Whether your "beach" is on sand, your backyard deck or a grassy meadow in the country, the summer months mean it's time for "beach reading." Bookreporter.com is celebrating the lazy days of summer reading with our Fourth Annual "Bookreporter.com Beach Bag of Books."

Every week from May 16th through August 29th, a different title or collection of titles will be featured with a review and contest prize --- a beach bag stocked with the featured book(s), plus summertime essentials that tie in to the weekly theme. Five FABULOUS beach bags will be given away each week, as well as five copies of the featured book(s) to additional winners.

This week we’re spotlighting QUEEN OF BABBLE GETS HITCHED by Meg Cabot, a charming story about a young woman preparing for her dream wedding --- until a few problems get in the way. In a pink bag with a floral design, winners will find a pink and orange striped towel, a red pool float, a box of Tazo Passion Tea, a pink and green picture frame, a pink martini shaker, fashionable pink scissors, a bottle of pink DuWop Original Lip Venom Tingly Lip Gloss, a copy of OK Magazine and a pack of Orbit gum, as well as a copy of QUEEN OF BABBLE GETS HITCHED. We have five to give away, as well as five additional prizes of copies of QUEEN OF BABBLE GETS HITCHED.

To enter, fill out this form and answer the following question by Thursday, July 3rd at 11:59PM. You can find the answer by reading the excerpt here.

According to Lizzie, what does Luke plan on doing for a living?

QUEEN OF BABBLE GETS HITCHED by Meg Cabot (Fiction)
Can wedding gown designer and rehabber Lizzie Nichols find her own happy ending? As the third book of this frothily entertaining series begins, it appears that her happy ending has already begun. Then, as Lizzie's life unravels bit by bit, we find out what happens when bad things happen to good chatterboxes. Reviewed by Terry Miller Shannon.

Christopher Reich is the New York Times bestselling author of NUMBERED ACCOUNT and THE PATRIOTS CLUB, the latter of which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel in 2006. In RULES OF DECEPTION, his new thriller releasing on July 15th, a man finds himself the subject of an international manhunt and the target of a master assassin after his wife's death.

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More about RULES OF DECEPTION:
Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse.

Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. So begins a journey that will draw him deeper into a world of spies, high-tech weaponry and global terrorism --- a world where no one is who they appear to be and where the end always justifies the means.

Released in hardcover in 2007, IN THE WOODS --- Tana French’s critically acclaimed debut novel --- won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Now available in paperback and a New York Times bestseller, IN THE WOODS is a compelling psychological mystery. When the body of a young girl is found murdered, detectives Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox find chilling links to a disappearance decades earlier.

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More about IN THE WOODS:
In the mid-1980s, a terrible tragedy befell a small suburb of Dublin. Two children mysteriously vanished in the woods while a third was found terrified and with no recollection of what happened.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Cassie Maddox --- his partner and closest friend --- find themselves investigating a case with chilling links to that long-ago disappearance.

June’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes THE SECRET SERVANT, Daniel Silva's seventh international thriller to feature art restorer and Israeli intelligence agent Gabriel Allon; LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN by Janet Evanovich, in which bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is wanted for questioning in the disappearance of her philandering ex-husband; James Lee Burke’s THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, a Dave Robicheaux novel that takes place in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina; THE REST OF HER LIFE, Laura Moriarty’s fictional exploration of how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another; NORTH RIVER, a love story from Pete Hamill set in the Depression-ravished and war-haunted streets of lower Manhattan in the 1930s; SPOOK COUNTRY, William Gibson’s unique and thought-provoking look at America in the age of “the war on terror”; and FROM BAGHDAD, WITH LOVE, the inspiring true story of an unlikely band of heroes, led by a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marines, who come together in war-torn Iraq to rescue a stray puppy.

AWAY by Amy Bloom (Fiction)
Panoramic in scope, AWAY is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on a heartbreaking, romantic and dangerous odyssey to find her.

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Poll:

If you are going away for a week of vacation, how many books do you bring?
 
1
2-3
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More than 10
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Question:

What book are you most looking forward to reading this summer?

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