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1) French braid
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping...
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English
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While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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Language
English
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What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah's loving and generous tech-mogul brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It's his birthday gift to Hannah and includes their spouses and another couple. The six friends need this trip with good food, good company and lots of R &...
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Language
English
Description
"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college--they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now--for reasons they're still not discussing--they don't. They broke...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellis questions everything she believed after losing an all-consuming job, while Julia struggles with insecurities that threaten a loving relationship and Dorie confronts a maelstrom of problems after a shocking betrayal.
6) Summerwater
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A series of vignettes offer the idle thoughts of a group of strangers vacationing in a Scottish holiday park during a very rainy day, lost in their own little worlds, until a shocking event unites them.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history. It was meant to be a harmless prank. Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn't have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends didn't call her the Little Sheriff for nothing. But even good girls have secrets....
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English
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"A young workaholic avoiding home for the holidays discovers that you can't run away from who you are--a heartfelt Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Everly Lancaster always dreamed of leaving her hometown in rural Illinois. Now she helps run a burgeoning startup in Chicago, where her professional goals leave little time for friends...or a vacation. When a massive snowstorm hits, Everly's mother urges her to...
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Language
English
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"One woman discovers the beauty in chaos in this poignant and heartwarming story about the threads that hold family together from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery. With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can't afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a plan for her future. She nurtured her family and neglected herself. But how's she supposed to think when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend...
14) Gone-Away Lake
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Unsworths’ marriage isn’t as perfect as it seems. After two decades together, they’ve drifted apart, talking little and having sex even less. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their twentieth wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway. They have a blast...until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted. Over the course...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arthur is unhappy about going on vacation with his family, but he shows them how to make the best of a bad situation when they end up stuck in a motel because of rain.
Author
Series
Magic bunny volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Becky's vacation isn't at all what she expected, and she is feeling lonely. But when she meets magical bunny Arrow, her summer starts looking up"--
18) Just a sigh
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix, played by the stunning Emmanuelle Devos (Desplechin's Christmas Tale), makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train, she meets a mysterious English stranger. Drawn toward him, she follows him and, at least for a few hours, falls in love with him before facing what could be a new life.
19) Time of wonder
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st Harcourt young classics ed.
Physical Desc
x, 212 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Portia and her family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.
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