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1) Happy place
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Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up six months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from...
2) Beach read
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A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single...
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Northern Lakes mystery volume 1
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Feet Wet Writing
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English
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Tragic events ended John Cabrelli's career in law enforcement. Struggling to put his life back together, he moves to a cabin in northern Wisconsin that his uncle left to him. But the north woods can be dangerous, especially when John begins to question the suspicious circumstances of his uncle's death.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house on Cape Cod. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling...
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanished from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. The loss devastated the family. Sixty-four years later, Emily's sister Lucy writes the story of that harrowing summer in a notebook that she bequeaths, along with the lake house and a hefty investment portfolio, to her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers a chance to give her own daughters a stable home she never...
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Beach house volume 1
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English
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Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of The Beach House! The most fulfilling journey is one that leads back home...
"Mary Alice Monroe is helping to redefine the beauty and magic of the Carolina Lowcountry. Every book she has written has felt like a homecoming to me."
—Pat Conroy
Twenty years ago, Caretta Rutledge left her Southern roots far behind for a successful career as a businesswoman in Chicago. But an unusual...
"Mary Alice Monroe is helping to redefine the beauty and magic of the Carolina Lowcountry. Every book she has written has felt like a homecoming to me."
—Pat Conroy
Twenty years ago, Caretta Rutledge left her Southern roots far behind for a successful career as a businesswoman in Chicago. But an unusual...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Over the course of one year, in a charming cottage by the sea, eight people will discover love and remembrance, reconciliation and reunion, beginnings and endings in this unforgettable sequel to The Beach House and Another Summer.
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Butternut Lake volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Return to Butternut Lake with author Mary McNear in a story where the complicated bonds of sisterhood are tested, long-kept secrets are revealed, and love is discovered... all during one unforgettable summer at the lake.
10) Suddenly dating
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Lake Haven volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Lola, who is working on a novel, and Harry, who is getting over a breakup, are sent to a lake house owned by their friends--who are going through a divorce--for the summer.
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Cabin by the lake mystery volume 1
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Level Best Books
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Jamie Forest is a freelance editor eking out a living in northern Minnesota. Her plans for a tranquil fall in her cabin by the lake are shattered when she is drawn into writing an article about a school shooting in a nearby town where all the victims were Native American. Is this a hate crime? As she pursues the story, she finds a town wrapped in silence. When the one person who will talk with her is found dead, Jamie is launched into an investigation...
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When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it's a win-win by any standard. Cara generates income necessary to keep husband Brett's ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, a young artist, has a quiet space in which to work. It isn't long, however, before both women's idyllic summers are altered irrevocably. When Cara's life reels with sudden tragedy, she wishes only...
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What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah's loving and generous tech-mogul brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It's his birthday gift to Hannah and includes their spouses and another couple. The six friends need this trip with good food, good company and lots of R &...
14) Dead man's hand
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Series
Colt Brothers investigation volume 6
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
DJ Diamond's partnership with Sadie Montclair is purely professional. But when a high-stakes poker game DJ organized turns violent, Sadie refuses to leave his side. Hiding out in a snowbound cabin gives them a chance to explore the feelings they've kept from each other...and makes them an easy target for the gangsters who want them dead.
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Summer beach volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
In the exclusive black beach community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the three unofficial "goddaughters" of Amelia Vaux Tanner, successful women from different backgrounds, gather for one last summer together before Amelia moves to the south of France and gives her home to one of them.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Donald Trump? Liberal and like-minded-editors, writers,...
18) The beach trap
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record straight. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O'Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything falls apart when they learn they're not just best friends-they're also half-sisters. Confused and betrayed, their friendship instantly crumbles. Fifteen years later when their father dies suddenly, Kat and Blake discover he's...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In 1944, Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort--and to see the world beyond her family's cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she's swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine. Maren soon discovers that the residents of Haven Point are skeptical...
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Lowcountry tales volume 11
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English
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A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship -- and flirt with an unexpected attraction -- of their own. Year after year, Adam,...
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