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Amazon is combatting its The Summer I Turned Pretty (summer)drought with an exclusive watch party featuring appearances from the cast of the hit YA show. Season three of the drama was delayed due to last year’s Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which pushed the premiere to the summer of 2025. To hold fans over until then, Prime Video is giving you the opportunity to go back to Cousin’s Beach with members of the cast.

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Lola Tung, Rain Spencer, Chris Briney, Gavin Casalegno and Sean Kaufman will gather together for two virtual watch parties as they look back on their favorite episodes from season two. You can tune in on Friday (June 7) and Friday (June 21) at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET to watch The Summer I Turned Pretty season two episodes four and five with the cast. The livestreaming event will feature the cast members watching the episodes with you as they react and share never-before-seen commentary including behind-the-scenes moments.

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Keep reading to learn how to attend The Summer I Turned Pretty watch party with the cast.

How to Watch The Summer I Turned Pretty Watch Party

You can watch both livestreams through Prime Video with season two, episode four airing on Friday (June 7) and the season two, episode five watch party premiering on Friday (June 21). Tung, Spencer, Briney and Casalengno will gather together for the June 7 watch party while Kaufman and Spencer provide exclusive insight for the episode five livestream.

You’ll need to have a Prime membership in order to watch The Summer I Turned Pretty cast watch party online. If you already have a membership, you can RSVP to the watch party here.

Don’t have a Prime membership? Amazon is offering new users a 30-day free trial when you sign up, which will let you watch The Summer I Turned Pretty online for free and more. Once your free trial is over, you’ll be charged the regular subscription fee of $14.99 a month or $139 a year.

Students can save more money with a student membership that comes with a six-month free trial and 50% off subscription price. Qualifying government programs can even get you an EBT/Medicaid membership, which comes with a 30-day free trial and half off subscription price.

Along with being able to watch season one and two of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Prime members will get access to the entire Prime Video library including original and exclusive content like Fallout, The Idea of You, Outer Range, Them: The Scare, The Boys, Gen V, Daisy Jones & The Six and The Goat.

Subscribers can also take advantage of Prime member-only perks like free one-day shipping, grocery delivery, access to Prime Day, Prime Try Before You Buy, Prime Reading and more.

Where to Buy The Summer I Turned Pretty Official Merch

As you gear up for the upcoming watch parties, Amazon is releasing new The Summer I Turned Pretty merch every Friday in addition to their previous apparel and accessories from the series’ official store.

Whether you’re team Conrad, team Jeremiah, or team Belly, ShopBillboard put together a few our favorite pieces for you to buy online now.

The Love Tour Season 2 T-Shirt

Show off some highlights from season two of the hit series with this “The Love Tour” graphic T-shirt. It comes decorated with quotes and photos from the latest episodes, on a cotton T-shirt that’s both lightweight and breathable.

The Summer Tour Season 1 T-Shirt

The first season gets condensed onto this simple T-shirt, which includes pictures of the main cast and the iconic quote, “It was the summer everything began.” On the back of the top, you can find a list of the episode names from the season while the cotton material helps ensure you’re comfy all day long.

“The Summer I Turned Pretty” Cousins Rowing T-Shirt

For a more subtle look, this T-shirt features a “Cousins Rowing” graphic that only fans of the book series and show will understand. You can choose from a variety of fits including men’s, women and youth, as well as a four base shades such as light blue, navy, red and gray.

Jay Franco “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Whale of a Tale Cousins Beach Tote Bag

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Viewers may recognize this tote as the exact one Belly uses within the series. It’s currently marked down 50% and features a main pocket where you can store your latest books, water bottle, keys, phone and more.

The Complete “Summer I Turned Pretty” Trilogy (Boxed Set)

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To hold yourself over until season three, read up on the books that the TV series is adapted from. This book set includes all three books in the series in a display-worthy box that’ll not only help protect the novels, but will look cute on a bookcase or mantle.

Need a refresher? Check below to watch the trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty season 2 trailer.

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Calling all Bridgerton fans! The hit television series, Bridgerton created by Shondaland for Netflix has a book dropping on July 23. The Duke and I & The Viscount Who Loved Me: Bridgerton Collection by Julia Quinn is a special edition set that includes the first two novels in the beloved Bridgerton series.

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Although it is not available yet, you can start pre-ordering the hard cover version now. You can find it on Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Take advantage of its 34% off discount and add it your library.

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Bridgerton Collector’s Edition: The Duke and I and The Viscount Who Loved Me (Hardcover)

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In the first novel, The Duke and I, it focuses on Daphne Bridgerton’s story of love and societal expectations. In the second novel, The Viscount Who Loved Me, it follows Anthony Bridgerton’s romantic journey. Both novels celebrate emotional depth, love, and engaging storytelling.

This collection offers readers an immersive journey into the world of high society, romance, and tight-knit Bridgeton family dynamics.

With this edition, you won’t only enjoy the words on the paper, but also add an aesthetically pleasing book on your shelf. According to Amazon, this edition features: sprayed edges, integrate foil iconography, ribbon bookmark, and endpapers.

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Mariah Carey has been taking over Las Vegas during her Celebration of Mimi residency, but along with joining the legendary artists performing in Sin City, she’s giving the Lambily an in-depth look at her songwriting process in a new audiobook series titled Portrait of a Portrait.

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Fans can now listen as the “Obsessed” singer delves into her songwriting process and the stories behind songs like title track “Portrait” and other fan-favorites — and all from Carey herself. Plus, you can hear it for free thanks to Amazon’s current Audible promo that can get you the audiobook service for free for 30 days.

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You have to be a Prime member in order to gain access to the deal, but Amazon is offering a 30-day free trial to Prime for new users who sign up here. If you’re already a Prime member, you are still eligible for a 30-day free trial of Audible. All you have to do is click “listen now” and you’ll be able to hear the “Emotion” singer’s audiobook for free.

Keep reading to learn more about how to listen to Mariah Carey’s ‘Portrait’ audiobook online free.

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“Portrait of a Portrait” is the latest episode of Audible’s “Words + Music” series, which interviews artists about their influences and career.As an Audible original, you can only listen to Carey’s audiobook episode through the service. The episode was released Thursday (May 23) and gives Lambs a preview of the Grammy-winning artist’s upcoming new project “The Butterfly Lounge” as well as provides an “intimate journey into her wondrous musical world,” according to the official description.

This marks the second release that the popstar has put out through Audible, with the previous being her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah, which was a New York Times bestseller, a Goodreads Choice nominee and has earned more than 13,000 reviews on Amazon.

Carey’s “Words + Music” episode comes on the heels of her latest Vegas residency, which you can still score last-minute cheap tickets to through Ticketmaster, StubHub, Vivid Seats (score $20 off $200+ orders when you use the promo code BB2024 at checkout) and Seat Geek (first purchases can earn you $10 off orders of $250+ when you use the code BILLBOARD10).

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Attention all book lovers, Amazon Book Haul is here! From May 15 to May 20, book enthusiasts can enjoy big discounts on thousands of popular books across different types of genres. Whether you’re into fiction, non-fiction, romance, thrillers, or celebrity memoirs, there’s something for everyone.

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Amazon readers can explore captivating stories and topics for up to 50% off for print bestsellers and up to 80% off for Kindle books. Plus, there are savings of up to 80% on many audiobooks with Audible.

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Don’t forget, you can also get up to three months of Kindle Unlimited for free. So, get ready to stock up on great reads with discounted prices and a wide range of genres. It’s a great opportunity to build your library.

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It Ends With Us: Special Collector’s Edition

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If you are into trendy books circulating all over #BookTok and #Bookstagram, consider Colleen Hoover’s novel, It Ends with Us. This #1 New York Times best-selling book is currently 56% off on Amazon. You can get it in 4 different forms: hardcover, Kindle, audiobook, and paperback all for a great price. With Audiobook, you can also take advantage of its free trial membership.

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Dive into a Kindle read with #1 New-York Times best-selling author, Emily Henry. Grab the kindle version of her novel, Happy Place, for only five dollars. If you are looking for a feel-good beach read escape, consider adding this book to your library.

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Add Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Kindle edition) to your library and save up to eight dollars. This New-York Times, best-selling novel hits on themes such as friendship, love, loyalty, and more. “Utterly brilliant, one of the best books I’ve ever read,” said John Green (author of The Anthropocene Reviewed). Get your Kindle version now.

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For those looking to expand their library, consider adding this celebrity cookbook that includes 65+ recipes from rapper Snoop Dogg. You can get Snoop Dogg’s Goon with the Spoon for only $11.99, kindle edition only. Go get your now and start your cooking adventure.

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Take advantage of this 48% discount. Grab the kindle edition of iconic pop star Britney Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me. Delve into her journey as she offers readers an intimate glimpse into her life.

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Explore the story of American musician and legend, Prince with this captivating book. Delve deep into 40 years of his work from his iconic album and film, Purple Rain. Go get your now, it’s 27 percent off.

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35 years ago, the trajectory of electronic music history shifted when Ed Simons met Tom Rowlands at the University of Manchester. Then students, the pair would go on to comprise one of the most celebrated electronic acts in the history of the then-nascent genre, after they united as The Chemical Brothers.

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The three and a half decades of shows, albums and block-rockin’ beats that have ensued since are under the microscope in the latest Chemical Brothers offering, Paused in Cosmic Reflection. Out today (May 7) via Mobius publishing, the retrospective book unpacks, in often granular detail, the Brothers’ mythology from the earliest days as students to rising U.K. stars to genre trendsetters and worldwide heroes.

Along with extensive interviews with the duo themselves, the book feature new interviews with friends and collaborators, including Noel Gallagher, Wayne Coyne, Beth Orton, Michel Gondry and Beck. The 300-plus-page Paused In Cosmic Reflection also includes many rare and and never-before-seen photographs. Assembled by Robin Turner, the book is dedicated to Stuart “Jammer” James, the group’s longtime tour manager, who died in 2015.

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Speaking to Billboard about the book last September, Simons offered, “I guess there’s no end date, but we are nearer to the end of The Chemical Brothers than we are the beginning… It has been good to reflect and remember some history. I guess you’ve got to do it before you start forgetting everything, and I’ve got a really good memory.”

“He remembers, like, every small gig above a barber shop we ever did,” added Rowlands. “Then someone would produce a photograph of it and I’d be like, ‘Oh, gotcha. Maybe we did do that…’ But one of the things about our band is, we don’t like stopping and reflecting. I always want to move on to the next thing. This book really felt like stopping and reflecting.”

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“Early on, Oasis was accepted as part of that culture,” Noel Gallagher says in the book. “Mixmag gave Definitely Maybe full marks and an incredible review when it came out. When I picked up the guitar and started to write again, the inclusiveness of the lyrics in house music showed up in my songs and became a big part of it. A song like ‘Live Forever’ would never have existed and wouldn’t have been called that before acid house. It would have been melancholy. The euphoria of acid house was so engrained in me, I was so into it and what I loved about it was the inclusivity. Songs were about us, they weren’t personal, they were about the collective. I adopted that and put it into my music.”

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“There were a few electronic bands playing live in the early nineties,” Simons says of the group’s early days. “We’d gone to see Kraftwerk when we were at university in 1991 and Tom had been in [prior dance act] Ariel, so we knew it was something that could happen, but initially we just DJed. We got offered to do [the club night] Sabresonic very early on; we’d only done a handful of remixes and [Chemical Brothers EP] Fourteenth Century Sky was just out. From the very start, we knew we didn’t want to be in the spotlight on stage. We decided that we wanted to have visuals projected right on top of us. And lots of strobes. That ethos has been the same for every gig we’ve played in the 30-odd years since.”

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“Ultimately, I think The Chemical Brothers have a great predilection for exploration,” says Beck, who worked with the duo on 2015’s “Wide Open” and 2023’s “Skipping Like a Stone.” “Their records always seem to take you to different places. They kind of sit in an unusual place between different eras of electronic music and DJ culture. It’s like they have one foot in multiple decades at the same time in a way that is utterly unique among their peers.”

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“[1997 sophomore album] Dig Your Own Hole was us giving free rein to all of the different influences that were feeding into us from all around the world,” says Simons. “It was the most extreme expression of that, one where you could have a track like ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ sitting alongside ‘The Private Psychedelic Reel’. They’re completely different forms of music but they each evolved from everything that was channelled in, that fed into the making of Dig Your Own Hole. For us, our sound was entirely natural. It wasn’t something we sat down and pondered, tried to perfect. We had no intention of making a pure electronic dance record; we always wanted all of those external forces to be reflected.”

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“Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the ’70s” by Alan Paul

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A 352-page hardcover, Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band delves into history of one of the rock band’s most celebrated albums: Brothers and Sisters. The book also offers insight into the band’s rise and the influence that historic events had on them, including former President Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign, Gregg Allman’s marriage to Cher, and the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen. The book is based on never-before-heard interviews with those close to the band — and Betts and Allman themselves — conducted by Allman Brothers Band archivist, photographer, and “Tour Mystic” Kirk West, according to the book’s official description.