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Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and neighbors, and especially to each other. But just before the beginning of another idyllic summer, Greg and Tess are killed when their boat capsizes during an anniversary sail. As the warm weather approaches and the island mourns...
2) Simon Birch
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The smallest kid in town gets into constant trouble and teams up with his best friend who is searching for his real father.
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Summer Hill novel volume 2
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Terri Rayburn is a girl with a reputation. She doesnt deserve it, but having grown up on the outskirts of Summer Hill, Virginia, she knows how small towns work. The only way to deal with vicious gossip is to ignore it. So she keeps to herself as she runs thesummer resort on Lake Kissel. When she returns home from a short trip to find a handsome stranger living in her house, she smells a rat. Someone is trying to fix her up, and she has to admit that...
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As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking...
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Candy apple books. Main series volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Cassie Knight is bubbly, stylish, and super-friendly, the fashion queen at her Texas school. But when her father's job moves the family to cold, snowy Maine, Cassie's in for a huge culture shock.
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2014
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Life has been predictable for college student Hadley Dunn. But then she spends her sophomore year of college in Lausanne, Switzerland, and she meets a mysterious Danish girl. After tragedy strikes, she begins a search that will consume her, the city she loves, and the lives of two very different men.
8) Roxaboxen
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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It was just like any rocky hill-sand and rocks and some old wooden boxes. But we called it Roxaboxen and it was a town all our own. We created houses outof stones and those old boxes became our furniture. There was one street at first but gradually the town grew.
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...
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Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. Unlike most islanders, bold and spirited Daphne Coffin doesn't defer to Ren as an authoritative whalemaster, but sees through his aloofness to the aching...
11) Phoebe's light
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"Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
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Harmony series (Philip Gulley) volume 2
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[2002]
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Follows the residents of the small town of Harmony, including pastor Sam Gardner, through various crises of faith and relationship.
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2023.
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"In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs. But as he writes,...
14) The last runaway
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Ohio 1850. For a modest English Quaker stranded far from home, life is a trial. Untethered from the moment she leaves England, fleeing personal disappointment, Honor Bright is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in an alien, untamed landscape. The men sweat and spit; the women drink whiskey and shoot copperheads, even as they stitch bonnets and quilts. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and scarred by the continuing injustice...
16) Home to Harmony
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Harmony series (Philip Gulley) volume 1
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Home of the hefty noodle casseroles and the world's shortest evangelist, Harmony, Indiana boasts the Coffee Cup café, where a painting of The Last Supper hangs over the salad bar. As his first year in this small, sheltered town unfolds, Pastor Sam Gardner shares his wry observations and humorous stories about its colorful residents.
19) Spellsinger
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c2002
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Emily, Kara and Adriane throw a rockin' benefit concert of the Ravenswood Wildlife Preserve. Thrilled that their fav band, Twist of Fate, has agreed to perform, the event is about to become the biggest party of the year. But no one can find out about the magical animals they've sworn to protect, and about the magic only the three of them found there. Only...one person does know, a shape-shifting creature sworn to detroy Ravenswood , and every living...
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Civil War heroines volume 1
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[2014]
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"Bestselling author Mary Ellis presents The Quaker and the Rebel, Book 1 of her brand-new Civil War historical romance series, which tells the stories of brave women in times of testing and the men who love them. Emily Harrison's life has been turned upside down. At the beginning of the Civil War, she bravely attempted to continue her parents' work as conductors in the Underground Railroad until their Ohio farm was sold in foreclosure. Now alone,...