NPR has put together a list of summer books called Book Your Trip: Because Reading is About the Journey. I liked this concept so much that I wanted to share it with you.

Suggested books for literary travel are listed by category—train, plane, car, bike, boat, foot, city transit, horse, balloon, rocketship, time machine and fantasy. I checked the list against our collection to see if we had a least one book from each category and, in most case, we did. I ordered a few more to round out the set.

Stop by to find one of the books on these lists or to request one through interlibrary loan. While you are here, you will also want to check out the new rotating collections from CEF (listed below).

Hope to see you in the library soon!

Tom Mangano
Belden Noble Memorial Library

New in Essex Library’s Rotating Collection

Nonfiction

• Blood feud : the Hatfields and the Alther, Lisa. 303.6 ALT
• The Charles Schwab guide to finances Schwab-Pomerant 332.024 Sch
• Reading the forested landscape : a Wessels, Tom, 577.3 WES
• Rodale’s vegetable garden problem solver Bradley, Fern 635 BRA
• The encyclopedia of vegetable gardening Little, Brenda. 635 LIT
• The food matters cookbook : 500 Bittman, Mark. 641.3 BIT
• Sara Moulton’s everyday family dinners / Moulton, Sara, 641.5 MOU
• Canyon Ranch: nourish : indulgently Uehlein, Scott. 641.5 UEH
• The entrepreneurial mom’s guide to Bechthold, 658 BEC
• Preston Bailey flowers : [centerpieces, Bailey, 745.92 HAN
• The Chicks with Sticks guide to knitting Queen, Nancy. 746.43 QUE
• Knitted shawls, stoles, and scarves / Wiseman, 746.43 WIS
• Leave no trace : a guide to the new McGivney, 796.54 MCG
• Vanished : the sixty-year search for the Hylton, Wil S. 940.54 HYL
• The greatest story ever sold : the Rich, Frank. 973.931 RIC
• Louisa May Alcott / Susan Cheever. Cheever, Susan. B ALCOTT
• My mistake / Daniel Menaker. Menaker, B MENAKER

Audiobooks

• I’ll walk alone [sound recording] : a Clark, Mary CD FIC CLA
• The crime of Julian Wells [sound Cook, Thomas H. CD FIC COO
• The whole enchilada [sound recording] : Davidson, Diane CD FIC DAV
• The widower’s tale [sound recording] / Glass, Julia, CD FIC GLA
• I see you everywhere [sound recording] / Glass, Julia, CD FIC Gla
• Iron house [sound recording] / John Hart, John, CD FIC HAR
• Guy Noir and the straight skinny [sound Keillor, CD FIC KEI
• The brothers of Baker Street [sound Robertson, CD FIC ROB
• An Amish kitchen [sound recording] / Long, Kelly. CD FIC WIS
• The wrecker [sound recording] / by Clive Cussler, Clive. CD Fic Cus
• So not happening [sound recording] / Jones, Jenny CD JF JON
• The time hackers [sound recording] / Paulsen, Gary. CD JF PAU
• The prey [sound recording] / Andrew Fukuda, Andrew CD YA FIC FUK
• Dance of the reptiles [sound recording] Hiaasen, Carl. CD 975.9 HIA
• The perfect hope [sound recording] / Roberts, Nora. CE FIC ROB

Fiction

• Behind the shattered glass : a Lady Alexander, F ALE
• The big exit / David Carnoy. Carnoy, David. F CAR
• Guilt by degrees : a novel by / Marcia Clark, Marcia. F CLA
• The untold / Courtney Collins. Collins, F COL
• The calling / Neil Cross. Cross, Neil. F CRO
• The bartender’s tale / Ivan Doig. Doig, Ivan. F DOI
• Shedding light on murder / Patricia Driscoll, F DRI
• The good thief’s guide to Berlin / Chris Ewan, Chris, F EWA
• Dance in the dark : a Scott Elliott Faherty, F FAH
• Harry Lipkin, private eye / Barry Fantoni, Barry. F FAN
• Mission to Paris : a novel / Alan Furst. Furst, Alan. F FUR
• The mothers : a novel / Jennifer Gilmore, F GIL
• Triburbia : a novel / Karl Taro Greenfeld, Karl F GRE
• News from heaven / Jennifer Haigh. Haigh, F Hai
• As the crow flies / Craig Johnson. Johnson, Craig, F JOH
• Fever / Mary Beth Keane. Keane, Mary F KEA
• Sandstorm / Alan L. Lee. Lee, Alan L. F LEE
• Drone / Mike Maden. Maden, Mike. F Mad
• The bookstore / Deborah Meyler. Meyler, F MEY
• In the night of time / Antonio Muñoz Muñoz Molina, F MUN
• Last car over the Sagamore Bridge : Orner, Peter. F ORN
• Ten mile valley : a Western story / by Overholser, F OVE
• The yellow birds : a novel / Kevin Powers, Kevin. F POW
• Bellweather rhapsody / Kate Racculia. Racculia, Kate, F RAC
• Beyond Redress : a Harry Brock Mystery / Roby, Kinley E. F ROB
• Mimosas, mischief, and murder / Sara Rosett, Sara. F ROS
• Satan’s keyhole : a western duo / by Les Savage, Les. F SAV
• Men in Miami hotels : a novel / Charlie Smith, Charlie, F SMI
• Death on Telegraph Hill : a Sarah Tallman, F TAL

Large Print

• Those we love most / Lee Woodruff. Woodruff, Lee. F WOO
• Hiss of death : a Mrs. Murphy mystery / Brown, Rita SS F BRO
• Heidegger and a hippo walk through those Cathcart, SS F CAT
• Betrayed / by Amy Clipston. Clipston, Amy. SS F CLI
• One true love / Lori Copeland. Copeland, Lori. SS F COP
• Treasuring emma / Kathleen Fuller. Fuller, SS F FUL
• Bonnie / Iris Johansen. Johansen, Iris. SS F JOH
• A young wife / by Pam Lewis. Lewis, Pam, SS F LEW
• A girl like Janet / Debbie Macomber. Macomber, SS F MAC
• The touch of sage / Marcia Lynn McClure. McClure, Marcia SS F MCC
• Keeping time / Stacey McGlynn. McGlynn, SS F MCG
• Needles and pearls / by Gil McNeil. McNeil, Gil, SS F MCN
• The last letter from you lover / by Jo Moyes, Jojo, SS F MOY
• The odds : a love story / Stewart O’Nan. O’Nan, Stewart, SS F ONA
• The cat’s table / Michael Ondaatje. Ondaatje, SS F OND
• Breakdown / by Sara Paretsky. Paretsky, Sara. SS F PAR
• Unforgettable / Deborah Grace Staley. Staley, Deborah SS F STA
• Broken wings / Carla Stewart. Stewart, Carla. SS F STE
• Texas blue / Jodi Thomas. Thomas, Jodi. SS F THO
• The comforts of home / Jodi Thomas. Thomas, Jodi. SS F THO
• Falling home / Karen White. White, Karen SS F WHI

Videos

• Casa de mi padre/ DVD F CAS
• Snow flower and the secret fan DVD F SNO
• Cirque du Soleil [videorecording] : DVD FIC CIR
• Driving by braille [videorecording] / DVD FIC DRI
• Agatha Christie partners in crime. The DVD FIC PAR
• Pokémon. Giratina and the sky warrior DVD GIR
• Start smart – science I need to know. DVD J531.6 STA
• Barbie : the princess & the popstar DVD JF BAR
• Madeline and her friends DVD JF MAD
• Storm rider [videorecording] / Stone DVD JF STO
• Veggies in space : the fennel frontier DVD JF VEG
• Cool dog [videorecording] / Millennium DVD jF COO
• The lovely bones [videorecording] / DVD LOV
• The Bible [videorecording] : the epic DVD 220.9 BIB
• The happiest baby on the block DVD 649 HAP
• The rise and fall of Penn Station DVD 725.31 RIS
• Bill Cosby– far from finished / DVD 792.7 BIL
• Freedom seekers [videorecording] : DVD 973.17 FRE
• Hatfields & McCoys [videorecording] : an DVD 975.4 HAT
• Go, Diego, go! The great panda adventure JDVD GRE