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Jo Marie Rose, innkeeper of Rose Harbor Inn, welcomes a new set of guests, including Mary Smith, a cancer survivor who regrets ending a relationship with the one man she truly loved, and Annie Newtown, who remembers her own broken engagement while planning a fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration for her grandparents.
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After Carley Winsted loses her husband to a fatal heart attack, she devises a plan to keep her family in their beloved Nantucket home by transforming the historic house into a bed-and-breakfast, but while Carley struggles to keep a friend's secret and prevent families and friendships from unraveling, a summer heat wave brings about unexpected changes that will alter the lives of Carley and everyone she loves forever.
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Catalyzed by a nephew's thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.
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Half-sisters Arden, Meg, and Jenny spend a summer in their late father's Nantucket house in order to inherit the property, and, though they all thought their uneasy relationships with one another would complicate things, they find trust forming between them as they deal with their mothers, the men in their lives, and a visitor with shocking news.
7) 24 hours
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A kidnapping ransom-seeker whose devious technological abilities have helped him get away with the crime many previous times now targets Will and Karen Jennings' five-year-old daughter Abby, and the family has only twenty-four hours to thwart his plan.
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2015
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English
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"The changing needs of aging parents impact a family gathering during which Abby Whitshank relates how her husband and she fell in love during the summer of 1959 and shares decades of marriage impacted by children and long-held secrets."--Provided by OCLC.
9) Home front
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
10) Coming out
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Chaos erupts in the Rubinstein household when Olympia's twin daughters are invited to New York's most exclusive debutante ball--with one twin and Olympia's current husband refusing to attend, and the other young woman and Olympia's snobbish ex-husband already shopping for the event.
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Winter Street Inn novels volume 1
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English
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A family Christmas gathering at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity.
12) Sweet life
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Marissa Price uproots her life and family to move to Hawaii after her husband is offered an amazing job opportunity, but she soon discovers that her new life is more challenging than she expected as her dreams of the perfect island life are shattered by the reality of a husband facing a mid-life crisis.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Jade and Tanner were childhood friends until scandal drove them apart. Then one golden summer they found each other again and shared dreams of forever. But in a moment of weakness they made a decision that would tear them apart for nearly a decade. Now, Jade's unfaithful husband wants to destroy her in a custody battle that is about to shock the nation. Only one man can help her in her darkest hour. And only one old woman knows the secret about that...
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2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter, her young life marked by the disappearance of her mother and the death of a beloved brother, has withdrawn into a world of her own making on the family's faded plantation in South Carolina where her father and brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels, but everything changes when troubled debutante Lulu Foxworth comes to stay, hoping to escape her struggles with alcohol and sex addiction.
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Miss Julia series volume 2
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English
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Southern lady Miss Julia teams up with investigator J.D. Pickens--despite her distaste for his enjoyment of beer and women--to find her missing young friend Hazel Marie, who never returned from a dinner date with a man that Miss Julia never trusted.
19) Shadow spell
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2014
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English
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Connor O'Dwyer, a falconer, is very happy living in Ireland with his close circle of family and friends and taking tourists on hawk walks, until a brush with death propels him into an affair with his best friend Meara Quinn who is not looking for anything longterm.
20) The great alone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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"Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt's fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture....
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