Beach Reads Perfect for Summer Vacation
A Nantucket Wedding by Nancy Thayer
Publication date: April 3, 2018
To buy: $27, amazon.com
A summer wedding sets the scene for this story about family, friendship, and secrets in picturesque Nantucket.
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Women in Sunlight by Frances Mayes
Publication date: April 3, 2018
To buy: $27, amazon.com
From the author of Under the Tuscan Sun comes this story about three American expats finding friendship in Italy.
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The Lemonade Year by Amy Willoughby-Burle
Publication date: April 3, 2018
To buy: $15.99, amazon.com
This story about family struggles and unexpected romance underscores the importance of second chances.
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The Secret to Southern Charm by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Publication date: April 3, 2018
To buy: $28, amazon.com
The second novel in Kristy Woodson Harvey's Peachtree Bluff series is about three sisters and their mother finding courage in the wake of grief.
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Sophia of Silicon Valley by Anna Yen
Publication date: April 10, 2018
To buy: $26.99, amazon.com
This novel is set in the world of tech, where Sophia Young finds herself attempting to navigate new jobs and the perplexing people she meets at work.
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The Husband Hour by Jamie Brenner
Publication date: April 24, 2018
To buy: $26, amazon.com
In The Husband Hour, a surprise visitor interrupts Lauren Adelman’s life on the Jersey Shore and prompts her to reconsider several aspects of her life in the process.
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An Unsuitable Match by Joanna Trollope
Publication date: May 1, 2018
To buy: $27.95, amazon.com
Dilemmas ensue when needy family members threaten to derail the late-in-life marriage that Rose Woodrowe and Tyler Masson have planned in this engrossing novel from Joanna Trollope.
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Limelight by Amy Poeppel
Publication date: May 1, 2018
To buy: $26, amazon.com
A family that moves from Dallas to NYC becomes entangled in the world of Broadway in this witty exploration of motherhood.
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The Seasonaires by Janna King
Publication date: May 1, 2018
To buy: $25.95, amazon.com
Seasonaires—brand ambassadors for an upscale clothing line—find themselves spending a picturesque summer in Nantucket, but their picture-perfect jobs soon take a turn for the complicated.
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Carousel Beach by Orly Konig
Publication date: May 8, 2018
To buy: $17.99, amazon.com
When artist Maya Brice is brought on to help restore a historic carousel, she finds her way to 90-year-old carousel carver Hank Hauser, who tells her stories that reveal long-hidden secrets about her family.
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The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews
Publication date: May 8, 2018
To buy: $27.99, amazon.com
Mary Kay Andrews is back with a story about a 99-year-old heiress and the attorney she brings to her seaside mansion and soon entangles in a story of high-stakes, long-kept secrets.
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By Invitation Only by Dorothea Benton Frank
Publication date: May 15, 2018
To buy: $27.99, amazon.com
The latest from Dorothea Benton Frank tells the story of two very different families connected by the engagement of their children—one a privileged Chicagoan and the other a Southerner from a family of peach farmers.
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How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
Publication date: May 15, 2018
To buy: $26.99, amazon.com
An accident throws Margaret Jacobsen’s life into turmoil, causing her to rethink the future she worked toward for years in this funny and heartfelt novel from Katherine Carter.
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Beach House Reunion by Mary Alice Monroe
Publication date: May 22, 2018
To buy: $26, amazon.com
Mary Alice Monroe’s Beach House series is back with this story about Cara Rutledge and her return to her Lowcountry home on the Isle of Palms, a place filled with memories, family, and opportunity.
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The Glitch by Elisabeth Cohen
Publication date: May 22, 2018
To buy: $26.95, amazon.com
This funny new novel explores what happens when Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two Shelley Stone encounters a glitch in the form of a young woman who convincingly claims to be Shelley’s younger self.
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The High Season by Judy Blundell
Publication date: May 22, 2018
To buy: $27, amazon.com
Ruthie Beamish has a great seaside house on Long Island, but she has to give it up to renters every year during the high season. This particular year brings with it twists and turns and more than a few surprises for Ruthie herself.
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Dreams of Falling by Karen White
Publication date: June 5, 2018
To buy: $26, amazon.com
Set on the North Santee River in the South Carolina Lowcountry, this new novel from Karen White explores what happens when Larkin Lanier returns to the town of her childhood and plunges into the depths of a 50-year mystery.
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When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
Publication date: June 5, 2018
To buy: $26.99, amazon.com
From the author of The Devil Wears Prada comes this story starring Prada character Emily Charlton and her struggle to rebuild her career as an image consultant in the suburbs of Greenwich, Connecticut.
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
Publication date: June 12, 2018
To buy: $22.99, amazon.com
When Miranda Brooks inherits a bookstore from her uncle, she begins to find clues hidden in the shelves, clues which lead her to save the store from bankruptcy and solve a mystery that has endured for years.
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Boardwalk Summer by Meredith Jaeger
Publication date: June 19, 2018
To buy: $15.99, amazon.com
Boardwalk Summer tells two stories—one of an aspiring actress in 1940 and the other of a single mother in 2007 attempting to unravel a story that played out decades earlier.
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Providence by Caroline Kepnes
Publication date: June 19, 2018
To buy: $26.22, amazon.com
If your beach read needs a dose of mystery, check out Providence by Caroline Kepnes, a story that is at turns a romance and a thriller, and which follows the aftereffects of a disappearance and its strange reversal.
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The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand
Publication date: June 19, 2018
To buy: $28, amazon.com
A tragic development throws a wrench into the wedding plans of the Otises and Winburys, two families that have planned a ceremony in Nantucket. The event is soon sidetracked when the local police chief shows up with a few questions for the wedding party.
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All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
Publication date: June 26, 2018
To buy: $28, amazon.com
The much-anticipated new novel from the author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed is set in Nashville, where a photograph divides a community and embroils three people in unexpected controversy.
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All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth
Publication date: July 10, 2018
To buy: $26.99, amazon.com
A disappearance that has haunted a family for a decade resurfaces when 17-year-old Charlie is recruited into a secret society and must participate in a dangerous game.
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Cottage by the Sea by Debbie Macomber
Publication date: July 17, 2018
To buy: $27, amazon.com
In the wake of tragedy, Annie Marlow finds opportunity, love, and friendship in a Pacific Northwest town called Oceanside. Her newfound happiness may prove fleeting, however, when change encroaches.
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The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker
Publication date: July 31, 2018
To buy: $26, amazon.com
Adventure ensues when Hannah, the central character of Miriam Parker’s The Shortest Way Home, receives an unexpected job offer while visiting a California winery and, rather than continuing to chase the life she’d wanted, makes a change.
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Rush by Lisa Patton
Publication date: August 21, 2018
To buy: $26.99, amazon.com
Lisa Patton's latest novel is a story about sisterhood which takes place within the Alpha Delta Beta sorority of Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi.