#summerreads — Public Fediverse posts
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What if the greatest disappointment of your life became the beginning of God's greatest purpose?
https://buff.ly/vxiP2dc
#AWayThroughTheWilderness
#ChristianFiction
#SummerReads
#KindleUnlimited
#AmReading
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What if the greatest disappointment of your life became the beginning of God's greatest purpose?
https://buff.ly/vxiP2dc
#AWayThroughTheWilderness
#ChristianFiction
#SummerReads
#KindleUnlimited
#AmReading
#NewRelease
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I’ve written of other worlds, but several of my books have real locations! Take a journey:
TO WONDER AND STARSHINE - short stories set in many places in our world and on others
ATACAMA - thriller horror set in both Appalachia and the Atacama Desert
DOOMFLOWER— campy horror set in Malibu in Los Angeles
GODFESTATION - atmospheric horror and fantasy set in Appalachia, as well as along the road West (Aug. 11)
My books are destinations!
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I’ve written of other worlds, but several of my books have real locations! Take a journey:
TO WONDER AND STARSHINE - short stories set in many places in our world and on others
ATACAMA - thriller horror set in both Appalachia and the Atacama Desert
DOOMFLOWER— campy horror set in Malibu in Los Angeles
GODFESTATION - atmospheric horror and fantasy set in Appalachia, as well as along the road West (Aug. 11)
My books are destinations!
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Everyone says AI will change us - my stories are about who pays for that change. Less shiny tech; more human fallout. If you need a story to bend your head - this is your jam. https://inkican.com/smashwords-summer-scifi-sale-free-stories/ #scifi #booknerd #booksofinstagram #summerreads
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Everyone says AI will change us - my stories are about who pays for that change. Less shiny tech; more human fallout. If you need a story to bend your head - this is your jam. https://inkican.com/smashwords-summer-scifi-sale-free-stories/ #scifi #booknerd #booksofinstagram #summerreads
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Next on our Summer Kindle list:
A Certain Slant of Light
available on both Kindle and as paperback:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Certain-Slant-Light-Duncan-White-ebook
#books #bookstodon #kindle #kindlereads #summerreads #art #history
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Next on our Summer Kindle list:
A Certain Slant of Light
available on both Kindle and as paperback:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Certain-Slant-Light-Duncan-White-ebook
#books #bookstodon #kindle #kindlereads #summerreads #art #history
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Variation: A Novel
"The memories she’s tried to forget rush in and threaten to take her under"
Sale: $4.99 to $2.49
by Rebecca Yarros
Rating: 4.4/5 (79,054 Reviews)
#romance #books #booksky #fiction #summerreads #secondchance #ballet #coastguard #love #family #drama
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Variation: A Novel
"The memories she’s tried to forget rush in and threaten to take her under"
Sale: $4.99 to $2.49
by Rebecca Yarros
Rating: 4.4/5 (79,054 Reviews)
#romance #books #booksky #fiction #summerreads #secondchance #ballet #coastguard #love #family #drama
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To anyone who might be curious about what I'm hoping to read this summer (I always want to know what everyone else is reading 😝). Do we have any crossover in book tastes?
https://darkshelfofwonders.com/top-10-books-i-want-to-read-this-summer/
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To anyone who might be curious about what I'm hoping to read this summer (I always want to know what everyone else is reading 😝). Do we have any crossover in book tastes?
https://darkshelfofwonders.com/top-10-books-i-want-to-read-this-summer/
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Recognise this one?
Today's Summer Kindle Read - SAND ROSES!
Another one for your R(ecommended) S(ummer) R(eading) List, available on Kindle as well as paperback:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sand-Roses-Hamza-Koudri-ebook/dp/B0CKPSNLW4
#books #bookstodon #kindle #kindlereads #summerreads #dancers #loveandconflict
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Recognise this one?
Today's Summer Kindle Read - SAND ROSES!
Another one for your R(ecommended) S(ummer) R(eading) List, available on Kindle as well as paperback:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sand-Roses-Hamza-Koudri-ebook/dp/B0CKPSNLW4
#books #bookstodon #kindle #kindlereads #summerreads #dancers #loveandconflict
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The Summer Proposal "The first time I met Max Yearwood was on a blind date. Until my real date arrived" Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Vi Keeland Rating: 4.6/5 (14,498 Reviews) #romance #contemporaryfiction #sportsromance #hockey #summerreads #books #booksky #kindle #love #feelgood
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The Summer Proposal "The first time I met Max Yearwood was on a blind date. Until my real date arrived" Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Vi Keeland Rating: 4.6/5 (14,498 Reviews) #romance #contemporaryfiction #sportsromance #hockey #summerreads #books #booksky #kindle #love #feelgood
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Another one for your R(ecommended) S(ummer) R(eading) List, available on Kindle as well as paperback:
https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/paper-sparrows/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paper-Sparrows-Nathalie-Abi-Ezzi-ebook/dp/B084QK9B6T
#books #bookstodon #kindle #kindlereads #summerreads #musician #straydog #loveandconflict
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Another one for your R(ecommended) S(ummer) R(eading) List, available on Kindle as well as paperback:
https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/paper-sparrows/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paper-Sparrows-Nathalie-Abi-Ezzi-ebook/dp/B084QK9B6T
#books #bookstodon #kindle #kindlereads #summerreads #musician #straydog #loveandconflict
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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 -
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 -
The True Love Experiment "Full of big laughs, a few tears, and some seriously steamy scenes" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Christina Lauren Rating: 4.4/5 (14,883 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #booksky #books #romcom #summerreads #fizzy
The True Love Experiment -
The True Love Experiment "Full of big laughs, a few tears, and some seriously steamy scenes" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Christina Lauren Rating: 4.4/5 (14,883 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #booksky #books #romcom #summerreads #fizzy
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The Seaside Sisters: A Novel "Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Pamela M. Kelley Rating: 4.5/5 (4,243 Reviews) #beachread #womensfiction #family #sisters #romance #booksky #books #summerreads
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The Seaside Sisters: A Novel "Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Pamela M. Kelley Rating: 4.5/5 (4,243 Reviews) #beachread #womensfiction #family #sisters #romance #booksky #books #summerreads
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My Rules (Kingston Lane Book) "And we would have drunk a bottle of red wine and ordered dessert, and then by the end of the tiramisu" Sale: $3.99 to $1.99 by T L Swan Rating: 4.4/5 (25,979 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #booksky #friends #love #books #summerreads #fiction
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My Rules (Kingston Lane Book) "And we would have drunk a bottle of red wine and ordered dessert, and then by the end of the tiramisu" Sale: $3.99 to $1.99 by T L Swan Rating: 4.4/5 (25,979 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #booksky #friends #love #books #summerreads #fiction
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The Slow Burn "Between a breakup and a burned-down restaurant, there’s nothing left in New York for Kit Roth" Sale: $4.99 to $2.49 by Ali Rosen Rating: 4.0/5 (1,502 Reviews) #romance #foodfiction #italy #summerreads #books #booksky #chef #smalltown #love #bestseller
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The Slow Burn "Between a breakup and a burned-down restaurant, there’s nothing left in New York for Kit Roth" Sale: $4.99 to $2.49 by Ali Rosen Rating: 4.0/5 (1,502 Reviews) #romance #foodfiction #italy #summerreads #books #booksky #chef #smalltown #love #bestseller
The Slow Burn -
The True Love Experiment "Full of big laughs, a few tears, and some seriously steamy scenes" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Christina Lauren Rating: 4.4/5 (14,882 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #booksky #books #summerreads #romcom #christinalauren #reading #bestseller
The True Love Experiment -
The True Love Experiment "Full of big laughs, a few tears, and some seriously steamy scenes" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Christina Lauren Rating: 4.4/5 (14,882 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #booksky #books #summerreads #romcom #christinalauren #reading #bestseller
The True Love Experiment -
Aftertaste: A Novel "Sometimes the people you love hurt you. Sometimes they mean to" Sale: $28.99 to $1.99 by Daria Lavelle Rating: 4.1/5 (1,171 Reviews) #fiction #ghosts #foodie #grief #romance #booksky #paranormal #books #reading #summerreads
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Aftertaste: A Novel "Sometimes the people you love hurt you. Sometimes they mean to" Sale: $28.99 to $1.99 by Daria Lavelle Rating: 4.1/5 (1,171 Reviews) #fiction #ghosts #foodie #grief #romance #booksky #paranormal #books #reading #summerreads
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Blockbuster book season has arrived: 12 must-read May releases. Summer reading officially kicks off with new work from Douglas Stuart, Kathryn Stockett, Ali Smith, David Sedaris and more. #SummerReads
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The True Love Experiment "Full of big laughs, a few tears, and some seriously steamy scenes" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Christina Lauren Rating: 4.4/5 (14,869 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #books #booksky #bookstagram #womensfiction #summerreads #romcom
The True Love Experiment -
The True Love Experiment "Full of big laughs, a few tears, and some seriously steamy scenes" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Christina Lauren Rating: 4.4/5 (14,869 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #books #booksky #bookstagram #womensfiction #summerreads #romcom
The True Love Experiment -
The Deeper I Fall: A Calamity Falls Small Town Romance: The Renegades "Grumpy Hockey Player. Sunshiny City Girl. Living Under One Roof" Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Erika Kelly Rating: 4.6/5 (1,343 Reviews) #Romance #SmallTown #Hockey #EnemiesToLovers #SummerReads #BookSky
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The Deeper I Fall: A Calamity Falls Small Town Romance: The Renegades "Grumpy Hockey Player. Sunshiny City Girl. Living Under One Roof" Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Erika Kelly Rating: 4.6/5 (1,343 Reviews) #Romance #SmallTown #Hockey #EnemiesToLovers #SummerReads #BookSky
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That dinner was amazing. Like life changing, amazing. Now the sun is setting and you're too stuffed to get up off the sand. Good thing you brought some books with you. Do they allow sleeping on this beach?
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That dinner was amazing. Like life changing, amazing. Now the sun is setting and you're too stuffed to get up off the sand. Good thing you brought some books with you. Do they allow sleeping on this beach?
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A Hundred Summers "Sparkles like the New England summer sun." Sale: $19 to $1.99 by Beatriz Williams Rating: 4.4/5 (7,293 Reviews) #historicalfiction #SummerReads #BeachBook #1930s #romance #Books #BookSky
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A Hundred Summers "Sparkles like the New England summer sun." Sale: $19 to $1.99 by Beatriz Williams Rating: 4.4/5 (7,293 Reviews) #historicalfiction #SummerReads #BeachBook #1930s #romance #Books #BookSky
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The Midnight Feast: An NPR Best Book of the Year "Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin…" Sale: $18.99 to $1.99 by Lucy Foley Rating: 4.0/5 (19,019 Reviews) #Mystery #Thriller #Whodunit #Mystery #Murder #Secrets #SummerReads #Books #LucyFoley #BookSky #NPR
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The Midnight Feast: An NPR Best Book of the Year "Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin…" Sale: $18.99 to $1.99 by Lucy Foley Rating: 4.0/5 (19,019 Reviews) #Mystery #Thriller #Whodunit #Mystery #Murder #Secrets #SummerReads #Books #LucyFoley #BookSky #NPR
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📚 Immergiti nelle grafiche mozzafiato e nelle storie avvincenti dei 5 fumetti J-POP Manga e Edizioni BD del mese di agosto 2025! #MangaMania #SummerReads
🔗 https://www.spaziogames.it/articoli/5-fumetti-j-pop-manga-e-edizioni-bd-da-acquistare-ad-agosto-2025
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🎈L'estate scotta con i 5 fumetti Panini Disney da non perdere ad agosto 2025! Collezionali tutti per un'avventura senza fine! 🚀📚 #DisneyMagic #SummerReads
🔗 https://www.spaziogames.it/articoli/5-fumetti-panini-disney-da-acquistare-ad-agosto-2025
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whether you are pondering applying for one of the above positions or just looking for some good reads, I think you will enjoy these summer reads https://markdingemanse.net/futures/news/summer-reads/
#SummerReads #linguistics #emca #sts #hci #FuturesOfLanguage
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Got some words in. Time to read. #amreading #summerreads #writerslife #craftbeer
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Be a good human. Read good books.