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1) Last summer
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The town of Yorktide, close to Maine s beautiful beaches and the city of Portland, seems like the perfect place to raise a family. For Jane Patterson, there's another advantage: her best friend, Frannie Giroux, lives next door, and their teenaged daughters, Rosie and Meg, are inseparable. But in the girls freshman year of high school, everything changes. Rosie quiet, shy, and also very pretty attracts the sneers and slights of a clique of older girls....
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Everyone in Yorktide, Maine, knows sixteen-year-old Sarah Bauer. She' a good student, a dutiful daughter, and Cordelia Kane' best friend. It's a surprise to all when Sarah reveals that she's pregnant. Her family is supportive, yet the consequences ripple in all directions. Sarah's mother seizes on an idea: make a baby quilt together. Piece by piece, a beautiful design emerges as the women who create it find strength in the friendship and love that...
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In this poignant, evocative novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin sweeps you into the picturesque town of Ogunquit, Maine, where a family in flux explores their ties to a beautiful beach house, and to each other.
Some houses have a personality of their own. Larchmere is that kind of place--a splendid, sprawling home with breathtaking views that open to briny Atlantic air and seabirds' calls. It's the place where Tilda McQueen O'Connell grew...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death.
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Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach to launch a message in a bottle into the waves for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years. Since the baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared, Verity has kept searching and hoping. And finally, one phone call may change everything . . .
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"Nell King's cozy home in Yorktide, Maine, seems a step down from the impeccably decorated Boston house she shared with her ex-husband, but Nell and her two daughters have found real happiness and comfort here. Now, faced with what may be their last Christmas together before Molly and Felicity move away, she feels anxious: what role is left for her to fill?" --
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and Aaron Braithwaite and their two daughters. Frieda loves her mother's old farmhouse, and the girls have grown closer there, sharing a bedroom and spinning stories into the night. But that was before--when tragedy was something that happened to other families. Since the car crash that claimed the lives of her husband, and their younger daughter, Frieda has struggled emotionally and...
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"It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New York City. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriage and motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol's teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both their girls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is anticipating the day she'll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenth-century...
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A summer beach read with heart and substance, this poignant novel will delight fans of Elin Hildebrand, Nancy Thayer, and Shelley Noble, as four older women who are strangers to each other share a house for the summer in the picturesque Maine town of Yorktide.
Sandra Pennington has lived through enough Maine winters to know how long they can be. Even in April, Yorktide is chilly and muddy, adding to Sandra's pangs of loneliness. It's been five...
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