Labor
Day is generally marks of the end of summer… so to prolong the happy
sunshiny feelings of the season, I give you a list of books with summery titles:
A summer affair
Hilderbrand, Elin
Reluctantly
agreeing to organize a children's benefit at which a rock-star ex-lover is
performing, Claire Danner Crispin finds her efforts complicated by her clashes
with a fellow organizer, her best friend's catering mishaps, and a new
relationship.
(Women's
lives and relationships)
Dark summer
Johansen, Iris
Working
with a makeshift search-and-rescue operation, dedicated veterinarian Devon is
thrust into a violent cat-and-mouse game involving a vengeful man of dubious
trustworthiness and a wounded black Labrador's mysterious pack. (Romantic suspense stories)
Farewell summer
Bradbury, Ray
October
first, the air is still warm, but fall is rolling in. Thirteen-year-old Douglas
Spaulding, his younger brother Tom, and their friends take advantage of these
last warm days, tormenting the girls ... and declaring war on the old men who
run Green Town, IL. For the boys know that Mr. Quartermain and his cohorts want
nothing more than to force them to grow up. If only, the boys believe, they
could stop the clock atop the courthouse building. Then, surely, they could
hold onto the last days of summer and their youth. But the old men
were young once, too. And Quartermain, crusty old guardian of the school board
and town curfew, is bent on teaching the boys a lesson. But before the last
leaf turns, the boys will teach him the importance of not being afraid of
letting go. (Adult books for young
adults; Coming-of-age stories)
Firefly
summer
Binchy, Maeve
In the 1960s, Patrick O'Neill builds a hotel in his Irish ancestral home
and disrupts the town's life. (Women's lives and relationships; Women's romantic fiction)
Harlem
summer
Myers, Walter Dean
Set on the hot city streets of Harlem in 1925, Mark Purvis is thrilled
when he is given a simple job by Fats Waller, Harlem's musical genius, yet when
the task goes wrong and a gangster ends up on his tail, young Mark thinks his
days of impressing Fats with his skills on the saxophone may now be over. (TEEN - Coming-of-age stories; Historical fiction)
Lowcountry summer
Frank, Dorothea Benton
When
Caroline Wimbley Levine returned to Tall Pines Plantation, she never expected
to make peace with long-buried truths about herself and her family. (Domestic fiction; First
person narratives)
One summer
Baldacci, David Jack
terminally-ill
and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his
wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her
childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront. (Domestic fiction)
Prodigal summer
Kingsolver, Barbara
Wildlife
biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while
bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and
elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud. (Romantic; Thought-provoking)
Still summer
Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Twenty
years after a shared childhood marked by their considerable popularity, Tracy,
Olivia, and Holly reunite on a luxury Caribbean cruise during which a chance
mistake triggers a series of devastating events that puts their survival in
jeopardy.
(Suspense
stories)
Summer
blowout
Cook, Claire
Working for her Italian-American family's beauty salon chain while
secretly indulging her passion for lipstick, Bella Shaughnessy vows against
relationships when her husband and sister run off together, a resolution that
falters when she meets a contrary entrepreneur, develops a business idea, and
attends a huge southern wedding. (Chick lit; Women's lives and relationships; Women's romantic fiction)
Summer
breeze
Thayer, Nancy
House-sitting her aunt's lake cottage in the Berkshires while mending a
broken heart, Manhattanite Natalie bonds with a smitten shopkeeper who is
caring for an aging parent and a reluctant stay-at-home mom with whom she
commiserates over romantic complications. (Women's
lives and relationships; Women's romantic fiction)
Summer Island
Hannah, Kristin
Nora
Bridge is a woman who walked out on her marriage and left her two daughters
behind. Now she's a radio talk show host and syndicated newspaper columnist.
Her daughter Ruby is a comedienne who uses her mother as fuel for her humor.
The two haven't spoken in more than a decade. The tabloids unearth a scandal
from Nora's past and offer Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother.
But first Ruby needs to know her well enough to write the story. She returns
to Summer Island and finds that Nora is not the woman Ruby has
imagined all these years. (Women's lives
and relationships)
Summer
knight
Butcher, Jim
Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career.
Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the
course for Chicago's only professional wizard. But in all Harry's years of
supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's
gone completely postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble--and not
just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented,
violent, and deadly. Someone--or something--is stirring them up to wreak
unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry?
If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself. (Hardboiled fiction; Mystery stories; Urban
fantasy fiction)
Summer nights
Mallery, Susan
Horse
whisperer Shane Stryker is determined to meet someone who will be content with
the quiet life of a rancher's wife. And the fiery, pint-size redhead who
dazzles him does not fit the bill. Small-town librarian Annabelle Weiss can't
understand why Shane keeps pushing her away, but only he can help her with a
special event for the next Fool's Gold festival. (Contemporary romances)
Summer people
Hilderbrand, Elin
A summer of
healing turns turbulent when Beth, grieving widow, and her teenage twins experience
passion and first love, but a dangerous secret from her past threatens to
destroy the family. (Women's lives and relationships)
Summer reading
Wolitzer, Hilma
The lives
of three very different women--Lissy Snyder, an insecure newlywed and unwilling
stepmother; her nosey housecleaner, Michelle; and Angela Graves, the head of a
local book group--intersect over the course of a summer in the Hamptons. (Love stories; Women's lives and
relationships)
Summer rental
Andrews, Mary Kay
Ellis questions
everything she believed after losing an all-consuming job, while Julia
struggles with insecurities that threaten a loving relationship and Dorie
confronts a maelstrom of problems after a shocking betrayal. (Women's lives and relationships)
Summer sisters
Blume, Judy
Two girls
meet one summer and become best friends until one girl falls
passionately in love. An exploration of choices, of friendship, love, families
and having a friend too dangerous to forgive and too essential to forget. (Adult books for young
adults; Coming-of-age stories; Women's lives and relationships)
Summer
Kingsbury, Karen
Dayne
Matthews finds the perfect solution to his on-camera love scenes--his wife,
Katy, will star in his next film--but in an effort to appease the press, the
couple agrees to a twelve-episode reality show, which creates trouble for the
newlyweds.
(Christian
fiction; Christian love stories)
Summer
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
An
18-year-old girl named Charity Royall, living in the small town of North Dormer,
is ignorant of desire until she meets a visiting architect, Lucius Harney. Like
the succulent summer in the beautiful Berkshires around them, their
romance is lush and picturesque, but its consequences are harsh and real. (Literary fiction)
Summer's
child
Rice, Luanne
The lives of four different people come together as the result of the
mysterious disappearance of expectant mother Leila Jameson. (Adult books for young adults; Domestic fiction; Women's lives and relationships)
That summer
Dessen, Sarah
During
the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's
wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths
of the past. (TEEN - Realistic fiction)
*all titles, authors, genres and synopses are from NoveList*
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