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Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Modern Classics)

by Bette Greene

Published: 2006-04-20

Paperback: 240 pages

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Minutes before the train pulled into the station in Jenkinsville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen knew something exciting was going to happen. But she never could have imagined that her summer would be so memorable. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp in Jenkinsville....

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The Summer of Naked Swim Parties: A Novel (P.S.)

by Jessica Anya Blau

Published: 2008-05-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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Fourteen-year-old Jamie will never forget the summer of 1976. It's the summer when she has her first boyfriend, cute surfer Flip Jenkins; it's the summer when her two best friends get serious about sex, cigarettes, and tanning; it's the summer when her parents throw, yes, naked swim parti...

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Summer of Night

by Dan Simmons

Published: 2011-07-05

Paperback: 528 pages

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This masterfully crafted horror classic, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons, will bring you to the edge of your seat, hair standing on end and blood freezing in your veinsIt's the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forg...

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The Summer of Ordinary Ways: A Memoir

by Nicole Lea Helget

Published: 2007-03-01

Paperback: 182 pages

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Practicing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the county road with semi trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens ...

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Summer of Roses

by Luanne Rice

Published: 2006-05-30

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Few novelists today write with the power to move our hearts, quicken our souls, and enrich our lives like Luanne Rice. In New York Times bestsellers such as Dance with Me, Beach Girls, and The Secret Hour, she vividly captures the dramas that make all the difference in love and families. N...

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The Summer of Skinny Dipping

by Amanda Howells

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Sometimes I still wake up shivering in the early hours of the morning, drowning in dreams of being out there in the ocean that summer, of looking up at the moon and feeling as invisible and free as a fish. But I'm jumping ahead, and to tell the story right I have to go back to the very beg...

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Summer of the Bear

by Bella Pollen

Published: 2011-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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In the summer of 1979, a tamed grizzly bear is tempted by the lure of freedom and the wild open sea ...Meanwhile, the sudden death of British diplomat Nicky Fleming has left his wife closed down with shock. Relocated from Cold-War-riven Germany to a remote Hebridean island, Letty Fleming is haunted by...

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The Summer of the Bear: A Novel

by Bella Pollen

Published: 2012-06-12

Paperback: 448 pages

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Best-selling author Bella Pollen’s imaginative new novel received stellar reviews in hardcover and was chosen as a Richard & Judy Book Club title.In 1980 Germany, Cold War tensions are once again escalating and a mole is suspected in the British Embassy. So when the clever diplomat Nicky...

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The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, Book 2)

by Madeleine L'Engle

Published: 1984-01-01

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This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying.

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Summer of the Monkeys

by Wilson Rawls

Published: 1998-12-29

Paperback: 288 pages

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The last thing a fourteen-year-old boy expects to find along an old Ozark river bottom is a tree full of monkeys. Jay Berry Lee's grandpa had an explanation, of course--as he did for most things. The monkeys had escaped from a traveling circus, and there was a handsome reward in store for ...