Grab your towel, your sunscreen and a great book! These Lakeside Reads are made for summer.
The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika and Maritza Moulite
Teen: A seventeen-year-old Haitian American zombie, Brielle, seeks revenge on the wealthy elites responsible for her immigrant family's pain.
Run Away with Me by Brian Selznick
Teen: Run Away with Me is a profoundly romantic YA novel about two teenage boys finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome.
Stuck Up & Stupid by Anjourie Rice and Kate Rice
Teen: Mother-daughter team and debut authors Angourie and Kate Rice approach Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice from a glamorous, contemporary Hollywood lens in this star-studded rom-com.
The Lake Escape by Jamie Day
Adult: A group of adult friends return to the lake they frequented as children, and when one of the friends' girlfriends goes missing, the group learn of the lake's horrifying past.
The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani
Adult: Fueled by her lost dreams, Jess takes fate into her own hands and escapes to her ancestral home, Carrara, Italy, to carve a place in this new world.
Muskoka by Julian Samuel
Adult: A young man down on his luck meets the woman of his dreams. But this is no ordinary rom-com: the man is a Pakistani-Canadian artist with a treatable recurrent cancer; the young lady is an Indigenous princess just returned from art school in Europe to her father's summer palace in Muskoka.
Spooky Great Lakes by S.E. Schlosser and Paul G. Hoffman
Adult: Dive into the folklore of the Great Lakes in these expert retellings. Meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening.
Balancing Act by Emily March
Adult: Genevieve is forging new relationships with her adult children and opening up her heart to a handsome widower. But when her estranged eldest daughter moves to Lake in the Clouds, Genevieve's life is upended once again.
Other People’s Summer by Sarah Morgan
Adult: Against the backdrop of the Lakes District, small talk gradually gives way to soul-deep revelations as two friends reconnect. Living with Milly gives Nicole a glimpse of a different path for herself, and Milly starts to see a life after divorce, including a new romance. But Nicole can’t stay hidden forever, and neither can the secret she’s been keeping from Milly.
Only Because It's You by Rebecca Fisseha
Adult: Miz panics when her best friend Kal faces the possibility of being forced to return to Ethiopia. She comes up with a plan to marry him so he can stay, with the idea of quickly getting a divorce afterward. Nothing will change between them, right?
