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It`s officially summertime and beachy stories are waiting to be read! Check out a beach read for your upcoming vacation, or just to help you pretend you`re somewhere laying on a beach in this hot weather ☀⛱
Summer in the City by Alex Aster
"Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime: to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She`s had writer`s block for months, and her screenplay is dueat the end of the summer. In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford. ... It`s the perfect place to write her screenplay--until she realizes her new neighbor is tech `Billionaire Bachelor` Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It`s been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since. When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/ twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay--if she can stand being around her polar opposite"--. Provided by publisher....
Visit Rockbridge Regional Library in Lexington Thursday 10 AM till 6:30 PM, Friday 10 AM till 4:30 PM, or Saturday 10 till 1:30 PM to grab some great books! All proceeds benefit all branches of Rockbridge Regional Library System....
Join #LibbyReads July 9 and borrow `I See You`ve Called in Dead` by John Kenney on the Libby App with no waitlists or holds!
"Razor-sharp, darkly comedic, and emotionally piercing...I See You`ve Called in Dead is a witty and heartwarming reminder of the bottomless despair, limitless absurdity, and undeniable joy of the human experience." - Booklist
Bud Stanley, an obituary writer, is afraid to live. After his wife leaves him, Bud hits rock bottom, and in a drunken haze, accidentally publishes his own obituary—leading to a bureaucratic mix-up that makes him "officially" dead and temporarily unfireable. Given a second chance, Bud, with the help of his eccentric best friend, starts attending strangers’ funerals to learn a thing or two....
