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Summer people

Cohen, Julie, 1970-2023
Books, Manuscripts
Marriages end with a whisper, not a bang. Not an argument, which is after all about passion, waves crashing on a shore, but with the small pockets of coldness that an argument creates. It's like islands. They don't sink like Atlantis. They wear away, little by little, until all you've got left is...
List view record 132: Swimming in the darkList view anchor tag for record 132: Swimming in the dark
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Swimming in the dark

Jedrowski, Tomasz2021
Books, Manuscripts
You were right when you said that people can't always give us what we want from them. Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreaml...
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The swimming-pool library

Hollinghurst, Alan2015
Books, Manuscripts
Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself. The man is Lord Nantwich, a gay peer of the realm and in the market for a bio...
List view record 134: Tell me how to beList view anchor tag for record 134: Tell me how to be
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Tell me how to be

Patel, Neel2022
Books, Manuscripts
Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for wanting to be a songwriter. Shame for not being like his perfect brother. Shame for his alcoholism. And, most of all, shame for what happened with the first boy he ever loved. When his mother tells him she is selling the family home...
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Tell me I'm worthless

Rumfitt, Alison2021
Books, Manuscripts
Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going well. Alice is living a haunted existence, selling videos of herself cleaning for money, drinking herself to sleep. She hasn t spoken to Ila since they went into th...
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A terrible village poisoning

Hendy, Hannah2023
Books, Manuscripts
With school out for the summer, Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are taking advantage of the break to go on holiday. They plan to explore the village of St-Martins-on-the-Water and rest before the chaos of Mrs Smith's impending hen do. By the end of their first night, the local mayor lies dea...
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That green eyed girl

Moylan, Julie Owen2023
Books, Manuscripts
1955. In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains, mixing cocktails for two, they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth. 1975. Twenty years later in the same apartment, Ava Winters is keepi...
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That green eyed girl

Moylan, Julie Owen2022
Books, Manuscripts
1955. In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains, mixing cocktails for two, they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth. 1975. Twenty years later in the same apartment, Ava Winters is keepi...
List view record 139: That summer feelingList view anchor tag for record 139: That summer feeling
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That summer feeling

Morrissey, Bridget2023
Books, Manuscripts
Nestled into the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, Camp Carl Cove provides the exact escape recently divorced Garland Moore always dreamed of, until she runs into Mason - the man she had a premonition about after one brief meeting years ago. No matter how she tries to run, the universe appears de...
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These letters end in tears

Xaviere, Musih Tedji2024
Books, Manuscripts
Bessem notices Fatima for the first time on the soccer field-muscular and focused, she's the only woman playing and seems completely at ease. When Fatima chases a rogue ball in her direction, Bessem freezes, mesmerized by the athlete's charm and beauty. One playful wink from Fatima, and Bessem kn...
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