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1) Bittersweet
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Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.
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Almost paradise : "Summer camp director Jeff Roarke has a strict policy against romance in the workplace--even if his office is in the forest. Jeff runs a prestigious program and has no tolerance for anything that will distract the campers ... or the counselors. But when Sherry White joins the team, Jeff finds it difficult to follow his own rules. Looking for a summer escape, and a break from her eccentric stepmother, Sherry jumps at the opportunity...
5) Heart bones
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"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
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A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, which centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporal and psychological elements. To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little...