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Compelled to return to Alara Cove, the place where an accusation she made years ago sent her into exile, competitive surfer Nikki Graziola finds old friendships, rivalries and an unexpected romance drawing her back into the life of the beach town she's never quite forgotten.
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English
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After a fatal car crash during a summer celebration on Nantucket island, four teenagers question if the roots of the accident lie further in the past than they seem; is true healing possible, in even these most devastating circumstance; and, can true friendship ever really die?
4) The mall
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
New Jersey, 1991. Cassie Worthy is psyched to spend the summer after graduation working at the Parkway Center Mall. In six weeks, she and her boyfriend head off to college in NYC to fulfill The Plan: higher education and happily ever after. But you know what they say about the best laid plans... -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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When Cameron Carter goes straight from high school in small-town California to a summer internship with a powerful U.S. congressman that he admires, he soon learns that not everything in Washington, D.C. is as it appears.
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English
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Eleven years ago a shooting rocked the small town of East Ridge, New Jersey and left eighteen first graders dead. Newly graduated, Matt Simpson and Cole Hewitt are still navigating their guilt, especially the absence of their friend Andy. Cole is "the boy in the picture" but remembers nothing about the shooting; Matt was absent that day. Will Cole and Matt ever be able to truly leave the ghosts of East Ridge behind, and move into a future where they...
8) Beach week
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Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Publisher
Monarch Educational Services
Language
English
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"The coming-of-age story follows Gwyn Madison, the summer after her high school graduation, as she grapples with her fast-approaching future. She'll have to face more than she bargained for with her Aunt Delia, the family matriarch, who holds the purse strings and the final word. In the meantime, Gwyn stumbles upon a tightly held family secret. Could a mysterious letter provide Gwyn the leverage she desires? Will it only bring more family division?...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Have just graduated from high school, Josie Hazeldine is ready for a summer full of sunshine, beekeeping... and lying to her mom. Instead of going to college, Josie wants to stay in her California hometown and take over the family business, Hazeldine Honey. In town for the summer, Ezra is into Josie and the feeling is very mutual. But he's a Blumstein: the sworn enemy of the Hazeldines and their number one competition in the annual Honey Show at the...
11) Panic
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English
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"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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On the verge for leaving for college, Jack wants to track down his estranged brother, Alex and find some closure in the wake of their father's death. Hallie has just found out some upsetting news about a friend in Oregon, and she has a small window to go see him before it is too late. Jack and Hallie shared a class together years ago and haven't seen each other since. When fate puts them in the same rideshare to the bus terminal, they discover they...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Jasmine Yap plans to move in with her long-time boyfriend, Paul, before starting a nursing program at community college-- until she catches Paul cheating. To her giant, overprotective family, Paul's loss is their golden ticket to showing Jasmine that she deserves much more. When Jasmine refuses to meet anyone new, the family set us the Jasmine Project. Their plan: use Jasmine's graduation party as an opportunity for her to meet the most eligible teen...
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English
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"To cure her post-senior year slump, made worse by the loss of her aunt Sonia, Noreen decides to follow her mom on a gap year trip to New Delhi, hoping India can lessen her grief and bring her voice back. In the world's most polluted city, Noreen soon meets kind, handsome Kabir, who introduces her to the wonders of this magical, complicated place. With the help of Kabir--plus Bollywood celebrities, fourteenth-century ruins, karaoke parties, and Sufi...
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English
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"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer - Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real...
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English
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"Dumped by her boyfriend the summer after senior year, teen love and relationship columnist Lu Charles has hit a wall with her writing. The words just won't come to her like they used to, and if she doesn't find a topic for her column, she'll lose her gig at hip online magazine Misnomer, and the college scholarship that goes along with it. Her best friend Pete thinks she should write through her own pain, but when Lu overhears another couple planning...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Colby's post-high school plans have long been that he and his best friend Bev would tour with her band, then spend a year in Europe, but when she announces that she will start college just after the tour, Colby struggles to understand why she changed her mind and what losing her means for his future.
19) Start here
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Willa and Taylor were supposed to spend the summer after high school sailing from Ohio to Key West with their best friend, Finley. But Finley died before graduation, leaving them with a twenty-five-foot sailboat, a list of clues leading them to destinations along the way, and a friendship that's hanging by a thread. Now, Willa and Taylor have two months and two thousand miles to discover how life works without Finley -- and to decide if their own...
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Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Audrey has never been as academically inclined as her professor parents and scholarly siblings, and as her senior year of high school ends, she feels only trepidation about college. She's supposed to attend her beach town's local university, where her parents teach, but she isn't sure that's the right path for her--she just wants to live and work in Seattle. After she applies to work nights at the local nursing home, Audrey starts spending time with...
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