Stay Sweet

Stay Sweet
Author: Siobhan Vivian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481452347

“A delectable mixture of ice cream and romance.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “For fans of Jenny Han.” —School Library Journal “A rare, enjoyable portrait of a woman-run business.” —Kirkus Reviews From the author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World and The List comes a bold and sweet summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream. Summer in Sand Lake isn’t complete without a trip to Meade Creamery—the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started making ice cream to cheer up her lovesick girlfriends while all the boys were away at war. Since then, the stand has been owned and managed exclusively by local girls, who inevitably become the best of friends. Seventeen-year-old Amelia and her best friend Cate have worked at the stand every summer for the past three years, and Amelia is “Head Girl” at the stand this summer. When Molly passes away before Amelia even has her first day in charge, Amelia isn’t sure that stand can go on. That is, until Molly’s grandnephew Grady arrives and asks Amelia to stay on to help continue the business…but Grady’s got some changes in mind…

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
Author: Kim Fu
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544227328

“A sensitive, evocative exploration of how the past threads itself through our lives, reemerging in unexpected ways.”—Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author At Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, campers are promised adventures in the woods, songs by the fire, and lifelong friends. Bursting with excitement and nervous energy, five girls set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island. But before the night is over, they find themselves stranded, with no adults to help them survive or guide them home. The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore follows Nita, Andee, Isabel, Dina, and Siobhan beyond this fateful trip, showing us the lives of the haunted and complex women these girls become. From award-winning novelist Kim Fu comes a stunning portrait of girlhood, the nuances of survival, and the pasts we can’t escape. “[Fu] is a propulsive storyteller, using clear and cutting prose to move seamlessly through time . . . In the one-way glass of the novel, we watch the girls of Forevermore from a series of angles, in all their private anguishes. We lean closer, unable to turn away.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fu precisely renders the banal humiliations of childhood, the chilling steps humans take to survive, and the way time warps memory.”—Publishers Weekly “An unblinking view of the social and emotional survival of the fittest that all too often marks the female coming of age.”—Toronto Star “These portraits of sisterhood, motherhood, daughterhood, wifehood, girlfriendhood, independent womanhood, and other female-identified-hoods sing and groan and scream with complexity and nuance, and they make me want to read her next ten books.”—The Stranger

Tender Is the Flesh

Tender Is the Flesh
Author: Agustina Bazterrica
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982150920

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

Before We Were Strangers

Before We Were Strangers
Author: Renée Carlino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501105787

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

The Summertime Girls

The Summertime Girls
Author: Laura Hankin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425279634

When two lifelong friends reunite for one more summer in small-town Maine, they must bridge the gap caused by the dreams and secrets that tore them apart… Ally Morris and Beth Abbott were beyond inseparable. From the very first time they met, the girls knew they’d found a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. But sometimes, life can’t help but get in the way. As time goes by, disappointments and petty resentments begin to alter what they once thought was forever. Ally’s boho lifestyle leaves her drowning in confusion and cheap whisky, while a terrible secret threatens to shatter Beth’s carefully controlled world. By the time they need each other most, Ally and Beth are nearly strangers to each other. When a family crisis prompts Beth to contact Ally for help out of the blue, the girls reunite in Maine. But the distance between them is overwhelming. To save their friendship, Ally and Beth will have to confront painful moments in their past and redefine who they are—before their incredible connection fades away for good…

Summertime Reading List: 180 Books You Need to Read (Vol.I)

Summertime Reading List: 180 Books You Need to Read (Vol.I)
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 19145
Release: 2023-11-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This summer, during these strange strange times, immerse yourself in words that have touched all of us and will always get to the core of all of us, of every single person. Books that have made us think, change, relate, cry and laugh: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) The Republic (Plato) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Decameron (Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Call of the Wild Alice in Wonderland The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen

Summertime Reading List: 180 Books You Need to Read (Vol.II)

Summertime Reading List: 180 Books You Need to Read (Vol.II)
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 20097
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This summer, during these strange strange times, immerse yourself in words that have touched all of us and will always get to the core of all of us, of every single person. Books that have made us think, change, relate, cry and laugh:_x000D_ Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)_x000D_ A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)_x000D_ A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ Dubliners (James Joyce)_x000D_ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)_x000D_ War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Howards End (E. M. Forster)_x000D_ Le Père Goriot (Honoré de Balzac)_x000D_ Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Anne of Green Gables Series (L. M. Montgomery)_x000D_ The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)_x000D_ Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore)_x000D_ Diary of a Nobody (Grossmith)_x000D_ The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald)_x000D_ Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)_x000D_ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)_x000D_ Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)_x000D_ The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)_x000D_ Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)_x000D_ The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)_x000D_ Iliad & Odyssey (Homer)_x000D_ Kama Sutra_x000D_ Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós)_x000D_ The Divine Comedy (Dante)_x000D_ The Rise of Silas Lapham (William Dean Howells)_x000D_ The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura)_x000D_ Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)_x000D_ The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)_x000D_ Red and the Black (Stendhal)_x000D_ Rob Roy (Walter Scott)_x000D_ Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)_x000D_ Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)_x000D_ Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)_x000D_ Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)_x000D_ Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ My Antonia (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)_x000D_ The Awakening (Kate Chopin)_x000D_ Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)_x000D_ The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace)_x000D_ Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)_x000D_ The Portrait of a Lady (Henry Jame...

A Love So Sweet (Books #4 - #6)

A Love So Sweet (Books #4 - #6)
Author: Kaylee Monroe
Publisher: Kaylee Monroe
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2024-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Love So Sweet series of books are sweet, classic romances set in small towns, featuring sexy heroes and the women who bring them to their knees (in the very best way!). All books are full-length, stand-alone novels that can be read in any order. THE MARRIAGE BARGAIN Seven year old Andrew Fielding wants a mom, and he’s convinced his dad could use a wife. He thinks he's found the perfect woman for both of them: Megan Sanders—which is fine with Megan. The Fielding men have their attractions. One is as cute as a button, the other is breathtakingly sexy. Together, they're the family Megan's always wanted. But convincing brooding widower Kane Fielding that they’re a match isn’t so easy…. THE RANCHER'S LEGACY Tyler Whitmore has returned home after nine years to claim his half of the family ranch and Brianne has a right to be nervous. When Tyler left he had taken more than her innocence, he had taken her dreams and her heart. But unbeknownst to Tyler, he had left Brianne something in return . . . a baby! THE WEDDING DEAL Tall, dark Luke Bodene had been propositioned by women before, but they’d never had marriage in mind. Yet his employer, ranch owner Eden Lowe, had just invited him to dinner...and asked him to be her husband! If Eden didn't get married soon, she was going to lose her home. Making this rugged loner her husband was her best, and only, option! But a wedding of convenience wasn't all she needed. For one whole year, they also had to live as man and wife . . .

The Music Trivia Book of Rock 'n' Roll Music

The Music Trivia Book of Rock 'n' Roll Music
Author: Jimmy Correa
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780533149629

From Johnny Ace to the Zombies, covering R&B, Pop, Country, and everything in between. Take the challenge-- you'll be amazed at what you know, didn't know, or have forgotten.