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21) 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...
22) Beach house
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"The beach house is a peaceful haven, a place to escape everyday problems. Here, three families find their feelings intensified and their lives transformed each summer. When thirty-year-old Julia, mourning the death of her husband, decides to sell the Santa Cruz beach house they owned together, she sets in motion a final summer that will change the lives of all the families who rent it year after year. Teenaged Chris discovers the bittersweet joy...
23) The lost girls
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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...
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The little blue cottage waits each year for summer to arrive--and with it, the girl. Through sunny days and stormy weather, the cottage and the girl keep each other company and wile away the long days and nights together. Until one year, and then another, the cottage is left waiting and empty season after season. In this heartfelt story about change, Kelly Jordan's lilting text and Jessica Courtney-Tickle's lush art captures the essence of cherishing...
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"When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house on Cape Cod. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling...
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"A tragedy on a hot summer night at a lake house forever alters the lives of two best friends--and the man they both love. But the truth isn't as simple as it appears ... Leah Tessaro has been waiting for this moment for a long time: Her 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...
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"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,...
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Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins--they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family learning to accept the past, to forgive and to love each other again. That was then... For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to...
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Sarah Moriarty's debut is a portrait of the family scars and faults passed along the generations, brilliantly capturing life on the Maine coastline, where time seems to stand still even as the waters never stop moving. On an island in Maine, four siblings arrive at their sprawling, old summer place for the Fourth of July. It's the Willoughbys' first summer without their parents, and their beloved house is falling apart. When a substantial offer is...
33) Suddenly dating
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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 his lake house in East Beach. When it turns out that their friends are a divorcing, not-on-speaking-terms couple sparring over the same house, the strangers find themselves accidental...
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Belly nunca ha sido la clase de chica a la que le pasan cosas. Año tras año, sus vacaciones transcurren en la casa de la playa pero los chicos apenas se dan cuenta de lo mucho que se fija en ellos. Cada verano, Belly desea que eso cambie. Y, esta vez, lo hará: este será el verano en que Belly se volverá guapa, el verano en que se enamorará… aunque también será el verano en el que todo cambiará. Para bien, y para mal. Este...
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"Año tras año, Belly espera con impaciencia la llegada de las vacaciones para reencontrarse con Conrad y Jeremiah en la casa de la playa. Pero este verano no podrá ir. No después de que la madre de los chicos volviera a enfermar y de que Conrad cambiara. Todo lo que el verano significaba se ha esfumado y Belly está deseando que acabe. Hasta que recibe una llamada inesperada que la convence de que aún podría volver a ser como antes. Y...
36) The first wife
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"I moved closer to the little girl, afraid that our voices would be caught by the monitor. 'What happened to you, Lucy? Can you tell me?' When Sophie's life falls apart, she accepts an invitation from a childhood friend, Caroline, to visit her family's beautiful beach house, situated at the mouth of an isolated cove, miles from the nearest town. The silence is broken only by the rhythmic crash of the waves against the jagged black rocks below. But...
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