This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author's bio: See author bio info. Description as follows: This is essentially an old-fashioned novel, because it is nourishing. It leaves a good taste in the mouth. It is spiced with wit and laced with vitality—everybody in it is glad to be alive—yet its basic ingredients are those two fundamental to a good story: courage and love. This is a book to read aloud, to lend to friends, to reread and, to treasure. “One Summer In Between is a vital story, rich with detail…Harriet Brown is mischievous, thoughtful, wicked, pert, acidly charming, and made, certainly, of the stuff-that-endures.”—Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
When Bebe shows up in Cleo's school, Cleo finds herself drawn to the new girl. Cleo's friendship with Bebe grows through a battle with cancer, vicious mean girls, and a trip to the Florida coast with their class. When tragedy strikes before fall semester, Cleo struggles to honor the plans they made the summer between senior year and college.
Coming home was never going to be easy - for anyone With her marriage over, her career in tatters, and her mother incapacitated, Sarah has no choice but to return to Lord Howe Island to run the family store. Paradise to most, to Sarah the tiny island might as well be a prison, where she is trapped with her two ex-best friends, Floss and Jules. Floss should be happy. She married her childhood sweetheart and has five gorgeous kids, but now everything feels wrong. When a chance encounter makes her realise how close she is to losing everything, the only person she can talk to is the woman who pushed her away. Jules doesn't need to see Sarah to be reminded of the friendships she has lost - her four-year-old daughter reminds her every day. But now she has a reason to want to talk to her once best friend, and maybe try to set things right. This summer, on the most beautiful island on the planet, can these three women find their way along the rocky road of forgiveness, and back to the friendship they once shared?
At the end of a fateful and turbulent summer in 1987, four unique people meet at Dulles International Airport for what is to be an ill-fated flight to London. Colin Maudsley, an Englishman hiding in America, a fugitive from the law. He never intended to fall in love with a remarkable woman like Laura Johnston. Jennie Li, a young missionary, torn between her love for Mark Melville and her love for God. Hieu Van Tran, a Vietnamese refugee, abandoned and betrayed, haunted by rage, hoping to find his estranged wife and resolution in Paris. Bill Ross, an American husband who has lost his love somewhere along the way. They have lived, struggled and loved through an intense summer of their lives. Now their paths cross and their fates become entwined. None of them know the glass terminal doors may be for them the door to eternity. From Virginia's Catawba Valley to high over the North Atlantic - a tale of life, love and the silent hand of God in good and evil.
So much can be lost and found in one summer Set against the backdrop of New York City’s vibrant Greenwich Village in 1978, TheSummerBetween is the bittersweet, unsparingly honest coming-of-age saga of Andrew Jackson Pollock. Three days before high school graduation, Andy, a New Jersey teen who longs to break free of his suburban closet, confides in Elena Plesko, his ex-girlfriend, something he has suspected for a long time––that he’s gay. Abandoned as a child by his father, Andy begins to trade his unconventional family of women for the hopes of finding love in the newly liberated culture emerging in Greenwich Village. One night, a tragically misguided encounter leads him to Ben Hoppe, a savvy peer who becomes Andy’s protector as he navigates the meaningful romances, the brief encounters, and the enduring friendships that shape one’s character. Andy’s story brilliantly relates the confining emotions, confusion, panic, heartache, and joy of a young person’s coming to terms with their sexuality and defining their identity.
Stop summer slide, stay summer smart! From the creators of America’s #1 educational bestseller Brain Quest comes Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2—a workbook, a game, and an outdoor adventure! It’s an interactive and personalized quest to keep kids excited about learning all summer long between 1st and 2nd grades. Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2 begins with a map that guides you through a workbook filled with activities based on reading comprehension, writing, addition and subtraction, earth science, the seasons, telling time, and more! As you complete activities, you earn stickers to track your progress on the map. Jam-packed with curriculum-based exercises, bonus challenges, outside activities, over 150 stickers, a summer reading list, and a Brain Quest mini deck, Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2 covers the core concepts in English language arts, math, science, and social studies so kids keep essential skills sharp all summer.
Stop summer slide, stay summer smart! From the creators of America’s #1 educational bestseller Brain Quest comes Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 2 & 3—a workbook, a game, and an outdoor adventure! It’s an interactive and personalized quest to keep kids excited about learning all summer long between 2nd and 3rd grades. Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 2 & 3 begins with a map that guides you through a workbook filled with activities based on adjectives versus adverbs, reading comprehension, writing opinions, word problems, place value, measurement, map skills, and more! As you complete activities, you earn stickers to track your progress on the map. Jam-packed with curriculum-based exercises, bonus challenges, outside activities, over 150 stickers, a summer reading list, and a Brain Quest mini deck, Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 2 & 3 covers the core concepts in English language arts, math, science, and social studies so kids keep essential skills sharp all summer.
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Ann Brashares comes her first adult novel In the town of Waterby on Fire Island, the rhythms and rituals of summer are sacrosanct: the ceremonial arrivals and departures by ferry; yacht club dinners with terrible food and breathtaking views; the virtual decree against shoes; and the generational parade of sandy, sun-bleached kids, running, swimming, squealing, and coming of age on the beach. Set against this vivid backdrop, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is the enchanting, heartrending story of a beach-community friendship triangle and summertime romance among three young adults for whom summer and this place have meant everything. Sisters Riley and Alice, now in their twenties, have been returning to their parents’ modest beach house every summer for their entire lives. Petite, tenacious Riley is a tomboy and a lifeguard, always ready for a midnight swim, a gale-force sail, or a barefoot sprint down the beach. Beautiful Alice is lithe, gentle, a reader and a thinker, and worshipful of her older sister. And every summer growing up, in the big house that overshadowed their humble one, there was Paul, a friend as important to both girls as the place itself, who has now finally returned to the island after three years away. But his return marks a season of tremendous change, and when a simmering attraction, a serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, the three friends are launched into an unfamiliar adult world, a world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them. Ann Brashares has won millions of fans with her blockbuster series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, in which she so powerfully captured the emotional complexities of female friendship and young love. With The Last Summer (of You and Me), she moves on to introduce a new set of characters and adult relationships just as true, endearing, and unforgettable. With warmth, humor, and wisdom, Brashares makes us feel the excruciating joys and pangs of love—both platonic and romantic. She reminds us of the strength and sting of friendship, the great ache of loss, and the complicated weight of family loyalty. Thoughtful, lyrical, and tremendously moving, The Last Summer (of You and Me is a deeply felt celebration of summer and nostalgia for youth.
