The new Summer calendar is here! Specific information about the Adult Summer Reading Program is included. Participants are requested to read one book about each continent...which seems easy except for Antarctica. I have gone through the books in our catalog, looked up their description in Amazon.com and have composed a list of books available to read. Just as a heads up, the majority of books are action/adventure simply because that is the most believable plot line for the Antarctic.
In the order that they appear in our catalog:
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Deep Current by Benjamin E Miller
Zero Hour by Benjamin E Miller
Black Ice by Matt Dickinson
Dark Winter by William Dietrich
White-Out by James Vance Marshall
Ice Station by Matthew J Reilly
Ice Reich by William Dietrich
Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition: the Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-bound Cat by Caroline Alexander
Choosers of the Slain by James H Cobb
Antarctic Navigation: a novel by Elizabeth Arthur
Personally, "Choosers of the Slain" looks great to me. It is the story of a lone destroyer that has the responsibility of stopping a Argentine invasion of the Antarctic. After I read it, I will be glad to give an update.
The Adult Summer Reading Program starts June 1. Stop by any branch of the Scottsdale Public Library and pick-up your lei and Boarding Pass (reading log). Rick
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I read "The Brief History of the Dead" by Brockmeier and it was very interesting. A young woman doing research in Antartica is isolated when a pandemic strikes Earth. Although she is saved from the pandemic, she is stranded all alone and her memories are the only thing she has to console her.
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