In our particular area of the world, there is a certain rhythm that fills the days. We may not notice the small ones, but the seasonal ones are more apparent. Late summer is a time in the year with colder nights but mercifully warmer days. Yet, it hallmarks what is to come when autumn finally arrives. Although most people enjoy the change to fall, it is also one step closer to the dreaded frigid winter months. So, why not hold onto the end of summer or even celebrate the transition into fall with some books!
One summer in the late '70s, Caitlin Somers chooses Victoria Leonard as her friends, thrusting her into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family and sweeping her off to places of unimaginable privilege. During their vacations, they become "summer sisters". Years later, their long, complicated friendship has faded but when Caitlin begs Vix to come to her Vineyard wedding to be her maid of honor, she knows she will go. Not simply as principle, but to finally know what happened during that last shattering summer and why her summer sister still has the power to break her heart.
Four freshman arrive at a college, they strike up a conversation in their shared room, and sees of friendship are planted despite their origins from completely different worlds. Their bonds grow tighter as their college years pass, making them inseparable, but as graduations looms, a desperate act leads to tragic consequences. In the aftermath, the friends promise to always be there for one another no matters the distance. 10 years down the road, one calls the other after remembering their pact, testing whether promises made have the strength to stand the test of time. In this portrayal of grief, hope, and love, you will be asking yourself, "When things fall apart, who will be by your side to help pick up the pieces?".
Brought back to Grace, Arizona by her ailing and distant father, Codi is attempting to confront her past while struggling to follow Loyd Peregrina's advice of, "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." What she comes back to, however, is a silent environmental disaster and some illuminating clues to her own identity. With a blend of flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, the book is a suspenseful love story around Cori and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life.
At the age of 58, divorced and facing an empty nest, Dawn is trying to settle herself into her new future. However, she finds herself continually returning to the past and a secret she's kept for so many years: when she was 16, she found herself pregnant. Being in Trinidad, and as was a common practice, she was forced by her parents to give the baby up for adoption. Now, more than 40 years later, she feels the overwhelming need to reconnect with her lost daughter, but tracking her down is not easy. It will take an immense emotional load to retrace her steps back home and to question the very choice she had to face all those years ago, the one that has shaped all the choices she has made since then. Depicting the powerful bonds of a mother-and-child, this story echoes of enduring bonds in love, family, and home.
Thomas is caught in the mundane variety of being a shrimp shanker while selling his wares in the afternoon and rehearsing songs on his guitar as he pines for Joan Wyeth down the street. Although he is a folk musician at heart, a private dream he keeps, he must eek out a slow, deliberate life in his grandfather's trade with his mother in Longferry. However, when a stranger shows up with the temptation of Hollywood glamour, he is shaken from the drudgery of life and sees the silver lining in a different future. Will Thomas trust the American's promises of a bright future, and how far can he truly carry his dreams? This is a haunting story about a young man hemmed in by his circumstances though longs to fulfill the purpose he believes will lead him away from it.
This is a story about a young woman attending a liberal arts college in New England as an international student and her long distance Skype calls to her mother who lives in Brazil. In the blue glows of their computer screens, the two women develop new rituals of intimacy and caretaking. Although their realities apart are vastly different, they find communion in drinking whiskey together in the middle of the night and keeping watch as the other slides into sleep.
Yet as Autumn approaches, each begins to realize that spring might not hold hopeful beginnings but rather difficult endings. This follows the difficult transition of a person making a home in a foreign place and the sacrifices they and their loved ones make in order to fulfill that dream.
In this book of mystery and heart, you will meet a strange character named Ayumi Shibuya. Carrying a tattered notebook, dressed in designer duffel coat, he intercedes on behalf of the living searching for a way to bridge the gap between this world and the next. Ayumi meets his clients at a luxury hotel to lay down ground rules: the service is entirely free, but the reunion is a one-time deal. Oh, and it can be refused by the dead and only happen during a full moon. During these encounters, we see a variety of longings unfulfilled only filled by the Go-Betweeners. With each rendezvous, you are given a clue as to who Ayumi really is. In this page-turner you are lead through both living and the dead as they are given one last chance at closure.