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Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Description
It is True Dickinson's birthday and her best friends have gathered on this snowy night to celebrate-yet True has never felt more alone. Though her small business is thriving and her young son is happy, the death of her husband eight years ago has left an empty space in her life that friends and family cannot fill. Suddenly it seems that youth and beauty are slipping away while True is busily taking care of everyone else.
But on this night, an accident...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts-running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is realized, she finds herself doubly cursed. She is overwhelmed by grief, and her property and rights are now legally in the hands of her...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a single careless mistake costs her the job she so carefully built, straitlaced Marin joins a stranger claiming to be her half-sister in Cape Cod, where she meets family members she never knew she had during a fateful summer of revelations and self-discovery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate has never had a boyfriend. But while crashing at her mother's wealthy friends' home at Cape Cod for the summer, Kate meets Adam. But when her breezy summer romance with Adam becomes more complicated, Kate asks herself if she is girlfriend material.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Jilted by her fiancé, Dawn Dixon escapes to beautiful Cape Cod on a groomless honeymoon--with her mother. But she didn't expect her mom to risk everything, on a whim, to move there permanently or buy a rundown ice cream shop in need of repair. In order to make their new life work, they'll also need her ex's help.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend--the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod--Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
10) Bound
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised--a bright dream that turned to ashes when her brothers and mother took ill and died during the arduous voyage. Arriving in colonial New England unable to meet the added expenses incurred by their misfortunes at sea, her father bound Alice into servitude to pay his debts....
11) Riptide
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zach's dog Riptide loves the sea and proves himself worthy of being the nineteenth lifeguard on Cape Cod's Nauset Beach.
12) Work in progress
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mary discovers a manuscript in a old desk that is a confession to arson. She investigates whether the wrong person went to prison.
13) Digging up clues
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When gold coins wash up on shore, shipwreck fever hits Ivy Bay. Soon the beach is crawling with locals and tourists alike, all looking for the legendary lost treasure of the Lady Beth, which sank off the coast of Cape Cod almost two hundred years ago.
14) By the book
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sweet Susan's Bakery has been seriously damaged by fire, and the verdict is that the fire was started on purpose. While Susan struggles to reopen her business, bookseller Mary Fisher investigates, but the more she discovers, the less she likes it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As mystery bookshop owner Mary Fisher looks for clues about the true ownership of a grist mill that has been in her sister Betty's late husband's family for centuries, she hears rumors about an old murder and finds clues that point to answers no one wants to believe.
17) The lost noel
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Christmas is coming, and Mary is excited that both of her children are bringing their families to Ivy Bay for the holiday. Someone begins to sabotage the living Nativity at Grace Church and Mary investigates.
18) Words of wisdom
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Mary tries to refinance the mortgage on the bookshop, her application is denied because of the large balance on her new credit card. But she hasn't opened a new account and certainly hasn't been on any spending spree. Mary is the victim of identity theft!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six crime stories featuring Alvirah Meehan, a former cleaning woman using the $40 million won in a lottery to sleuth for justice. Also appearing is her ex-plumber husband, Willie. By the author of Weep No More, My Lady.
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