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When four strangers rent bargain-basement rooms in an old hotel near the beach, they embark on the summer of their lives. First there's Ariel Spencer, who has big dreams of becoming a writer and is looking for inspiration in Nantucket's high society. Her new friend Sheila Murphy is a good Catholic girl from Ohio whose desire for adventure is often shadowed by her apprehension. Then there's small-town Missourian Wyatt Smith--who's immediately taken...
2) Chosen ones
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice--catastrophic events known as Drains--leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. On the tenth anniversary of the Dark One's defeat, something unthinkable happens:...
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In a post-human future, one city, guarded by reality generators and surrounded by the terrible maelstrom of Chaos, is the sole bastion of order. In our time, three young people--Ginny, Jack, and Daniel--who can alter the course of fate, a murky past, and the dreams of a decaying city at the end of time are brought together by a newspaper ad and into the hands of collectors of their kind. Back in the future, the strange characters include keepers and...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"On one feverish, fateful summer night in 2013, four former classmates converge on the rustbelt town they grew up in--a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan--each of them with a mission, all of them haunted by regrets, secrets, losses, and love." --
5) Intertwined
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"Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: one can time travel, one can raise the dead, one can tell the future, and one can possess another human, and then he meets a girl who quiets the voices."--Dust jacket.
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English
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"It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue."--
8) Summer's end
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"Forced to take the first berth he can find, Dave ends up on the Iowa Hill, an old tramp freighter running with a minimal crew and nearing the end of its useful life, plying the routes that the corporations ignore and visiting the kinds of places that the folks on Earth pretend don't exist. Between the assassins, the criminals, and the pirates he needs to deal with, Dave is discovering that there are a lot of things out there that he still needs to...
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The world of four lifelong friends--best friends Catherine and Simon, both unlucky in love, and Josh and Lucy, happily married to each other--is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of Portia, a beautiful college friend with a reputation for breaking hearts.
12) Sunset Park
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.
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"Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got 'Scholarship Student' written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student to take part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the world, it seems everyone has a different idea of what justice...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Best friends separated by global events after college, Mickey Montauk, deployed to Baghdad with his National Guard unit, and Halifax Corderoy, struggling with disappointment and his new roommate, keep in touch with one another by editing a Wikipedia article about themselves.
17) The seasonaires
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Series
Seasonaires volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Working as carefree seasonaires for a chic clothing brand, six Nantucket workers find their ambitions and summer fun interrupted by the corporate machinations of the company's owner, who stages dramatic conflicts among her workers while demanding they post their lives on social media.
18) L.I.E: a novel
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Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Nathan Monk
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge" follows a rag-tag group of millennial friends who, following collective traumas ranging from the Columbine Massacre to 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, are simply trying to survive a world that doesn't seem built for them. Who will survive the unprecedented events that unfold? No amount of cutting back on avocado toast and caramel lattes can save them from the dangers ahead! In this tale full of betrayal,...
20) O my darling
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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