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Series
Elizabeth Parker mysteries volume 1
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Invited to join her Aunt Winnie for a How to Host a Murder Party on New Year's Eve at Winnie's new Cape Cod B and B, Elizabeth Parker must unearth old secrets and new motives in order to clear her beloved aunt of suspicion when the local wealthy miser ends up the unscripted victim.
5) Mother land
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
509 pages ; 24 cm
Description
JP, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship.
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A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it's paid off: on the cusp of thirty she has a handsome fiancé, a prestigious Manhattan legal career, and her father's hard-won admiration. But with one careless mistake at work, Marin suddenly finds herself unemployed and alone. Before she can summon the courage to tell her parents, a young woman appears, claiming to be Marin's half-sister. Seeking answers, Marin agrees to join her on a soul-searching...
10) The widow's war
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
x, 305 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for.
11) Alena
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier's gripping and iconic novel Rebecca, Alena tells the story of a bright young curator who finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor at a small, cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod"--
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Series
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"When, during the filming of the country's hottest TV cooking show at her tea room, an infamous bad-boy chef and celebrity judge is murdered with her rolling pin, Lily whips up an impromptu investigation to catch a killer who could be anyone associated with the show"--
15) Summer shift
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
315, [12] p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Forty-four-year-old Cape Cod clam bar owner Mary Hopkins struggles to find the peace, love, and human connection that have eluded her for decades as she copes with her beloved great-aunt's descent into Alzheimer's disease, the tragic accident of a young waitress, and her rekindled romance with Dan, a lost love.
Author
Publisher
Merit Press, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Lorna is swept out to sea, leaving her three best friends to struggle to come to terms with their missing leader and with the secrets each endeavors to hide.
17) A new chapter
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
While investigating the ransacking of her dream bookstore, which is just about to open in her Cape Cod hometown, Ivy Bay, Mary Fisher discovers family secrets as well as clues that lead her closer to the truth about the break-in at Mary's Mystery Bookshop.
Author
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Lester has just moved to Cape Cod and is starting in a new school, and George is missing his best friend who has moved away, but the two develop a friendship and learn about scientific experimentation when they start working on a school science project, testing psychic ability in dogs, based on an experiment developed by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Stunned by her recently widowed father's reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world--where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all. Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She's met the love of her life, and they're getting married with a baby on the way. That's the moment her father makes his own jas-dropping announcement: at sixty, he's getting married as...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction,...
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