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From a transporting historical saga to a tale of small-town betrayal, the authors of our favourite page-turners reveal the books they take on holiday – introduced by Jenny Colgan It is important to… #culture #books #beachreads
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Pack a Beachy Book: Historical Fiction Beach Reads
Pack a bag for the beach with these historical fiction beach reads set in Hawai'i, California, Mexico, Jeju, and the Florida Keys.
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Pack a Beachy Book: Historical Fiction Beach Reads
Pack a bag for the beach with these historical fiction beach reads set in Hawai'i, California, Mexico, Jeju, and the Florida Keys.
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Wall Street Journal’s Summer Thriller Picks Actually Sound Good
Three new thrillers recently recommended by the Wall Street Journal are officially moving onto my summer reading list. Murder, espionage, corruption, and chaos? Honestly, that sounds like a pretty solid beach weekend. -
Wall Street Journal’s Summer Thriller Picks Actually Sound Good
Three new thrillers recently recommended by the Wall Street Journal are officially moving onto my summer reading list. Murder, espionage, corruption, and chaos? Honestly, that sounds like a pretty solid beach weekend. -
The Violet Hour: A Lowcountry Tale "I was born with salt air in my lungs and pluff mud between my toes" Sale: $28.99 to $1.99 by Victoria Benton Frank Rating: 4.3/5 (1,131 Reviews) #lowcountry #southernfiction #beachreads #family #sisters #booksky #books #womensfiction
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The Violet Hour: A Lowcountry Tale "I was born with salt air in my lungs and pluff mud between my toes" Sale: $28.99 to $1.99 by Victoria Benton Frank Rating: 4.3/5 (1,131 Reviews) #lowcountry #southernfiction #beachreads #family #sisters #booksky #books #womensfiction
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Sixth Cabin (Writer's Retreat Southern Seashore Mystery) "Now you see her, Now you don't" Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Kathi Daley Rating: 4.6/5 (989 Reviews) #cozymystery #mystery #thriller #books #booksky #writersretreat #missingperson #smalltown #beachreads
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Sixth Cabin (Writer's Retreat Southern Seashore Mystery) "Now you see her, Now you don't" Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Kathi Daley Rating: 4.6/5 (989 Reviews) #cozymystery #mystery #thriller #books #booksky #writersretreat #missingperson #smalltown #beachreads
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The Island Club by Nicola Harrison
This story is set in 1956 Balboa Island, California. It’s about three women struggling with life issues that they fear will destroy them.
Milly Kincaid has moved to the island with her husband and two children. Milly fears that her husband is cheating. He is an executive on a television show in Hollywood. Milly knows that the leading lady on the show is beautiful and assumes that she is who keeping him from coming home to his family except on weekends. Milly struggles to be the perfect wife, thinking that will save her marriage. She can’t let anyone know because divorce is taboo.
Sylvia Johnson owns The Island Club with her husband. They live in a beautiful house overlooking the water with their teenage daughter. Everyone in the community envies her life. Sylvia’s husband makes a mistake that destroys their happy home.
Adele Lambert had been working at an amusement park until Milly, and her children showed up one day and cause Adele to get fired. Doing the bookkeeping and helping run the rides wasn’t the life she wanted but it was working for now. Adele has a secret that she thinks would make her complicated and unhappy life unbearable if it came out.
The three women become friends. They learn to trust each other. They learn to believe in themselves.
This is a nostalgic look at the 50’s. A time when women went to college to get a husband. They were taught to be the perfect wife and mother. Women had an image that took a lot of work. Everything they did was for someone else. Women forgot how to live their own lives.
This was a great story about women, friendships, and family. A snapshot of the 50’s that probably only existed on television and the movies but women felt they had to be like those make-believe characters.
I loved watching the women grow and the found family aspect of this book. It was interesting to see how the women overcame their hardships and created the lives they were meant to have.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a book with strong female characters and the nostalgia of the 1950’s.
This was the first book I have ever read by this author and I would read more.
First published April 28, 2026
Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for sending this book for review. All opinions are my own.
I include links to purchase. As an associate, I earn from qualified purchases. Thanks to all my readers who have supported me in the past.
Books by Nicola Harrison:
What I am currently reading:
Dark is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce – A NetGalley Book. It is so scary, I have to read it during the day.
Two Bodies are Better than One by Erica Ruth Neubauer – A book from an author I met this week. I do have another from her to read eventually.
Reviews that are coming up:
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt – I just watched the adaptation with Sally Fields and highly recommend it. If you loved the book as much as I did, you need to watch the movie. Alfred Molina is the voice of Marcellus. There I saved you from having to look it up.
If you think The Island Club sounds good, check out these reviews:
https://virginia-gruver.com/2026/03/09/so-old-so-young-by-grant-ginder/
https://virginia-gruver.com/2025/07/11/murder-on-an-italian-island-by-t-a-williams/
Happy reading!
Rate this:
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The Island Club by Nicola Harrison
This story is set in 1956 Balboa Island, California. It’s about three women struggling with life issues that they fear will destroy them.
Milly Kincaid has moved to the island with her husband and two children. Milly fears that her husband is cheating. He is an executive on a television show in Hollywood. Milly knows that the leading lady on the show is beautiful and assumes that she is who keeping him from coming home to his family except on weekends. Milly struggles to be the perfect wife, thinking that will save her marriage. She can’t let anyone know because divorce is taboo.
Sylvia Johnson owns The Island Club with her husband. They live in a beautiful house overlooking the water with their teenage daughter. Everyone in the community envies her life. Sylvia’s husband makes a mistake that destroys their happy home.
Adele Lambert had been working at an amusement park until Milly, and her children showed up one day and cause Adele to get fired. Doing the bookkeeping and helping run the rides wasn’t the life she wanted but it was working for now. Adele has a secret that she thinks would make her complicated and unhappy life unbearable if it came out.
The three women become friends. They learn to trust each other. They learn to believe in themselves.
This is a nostalgic look at the 50’s. A time when women went to college to get a husband. They were taught to be the perfect wife and mother. Women had an image that took a lot of work. Everything they did was for someone else. Women forgot how to live their own lives.
This was a great story about women, friendships, and family. A snapshot of the 50’s that probably only existed on television and the movies but women felt they had to be like those make-believe characters.
I loved watching the women grow and the found family aspect of this book. It was interesting to see how the women overcame their hardships and created the lives they were meant to have.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a book with strong female characters and the nostalgia of the 1950’s.
This was the first book I have ever read by this author and I would read more.
First published April 28, 2026
Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for sending this book for review. All opinions are my own.
I include links to purchase. As an associate, I earn from qualified purchases. Thanks to all my readers who have supported me in the past.
Books by Nicola Harrison:
What I am currently reading:
Dark is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce – A NetGalley Book. It is so scary, I have to read it during the day.
Two Bodies are Better than One by Erica Ruth Neubauer – A book from an author I met this week. I do have another from her to read eventually.
Reviews that are coming up:
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt – I just watched the adaptation with Sally Fields and highly recommend it. If you loved the book as much as I did, you need to watch the movie. Alfred Molina is the voice of Marcellus. There I saved you from having to look it up.
If you think The Island Club sounds good, check out these reviews:
https://virginia-gruver.com/2026/03/09/so-old-so-young-by-grant-ginder/
https://virginia-gruver.com/2025/07/11/murder-on-an-italian-island-by-t-a-williams/
Happy reading!
Rate this:
#1950S #BalboaIsland #BeachReads #BookReview #Books #Fiction #reading #Summer #SummerReads -
A Little Hotel in Cornwall "Struggling American waitress Maisie Clark’s dream of becoming a novelist takes an unexpected turn" Sale: $0.99 to FREE by Laura Briggs Rating: 3.9/5 (1,119 Reviews) #romance #cornwall #travel #beachreads #womensfiction #booksky #books #feelgood #free
A Little Hotel in Cornwall: co... -
A Little Hotel in Cornwall "Struggling American waitress Maisie Clark’s dream of becoming a novelist takes an unexpected turn" Sale: $0.99 to FREE by Laura Briggs Rating: 3.9/5 (1,119 Reviews) #romance #cornwall #travel #beachreads #womensfiction #booksky #books #feelgood #free
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Why Readers Are Gravitating Toward Sun-Drenched Thrillers and Darker Beach Reads
Author H.Y. Hanna explains why readers are gravitating toward sun-drenched thrillers and darker beach reads (and what that means for writers).
The post Why Readers Are Gravitating Toward Sun-Drenched Thrillers and Darker Beach Reads appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/why-readers-are-gravitating-toward-sun-drenched-thrillers-and-darker-beach-reads#Genre #MysteryThriller #WriteBetterFiction #BeachBooks #BeachReads
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Why Readers Are Gravitating Toward Sun-Drenched Thrillers and Darker Beach Reads
Author H.Y. Hanna explains why readers are gravitating toward sun-drenched thrillers and darker beach reads (and what that means for writers).
The post Why Readers Are Gravitating Toward Sun-Drenched Thrillers and Darker Beach Reads appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/why-readers-are-gravitating-toward-sun-drenched-thrillers-and-darker-beach-reads#Genre #MysteryThriller #WriteBetterFiction #BeachBooks #BeachReads
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The Darling Songbirds: The Songbirds of Darling Bay "She’s almost forgotten how to write the songs that made her and her sisters famous" Sale: $14.99 to $4.99 by Rachael Herron 4.4/5 (2,035 Reviews) #smalltown #romance #country #books #booksky #beachreads #sisters #romcom #reading #booklover
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The Darling Songbirds: The Songbirds of Darling Bay "She’s almost forgotten how to write the songs that made her and her sisters famous" Sale: $14.99 to $4.99 by Rachael Herron 4.4/5 (2,035 Reviews) #smalltown #romance #country #books #booksky #beachreads #sisters #romcom #reading #booklover
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The Violet Hour: A Lowcountry Tale "I was born with salt air in my lungs and pluff mud between my toes" Sale: $28.99 to $1.99 by Victoria Benton Frank Rating: 4.3/5 (1,067 Reviews) #southernfiction #lowcountry #beachreads #family #sisters #booksky #books #womensfiction #summerreading
The Violet Hour: A Lowcountry ... -
The Violet Hour: A Lowcountry Tale "I was born with salt air in my lungs and pluff mud between my toes" Sale: $28.99 to $1.99 by Victoria Benton Frank Rating: 4.3/5 (1,067 Reviews) #southernfiction #lowcountry #beachreads #family #sisters #booksky #books #womensfiction #summerreading
The Violet Hour: A Lowcountry ... -
The Seaside House (Marina Cove) "A shattered family. A long-lost love. And devastating secrets that could tear her life apart" Sale: $4.99 to FREE by Sophie Kenna Rating: 4.4/5 (4,899 Reviews) #WomensFiction #Contemporary #BeachReads #Family #Romance #BookSky #Free
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The Seaside House (Marina Cove) "A shattered family. A long-lost love. And devastating secrets that could tear her life apart" Sale: $4.99 to FREE by Sophie Kenna Rating: 4.4/5 (4,899 Reviews) #WomensFiction #Contemporary #BeachReads #Family #Romance #BookSky #Free
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Spring is for Sweet Love
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“It will leave you feeling all kinds of happy.”
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Spring is for Sweet Love
Check out dozens of free sweet #romance stories, with #BeachReads, holidays, historical, each free w/newsletter signup (unsubscribe any time). Try my cat cafe sweet romance series filled with cuddly cats and kittens and the people who love them.
“It will leave you feeling all kinds of happy.”
“I absolutely love this heartfelt series.”
https://storyoriginapp.com/to/IVPMbmS #books -
The Summer Hotel Lovely Bay "She has no clue what is going to happen and she certainly doesn’t think that it’s going to completely and utterly change her life" Sale: $0.99 to FREE by Polly Babbington Rating: 4.6/5 (1,204 Reviews) #Romance #Contemporary #SmallTown #FeelGood #BeachReads #BookSky
The Summer Hotel Lovely Bay: G... -
The Summer Hotel Lovely Bay "She has no clue what is going to happen and she certainly doesn’t think that it’s going to completely and utterly change her life" Sale: $0.99 to FREE by Polly Babbington Rating: 4.6/5 (1,204 Reviews) #Romance #Contemporary #SmallTown #FeelGood #BeachReads #BookSky
The Summer Hotel Lovely Bay: G... -
Beach Cove Home (Beach Cove Series) "Because there is a point when friends turn into sisters, looks disappear, and all you can see anymore is the soul" Sale: $3.99 to FREE by Nellie Brooks Rating: 4.4/5 (2,613 Reviews) #Beach #Friendship #Sagas #Womens #Fiction #CozyReads #BeachReads #BookSky
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Beach Cove Home (Beach Cove Series) "Because there is a point when friends turn into sisters, looks disappear, and all you can see anymore is the soul" Sale: $3.99 to FREE by Nellie Brooks Rating: 4.4/5 (2,613 Reviews) #Beach #Friendship #Sagas #Womens #Fiction #CozyReads #BeachReads #BookSky
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Something about Darling Island... a house swap by the sea "Get ready for the ride, people. This is going to be good" Sale: $2.99 to FREE by Polly Babbington Rating: 4.5/5 (2,354 Reviews) #Romance #Contemporary #Free #SmallTown #Cozy #Bookish #BeachReads #HouseSwap #Escape #BookSky
Something about Darling Island... -
Something about Darling Island... a house swap by the sea "Get ready for the ride, people. This is going to be good" Sale: $2.99 to FREE by Polly Babbington Rating: 4.5/5 (2,354 Reviews) #Romance #Contemporary #Free #SmallTown #Cozy #Bookish #BeachReads #HouseSwap #Escape #BookSky
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The Love List: Sweet Romance & Women's Friendship Fiction (Hilton Head Island) "It's a a love list" Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Elana Johnson Rating: 4.4/5 (2,653 Reviews) #Romance #WomensFiction #Free #Books #BeachReads #Friendship #SecondChance #HiltonHead #BookSky
The Love List: Sweet Romance &... -
The Love List: Sweet Romance & Women's Friendship Fiction (Hilton Head Island) "It's a a love list" Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Elana Johnson Rating: 4.4/5 (2,653 Reviews) #Romance #WomensFiction #Free #Books #BeachReads #Friendship #SecondChance #HiltonHead #BookSky
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Winter Street "An unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of whiskey, and endless rounds of Christmas caroling" Sale: $17.99 to $3.99 by Elin Hilderbrand Rating: 4.2/5 (24,826 Reviews) #Christmas #Family #Drama #Holiday #Books #Fiction #BeachReads #Nantucket #BookSky
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Winter Street "An unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of whiskey, and endless rounds of Christmas caroling" Sale: $17.99 to $3.99 by Elin Hilderbrand Rating: 4.2/5 (24,826 Reviews) #Christmas #Family #Drama #Holiday #Books #Fiction #BeachReads #Nantucket #BookSky
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Summer Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel "Victoria Leonard’s world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend" Sale: $9.99 to $2.99 by Judy Blume Rating: 4.3/5 (12,289 Reviews) #SummerSisters #Contemporary #Fiction #Womens #BookClub #BeachReads #Friendship #BookSky
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Summer Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel "Victoria Leonard’s world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend" Sale: $9.99 to $2.99 by Judy Blume Rating: 4.3/5 (12,289 Reviews) #SummerSisters #Contemporary #Fiction #Womens #BookClub #BeachReads #Friendship #BookSky
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Here & There "Because you’re my girl” Mac’s strong, thick fingers slide into my hair “And my girl gets to have it all" Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Claire Wilder Rating: 4.3/5 (395 Reviews) #Romance #Contemporary #SmallTown #SingleDad #GrumpySunshine #FREE #Books #BeachReads #BookSky
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Here & There "Because you’re my girl” Mac’s strong, thick fingers slide into my hair “And my girl gets to have it all" Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Claire Wilder Rating: 4.3/5 (395 Reviews) #Romance #Contemporary #SmallTown #SingleDad #GrumpySunshine #FREE #Books #BeachReads #BookSky
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Uninhibited (Heartstrings Book 1) "One week at his beach house. No rules All the fun" Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Melody Grace Rating: 4.5/5 (2,399 Reviews) #Romance #Contemporary #BeachReads #Rockstar #Heartstrings #BookSky
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Uninhibited (Heartstrings Book 1) "One week at his beach house. No rules All the fun" Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Melody Grace Rating: 4.5/5 (2,399 Reviews) #Romance #Contemporary #BeachReads #Rockstar #Heartstrings #BookSky
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Secrets in the Surf: Driftwood Key Beach Reads #1 "Sometimes the only way forward is to go back home" Sale: $4.99 to FREE by Clara Palms Rating: 4.6/5 (2,004 Reviews) #WomensFiction #Romance #BeachReads #Family #CleanReads #BookSky
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Secrets in the Surf: Driftwood Key Beach Reads #1 "Sometimes the only way forward is to go back home" Sale: $4.99 to FREE by Clara Palms Rating: 4.6/5 (2,004 Reviews) #WomensFiction #Romance #BeachReads #Family #CleanReads #BookSky
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Every Breath "Falling in love is the easy part; making that love last amid life’s varied challenges is an elusive dream for many" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Nicholas Sparks Rating: 4.6/5 (42,608 Reviews) #Romance #Love #Book #Fiction #Drama #NicholasSparks #BeachReads #Saga #BookSky
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Every Breath "Falling in love is the easy part; making that love last amid life’s varied challenges is an elusive dream for many" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Nicholas Sparks Rating: 4.6/5 (42,608 Reviews) #Romance #Love #Book #Fiction #Drama #NicholasSparks #BeachReads #Saga #BookSky
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Every Breath "Falling in love is the easy part; making that love last amid life’s varied challenges is an elusive dream for many." Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Nicholas Sparks Rating: 4.6/5 (42,497 Reviews) #Romance #Love #Sagas #Fiction #BeachReads #NicholasSparks #BookSky
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A Meditation on Murder "The actual pointless futility of existence somehow made coping with its apparent pointless futility more manageable, he found" Sale: $11.99 to $2.99 by Robert Thorogood Rating: 4.3/5 (5,123 Reviews) #Mystery #Crime #Cozy #TVTieIn #BookClub #BeachReads #Detective #BookSky
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Off Plan (Whispering Key) "The man is the eye of the hurricane upending my life." Sale: $5.99 to FREE by May Archer Rating: 4.5/5 (2,296 Reviews) #Romance #GayRomance #Bisexual #SmallTown #BeachReads #Free #Books #BookSky
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Off Plan (Whispering Key) "The man is the eye of the hurricane upending my life." Sale: $5.99 to FREE by May Archer Rating: 4.5/5 (2,296 Reviews) #Romance #GayRomance #Bisexual #SmallTown #BeachReads #Free #Books #BookSky
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The Island House (Getaway Bay) "It mirrored how she felt inside. Years of neglect & thinking certain things were important only to find out they werent" Sale: $3.99 to FREE by Elana Johnson Rating: 4.3/5 (9,583 Reviews) #Romance #BeachReads #Inspirational #Books #Hawaii #SecondChances #BookSky
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The Island House (Getaway Bay) "It mirrored how she felt inside. Years of neglect & thinking certain things were important only to find out they werent" Sale: $3.99 to FREE by Elana Johnson Rating: 4.3/5 (9,583 Reviews) #Romance #BeachReads #Inspirational #Books #Hawaii #SecondChances #BookSky
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The Love List: Sweet Romance & Women's Friendship Fiction (Hilton Head Island Book 1) "It's not exactly a bucket list. It's a love list." Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Elana Johnson Rating: 4.4/5 (2,584 Reviews) #Romance #WomensFiction #Friendship #BeachReads #SecondChance #HiltonHead #Books #BookSky
The Love List: Sweet Romance &... -
The Love List: Sweet Romance & Women's Friendship Fiction (Hilton Head Island Book 1) "It's not exactly a bucket list. It's a love list." Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Elana Johnson Rating: 4.4/5 (2,584 Reviews) #Romance #WomensFiction #Friendship #BeachReads #SecondChance #HiltonHead #Books #BookSky
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Romantic Beach Reads that Are Actually Set at the Beach
Not all beach reads take place at the beach, but thee do! These romantic beach reads set at the beach are perfect for end of summer.
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Romantic Beach Reads that Are Actually Set at the Beach
Not all beach reads take place at the beach, but thee do! These romantic beach reads set at the beach are perfect for end of summer.
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A SOUTHERN FAMILY SAGA mixes vivid evocations of place, intense relationships, and a powerful protagonist—a strong-willed woman born with the 20th century—and a broader, more nuanced view of history, race, class, and gender than most. B PLUS
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #historicalfiction #SouthCarolina #bookstodon #beachreads
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The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich by Evan Osnos
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Beach Reading To Defeat The Patriarchy
In a pointed response to the sexist assumption that "books by women, about women, are more likely to be considered 'light reading,'" joannemerriam has assembled a great list of "small press books by women, about women, including Become Ungovernable, Feminism against Cisness, On Strike Against God, and 25 more."
https://www.metafilter.com/204443/Beach-Reading-to-Defeat-the-Patriarchy
#BeachReads #books #feminism #reading #ReadingList #sexism #women #WomenAuthors