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Summer Reading 2016

All summer long, we at Bookreporter.com have been sharing some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Feature. While our series of 24-hour contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at our featured titles for some sizzling summer reading ideas.

- Click here to see the winners of our 2016 Summer Reading Contests.

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Mary Kay Andrews, author of The Weekenders

Riley Griggs has a season of good times with friends and family ahead of her on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina, when things take an unexpected turn. While waiting for her husband to arrive on the ferry one Friday afternoon, Riley is confronted by a process server who thrusts papers into her hand. And her husband is nowhere to be found. So she turns to her island friends for help and support, but it turns out that each of them has their own secrets. The clock is ticking as the mystery deepens...in a murderous way. Riley must find a way to investigate the secrets of Belle Island, the husband she might not really know, and the summer that could change everything.

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Week of May 1, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of May 1st include THE WEEKENDERS by Mary Kay Andrews, in which Riley Griggs' anticipated summer of good times with friends and family on Belle Island takes an unexpected turn when her husband fails to arrive on the ferry and is nowhere to be found; HOMEGOING, Yaa Gyasi's award-winning debut novel that follows the parallel paths of two half sisters and their descendants through eight generations --- from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem; THE TWENTY-THREE, the jaw-dropping finale of Linwood Barclay's Promise Falls Trilogy; and BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan, the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.

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