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1) The affair
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It started in Lake Como, where it should have ended ? Connie McGabe longs for the summers where she leads tours across Europe. But it?s on the glamorous shores of Lake Como that she is truly swept away, when Jared, a much younger man, falls for her. Despite resisting his advances, Connie finds that he?s got under her skin. And so begins a long, hot, intoxicating summer where Connie succumbs and breaks her marriage vows. At the end of the season Connie...
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Pub. Date
2015
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'Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river. The terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls. The scent of lavender at the end of a hot day. 'It was a family house.' As summer beckons, Evie?s family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be...
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Set in the idyllic beauty of a late Edwardian summer in the country, where the passionate pursuit of unexpected love and the village outrage over the arrival of a female Latin teacher will all be swept away by the onset of a war no one could imagine. East Sussex, 1914. It's the end of an idyllic summer and Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha in the pretty coastal town of Rye. Casting aside the recent sabre rattling...
4) Dog days
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid volume 4
Publisher
Puffin
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The way I like to spend my summer holidays is in front of the TV, playing video games with the curtains closed and the light turned off. Unfortunately, Mom's idea of the perfect summer holiday is different from mine. Greg's mom has a vision of "family togetherness" that really doesn't sound a whole lot of fun. But there's a brand-new addition to the Heffley family to contend with and it looks like Greg might be outnumbered. It could be a real dog...
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Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern, four lovely children, and such wonderful dreams. But all that changes one fateful summer when American millionaire Patrick O?Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and money to burn. As love and hate vie for a town?s quiet heart, old traditions begin to crumble away. Patrick O?Neill means to build the grand hotel of his dreams, with its promise of wealth...
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Isabel Dalhousie volume 14
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Isabel has accepted an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief and is supportive of Scottish nationalism. But his fervent beliefs are threatening family harmony, especially because his sister Catriona?s socialist views put her at odds with her brother. When their mother, Laura, a fellow committee...
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Jacky Ha-Ha volume 2
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her. Jacky reluctantly signs up for a summer job in her resort town of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, where tourists come to enjoy the beach and fun carnival atmosphere. Now she has serious responsibilities like her job and babysitting her younger sisters, but Jacky...
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Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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'Raine sometimes complains that nothing exciting is ever gonna happen in Grace again. Daddy told her careful what you wish for.' Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine. Then Summer goes missing. Grace is already simmering, and with this new tragedy the police have their hands full keeping the peace. Only...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family begins to unravel. Marital secrets, new and long-hidden, surface - with devastating effect. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up. In turn, her husband, Mike, becomes frustrated with his increasingly distant wife. While teenagers Tilly and Ben are about to step out into the world, nine-year-old Ada...
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Pub. Date
2018
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From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her dazzling sixth novel, The Clockmaker's Daughter. My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of...
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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'When we go back to Devon I may not fit back into my old life. Too much may have happened to me ?' This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious 13-year-old, is spending in Paris with his beautiful mother, Alice, who is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian �migr�. This is the summer that the bewitching Valentina beckons from her sofa, and Lewis discovers an exquisite new world...
12) Rodrick rules
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Puffin
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney, read by Dan Russell. Whatever you do, don't ask Greg about his summer vacation because he definitely doesn't want to talk about it . . . It's a brand-new year and a brand-new journal and Greg is keen to put the humiliating (and secret!) events of last summer firmly behind him. But someone knows everything - someone whose job it is to most definitely not keep...
13) The Merman
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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While vacationing in Scotland, Zeta meets a rather unusual fellow. He's a terrific swimmer. He chats with seals. And he has a fish tail. Marinus is a merman - definitely not your average summer friend. Who else could teach Zeta everything from swimming to astronomy to French? It's always an adventure when Marinus is around, and as the summer ends, Zeta knows she'll miss her new friend terribly. Luckily, Marinus has one last surprise in store for her...
14) Foxglove summer
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Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children. But while you can take the London copper out of London you can't ta
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Thirty-year-old Paige Dougall?s life is a mess. Only a year ago she was smashing all of her life goals - handsome husband, high-flying job, cute kid. But in just under twelve months everything has gone wrong. Nursing a broken heart, single mother Paige returns to Kindness Cottage, her childhood home nestled in a picture-perfect Scottish village, to try and get her life together. Despite the backdrop of rolling hills and lavender-scented air, Paige...
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ABC Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES) AND YAEL STONE (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK). Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling ? St Valentine?s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return ? An Australian classic, the disappearance of three...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Taking the listener on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of 1980s London and ?Cool Britannia? in the 1990s right up to the present day, One Hundred Summers is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary family. Along the way, Vanessa Branson recalls the rough and tumble of her chaotic but happy childhood; growing up alongside her older brother Richard, entrepreneurial...
18) Cause of death
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Rina Martin Mysteries volume 6
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Life is looking up for Rina Martin, with the expected revival of her television career, but as her happy summer ends, storm clouds are on the horizon . . . Summer in Frantham has been long and lazy. In the Martin Household, change is afoot. Tim is now engaged and preparing to move out, and there is also news of the revival of Rina?s television career. But nothing stays peaceful for long. Old enemies have returned, the skeletal remains of a woman are...
19) Bitter orange
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Fig Tree
Pub. Date
2018
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From the attic of a dilapidated English country house, she sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It is 1969 and they are spending the summer in the rooms below hers while Frances writes a report on the follies in the garden for the absent American owner. But she is distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she discovers a peephole which gives her access to her neighbours'...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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The book: - Identifies the blunders made during the police search for Madeleine - Draws on confidential police sources - Analyses the thousands of pages of the Portuguese police dossier - Pinpoints the misreading of forensic evidence that - for a time - turned Kate and Gerry McCann into formal suspects - Follows the clues indicating that the McCanns' apartment was watched, that the apartment had been visited by a phoney 'charity collector' - Reports,...
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