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3) 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 up...
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While staying at an isolated luxury cabin in the woods with her brother, their spouses, and another couple, Hannah finds their dream weekend turning into a nightmare when someone comes looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried, exposing the secrets and lies between them all.
5) 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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"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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"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...
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2023.
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294 pages ; 25 cm
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"Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it's the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters who've fled after finding blood and nail marks all over the guest room closet,...
14) Summer people
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Every summer the Newton family returns to their home on Nantucket for three months, but when Arch Newton is killed in a plane crash, his widow Beth can barely keep her life, much less her family together, as she tries to continue the family's summer tradition.
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Emmy Award winner, renowned lawyer and journalist, The View cohost, and National Bestselling author Sunny Hostin dazzles with this brilliant novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard.Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive black beach community in the country. Known for its gingerbread Victorian-style houses and modern architectural marvels, this picturesque town hugging the sea is a mecca for the cráeme de la cráeme...
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2018.
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At Cara Rutledge's home on Isle of Palms, everything is comfortingly the same, yet rife with painful memories. Only through reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love, career, and hope for the future. Meanwhile, her niece Linnea, a recent college graduate who doesn't know where her life will take her, leaves her historic home in Charleston,...
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Nice house on the lake volume 2
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[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Now is the perfect time to enter the house! The ten hardy survivors gathered in the house by their mutual friend Walter thought they'd finally cracked the code on his plans...and now everything they thought they knew has literally changed. Can they free themselves from their patterns? Or are they all just determined to build a prison of their very own?"--
18) This one summer
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[2014?]
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317 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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Rose goes with her parents every summer to their vacation home. Her friend Windy is there and Rose is hoping them spending time together will take her mind off her parents fighting but somehow they end up with a different set of problems.
19) The inheritance
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2023.
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352 pages ; 20 cm.
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"I thought he took my secret to the grave. But the truth can't stay buried forever... In the wake of my darling husband's death, I am so lucky to have my three beautiful, grown-up daighters by my side at our holiday home in Scotland. We need some time together, to recover from the shock. but I also need to set some things straight about their beloved father... I've always known this house was the perfect place to bury secrets - remote, isolated, surrounded...
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