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Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme where the year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work. From the stories presented, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl--but that's just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade,...
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
Description
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and...
Author
Series
Noah Braddock mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 320 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Fripp Island, South Carolina is the perfect destination for the wealthy Daly family: Lisa, Scott, and their two girls. For Lisa?s childhood friend, Poppy Ford, the resort island is a world away from the one she and Lisa grew up in?and when Lisa invites Poppy's family to join them, how can a working-class woman turn down an all-expenses paid vacation for her husband and children? But everyone brings secrets to the island, distorting what should be...
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Series
KEY News thrillers volume 8
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Setting aside her vacation plans to interview a kidnapping victim whose story was not believed by authorities, news correspondent Diane Mayfield becomes increasingly alarmed when subsequent victims are discovered murdered.
10) Love
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Nancy Drew and her friend George Bess win a vacation to an eco-resort in Costa Rica. But after a string of increasingly dangerous "accidents," it seems that there is a jealous predator staying at the resort, making trouble for the management and the guests. Against the urging of her friends, Nancy takes on the case to get to the bottom of it before the entire week at Casa Verde is ruined -- or worse. Can she uncover who is sabotaging the resort before...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Invited to spend a seaside vacation with her ex-husband, James Lacey, at a rundown town called Snoth-on-Sea, Agatha Raisin becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a woman staying at the same hotel and is forced to step in to find the real culprit.
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Description
A historical debut novel about a young woman in turn-of-the-century England who finds love and independence at a seashore resort. As Betsy and Mr. Jones grow closer, she begins to dream that she might finally have found her place in the world--but when her past returns to haunt her, she must fight for everything she's worked for.
14) Wake
Author
Series
Watersong volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In the quiet seaside town of Capri, sixteen-year-old Gemma enjoys a close bond with her sister Harper and a growing attraction to next-door neighbor with Alex, but everything changes when, after partying with newcomers Penn, Lexi, and Thea, Gemma discovers she has powers that will force a terrible choice.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"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...
16) Hotshot
Author
Series
Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 11
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have inherited Bishop's Cove, a small, luxurious oceanfront resort, but it comes with a condition: The girls must run the resort for one year and show a profit. Only then will they own it. A graduate of a prestigious French culinary school, Peyton has just lost her job as a food critic. Out of work and in a bad place personally, a year doing something completely different sounds wonderful. However, there are countless...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xiv, 316 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.
18) Windfallen
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
2013, c2003.
Physical Desc
xii, 494 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
A breathtaking house on the hills above a crashing seascape brings together two modern-day women whose lives become entangled as they share camaraderie along with heartbreak and despair as both learn the true nature of love and its capacity to repair and restore anything.
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Sloane Cooper is up for her dream job as a designer for a top video game company. During the interview, though, she somehow promises the all-male panel that she'll remain single and fully dedicated to the work. It's actually fine—after her last boyfriend cheated on her, she vowed to focus on her career anyway. Enter Charlie, aka Hot Neighbor Guy, a near-stranger who shocks her with the offer of an all-inclusive trip to a Turks and Caicos resort....
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
159 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
"Tucked between the housing developments and golf courses of the Orange County coast lies a small settlement of rustic beach cottages seemingly frozen in time. This is the first history of this uniquely preserved beach spot that has lured travellers and campers since the 1920s. Deemed by the National Register of Historic Places to be "the last intact example of California beach vernacular architecture," it is now a registered state park whose cottages...
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