Three Full-On Good Reads, Courtesy Half Priced Books

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Welcome to Beach Reads, a new summer feature where we ask staffers at Dallas-area bookstores to pick three of their favorite summer-season page-turners.

We asked Kathy Doyle Thomas, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Dallas-based Half Price Books, for her top recs.

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• "After a crazy weekend in Vegas celebrating her college graduation, and scared of her future, Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life," says Thomas. "Christina Lauren, the combined pen name of long-time writing partners Christina Hobbs and Laur
• "On the morning of Nick and Amy’s fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne’s wife disappears from their home on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the media and the law, as well as his town and in-laws, many feel he is responsible for her di
• "With the film adaptation recently hitting theaters, John Green’s mega-hit about two teens who meet and fall in love in cancer support group is one of the most popular books of the summer. Pack a box of tissues in your suitcase—you’ll definitely nee