Cozy, Feel Good Reads for Adults - Summer Adventure 2025Like this list

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• Imagine and Build Summer Adventure at AC Library

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  Build your own Summer Adventure at AC Library from June 1 to August 1. Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries.

• Rules for Visiting

  Kane, Jessica Francis, 1971-

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  A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year (Publisher). This is a quiet, calming and comfortable read that delves into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

  a Novel

  Lyons, Annie,

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  Eudora Honeysett, a British woman in her twilight years, resolves to die on her own terms in this witty, endearing novel from author Annie Lyons. Lyons unfurls Eudora’s life story, including her grief over losing her father in WWII, alongside…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall,

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  Wisdom about the natural world delivered by an able writer who is both Indigenous and an academic scientist (Kirkus Reviews). Kimmerer looks at the natural world through the lense of Potawatomi beliefs and practices, providing a view of our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• West With Giraffes

  a Novel

  Rutledge, Lynda, 1950-

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  Inspired by true events, this part adventure, part historical saga and part coming-of-age love story follows Woodrow Wilson Nickel as he recalls his journey in 1938 to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. A little…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Ticket

  Sampson, Freya,

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  Arriving in London, brokenhearted Libby Nichols meets elderly Frank who has been riding the bus for 60 years, hoping to find a girl he met in 1962, and decides to help him search, finding her tightly controlled world expanding as she opens her heart…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

  Blackburn, Lizzie Damilola,

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  A 30-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a high-paying job and good friends, Yinka, whose aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, must find a date for her cousin’s wedding with the help of a spreadsheet and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Manuscript

  Bonidan, Cathy,

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  When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery - a mystery that does not involve murder! A delightful read!

• The President's Hat

  Laurain, Antoine,

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  Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. After the presidential party has gone, Daniel discovers that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Beauty in the World

  the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

  Bringley, Patrick,

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  A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.