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Top 25 eBooks for summertime reading!

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson – Possibly one of the most buzzed about books of the year, it has been selected as one of Amazon’s Best Books of June 2011, and as this summer’s hottest titles. In “Before I Go To Sleep,” S. J. Watson’s riveting psychological thriller, the heroine, Christine, has an unusual form of amnesia; her memories, all of them, are erased every night as she sleeps. As if that’s not unsettling enough, it now appears that the one person Christine relies on to keep her life in order – her husband – may be keeping dangerous secrets from her.

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton – Blood, Bones & Butter” is a chef’s memoir with enough heart, soul, and grit to enchant even readers whose relationship with the kitchen is confined to frequent use of the microwave. Gabrielle Hamilton is the owner of New York’s Prunes restaurant, but she is also a born writer who movingly evokes her New Jersey childhood, her uneven path to adulthood, and her unusual marriage to an Italian with an irresistible mother.

Dreams of Joy by Lisa See - new novel Beloved author Lisa See, serves as a continuation of girls in Shanghai, and the story of sisters Pearl and May Devastated over the news of his father, Joy's daughter Pearl fled to China in search of the truth.

Jennifer Haigh faith-When Sheila McGann sets to redeem his disgraced brother, a Catholic priest once beloved in the suburbs of Boston, his quest will force him to confront the truth about his cataclysmic fractured Irish-American family, his beliefs, and ultimately herself. Award-winning author Jennifer Haigh follows her critically acclaimed novels Mrs. Kimble .

The Paris Wife by Paul McLain – McLain tells the story of Ernest Hemingway from the point of view of his first wife, Hadley Hemingway. The book takes the reader through the streets of Paris during the jazz age, and introduces us to colorful literary personalities like James Joyce and F. Scott Fitzgerald.