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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"What starts out as an idyllic summer holiday on the Irish coast soon becomes a living nightmare with unpredictable consequences for a world-renowned composer and his family in this chilling psychological thriller. Recently divorced and in the middle of a creative crisis, Peter Harper decides to take shelter on Ireland's scenic and isolated Tremore Beach. But after he is struck by lightning one stormy night, he begins experiencing terrible headaches...
162) The divorce
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1501
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor cafae, absorbed in conversation with a talented video artist, he sees a youngman riding by on a bicycle get thoroughly drenched by a downpour of water-seemingly from rain caught the night before in the overhead awning. The video artist knows the cyclist, who knew a mad hermetic...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Horse and Zebra are best friends, but they couldn't be more different! While Horse is steady and sensible, Zebra is zany and creative. But what they have in common is that they will always look out for each other, and they're always ready to help another animal in need. Zebra invites Horse to join her on a trip home to the savannah. Horse likes meeting Zebra's family and friends, but she soon feels homesick for her cozy stable and daily routine. Zebra...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's the first day of the holidays and Sam is roaming the island of Texel, imagining what it'd feel like to be the last person on earth. Then, like a whirlwind, 12-year-old islander Tess swoops into his life. Sam's only option is to go along for the ride. Soon he's dancing the waltz, burying a pet canary, and coming up with an especially weird plan to help Tess find her father, who doesn't even know she exists"--.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart - she's in New York City, and he's in their small hometown - but...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica is delighted when her nephew Grady invites her to spend a few days with his family in an oceanside New York bungalow. She packs her bags and heads down to the city, ready to spend some quality time with Grady, his wife, Donna, and their young son, Frank. But the morning after Jessica's arrival, Donna finds her boss dead on a tennis court, and Jessica's dreams of a relaxing visit are quashed. Everyone in the small beachside community is a...
167) 365 days: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Laura Biel and her boyfriend are on a dream vacation in beautiful Sicily. On the second day of their trip, her twenty-ninth birthday, she is kidnapped. Her kidnapper is none other than the head of a powerful Sicilian crime family, the incredibly handsome, young Don - Massimo Toricelli, who is determined to possess her at all cost. Massimo has his reasons. During an earlier attempt on his life, a vision appeared before his eyes: a beautiful woman,...
168) Do I know you?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a couple feels like they're married to a stranger, a flirtatious game of pretend becomes the spark they need to reignite their relationship in this romance from the authors of The Roughest Draft. Eliza and Graham's marriage is quietly failing. With their five-year anniversary approaching, neither of them are thrilled about the weeklong getaway to the Treeline Retreat they've been gifted. Nestled on the Northern California coastline, the inn...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rose Zadeh pleases everyone, except herself. Memories of her late Iranian-immigrant father, who valued hard work and family, keep Rose in a dead-end job as a Silicon Valley copywriter, and tethered to her guilt-trippy mom and needy sisters. As much as it would disappoint her father, Rose needs an escape. Voilà! A mandated vacation gives her the chance. Three weeks on a long-dreamed-of trip to the City of Light. Instead of landing in a Parisian...
170) The burning time
Author
Series
Detective Sergeant McAvoy novel volume 12
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
An unexpected invite to his estranged mother's surprise birthday party at a fancy Durham hotel gives DI Aector McAvoy and his wife Roisin a chance for a well-deserved holiday. Off-duty, and still recovering from his previous injuries, McAvoy is determined to take advantage of the all-expenses-paid break, despite the old grudges and thick tension between himself and his step-family. However, what should have been a relaxing, if awkward, getaway weekend...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme. These fourteen stories range widely...
172) Macrame murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Language
English
Description
"As the head of a bustling crafting retreat, Cora Chevalier could use a break of her own. So she and her creative cohorts temporarily swap small-town Indigo Gap for the Sea Glass Island Craft Retreat, where they teach classes and create beachy crafts like shell mosaics and sea glass chimes. Cora and her boyfriend Adrian are enchanted by their surroundings, especially the stunning wedding and blissful newlyweds they encounter on the beach. But awe...
Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Quién dice que las princesas no visten de negro? Cuando la monstruo-alarma se dispara, la Princesa Magnolia deja sus vestidos de volantes y se convierte en... ¡La Princesa de Negro! La Princesa de Negro se toma un merecido descanso tras días combatiendo monstruos y se marcha a la playa. Pero justo cuando está a punto de echarse una siesta en su hamaca, escucha un... ¡ROAR! ¿En serio? ¿Un monstruo? ¿En la playa perfecta? ¡Imposible! ¿De...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's been thirteen years since doctors declared Libby Ross-Velasquez a goner. Yet here she is--cancer free. So why doesn't she feel more alive? Sure, Libby's husband, Shiloh, has been distant. One of their daughters has a serious health condition. And her father's death hovers over Libby like a rain cloud. Still, this eternal optimist knows she's the winner of the existential lottery. But when her forced cheer isn't enough to keep her family from...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First MTV Books/Atria paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer after junior year of college, and Grace is looking forward to going to LA with her boyfriend, Josh. When he unexpectedly dumps her, she's left with a hole in her heart and in her summer schedule. Her (very wealthy) best friend, Tiff, along with their new friend, Camille, a French foreign exchange student, come to the rescue and whisk her away to a beach house in Cancun for a week of R&R. Little do Tiff and Camille know, though, that's...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Dorothy Martin goes to France, alone because Alan is stuck back home in Sherebury with a broken ankle, she worries about her ability to get along in a language she barely speaks, and in a country she hasn't seen for over fifty years. But by the time Alan joins her a week later, Dorothy has found herself embroiled in one mystery after another: a woman drowning in quicksand; a man suffering a near-fatal fall in the abbey at Mont Saint Michel;...
177) Dykette: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians-prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda-invites Sasha and Jesse to their country...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
Polina came to the sea for the first time in many years. Her plans did not include holiday romances, but on the very first day it became clear that she would not be ignored by two young people. Kostik drove Pauline to the local bars, and Nikita went with her on excursions and fascinated her with local legends. However, soon the vacation took a turn when, on the beach right before her eyes, a stranger was dead, and Polina unwittingly became a participant...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Alex y Poppy. No tienen nada en común: Ella lleva vestidos estampados; él, pantalones de pinza. Ella es un espíritu aventurero; él prefiere quedarse en casa leyendo. Y, a pesar de todo, son mejores amigos. Durante la mayor parte del año viven separados --ella en Nueva York, él en su pequeño pueblo--, pero cada verano, desde hace ya una década, se toman una semana de vacaciones juntos. Hasta hace dos años, cuando todo cambió. Ahora Poppy...
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