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22) The hotel
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"The Whitley was Nantucket's most exclusive hotel. It was a sprawling collection of pristine white cottages and an elegant main building on a long stretch of private, white sandy beach. The list of famous celebrity guests that had visited over the years was top secret and a matter of pride to the Whitley family. If you worked in the hospitality industry, landing a job at The Whitley was the ultimate goal. Many of the staff had lived and worked there...
23) Coral Cottage
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Coral Cottage at Summer Beach volume 1
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"When Marina Moore's life implodes, she seeks refuge at her grandmother's beach house. In her mid-forties, Marina needs her grandmother's gutsy advice to life. Writer Jack Ventana is on a sabbatical to write a book, but soon faces the prospect of unexpected romance when he moves into the guest cottage."--Publisher.
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My weird school daze volume 2
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Second-grade graduate A.J. and his family rent a beach house, but summer vacation is ruined when annoying Andrea shows up and develops a crush on the lifeguard.
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"It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach...
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The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
28) Touched
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Nick is tormented by visions of "future memories, " and although he can risk changing these events if he goes "off script, " the results are often worse than what he has seen, but when he meets Taryn one summer at the Jersey shore he begins to understand where this hated power comes from and what it means.
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Beach Reads
Beach Reads (WPL-ADULT)
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Read-A-Likes
Beach Reads (WPL-ADULT)
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Read-A-Likes
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"During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie."--
30) Hum and swish
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OBD Summer Picture Books - YOUTH
Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Preschoolers)
Summer Reads for Little Kids
Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Preschoolers)
Summer Reads for Little Kids
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Jamie wants to quietly work on an art project near her friend, the sea, but people keep disturbing her by asking questions.
31) Beach season
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Stories of love and friendship centered around beaches in the summer.
32) Summer boys
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Summer boys novels volume 1
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This edgy look at young love follows three different girls over the course of one summer, as they each experience the various stages of romantic relationships.
33) The sand castle
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A life-changing lesson about family and the pleasure and heartbreak that comes with it is told in this story of two sisters, their motherless cousin, and their day-trip to the shores of Chesapeake Bay in August, 1952.
34) At the beach
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A child experiences enjoyable sights and sounds during a day at the beach.
35) Aquamarine
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A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
36) Lily's crossing
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During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. This year, as in other years, Lily has planned a spectacular summer in Rockaway, in her family's cozy house on stilts over the Atlantic Ocean. But by the summer of 1944, World War II has changed almost everyone's life. Lily's best friend, Margaret, and her family have moved to a wartime factory...
37) A beach day
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Describes simply how one family enjoys a day at the beach. Includes a list of seashells for which to look.
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Sally the dog series volume 1
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Sally, a black Labrador retriever, goes to the beach, where she enjoys various activities with other visiting dogs.
39) Dear fish
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One afternoon at the beach, a small boy puts an invitation to the fish to come for a visit in a bottle and throws it into the ocean, and the results are unprecedented.
40) D.W. all wet
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D.W. bosses her brother Arthur into carrying her on his shoulders at the beach because she maintains that she hates the water, until she gets a big wet surprise.
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