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"There are summers that will change your life. There are summers that may end it. In the lush green hills beyond Florence sits the Villa Medici--a graceful pensione surrounded by manicured gardens. Rachel, a college student from an unfashionable London suburb, can't believe her luck in landing a summer job here. Especially when she's drawn into a circle of privileged young sophisticates, including her glamorous coworker Diana, who promises to help...
2) Bleak harbor
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Bleak Harbor novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Summertime in Bleak Harbor means tourists, overpriced restaurants, and the Dragonfly Festival. One day before the much-awaited and equally chaotic celebration, Danny Peters, the youngest member of the family that founded the town five generations ago, disappears. When Danny's mother, Carey, and stepfather, Pete, receive a photo of their brilliant, autistic, and socially withdrawn son tied to a chair, they fear the worst. But there's also more to...
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"Malibu 1983. Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of one night, each of their lives will be changed forever in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Malibu is buzzing with anticipation for Nina Riva's annual party. Everyone wants to be in the company of the famous Rivas: Nina, the surfer and model; her brothers, Jay and Hud, one a championship...
4) Summer light
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Single mom and wedding planner May Taylor, guided by the psychic visions of her five-year-old daughter, Kylie, falls in love with professional hockey player and sports legend Martin Cartier, not knowing Martin is hiding a core of rage, heartache, and isolation that threatens their future.
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Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people.
Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1030L
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English
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Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, To the Lighthouse is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universality. Observed across the years at their vacation house facing the gales of the North Atlantic, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But to Clara it's just...home. The only thing out of the ordinary is that after a hurricane hit, something happened to Clara's memory that made her forget everything from last summer. Sometimes things come back to her in drips, like a faucet that hasn't been turned off properly. Clara tries to move on, but it's hard when everyone on the island is treating her like she's broken...especially...
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"Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show... from the author of Good Rich People. When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had--starting with horses. She...
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"Seventeen-year-old Leo is sitting in an empty playground at night, listening to the sound of partying and pop music filtering in from the beach, when he sees another, more popular boy strangle himself with the ropes of the swings. Then, in a panic, Leo drags him to the beach and buries him. Over the next 24 hours, Leo wanders around the campsite like a sleepwalker, haunted by guilt and fear, and distracted by his desire for a girl named Luce. Meanwhile,...
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Equipped with a burner phone and a new job, Cassie Peters has left her hectic and secretive life in New York City for the refuge of her hometown of Mammoth Lakes, California. There, she begins working again with Yosemite Search and Rescue, where a case she worked a decade ago continues to haunt her. She quickly falls into old patterns, joining a group of fellow seasonal workers and young adventurers who have made Yosemite their home during the summer....
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Beth Lowe receives a scrapbook from her long-estranged mother entitled The Book of Summers, filled with photographs and mementos recording the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary--before it all came brutally to an end when she turned sixteen.
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When Joanna Whitman's famous ex-husband dies in a car accident, she doesn't know what to feel. But when she discovers that the young woman with him in the crash is pregnant, Joanna feels compelled to act, knowing exactly how brutal the media spotlight will be. Ashley Blake can't believe it when Joanna shows up in her hospital room and suggests they hide away at her beach house. But alone and pregnant, Ashley can't turn down Joanna's offer. All Ashley...
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2023.
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English
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"Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart. In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days of high school and on the precipice of all the things teenagers look forward to when anything in life seems possible . . . from falling in love, to finding their dream jobs, to becoming who they were meant to be. In 2019, Kasey has...
15) Summer of storms
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Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Charleston photojournalist Anna Jamieson must discover who is a friend and who is an enemy when she travels to New York to investigate her sister's decades-old murder.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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The lives, loves, fates, and fortunes of the colorful inhabitants of Weneshkeen, a resort town on the shore of Lake Michigan, both townies and ritzy summer visitors, intertwine over the course of a single tumultuous summer.
18) Death in summer
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1998.
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There were three deaths that summer ... the first was Letitia's, sudden and quite unexpected. The next came after Letitia's mother moved in to care for the baby. After the last nanny surprisingly returned, her arrival heralded the third tragedy.
19) Osprey Island
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2004.
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English
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Returning to her island home community, Suzy Chizek explores her lingering feelings for Vietnam veteran Roddy Jacobs, a time that is marked by a tragic fire and the rescue of a young boy from his alcoholic father.
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