NEW NOVELS!

Racing the Rain by John L. Parker, Jr.

The story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida’s Gold Coast. A prequel to the author’s bestselling Once a Runner.

Racing the Rain
Racing the Rain

The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth

The heart-breaking romance between Wilhelm Grimm and the young woman who told him many of his most famous stories.

The Wild Girl
The Wild Girl

The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock

While America becomes swept up in the fervor of the Space Race, test pilot Jim Harrison turns his attention home, passing up the chance to become an astronaut to welcome his daughter, Florence, into the world.  But when his family is faced with a sudden and inexplicable tragedy, Harrison’s instincts as a father and a pilot are put to test.

The Last Pilot
The Last Pilot

~Ann

HOT AUGUST READS

August brings lots of new titles from old favorites and new authors!

This Week

Alert by James Patterson

The Summertime Girls by Laura Hankin

Week of August 10

Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber

Devil’s Bridge by Linda Fairstein

Who do You Love by Jennifer Weiner

Week of August 17

Friction by Sandra Brown

A Pattern of Lies by Charles Todd

The Murderer’s Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman

Week of August 23

The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory

X by Sue Grafton

~Ann

Day at the Beach Raffle Prize – RRPL Adult Summer Reading

Day at the beach

We might be wrapping up our Summer Reading Program, but the weather is still perfect for a day at the beach!  Here’s a sun soaked basket to get you through the rest of these hot days.

This basket includes:

  • Beach towel
  • Beach tote
  • 2 water bottles
  • Frisbee
  • Puzzle book
  • Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  • The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
  • & beach snacks!

Sign up in person at the RRPL Reference Desk, or through our website: http://www.rrpl.org/Summer-Read-2015.php.  Don’t forget to submit your book titles as you complete them.

Every entry qualifies you for our grand prize gift basket!

THE GRAND PRIZE RAFFLE BASKET FOR RRPL ADULT SUMMER READING 2015

Here it is!  This is the basket everyone has been waiting to see!  The basket is in the theme of Rocky River and has all kinds of goodies hidden within it.

grand prize RR

The Grand Prize raffle basket includes:

  • Gift card to some local Rocky River restaurants like Bomba, Danny Boy’s, River Dog Cafe, etc…
  • Rocky River wall art
  • Mitchell’s train conductor hat
  • Erie Island travel mug
  • Books including The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett, Wishin’ & Hopin‘ by Wally Lamb, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

A special thank you to the Friends of the Rocky River Public Library for sponsoring our fabulous Summer Reading Programs!

There’s still time to get your name in the big raffle!

Sign up in person at the RRPL Reference Desk, or through our website: http://www.rrpl.org/Summer-Read-2015.php.  Don’t forget to submit your book titles as you complete them.

Breakfast Raffle Basket – RRPL Adult Summer Reading

breakfast

Breakfast may be considered the most important meal of the day, and I certainly can’t help but think it certainly is one of the most delicious.  This raffle prize basket has a breakfast theme.  This basket contains:

  • Pancake mix
  • Syrup
  • English Breakfast tea
  • 1 lb. of Erie Island Coffee
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  • The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • and candy!

Sign up in person at the RRPL Reference Desk, or through our website: http://www.rrpl.org/Summer-Read-2015.php.  Don’t forget to submit your book titles as you complete them.

Every entry qualifies you for our grand prize gift basket!

Happy reading!

—Beth

Movie Night Raffle Basket – RRPL Adult Summer Reading

Movie night

This week we are featuring a Movie Night themed raffle prize for our Adult Summer Reading.  The prize includes:

  • A popcorn bucket
  • Microwave popcorn
  • Mitchell’s Gift Card
  • DVD of The Theory of Everything
  • DVD of The Princess Bride
  • The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Sign up in person at the RRPL Reference Desk, or through our website: http://www.rrpl.org/Summer-Read-2015.php.  Don’t forget to submit your book titles as you complete them.

Every entry qualifies you for our grand prize gift basket!

Happy reading!

—Beth

RRPL Adult Summer Reading Week 4 Prize Basket

Week 4 coffee lovers

This week’s Adult Summer Reading prize basket features all types of goodies for coffee lovers!   Here are some of the goodies inside of this basket:

-1 pound of Erie Island Coffee
-Erie Island Coffee travel mug
-Coffee mug
-Ghiradelli Mocha Squares
– Starbucks Viva Instant Latte packets
March of the Penguins documentary
The Appeal by John Grisham
Rules of Civility: A Novel by Amor Towles
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

You pick the books, we provide the prizes!   To participate in our Adult Summer Reading Program, sign up here.  As you finish books, log them here.

RRPL Adult Summer Reading Week 3 Prize Basket

Today we are diving into our third week of Summer Reading!  If you haven’t signed up for our Adult Summer Reading Program yet, now is the time!  Click here to sign up and submit book entries for our weekly gift basket raffle. This week our gift basket has the theme of Family Fun Staycation.

staycation week 3

The gift basket includes:

  • 4 Tickets to a Cleveland Gladiators Game
  • Fixings for ice cream sundaes
  • A Mitchell’s Gift Card
  • A frisbee
  • Family Challenge board game
  • Guides to destinations in Northeast Ohio
  • Ohio Road Trips by Neil Zurcher
  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Happy (summer) reading!
—Beth

Latest Additions

Our Summer Reading Programs are underway and off to a great start!  We already have our first prize basket winner and are ready to start collecting book entries for this upcoming week’s prize basket!  This week our prize basket features the theme of dinner!

Summer Reading basket 2

The basket includes:

-An Italian cookbook
-Spaghetti
-Spaghetti sauce
-Pesto Sauce
-A gift card to Mitchell’s
-A Place to Call Home by Amy Schisler
-Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory

Are you looking for a few suggestions of books to read so you can add more entries into our weekly gift basket raffle?

Check out these latest additions to our Reading Room:

dead key
The Dead Key by D.M. Pulley
Place a hold

edge of dreams
The Edge of Dreams by Rhys Bowen
Place a hold

precious one
The Precious One BY Marisa De los Santos
Place a hold

Happy reading!
—Beth

Latest Additions

Happy Summer Reading, Rocky River!

Sign up for adult Summer Reading in person or at http://www.rrpl.org.

The first prize basket for the Adult Summer Reading program includes:

  • Sugar scrub
  • Bath salt
  • Face masks
  • Body wash
  • Personal care set
  • Chocolate truffles
  • The Notebook (movie)
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  • Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
  • Full Throttle by Julie Ann Walker

    spa basket week 1

Looking for some books to read so that you can get some entries in to win our basket?  Check out some of our latest additions to the Reading Room.

string diaries
String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Place a hold

before i go
Before I Go by Colleen Oakley
Place a hold

Church of marvels
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
Place a hold

orhan's inher
Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
Place a hold

bookseller
Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
Place a hold

If none of these latest additions strike your fancy, stop by our reference desk for custom suggestions!

Happy reading!

—Beth