6 Dazzling New Beach Reads (Plus 15 Classics)
Read them by the sea, by the pool, on the porch. Each one is secret
vacation inside your vacation.
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Lay It on My Heart
By Angela Pneuman
288 pages;
Mariner Books
You think your teenage years were rough? Charmaine Peake is 13 when her father is committed to an asylum for believing himself a prophet. Now she must live with her mother in a cramped trailer and somehow retain her sanity and sense of humor. Biting yet optimistic, this first novel will knock you sideways with its Southern charm and quiet humanity.
— Natalie Beach
Published 06/19/2014