Looking for a summer read? Here are two suggestions from librarians at our Fremont Branch and downtown at the Central Library:
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
This goes down like a Mocha Frappuccino on a chilly day. Gill grew up in a 35-room Victorian mansion, was educated at Yale, rubbed shoulders with the likes of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway and Queen Elizabeth, and worked for a prestigious advertising firm for 25 years. After being fired from his job, cheating on his wife and failing at self-employment, he found himself old, alone and broke in a New York Starbucks during a hiring event. He signed on, desperately needing money and health benefits. Could this possibly work? It could! Charmingly so. ~ Ellinor, Fremont
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Mitchinson and John Lloyd
If you love weird facts or animals (or both), this book is for you. Inspired by old-fashioned bestiaries-but all the crazy information in this book is actually true! For example: “Beavers can stay submerged for up to 15 minutes … In 1776 the College of Physicians and Faculty of Divinity in Paris classified beaver as a fish because of its scaly tail. That meant the French settlers of North America could officially eat beaver during lent and on other fast days.” ~ Jennifer, Teen Center
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