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For those Kindle readers who, like me, read for entertainment, scanning the book reviews in People magazine is good way to check out new people-related books - celebrity bios, popular novels, absorbing nonfiction - just hitting bookstore shelves. Featured in the June 20th issue of People is a selection of recommended summer beach reads - recently-published novels and thrillers - available in Kindle editions. So instead of lugging a heavy suitcase full of books on your vacation, just tuck your Kindle into your luggage and take off for summer adventures!

The First Husband, by Laura Dave. Viking, 2011. Print Length: 256 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.39. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Annie Adams is days away from her thirty-second birthday and thinks she has finally found some happiness. She visits the world's most interesting places for her syndicated travel column and she's happily cohabiting with her movie director boyfriend Nick in Los Angeles. But when Nick comes home from a meeting with his therapist (aka 'futures counselor') and announces that he's taking a break from their relationship so he can pursue a woman from his past, the place Annie had come to call home is shattered. Reeling, Annie stumbles into her neighborhood bar and finds Griffin - a grounded, charming chef who seems to be everything Annie didn't know she was looking for..." - Penguin.com.

Long Gone, by Alafair Burke. Harper Collins, 2011. Print Length: 368 p. THRILLER. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (24 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $13.74. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"After a layoff and months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattan’s trendy Meatpacking District. According to Drew Campbell, the well-suited corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy, and eccentric owner. Drew assures Alice that the owner will be hands off, allowing her to run the gallery on her own. Her friends think it sounds too good to be true, but Alice sees a perfect opportunity to make a name for herself beyond the shadow of her famous father, an award-winning and controversial film maker. Everything is perfect until the morning Alice arrives at work to find the gallery gone - the space stripped bare as if it had never existed - and Drew Campbell’s dead body on the floor..." - Amazon.

Marriage Confidential: Love in the Post-Romantic Age, by Pamela Haag. Harper Collins, 2011. Print Length: 352 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.76. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Meticulously researched and injected with insightful firsthand accounts and welcome doses of humor, Marriage Confidential articulates for a generation that grew up believing they would 'have it all' why they have ended up disenchanted. Haag introduces us to contemporary marriages where spouses act more like life partners than lovers; children occupy an uncontested position at the center of the marital relationship; and even the romantic staples of sexual fidelity and passion are assailed from all sides - so much so that spouses can end up having affairs online almost by accident. Blending tales from the front lines of matrimony with cultural history, surveys, and research covert-ops (such as joining an online affair-finding site and posting a personal ad in the New York Review of Books), Haag paints a detailed picture of the state of marriage today. And to show what's possible as well as what's melancholy in our post-romantic age, Haag seeks out marriages with a twist - rebels who are quietly brainstorming and evolving the scripts around career, money, social life, child rearing, and sex." - Amazon.

The Hypnotist, by Lars Kepler. Translated by Ann Long. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Print Length: 512 p. THRILLER. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.86. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness - the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna sees only one option: hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes. It’s the sort of work that Bark has sworn he would never do again..." - Amazon.

Escape, by Barbara Delinsky. Doubleday, 2011. Print Length: 368 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.78. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
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"Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but she spends her days in a cubicle talking on the phone with vic­tims of tainted bottled water - and she is on the bottler’s side. And it isn’t only work. It’s her sister, her friends, even her husband, Tim, with whom she doesn’t connect the way she used to. She doesn’t connect to much in her life, period, with the exception of three things - her computer, her BlackBerry, and her watch. Acting on impulse, Emily leaves work early one day, goes home, packs her bag, and takes off..." - from the hardcover edition.

The Ghost of Greenwich Village, by Lorna Graham. Ballantine Books, 2011. Print Length: 352 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $9.04. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"For Eve Weldon, moving to Greenwich Village is a dream come true. She’s following in the bohemian footsteps of her mother, who lived there during the early sixties among a lively community of Beat artists and writers. But when Eve arrives, the only scribe she meets is a grumpy ghost named Donald, and the only writing she manages to do is for chirpy segments on a morning news program, Smell the Coffee. The hyper-competitive network environment is a far cry from the genial camaraderie of her mother’s literary scene, and Eve begins to wonder if the world she sought has faded from existence. But as she struggles to balance her new job, demands from Donald to help him complete his life’s work, a budding friendship with a legendary fashion designer, and a search for clues to her mother’s past, Eve begins to realize that community comes in many forms..." - from the paperback edition.

What Alice Forgot, by Liane Moriarty. Putnam, 2011. Print Length: 432 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (20 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $14.67. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first child. So imagine her surprise when, after a fall, she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! she HATES the gym!) and discovers that she's actually thirty-nine, has three children, and is in the midst of an acrimonious divorce. A knock on the head has misplaced ten years of her life, and Alice isn't sure she likes who she's become. It turns out, though, that forgetting might be the most memorable thing that has ever happened to Alice..." - Amazon.

The Astral, by Kate Christensen. Doubleday, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.76. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Like the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn of its setting, Christensen's unremittingly wonderful latest...is populated by an odd but captivating mix of characters. At the center is Harry Quirk, a middle-aged poet whose comfortable life is upended one winter day when his wife, Luz, convinced he's having an affair, destroys his notebooks, throws his laptop from the window, and kicks him out. Things, Harry has to admit, are not going well: their idealistic Dumpster-diving daughter, Karina, is lonely and lovelorn, and their son, Hector, is in the grip of a messianic cult. Taking in a much-changed Greenpoint, Brooklyn, while working at a lumberyard and hoping to recover his poetic spark, Harry must come to terms with the demands of starting anew at 57..." - Publishers Weekly.

Summer Rental, by Mary Kay Andrews. St Martin's Press, 2011. Print Length: 416 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (39 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.97. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Julia - whose caustic wit covers up her wounds - has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world...though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what they each of them needs." - Amazon.
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