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It's the beginning of another season in the seaside resort town of Winslow, Rhode Island, and Rosa Capoletti is given the chance to rediscover the pleasures of love and laughter, food and wine, friendship and romance. With a little determination and a lot of charm, Rosa Capoletti took a run-down pizza joint and turned it into an award-winning restaurant that has been voted "best place to propose" three years in a row. For Rosa, though, there has been...
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Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
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The Sirens of Titan (1959), Vonnegut's second novel, was on the Hugo final ballot along with Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers and lost in what Harlan Ellison called a monumental injustice. Malachi Constant is a feckless but ultimately good-hearted millionaire who, in this incondensable interplanetary Candide (lacking perhaps Voltaire's utter bitterness), searches the solar system for the ultimate meaning of existence.
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Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who prizes appearances. So when she announces plans to marry a vineyard employee mere months after the death of her husband of fifty-eight years, her son and daughter are stunned. Faced with their disapproval, Natalie decides to write a memoir. Olivia Jones lives vicariously through the old photographs she restores. She and her daughter Tess have no one, so they cling to the fantasy that a big, happy family...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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After her father leaves and marries the glamorous Ava Pomme, Madeline blames her mother for their difficult new life, but in spite of the twelve-year-old's efforts to achieve sainthood, it takes a summer trip to Italy to put her family into perspective.
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English
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"Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony's debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. But something went very wrong with his second work. Now Anthony's borrowing an old college's friend's crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to be. Joy Sousa owns and runs Block Island's beloved whoopie...
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English
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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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"As a child, Skylar Mackenzie's imagination always got her in trouble. Now it's making her a fortune. She owns Imagine That, a toy and bookstore and creativity center in a small Rhode Island beach town where children, and adults, can use their imagination free from judgment. Skye is about to embark on her biggest venture yet, a weekend retreat of family exploration. But it begins to unravel when she finds her estranged half-sister Amy on the doorstep....
11) Last night
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English
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"A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes...
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English
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"Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother's play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships. Sam, Amy's daughter, was a Disney child star who continued her pursuit for fame in a Manhattan...
13) Ocean state
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable....
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Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
391 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Shortly after an old friend gives Aunt Sadie a rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works, he is found dead. The police say it was an accident. But bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure, Sadie's niece, has her doubts. When someone else turns up dead, Penelope is accused of stealing the book. Pen wants to clear her name and sets out to do so with the help of the ghost of Jack Shepard, a hard-boiled PI who died in the 1940's.
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Neve Halloran and her daughter Mickey are starting a new life near a wildlife sanctuary in South County Rhode Island. Mickey becomes friends with a lonely boy who is also fascinated by the creatures of the coasts and Neve is drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary.
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Series
Secrets of the manor volume 2
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
This Simon Spotlight edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
148 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the end of June in 1914, and Beth Etheridge is traveling from her home in England's Chatswood Manor all the way to America, to visit her cousin Kate at Vandermeer Manor in Rhode Island. The girls are thrilled to be united, especially because Beth will be in attendance when Kate receives the heirloom "Katherine" necklace: one half of a heart encrusted with gorgeous rubies. It's the companion to Beth's "Elizabeth" necklace. But the trip is cut...
18) Whirlwind
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Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A killer is on the loose in New England: a psychopath with a complex plan and a lifetime's rage. Liza Plain, a Boston-based journalist hoping for her big break, is dreading spending Christmas in Shiloh, Rhode Island, with her difficult grandfather--until news of the disappearance of a retired local priest triggers her realization that this could be linked to a series of unsolved, church-linked missing persons cases. Michael Rider used to be a decent...
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Although Kelsey has fallen in love with her best friend, David, she cuts ties with him before moving from Connecticut to Rhode Island, believing they need a fresh start, but David moves nearby at the start of senior year, threatening Kelsey's relationship with Ryan.
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English
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When her brother gets cold feet on the eve of his wedding, Emmy takes him on an unforgettable road trip to set things straight. Along the way she learns some lessons on her own, and begins to realize that love, moving on, and happy endings aren't fantasies after all.