t view this development as a good thing. They’re probably right. – SF
Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd
The second Nora Breen novel was just released this week (and it’s great!) so please take the opportunity to first read part 1: Murder at Gulls Nest to catch up. This novel was more than simply a cozy British mystery; it is also part character study featuring a former nun making huge mid-life changes to integrating into secular society after spending her young adulthood in a convent. You feel genuine affection for the characters by the end and you’ll want to read the second book, Murder at the Spirit Lounge right away. – Shannon Nagle
The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
I’ve been slowly working my way through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and while I have found them all highly entertaining so far, book four might be my favorite yet. The challenge that Carl, Princess Donut, and their growing group of friends are made to face by their alien captors is engaging and creative, Dinniman’s sense of fun remains infectious as ever (with just the right amount of darkness), and the stakes continue to expand outside of the deadly game the Earthlings are trapped in to effect the wider universe that is watching it play out. The burgeoning LitRPG genre is not going to be to everyone’s liking, but this remains a great entry point to it and one of the most exciting book series currently publishing. – SF
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