Community Corner
‘Novel’ Recommendations for Pleasure Reading
These latest staff favorites are ideal for reading over the holiday weekend.
With the holiday weekend fast approaching, it is the perfect time to start planning your pleasure reading. Here are just a few of the latest Carlsbad City Library staff favorites:
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Roach explores the not-so-glamorous lives of astronauts, their training, and the quirky experiments performed in the name of space science. Packing for Mars is hilarious and informative.
Lamentation by Ken Scholes
This award-winning author takes readers on an epic journey that starts with the destruction of the world's greatest city, including its prized library and keepers of knowledge. Intrigue, plots, political machinations, magic and love will keep you enthralled not only with the world Scholes has built but also with the depth and breadth of his characters.
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A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
This charming novel, set in Nairobi, will remind you of the books of Alexander McCall Smith. Mr. Malik is a widower, an avid birder, and in love with Rose Mbikwa. Just as he has worked up the nerve to ask her to the annual Hunt Club Ball, she catches the eye of Mr. Malik's longtime nemesis, Harry Khan. A highly recommended quick read.
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