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Small Worlds
Caleb Azumah Nelson · 2023
The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2021
A Room With A View
E.M. Forster · 2020
The Lover
Marguerite Duras · 2006
To The Light House
Virginia Woolf · 2001
Giovannis Room
Baldwin, James
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2006
Gigi, and The Cat
COLETTE · 2001
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Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez · 2024
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune · 2022
"A radiant debut."—Emily Henry,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers<br/><br/>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!<br/><br/>Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙and more!<br/><br/>Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.<br/><br/>They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.<br/><br/>Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.<br/><br/>For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.<br/><br/>When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.<br/><br/>Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
Play It as It Lays: A Novel
Joan Didion · 2017
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth · 2025
Three Summers
Margarita Liberaki · 2021
With A New Introduction By Polly Samson, Sunday Times Bestselling Author Of A Theatre For Dreamers 'gorgeous... The Written Equivalent Of Lying In The Sun Eating Figs' India Knight, Sunday Times 'that Summer We Bought Big Straw Hats. Maria's Had Cherries Around The Rim, Infanta's Had Forget-me-nots, And Mine Had Poppies As Red As Fire. . .' Three Summers Is A Warm And Tender Tale Of Three Sisters Growing Up In The Countryside Near Athens Before The Second World War. Living In A Ramshackle Old House With Their Divorced Mother Are Flirtatious, Hot-headed Maria, Beautiful But Distant Infanta, And Dreamy And Rebellious Katerina, Through Whose Eyes The Story Is Mostly Observed. Over Three Summers, The Girls Share And Keep Secrets, Fall In And Out Of Love, Try To Understand The Strange Ways Of Adults And Decide What Kind Of Adults They Hope To Become. 'the Sun Has Disappeared From Books These Days... You Are One Of Those Who Pass It On' Albert Camus To Margarita Liberaki 'the Literary Equivalent Of A Sun-soaked Holiday In Greece' Culture Whisper 'a Leisurely, Large-hearted Coming-of-age Novel, Earthy And Innocent, Nostalgic And Beautifully Rendered' Kirkus 'a Dreamy, Cinematic Tapestry Of Greek Village Life' Npr
Annie John: A Novel
Jamaica Kincaid · 1997
The essential coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's voice―urgent, demanding to be heard―is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers.<br/><br/>An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived."<br/><br/>When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a "young lady," ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary.<br/><br/>At the end of her school years, Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and never ceases to mourn. "For I could not be sure," she reflects, "whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world."
The Trio
Hedman, Johanna · 2023
Blue Light Hours
Bruna Dantas Lobato · 2024
Hard Boiled / Hard Luck
Banana Yoshimoto
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 2008
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, MyBooks Classics · 2019
Swimming in the Dark: A Novel
Tomasz Jedrowski · 2021
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories
Raphael Bob-Waksberg · 2020
Luster
Raven Leilani · 2021
The Hole
Hiroko Oyamada · 2020
