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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family's feudal estate in upcountry, Pakistan. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family-to make him a man. He enlists Ali, a local teenager, in this project, hoping his presence will prove instructive. Instead, over the course of one hot, indolent season, attraction blooms...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""A lyrical, emotional novel...Reminiscent of HBO's hit The White Lotus, Bishop's tale will draw readers in with its realistic descriptions of the island. The obvious read-alike is My Dark Vanessa, and the plot-driven tension will appeal to fans of psychological suspense." --Booklist (starred review) Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met....
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three summer stories set in the same rambling Victorian lodge off the coast of Washington, written by three authors in one volume.
Old things : Catherine, divorced for almost a decade, encounters the love of her teenage life and falls for him all over again.
Private paradise : Beth, a widow, and her son share the place with an attractive stranger and his difficult twelve-year-old.
Island time : Architect Mitch Rutherford is joined on the island...
44) Flip flop!
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Rhyming text explores the many options that summer presents to two best friends, from swimming in a pool versus swimming in the sea, to wearing flip flops versus going barefoot.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Jenna Davis flees to the close-knit community of Angel's Bay [on the California coast] with a seven-year-old child, a dangerous secret, and a heart full of pain. She wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. When she sees a teenager plunge off the pier, she doesn't hesitate to dive in after her. But saving the desperate girl's life thrusts Jenna into a spotlight she can ill afford. Suddenly everyone in town wants to know her story--a story that...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Life is like a book: to get the good stuff, you have to turn the page. Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in the city that never sleeps. She discovers a life filled...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This summer's not going as Abby Atkinson planned. A thieving PhD adviser, a screeching halt to her grad program, and zero job offers have left her high and dry. Nothing a little eat, pray, love across the Mediterranean can't fix, right? Or eat, pray, tutor, more like. Her dissertation might be dead, but she can still teach. She'll just have to do it for six weeks on a superyacht with a billionaire and his daughter. A playboy billionaire, according...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Felicia “Fe Fe” Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother, whom she adores, in building 4950 of Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes. It’s the summer of 1999, and her high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She, with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin, form a tentative trio and, for a brief moment, carve out for themselves...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted-a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life-when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything.A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew Walker,...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Nothing ever changes at Wauregan." That mystique is the tradition of the idyllic island colony off the shore of Long Island, the comforting tradition that its summer dwellers have lived by for over half a century. But in the summer of 1948, after a world war has claimed countless men - even those who came home - the time has come to deal with history's indelible scars. Helen Wadsworth's husband, Arthur, was declared missing in action during an OSS...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Restoration of Celia Fairchild, comes a novel about the meaning of family and the places we call home. If you love “southern summer” fiction authors like Mary Alice Monroe and Kristy Woodson Harvey you’ll love this delicious novel about family, friendship, and finding your true path in life. Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing...
52) The ruins
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Phoebe Wynne's The Ruins is a suspenseful, feminist Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca, and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of a summer holiday on the French Riviera. Welcome to the Chateau des Setes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby adores her parents' house in France, but this August, everything...
53) Malibu renace
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Malibu: agosto de 1983 Como cada ano, ha llegado el dia de la fiesta de final de verano organizada por Nina Riva, y la expectacion es maxima. Todo el mundo quiere estar cerca de los famosos hermanos Riva: Nina, la talentosa surfista y supermodelo; Jay y Hud, un campeon del surf y un conocido fotografo respectivamente; y la adorada Kit, la mas joven de la familia. Los cuatro hermanos despiertan autentica fascinacion tanto en Malibu como en el resto...
54) The whispers
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Language
English
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"A propulsive page-turner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens-and what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulses On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late into the night. Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears...
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A reunion in Pincecraft: When sisters Sharon and Sherilyn Kramer attend a wedding in Shipshewana, one of them returns with a new penpal while the other returns to her job at the bakery. After sending weekly letters back and forth, Sherry and Graham Holland arrange a reunion in Pinecraft. Upon Graham's arrival, however, he realizes he's been writing to the wrong sister. He decides to use the reunion as a way to get to know both sisters, but can he...
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Language
English
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"Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...
Author
Series
Black lagoon adventures volume 17
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After getting so bundled up that he can hardly move, Hubie tries to enjoy his snow day off from school.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter's reputation, it's Philadelphia's strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermaes scarf, and Cadillac...
59) The summer book
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter are away on a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself.
This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of...
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