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"Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find peace, she heads to the seaside resort she loved as a...
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Cape Charade volume 1
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Kellen Adams can't remember the last year of her life. Her only clue is the gunshot scar on her forehead. She takes a job at a vacation resort where she discovers a dead woman. When another murder occurs Kellen begins to wonder if her amnesia could be keeping her from recognizing the killer.
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Life hasn't been so sweet for Everly Swan over the past couple of years but now that she's back in her seaside hometown and the proud owner of a little iced tea shop and café right on the beach, things are finally starting to look up until a curmudgeonly customer turns up dead on the boardwalk. With one of her hallmark glass tea jars lying right next to him and an autopsy that reports poison in his system, it doesn't look good for Everly or her brand...
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More hilarious stories about the two clumsiest talking mice you'll ever meet... It's Clumsies on Sea as Howard and the Clumsies head to the seaside for what Howard calls a "conference" and the Clumsies call a "holiday"! Will Howard manage to impress his evil boss Mr Bullerton? Will he get to the hotel on time? And will the trip pass without mess or incident of any kind? Of course not. Nothing goes to plan when the Clumsies are about! Sandcastles,...
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"With an abandoned degree behind her and her thirtieth birthday approaching, amateur writer Bonnie Falls finally moves out of her parents' home into a nearby flat. Her landlady, Sylvia Slythe, takes an interest in Bonnie, encouraging her to finish one of her stories, in which a young woman moves to the seaside, falling under strange influences. As summer approaches, Sylvia suggests to Bonnie that, as neither of them has anyone else to go on holiday...
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In the seventh and final book of Bree Baker's critically acclaimed Seaside Café Mystery series, Pleading the Fish, Everly Swan's wedding plans are upended by a dead body. She'll have to run her teashop, find a dress, and catch a murderer all before she can walk down the aisle!
Hitting all the sweet-tea spots, this series is:
• A delightful Tea Shop and Café Culinary Mystery
• The ideal cozy beach read
• Perfect for fans of Laura Childs and...
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"One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone - running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian.Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a photographer and raising her now teenage daughter Joy. But...
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"Everly will have to go against the tide to crack this case! It all seems to be smooth sailing for Everly Swan. The island of Charm, North Carolina is hosting tons of fun summer events, her iced tea shop is a hit, and best of all, she's finally dating the handsome Detective Grady Hays. But their romantic bubble bursts when tragedy strikes: a surf-pro is found murdered on the beach, killed with a theater prop. Grady follows the evidence, all of which...
10) The sharks
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"Two young lovers embark on a relationship while a rumor of sharks at the beach has everyone talking."--www.imdb.com.
12) Byzantium
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"Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort"--from www.imdb.com.
13) Silverview
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"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems...
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While vacationing on Elba, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford, who received a devastating diagnosis, meets a sardonic chef named Dante, his battered dog Lily, and his 12-year-old daughter Etta, who is desperate for a mother, and wonders if it is right to fall in love when time is short.
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Manabu Yukawa has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town fallen on hard times. He's there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation. The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort's guests is found dead at the base of the local cliffs. The police believe it was a simple accident. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning,...
17) Love
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Bill Cosey, captivating ladies' man and wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort, shapes the yearnings of six women for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. These yearnings dominate their lives long after his death, yet he himself is driven by secret forces--a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial.
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Little Cornish Isles volume 2
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Fans of Jill Mansell and Carole Matthews will love this gorgeous new book from the author of the bestselling Cornish Café series. Jess has lived at the idyllic flower farm on the Isles of Scilly her whole life, but when her boyfriend Adam leaves without explanation, Jess discovers that even her little slice of Cornish heaven can be lonely. For the first time in Will's life, he's met someone he can't stop thinking about. But nothing is simple when...
19) Close up
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Welcome to Burning Cove, California, where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer. Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. Although she is set on making a career of transforming her photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what's paying the bills. After shooting crime scene photos...
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KEY News thrillers volume 8
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Journalist Diane Mayfield heads to Ocean Grove, New Jersey to cover a story about a women who police believe made up a story about her own kidnapping. However, a second women is kidnapped and found dead and soon everybody starts to take the investigation seriously.
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