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15 of Our All-Time Favorite Beach Reads
This surfside canon offers an immersion so total, you won't even notice the Channing Tatum–like lifeguard pulling on his cargo pants and calling it a day.
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15 of Our All-Time Favorite Beach Reads

Crossing to Safety

By Wallace Stegner

Publisher: Modern Library
Pages: 335
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"Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake." An incandescent novel about love, marriage, aging and being painfully, exuberantly alive.

— Leigh Haber

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