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21 Enticing Tales to Take Along This Summer

AS WARM WEATHER DESCENDS UPON US, AND SOME of us prepare to venture back outside to enjoy parks and beaches, what better companion is there than a delicious summer read? This season’s titles include a hefty dose of books about books and white collar business tales that read more like thrillers than nonfiction. This list will keep you entertained long after summer ends.

Fiction

Revival Season

By Monica West

MAY | SIMON & SCHUSTER | $26

Every year, the Horton family travels across the South for revival season, where the family patriarch, a prominent Baptist preacher, uses his healing powers. Young Miriam, his daughter, is thrown into crisis by something she witnesses on one of those trips in this intricate story of growing up.

Bewilderness

By Karen Tucker

JUNE | CATAPULT | $26

Two young women working at a pool hall in North Carolina set off on something packs a punch that belies its size.

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