With spring comes new beginnings and new reading adventures!
April is a great time to read these six books that include stories about nature and revival, and stories that make you laugh.
All of these titles are available to borrow through the OC Public Libraries physical collection and are available digitally (eBook a nd/ or eAudiobook) through Libby, an app where you can borrow eBooks, eAudiobooks, and magazines free with your library card.
SPRING READS
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot is a memoir about Herriot's heartwarming but also difficult experiences as a Yorkshire veterinarian. It will surely delight readers with its varying tales of animals and their humans.
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center tells the story about a female bodyguard who is hired to protect a Hollywood heartthrob, but hijinks arise when she must pretend to be his girlfriend when he goes back to help his family at their Texas ranch. Choose this book if you are in need of a funny and uplifting romance.
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree takes place in the fantasy city of Thune and follows Viv the orc as she retires from bounty hunting and opens the city's first ever coffee shop. It's a low-stakes, cozy fantasy novel that focuses more on characters, relationships and vibes than on world-ending plotlines.
Maame by Jessica George follows twenty-five-year-old Maddie, who lives in London taking care of her father, who has Parkinson's. When her mother returns home from Ghana, Maddie takes this chance to move out of her parent's home and start a new life. She tries internet dating, gets flatmates, champions herself at her job and tackles more 'firsts.' It's a perfect book about new beginnings.
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson is a humorous and creative mystery narrated by an author called Ernest Cunningham. Throughout the story, Cunningham breaks the fourth wall by commenting on how the book's central mystery — various deaths and a coverup involving his family members — lines up with the '10 Commandments of Detective Fiction', created by the real-life mystery author Ronald Knox.
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver is a beautiful collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Within her poems, Oliver muses on the geography of her hometown of Provincetown, Massachusetts, observes nature and animals, and grieves her dog, Percy. It's a wonderful book to read for National Poetry Month in April.