Author: Stephanie J. Scott
Publisher: Stephanie J. Scott
ISBN: 1954952007
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sometimes life doesn’t go according to plan. My summer was planned from packing lists to trip itineraries. Or so I’d thought. It’s the night before my trip abroad, and my boyfriend Matt showed up at a party with another girl. The boyfriend I’m supposed to spend seven weeks with in Brazil. No way can I board that plane. With my trip tickets ripped up and the money down the drain, I owe my parents big-time. The only job hiring is Teed Off!, the driving range that just-so-happens to employ Matt’s trio of best friends. Matt’s friends don’t like my presence on their artificial turf, so pranking me becomes their second part-time job. They definitely don’t want me winning the bonus money our boss is offering for an idea to improve the business. By chance on a summer night, Matt’s head crony best friend Aidan is there for me when no one else is around. Turns out, he and Matt haven’t been close for a while. Aidan begins to see through to the real me—the me I’d kept from Matt to be the person I’ve always longed to be—popular with a boyfriend, all according to plan. Now I have a new problem. I'm falling for my enemy. All Last Summer is a young adult summer job romance and the first book in the Love on Summer Break series. Search terms: young adult romance, ya romance, ya series, ya book series, summer romance, teen romance, teen romance books, high school romance, high school romance books, teen romcom, romcom romance, enemies to lovers, summer job romance, young adult romance series
Our Last Summer
Author: Matthew J. Metzger
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1611524490
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Spending every summer with his grandmother in the south of England isn't Ryan's idea of a good time, and when he finds someone his own age to hang out with, he doesn't much care who that is. Alex might not say much, but company is company when there's nobody else to choose from, and Ryan will simply have to make do. It isn't, after all, like he really needs a friend. But Alex is more than just a kid with a thing for smashing up greenhouses, and Ryan finds himself dragged further and further into a dark, uncertain world of alcohol, bruises, a mother's madness, and a father's anger. Worst of all, Alex is dragging Ryan into a world of lust, attraction, and midnight kisses that Ryan is struggling to keep confined to southern summers. This thing with Alex can't go further than summer -- but Alex, and the shadows that surround him, are not so easily forgotten. Ryan can't forget Alex, but the longer he hangs on, the more he discovers ... not just about Alex, but about himself, his future, and the things that really matter. But eventually, summer must come to an end.
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1611524490
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Spending every summer with his grandmother in the south of England isn't Ryan's idea of a good time, and when he finds someone his own age to hang out with, he doesn't much care who that is. Alex might not say much, but company is company when there's nobody else to choose from, and Ryan will simply have to make do. It isn't, after all, like he really needs a friend. But Alex is more than just a kid with a thing for smashing up greenhouses, and Ryan finds himself dragged further and further into a dark, uncertain world of alcohol, bruises, a mother's madness, and a father's anger. Worst of all, Alex is dragging Ryan into a world of lust, attraction, and midnight kisses that Ryan is struggling to keep confined to southern summers. This thing with Alex can't go further than summer -- but Alex, and the shadows that surround him, are not so easily forgotten. Ryan can't forget Alex, but the longer he hangs on, the more he discovers ... not just about Alex, but about himself, his future, and the things that really matter. But eventually, summer must come to an end.
All Last Summer
Author: Stephanie J. Scott
Publisher: Stephanie J. Scott
ISBN: 1954952007
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sometimes life doesn’t go according to plan. My summer was planned from packing lists to trip itineraries. Or so I’d thought. It’s the night before my trip abroad, and my boyfriend Matt showed up at a party with another girl. The boyfriend I’m supposed to spend seven weeks with in Brazil. No way can I board that plane. With my trip tickets ripped up and the money down the drain, I owe my parents big-time. The only job hiring is Teed Off!, the driving range that just-so-happens to employ Matt’s trio of best friends. Matt’s friends don’t like my presence on their artificial turf, so pranking me becomes their second part-time job. They definitely don’t want me winning the bonus money our boss is offering for an idea to improve the business. By chance on a summer night, Matt’s head crony best friend Aidan is there for me when no one else is around. Turns out, he and Matt haven’t been close for a while. Aidan begins to see through to the real me—the me I’d kept from Matt to be the person I’ve always longed to be—popular with a boyfriend, all according to plan. Now I have a new problem. I'm falling for my enemy. All Last Summer is a young adult summer job romance and the first book in the Love on Summer Break series. Search terms: young adult romance, ya romance, ya series, ya book series, summer romance, teen romance, teen romance books, high school romance, high school romance books, teen romcom, romcom romance, enemies to lovers, summer job romance, young adult romance series
Publisher: Stephanie J. Scott
ISBN: 1954952007
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sometimes life doesn’t go according to plan. My summer was planned from packing lists to trip itineraries. Or so I’d thought. It’s the night before my trip abroad, and my boyfriend Matt showed up at a party with another girl. The boyfriend I’m supposed to spend seven weeks with in Brazil. No way can I board that plane. With my trip tickets ripped up and the money down the drain, I owe my parents big-time. The only job hiring is Teed Off!, the driving range that just-so-happens to employ Matt’s trio of best friends. Matt’s friends don’t like my presence on their artificial turf, so pranking me becomes their second part-time job. They definitely don’t want me winning the bonus money our boss is offering for an idea to improve the business. By chance on a summer night, Matt’s head crony best friend Aidan is there for me when no one else is around. Turns out, he and Matt haven’t been close for a while. Aidan begins to see through to the real me—the me I’d kept from Matt to be the person I’ve always longed to be—popular with a boyfriend, all according to plan. Now I have a new problem. I'm falling for my enemy. All Last Summer is a young adult summer job romance and the first book in the Love on Summer Break series. Search terms: young adult romance, ya romance, ya series, ya book series, summer romance, teen romance, teen romance books, high school romance, high school romance books, teen romcom, romcom romance, enemies to lovers, summer job romance, young adult romance series
Last Summer
Author: Holly Chamberlin
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 075827985X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“A thoughtful social commentary and tender narration of friendship and loyalty” from the bestselling author of A Wedding on the Beach (Publishers Weekly). The town of Yorktide, close to Maine’s beautiful beaches and the city of Portland, seems like the perfect place to raise a family. For Jane Patterson, there’s another advantage: her best friend, Frannie Giroux, lives next door, and their teenaged daughters, Rosie and Meg, are inseparable. But in the girls’ freshman year of high school, everything changes. Rosie—quiet, shy, and also very pretty—attracts the sneers and slights of a clique of older girls. Over time, the bullying worsens. When Meg betrays their friendship, fearful that she too will be targeted, Rosie suffers an emotional breakdown. Blaming both Meg and Frannie, Jane tries to help Rosie heal while dealing with her own guilt and anger. In the months that follow, each struggles with the ideas of forgiveness and compassion, of knowing when a friendship is shattered beyond repair—and when hope can be salvaged, one small moment at a time… Praise for Holly Chamberlin “Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers into the story.”—USA Today on Summer Friends “A great summer read but with substance. It will find a wide audience in its exploration of sisterhood, family, and loss.”—Library Journal on Summer with My Sisters “A dramatic and moving portrait of several generations of a family and each person’s place within it.”—Booklist on The Family Beach House
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 075827985X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“A thoughtful social commentary and tender narration of friendship and loyalty” from the bestselling author of A Wedding on the Beach (Publishers Weekly). The town of Yorktide, close to Maine’s beautiful beaches and the city of Portland, seems like the perfect place to raise a family. For Jane Patterson, there’s another advantage: her best friend, Frannie Giroux, lives next door, and their teenaged daughters, Rosie and Meg, are inseparable. But in the girls’ freshman year of high school, everything changes. Rosie—quiet, shy, and also very pretty—attracts the sneers and slights of a clique of older girls. Over time, the bullying worsens. When Meg betrays their friendship, fearful that she too will be targeted, Rosie suffers an emotional breakdown. Blaming both Meg and Frannie, Jane tries to help Rosie heal while dealing with her own guilt and anger. In the months that follow, each struggles with the ideas of forgiveness and compassion, of knowing when a friendship is shattered beyond repair—and when hope can be salvaged, one small moment at a time… Praise for Holly Chamberlin “Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers into the story.”—USA Today on Summer Friends “A great summer read but with substance. It will find a wide audience in its exploration of sisterhood, family, and loss.”—Library Journal on Summer with My Sisters “A dramatic and moving portrait of several generations of a family and each person’s place within it.”—Booklist on The Family Beach House
The Last Summer
Author: John Hough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743233328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A classic love story, The Last Summer chronicles a young man on the verge of growing up and an older woman running away from a life out of control. It is the summer of 1968: The world is poised on the cusp of radical change. Politicians question the status quo, blacks react to decades of oppression, and students protest the injustices of war. Change is in the air, too, for 37-year-old single mother Claire Malek. She has just walked out on her rather cushy job in Washington, DC, as "special assistant" to Senator Bob Mallory. DC had become an impossible place for Claire, heavy with regrets and burdened with secrets she knew she could never divulge. Anxious for both escape and change, Claire packs her 15-year-old daughter, April, into her Camaro and heads to a small town on Cape Cod, where Claire takes a job as cub reporter on a twice-weekly newspaper called the Covenant. She knows it's a big risk, but Claire is desperate for a new start and a new life, and the town and all it has to offer seem to be a good beginning. For Lane Hillman, son of the publisher of the Covenant, change is just beyond the horizon. Twenty-two years old and fresh out of Harvard, he's come home to celebrate the last summer of his youth and one final season as a reporter on his father's newspaper. In an effort to avoid the draft, and possible service in Vietnam, Lane has enlisted in VISTA -- the America-based Peace Corps -- and in the fall will begin a four-year stint working in the inner city of Detroit. Claire's first day on the job is the same day Robert Kennedy is shot. Racial tensions around the country continue to erupt into violence and confrontation. But in a few days another more personal tragedy strikes the town as a young girl is found murdered -- the first such death there in more than twenty years -- and on the same day a teenage boy is found drowned under suspicious circumstances. As Claire and Lane work together to try to make sense of the seemingly unrelated deaths, a closeness grows between them, and with it, the stirrings of sexual attraction. At first Claire resists, knowing that the fifteen years separating them is an unbridgeable gap, but before either of them realizes what's happening, she and Lane are swept up in a romantic passion that threatens to overwhelm them both. As the summer progresses, so does their affair, and soon the whole town knows about it, including Lane's parents, who are not at all pleased with this turn of events, and April, Claire's daughter, who feels both awe and resentment at the changes the affair brings in her mother. Before the summer ends, however, Claire and Lane will have to contend with more than the opinions of family and townsfolk. A shadowy figure responsible for the death of the young woman begins to fixate on someone new -- and the lovers find themselves in a race to save their own lives. A work of great tenderness, taut suspense, and historical immediacy, The Last Summer is a captivating portrait of love and sacrifice.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743233328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A classic love story, The Last Summer chronicles a young man on the verge of growing up and an older woman running away from a life out of control. It is the summer of 1968: The world is poised on the cusp of radical change. Politicians question the status quo, blacks react to decades of oppression, and students protest the injustices of war. Change is in the air, too, for 37-year-old single mother Claire Malek. She has just walked out on her rather cushy job in Washington, DC, as "special assistant" to Senator Bob Mallory. DC had become an impossible place for Claire, heavy with regrets and burdened with secrets she knew she could never divulge. Anxious for both escape and change, Claire packs her 15-year-old daughter, April, into her Camaro and heads to a small town on Cape Cod, where Claire takes a job as cub reporter on a twice-weekly newspaper called the Covenant. She knows it's a big risk, but Claire is desperate for a new start and a new life, and the town and all it has to offer seem to be a good beginning. For Lane Hillman, son of the publisher of the Covenant, change is just beyond the horizon. Twenty-two years old and fresh out of Harvard, he's come home to celebrate the last summer of his youth and one final season as a reporter on his father's newspaper. In an effort to avoid the draft, and possible service in Vietnam, Lane has enlisted in VISTA -- the America-based Peace Corps -- and in the fall will begin a four-year stint working in the inner city of Detroit. Claire's first day on the job is the same day Robert Kennedy is shot. Racial tensions around the country continue to erupt into violence and confrontation. But in a few days another more personal tragedy strikes the town as a young girl is found murdered -- the first such death there in more than twenty years -- and on the same day a teenage boy is found drowned under suspicious circumstances. As Claire and Lane work together to try to make sense of the seemingly unrelated deaths, a closeness grows between them, and with it, the stirrings of sexual attraction. At first Claire resists, knowing that the fifteen years separating them is an unbridgeable gap, but before either of them realizes what's happening, she and Lane are swept up in a romantic passion that threatens to overwhelm them both. As the summer progresses, so does their affair, and soon the whole town knows about it, including Lane's parents, who are not at all pleased with this turn of events, and April, Claire's daughter, who feels both awe and resentment at the changes the affair brings in her mother. Before the summer ends, however, Claire and Lane will have to contend with more than the opinions of family and townsfolk. A shadowy figure responsible for the death of the young woman begins to fixate on someone new -- and the lovers find themselves in a race to save their own lives. A work of great tenderness, taut suspense, and historical immediacy, The Last Summer is a captivating portrait of love and sacrifice.
Last Summer (Summer Boys, Book 4)
Author: Hailey Abbott
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545231779
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The sweet, smart, and sexy final installment in the New York Times bestselling series.It's the last summer at Pebble Beach before everyone goes off to college. George and Beth are no longer together, but will they make up before Beth heads off to (oh, the irony) GEORGEtown? Kelsi has a new college boy around for the summer, but can he make her pulse flutter the way Tim used to? Meanwhile, Ella runs into a dangerous blast from the past...can she resist him? Between sipping homemade margaritas by the shore, and helping each other through their romantic woes, the Tuttle girls might just make this the craziest, sweetest, most unforgettable summer ever.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545231779
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The sweet, smart, and sexy final installment in the New York Times bestselling series.It's the last summer at Pebble Beach before everyone goes off to college. George and Beth are no longer together, but will they make up before Beth heads off to (oh, the irony) GEORGEtown? Kelsi has a new college boy around for the summer, but can he make her pulse flutter the way Tim used to? Meanwhile, Ella runs into a dangerous blast from the past...can she resist him? Between sipping homemade margaritas by the shore, and helping each other through their romantic woes, the Tuttle girls might just make this the craziest, sweetest, most unforgettable summer ever.
The Last Summer
Author: Rodney Allen Fletcher
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457547201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Just as Nicholas Beems’ entire world was rocked to its core in Chasing Shadows, when he had learned that is father had been shot, James Bennett’s world gets shaken to its core when he learns that his ex-wife and now very dear friend, Anna, is suffering from terminal cancer. James is stunned even further when he learns that Anna does not want to undergo any type of treatment, but would rather spend her last summer revisiting her past where she and her family used to vacation. Little does James know, however, that the trip he is about to embark on will bring him face to face, yet again, with his worst nightmare... Tom Caldwell feels as though he has been blessed with a guardian angel when he meets mystery man Quinn Berg. The stranger seems to possess what is needed to win his lawsuit with former business associate, Angela Coleman. But, will Tom’s association with Quinn Berg ultimately cost him everything? Jared Gruesbeck seems to have finally stuck gold. His life is getting back on track. A return to Denver is finally in his future. And…he has the love of his life by his side. However…an unexpected question throws a wrench into his seemingly bright future that could prove to shatter all of his dreams…
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457547201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Just as Nicholas Beems’ entire world was rocked to its core in Chasing Shadows, when he had learned that is father had been shot, James Bennett’s world gets shaken to its core when he learns that his ex-wife and now very dear friend, Anna, is suffering from terminal cancer. James is stunned even further when he learns that Anna does not want to undergo any type of treatment, but would rather spend her last summer revisiting her past where she and her family used to vacation. Little does James know, however, that the trip he is about to embark on will bring him face to face, yet again, with his worst nightmare... Tom Caldwell feels as though he has been blessed with a guardian angel when he meets mystery man Quinn Berg. The stranger seems to possess what is needed to win his lawsuit with former business associate, Angela Coleman. But, will Tom’s association with Quinn Berg ultimately cost him everything? Jared Gruesbeck seems to have finally stuck gold. His life is getting back on track. A return to Denver is finally in his future. And…he has the love of his life by his side. However…an unexpected question throws a wrench into his seemingly bright future that could prove to shatter all of his dreams…
Chronicle of a Last Summer
Author: Yasmine El Rashidi
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0770437311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother’s phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too—why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can’t ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak’s overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life. At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi’s Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0770437311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother’s phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too—why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can’t ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak’s overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life. At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi’s Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence.
The Last Summer
Author: Nils Bjorgaas
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300439270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Last Summer is the story of life in a rural community in Western Norway in the 1940's, right after The Second World War, seen through the eyes of Jens, a boy who is 12 years old as the story begins and 14 by the end.It was first published in Norwegian in 1950. The title of the book was Siste Sommaren and it was given the Best Book of the Year Award for Children and Young People's Literature in Norway. Although meant as a book for young people, it has been enjoyed through the years by all ages.The author, Nils Bjorgaas, was a teacher and writer who grew up in Voss, Norway. He was a great storyteller who could particularly describe the world opening up to a young boy growing out of childhood.The author's niece, Kari Bye, has translated the book into English. She also grew up in Voss, and moved back there after 30 years in the United States. She has worked as a designer and cultural educator in both countries.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300439270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Last Summer is the story of life in a rural community in Western Norway in the 1940's, right after The Second World War, seen through the eyes of Jens, a boy who is 12 years old as the story begins and 14 by the end.It was first published in Norwegian in 1950. The title of the book was Siste Sommaren and it was given the Best Book of the Year Award for Children and Young People's Literature in Norway. Although meant as a book for young people, it has been enjoyed through the years by all ages.The author, Nils Bjorgaas, was a teacher and writer who grew up in Voss, Norway. He was a great storyteller who could particularly describe the world opening up to a young boy growing out of childhood.The author's niece, Kari Bye, has translated the book into English. She also grew up in Voss, and moved back there after 30 years in the United States. She has worked as a designer and cultural educator in both countries.
The Last Summer of the World
Author: Emily Mitchell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393064872
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
An absorbing debut novel about the photograher Edward Steichen's wartime return to France and his reckoning with his painful past.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393064872
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
An absorbing debut novel about the photograher Edward Steichen's wartime return to France and his reckoning with his painful past.
Our Last Summer
Author: Ajay Peter Manuel
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475995733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Life is an adventure to embark upon. Having traveled around the world, my life has been full of separations, and new beginnings. Time flows incessantly, no matter what happens around us. The last six years of my life describe a unique journey from high school in Sudan to a university in Canada. The experience enabled me to learn the importance of family, friends, and love- along with the need to live life without regrets. My story begins with my struggles as an eleventh grader at Khartoum American School in Sudan, revealing the raw emotions of my first infatuation with a girl, her rejection, and my subsequent efforts to move on without her. Nothing could have prepared me then for the sequence of events that were to unfold in my life that summer, and the few years that followed. It all began when I found a friend in Tina. Our Last Summer offers a poignant glimpse into a young man's coming-of-age journey through laughter, tears, betrayal, infatuation, and love as he cherishes the memories of his past, learns to live in the present, and happily anticipates his future.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475995733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Life is an adventure to embark upon. Having traveled around the world, my life has been full of separations, and new beginnings. Time flows incessantly, no matter what happens around us. The last six years of my life describe a unique journey from high school in Sudan to a university in Canada. The experience enabled me to learn the importance of family, friends, and love- along with the need to live life without regrets. My story begins with my struggles as an eleventh grader at Khartoum American School in Sudan, revealing the raw emotions of my first infatuation with a girl, her rejection, and my subsequent efforts to move on without her. Nothing could have prepared me then for the sequence of events that were to unfold in my life that summer, and the few years that followed. It all began when I found a friend in Tina. Our Last Summer offers a poignant glimpse into a young man's coming-of-age journey through laughter, tears, betrayal, infatuation, and love as he cherishes the memories of his past, learns to live in the present, and happily anticipates his future.