Summer Reading Favorites: Monday, August 14

Looking for a recommended summer read? Here are a few of the books that were popular with readers who undertook our summer reading challenge, which wrapped up recently. Why not check them out and give them a read?

My Friend, Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats. But as the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family vanished. Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne’s fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger.

Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Rendition

Adam Hayes stepped away from the field for the last time. But with America withdrawing from Afghanistan, Abdul Nassir reaches out to his old friend. Ten years ago, he saved the American’s life, and the time has come for repayment. Like most of his countrymen, he is petrified by the Taliban takeover, but he also can’t trust the Americans. He’s the only eyewitness to a massacre committed by a rogue team of CIA contractors. Not only can he identify the butcher who directed the bloodbath, he also has photographic proof. Now, there’s just one man he can trust to get him to safety—Adam Hayes.

Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. Nina was curious about Ruth’s legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated “on the basis of sex” to be unconstitutional. That call launched a remarkable, nearly fifty-year friendship. Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace.