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1. The lake escape

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Author:
Day, Jamie
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"Will this be the best week of their lives... or the last? Julia, David, and Erika grew up together spending summers at their idyllic Vermont lake homes for as long as they can remember. Now adults- with their own sullen teens, endless mortgages, and low-voltage sex lives- the three friends have amassed secrets over the years. This summer, David is eager to show off his newly renovated home-which now blocks his friends' cherished lake views-and his...

2. Escape From Fire Lake

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Author:
Vernon, Robert
Publisher:
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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Will Mike find his way out before he runs out of water? Winnie, Ben, and Spence have just found Mike's compass in the dirt at an old abandoned motel in town. And worse, the empty getaway car from yesterday's bank robbery is sitting in the motel's courtyard. The Last Chance Detectives launch a desperate search for one of their own-but it's a race against time, and the odds are against them. A figure of a winged in the desert a trail of clues lead out...

3. Waterside escapes: great getaways by lake, river & sea in the Northeast

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Author:
Wittemann, Betsy
Publisher:
Wood Pond Press
Pub. Date:
[1991]
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English
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4. Escape to Pelican Lake: a book of poetry, lyrics, and short stories

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Author:
Reuhl, Will
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2023
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The poetry found in "Escape to Pelican Lake" celebrates Life and Love! The author, Will Reuhl explains what it was like to spend his summers on a lake resort in Northern Minnesota. This is best described in the short story, "Pelican Port Resort." He shares his beverage career experience with water, wine, and coffee. There is a wide variety of topics and use of many poetic forms including Will's own example of "concrete poetry" with FREEDOM (look closely...

5. One golden summer: [a novel]

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Author:
Fortune, Carley
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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3 stars
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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...

6. Sandwich: a novel

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Author:
Newman, Catherine, 1968-
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Thorndike Press large print top shelf
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English
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While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.

7. The house across the lake: a novel

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Author:
Sager, Riley
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It looks like a familiar story: A woman reeling from a great loss with too much time on her hands and too much booze in her glass watches her neighbors, sees things she shouldn't see, and starts to suspect the worst. But looks can be deceiving. . . . Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she...

8. The view from Lake Como: a novel

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Author:
Trigiani, Adriana
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life of her dreams. Not even close. In blue-collar Lake Como, New Jersey, family comes first. Recently divorced from Bobby Bilancia, “the perfect husband," Jess moves into her parents’ basement to hide and heal. Jess is the overlooked daughter, who dutifully takes care of her parents, cooks Sunday dinner, and puts herself last. Despite her role as the family handmaiden, Jess is also a talented draftswoman...

9. The lake house

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Author:
Patterson, James, 1947-
Series:
Doubleday large print home library
When the Wind Blows volume 2
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English
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The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity and frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by and overpowering fear that the kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known. All that the children want is to return to the one place...

10. Under currents

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Author:
Roberts, Nora
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Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent, controlling rages...

11. A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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Author:
Bryson, Bill
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1210L
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English
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Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts.

12. The tale of Peter Rabbit and other stories

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Author:
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943
Series:
World of Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit volume 1
Pudgy pal board book
Classic tales
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AD: Adult Directed 660L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Peter disobeys his mother, and almost gets caught in Mr McGregor's garden. Beatrix Potter's classic tale of mischievous little Peter Rabbit is produced in a lovely new board book format. The text and illustrations of the classic Tale of Peter Rabbit, loved by children around the world for generations, appear in full.

13. The summer that made us

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Author:
Carr, Robyn
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English
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"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 gather at the family house on Lake Waseka. The lake was a magical place, a haven where they were happy and carefree. All of their problems drifted away as the days passed in sun-dappled contentment. Until the summer that changed everything. After an accidental drowning turned the...

14. Dream state: a novel

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Author:
Puchner, Eric
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"PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, Pushcart Prize winner, and Best American Stories contributor, Eric Puchner returns with an ambitious and deeply moving novel set against the backdrop of the American West that follows three lifelong friends and the betrayal at the center of their entwined fates. Cece and Charlie are in love and a few weeks away from their summer wedding. But when Cece meets Charlie's best friend from college, Garrett, her long-held expectations...

15. The bodies left behind

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Deaver, Jeffery
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Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is deprived of her weapon, car, and phone, forced to flee, along with the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators who must eliminate any potential witnesses.

16. The story she left behind: a novel

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Author:
Henry, Patti Callahan
Pub. Date:
2025
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"In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington's magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her...

17. Quantum of solace

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Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy with the captured Mr. White his car's luggage compartmentr. Bond is attacked by chasing henchmen, but evades them. Bond and M interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. Bond learns that a was sent to kill Camille Montes, but does not succeed. When a bodyguard to the British Prime Minister is accidentally killed, M has Bond's passports and credit cards revoked. Bond and Camille discover Quantum...

18. Starlight on Willow Lake

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Author:
Wiggs, Susan
Series:
Lakeshore chronicles volume 11
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English
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Faith McCallum is determined to rebuild her shattered life and give her two daughters a chance at a better future. Caring for her sharp-tongued new client, Alice Bellamy, is definitely a challenge, but it's Alice's charismatic son, Mason, who truly leaves Faith at a loss for words. Mason Bellamy longs to escape the family mansion and return to his fast-paced, exciting life in Manhattan ... and his beautiful, jet-setting finacée. But when Faith makes...

19. Flight behavior: a novel

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...

20. Christmas cake murder

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Author:
Fluke, Joanne, 1943-
Series:
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 23
Language:
English
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3 stars
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It's Christmas many years ago, and topping young Hannah Swensen's wish list is becoming the go-to baker in Lake Eden, Minnesota. But as Hannah finds out, revisiting holiday memories can be murder . . . With her dream of opening The Cookie Jar taking shape, Hannah's life matches the hectic December hustle and bustle in Lake Eden--especially when she agrees to help recreate a spectacular Christmas Ball from the past in honor of Essie Granger, an elderly...
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