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SDG Reading Challenge - June

The beautiful summer sky, with the sand between your toes, warm sun on your face and a gentle breeze in the wind; nothing beats the relaxed feeling of just you and your book to make for the perfect day.  This month’s SDG Reading Challenge is Beach Reads, so grab a blanket and a comfy chair and nestle down with some of these fun, light hearted reads.

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  • Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper ... Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as "the Saint." If you grew up coming here, you were "a Saint." If you came…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — Andre
  • When the residents of St. Kilda ask to be evacuated from their remote island home in the summer of 1930, it's in search of a better life on the mainland rather than the scratch existence on their mountain in the sea. For 18-year-old Effie…
    BookLondon : Macmillan, 2022. — Swan bk.1
  • Cecilia Lapthorne always vowed she'd never go back to Dune Cottage. So no one is more surprised than Cecilia to find herself escaping her seventy-fifth birthday party to return to the remote Cape Cod cottage--a place filled with memories.…
    BookToronto, ON : Canary Street Press, 2024. — Morga
  • Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the…
    Large PrintNew York : Random House Large Print, 2024. — LP Simon
  • "Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be…
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2021. — Weine
  • When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. To make matters worse, the mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano. Katy has been waiting years…
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2022. — Serle
  • In 1996, Everything changed for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind.... until…
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — Spark
  • Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a…
    BookNew York : Forever, 2024. — Jimen
  • With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can't afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a plan for her future. she nurtured her family and neglected herself. But how's she supposed tto think when her daughter has become the most…
    eBook[S.l.] : HQN Books, 2022.
  • A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet…
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2023. — Henry
  • The Summer Girl

    An Avalon Bay Novel

    Kennedy, Elle
    College student Cassie Soul hasn't spent an entire summer in Avalon Bay in years, not since her parents divorced and her mother spitefully whisked her away to Boston. Now that her grandmother is selling the boardwalk hotel that's been in…
    eBook[S.l.] : St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.
  • Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process. Nearly thirty years ago, in the wake of a personal tragedy, June Moore bought Camp Holly Springs and turned it into a…
    Large PrintThorndike, ME : Center Point Large Print, 2023. — LP Harve
  • "Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now…
    BookToronto : Graydon House, 2021. — Shipm
  • As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia…
    BookNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. — Willi
  • A woman's second act on the beautiful island of Nantucket delivers much more than she expected in this hopeful novel ... Heather Willette has a good life in Concord, Massachusetts--complete with a husband who runs his own business and a…
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, 2023. — Thaye