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Sunshine, secrets, and swoon-worthy stories—June's featured reads are your perfect summer escape.

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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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She�s racing for a prize. He�s dodging romance. Together, they might just cross the finish line to love.


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She steals from the mob for justice. He�s the FBI agent who could take her down�or fall for her instead.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

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Also by Ann Patchett:

Bel Canto Annotated Edition, November 2024
Hardcover
Tom Lake, August 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Dutch House, October 2019
Hardcover
This Is The Story Of A Happy Marriage, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
State of Wonder, June 2011
Hardcover
Binocular Vision, January 2011
Paperback
Run, October 2007
Hardcover
The Best American Series 2006 - Silver Gift Box, November 2006
Trade Size
Bel Canto, August 2005
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Tom Lake
Ann Patchett

A Novel

HarperCollins Publishers
August 2023
On Sale: August 1, 2023
320 pages
ISBN: 006332752X
EAN: 9780063327528
Kindle: B0BL126WSH
Hardcover / e-Book
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Romance Historical

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

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