There's nothing like a great book and an iced cold drink on a hot Summer day! This Summer has tons of fab reads for every book lover. Harper Perennial has some fab reads on tap for your Summer reading pleasure. Check out these fab reads!
With My Body
A Novel
By Nikki Gemmell
480 pages, on sale 6/19
Copies available now
With the insane popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey, it would be really tempting to focus on how steamy this book is and how it made me blush on the subway multiple times. I’m even tempted to dog-ear the pages for all of you, just like I did before passing Judy Blume’s Forever to my friends when I was young. But there’s a lot more to this book than that. It’s a story of growing up motherless in rural Australia, of the challenges and excitement of falling in love, of the angst of getting older. More than anything, it’s about how you cannot relive the past—no matter how salacious it was—and how our first loves can ruin us forever.
When We Argued All Night
By Alice Mattison
384 pages, on sale now
This poignant narrative follows the story of friendship as it remains the one constant in a perpetually changing world. By focusing both on the personal stories of Artie Saltzman and Harold Abramovitz, who have been through it all—the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the McCarthy era—and the rich history of this time period, Alice Mattison allows readers to become acclimated with a time gone but not forgotten. As I followed this fast-paced journey of this friendship, I found myself engrossed in the past, aware of the present, and appreciative of the friendships I’ve maintained over the years.
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair:
My Year of Magical Reading
By Nina Sankovitch
256 pages, on sale now
We read for pleasure, for education, for escape, and sometimes, like Nina Sankovitch, we read to make sense of the world and our experiences in it. After the death of her older sister, Sankovitch commits to a mission: she will read one book each day for the next year. In this moving memoir, readers follow her as she grieves, using reading as a therapy that not only helps her make sense of her loss, but also triggers memories of a heartfelt past filled with death, courage, and perseverance. In addition to Sankovitch’s personal story, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair gives us the opportunity to read alongside Nina, to remember our favorite classics and acquaint ourselves with new ones, all the while remembering why it is we love to read in the first place.
The White Devil
By Justin Evans
384 pages, on sale 7/10
Copies available 6/20
Eerie British boarding school? Check. Unsolved murder mystery? Check. Lord Byron as your friendly, or not-so-friendly, neighborhood ghost? Check. With all the essentials in tow, The White Devil is a gothic thriller that will keep you turning the pages. As you follow seventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor’s stay at The Harrow School—an esteemed but haunted British institution—you’ll jump through past and present in attempt to solve a two-hundred-year-old mystery that proves that history is bound to repeat itself. Justin Evans’s sharp writing and intricate plot are a suspenseful summer treat!
How to Be a Woman
By Caitlin Moran
320 pages, on sale 7/17
Copies available 6/27
Women unite! In her witty and discerning commentary on the modern woman, British comedian Caitlin Moran discusses anything and everything from her personal life to life in the office, from strip houses to Lady Gaga. Part memoir, part rant, Moran presents a raw, honest, and emotionally empowering look at what it means to be a feminist today. I related to How to Be a Woman on many levels—I laughed out loud at her recollections and anecdotes (especially from her wedding) and found myself nodding along to her observations on how far we’ve come, how much farther we have to go, and how undeniably important it is for society to maintain and promote female rights.
How'd you like to win one of these fab reads? Better yet, why not all five! That's right, one lucky Three Boys and an Old Lady blog reader will receive all five books in the Summer Giveaway Hop that begins August 1!
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