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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.
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Rizzoli
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"From a lunch around a weathered picnic table set with mason jars full of herbs under a pergola and a vintage boat picnic to cocktails on the deck overlooking the marshes and a dessert party of bakery favorites in an open-air garage, this book is brimmingwith ideas for entertaining with ease during the warm weather months. This inspirational tome is full of simple entertaining ideas for casual-big and small-summer get-togethers. From a lunch around...
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MIRA
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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Spend a summer with three of your favoirite authors! Come to Spruce Island, off the coast of Washington, and visit Rainshadow Lodge, a rambling Victorian. Three women each spend a month there -- a month that will change their lives...
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Ewings Publishing LLC
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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Dr. Victor M. Bello is an ophthalmologist who wrote this children's book inspired by the sensibility of his two young boys Victor and Vincent. They were playing in the back yard at their tree house when papa observed them looking intently at one of the corners of the treehouse. Fearing that they could be looking at a wasp nest, father went at once to investigate. What Papa saw was the moment of inspiration to write about it. A spider web, under the...
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Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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Overseer Nicolas Wells had been coming to Mount Desert Island for ten summers to help build cottages for the rich and powerful. Despite his secrets, he had grown comfortable in the peaceful little island town, getting to know its inhabitants and even to consider some of them friends. The eleventh year, however, he arrived to startling news: the island's peace had been shattered by a murder. At the request of the sheriff, Shawn Parnell, Nicolas agreed...
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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It's nothing special on the surface, merely a rambling old Victorian summerhouse on a secluded island, where the sky is blue and the water is clear. Yet after a month at the Rainshadow Lodge, people begin to change--and fall in love. How else can you account for what happens to the most mismatched, unlikely couples? There's Beth, who's stuck sharing the lodge with a complete stranger--and a difficult one at that. And Mitch, a workaholic on a deadline...
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Rock & a Hard Place Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Don't Talk to the Cops. A conscience can be a real bummer sometimes . . . There's cash in comic books. I mean, there's always Tomorrow. Right? Rock and a Hard Place returns again with Issue 10, featuring more of the hard luck stories you love, from writers at the top of their craft, including: Jerry Bloomfield, Barry Charman, Michael A. Gonzales, Gabriel Hart, Heidi Hunter, Wailana Kalama, Nolan Knight, Don LaPlant, Megan Lucas, Vincent Marshall,...
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Rock & a Hard Place Press
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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You realize you've kidnapped a baby . . . And you're the good guy You thought you knew the story of Ken McElroy and Skidmore, MO The world or your family. Choose You've spent your life not getting involved, but now you're faking it for your life and hers Rock and a Hard Place Magazine returns with issue 11, featuring more of the most breathtaking, sweltering, realest fiction around, featuring some of the world's finest writers at their grimiest and...
13. Black in Place
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City," it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. In this book, Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a "post-chocolate" cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments. In doing so, she offers a theoretical framework...
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Travelers' Tales
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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Told in a series of original essays with practical sidebar information, 100 Places in Greece Every Woman Should Go is for all lovers of Greece and the Greek way of life. Like all great travel writing, this volume goes beyond the guidebook and offers insight not only about where to go but why to go there. A combination of keen travel advice, memoir and meditations on the glories of Greece, 100 Places in Greece Every Woman Should Go is an indispensable...
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English
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"Most people don't even notice them - three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending...
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Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's grandmother says, and it's true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen--it's where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she's most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately, though, she's been itching for something...
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Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of...