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Author
Series
Beach Plum Cove novel volume 2
Publisher
Piping Plover Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Book your visit to the Beach Plum Cove Inn today.....meet widow Lisa Hodges and her four adult children, friends, and visitors to the newly opened waterfront bed and breakfast. In the first book, The Nantucket Inn, Lisa learned that her deceased husband had a hidden gambling addiction and had blown through their retirement savings. Since she'd been raising four children and hadn't worked in years, she had no employable skills. Her only option if...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Shira is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend over Hanukkah, but after getting snowed in on Nantucket with her nemesis-slash-former-crush her plans begin to go off the rails.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The fifth Henry Kennis mystery takes us into the closed, gossip-riddled, back-stabbing world of Nantucket's community theater. Horst Refn, the widely disliked and resented Artistic Director of the Nantucket Theater Lab, has been found stuffed into the meat freezer in his basement. Most of the actors, all the technical crew, and quite a few of the Theater Lab Board members, whom Refn was scamming and blackmailing, are suspects in his murder. The island's...
Author
Publisher
Mira Books, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set against Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear... Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at a time, women here know a rare independence -- and the challenges that go with it. Eliza Macy is struggling to conceal her financial trouble...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but Kennedy's yet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Emma Woodson is hoping the cobblestone streets of Nantucket and the charm of her late husband's family cottage will be the fresh start she and her young son, CJ, need. Securing a dream job at an art gallery is one more step along the path to a new life . . . and away from a piece of her history she hopes will never be revealed. Falling in love with the kind and handsome guy she hires to clean out the rental apartment above the garage wasn't part...
67) Surfside sisters
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A woman from Nantucket returns home to find that reunions aren't always so simple. Growing up, Lara always dreamed of leaving Nantucket to become a writer. Now that she's a bestselling novelist living in New York City, she realizes that success isn't what she thought it would be. Confused, and with a harrowing case of writer's block, Lara misses the island way of life more than ever. But going back to Nantucket out of the blue isn't so easy, as a...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Abby Schoenberg isn't looking forward to the summer before her senior year. She's just broken up with her first boyfriend and her friends are all off in different, exciting directions for the next three months. When she finds love letters among her recently deceased grandmother's possessions-- letters from a mystery man named Edward-- Abby heads to Nantucket for the summer to learn more about her grandmother and the secrets she kept. Edward's grandson...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jordan Edelman, determined to avoid dating during her summer trip to Nantucket, finds herself entangled with her father's research assistant, whom she has disliked for years, but as she delves into a centuries-old mystery with a local astronomer, her growing relationship becomes increasingly complicated.
72) Summer people
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A summer of healing turns turbulent when a grieving widow and her teenage twins experience passion, first love, and a dangerous secret from the widow's past that threatens to destroy the family.
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