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The Hamptons International Film Festival celebrates great stories on screen. This October, Bedside Reading® is placing them off-screen too.
As filmmakers, actors and film lovers arrive on the East End, Bedside Reading is placing a curated collection of nine fall titles in 11 Hamptons hotels. Four of those titles are also going straight into the hands of festival VIPs, placed inside the official Hamptons International Film Festival gift bags on October 2.
“Film festivals remind me of something I’ve believed my entire career: everything starts with a great story,” said Jane Ubell-Meyer, founder and CEO of Bedside Reading® and a former television and film producer. “Some stories are discovered on a screen. Some are discovered on a bedside table. And sometimes the book you pick up when you least expect it becomes the one you can’t stop thinking about.”
THE FALL COLLECTION — 11 HOTELS
The Maidstone, Journey East Hampton, Mill House Inn, Hotel Moraine, The Baker House 1650, Capri Southampton, Southampton Inn, 1708 House, Canoe Place Inn & Cottages, Marram Montauk, and Beachcomber Resort at Montauk.
TWISTED LIVES — Tamara Merrill. A mother’s search for her missing son unravels into a psychological thriller about memory and deception.
WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND — Valerie Nifora. A novel about the secrets families carry and the courage it takes to move forward.
THE BIG DAY — Lisa Cheek. A commitment skeptic says yes at 49, then discovers the wedding didn’t legally count.
WHAT NATURE TEACHES US — Clay and Amber Vilhauer. A mother and son find lessons in resilience through the natural world.
A RIVER REMEMBERS — Lee Clark. A forensic entomologist returns home to find a murder, a hidden family and a killer watching her every move.
TORTURED SOLES — Fran Weinstein. Twenty-two years as an entertainment TV producer, told with candor and humor.
HIS DAUGHTER — Caryn M. McGill. God’s daughter is cast down to Earth and must choose between redemption and judgment.
THE EUREKA MACHINE — Richard Socher. An AI pioneer on how artificial intelligence could compress a century of scientific discovery into a decade.
LIBERATION FROM THE DIET PRISON — Regina Oswald. A path to body-mind harmony built on compassion, not restriction.
THE FILM FESTIVAL FOUR
Four screen-worthy bestsellers, placed directly in the Hamptons International Film Festival VIP Gift Bags on October 2:
• Where the Heart Meets the Sea by Kimbra Drake
• Blood in the Low Country by Paul Attaway
• A River Remembers by Lee Clark
• Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous by Christine Stringer
“Discovery doesn’t always happen in a bookstore,” Ubell-Meyer added. “It can happen in a hotel room, beside a pool, or inside a gift bag at a film festival. Our job is to create those moments.”
