A Certain Summer
By: Patricia Beard
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Nothing ever changes at Wauregan… That is the mystique of the idyllic island summer colony, the …
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1. Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
By: Chanel Cleeton
3.93
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she dis… read more
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- romance
- historical
- historical romance
- fiction
- historical fiction
"We are silk and lace, and beneath them we are steel."-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"To be in exile is to have the things you love most in the world - the air you breathe, the earth you walk upon - taken from you. They exist on the other side of a wall - there and not - unaltered by …"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"... but the older you get, the more you learn to appreciate the moments life gives you. Getting them certainly isn't a given, and I feel blessed to have carved out a life here where I could be happy …"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"I told myself being a Perez meant more than being Cuban, that my responsibility to my family, to do what was expected, to be the woman my parents wanted me to be meant more than fighting for what I b…"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
2. The Silent Sister (Riley MacPherson, #1)
By: Diane Chamberlain
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Li… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"It's not my mind that's sick... It's my soul. ...and there aren't any drugs that are gonna fix that."-Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister (Riley MacPherson, #1)
"No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone."-Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister (Riley MacPherson, #1)
"Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it's unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your …"-Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister (Riley MacPherson, #1)
3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.22
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more
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"Your relationship to mortality is your own."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
4. Don't You Cry
By: Mary Kubica
3.71
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting lette… read more
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5. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
By: Ann Patchett
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run,and Bel Canto,examines… read more
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6. The Lost Summers of Newport
By: Beatriz Williams
3.71
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White--a nov… read more
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7. The Homewreckers
By: Mary Kay Andrews
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and find… read more
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"So it's not enough for me to be as good as a man. I gotta be better than them. And I gotta prove it. Every. Damned. Day"-Mary Kay Andrews, The Homewreckers
8. Signal Fires
By: Dani Shapiro
3.91
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more
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- mystery
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"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
9. Our Woman in Moscow
By: Beatriz Williams
4.06
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly hum… read more
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- mystery
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"Ruth, I spent most of my life just trying to be safe. Trying to hide from what scared me. Letting other people control what happened to me. Then I realized the idea of safety itself is just a delusio…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"...humans are corrupt. We are all of us selfish, ignorant beasts, loyal only to ourselves and our own kind, interested only in getting a leg up on others, whether it's money or status or moral virtue…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"A man had appeared out of nowhere—a thick-shouldered, square-jawed, cleft-chinned all- American of a type Iris hadn’t seen in years. He showed her some friendly white teeth and continued in a slow co…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"[In marriage you] go through stages, like acts in a play. Act One, you fall in love, and the birds twitter and the bees go buzz, and you'll never love somebody else as long as you both shall live, am…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
10. The Summer Pact
By: Emily Giffin
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more
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11. What Happened to the Bennetts
By: Lisa Scottoline
3.80
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
From #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a pulse-pounding new novel. Your family has bee… read more
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12. A Certain Summer
By: Patricia Beard
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Nothing ever changes at Wauregan… That is the mystique of the idyllic island summer colony, the … read more
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- romance
- relationships
- womens fiction
- historical
- military fiction
- war
- historical romance
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- mystery
