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2022.
Description
"From debut author Alexandra Mae Jones comes a compelling, nuanced exploration of bi identity and body image with a ghostly backdrop--perfect for fans of Nina Lacour. Still reeling from a recent trauma, sixteen-year-old Dell is relieved when her mom suggests a stay at the family cabin. But the much-needed escape quickly turns into a disaster. The lake and woods are awash in trash left by a previous tenant. And worse, Dell's mom has invited her boyfriend's...
42) Lake life
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The Starling family is scattered across the country. Parents Richard and Lisa live in Ithaca, New York, and work at Cornell University. Their son Michael, a shoe salesman, resides with his elementary school teacher wife, Diane, in Dallas. His brother, Thad, an aspiring poet, makes his home in New York City with his famous painter boyfriend, Jake. But for years they've reunited for vacation each summer at their North Carolina lake house. Now that's...
44) A-frame
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Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In a fascinating look at this architectural pyhenomenon, Chad Randl tells the story of the "triangle" house from prehistoric Japan to its lifestyle-changing heyday in the 1960s.
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2020.
Description
"It's been sixteen years since Caretta "Cara" Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. Cara's niece Linnea returns to Sullivan's Island to begin a new career and an...
46) Eden: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Becca Meister Fitzpatrick, wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community, is the dutiful steward of her family's iconic summer tradition until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. While coming to terms with what is likely to be her last season in Long Harbor, she decides to introduce the child she gave up for adoption fifty years prior to the family. Inspired by her granddaughter's acceptance in the face...
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"Leaving one widow behind is unfortunate. Leaving three widows behind is just plain despicable. Oil heiress Kate Steele knew her not-so-dearly departed husband was a con man, but she's shocked that Conrad racked up two more wives without divorcing her first. The only remnant of their miserable marriage she plans to keep is their lakeside cabin in Bootleg, Texas. Unfortunately, she's not the only woman with that idea. Fiery, strong-willed Jamie wishes...
48) Welcome home
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A couple spends a weekend at a vacation rental home in the Italian countryside in an attempt to repair their relationship, but soon become victims of the homeowner's sinister plans.
49) Summer's lease
Pub. Date
c2005, 1989
Description
A family leases a Tuscan villa for vacation and becomes involved in finding the secrets of the owner.
Special features include: bios of John Gielgud and John Mortimer.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A divorced mom looking to reknit her unraveling family decides to purchase her family's remote mountain cabin from her dead uncle's estate, but once she arrives there with her kids, the family discovers that their "dead" relative is very much alive and needs their help protecting the mountain's secret from a ruthless developer.
52) Summer people
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When Arch Newton, a prominent New York attorney, dies in a plane crash on his way home from a business trip, his beautiful widow, Beth, can barely keep things together. Above all, though, she decides that she must continue the family tradition of going to Nantucket, and at the same time fulfill a promise that Arch made before he died. Beth invites Marcus, the son of Archs final and most challenging client, to spend the summer with her and her teenage...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This collection brings together 37 new and old cabins from across North America as inspiration for anyone who desires a peaceful retreat of their own. Within these pages, author Dale Mulfinger rekindles his love for this treasured American icon with fresh insights and seasoned strategies about the logic, utility, and beauty of cabin construction and with fascinating stories of the families that live in them.
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"Helen Street spent every summer of her childhood at her family's cedar-shake cottage on Long Island Sound. The youngest of four, she shared her mother Claire's athletic genes and relished the orchestrated games and competitions that filled those warm, endless days. Unlike her older siblings--fiery Charlotte, ambitious Thomas, middle-child Pammy--Helen rarely felt the pressure of her mother's high expectations. Thirty years later, with her brother...
56) Another summer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
From May through August various people rent a beach house by the Pacific. Each tenant seeks refuge from life's ups and downs.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The strangers: A couple staying at an isolated vacation home, returns from a wedding reception. They receive a knock on the door in the middle of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. As the night goes on, the reality of their psychological terror becomes more terrifying than anything both could have imagined. Now, they must go beyond what either of them thought they were capable of in order...
58) The cabin book
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"Once rustic & simple, the cabin is now comfortable & chic. 'The cabin book' offers a wonderful variety of forms & explores the most innovative designs in cabin architecture."
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A divorced mom looking to reknit her unraveling family decides to purchase her family's remote mountain cabin from her dead uncle's estate, but once she arrives there with her kids, the family discovers that their "dead" relative is very much alive and needs their help protecting the mountain's secret from a ruthless developer.
60) Like Cats & Dogs
Description
Spencer is a cat person. Lara is a dog person. Spencer is headed to a beach town to work on his thesis. Lara is coming to the same beach town to escape the shambles of her life. Their personalities couldn't be more different, but when a reservation screw up lands them, and their pets, in the same vacation rental house, they all have to figure out how to get along with each other.
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