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In-Flight Reading: Where This Summer's Best-Sellers Are Set

June 16, 2009 at 3:27 PM | by | Comments (0)

Don't just be an armchair traveler this summer -- relive your favorite new books with a trip to the cities where they take place. Buckle in! A book's all the in-flight entertainment you need.

Michael Connelly's "The Scarecrow" begins at the L.A. Times where hero Jack McEvoy is just being downsized -- timely! Shake your fist at the Times' headquarters (202 W. 1st St.), then head around the corner to the Lost Souls Cafe (124 W. 4th St.) for a "soul latte" sweetened with half-and-half and condensed milk. You'll need the energy to fight City Hall (200 N. Spring St.) while tracking cyber killers responsible for long-shelved murders.

"The Strain," a new paranormal book from "Pan's Labyrinth" director Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, actually begins at JFK Airport where Flight 735 from Berlin has unexpectedly stopped communicating with air-traffic control even though it's sitting on the runway. OMG, vampire virus! Keep your trip going on the ground without falling prey to the bloodsuckers with the vaguely aeronautically-themed Flight 151 in Chelsea (151 8th Ave.) or parked in the airplane seats at Bushwick Country Club (618 Grand St. in Brooklyn).

Paperback bestseller "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society" is set in 1946, but the letters that fly back and forth between a London journalist and the residents of an English Channel island can make the book come to life even for us, the e-mail-addled. Learn what your favorite characters were going through at the German Occupation Museum in Les Houards, then retire for cream tea and a little letter-writing of your own at La Patisserie Guernsey (Le Pollet, St Peter Port).

If you'd prefer your heartwarming stories a little closer to home, look to the hometown of "The Girls From Ames," Jeffrey Zaslow's charming account of close knit friends in a central Iowa town. (TV nerds: It's also the hometown of Kate on "LOST", and we sincerely hope that was not a spoiler.) Take your besties to Thai Kitchen and promise that wherever life takes you, you'll always have each other.

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