Title:Hoya Beach Reads Round-up: Summer 2024

Basking in the summer sun is more fun with a good book. If you, your friends, and your family are looking to support a Hoya author, here are the 10 beach reads to pick up right away: 

Fiction

A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki (SFS’17)

This family saga follows three generations of women who inherit the experiences of those that lived before them.

Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra (C’03)

In this thriller, recently named a Fallon Book Club pick, a mother is forced to face her deepest fears when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruder.

No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib (G’12)

This adult fiction book follows a young Syrian couple whose lives are torn apart by a travel ban that prohibits a husband’s return from Jordan to America.

A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly (C’02)

In an alternative version of Prohibition-era America, magic, instead of alcohol, has been prohibited. This young adult fantasy novel follows a bootlegging sorcerer and an undercover Prohibition agent becoming entangled in the magical underworld.

Lenox Takes Flight by ’Iolani L. Bullock (MBA’18)

Adventure awaits in this middle grade journey! Discover if Lenox will find his passport on time and face his fear in order to earn pilot wings.

Nonfiction

She Said by Megan Twohey (C’98)

From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said is the story of their investigation of Harvey Weinstein.

Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media by Branden Buehler (G’10)

Front Office Fantasies examines how obscure bureaucratic sports management roles have been transformed by sports media texts that fixate on the management class. 

Always Enough, A Global Food Memoir by Annette Anthony (SFS’86)

Always Enough is a cookbook that shares 160 recipes inspired by the author’s life in America, Europe, and Africa, and her global travels.

You’re Worth It! By Tre’ Bohannon (B’20)

This motivational book offers tips and stories aimed to inspire readers to make bigger impacts and lead happier lives. 

A Pirate’s Life for She: Swashbuckling Women Through the Ages by Laura Sook Duncombe (L’11)

A Pirate’s Life for She tells the story of 16 women who sailed alongside—and sometimes commanded—their male pirate counterparts.

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