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LIVING IN FAIRFIELD & WESTCHESTER COUNTIES Serendipity 2ND ANNUAL LOCALLY SUMMER MADE FUN AWARDS! WITH NCIS STAR EMILY WICKERSHAM 75 THINGS TO READ, HIDDEN WEAR & DRINK TRAVEL AT THE GEMS BEACH! AUGUST 2015 Display Until 8/25/2015 Plus EASY DESSERT RECIPES serendipitysocial.com hottest SUMMER BEACH READSSummer is finally here! Whether you find yourself in East Hampton, Tuscany, Nantucket or even in the quiet of your own backyard, there will always be the need for an entertaining, absorbing book. From murder to memoirs, this is your ultimate summer reading list. Plus: Local authors’ favorite picks. BY HOL L Y PARMELEE EKSEI POTOV/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM L A BEACH: JULY/AUGUST 2015 136 SERENDIPITYSOCIAL.COM 137 Circling the Sun: by Pataki’s rich, A Novel historical novel about Sisi the Historical BY PAULA MCLAIN Austro-Hungarian $28 empress and P aula McLain, enchanting wife of FICTION author of the Emperor Franz phenomenal Joseph, a member bestseller The Paris of one of history’s Wife, returns with most intriguing a riveting historical royal families. novel of colonial Africa in the 1920s B EATRIZ based on the life of The Fateful aviator Beryl Lightning: A WILLIAMS Markham. Filled Novel of the with safari trips, Villa America by Liza Civil War royal flirtations, Klaussmann ($26) affairs, love BY JEFF SHAARA plunges us into the lives of Sara triangles and $28 scandal inspired by The long-awaited and Gerald Murphy, who hosted Markham’s final installment in rebellious life, it’s the Civil War series all the greats of the Jazz Age in impossible to that tells the their villa in the south of France. put it down. dramatic story of the last bloody It’s an enthralling read from the The Accidental eight months of first page—an absolute the battle from Empress: the perspectives must for anyone who A Novel of commanders loves Hemingway BY ALLISON PATAKI to foot soldiers. $27 Meticulously and Fitzgerald and I f you like reading researched and all the rest of the about 19th century beautifully royal life, forbidden written, this Lost Generation. love and political concluding —author of Tiny Little Thing intrigue then this volume will not ($27) book is for you. You disappoint. will be captivated Memorable MEMOIRS Murder & MA YHEM My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang and Bradstreet Gate: A Novel Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel Seduction in the Great City on the Seine BY ROBIN KIRMAN • $26 BY JESSICA KNOLL • $25 BY KATE BETTS • $27 Just before graduation, a scandalous mur- After a traumatic event in high school, Ani Former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Kate Betts shares memories about living and der on a privileged college campus occurs, FaNelli has worked hard to create what M IKA working in Paris as a writer covering the fashion beat after graduating college. Filled with and a charismatic as well as seductive pro- she thinks is a perfect life for herself—a fun, dishy stories of the fashion world and hanging with Parisians, this charming memoir fessor is suspected of the much-talked- glamorous career, sophisticated friends BRZEZINSKI is also an ode to a youthful time when Betts was starting to figure out who she was and about crime. Is he guilty or innocent? and a gorgeous fiancé. But will she be able I ’m reading Madam what she really wanted from life. Youthful friendships and loyalties are to escape her long-buried secrets? (The President: A Novel tested as three close friends connected movie rights have already been bought by by Nicolle Wallace. It’s Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget with the professor look back on the murder Reese Witherspoon.) BY SARAH HEPOLA • $26 10 years later. Scandal meets 24. Nicolle’s A brutally honest, brave and surprisingly funny memoir about a woman coming to terms The Pocket Wife: A Novel experience in the media and with her alcoholism and the new, sober life she never wanted. Along with her riveting per- The Ice Twins: A Novel BY SUSAN CRAWFORD • $26 inside the White House sonal story, Hepola examines the physiological effects of drinking, and why some people BY S.K. TREMAYNE • $26 Dana Catrell, a woman struggling with combined with her are prone to alcohol-induced blackouts. A remote Scottish island is the setting for bipolar disorder, cannot remember if she knowledge of this gothic thriller about the death of an murdered her friend while in a blackout Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs OS O identical twin girl and the effect it has on state. As Dana’s mind teeters on the edge, history makes for R BY SALLY MANN • $32 her shattered family as they realize they someone seems bent on making her feel some truly fantastic A revealing family portrait in words and pictures from renowned photographer Sally are not positive which twin died and which even crazier and possibly guilty. This pys- ARILYN ARILYN plot lines.” Mann. Probably best known for her controversial naked photographs of her children, this M one lived. Filled with secrets and lies, this chological thriller and complex mystery A —Co-host of Morning Joe luminous memoir confronts Mann’s life and career before and after those infamous pho- P haunting psychological tale will keep you will keep you guessing about what is real and author of Grow Your tographs were taken, providing a fascinating insight into an artist’s life. MIKA: MILLER JAMES TRICK WILLIAMS: in suspense until the shocking conclusion. and what is not until the final page. Value ($26) 138 SERENDIPITYSOCIAL.COM 139 Literary FICTION The Marriage of Opposites: A Novel BY ALICE HOFFMAN • $28 Alice Hoffman, the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things, returns with a lyrical, magical tale of forbidden love set in St. Thomas in the 1800s. The novel reimagines the life of Rachel, the fascinating and complicated woman who gave birth to the painter Camille Pissarro—the father of Impressionism. The Bookseller: A Novel BY CYNTHIA SWANSON • $26 Reminiscent of the movie Sliding Doors in terms of life paths that could have been taken, The Bookseller explores the question: “If we could rewrite our own history, would we?” Kitty’s recent dreams take her into an alternate life with slight but cru- cial changes to the one she is living. In one world she is happily married with a family. In the other she is a single woman with a career. This compelling and original novel does not reveal which life is the reality and which is the dream until the final pages. A God in Ruins: A Novel BY KATE ATKINSON • $28 A sequel of sorts to Kate Atkinson’s No. 1 bestseller Life After Life, A God in Ruins tells the story of Teddy (brother of Ursula Todd, the protagonist of Life After Life) as he navigates childhood, war, aging and family in the 20th century. Expect this title to be nominated for literary prizes next year. Escapist A Small Indiscretion: A Novel READING BY JAN ELLISON • $27 Enchanted honeymooning Annie Black’s past comes back to haunt her present when she receives a photo in the August: A Novel on the island. BY BRENDA Flashbacks provide mail that could have serious ramifications for her marriage and family. This sus- BOWEN answers to the penseful, page-turning literary debut explores how one seemingly inconsequential $28 mystery of their decision can affect the rest of one’s life. Who wouldn’t want ill-fated romance to escape for a and the 60-year Romantic READS summer month to secret that drove a picture-perfect them apart. The Royal We: A Novel island in Maine? BY HEATHER COCKS AND JESSICA MORGAN • $26 A reimagining of Summer Secrets: A breezy, juicy tale of young love based on the real-life courtship of Prince William and the beloved classic A Novel Enchanted April, BY JANE GREEN Kate—except in this version, Kate is American Bex Porter who spends a semester at this charming $27 Oxford and falls in love with Prince Nicholas. This charming tale is for Anglophiles, royal novel gathers a Jane Green’s latest lovers, and anyone in the mood for a clever, funny love story that reveals the inside scoop cast of imperfect, novel is deeper than on what it’s like to be a royal insider. not-so-happy the breezy title characters all with implies. The JAER N G EEN, different reasons well-written and Tiny Little Thing: A Novel I ’m reading I Take You: for craving a month engaging story BY BEATRIZ WILLIAMS • $26 in the country. follows main A Novel by Eliza Ken- Greenwich, CT author Beatriz Williams never disappoints with her consistently well- character Cat nedy. It’s wickedly smart, The Rocks: through the highs written novels about love, intrigue and family dynamics. Tiny Little Thing introduces A Novel and lows of her life Christina Hardcastle—known as Tiny—and her “perfect” life married to the scion of a hilariously funny, sexy, clever BY PETER NICHOLS struggling with alcoholism. When wealthy political family. All is not what it seems as the glossy façade begins to crumble and stupidly accomplished $28 during the summer at the family estate in Cape Cod. No question, you will root for Tiny to A glamorous Cat discovers a for a first novel. I have not shocking secret find true love and happiness. • Westport Public Library’s Annual Gigantic Mediterranean laughed this hard or BUY YOUR seaside resort is the from her mother’s Summer Book Sale, July 18 to 21, 20 Jesup Road, setting for this life, she returns this much at a book BOOKS Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel Westport, CT, westportlibrary.org bittersweet double to the Nantucket of her childhood to since Bridget LOCALLY G BY LAURA DAVE • $25 • Diane’s Books, 8 Grigg St., Greenwich, CT,203-869-1515 love story told in Take a break from reverse chronology find out who she A week before her wedding, Georgia Ford discovers that her fiancé has kept an explosive Jones’s Diary.” downloading books • Elm Street Books, 35 Elm St., New Canaan, CT, from 2005 really is, and to —author of Summer Secrets finally make secret that could destroy her future life with him.