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1) French braid
Author
Language
English
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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...
Author
Language
English
Description
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 &...
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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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...
5) 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.
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Language
English
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Description
"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...
7) Choppy water
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 54
Language
English
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Description
"Stone Barrington and his friends are vacationing in Maine when their leisure is suddenly disrupted by extreme weather. To make matters worse, the inclement conditions allow for a menacing adversary to sneak in unnoticed and deliver a chilling message. Soon it becomes clear that the target of the incident is one of Stone's closest companions, and that these enemies have a grander scheme in mind. From the bustling streets of New York City to the sun-drenched...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer at Grandmary's summer home on Goose Lake, Samantha and her twin cousins decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
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...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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...
12) 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
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"--
15) 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.
16) Diavola
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A dysfunctional family is haunted by a vengeful Italian ghost, in a darkly funny vacation horror novel.
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.
18) Santa & Company
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When longtime friends Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina reunited for a holiday singles cruise, it not only deepened their bond, it changed their lives. Now they're getting together for another adventure, and what better winter setting than a fabulous ski lodge? Crisp snow and fresh air by day, cozy fires and delicious food by night, capped off by meeting up with their significant others for a New Year's Eve celebration it's perfect. At least, it's perfect...
20) The vacationers
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.