Hudson Booksellers Best Books for Summer 2016

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Diane seems to have the perfect life. She is a wife, a mother, and the owner ofHappy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cozy literary cafe in Paris. But when she

suddenly loses her beloved husband and daughter in a tragic car accident, the worldas she knows it instantly vanishes. Trapped and haunted by her memories, Dianeretreats from friends and family, unable and unwilling to move forward.

$22.99

Weinstein Books @WeinsteinBooks

Agnes Martin-Lugand

Happy People Read and Drink Coffee

@MaryKubica $26.99

MIRA @HarlequinBooks

In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from herapartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found amongher possessions, leaving her friend and roommate Quinn Collins to wonder whereEsther is and whether or not she’s the person Quinn thought she knew.

Mary Kubica

Don’t You Cry

An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestsellingauthor Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace wherethey least expect it.

@elinhilderbrand $28.00

Little, Brown and Company @littlebrown

Elin Hilderbrand

Here’s To Us

Couture royalty meets downtown grit, and heady artists mingle withfreewheeling socialites in A Dangerous Age, a sophisticated, indulgent,and delicious novel of contemporary New York City that readers of allages will devour.

Kelly Killoren Bensimon

A Dangerous Age@kellybensimon $26.00

Gallery Books @GalleryBooks


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Lee Child

In Lee Child’s novel of blistering suspense, he throws Reacher for aloop that will change the man forever, and send him into his mostperilous mission yet.

@LeeChildReacher $16.00Bantam @randomhouse

Never Go Back

W. Bruce Cameron

In this sweeping epic, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling authorof A Dog’s Purpose tells the story of the first dog. Set against the most dramatictime in our species’ history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe’s strugglefor survival and one extraordinary man’s bond with a wolf—a friendship thatchanged mankind forever.

The Dog Master

@JoeOJazzMoon $15.00

Kensington @KensingtonBooks

In a lyrical, captivating debut set against the backdrop of the HarlemRenaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, Joe Okonkwo creates anevocative story of emotional and artistic awakening.

@wbrucecameron $15.99Forge Books @torbooks

Joe Okonkwo

Jazz Moon

When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to besolved. He should know. Hazel’s father is Jack Nash, the host of America’s favor-ite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearingher dad’s tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to BenedictArnold that was hidden in a corpse.

Brad Meltzer & Tod Goldberg

@bradmeltzer $28.00Grand Central Publishing @GrandCentralPub

The House of Secrets


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Rediscover! Books You Might Have Missed

Jonathan Evison

With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that herlate husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a newlease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet’s past.

@JonathanEvison $15.95Algonquin Books @AlgonquinBooks

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

Barbara Delinsky

A riveting novel from a master storyteller, Blueprints reminds us thatsometimes love appears when we least expect it, and when weneed it most.

@BarbaraDelinsky $15.99St. Martin’s Griffin @StMartinsPress

Blueprints

The Clasp

Sloane Crosley

@askanyone $16.00

Picador @PicadorUSA

Heartfelt, suspenseful, and told with Sloane Crosley’s inimitable spark andwit, The Clasp is a story of friends struggling to fit together now that their liveshaven’t gone as planned, and learning how to separate the real from the fake.

Lucy Clarke

Haunting and infused with spectacular detail, the latest novel by Lucy Clarke—whose writing has been hailed as “breathtaking” (Kirkus Reviews) and “excitingand mysterious” (Library Journal )—is a page-turning thriller filled with adventure,exotic locales, and high stakes.

@lucyclarkebooks $15.99Touchstone @TouchstoneBooks

The Blue


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All the Single Ladies

@DorotheaFrank $15.99William Morrow Paperbacks @Morrow_PB

Another fabulous novel from perennial New York Times bestseller Dorothea BentonFrank, filled with her trademark wit, sassy heartwarming characters, and the steamySouthern atmosphere and beauty of her beloved Carolina Lowcountry that fans love.

Dothea Benton Frank

The Nightingale

$27.99

St. Martin’s Press @StMartinsPressWith courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures theepic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the wom-en’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience,by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towardsurvival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakinglybeautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women.

Kristin Hannah

I Take You

$15.00Broadway Books @CrownPublishing

Brilliantly executed, hilarious, and driven by the irrepressible voice of itsunforgettable heroine, this page-turning debut showcases one of the mostengaging commercial voices since Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones.

Eliza Kennedy

Kevin Kwan

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funnynew novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires,and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia’smost eligible bachelor, discovers her birth father.

@kevinkwanbooks $16.00Anchor @VintageAnchor

China Rich Girlfriend


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Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper

@hilaryliftin $15.00Penguin Books @penguinusa

From the loneliness of feeling like a prisoner in one of their many extravagantvacation homes to the time she spent uncovering the extent of her ex-husband’sinvolvement with the Institute, Lizzie’s story is full of unpredictable twists and turnsand is a pageturner that’s generated plenty of buzz.

Hilary Liftin

The Husband’s Secret $16.00

Berkley @BerkleyRomance

Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too,that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential todestroy not only the life you have built together, but the lives of others as well. And thenimagine that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive…

Liane Moriarty

Big Little Lies $16.00Berkley @BerkleyRomanceMadeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting and passionate; sheremembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful womanwho makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion ofperfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakesher for the nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years.These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the sameshocking place.

Liane Moriarty

Peter Nichols

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting and passionate; she rememberseverything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes theworld stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town,single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. She comeswith a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at differentcrossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.

The Rocks

@NicholsRocks $16.00Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks


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Beach Body Summer Scholar

A Spool of Blue Thread

$16.00Ballantine Books @randomhouse

Baltimore, July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those unique families that ra-diate togetherness as their lives unfold in a lovingly worn house that has alwaysbeen their anchor. But like all families, the stories they tell themselves reveal onlypart of the picture…

Anne Tyler

My Sunshine Away

@m_o_walsh $16.00

G.P. Putnam’s Sons @PutnamBooks

An astonishing debut that juxtaposes an idyllic Louisiana childhoodwith the gripping realities of violent crime, unraveling families, andadolescent love.

M. O. Walsh

A Little Life

@alittlelifebook $17.00Anchor @VintageAnchor

The much lauded new novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction, theacclaimed author of The People in the Trees. An epic story of love and friendship intoday’s world, sure to be the literary event of the season in paperback.

Hanya Yanagihara

More Than Rivals

@KenAbrahamBooks $15.99Revell @RevellBooks

The true story of a friendship between two high school basketball players, one blackand one white, that diffused the highly charged racial tensions in a small Southerntown during the late 1960s.

Ken Abraham


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Rinker Buck

The Oregon Trail is a majestic, uniquely American journey of a lifetime. Equal partsarmchair adventure and moving history, “this tale of brotherhood, persistence, anddaring so snares the emotions that it becomes a tear-jerker at its close” (MinneapolisStar Tribune) while also being “a laugh-out-loud masterpiece…and an unremittingdelight” (Willamette Week ).

$16.99Simon & Schuster @simonschuster

The Oregon Trail

Sebastian Junger

The bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm takes readerson an investigation of how we overcome trauma and seek somethingbigger than ourselves.

@sebastianjunger $22.00Twelve @twelvebooks

Tribe

Eric Greitens

In 2012, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn’t seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the toughest of thetough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small log-ging town, he’d been struggling. Without a sense of purpose, plagued by PTSD, andmasking his pain with heavy drinking, he needed help. Zach and Eric started writingand talking nearly every day, as Eric set down his thoughts on what it takes to buildresilience in our lives.

@EricGreitens $15.95Mariner Books @HMHBooks

Resilience

Clint Emerson

A hands-on, practical survival guide from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson—adaptedfor civilians from actual special forces operations—to eluding pursuers, evadingcapture, and surviving any dangerous situation.

@100deadlyskills $18.00Touchstone @TouchstoneBooks

100 Deadly Skills

Beach Body Summer Scholar


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This Is Not My Beautiful Life

@widelawns $16.00Picador @PicadorUSA

If you think it sucks to live with your parents when you’re thirty-six and nine monthspregnant, just wait till the DEA comes knocking (with the IRS in tow). Welcome toVictoria Fedden’s life.

Victoria Fedden

The Billion Dollar Spy

@thedeadhandbook $16.95

Anchor @VintageAnchor

The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dead Hand tells the extraordinaryand riveting story of the spy who cracked open the Soviet military researchestablishment for the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage inthe final years of the Cold War.

Primates of Park Avenue

David E. Hoffman

Wednesday Martin

@WednesdayMartin $16.00Simon & Schuster @simonschuster

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is “amusing,perceptive and…deliciously evil” (The New York Times Book Review ) memoir ofthe most secretive and elite tribe—Manhattan’s Upper East Side mothers.

Truth Can Be Stranger Than Fiction


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Saint Anything

@sarahdessen $10.99Speak @PenguinTeen

Sydney’s handsome, charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always dominated thefamily, demanding and receiving the lion’s share of their parents’ attention. Andwhen Peyton’s involvement in a drunk driving episode sends him to jail, Sydney feelsincreasingly rootless and invisible, worried that her parents are unconcerned aboutthe real victim: the boy Peyton hit and seriously injured. Suitable for ages 12+

Sarah Dessen

Raymie Nightingale

$16.99

Candlewick @Candlewick

Two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo returns to her roots with a moving, mas-terful story of an unforgettable summer friendship. Suitable for ages 10+

Kate DiCamillo

Beware That Girl

@TTotenAuthor $17.99Delacorte Press @DelacortePressFor fans of We Were Liars, The Girl on the Train, and Gone Girl , this powerfulpsychological thriller with multiple mysteries is set against the backdrop of the mega-wealthy elite of New York City. Toten delves into the mesmerizing yet dysfunctionalworld of those who manipulate but seem ever so charming. With its gripping paceand Hitchcockian twists, Beware That Girl will keep readers guessing until the verylast line. Suitable for ages 14+

Teresa Toten

The Last Star

@RickYancey $18.99G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers @PutnamBooks

The final book in this epic series will leave readers awestruck, then bring them straightback to book one, where they’ll comb the text for the clues that master storyteller RickYancey has been planting all along. Suitable for ages 14+

Rick Yancey

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