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Summer People: A Novel (P.S.)

by Brian Groh

Published: 2007-09-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Nathan Empson has just accepted the most unusual summer job of his life. In exchange for serving as a "caretaker” for Ellen Broderick, the eccentric matriarch of an exclusive coastal community, he'll earn a generous paycheck and gain access to one of the last bastions of old New Engl...

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Summer Reading: A Novel

by Hilma Wolitzer

Published: 2008-05-20

Paperback: 267 pages

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Summer Rental

by Mary Kay Andrews

Published: 2012-05-08

Paperback: 684 pages

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Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction....Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a j...

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Summer Secrets

by Barbara Freethy

Published: 2003-05-06

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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With Summer Secrets, bestselling author Barbara Freethy presents her most powerful contemporary novel-the story of three unique sisters...the secrets that bind them for life...and the summer that will set them free... Eight years ago, the three McKenna sisters-Kate, Ashley, and Caroline...

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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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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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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,...