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School by the sea volume no. 4
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
2) Lucky
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"Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her Uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky - and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then - through a combination of hard work and serendipity - started a singing career, which catapulted her from St. Louis to New York...
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Sunny Palms Press
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"While Marina and Jack contemplate their future together, her sister Kai and her new fiancé Axe are planning their wedding. This summer, the family is busy with Marina's new food truck addition to their beach cafe and Kai's latest theater production. When disagreements threaten to derail plans, the sisters' grandmother, the indomitable Ginger Delavie, doles out sage advice. Soon, unforgettable events unfold on the sunny summer shores. Don't...
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Guncle volume 2
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With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters.
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2024.
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"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider, and no one looks like...
6) Double lives
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2024.
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Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in--and out--of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn't be more different. Outspoken Leona lives to break rules, have a good time, and scandalize their respectable hometown of Lexington. Fiona is a seemingly-demure churchgoing girl who is the apple of her domineering, widowed mother Mavis's eye. But together, the twins have fooled teachers, boyfriends,...
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"It started as a book club. It became a way to build a better life together. Karissa Newcomb is ready for a new start in a new neighborhood, as far away as she can get from Seattle, where her husband cheated on her with the neighbor who was supposed to be her best friend. She and her nine-year-old daughter are moving on to the city of Gig Harbor on the bay in Puget Sound. She even has a new job as an assistant at a small publishing company right in...
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2024.
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"The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties--all single, all with PhDs--they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly foundering world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from classrooms in Connecticut to ritzy catering gigs in London's Notting Hill, until one day their oldest sister, a geologist haunted by a terrible awareness of the earth's...
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2024
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"The fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha's Vineyard that tourists don't always see. Maddie Clarke hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy's cottage above Menemsha Harbor. It turns out Grandma Nancy didn't die long ago, as Maddie believed. In fact, Nancy just passed away at 89--and left Maddie her cottage. Maddie intends her visit to be a brief one, but on arriving in Menemsha, she finds far more than memories. There are other...
10) Sea Glass Summer
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South Carolina sunsets volume 11
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At 40, Tara Lawson's world falls apart. A painful divorce and the loss of her job as a journalist leave her reeling. But it's the news of her beloved grandmother's passing that draws her back to her childhood home in Seagrove, South Carolina, to settle the estate. In the midst of her grief, Tara unexpectedly reconnects with Noah, her childhood best friend. Now a successful sea glass artist, Noah's steadfast presence becomes a comforting anchor. Together,...
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2024.
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79-year-old Arthur Edwards drops a bombshell on his family when he announces that he's gay, and after a lifetime in the closet, he's finally ready to come out. Arthur's 21-year-old grandson, Teddy, has the same secret. But Teddy doesn't feel ready to come out yet. Can Arthur and Teddy navigate first loves, heartbreak, and finding their place in their community?