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“LOVE AND OTHER CONSOLATION

PRIZES” by Jamie Ford (Random House, $17). From the author of “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” comes another gentle tale set in historic Seattle, in which a Chinese immigrant grows up in Pioneer Square’s red-light district. The story is bookended by two Seattle World’s Fairs: in 1909 and 1962.

“THE ROOSTER BAR” by John Grisham (Random House, $9.99). The king of legal thrillers (whose works scream “summer reading” to many) is back, with a best-selling tale of three law students who discover that their school is owned by a shady hedgefund operator. Can they survive the Great Law School Scam?

“THE RULES OF MAGIC” by Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster, $16). A prequel—23 years later—to her popular “Practical Magic” (which became a Sandra Bullock/Nicole Kidman movie in 1998), Hoffman’s latest novel provides a backstory for sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, a pair of sister witches from a magical Massachusetts family. “DO NOT BECOME ALARMED” by Maile Meloy (Penguin, $16). Last summer I couldn’t put down Meloy’s novel, a page-turner about two families on a luxury cruise whose children inexplicably go missing on a shore excursion.

“EVERYBODY’S SON” by Thrity Umrigar (HarperCollins, $15.99). Umrigar, author of “Bombay Time” and “The Space Between Us,” here tells a story of race, class, privilege and power. A 10-year-old black boy, abandoned by his crack-addicted mother, becomes the foster son of a wealthy white senator; growing up, he must learn to understand his past.