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121) Pouncing on Murder
Springtime in Chilson, Michigan, means it's librarian Minnie Hamilton's favorite time of year: maple syrup season! But her excitement fades when her favorite syrup provider, Henry Gill, dies in a sugaring accident. It’s tough news to swallow...even if the old man wasn’t as sweet as his product.
On the bookmobile rounds...
A fresh start. A sunny beach town. One summer to rediscover her life. A new beach read series set in the beloved village of Summer Beach. A USA Today Bestseller!
When Marina Moore's life implodes on national television, she seeks refuge at her grandmother's beach house called the Coral Cottage. Now in her mid-forties with children in college, Marina is in dire need of her grandmother's gutsy advice to a well-lived life.
...The island of Martha's Vineyard bubbles with anticipation— summer approaches, as does the first Sheridan wedding in decades.
Susan Sheridan left her life in Newark almost a year ago. Since then, Susan, Christine, Lola, Audrey, and Amanda have lived out every life milestone under the sun— from divorce to new loves, illnesses, to second-chance romances, and beyond.
Now, after a year of cancer and healing, it's time for Susan
...Rebecca didn’t know love was possible until she met Paul, a successful, charismatic, married man with a past as dark as her own. Their pain drew them together with an irresistible magnetism; they sensed that they were each other’s...
125) Willow Brook Road
126) The Hunting Wives
A Book of the Month Club Selection
“Gossipy, scandalous housewives behaving badly might make this the juiciest read of the season."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Sultry, salacious and utterly...
IN THE PAST fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of genres have brought this unique US genre...
128) The Sunrise Cove Inn
A divorced criminal lawyer. Her first love. The island she abandoned for a better life over twenty years ago.
Susan Sheridan knows Martha's Vineyard like the back of her hand. She grew up there as the eldest of the three Sheridan Sisters, their father the longtime owner of the Sunrise Cove Inn in Oak Bluffs. The Inn, the water, the sun all spun with laughter, and love, with the most important people—her family and friends. It was her
...129) We, the Jury
"We, the Jury has what most legal thrillers lack—total authenticity, which is spellbinding." —James Patterson
On the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife's skull. Now, eight jurors must retire to the deliberation room and decide whether David committed premeditated murder—or whether he was a battered spouse who killed his wife in self-defense.
Told from the perspective
...130) Firefly Nights
A summer the Sheridan Sisters will never forget.
Christine Sheridan is the middle sister of the Sheridan clan: lost between her older sister, Susan, a successful criminal lawyer and her whip-smart little sister, Lola. After twenty years apart, they have just learned the secret their dead mother kept from them. But now, Christine returns to New York City, to her boyfriend Frank, to a life she once loved. But the prestigious restaurant they
...131) One Perfect Summer
Some families we're born into
Some we find for ourselves
When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for a genetic test, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving...
132) The Crime That Binds
133) A Troubling Tail
"The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about."—Francine Prose, author of The Vixen
A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating
...Are you in a relationship? Used to be? Want to be? Just want to have better sex or date better? This book is your antidote to typical sex, dating, and relationship rules. Dr. Faith, bestselling author of Unf*ck Your Brain, cuts through the crap with sharp guidelines on how to be a human being in an adult, loving, intimate relationship, with yourself and other people. If you're looking to heal from past wounds, make better choices, or improve
...An injured army veteran. A near-fatal car accident. And a snow-capped Martha's Vineyard Christmas—the kind that can mend any broken family.
Andrew Montgomery is the black sheep of the Montgomery family. Seventeen years ago, Andy and his best friend, Kurt, took off for the army and planned to never look back. Once overseas, they realized the depths of their mistake. But once Kurt died in combat, Andy decided to turn his back on his past
...Anxiety—it's the worst: choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking, brain cutting out, bad decisions. You're a human being, so you know exactly what's being said here. Dr. Faith lays it all out: what anxiety is, what it's good for—that's right, it's actually a necessary response that helps to keep us alive in bad situations—how to know when it's gone overboard, and practical tips on how to deal with it when it gets bad.
...A Martha's Vineyard fisherman's widow gets a second chance at love over a snow-capped Thanksgiving weekend.
Charlotte Montgomery Hamner wakes up every morning to the same thoughts.
Jason died. Jason isn't coming back. Rachel and I must go through this alone.
Since Jason drowned over a year and a half ago, Charlotte has struggled moving forward. The owner of a popular wedding-planning and events business, she throws some of the
...139) August Sunsets
Unanswered questions. A sailing adventure gone wrong. The Sheridan sisters face the end of the season that changed their lives forever.
Lola Sheridan is the youngest Sheridan sister: a whip-smart journalist with a flair for the dramatic. As her older sisters settle into new lives on the Vineyard, Lola demands more out of the summer season with a fantastical sailing expedition up from the Florida Keys to Martha's Vineyard. The sailor who takes
..."A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking."
—Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook
On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster
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