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1) Happy place
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"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. 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...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
9) The means
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The debut novel from "wholly original" (Vogue) memoirist Amy Fusselman, a tragicomic family saga that skewers contemporary issues of money, motherhood, and class through a well-to-do woman's quest to buy a Hamptons beach house"--
"Shelly Means, a wealthy stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA president, is poised to get the one thing in life she really wants: a beach house in the Hamptons. Who would have guessed that Shelly, the product of frugal...
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English
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"The author of the "swoon-worthy debut" (Harper's Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord...only to fall for his sister. One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People is a whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island. 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...
Author
Publisher
Little Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A missing federal agent, suitcases full of cash, a secluded cabin in the woods. Spider Lake is no longer the peaceful retreat John Cabrelli needs to recover from his gunshot wounds and start a new life. Knowing Cabrelli is a former law enforcement officer, the new chief of police recruits him to help untangle a string of strange events in the little town of Musky Falls."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend--the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod--Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
Author
Publisher
Destino Infantil y Juvenil
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
Belly pasa el verano se vuelve dieciséis años en la playa al igual que cualquier otro verano de su vida, pero esta vez las cosas son muy diferentes.
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Leah's boyfriend, Ollie, is taking her to his family's home on Seneca Lake for a week of lazy summer bliss, boating, and barbeque. The couple has been together for four years and Leah is convinced that Ollie is finally going to pop the question. Her best friend, June Kang, is joining them on their getaway. Seven years later June's fiancé, Ollie, is taking her to his family's lake house. But it is a home haunted by June's long-buried memories of her...
Author
Publisher
Little Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While on routine patrol, John Cabrelli, a decorated law enforcement officer, is dispatched to a disturbance call. The tense situation requires all of his skill and experience to get things under control. Then tragedy strikes, an innocent victim dies, and many lives are forever changed. While struggling to pull himself out of the depths of despair, John is notified that he is heir to his aunt and uncle's cabin on a lake where he spent much of his youth....
17) Suddenly dating
Author
Series
Lake Haven volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.
When Lola Dunne's friend offers the use of her summer home overlooking Lake Haven, the aspiring writer sees the chance to focus on herself for a change. Engineer Harry Westbrook is waiting for his ship to come in... and nursing a heartache... when his pal extends an invite to...
19) The lost girls
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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, a...
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