Great Reads: Time to sign up for summer reading

The merry month of May has arrived with visions of diplomas, the end of school and vacations as we welcome those dastardly triple digit days of late spring.

It’s also that time of year, when registration begins for the Maricopa Public Library’s annual Summer Reading Program. The theme this year is “Our State, Our Story — Celebrating 100 Years of Arizona” and runs June 4 to July 27. Registration begins May 21 and ends June 2.

To entice you to register, get pencil and paper as any one of the following titles may be of interest to you.

Pediatrician Jill Farrow has finally gotten life right for her and her daughter. She has a job she loves and is about to remarry, but she’s willing to risk it all when an ex-stepdaughter arrives one night in Lisa Scottoline’s Come Home.

Will Robie is a hit man on the run when he goes against orders in David Baldacci’s The Innocent. Complicating matters, a 14-year-old runaway whose life has been turned upside down when her parents are murdered and Robie’s discovery of a conspiracy implicating some of the most powerful people in Washington, D.C.