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Title: Beach Read Author: Emily Henry Pages: 361 Publisher: Berkley/Penguin Canada Genre : Fiction/Romance Release Date: May 19, 2020  Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo   *I received an ARC from the publisher via Netgalley for honest review*  Summary ( Goodreads )  A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summe...

Title: A Million Junes Author: Emily Henry Pages: 350 Genre: YA/Fantasy Publisher: Razorbill/Penguin Canada Release Date: May 16, 2017 Summary (Goodreads) Romeo and Juliet  meets  One Hundred Years of Solitude  in Emily Henry's brilliant follow-up to  The Love That Split the World , about the daughter and son of two long-feuding families who fall in love while trying to uncover the truth about the strange magic and harrowing curse that has plagued their bloodlines for generations.  June O'Donnell—a.k.a. Junior, a.k.a. Jack, a.k.a. Jonathan O'Donnell IV, a.k.a. the first female O'Donnell first-born—has always been haunted by her family's mythic but complicated legacy. As she prepares to begin her final year of high school, June is itching to leave behind her ghosts in Five Fingers, Michigan, and travel the world.  And then, just like it always happens to the O'Donnells, a painful glimmer from her past returns to mess everything up. Ent...

Title: The Love That Split the World Author: Emily Henry  Pages: 336  Publisher: Razorbill Release Date: January 26, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  Natalie Cleary must risk her future and leap blindly into a vast unknown for the chance to build a new world with the boy she loves.  Natalie’s last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start…until she starts seeing the “wrong things.” They’re just momentary glimpses at first—her front door is red instead of its usual green, there’s a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn’t right. That’s when she gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls “Grandmother,” who tells her: “You have three months to save him.” The next night, under the stadium lights of the high school football field, she meets a beautiful boy named Beau, and it’s as if ti...