The dragon hour: a time-travel romance by Connie Flynn

Steamed: a steampunk romance by Katie MacAlister

All for you by Lynn Kurland

Beyond the highland mist by Karen Marie Moning

On Thursday August 9 at noon we'll be discussing:

Waterland by Graham Swift — Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, England and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving… Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity… A fine and original work."

The gowns, the carriages, the manners of another age — be whisked off to another time with an historical romance.

Trouble at the wedding by Laura Lee Guhrke

The price of temptation by Lecia Cornwall

How the marquess was won by Julie Anne Long

Ready player one by Ernest Cline

The family Fang by Kevin Wilson

The tiger's wife: a novel by Téa Obreht

In Zanesville: a novel by Jo Ann Beard

C by Tom McCarthy

A pointed death: first in the pointer mystery series by Kath Russell

The chemistry of tears by Peter Carey

Utopia: a novel by Lincoln Child

Family affair by Debbie Macomber

Cupid Cats by Katie MacAlister, Vicki Lewis Thompson & Connie Brockway

Tails of wonder and imagination by edited by Ellen Datlow

The cat's meow by Emily Carmichael

The extra by Michael Shea

Infamous by Suzanne Brockmann

Adored by Tilly Bagshawe

Whitby vampyrrhic by Simon Clark

Holl

The reluctant heiress by Eva Ibbotson

Antonio's wife: a novel by Jacqueline DeJohn

Charles Jessold, considered as a murderer by Wesley Stace

The doctor and the diva: a novel by Adrienne McDonnell

Baseball

Hot property by Carly Phillips

Fireside by Susan Wiggs

Fireside by Susan Wiggs

Football

Here I am by Rochelle Alers

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

The time traveler's wife: a novel by Audrey Niffenegger

To say nothing of the dog, or, How we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis

Kindred by Octavia E.

In the garden of Iden : a novel of the company by Kage Baker

Pastwatch : the redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card

Time and again by Finney, Jack

The centurion's empire by Sean McMullen

Before I go to sleep: a novel by S.J.

Did you know that many of the great family movies out there were kids books first? You can earn your "curtains up" badge by reading some of these great titles:

Ella enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke; translated from the German by Anthea Bell

Cheaper by the dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth Carey; (with a new afterword by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey)

The knight at dawn by Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca

Knights of the kitchen table by Jon Scieszka ; illustrated by Lane Smith

A wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle

Honus & me by Dan Gutman

Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson

Justin Thyme by Panama Oxridge

The new policeman by Kate Thompson

Ruby red by Kerstin Gier ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell

The last enemy by Grace Brophy

Join us on Monday, July 23 for an evening of mystery and suspense. We will 'visit' Italy, Sweden, Ireland, France, Japan and more with Adult Librarian Joyce Simowski as she talks about some of her favorite non-American mystery authors.   Book talk begins at 7:00 PM in the Purple Room.