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We had a great time at our Summer Reading Kickoff this past week, if you missed it there are plenty more events happening this summer at the library. Join us this week for Storytime on

Tuesday, June 6 at 10:30 a.m. and on Thursday, June 8 Park Ranger Arlyne will read for Storytime. This summer we are excited to offer a teen program, Slice of Art an art workshop for teens ages 12-17 happening Wednesdays at 4:30 PM. The first Slice of Art class will start Wednesday, June 7, bring your teen for awesome art projects. Registration for the Summer Reading Program- All Together Now! Is free and open throughout the summer, visit howardcounty.readsquared.com to sign up or come by the library and register your child in person. Visit our website and Facebook page to get more information about the Summer Reading Program and events.

This week's reviews are iction titles in audiobook format.

Claire grew up in a small town, far from the glitz and glamour of London in Sister Stardust (AUCD F GRE J) by Jane Green. Ridiculed by her stepmother, Linda, and harboring a painful crush on her brother's best friend, she has begun to outgrow the life laid out before her. On the cusp of adulthood in the late

1960s, Claire yearns for the adventure and independence of a counterculture taking root across the world. One day a chance encounter leads to an unexpected opportunity. Whispers of a palace in Morocco. A getaway where famous artists, models, fashion designers and musicians, even the Rolling Stones, have been known to visit.

When Claire arrives in Marrakesh, she's swept up in a heady world of music, drugs and communal living. But one magnetic young woman seems to hold sway over the entire scene.

Talitha Getty, socialite wife of a famous oil heir, has pulled everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Marianne Faithfull into her orbit. Yet when she meets Claire, the pair instantly connect. As they grow closer, and the inner circle tightens, the realities of Talitha's precarious life set off a chain of dangerous events that could alter Claire's life forever.

After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore, until it's purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier Darling in The Hotel Nantucket ( AUCD F HIL E) by Elin Hilderbrand. Xavier hires Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton as his general manager, and Lizbet, in turn, pulls together a charismatic, if inexperienced, staff who share the vision of turning the fate of the hotel around. They face challenges in getting along with one another, and with the guests, in overcoming the hotel's bad reputation, and in surviving the mostly harmless shenanigans of Grace Hadley herself, who won't stop haunting the hotel until her murder is acknowledged.

A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs in The Baxters -The Baxters #0 (AUCD F KIN K) by Karen Kingsbury. It's supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth can't shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? Something bad is about to happen.

Elizabeth knows it. Indeed, there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake?

And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris, a single mom with a son she often leaves with their parents.

At the same time, Ashley and their sister Brooke have lost the faith that is the family's glue.

Against all this, Kari sees Ashley rejecting her longtime love, Landon Blake, who clearly cares for her, no matter what happened in Paris. When the storm reaches a terrifying crescendo, a shocking moment of danger brings important truths to light. At the end of the long day, can the Baxters remain a family, tested but stronger?

After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter in The Island (AUCD F MCK A) by Adrian McKinty. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers. Now it's up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don't trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead. Heather has been underestimated her entire life, but she knows that only she can bring her family home again and become the mother the children desperately need, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them all alive.

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” -Malcolm X