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Summer Blowout

by Claire Cook

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 288 pages

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A good makeup artist never panics. Bella Shaughnessy knows this. She's the resident makeup maven in a family of Boston Irish hair salon owners; she has an artful solution to almost every problem. But Bella feels bruised beyond the reach of even the best concealer when her half-sister runs ...

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* * * * Insightful,
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The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)

by Tove Jansson

Published: 2008-05-20

Paperback: 176 pages

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In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer?its sunlight and storms?into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the sum...

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Summer Crossing

by Truman Capote

Published: 2005-12-13

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Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously...

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Summer Crossing: A Novel

by Truman Capote

Published: 2005-10-25

Hardcover: 142 pages

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Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously...

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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

by Edward J. Larson

Published: 2006-10-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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The Summer Garden (Chesapeake Shores)

by Sherryl Woods

Published: 2012-01-31

Mass Market Paperback: 376 pages

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Falling for "Maddening Moira" O'Malley was the unexpected highlight of Luke O'Brien's Dublin holiday. So when she pays a surprise visit to Chesapeake Shores, Luke is thrilled…at first. A fling with this wild Irish rose is one thing, but forever? Maybe someday, but not when he's totally f...

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The Summer Garden

by Paullina Simmons

Published: 2006

Hardcover: 776 pages

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The Summer Garden starts where the story left off before the epilogue of Tatiana and Alexander(Or The Bridge to Holy Cross for any Brits and Ozzies out there!). Though Alexander has joined Tatiana and their son Anthony in the US, part of him is still in the gulag Tatiana rescued him from, unable to move...

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* * * * Epic,
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The Summer Garden: A Love Story

by Paullina Simons

Published: 2011-06-21

Paperback: 752 pages

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The epic and monumental love story Paullina Simons began with her adored international bestseller The Bronze Horseman comes to a breathtaking conclusion. The Summer Garden is the third volume in Simons’s magnificent trilogy—a Russian Thorn Birds—which follows a love that survived the...

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* * * * Dramatic,
Epic,
Fantastic

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The Summer Guest

by Justin Cronin

Published: 2005-05-31

Paperback: 369 pages

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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his radiant novel in stories, Mary and O’Neil, Justin Cronin has already been hailed as a writer of astonishing gifts. Now Cronin’s new novel, The Summer Guest, fulfills that promise—and more. With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrati...

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The Summer Hideaway (The Lakeshore Chronicles)

by Susan Wiggs

Published: 2010-02-23

Paperback: 421 pages

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Never get attached?Private nurse and protected witness Claire Turner lives by this motto. Fleeing a treacherous past, she knows no other way.Never give up?In the twilight of his life, George Bellamy makes it his final wish to reconcile with an estranged brother. He and Claire journey to Wi...