Wood, Maryrose
Summary: Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOHilderbrand, Elin.
Summary: Visiting Nantucket with their children during a summer vacation, three women befriend a local youth and share their struggles with such challenges as infidelity, the loss of a job under scandalous circumstances, and health problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILWibberley, Emily
Summary: Seventeen-year-old volleyball star Kaylee Jordan lives a life of player rankings, constant training, and a carefully curated social media full of followers watching to see if she'll go pro out of high school like her famous mom. Her one refuge, and the thing she looks forward to every summer? The vacation her family spends in Malibu with the Freeman-Yus. This year, there's only one problem:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WIBMorgan, Sarah
Summary: "In this uplifting novel of friendship, the festive season, and risking everything for the biggest gift of all... It was supposed to be Christy Sullivan's perfect Christmas getaway--a trip to Lapland with her family and best friend, Alix. But facing a make-or-break marriage crisis, Christy desperately needs time alone with her husband. Her solution? Alix can take Christy's little daughter to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MORPatterson, James
Summary: Excitedly accompanying his human family on a camping vacation in the woods, canine Junior happily chases raccoons, fetches sticks and doggy-paddles in the lake, before an obedience-obsessed human arrives and spoils his fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PATAlexander, Neely Tubati
Summary: "A delightful Caribbean-set novel about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALEKuehn, Stephanie
Summary: "While staying with her uncle in Lake Paloma, Bea Fletcher soon discovers the town has mysteries of its own, including the unsolved drowning of a teenage girl - a case that leads her closer to home than she ever imagined"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC KUEFlorence, Debbi Michiko
Summary: When Jasmine and family visit Kabo, the Japanese village where her grandmother grew up, she is homesick and angry with her older sister for not playing with her, but when they start to compromise, they discover ways to bridge their differences. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make a folding fan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FLOQuain, Amanda
Summary: Margaret Dashwood is all set for a carefully curated summer cruise until her heartbroken sister Marianne crashes her vacation, prompting Margaret to devise a series of fake dates to satisfy Marianne's romantic yearnings while navigating her own budding feelings for the charming crew member Gabe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC QUATaylor, Will
Summary: "Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice though, so he goes. On his first day, he takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Just like that, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAYKinsella, Sophie
Summary: Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINYang, Kelly
Summary: "After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC YANWynne, Phoebe
Summary: "Phoebe Wynne's The Ruins is a suspenseful, feminist Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca, and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of a summer holiday on the French Riviera. Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYNFletcher, Jessica
Summary: "Jessica Fletcher's sunny beach vacation with her nephew's family takes a dark turn in this new installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica is delighted when her nephew Grady invites her to spend a few days with his family in an oceanside New York bungalow. She packs her bags and heads down to the city, ready to spend some quality time with Grady, his wife, Donna, and their young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEMacmillan, Gilly
Summary: By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands. In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend getaway. Their husbands will be joining them in the morning. Or so they think. But when they get to Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note that claims one of their husbands has been murdered. Their phones are out of range. There's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACPhillips, Helen
Summary: "After losing her job to artificial intelligence, May, in a city populated by intelligent robots called "hums," takes her family on a three-night respite to the Botanical Garden, a rare green refuge, where her children come under threat and she is forced to trust a hum to save them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PHIQuinn, Meghan
Summary: "After years of working her tail off at her event-planning business, Maggie Mitchell is ready for a vacation. With nothing on her mind but R & R, she's enjoying the warm weather of Bora Bora when in saunters Brody McFadden, her brother's best friend and also her sworn enemy. Thanks to years of tension between the two-kicked off by a make-out session at her brother's wedding that ended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Follows the Stevens family--Mr. and Mrs. Stevens along with their children, Mary, Dick and Ernie--as they spend their annual two-week September vacation at the Seaview guesthouse in the English seaside town of Bognor Regis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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Summary: "There are zero reasons for Theo Ripley to look forward to his family vacation. Not only are he, sister Laura, and nature-obsessed Dad going to Big Bend, the least popular National Park, but once there, the family will be camping. And Theo is an indoor animal...Then, Theo's dad hits him with a whopper of a surprise...an auditioning-to-be-his-stepmom girlfriend. Theo must find a way to face his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCarlson, Melody
Summary: "It's official: Brynna Phillips is done with men. They only break your heart. But just when she makes this declaration, her friend Jan convinces Brynna to join her on a camping vacation in Sonoma Wine Country. As they wind their way toward their destination, spanking-new mini camper in tow, Brynna recalls her teenage camp romance with a boy named Leroy. How can it have been nearly 30 years ago?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "A girls trip to a luxurious French chateau turns from dream vacation to nightmare"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILJestin, Victor
Summary: After witnessing the suicide of a popular boy on a playground at night and doing nothing to stop him, a panicked teenager drags the body to the beach and buries it, becoming trapped in a guilt spiral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JESMallery, Susan
Summary: Jumping at the chance to visit her beloved great-aunt in California to escape her life, Robyn begins to see herself and the people she loves most with a bit more clarity, pushing her to take chances she hadn't dreamed of before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2022