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1) Last summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jane Patterson always felt lucky to work from home in Yorktide, Maine, next door to her best friend, Frannie Giroux, and her daughter Rosie's inseparable friend Meg. But in the girls' freshman year of high school, Rosie suffers an emotional breakdown due to bullying. Blaming both Meg and Frannie, Jane tries to help Rosie heal while dealing with her own guilt and anger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When her 16-year-old daughter reveals that she is pregnant--an announcement that shocks the small community of Yorktide, Maine--Cindy Bauer, as their family is thrown into chaos, bands together with her friends and neighbors to make a baby quilt that reflects all of their hopes and dreams.
Author
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In this poignant, evocative novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin sweeps you into the picturesque town of Ogunquit, Maine, where a family in flux explores their ties to a beautiful beach house, and to each other.
Some houses have a personality of their own. Larchmere is that kind of place--a splendid, sprawling home with breathtaking views that open to briny Atlantic air and seabirds' calls. It's the place where Tilda McQueen O'Connell grew...
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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Description
When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years-not since her baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping, sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A mother and daughter escape to a beautiful coastal town in Maine to find healing in the wake of heartbreaking loss.
Since the car crash that claimed the lives of her husband, and their younger daughter, Frieda Braithwaite has struggled emotionally and financially. Bella, now seventeen, is withdrawn and wary, and Frieda fears losing her too. At her mother's urging, Frieda decides to return to Yorktide, Maine, with Bella for the summer. Bella gets...
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English
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"It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New York City. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriage and motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol's teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both their girls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is anticipating the day she'll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenth-century...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Renting out three bedrooms and setting up a bed-and-breakfast of sorts, widow Sandra Pennington is eager to try and build a community of like-minded mature women for companionship and support during a summer of self-discovery, renewal and the healing power of friendship.
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