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It's Father's Day weekend and our thoughts and minds go to the fathers.  Looking for book recommendations off our shelves for the men in our family? There are always the popular prolific authors: Balducci, Sandford, Connelly, Grisham , however, if you are looking for something to stretch out of the standard thrillers and crime fiction try these. New Fiction " Fall" by Neil Stephenson . If you have never read this author, check out " Cryptonomicon" " Recursion" by Blake Crouch " Sentence is Death" by Anthony Horowitz Off our Hot Summer Reads "Good Omen" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman  This has gained a resurgance of popularity due to the Netflix series. "The Poacher's Son" by Paul Doirdon "The Golem and the Jinni" by Helen Wecker New Non-Fiction The Pioneers by David McCullough Non-Fiction off our Summer Reads Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston The Big Short by Michael ...

Our Hot Summer Reads are on the bookshelves and I just finished one of last year's favorites "Stillhouse Lake" by Rachel Caine . It is a "don't want to put it down" suspense and at 286 pages a perfect size to take with you for a quick read. What are your perfect summer read selections? Past favorite summer authors of mine include Charles Martin, Elizabeth Berg,  and Kristen Hannah . Summertime vacations gave me enough time to read some of my all time favorites like "Water for Elephants" or "The Help" .  Duxbury readers enjoy local authors Elin Hildebrand and Nancy Thayer whose summer themed novels fly off the shelves. Don't forget some of the YA (young adult) series or even adolescent series for a great escape. Two different summers at my daughter's urging I read through the " Twilight"  series and  "The Hunger Games" . When your children recommend book take them up on it, they are often great esca...