Greg and Tess MacAvoy consider themselves to be best friends with the Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers. Just before another idyllic summer on Nantucket, Greg and Tess are killed in a boating accident. As warm weather approaches and the island's inhabitants mourn their loss, nothing can prepare the MacAvoy's friends for what is revealed.

Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life-her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline-grow deeper. When Hollis hears about something...

The Waves by an English writer, who is considered as one of the most important modernist 20th Century authors and also a pioneer in the use of the stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Virginia Woolf. It is an experimental novel which is considered a key text of the Modernist literary movement. Interspersed with lyrical descriptions of waves breaking against the shoreline, the novel traces the intertwining lives of six friends from childhood...

Andie Miller always wanted more than small-town beach life, which is why she worked hard at her career as an antique appraiser in New York. But when her mother falls ill, she returns to her small town. She enjoys spending time with her mother and reconnecting with her sister, but still longs for more. An exciting new project seems like just the ticket until she realizes it is run by Damien Carruthers, whom she's run into before and found to be a scoundrel....

Perfect for fans of Small Spaces and Nightbooks, Ally Malinenko's debut is an empowering and triumphant ghost story-with spooky twists sure to give readers a few good goosebumps! Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. There's a creepy new principal who seems to know everyone's darkest dreams. And Zee is...

"Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup-the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex-all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even...

Jane Miller finds herself in charge of the family's bed-and-breakfast in Lobster Bay. Her furry friend Cooper has an easy on the eyes owner, even though Jane had vowed she'd never look again. Along with her friends Claire and Maxi, Jane learns to navigate changes in her life.

Tragedy tore the Girls of August apart, but new marriage will bring them together as the women who shared summertime friendships while their husbands went to medical school reunite on a remote island, where shocking truths will forever change these Girls of August. 240pp., 150K, Auth res: Charleston, SC; Brooklin, ME

The friendship between a little girl and her favorite stuffed animal makes each day special, from morning until night.

In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s. From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free...