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Beach Bag Must-Haves: Fresh Releases You’ll Devour This Summer

Pack your beach bag with the latest buzz-worthy reads! These recent releases are tailor-made for lazy afternoons, spontaneous getaways, and golden-hour reading sessions. Whether you're craving drama, romance, mystery, or magic—there's a new favorite waiting just for you.

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  • Swim lessons, helicopter flights, conga lines, drinking contests, hurricanes, and stolen kisses ensue—along with chances to tell the truth, to face old fears, and to be truly brave at last.
    eBook, 2025St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2025
  • #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later.
    eBook, 2025Atria Books, 2025
  • On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident—and the killer’s still on the island—in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick We…
    eBook, 2025Random House Publishing Group, 2025
  • A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune. Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was…
    eBook, 2025Penguin Publishing Group, 2025
  • From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger. This is a story about life— how it ends, and how it starts.
    eBook, 2025Tor Publishing Group, 2025
  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love…
    eBook, 2025Random House Publishing Group, 2025
  • Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley, [2025]
  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer comes a new playful yet deeply emotional contemporary romance.
    Book, 2025New York : Forever, 2025.
  • She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go. From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to…
    Book, 2025New York : The Dial Press, [2025]
  • #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden knocks at your door with a gripping story of revenge, privilege, and secrets turned sour…
    eAudiobook, 2025Dreamscape Media, 2025
  • In 1992 Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident, and every year the family returns to…
    Book, 2025New York : Ballantine Books, [2025]
  • A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can imagine.
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
  • A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—from the beloved author of Rabbit Cake…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ballantine Books, [2025]
  • The first novel in an eerie, darkly creative, and romantic new gothic fantasy duology from Maxym M. Martineau, for readers of Sarah J. Maas and Rachel Gillig.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper Voyager, [2025]
  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City—a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
  • From a rising star author, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion for readers of Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang's The Black Tides of Heaven and…
    Book, 2025London [England] : Titan Books, 2025.
  • One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.
    eBook, 2025Penguin Publishing Group, 2025
  • One Day meets a contemporary Bridgerton in this high-drama, escapist wonder of a love story, Paige Toon’s best yet.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2025]
  • From the USA Today bestselling author of The Dead Girl in 2A and The New Neighbor comes a chilling new thriller that forces the question: are murderers always the bad guys?
    Book, 2025Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2025]
  • A small-town waitress and a big-city Broadway press agent swap homes to escape the messiness of their personal lives, only to find new purpose—and new love.
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley Romance, 2025.