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• The Compound

  Rawle, Aisling, 1998-

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  Set in a near-future dystopia where temperatures are climbing, this book follows a group of people on a Love Island-esque reality show. This book was interesting because you get almost no context about what is going on in the real world, you are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death Valley

  Broder, Melissa,

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  On a journey to escape the chaos of her life, a woman finds herself in a Best Western in the California desert. When she stumbles on a walking trail on a scorching summer day, she finds a towering cactus with what looks like a door carved into its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dogs of Summer

  Abreu, Andrea, 1995-

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  Translated from Spanish, our narrator and her best friend Isora spend the summer dreaming of hitchiking to the beach to escape the sweltering island heat of the Tenerife sea. Through her coming-of-age, the narrator's friendship with Isora turns from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Drowned World

  Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009

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  Recommended in the Reading Challenge Facebook Group.

• Dune

  Book One in the Dune Chronicles

  Herbert, Frank,

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  Recommended in the Reading Challenge Facebook Group.

• The Greengage Summer

  Godden, Rumer, 1907-1998

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  This is a strange, slow book that I had to start a couple of times before it really resonated with me, but once I was hooked I couldn't stop reading. An Education meets Swallows and Amazons. Recommended by Kate - Librarian.

• Holes

  Sachar, Louis, 1954-,

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  Not an escape from the winter that anyone would want, but having to dig holes in the Texas desert certainly counts as having to deal with warm weather. Such is the fate of Stanley Yelnats after being sentenced to the correctional facility for a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House on Tradd Street

  White, Karen (Karen S.)

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  Hot weather is a prominent feature of this first book in a series about historic houses and their inhabitants in Charleston, South Carolina. Expect lots of home renovation woes and ghostly drama. The robust characters carry the plot into a long…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hot Milk

  Levy, Deborah,

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• Palm Meridian

  Flahive, Grace,

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  Amid rising global temperatures, one Florida seniors' home is full of residents having the time of their lives in their twilight years. Amid the reveling groups embroiled in competitive book clubs, hula-hooping on the grass and different groups of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Perfect Golden Circle

  Myers, Benjamin, 1976-

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  What could be better than a book set in 1989 England with crop circles during an unusually hot summer? Loved reading this book, from the turmoil in the 80s in England and regular farmers having a bit of a laugh! Recommended by TPL staff.

• This One Summer

  Tamaki, Mariko,

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  Recommended in the Reading Challenge Facebook Group.

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