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July : Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Reading Challenge for Adults2020

The Last Train to London by Meg Clayton

A tale inspired by the Kindertransports of World War II finds a Jewish teen'slife shattered by the Nazi takeover before he joins a member of the Dutchresistance in a life-risking effort to escape Germany.

The Good Pilot Peter Wodehouse by A. McCall Smith

A heartwarming tale of hope and friendship is set during World War II andtraces the intersection of a British farm girl, an American pilot and a Germansoldier who are brought together by an adorable border collie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirotmust weed through an array of international suspects to find the passengerwho murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain ofher losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles herin the lives of strangers.

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The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

Stranded in a frigid mountain wilderness after an airplane crash, a giftedsurgeon and a young magazine writer are forced to rely on each other forsurvival while confronting painful truths about their personal lives.

Everfair by Nisi Shawl

In a world where the native populations of the Congo adopt steamtechnology and declare independence from King Leopold II, the landof Everfair is created to provide sanctuary for all people of African descentwho are mistreated in their current homelands.

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilotestablishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing arandom radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out othersurvivors.

Life of Pi by Jan Martel

Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patelsets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat andis lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungryBengal tiger remain.

Boat Runner by Devin Murphy

Sent to a Hitler Youth Camp to secure German business for his family'sDutch company, Jacob Koopman, the privileged nephew of a fisherman,finds his world upended by the outbreak of the war, which eventually forceshim to make a transformative decision about his life purpose.

The Vactioners by Emma Straub

Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-schoolgraduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Postconfront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves theytry to conceal.

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly & Elizabeth Bisland's History Making

Trip Around the World by Matthew Goodman

Documents the 1889 competition between feminist journalist Nellie Bly and"Cosmopolitan" reporter Elizabeth Bishop to beat Jules Verne's record andeach other in a round-the-globe race.

Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford

Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford's fast-paced andgripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectaculardemise of the Key West Railroad-one of the greatest engineering feats everundertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hitU.S. shores.

Midnight in Siberia by David Greene

The co-host of NPR's "Morning Edition" describes his travels along theTrans-Siberian Railroad, from Moscow to Vladivostok, describing the peoplehe met, from singing babushkas to entrepreneurial teens to politicalactivists, and discusses the challenges faced by 21st-century Russia

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorIsabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of Americanhistory: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South fornorthern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970,this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

On the Road is a thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast madeof Kerouac's real life friends, lover, and fellow travelers. Narrated by SalParadise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-countrybohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest level of American thoughtand culture.

Beautiful Ruins by Jess WalterThe story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 ...and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later, featuring an Italianhousekeeper and his long-lost American starlet, the producer who oncebrought them together, and his assistant.