A summer made of stories: Great books for warmer days | Arts - Philly.com

Take a look at these books below recommended by John Timpane, Staff Writer.

Summer is made of stories: fiction that seems true, and true stories that beggar belief. Here's a selection of great new fiction, nonfiction and poetry to beguile the climbing temperatures.

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Below we recommend June, July, and August books, great reading to beguile the climbing temperatures. Our fiction ranges from Florida to Ghana, from Ireland to the samba joints of 1930s Brazil. Our nonfiction tells of life in fracking-land, Pennsylvania; a girl growing up on a bombing range; a fire-watcher in the New Mexico wild; and, from Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard, a book titled Summer. And spare a thought for two necessary, right-now books of poetry. Get those pages flipping!
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