From the staff of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library

“Deep End”

by Ali Hazelwood (fiction, romance)

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream.

A junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships — at least, that’s what she tells herself.

Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.

They start an arrangement, and, as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling.

But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water…

“My Fairy God Somebody”

by Charlene Allen (young adult fiction)

The way Clae’s mom tells it, her dad took off when Clae was a baby, end of story. Ever since, it’s just been the two of them, living in the coastal city of Gloucester, where Clae is one of the only few black girls.

But when Clae discovers clues about a mysterious person she calls her fairy god somebody, she’s determined to know more. Her chance comes when she’s accepted into a summer journalism program in New York City, where her parents lived before she was born.

With a couple of leads and a steel resolve, Clae leaves home for the first time to find out about her history. New York is as full of magic as it is mystery, not to mention romance. From Brooklyn to Broadway, Clae and her new friends, Nze and Joelle, explore neighborhood haunts and hustles, discovering a family trail that someone’s tried hard to bury.

So, who is the fairy god somebody? And can Clae use her sleuthing skills to find out the truth?

“Barbie in the 1960s”

by Elizabeth Andrews (juvenile nonfiction)

Readers will be instantly attached to Barbie in the 1960s. Barbie took the world by storm during her first decade on the market.

Text on popular and inspiring Barbies of the ’60s is paired with a brief history of the decade’s culture and women’s changing roles.