{"id":361247,"date":"2026-08-01T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T06:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/enjoy-new-july-books-at-the-beach-this-summer-book-nation-by-jen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T06:28:12","slug":"enjoy-new-july-books-at-the-beach-this-summer-book-nation-by-jen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=361247","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy New July Books at the Beach this Summer! ~ Book Nation by Jen"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Whether you are looking for a new romance, thriller or fiction book this month, you will find something great to bring to the beach to read! I plan on checking out Summer People<\/a><\/strong> and Single Girls<\/a><\/strong>:.<\/p>\n

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Every Version of You by Natalie Messier<\/a><\/strong> (romance)<\/p>\n

For fans of The Love of My Afterlife and The Seven Year Slip, Reese\u2019s LitUp Fellow Natalie Messier\u2019s debut following a woman who gets a chance to relive her college years\u2014with the opportunity to win back the one that got away\u2014is \u201cfull of surprises and sneakily perceptive\u201d (Yulin Kuang, USA TODAY bestselling author of How to End a Love Story).<\/p>\n

Joey Vasquez\u2019s life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she\u2019s a Los Angeles lawyer on the cusp of making partner, but while she\u2019s a professional success, she\u2019s a personal disaster. Her social life mostly consists of nights spent watching TV with her elderly cat. Life isn\u2019t quite what she dreamed when she was younger, but really, whose life is?<\/p>\n

But a dinner party with the best friend she\u2019s secretly pined after for years and its aftermath changes everything.<\/p>\n

When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself in college again. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain she\u2019s come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her back\u2014so why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?<\/p>\n

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Three Reasons for Revenge by Dervla McTiernan<\/a><\/strong> (thriller)<\/p>\n

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of\u00a0What Happened to Nina?<\/em>\u00a0comes a gripping high-stakes novel of suspense about three seemingly unconnected people, caught in a lethal web of\u00a0deceit and unhealed wounds.<\/p>\n

Someone\u2019s watching. Someone\u2019s waiting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alexis Turner walks into the police station to report an assault. By the end of the day, she is nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

Soon after she disappears, three identical packages arrive at three very different doors: a respected psychologist\u2019s home, a socialite\u2019s mansion, and a struggling single father\u2019s run-down apartment. Inside, each gift is perfectly tailored to its recipient \u2014 and each will tear apart the life of its intended victim.<\/p>\n

Detective Sergeant Judith Lee is smart and experienced, but this is no ordinary case. Someone with intimate knowledge of their targets is orchestrating these attacks. Someone who knows exactly how to hurt each victim where they\u2019re most vulnerable. And she\u2019s convinced that somehow, it connects back to Alexis Turner.<\/p>\n

As she races to uncover the connection between three unrelated people, Judith discovers she\u2019s no longer just investigating the game\u2014she\u2019s being forced to play.<\/p>\n

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In Wonderland by Joyce Maynard<\/a><\/strong> (fiction)<\/p>\n

In one golden summer, Frances trades her working-class world for an elite Maine lakeside estate\u2014where privilege and betrayal play a deadly game in this coming of age drama.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Frances, becoming a mother\u2019s helper at Wonderland feels like stepping into a fairy tale. The marble lions, the wooden boats, the pristine grounds\u2014it\u2019s everything her modest childhood wasn\u2019t. Even better, she gets to spend the summer of 1986 with Forrest Emerson, her father\u2019s charismatic childhood friend who escaped their neighborhood to build this perfect world.<\/p>\n

But beneath Wonderland\u2019s shimmering surface, nothing is quite what it seems. When Forrest\u2019s wife Regina draws Frances into her private world, the teenager finds herself witness to the intimate secrets of adult lives. As the summer heat builds, so do the tensions within Wonderland\u2019s walls. By Labor Day, a death will shatter the crystal-clear waters of Lake Catherine, leaving Frances to question everything she thought she knew about privilege, power, and the price of belonging.<\/p>\n

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The Mash Up by Laura Marie Meyers<\/a><\/strong> ((romance)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all fun and games until someone falls in love.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MANSION \u2022 APARTMENT \u2022 SHACK \u2022 HOUSE<\/p>\n

Ruby Wynne is a staunch rule-follower who lives by the numbers. So when a surprising breakup \u2013 on her thirty-fifth birthday \u2013 ruins all her well-laid plans, Ruby makes an unexpected wish . . . Only to wake up inside a M.A.S.H. game from seventh grade.<\/p>\n

Settled in a Technicolor mansion, driving a tie-dye Jeep, and running a roller-disco restaurant, Ruby is living out her childhood dreams come true\u2014with one exception. According to the game, Ruby\u2019s \u201cother half\u201d is supposed to be Penn Hayes, her brother\u2019s annoying, and annoyingly handsome, best friend. But there\u2019s zero romance between them. Just like in real life, all they share is sarcasm. With no rules to follow and desperate to return to reality, Ruby makes her best guess at an escape plan: win Penn\u2019s heart so the game comes completely true and she can go home.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unthinkable. On Ruby\u2019s list of dos and don\u2019ts, Penn Hayes is a lifelong don\u2019t. But as Ruby navigates the magical world she dreamed up at thirteen, she wonders if, by finally throwing out her rules, she might just find her way home to the life and love she deserves.<\/p>\n

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The Death Row Club<\/a><\/strong> by V.A. Vazquez (thriller)<\/p>\n

SOME THINGS RUN IN THE BLOOD\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

A darkly twisted and wonderfully original debut thriller for fans of Riley Sager and Jessica Knoll \u2013 at an annual weekend getaway for the adult children of serial killers, the participants begin to wonder if somebody\u2019s continuing the family tradition when one of their number turns up dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plenty of people have lousy parents, but Nicola Fischer\u2019s father has just been convicted of murdering five young women, including her best friend. Fired from her job and hounded by reporters, Nicola passes the time by doomscrolling and drunk-dialling Greer Woods, the alluring host of the hit show\u00a0To Catch a Killer<\/em>, who cracked the case and turned Nicola\u2019s life upside down before disappearing along with her so-called \u2018best intentions\u2019.<\/p>\n

When an email from Greer finally shows up in Nicola\u2019s inbox, there\u2019s no apology or explanation, just a cryptic invitation. The\u00a0Death Row Club<\/em>\u00a0is an annual weekend getaway for the adult children of serial killers \u2013 and Nicola is the newest reluctant member. Desperate to escape her small town, she accepts the offer with barely a second thought, forging tentative bonds with her fellow club members, most of whom seem intriguing, and only slightly unhinged.<\/p>\n

But when an uninvited guest shows up at their remote wilderness retreat, everyone is put on high alert, and the next morning paranoia turns to outright fear. Because one of their own is dead, and the rest of them are left with only one question.<\/p>\n

If the apple doesn\u2019t fall too far from the tree, which of them is the bad seed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Summer People<\/a><\/strong> by Salley Blakely (romance)<\/p>\n

One week. No drama. And absolutely no dating each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After graduating college, five friends make a pact. Every summer, they\u2019ll meet for one week at the same beach house on the California coast to relive the golden days of college. There\u2019s just one no dating within the group.<\/p>\n

Simple enough, except Everett and Sutton already broke the rule before summer even began\u2026 and couldn\u2019t seem to stop. What started as a one-time fling turned into an annual habit neither of them could quit, until the night everything fell apart.<\/p>\n

Five years later, Sutton has no interest in seeing Everett ever again. Until one of their friends, newly divorced and looking for an escape, calls everyone back to the beach house. She expects awkward silences and forced smiles, but nothing could prepare her for Everett\u2013still infuriating, still magnetic, and still capable of unraveling her with a single glance.<\/p>\n

As the week stretches on and every re-lived tradition, shared meal and outing bring a flood of sun-soaked memories that feed the spark between her and Everett, Sutton begins to wonder if the promise that broke them apart was worth keeping in the first place\u2026 and if breaking it again will ruin the delicate balance their friend group has finally started to reclaim.<\/p>\n

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Matcha on Monday<\/a><\/strong> by Michiko Aoyama<\/p>\n

Discover the beloved early classic from the million-copy bestselling author of\u00a0WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY<\/em><\/p>\n

Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a charming little matcha caf\u00e9 \u2013 open only on Mondays \u2013 offers a beacon of light and healing to all who pass through its doors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Caf\u00e9 that\u2019s tucked away behind the trees \u2013 except when it\u2019s closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Caf\u00e9 opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and restoration to start the busy week ahead.
On this one day of the week, people from all walks of life frequent this cozy haven and experience the joys of human connection. Among them include:\u00a0<\/p>\n