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THE COUNSELORS BY JESSICA GOODMAN

8/27/2022

Jessica Goodman writes amazing young adult mysteries! This is no different. If you're looking for a summer themed mystery then grab a copy of this one!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 31, 2022
Genre: Young Adult Mystery.
Series: None.
Pages: 352 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: Purchased.

From New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman comes a twisty new thriller about three best friends, one elite summer camp, and the dark secrets that lead to a body in the lake.

Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe.

She’s always had a special connection to the place, even before she was old enough to attend. The camp is the lifeline of Roxwood, the small town she lives in. Alpine Lake provides jobs, money and prestige to the region. Few Roxwood locals, though, get to reap the rewards of living so close to the glam summer that camp, with its five-figure tuition and rich kids who have been dumped there for eight weeks by their powerful parents. Goldie's one of them.

Even with her "townie" background, Goldie has never felt more at home at camp and now she’s back as a counselor, desperate for summer to start and her best friends, Ava and Imogen, to arrive.

BOOK LOVERS BY EMILY HENRY

8/13/2022

Book Lovers is a well written romcom and the start to my Emily Henry obsession! I devoured this one and am anxiously awaiting the minute I can start another one from her.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 3, 2022
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: None.
Pages: 398 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...

Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many

THE NANTUCKET INN BY PAMELA KELLEY

8/9/2022

The Nantucket Inn is book one Pamela Kelley's beloved Beach Plum Cove series and I'm so glad I took a chance and read it. I can tell this series is going to be a favorite.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Genre: Women's Fiction
Series: Beach Plum Cove series #1
Pages: 389 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Lisa Hodges needs to make a decision fast. Thanks to her dead husband’s gambling addiction, their savings is almost gone. In her early fifties with a large, waterfront home on Nantucket to support, Lisa hasn’t worked in over thirty years, has no in-demand skills and is virtually unemployable.

Her only options are to sell the house and move off-island, or, she could use her cooking and entertaining skills and turn her home into a bed and breakfast. She desperately needs it to succeed because she has four grown children with problems of their own and wants to stay close to them.

Her oldest daughter, Kate, has a fabulous career in Boston--working as a writer for a popular fashion magazine and engaged to a dangerously handsome, photographer, who none of them have met.

MY KILLER VACATION BY TESSA BAILEY

7/6/2022

I wanted to love My Killer Vacation but I just couldn't get into it. Everything was too quick and it felt a little forced for me.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: June 6, 2022
Genre: Romcom and Mystery
Series: None
Pages: 296 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

An all-new, spicy murder mystery from Tessa Bailey, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer...

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod—just me and my beloved brother—but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true crime podcast listening. Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.

A brash bounty hunter and an energetic elementary schoolteacher: the murder-solving team no one asked for, but thanks to these pesky attempts on my life, we’re stuck together, come hell or high tide.

IT TAKES TWO TO MANGO BY CARRIE DOYLE

6/30/2022

It Takes Two to Mango is book one in the Trouble in Paradise cozy mystery series. While it was a rough start for me I ended up really enjoying this tropical mystery.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: Trouble in Paradise #1
Pages: 290 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

It's all fun in the sun until there's a murder in paradise

After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decides she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps—what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island.

However, paradise isn't as perfect as it seems: the slow pace of island life, the language barrier, and a cutthroat office rival make Plum question leaving her old life behind. But when a client is found dead in the jacuzzi of Casa Mango—a property Plum manages—she knows she's really in a jam. With a killer loose on the island Plum will have to deal with a stonewalling police chief, a string of baffling clues, and a handsome Director of Security to solve this deadly case!

MARY JANE BY JESSICA ANYA BLAU

5/18/2022

Simply put, this is the perfect beach read. From the minute I started reading to the moment I finished I felt like the sun was shining on my shoulders.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 11, 2021
Genre: Historical Fiction (70s). Coming of Age.
Series: None.
Pages: 335 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this "delightful" (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for—who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.

In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house.

The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and

THE HOMEWRECKERS BY MARY KAY ANDREWS

5/14/2022

I've been a longtime fan of Mary Kay Andrews and haven't been disappointed with her books ever! She writes amazing beach reads and they always have their own little twists!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: May 3, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction. Mystery.
Series: None.
Pages: 442 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher.

Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love.

Hattie Kavanaugh went to work restoring homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen, married the boss’s son at twenty, and became a widow at twenty-five. Now, she’s passionate about her work, but that’s the only passion in her life. “Never love something that can’t love you back,” is advice her father-in-law gives her, but Hattie doesn’t follow it and falls head-over-heels for a money pit of a house. She’s determined to make it work, but disaster after disaster occurs, and Hattie’s dream might cost Kavanaugh & Son their livelihood. Hattie needs money, and fast.

When a slick Hollywood producer shows up in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, she gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers, cast against a male lead who may be a love

THE SUMMER PLACE BY JENNIFER WEINER

5/10/2022

Jennifer Weiner brings her characters to life in this moving portrait about families and the secrets they keep.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 10, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction. Family Drama.
Series: None.
Pages: 406 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Publisher.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind.

When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market.

But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling

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