It's coming to an end...

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)

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