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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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Jill MansellDemi doesn?t expect her summer in Cornwall to hold anything out of the ordinary. As a waitress, working all hours to make ends meet, washing dishes and serving ice creams seems to be as exciting as the holiday season is about to get.That?s until she meets Cal Penwith. An outsider, like herself, Cal is persuaded to let Demi help him renovate his holiday resort, Kilhallon Park. Set above an idyllic Cornish cove, the once popular destination...
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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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St Clare's volume 3
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Pat and Isabel look forward to their first summer term at St Clare's. They soon make friends with new girl Carlotta, who has a secret past that she's desperate to hide. But sneaky Prudence finds out and tells everybody. How will the class react? There'll be mischief at St Clare's!.
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The river maid volume 2
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The second book in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court1873. When Carrie Manning?s father dies her mother, Esther, is heartbroken. Essie leaves London to convalesce with her good friend Lady Alice, and it is down to Carrie to look after her family and take charge of the shipping company that her father has left behind.But the company is in dire straits, forcing Carrie seek work as a companion to Maria Colville. When Carrie...
6) One summer
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Celebrity Magazine volume 2
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A summer spent travelling across America with photojournalist Shade Colby was not photographer Bryan's idea of a dream assignment. But Bryan will have to manage if she wants the cross-country shoot for a book they're both salivating over.
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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...
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Blossom Street volume 6
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2009
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Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - Candis Lydia?s newest knitting class is called ?Knit to Quit?. It has four members: Abbie, a woman who is dealing with a broken engagement; Alix, who wants to quit smoking before she gets pregnant; Margaret; and - for the first time - a man, Brian Hutchinson, who joins the class to help deal with stress. There?s also the chance to find out what?s been happening with other Blossom Street regulars including Lydia...
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Little Tiger Press
Pub. Date
2024
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When Lillie spends the summer in Wales with her family, she can't help but feel like the baby of the group. Her big sister Frankie would rather spend time with their older cousin Lana than play with her, and no one else seems to notice how lonely she is. Then during a boat trip Lillie spots a young dolphin swimming alongside them, and for a short while all her worries melt away. Later, when Frankie and Lana are particularly mean to her, Lillie decides...
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2023
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Kofi is used to stuff going wrong, he's usually in detention or about to be. But when he finds out his best friend Kelvin has a photographic memory, he comes up with a genius money-making scheme. The whole school is obsessed with music, no one can ever make out the words, so the boys hit the jackpot selling a new fanzine full of song lyrics: PAPER JAM. It's not long before one of the teacher's tells Kofi: 'You could be a real leader at this school,...
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Harper
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2016
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Summer Freeman returns to the waterside village of Willowbeck to rescue the Canal Boat Caf�, her late mother?s picturesque narrowboat, which has run into choppy waters. A family friend, Valerie, has been trying to keep things afloat, but the coffee machine is jammed, the cake offerings are paltry, and not all of the locals want to see the caf� succeed. Help comes from the boat next door, in the shape of handsome wildlife photographer, Mason and...
12) Sea glass summer
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Recovering from a painful divorce, Sarah Draycott has moved to the picture-postcard village of Sea Glass on the Maine coast, and is soon caught up in the lives of its inhabitants. As she helps elegant but troubled widow Gwen cope with her desperately ill son, and assists nine-year-old orphan Oliver in uncovering the secrets surrounding the mysterious Cully Mansion, Sarah?s broken heart begins to heal. She isn?t looking for new romance - but love finds...
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Royal Spyness volume 14
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2020
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Georgie's best friend, Belinda, inherits a spooky old house in Cornwall and asks Georgie to go with her to inspect the property. When they arrive, they meet Rose, a woman Belinda knew as a child when she spent her summers with her grandmother in Cornwall. Belinda never liked Rose, who has always been bossy and a bit of a bully, but when Belinda's house proves to be uninhabitable, Rose invites them to stay with her. Rose is now married to Tony Summers,...
14) Rhubarb Lemonade
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An award-winning novel about family old and new, friendship growing into romance, the beauty of the sea and a hot summer on a Swedish island Vinga dreams of the sea. She's going to be a sailor when she grows up, sailing to distant lands. At home, back in the city, Mum is sad and Dad has left for good. But here with Granddad on the island, all her problems feel far away. Summer goes on as usual, with porridge for breakfast, drinking rhubarb lemonade...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Kathleen is eighty years old. After a run-in with an intruder, her daughter wants her to move into a residential home. She?s not having any of it. What she craves - needs - is adventure.Liza is drowning under the daily stress of family life. The last thing she needs is her mother jetting off on a wild holiday, making Liza dream of a solo break of her own.Martha is having a quarter-life crisis. Unemployed, unloved and uninspired, she just can?t get...
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Pub. Date
2019
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'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with.' Tikka Molloy was 11 and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, growing up in an isolated suburb in Australia surrounded by encroaching bushland. That summer, the hottest on record, was when the Van Apfel sisters - Hannah, the beautiful Cordelia and...
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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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Avon
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2018
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When Sofia Bianchi?s father Aldo dies, it makes her stop and look at things afresh. Having been his carer for so many years, she knows it?s time for her to live her own life - and to fulfil some promises she made to Aldo in his final days.So there?s nothing for it but to escape to Italy?s Umbrian mountains where, tucked away in a sleepy Italian village, lie plenty of family secrets waiting to be discovered. There, Sofia also finds Amy who is desperately...
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Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles apart and barely on speaking terms. But then Polly's fortunes change unexpectedly and her world comes crashing down. Left penniless and with nowhere else to go, she's forced back to the village where she and Clare grew up, and the sisters...
20) The Cove
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Summer Suspense Mysteries volume 1
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The perfect escape ... Gabrielle Adams has it all - brains, beauty, a handsome fianc� and a dream job in publishing. Until, one day, everything changes. The ?Underground Killer? takes his victims when they least expect it: standing on the edge of a busy Tube platform, as they wait for a train to arrive through the murky underground tunnels of London. Gabrielle soon learns that being a survivor is harder than being a victim, and she struggles to...
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