Summer at the French Olive Grove
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Filmmaker Lily’s life is all about work and adventure. So when she suffers an accident on her travels and finds herself recuperating in the quiet French seaside village where she spent her childhood, she can’t wait to escape. Not...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying. What to eat, where to go, who to love. But one thing she is sure of – she wants to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. Then...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Thirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with his divorced and uncaring father. His older brother Lucien, physically and mentally disabled, has been institutionalized for years. While...
- Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
“Filled with 1960s nostalgia and a host of deftly drawn characters” (Renée Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer), Summer Darlings pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny–a college...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can love bloom again under the heat of the Spanish sun? Ten years ago, while travelling before starting a cookery apprenticeship, Alice fell head over heels for Barcelona: the food, the sun and the gorgeous Andy Hall…Family tragedy sent...
- Location(s): Le Marche
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two couples. One sweltering Italian villa . . . Nick and Laura are the hosts: pretending their marriage isn’t on the rocks. Madison and Bastian are the guests: neither is remotely who they claim to be. Under the scorching...
- Location(s): Lapland
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
When Elina makes her annual summer pilgrimage to the remote family farm in Lapland, she has three days to catch the pike in a local pond, or she and the love of her life will both die. This year...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Romance, New Adult
- Era(s): 1999
Summer 1999: Sawyer is striving to make it in New York. Between her assistant job in publishing, her secret dreams of becoming a writer, and her upcoming wedding to her college boyfriend, it feels like the perfect life could...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1974 / 2003
1974. Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But she’s scared. She can tell from her parents’ urgent whispers about prison, invasion and military coups that Istanbul...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Commencement meets The Graduate in this sparkling novel about a secret affair, the summer it all unravels, and the reunion a decade later that will be one woman’s happy ending or her biggest mistake. Becc was the good girl....
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