Welcome to our July Staff Picks, where the York Public Library team shares our favorite sun-soaked reads, perfect for long beach days at Short Sands or cozy summer afternoons on the porch. Michelle: Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Openheimer For the serious Judy Blume fans among us. Judy Blume is a national treasure.  How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay by Jenny Lawson  With her trademark snark and hilarity, this is a deeply relatable guide on how to get through a dumpster fire with your sanity...

May the Books Be With You: Stellar Reads Chosen by Library StaffMichelle: Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson Part memoir, part social commentary on bias in the criminal justice system from the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson has devoted his life to freeing those wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. He has argued before and won cases at the Supreme Court level - including a case that bans sentencing children to death...