We’re going to need a bigger tote. From true tales to fin-tastic fiction, these reads from the deep are guaranteed shark bait. Plus, enter our Shark Week Sweepstakes! Just When You Thought You Could Go Back in the Water: Jaws by Peter Benchley The classic suspense novel of shark versus man, which was made into the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie. The Jaws phenomenon changed popular culture and continues to inspire a growing interest in sharks and the oceans today. “A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror [that] makes us tingle.”—The Washington Post “Powerful . . . [Benchley’s] story grabs…
Browse Tag: Beach Reads
///////////////There’s A Book for That: Dog Days of Summer
We’ve entered the Dog Days of Summer, a phrase which – according to the Merriam-Webster Idioms Dictionary – refers to “hot, sultry summer weather; also,…
Now in Paperback
Check out these staff favorites, now in paperback! Hot historical fiction titles that will take your book club to a different era: The Fair Fight…
Trending: Cult Books
You’ve read THE GIRLS, now what? Emma Cline’s coming-of-age novel, about a teen girl who gets involved with one of the most infamous cults in…
Summer Reads: Bastille Day
Celebrate La fête nationale! The French National Day commemorates the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, an important event in Paris in a violent revolution…
Book Club Kit: The Light of Paris
Out today is The Light of Paris—the miraculous new novel from New York Times–bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Weird Sisters, was a sensation…