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Books to Make Your Summer Sizzle

Looking to add some heat to your summer? These page-turners will keep you hooked at the beach, in the backyard or by the swimming pool. Whether you're craving a steamy romance, a heart-racing thriller, or a gripping adventure, these books will have you diving right in!

Oshawa Public Libraries

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  • Sunny Greene is thirty-five, recently divorced, and about to have a meltdown in the Bergdorf Goodman swimsuit department dressing room, but isn't rock bottom the perfect place to start a climb?
    Book, 2025New York : Celadon Books, 2025. — F STURI
  • When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep. But…
    Book, 2025New York : Raven Books/Bloomsbury, 2025. — MYSTERY F SMITH
  • Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They’re well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it’s with great anticipation…
    Book, 2025New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025. — F LITTL
  • The Brooke family gathers at their ancestral home to bury Philip, their central figure. Eldest daughter Frannie dreams of rewilding the estate to combat climate change, while her brother Milo envisions a treetop haven for the super-rich. Both…
    Book, 2025New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — F HOPE
  • When grieving author Hugh Hudson secretly pens a romance novel, talent agent Charlie Francisco hires struggling actress Kate Elliot to pose as the writer. However, her anonymous correspondence with Hugh and deepening intimacy with Charlie threaten…
    Book, 2025New York : Delacorte Press, [2025] — ROMANCE F SILVE
  • In a quirky, humorous locked-room murder mystery, historian Destiny Whip uncovers the truth behind a mysterious death in the wealthy Scruffmore family.
    Book, 2025Toronto, ON : MIRA Books, [2025] — MYSTERY F MARAI
  • When music idol Ai is embroiled in scandal, her sisters, ambitious Rei and single mother Kiki, pause their lives and spend the summer with Ai in their childhood home on the Japanese coast so they can rescue their baby sister.
    Book, 2025New York : Mariner Books, [2025] — F ITAMI
  • When a pub owner is found gruesomely murdered, Detective Nicola Bridge returns to her quaint coastal hometown to uncover dark secrets hidden beneath its picturesque façade, risking the destruction of everything she thought she knew.
    Book, 2025New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2025. — MYSTERY F CHIBN
  • Mia Crawford is responsible to a fault. Between her high-demand job and caring for her grandmother and her cats, she has little time for anything else. What time she does have, she pours into reading. Now, forced into taking a vacation, she finds…
    Book, 2025Toronto, ON : MIRA Books, 2025. — MYSTERY F BRENN
  • Burned-out former ER doc Stellar J Byrd can solve any crisis except her own life. But with her financial prospects dwindling, she’d do anything to stay in her beloved, pricey wilderness town—even take a job as a camp physician at The Love Boat, an…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2025. — ROMANCE F NORTH