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Summer Reading 2011

At Bookreporter.com, summer means that it's time for us to share some great book picks with our Summer Reading Contest and Feature. From May 31st through July 27th, we spotlighted a different title from Monday thru Thursday, offering a daily contest. Still in the mood for summer reading? Then check out our nearly three dozen suggestions!

Gregg Hurwitz, author of You're Next

Mike Wingate, abandoned by his father at four and raised in foster care, is finally living the life he always dreamed of --- he's happily married with a precocious 8-year-old daughter, and his construction company is about to finish a "green" housing development that will secure a solid future for them all.

Week of March 26, 2012

Daisy Goodwin's THE AMERICAN HEIRESS tells the story of the beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts'. When she travels abroad with her mother at the turn of the 20th century to seek a titled husband, Cora suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham and married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England.

In Alice LaPlante's TURN OF MIND, a former surgeon suffering from dementia becomes the primary suspect in the murder of her best friend and neighbor.