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Boys of Summer volume 1 features story by Chuck Austen and art by Hiroki Otsuka. Bud Waterston is a decent looking guy in full hormonal bloom. He's heading for college, and imagines the sexual liberation he will face living in a dormitory full of other post-teens just like him. But like all best laid plans (no pun intended), nothing goes as Bud hopes or expects. His roommate turns out to be a closeted homosexual and all the good-looking girls in...
2) If the Sun
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When Marley Owen's stepdad attacks him, his mother puts him on a bus and sends him halfway across the country to stay with his sister and her kids. As a recent high school graduate, Marley is lost and alone in a new city, no idea how to deal with his difficult, free spirit sister or her collection of children. But his sister lives in Stephen Valentino and Jake Branigan's building, and God has a plan for him. Pretty soon he's working for Stephen,...
3) Second Son
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You are cordially invited to the wedding of Matt Tucker and Dana Schneider, as seen through the eyes of Tony Carpenter. Last seen in Courting the Clearwaters, Shawn Carpenter's little brother Tony is now in high school, and he's tired of living in his perfect big brother's shadow. He wants to be his own person, but honestly, right now he's not doing that well as his own person. His family loves him, but they also tend to forget he exists, and the...
4) Third base
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Boys of summer (Heidi McLaughlin) volume 1
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"EVERY GAME HAS RULES. HE'S ABOUT TO BREAK THEM. Since becoming a major league baseball player, I've learned a few hard lessons. Like never give out your home address on social media (sorry, Mom). Never shoot your mouth off without thinking. and never, ever let your personal life interfere with your game. But then I saw her - sitting alone behind the enemy dugout, watching me - and I just had to meet this girl. Now I know that Daisy Robinson has her...
5) Grand slam
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"Win the game. Lose your heart. Everyone knows who I am and that I could have any female fan I want. That's supposed to be the "perk" of playing left field for the Boston Renegades. But I don't want just any woman; I want her. She should be just another face in the crowd, but I can't stop thinking about the one night we spent together-and her look of regret the morning after. Because Saylor Blackwell is the kind of woman who haunts a man. Smart, sexy...
6) Home run
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Boys of summer (Heidi McLaughlin) volume 2
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"LOVE ISN'T A GAME. I've given up everything for the chance to play major league baseball. Everything. Now I'm so close I can practically hear the crowd chanting my name. There's nothing that could take my dream away from me. Unless I lose focus. And Ainsley Burke is the most beautiful, distracting woman I've ever met. When I'm with her, I can't think of anything else. But no matter how much I want Ainsley, there's no room for love in my game plan....
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Temptation continues to come Bud's way, and even Manny is in for quite the "adult" experience... but as close as the two friends are, when it comes down to it, they react to the new challenges of college in completely different ways. In the end, it threatens to prove ruinous for their friendship, especially with a practice game looming on the horizon. And Bud's finally broken the ice with Chrissie, but now he's got some new worries that may get in...
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Temptation continues to come Bud's way, and even Manny is in for quite the "adult" experience…but as close as the two friends are, when it comes down to it, they react to the new challenges of college in completely different ways. In the end, it threatens to prove ruinous for their friendship, especially with a practice game looming on the horizon. And Bud's finally broken the ice with Chrissie, but now he's got some new worries that may get in...
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For college junior Shawn Carpenter, life was work, family, and paying penance for sins of the past. Then a friend introduces him to God and invites him to join a college youth group, and his world turns upside down. Suddenly he's surrounded by new friends, has a new job, and finds himself attracted to the unobtainable boss's daughter, Jenny Clearwater. He thinks his life is looking up, but soon he sends his best friend away in anger, faces charges...
10) Cross Country
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Join college freshman Eric Van der Haas on a cross-country journey of discovery, tears, and healing. Since his mother's death four years ago, Eric Van der Haas has spent two weeks with his brother Aaron. Suddenly, as a favor to his aunt, he and Aaron are thrown together for weeks to deliver an RV and make some memories along the way. Joining them are Eric's younger, angry cousin Brenda and Eric's best friend Samantha, the only person who has stuck...
11) Knowing Jake
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Jake Branigan is the pastor's kid, and everyone thinks they know him. What they don't know is how tired he is of his boring, normal, predictable, respectable life. Even living in an apartment with friends Stephen and Matt doesn't help with the feeling that he's missing something. However, Jake's dad is about to misstep, and the pastor's kid has to figure out what to do once his dad is no longer a pastor. Follow Jake on a journey of discovery as...
12) Measuring Up
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School's back in session, and it may be a year to remember… When college junior Tom Van der Haas asks his cousin Eric and friend Matt to be his roommates, he has no idea what he's in for. Along with their friends Samantha and Dana, the guys will tackle a youth lock-in, family dramas, a nearby service trip, and even a kidnapping. Through it all, Tom and God deal with some big issues, like what it means to be a servant, what God wants from Tom, and...
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Stephen Valentino finds it's hard to go from homelessness to a life with eerily friendly guys who keep saying they want to help him. Staying with new acquaintances Matt Tucker and Tom Van der Haas for the summer, Stephen is in a new world, with a job, friends, and maybe even a girlfriend. But he isn't sure he can keep it, because Stephen has a secret, one that might cause his friends to walk away if he can't hide it, and he's pretty sure he can't...
14) Saving Hadley
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If suntans, saltwater, and a stubbornly cute guy can't save Hadley's summer, nothing will.
Hadley Parrish is having the worst luck ever. Her boyfriend dumped her for social media fame, her stepsister got into Harvard the day Hadley failed chemistry, and now she's been blamed for a crime she didn't do. As punishment, she's sent to Sterling Beach for the summer to learn some "work ethic" and "manners" from her grumpy grandfather who she barely knows....
15) Wayfarer Beach
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Seth has always fixed everyone else. Now it's his turn to be broken. Returning home from a mission trip to Mexico, seminary student Seth Roberts is tired, grieving, and wondering what God is doing in his life. To make matters worse, he has promised to help friend and college student Tom Van der Haas host a party of teenage girls at Tom's uncle's beach house for spring break. He hopes to tell his troubles to his best friend Shawn Carpenter, who is...
16) Waylaid
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Cherokee Jones isn't a big fan of college student and horseman extraordinaire Matt Tucker, but since they work on the same ranch this summer, he's stuck with him. But maybe it's not Matt Kee doesn't like; maybe it's that Matt reminds him of the reason he's living in a cabin at the corner of a horse ranch all alone, and he doesn't need any more reminders of his mistakes and secrets. When he's hurt at work, he finds himself kidnapped into Matt's life,...
17) Yucatan Cowboy
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Needing to escape from a painful family situation, college junior Matt Tucker jumps at a chance to lead horse rides at a Mexican Christian summer camp with his uncle. He isn't sure how he feels about God at the moment, but anything is better than watching his parents come apart. What he doesn't bargain for is teammates. As he shares his summer with an uncle who knows too many of his secrets, a guy who's grieving, a seminary student, and a girl who...
18) Hawk
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It's another season of Renegade baseball and, as they say, the boys are back in town. All except for all-star pitcher, Hawk Sinclair, who has returned to his hometown and back to the ranch he grew up on to rehab after shoulder surgery.
Real estate agent, Bellamy Patrick, feels like she's failing at being a single mom. Her son is having a hard time fitting in and she's hoping that playing baseball will be the answer. When he doesn't make the team,...
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Adventure, danger, romance… Welcome to the Boys of Summer, a contemporary Christian series for teens and anyone who appreciates the challenge of stepping into adulthood. This collection includes the first four books of the series in one convenient ebook volume. Courting the Clearwaters-College student Shawn Carpenter is new to Christianity, and when he finds himself surrounded by new people, new purposes, and especially a new girl, he has to decide...
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Adventure, danger, romance… Welcome to the Boys of Summer, a contemporary Christian series for teens and anyone who appreciates the challenge of stepping into adulthood. This collection includes the second four books of the eleven-book series. All I Want for Christmas-Unable to get home to the mountains for Christmas, Matt Tucker goes home with Tom Van der Haas for the holidays. Nothing goes as planned, and before the holiday season is over, Matt...
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