What To Read, Watch, and Listen to this Summer

Here are a few of our favorite books, shows, and exhibits by people from Berkeley

Colleen Hofstadter Hlavac completed her debut mystery novel, The Stalker in the Desert, during the pandemic. The novel has become an international seller, achieving sales in seventeen countries. Colleen’s next mystery novel, Liquid Deceptions, is scheduled to launch this summer.For more information, please visit www.Colleenhlavac.com or @colleenhofstadterhlavac on Instagram.

Jane Kuo‘s debut middle grade novel, In the Beautiful Country, is forthcoming from HarperCollins/Quill Tree on June 14, 2022. Loosely based on the author’s own experience, the story is about an immigrant girl’s first year in America.