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Summer Shift: A Novel

by Lynn Kiele Bonasia

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Forty-four-year-old Cape Cod clam bar owner Mary Hopkins is stuck in the cycle of her seasonal business; overwhelmed by the relentless influx of new names and fresh young faces, she feels as if life is passing her by. In the first days of the summer season, a young waitress's tragic accide...

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* * * Dramatic,
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The Summer We Fell Apart: A Novel

by Robin Antalek

Published: 2009-12-16

Kindle Edition: 386 pages

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“[A] well-crafted and cunning debut novel…a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.”—Publishers WeeklyThe Summer We Fell Apart by newcomer Robin Antalek is a poignant, funny, and totally engrossing novel of family disasters and sibling rivalry—and it marks the debut of a...

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The Summer We Got Saved

by Pat Cunningham Devoto

Published: 2006-04-10

Paperback: 432 pages

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Tab and Tina have lived sheltered lives, but when their progressive aunt Eugenia comes for her yearly visit, things are never to be the same again. Taken from their conservative town in Alabama to the Highlander Folk School, a place where blacks and whites live together while working for integration,...

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* * * Fun,
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The Summer We Read Gatsby: A Novel

by Danielle Ganek

Published: 2010-05-27

Hardcover: 292 pages

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A delightful comedy of manners about two sisters who must set aside their differences when they inherit a house in the Hamptons Half-sisters Cassie and Peck could not be more different. Cassie is a newly divorced journalist with her feet firmly planted on the ground; Peck is a vintage-ob...

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Summer Without Men

by Siri Hustvedt

Published: 2011-03-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks...

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The Summer Without Men: A Novel

by Siri Hustvedt

Published: 2011-04-26

Paperback: 182 pages

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"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women,...

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* * * * Unconvincing,
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The Summerhouse

by Jude Deveraux

Published: 2002-04-26

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Have you ever wanted to rewrite your past?Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating at a summerhouse in Maine, Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them...

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Summerland

by Michael Chabon

Published: 2004

Paperback: 512 pages

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The #1 "New York Times" bestseller is now available in paperback. "Chabon hits a high-flying home run, creating a vivid fantasy where baseball is king."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review).

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Summerland: A Novel

by Elin Hilderbrand

Published: 2013-03-19

Paperback: 416 pages

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A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passe...

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Summertime

by Liz Rigbey

Published: 2004-09-07

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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A New York investment banker must face her family's legacy of madness and murder when she returns to Northern California after her father's suspicious death.