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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
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Sensible thirty-six-year-old Sophie Anderson has always known what to do, but when her husband announces that he's leaving her for another woman, Sophie realizes she has no idea what's next. Impulsively renting a guest cottage on Nantucket from her friend Susie Swenson, Sophie rounds up her kids, Jonah and Lacey, and leaves Boston for a quiet family vacation, minus one.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it's the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters who've fled after finding blood and nail marks all over the guest room closet,...
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Publisher
Figure.1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan--Scottish interior designers, TV hosts, and property speculators--are cabin aficionados who divide their time between homes in Canada and their beloved Scotland. Escapology: Modern Cabins, Cottages and Retreats is a stunning book of modern-day retreats--bucolic weekend escapes by the sea, remote getaways in the woods, and rustic mountain hideouts--to inspire peaceful and quiet living. The authors genuinely believe...
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"A mountain lodge 5,000 feet up in Washington State's Cascades mountains, accessible only by skis-or an SUV tricked out with bulldozer-size snow tires. A sleek cabin just 80 minutes from Manhattan, overlooking the property's pond and 19 acres of woodland. A romantic, eco-friendly escape in the misty mountains of Bali's Gunung Agung volcano. A glass-domed Finnish hut offering unobstructed views of the Northern Lights. Whether readers are seeking a...
10) Eden: a novel
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English
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"Becca Meister Fitzpatrick - wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community - is the dutiful steward of her family's iconic summer tradition. That is until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter's boldness in the face of impending single-motherhood and summons the courage to reveal a secret she...
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Publisher
Creative Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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"Shows readers how to put a vacation home to rest at the end of a holiday season, to protect it from the elements that can ruin it, how to open it up at the start of the vacation season, and time-saving ways to maintain a seasonal home through the vacation weeks"--Provided by publisher.
13) Happy place
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English
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"Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college. Except they broke up five months ago and still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives. Only this year, the cottage is for sale and...
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English
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"With more and more people opting for smaller homes and simple living, the cabin continues to be a place of practicality and charm. 'Back to the Cabin' rekindles our love for this treasured American icon with fresh insight and seasoned strategies for the logic, utility, and beauty of its design. Cabins speak of modesty, shared spaces for the camaraderine of family and friends, and an open relaxed atmosphere. Many of the cabins showcased in 'Back to...
15) Beach read
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English
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"A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next...
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English
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"The homes featured in Contemporary Cottages update beach and mountain cottages with fresh, modern appointments, magical entryways, updated and repurposed rooms, open ceilings, custom floor plans and unique lighting--all without disturbing the timeless charm and scale that defines a cottage. No design rules are at play here; each home is decorated with the furnishings and accessories of the family that dreamed about it and turned it into a reality."--Provided...
17) Listen up Philip
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
18) Happy place
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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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...
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Winter volume 3
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Frank Lombardo's never been spontaneous. The closest he's come was accepting a side job chopping firewood for a lakeside community of rustic cabins. But with another lonely holiday season imminent, Frank's sister urges him to be spontaneous because, seriously, who does he ever expect to meet out in the woods? With a suitcase in hand and a bit of reluctance, too, Penny Hart arrives at Cardinal Cabin on Snowflake Lake. It's only for a brief stay,...
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English
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Over the course of one year, in a charming cottage by the sea, eight people will discover love and remembrance, reconciliation and reunion, beginnings and endings in this unforgettable sequel to Georgia Bockoven's The Beach House and Another Summer. Alison arrives at the beach house in June to spend a month with her restless grandson before he leaves for his freshman year in college. Over a decade before, Alison lost her beloved husband, and has faced...
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