Pennington, Jessica
Summary: Sidney and Asher should have clicked. Two star swimmers forced to spend their summers on a lake together sounds like the perfect match. But, it's the same every year -- in between cookouts and boat rides and family-imposed bonfires, Sidney and Asher spend the dog days of summer finding the ultimate ways to prank each other. And now, after their senior year, they're determined to make it the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PENCronin, Doreen
Summary: "When the Chicken Squad goes on a family vacation to a farm, there is a looming dark shadow that is pestering Sugar"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books For Young Readers 2017
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CROWebb, Holly
Summary: "Avery is excited to be on holiday with her family. They're staying in a gorgeous cottage right by the river and have lots of fun activities planned. The only thing that would make the trip even better is if she had a dog to enjoy it with. So when she finds Hazel, a frightened puppy all alone on the riverbank, she knows she has to help her. But where has Hazel come from and how can Avery make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales
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Summary: A story of a family summer vacation full of secrets, lunch, and learning to let go. For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds: emotional, marital, and thanks to the cottage's ancient plumbing septic too. This year's vacation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC NEWCronin, Doreen
Summary: When the Chicken Squad goes on a family vacation to a farm, there is a looming dark shadow that is pestering Sugar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Cronin 2017Ajvide Lindqvist, John
Summary: Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. However, during the night something strange has happened. Everything outside the camping grounds has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse of grass. The sky is blue, but there is no sign of the sun; there are no trees, no flowers, no birds. And every radio plays nothing but the songs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AJVThorne, Jennifer
Summary: It isn't easy when Anna is the only one in the family who doesn't quite fit in. Her twin brother Benny goes with the flow so much he's practically dissolved, and her older sister Nicole is so used to everyone--including her blandly docile husband and two kids--falling in line that Anna often ends up in trouble for simply asking a question. Mom seizes every opportunity to question her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ThorneCostello, Matthew J. (Matthew John)
Summary: "After a global crisis causes crops to fail and species to disappear, something even more deadly happens. Masses around the world suddenly became predators, feeding off their own kind. These 'Can Heads' grow to such a threat that fences, gated compounds, and SWAT-style police protection become absolutely necessary to live. And after one attack leaves NYPD cop Jack Murphy wounded and his partner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COSHaddon, Mark
Summary: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside, which results in a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams, and rising hopes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Haddon 2012Palmer, Daniel
Summary: A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two children have disappeared from their New York City hotel room. Horrified, he fears they've been kidnapped. Michael's frantic search to find them takes a shocking turn when he discovers that his wife, Natalie, appears to have left quite willingly, taking their children with her. The police want to know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALAhlberg, Allan
Summary: "What do you do when you're having an ordinary day, only to discover there's a big gray elephant (named Nathaniel) under the table? Why, you get him to help you wash the car! And the kangaroo (named Abigail) that appears under that same table can help bring in groceries. But when there are penguins in the fridge, the forks and knives are running around, and the salt and ketchup are acting up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AHLHaddon, Mark
Summary: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process. Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HADPalmer, Daniel
Summary: "A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two children have disappeared from their New York City hotel room. Horrified, he fears they've been kidnapped. Michael's frantic search to find them takes a shocking turn when he discovers that his wife, Natalie, appears to have left quite willingly, taking their children with her. The police want to know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PALNewman, Catherine
Summary: While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEProbst, Jennifer
Summary: "Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely independent and successful in all areas of life except one: family. She struggles to make time for her relationship with her teenage daughter, Allegra, and the two have become practically strangers to each other. When Allegra hangs out with a new crowd and is arrested for drug possession, Francesca gives in to her mother's wish that they take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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Summary: Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple--it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area--with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service--it's hard to know what to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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Summary: The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KINSherriff, R. C. (Robert Cedric)
Summary: Follows the Stevens family--Mr. and Mrs. Stevens along with their children, Mary, Dick and Ernie--as they spend their annual two-week September vacation at the Seaview guesthouse in the English seaside town of Bognor Regis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEStraub, Emma.
Summary: This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRKuehn, Stephanie
Summary: "While staying with her uncle in Lake Paloma, Bea Fletcher soon discovers the town has mysteries of its own, including the unsolved drowning of a teenage girl - a case that leads her closer to home than she ever imagined"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC KUEMilano, Birdie
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Dylan Kershaw's idea of a dream holiday includes at least three things: beaches to bask on, cosmopolitan culture, and a chance for romance (or at least his first kiss) with another boy. Unluckily for Dylan, his mum's treating the family to the least dreamy holiday ever: a £9.50 break at Starcross Sands, Cornwall's Crummiest Caravan Park. But Starcross Sands might not be so bad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, this year nothing is the same: Blair, the eldest sister, is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019