Beach Gear: Books, Sunnies and Tech Sleeves

With summer in full swing, it’s time to look cool and feel cool while sunning yourself poolside or beachside.

Bookworms are the new cool and here are three books to choose from:

The temperatures might be in the 90s, but you will feel cool wearing these Lafont sunglasses made by hand in France. Available at viziooptic.com, they retail from $389 to $645.

Whether you are using an iPad or reading a paperback, these Verloop’s “Crosshatch” tech sleeve for ($40) will protect them. Available at at verloopknits.com.

Lose Your Inches without Losing Your Mind!: 10 Simple Weeks to a Slimmer Waistline and a Healthier You
by Justine SanFilippo
@LoseYourInches

Lose Your Inches Without Losing Your Mind! is a practical and down-to-earth guide to shed inches in a healthy, balanced way and to keep them off . . . without going completely bonkers!

After hitting many roadblocks and becoming frustrated with every diet she tried in an attempt to lose forty-five pounds and four dress sizes, Justine SanFilippo finally found a simple solution to shed unwanted inches and keep them off for good. Like her, you may have already tried countless diets only to find that you can’t keep off the pounds, or even follow the plan. Maybe you are on the verge of losing your mind from all the confusing and conflicting diet information and you are eager for a clear and simple solution to follow. Or, perhaps because you have seen friends and loved ones lose their minds with all sorts of crazy diets, the mere thought of attempting one yourself is almost too much to handle.

However frustrated you are right now, SanFilippo’s goal is to show you what worked for her and how it can work for you, too. She will save you the heartache, confusion, and mental exhaustion of dieting while helping you shrink your waistline. If you want to lose inches and keep your sanity, then this is the book for you! Lose Your Inches Without Losing Your Mind! tells you how to lose those inches and keep them off . . . for good!

Immortal Writers
by Jill Bowers
@Jilliard08

Young up-and-coming author Liz McKinnen has no idea that her life is about to change forever when she comes home from her first book tour. When she’s kidnapped and told by her captors that she has to kill her fantasy book’s antagonist, she thinks that she’s fallen into the hands of crazy, dangerous fans… until her antagonist sends a real, fire-breathing dragon after her.

Liz is quickly initiated into the Immortal Writers, a group of authors from throughout time whose words have given them eternal life, and whose prose is so powerful that it’s brought stories over from the Imagination Field into the Reality Field. As Liz meets authors such as William Shakespeare, JRR Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jane Austen, she has to learn how to control magic, fight dragons, and face her own troubled past before her power-hungry villain takes over the world. Will she survive the ultimate battle against the dragon lord whom she created?

Jaspar’s War
by Cym Lowell
@cymlowell

Greenwich, Connecticut socialite Jaspar Moran has it all—a magnificent estate, two beautiful children and a loving husband, Trevor, serving as the Secretary of the Treasury. Protected, admired and living in the lap of luxury, Jaspar is reeling from the news that his government jet has crashed just as her children vanish without a trace.

An ominous message warns her to keep silent about her husband’s role in the President’s economic plan. Or else.

Determined to save her children, she’ll go to hell and back, form alliances with assassins, traitors and Mafioso, and commit unspeakable acts—if that’s what it takes. With alarms sounding around the world, hunted from all sides, and unsure of who to trust, she finds herself depending on a mysterious figure without an identity.

Jaspar journeys from the Australian outback to the palazzos of Rome, the Monte Carlo Grand Prix, and to the magnificence of the Vatican, in her quest. Can she rescue her children before the plot to crash the global economy is unleashed?