Three Summer 2014 Beach Reads from the Barnes & Noble

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Looking for your next great read for the summer? Look no further. Racked Vegas hit the bookstore to find three books that will fit the bill of any type of summer reading. Pick up these three books at Barnes & Noble.

Carsick
John Waters
If you're thinking about taking a road trip, try John Waters' Carsick, his book on hitchhiking across America from Baltimore to San Francisco. "Well, I do get murdered in Las Vegas in the book. But in real life, I felt like I was being murdered in Ohio when I stood there for ten hours a day with nobody picking me up. Ohio was tough."

The Given
Vicki Pettersson
Grab a novel by a Las Vegas author to keep you riveted. Vicki Pettersson writes about strong female protagonists who defy the odds. In The Given, the conclusion to her Celestial Series, find romance of the paranormal variety when a fallen angel and flesh and blood rockabilly reporter fall in love in this mystery.

The Glass Kitchen
Linda Francis Lee
Cooking, family, love. What more could you want in a summer novel? The Glass Kitchen follows the story of Portia Cuthcart, who wants to run her grandmother's restaurant but decides to start a new life with her sisters in Manhattan. It's there that she meets a widowed father and his daughter and discovers that the kitchen can be her refuge.

Barnes & Noble

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