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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 ...

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Summer of Two Wishes

by Julia London

Published: 2009-08-18

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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Whose wife was she?Macy Lockhart's life shattered in a moment with the news that her husband, Finn -- serving in the military overseas -- has been killed in the line of duty. Their ardent and devoted marriage is over, leaving Macy alone, empty, directionless. But while she tries to sustain...

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The Summer of Us

by Holly Chamberlin

Published: 2011-05-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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Gincy Gannon isn't exactly an easy fit with the upper crust Vineyard scene. Raised poor and precocious in Nowheresville, New Hampshire, she escaped to Boston after high school. Now a career at PBS fills her days, while her freewheeling sex life keeps her otherwise stimulated. Commitment is definitely...

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Summer On Blossom Street

by Debbie Macomber

Published: 2009-05-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Knitting and life. They're both about beginnings?and endings. That's why it makes sense for Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle's Blossom Street, to offer a class called Knit to Quit. It's for people who want to quit something?or someone!?and start a new phase of their lives.First...

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Summer People

by Elin Hilderbrand

Published: 2010-04-27

Paperback: 352 pages

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"Things get more twisted at every turn, with enough lies and betrayals to fuel a whole season of soap operas...readers will be hooked."?Publishers Weekly on Elin Hilderbrand's Summer PeopleEvery summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of sunshi...

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Summer People

by Aaron Stander

Published: 2009-07-01

Paperback: 260 pages

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It is late June in Michigan's gold coast resort area. The summer residents are settling in for the season and the tourists are beginning to flood the highways and beaches. But the idyllic vision of a summer at the shore is suddenly shattered by a gangland-style shooting. This murder is quickly followed...