Book
Summerland : a novel / Elin Hilderbrand.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316099837 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 392 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
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| Subject: | Accidents > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. High school graduates > Fiction. Loss (Psychology) > Fiction. Summer > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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