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<\/a>Bad Summer People<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Emma Rosenblum<\/p>\nNone of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder?<\/em><\/p>\n Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match, whether he\u2019s the tennis pro\u2014or someone else\u2019s husband. But even with plenty to gossip about, this season starts out as quietly as any other.<\/em><\/p>\n Until a body is discovered, face down, off the side of the boardwalk.<\/em><\/p>\n Stylish, subversive, and darkly comedic, this is a story of what’s lurking under the surface of picture-perfect lives in a place where everyone has something to hide.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n Beach Rules:<\/em> Sam\u2019s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fianc\u00e9, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family\u2019s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there\u2019s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right?<\/em><\/p>\n Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt\u2019s guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed\u2014Sam\u2019s memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt\u2019s skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n Heather Willette has a good life in Concord, Massachusetts. But when her marriage has fizzles out, Heather has to decide what sort of life to live next. Ready to seek out her own happiness and discover herself again, Heather decides to leave her husband and rent a cottage on Nantucket. And her plan is going perfectly\u2014until her son, Ross, announces he\u2019s moving to Nantucket to work at his girlfriend\u2019s family\u2019s construction business instead of going back home to work with his own father, like he\u2019d promised. Worst of all for Heather, this means having to get along with her.<\/em><\/p>\n Kailee Essex is thrilled that Ross is willing to move to her hometown. She has big hopes for their happily ever after, especially now that her parents are finally showing interest in her career. She\u2019s less thrilled, however, about his mother living nearby. Kailee has clashed with Heather since the day they met. But anything is possible in the summer sun and sea breezes of Nantucket\u2014even reconciliation. And when change comes sooner than either Heather or Kailee expect, they must learn to overcome their differences to fight for the future they want.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother\u2019s play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships.<\/em><\/p>\n Sam, Amy\u2019s daughter, was a Disney child star who continued her pursuit for fame in a Manhattan TikTok house. Now she\u2019s returned home unexpectedly. Her sudden arrival is shrouded in secrets, and Sam refuses to open up to her mother, deciding instead to join her uncle on Block Island for the summer.<\/em><\/p>\n Timothy, a successful and well-loved actor, is directing a summer production at a storied Block Island theater\u2014and his famous ex-wife has the lead role.<\/em><\/p>\n As they work together to ensure the production is a success, Amy, Sam, and Timothy are forced to grapple with their desires for recognition and fortune, stand up for what they believe art and fame actually mean, and discover what they really want out of life.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha\u2019s Vineyard at her family\u2019s tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she\u2019s tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library in a robotics competition, and there\u2019s no place Sam, who has dyslexia, likes less than the library. And because the universe hates her, the library\u2019s interim director turns out to be the hot-reader guy whose book she accidentally destroyed on the ferry ride to the island.<\/em><\/p>\n Bennett Reynolds is on a quest to find his father, whose identity he\u2019s never known. He\u2019s taken the temporary job on the island to research the summer his mother spent there when she got pregnant with him. Ben tells himself he isn\u2019t interested in a relationship right now. Yet as soon as Sam knocks his book into the ocean, he can\u2019t stop thinking about her.<\/em><\/p>\n An irresistible attraction blossoms when Ben inspires Sam to create the cookbook she\u2019s always dreamed about and she jumps all in on helping him find his father, and soon they realize their summer fling may heat up into a happily ever after.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n Hannah and Libby need a miracle. The PR agency they inherited from their grandmother is losing clients left and right, and the sisters are devastated at the thought of closing. The situation seems hopeless\u2014until in walks Lou, an eccentric self-help guru who is looking for a new PR agency. Her business could solve all their problems\u2014but there\u2019s a catch. Whoever works with Lou must complete a twelve-week challenge as part of her \u201cCrush Your Comfort Zone\u201d program.<\/em><\/p>\n Hannah, whose worst nightmare is making small talk with strangers, is challenged to go on twelve first dates. Libby, who once claimed to have period cramps for four weeks straight to get out of gym class, is challenged to compete in an obstacle course race. The challenges begin with Hannah helping Libby train and Libby managing the dating app on her sister\u2019s behalf. They\u2019re both making good progress\u2014until Hannah\u2019s first love rolls into town, and Libby accidentally falls for a guy she\u2019s supposed to be setting up with her sister.<\/em><\/p>\n Things get even more complicated when secrets come to light, making the sisters question the one relationship they\u2019ve always counted on: each other. With their company\u2019s future on the line, they can\u2019t afford to fail. But in trying to make a comeback to honor their grandmother, are they pushing themselves down the wrong path?<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n Garland Moore used to believe in magic, the power of optimism, and signs from the universe. Then her husband surprised her with divorce papers over Valentine\u2019s Day dinner. Now Garland isn\u2019t sure what to believe anymore, except that she\u2019s clearly never meant to love again. When new friends invite her to spend a week at their reopened sleepaway camp, she and her sister decide it\u2019s an opportunity to enjoy the kind of summer getaway they never had as kids. If Garland still believed in signs, this would sure seem like one. Summer camp is a chance to let go of her past and start fresh.<\/em><\/p>\n Nestled into the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, Camp Carl Cove provides the exact escape Garland always dreamed of, until she runs into Mason\u2014the man she had a premonition about after one brief meeting years ago. No matter how she tries to run, the universe appears determined to bring love back into Garland\u2019s life. She even ends up rooming with Mason\u2019s sister Stevie, a vibrant former park ranger who is as charming as she is competitive. The more time Garland spends with Stevie, the more the signs confuse her. The stars are aligning in a way Garland never could have predicted.<\/em><\/p>\n Amid camp tournaments and moonlit dances, Garland continues to be pulled toward the beautiful blonde outdoorswoman who makes her laugh and swoon. Summer camp doesn\u2019t last forever, but if Garland can learn to trust her heart, the love she finds there just might.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n In New York City winter never seems to loosen its hold and for South Carolina transplant Maggie (born Magnolia after the fairest summer flower) the balmy beach weather of April back home on Sullivan\u2019s Island feels like a distant memory. Until a phone call from her sister, Violet, changes everything.<\/em><\/p>\n Gran, the treasured matriarch, has fallen into a coma after a car accident caused by Maggie\u2019s troubled mother, Lily. But once Maggie returns, she finds that her hometown of Sullivan\u2019s Island holds even more secrets. The Magic Lantern, the restaurant owned and run by generations of women in her family, is now rudderless, and her sister seems headed for a savage breakup.<\/em><\/p>\n Once she is between the marsh grasses and dunes of South Carolina, she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind, and a new and different version of herself\u2014one who can see how a minor crash into the back of a very handsome farmer\u2019s truck may become fortunate. Or perhaps it\u2019s even\u2026 fate?<\/em><\/p>\n When the three generations of South Carolina women join forces\u2014the family pillar Gran, troubled Lily, impulsive Violet, and redoubtable Maggie\u2014anything is possible.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she\u2019s now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her.<\/em><\/p>\n Rachel and Alistair\u2019s summer love affair on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island has consumed her since she was seventeen, obliterating everything in its wake. But as Rachel becomes increasingly obsessed with reliving the events of so long ago, she reconnects with the other girls who were similarly drawn to life on the island, where the nights were long, the alcohol was free-flowing and everyone acted in ways they never would at home. And as she does so, dark and deeply suppressed secrets about her first love affair begin to rise to the surface, as well as the truth about her time working for an enigmatic and wealthy man, who controlled so much more than she could have ever realized.<\/em><\/p>\n Joining a post #MeToo discourse, The Girls of Summer grapples with themes of power, sex, and consent, as it explores the complicated nature of memory and trauma\u2013\u2013and what it takes to reframe, and reclaim, your own story.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly\u2019s year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island\u2019s settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated mother, Olive traveled the world, married fascinating men, and involved herself in political causes. She\u2019s also the beloved aunt of the two surviving Peabody sons, Amory and Shep, with whom Emilia has a tangled romantic history.<\/em><\/p>\n As the summer wears on, Emilia develops a deep rapport with Olive, who urges her to leave the island for a life of adventure, while romance blossoms with the sturdy and honorable Shep. But the heady promise of Peabody patronage is blown apart by the arrival of Sumner Fox, an FBI agent who demands Emilia\u2019s help to capture a Soviet agent who\u2019s transmitting vital intelligence on the West\u2019s atomic weapon program from somewhere inside the Summerly estate.<\/em><\/p>\n April 1954. Eight years later, Summerly is boarded up and Emilia has rebuilt her shattered life as a professor at Wellesley College, when shocking news arrives from Washington\u2014the traitor she helped convict is about to be swapped for an American spy imprisoned in the Soviet Union, but with a mysterious condition only Emilia can fulfill. A reluctant Emilia is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she\u2019s forced to confront the harrowing consequences of her actions that fateful summer, and a choice that could destroy the Peabody family\u2014and Emilia\u2019s chance for redemption\u2014all over again.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________<\/p>\n Have you read any of these titles? Do you have any favorite summer reads that you don’t see listed? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/same-time-next-summer.jpg?resize=200%2C309&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Same Time Next Summer<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Annabel Monaghan<\/p>\n
\nDo take long walks on the sand.<\/em>
\nDo put an umbrella in every cocktail.<\/em>
\nDo NOT run into your first love.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/all-the-days-of-summer.jpg?resize=200%2C304&ssl=1\")
<\/a>All the Days of Summer<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by Nancy Thayer<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/summer-stage.jpg?resize=200%2C303&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Summer Stage<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Meg Mitchell Moore<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/summer-reading.jpg?resize=200%2C309&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Summer Reading<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Jenn McKinlay<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/the-comeback-summer.jpg?resize=200%2C309&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Comeback Summer<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Ali Brady<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/that-summer-feeling.jpg?resize=200%2C309&ssl=1\")
<\/a>That Summer Feeling<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Bridget Morrissey<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/my-magnolia-summer.jpg?resize=200%2C301&ssl=1\")
<\/a>My Magnolia Summer<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Victoria Benton Frank<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/the-girls-of-summer.jpg?resize=200%2C307&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Girls of Summer<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Katie Bishop<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/the-beach-at-summerly.jpg?resize=200%2C301&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Beach at Summerly<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Beatriz Williams<\/p>\n