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  • The Summer Before Forever

    by Melissa Chambers

    series Before Forever #1
    Chloe Stone’s life is a hot mess. Determined to stop being so freaking skittish, she packs up her quasi-famous best friend and heads to Florida. The goal? Complete the summer bucket list to end all bucket lists. The problem? Her hot soon-to-be stepbrother, Landon Jacobs.Landon’s mom will throttle him if he even looks at his future stepsister the wrong way. Problem is, Chloe is everything he didn’t ... Read more

    € 5,88

  • The Summer Before the War

    A Novel

    by Helen Simonson

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington PostThe bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches ... Read more

    € 10,34

  • The Summer Before the Dark

    by Doris Lessing

    series Vintage International
    As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the ... Read more

    € 9,91

  • Audiobook

    The Summer Before the War

    A Novel

    by Helen Simonson

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham

    Unabridged

    15 hours 47 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington PostThe bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches ... Read more

    € 23,24

  • The Summer Before the War

    by Helen Simonson

    It is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season's splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal town of Rye to fill a teaching position at the local grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a place that remains stubbornly resistant to the idea ... Read more

    € 8,06

  • The Summer Before the Dark

    by Doris Lessing

    The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and, on her return to England, meets an ... Read more

    € 11,98

  • The Summer Before (The Baby-Sitters Club)

    by Ann M. Martin

    series The Baby-Sitters Club
    The BSC returns in this fantastic prequel from Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin. Before there was the Baby-Sitters Club, there were four girls named Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, and Stacey McGill. As they start the summer before seventh grade (also before they start the BSC), each of them is on the cusp of a big change. Kristy is still hung up on hoping that her father will ... Read more

    € 4,68

  • Ostend

    Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

    by Volker Weidermann and 1 more

    It’s the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria—searched by the police two years earlier—no longer feels like home. He’s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his lover, Lotte Altmann, and ... Read more

    € 10,67

  • Black Sand Beach 2: Do You Remember the Summer Before?

    by Richard Fairgray

    series Black Sand Beach #2
    A revelation about how Dash may or may not have spent the summer before raises the stakes even higher in this second installment of the eerie and enthralling Black Sand Beach series, perfect for fans of Gravity Falls, Rickety Stich, and Fake Blood.Dash and his crew might have stumbled upon the source of the evil at Black Sand Beach when they stumbled into the abandoned and haunted lighthouse, but ... Read more

    € 15,47

  • Summary of The Summer Before the War

    by Helen Simonson | Includes Analysis

    by Instaread Summaries

    Summary of The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson | Includes AnalysisPreview:The Summer Before the War is a novel that follows the inhabitants of a small English town through the onset of World War I. Its protagonist, Beatrice Nash, is a young woman who was recently orphaned. In the summer of 1914, she moves to Rye to escape the clutches of the oppressive relatives who administer her ... Read more

    € 3,26 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guide to Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before the War by Instaread

    by Instaread

    PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before the War and NOT the original book. Preview: The Summer Before the War is a novel that follows the inhabitants of a small English town through the onset of World War I. Its protagonist, Beatrice Nash, is a young woman who was recently orphaned… Inside this companion to the book: ·         Summary of the book ·     &nb... ... Read more

    € 2,78

  • The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last

    by Kellie Emery and 1 more

    series The Happenstances Series #1
    "Don't worry, as long as I'm alive and raising h-e-double diving boards those rat bastards aren't gonna touch us, trust me. I love this place too much not to fight for it." Set the summer before last around a series of happenstances at a community swim and racquet club in Yellow County, The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last is a bittersweet, ... Read more

    € 1,08