Henry Carter Hull

The closeness of five friends growing up in 1950s Pisgah, Missouri--including Rajiv Travers, a boy born to a East Indian mother and English father, abandoned by his family, and adopted by the American romance writer his uncle left behind by suicide--is threatened when a love triangle develops within their group and the dark secrets of Pisgah's residents emerge.

Beth Lowe receives a scrapbook from her long-estranged mother entitled The Book of Summers which is filled with photographs and mementos recording the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary before it all came brutally to an end when she turned sixteen.

After more than ten years without closure, thirty-year-old Kate Hollis gets the chance to take revenge on her superstar high school sweetheart for abandoning her, putting personal details about their relationship in his hit songs, and stealing music from his old bandmates--but finds herself falling in love with him again.

Abdul, having been left on his own after his mother died when he was nine, struggles to form an identity he can stand behind as he reaches adulthood and faces challenges along the way.

Michael, now an adult, recalls the three-week long sea voyage he took as a boy in the early 1950s to meet his mother. During the trip across the Indian Ocean the boy meets a variety of characters on board.

Eveline, growing up in East Hampton at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s, learns to accept herself as she navigates her way through high school graduation and college and deals with death, rape, love, and other life challenges.

Eric Dunne, a sixteen-year-old genius, enrolls in Aberdeen College hoping to escape his foster family and live a normal life, but when he becomes entangled in a mysterious death, he must use his intelligence and cunning to find the killer.

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