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This Summer’s Best Beach Reads
by Alisha
Fiction + Mysteries and Thrillers + Gift & Stationery + Kids + Picture Books + YA Fiction / July 29, 2015
Chevy Stevens
St. Martin's Press
Available Now
Chevy Stevens is back with this year’s must-have summer thriller—a powerful, emotional story of survival and revenge (now a Globe and Mail bestseller!).
“This is Stevens’s best book to
date.”—The Globe and Mail
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Jackie Collins
St. Martin’s Press
Available Now
No summer reading list is complete without Jackie Collins. In The Santangelos, she delivers an epic family saga, filled with love, lust, revenge and passion.
Read an excerpt here.
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Kelli Estes
Sourcebooks
Available Now
Set in the Pacific Northwest and inspired by true events, Kelli Estes’s brilliant and atmospheric debut serves as a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right thing, and the power of our own stories.
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Lisa Scottoline
and Francesca Serritella
St. Martin’s Press
Available Now
This breezy, laugh-out-loud beach read by mother-daughter team Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella “takes the…cake for best title of the summer.”—USA Today
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Stephanie Clifford
St. Martin’s Press
Coming Aug 18
Stephanie Clifford's "superb" debut
is “a 21st century version of a grand 19th century novel—smart, moving tale of class, ambition, and identity" (Malcolm Gladwell).
Look for it on the People, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, and Good Housekeeping summer reading lists.
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Louise Penny
Minotaur
Coming Aug 25
Celebrate 10 years of Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache series with her newest installment, The Nature of the Beast.
“Splendid . . . Penny's books mix some classic elements of the police
procedural with a deep-delving
psychology, as well as a sorrowful
sense of the precarious nature of
human goodness, and the
persistence of its opposite.”—The
New York Times on The Long Way
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Jillian Tamaki
Drawn & Quarterly
Ages 14 and up
Available Now
“Art School Confidential meets X-Men” (The Globe and Mail) in Jillian Tamaki’s newest graphic novel—one of TPL’s top 10 "Summer Reads for Teens".
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Mary E. Pearson
Henry Holt and Co.
Ages 14-18
Available Now
The 2nd title in the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles does not disappoint: "It's rare that the second book in a series is as good—or perhaps better—than the first, but that's the case here. Anticipation for the next volume will start as soon as this one is put down."—Booklist starred review
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Ali Novak
Sourcebooks
Available Now
Ali Novak (My Life with the Walter Boys) delievers “a fun summer romance that doesn’t shy away from the deeper issues of family, illness, and self-discovery” (School Library Journal).
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Natasha Preston
Sourcebooks
Coming Aug 4
Don't miss the latest gripping, high-stakes thriller from Wattpad sensation Natasha Preston, author of The Cellar.
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John Wang and Holman Wang
Chronicle Books
Ages Infant-3
Available Now
Jedi apprentices, little princesses, and Star Wars fans of any age will delight in this (heart)felt retelling of the Star Wars saga (a Today’s Parent summer reading pick).
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Gilad Soffer
Feiwel and Friends
Ages 2-5
Available Now
If your vacation isn’t going entirely swimmingly, Duck’s Vacation will give you a laugh. This fun, interactive read will entice kids (and young-at-heart adults) to turn the pages over and over.
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Beth Ferry,
illustrated by Ben Mantle
Chronicle Books
Ages 3-5
Coming Aug 4
While we hope your holiday is shark-free, trouble comes in all shapes and sizes in this picture book about a first pet.
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Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Henry Holt & Co. (BYR)
Ages 9-14
Available Now
This action-packed mystery is the perfect page-turner for middle-grade bookworms.
"Full of heart and replete with
challenging ciphers for readers to
decode, Bertman's debut is literary
cousin to classic puzzlers likeThe
Westing Game, and a story that
values books and reading above
other pursuits . . . sure to be popular
with voracious readers."—Publishers
Weekly, starred review
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