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When the weather is this beautiful, and you find peaceful moments to enjoy some serenity, sometimes a good read is just what you need. With such happenings and more ahead, our team shares their current or next reads for those looking for new pages to turn!

Lex: Next To Heaven by James Frey

In the affluent and picture-perfect town of New Bethlehem, Connecticut, where everyone lives in multi-million dollar homes with country club memberships, a dark reality lies hidden beneath. The perfect life has proven to be a bit boring, and the search for something dangerous evolves into one night with multiple betrayals that change everything.

Kelsey: Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenberg

With a storyline described as reminiscent of Big Little Lies and White Lotus, it is a book you definitely want to read. An affluent and interconnected friend group escapes to Fire Island for summer fun. Their seemingly perfect lives become anything but through infidelity, backstabbing, and murder, all against a backdrop of social ladder climbing and secret keeping.

Tabihta: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A read that has been praised for its emotional depth, cinematic storytelling, and exemplifies barrier-breaking in a male-dominated field, this historical fiction brings modern-day feminism to NASA’s 1980’s Space Shuttle program. It effortlessly hits all the marks: a secret love, the climb of a career as a woman, and a dangerous in-flight emergency. If you do not know where to start, this is the one!

Megan: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie wants for nothing, that is, until her father’s untimely death, which forces her and her mom into a small home downtown, where Ellie bears the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances; Ellie dreams of a friend to break her isolation. Huma answers this dream of Ellie’s, providing her a friend, childhood memories, and shared aspirations of being “Lion Women”. But their happiness and friendship are disrupted when Ellie’s mother is allowed to return to their old lives. Ellie moves to a popular girls' school in Iran, re-immersing herself in the affluent lifestyle and forgetting about Huma until their paths cross again later in life, disrupting everything.

Katy: The Au Pair by Emma Rous

Stephanie and her twin brother Danny were born mid-summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within hours of their birth, their mother threw herself off a cliff, the Au Pair fled, and the village was in whispers. Now grown, Stephanie mourns the death of her father. As she sifts through his belongings, she finds a photo from her birth day, showing her mother beautifully dressed and smiling, holding only one baby. Stephanie needs answers, and there is only one person who can answer them, if she can be found.

Bailee: The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

Being the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children, life was neither normal nor easy for Ruth on her family's farm in rural Mexico. This memoir is a haunting yet addictive narrative of violence that threatened her community, a show of her family’s unwavering loyalty, and Ruth’s unwavering belief in a better life for herself.