It’s #newreleasetuesday and there are some fantastic sounding books out today. Perfect beach reads! 🏖 Look at these gorgeous covers!

• We just missed Sandhya Menom at Y’all West and the LA Times Festival of Books. Did anyone get to meet her?!
• Also did you know Judy Blundell has also written middle graders Star Wars books and the fantastic #the39clues series! Check out Jude Watson.
• And in Stephen King news…Call it the “Shawshank Re . . . union.” Page Six has exclusively learned that the star of the 1994 movie “The Shawshank Redemption” Morgan Freeman will present an award to author Stephen King at the PEN America gala at the American Museum of Natural History on May 22.

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