NBS recommends sassy summer reads
ONE FIFTH AVENUE
By Candace Bushnell
P299
Another look at the tough and tender women of New York City from Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, Trading Up, and Lipstick Jungle. In One Fifth Avenue, Bushnell tells the intertwined stories of five women at one swanky Manhattan address. On Fifth is the chicest, the hottest, the one with the best pedigree, the one with all the most interesting people. Within its gorgeous, thick, prewar walls, fortunes fall and rise in the early days of the new millennium. As in her previous novels, Bushnell turns a gimlet eye on the social and sexual politics of elite New Yorkers and taps uncannily into the zeitgeist of our changing times.
BLED DRY:
A TALE OF VEGAS VAMPIRES
By Erin McCarthy
P335
Hooking up with a vampire has its risks — but getting pregnant usually isn’t one of them. Tell that to Brittany Baldizzi, who finds herself in the family way with no father in sight. After their one night of passion, vampire Corbin Jean Michel Atelier disappeared off the face of the earth — or at least off the Vegas Strip. Corbin is a vampire with a cause — he is secretly trying to find a cure for his condition. But when he finds out Brittany is pregnant with his child, he can’t keep his parental instincts from trumping his bloodsucking ones, even when showing his hand can cost him the woman he can’t help but love.
NOTHING TO LOSE
By Lee Child
P315
Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but 12 miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can’t find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on. They’re picking on the wrong guy. Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide? With just one ally — a mysterious woman cop from Hope — and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town, hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edge — a man with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose?
HOW THE SOLDIER REPAIRS THE GRAMOPHONE
Sasa Stanisic
P275
For young Aleksandar, the best magician in the non-aligned states and painter of unfinished things, life is endowed with a mythic quality in the Bosnian town of Viegrad, a rich playground for his imagination. When his grandfather dies, Aleks channels his storytelling talent to help with his grief. It is a gift he calls on again when the shadow of war spreads and the world as he knows it stops. Though Aleks and his family flee to Germany, he is haunted by his past — and by Asija, the mysterious girl he tried to save. Desperate to learn of her fate, Aleks returns to his hometown on the anniversary of his grandfather’s death to discover what became of her and the life he left behind.
COYOTE’S MATE
By Lora Leigh
P315
New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh takes us into the dangerously sensual world of the genetically altered Breeds — and the humans who fill them with insatiable desire. In this exciting novel, Anya Kobrin was only 16 when she came to Del-Ray Delgado — the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost. As Anya matured into a woman, she and Del-Ray grew close, but on the day of the ambush, he broke his promise and shot her father. Filled with rage over his betrayal, Anya discovers an even stronger emotion is consuming her mind and body. Though Del-Ray feels it with the same intensity, Anya questions whether she can forgive or trust him again.
