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2025 selection · Fiction & literature
These Summer Storms
These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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