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• The Vacationers

  Straub, Emma

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  A family heads for a two-week celebratory vacation to the Balearic island of Mallorca. However, things don't go as planned. Over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Benson's Beetle

  Joyce, Rachel

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  A schoolmarm abandons her job and her tidy, circumscribed life and sets out on an expedition to the other side of the world to search for a rare insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia. She and her unlikely assistant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• People We Meet on Vacation

  Henry, Emily,

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  Reminiscent of "When Harry Met Sally", college friends Poppy and Alex have nothing in common, but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. That is, until two years ago when they ruined everything. Poppy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Week in Winter

  Binchy, Maeve, 1940-2012

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  Binchy's final novel follows the efforts of Chicky Starr, who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maine

  a Novel

  Sullivan, J. Courtney

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  The Kelleher family descend on their family beach house won in a bet 60 years earlier. Three generations of women gradually impart difficult respective secrets including a pregnancy, a terrible crush and a deeply held resentment for past misdeeds.

• One Italian Summer

  a Novel

  Serle, Rebecca,

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  An emotional and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast.

• Beautiful World, Where Are You

  Rooney, Sally,

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  Novelist Alice asks warehouse employee Felix to travel with her to Rome. Meanwhile, her best friend, Eileen, seeks to survive a bad breakup by renewing her flirtation with childhood friend Simon. Four young people verging on the next, uncertain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Guncle

  a Novel

  Rowley, Steven, 1971-

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  When tragedy strikes a family, two young children head to Palm Springs to spend the summer with their GUP, Gay Uncle Patrick. A formerly famous sitcom star, Patrick knows nothing about kids but must navigate his way as temporary guardian to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oh William!

  a Novel

  Strout, Elizabeth,

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  Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, is a hard man to read. He remains a mystery to her and is both surprised and not-so-surprised when he asks her to travel to Maine to investigate a recently uncovered family secret.

• This Time Tomorrow

  Straub, Emma,

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  What if you could take a vacation into your own past? Alice is more or less happy with her life, save the complications of her aging father’s ailing health. After a night of partying on her 40th birthday, she wakes up to find she’s reliving her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost Lake

  Allen, Sarah Addison

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  Lost Lake, located in Suley, Georgia, is where Kate Pheris spent her last best summer as an adolescent. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly widowed Kate and her eccentric 8-year-old daughter, Devin, to heal.

• News of the World

  a Novel

  Jiles, Paulette, 1943-

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  Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction that explores the…Read moreRead more of this annotation