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Welcome to the WBEZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Harper's Bizarre Magazine as

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published an article promoting the best summer
beach reads of twenty twenty three and whether

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or not they are the best.
Well, that's up to the readers.

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But here's part one of a group
of titles and authors. You might want

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to check out. Rachel Hurley's novel
The Great Reclamation, a captivating love story

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set in Singapore as World War two
is looming. There's the fourth novel by

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author Emily Henry called Happy Place,
which poses the question of whether a once

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happily married and secretly separated couple can
fake being happy or a final summer trip

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with their friends. There's the novel
Hula by Jasmine Iolani Haikes, a multigenerational

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epic set in Hawaii, And The
Half Moon, a novel by Mary Beth

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Keane and which a married couple by
themselves stuck in a blizzard having to come

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to terms with their relationship. Moore
suggested beach reads coming up. That's the

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book Club. WBEZ, Boston's news
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