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Summer Reading 2018: August Prize Books

Summer will be here before you know it! At Bookreporter.com, this means it's time for us to share some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Contests and Feature. We will be hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through August 24th, so you will have to check the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter to win.

Week of August 6, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of August 6th include EMMA IN THE NIGHT, Wendy Walker's second psychological thriller (following ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN), which revolves around the mysterious disappearance of two sisters and the shocking return of one of them three years later; MY OWN WORDS, a collection of writings and speeches from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who discusses such wide-ranging topics as gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution; MORNINGSTAR, a memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from beloved author Ann Hood; and LIGHT IT UP by Nick Petrie, in which a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado's mellowest business --- but war veteran Peter Ash may find there's more to this crime than meets the eye.

Week of August 3, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of August 3rd include THE STARLESS SEA, Erin Morgenstern's long-awaited second novel following THE NIGHT CIRCUS, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world --- a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars and ships that sail upon a starless sea; FIND ME by André Aciman, which revisits the characters of Elio and Oliver decades after their first meeting in 2007’s CALL ME BY YOUR NAME; Elizabeth Berg's THE CONFESSION CLUB, an uplifting novel about friendship, surprising revelations and a second chance at love; LONG RANGE, the 20th installment in C. J. Box's series featuring Joe Pickett, in which the Wyoming game warden must investigate a murder that happens on his turf --- a murder committed from a confoundingly long distance; and THE NANNY, a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets from Gilly Macmillan that explores the lengths people will go to hurt one another.