Van Gogh cupcakes I made for abrookec ’s birthday today. Starry Night cake with Vase With Twelve Sunflowers icing, along with freshly picked sunflowers.
Summer is vacation season, but you don’t need a plane ticket and a passport to get away from it all! Check out our listicle of “Staycation” books set in exotic locations around the world for a last minute trip before fall hits. These reads will transport you from your couch to the glitz and glamor of Beverly Hills to mysterious cobblestone streets of Prague… minus the jet lag 😎 ✈️
1. Rules of Summer—Joanna Philbin
Get an inside look at the country club scene in this delicious read about navigating new friendships and summer romance in the Hamptons. Rory may be the summer errand girl for the Rules but that doesn’t mean that a certain cute member of the family isn’t interested…
2. Gossip Girl—Cecily von Ziegesar
When the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen returns to New York City the whole school is talking. All Blair Waldorf knows is that there’s no freaking way Serena’s going to just waltz back into high society and steal everyone’s heart again. Get ready for some serious drama!
3. The A-List—Zoey Dean
When Anna Percy moves to Beverly Hills to live with her estranged dad for the rest of the school year, she has no idea she’ll be diving into a life of glamorous parties and wild rumors set against a backdrop of young Hollywood.
4. Famous in Love—Rebecca Serle
When Paige Townsen gets plucked from obscurity to star in the movie adaptation of a blockbuster book series, her life changes practically overnight. Within a month, Paige has traded the quiet streets of her hometown for a bustling movie set in Maui, and she’s caught in a very juicy love triangle.
5. Love, Lucy—April Lindner
While backpacking through Lucy Sommersworth finds herself falling in love with the culture, the architecture, the food…and Jesse Palladino, a handsome street musician. After a whirlwind romance, Lucy returns home, determined to move on from her “vacation flirtation.” But just because summer is over doesn’t mean Lucy and Jesse have to be, does it?
6. Wildlife—Fiona Wood
During a semester in the wilderness, sixteen year old Sib expects the tough outdoor education program and the horrors of dorm life, but friendship drama and love that gets complicated? That will take some navigating.
7. Daughter of Smoke and Bone—Laini Taylor
How about a little atmospheric fantasy to change things up? Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
The Fourth of July is right around the corner, and what better time to relax by the pool, chow down on some BBQ, and get lost in a great summer read? Need suggestions? Check out our list of patriotic, Independence Day-ready, Re(a)d, White and Blue books. Whether you want to take a trip to the ocean with Salt & Storm by Kendall Kulper or keep the fireworks going with Sweethearts by Sara Zarr, we’ve got you covered.
Red Titles
1. Scarlett Undercover—Jennifer Latham
2. Immortal Beloved—Cate Tiernan
3. The Pretenders—Lisi Harrison
4. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock—Matthew Quick
5. We Should Hang Out Sometime—Josh Sundquist
White Titles
1. Sweethearts—Sara Zarr
2. Kissing Ted Callahan (and Other Guys)—Amy Spalding
3. The 100—Kass Morgan
4. Spoiled—Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
5. When We Wake—Karen Healey
Blue Titles
1. Salt & Storm—Kendall Kulper
2. Icons—Margaret Stohl
3. The Prince of Mist—Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4. Bass Ackwards and Belly Up—Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain
5. Purity—Jackson Pearce
To celebrate next month’s paperback release of Dreams of Gods & Monsters, we’ve got a special treat for you… an exclusive, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN early chapter from Laini Taylor that inspired the daughterofsmokeandbonetrilogy we all know and love.
But first, we need you to help us unlock it!
HOW? Share your favorite quote from the series on Twitter with #UnlockLainiTaylor, and once we reach 613 hashtags (the page count in Dreams of Gods & Monsters), we’ll release the early chapter right here on theNOVL.com.
And that’s not all! Laini annotated the early chapter through the super cool Genius platform… so you’ll be able to see which lines made it into the final book and more. How cool is that?
Now what are you waiting for? Get to tweeting! There are things to be unlocked!
P.S. If you haven’t read Daughter of Smoke & Bone yet, the eBook is on sale for just $2.99. Get started now!
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