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22) Jaws
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's out there in the water--waiting. Nature's most fearsome predator. It fears nothing. It attacks anything. It devours everything. And the seaside community of Amity is at its mercy.
24) Elegy
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 542 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gemma must battle Penn to break the siren curse and secure a future with Alex.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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
Series
Seaside café mystery volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Café owner and amateur sleuth Everly Swan, like every Swan woman before her, is cursed in love. The only problem? Her fiancé Detective Grady Hayes has something to say about it--he doesn't believe in magic and is determined to prove the curse wrong so they can spend their lives together. Everly wishes it could be so simple! It feels like a sign when a historian looking into Swan history is found dead in an antique wishing well, and Everly fears...
Author
Series
Publisher
CreateSpace Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"If only life were as simple as filling a vacancy. Hollis Jeffries is a 'dynamo' as her father likes to say. Shes the youngest vice president at Dobbins Capital. She wows investors, runs marathons, and speaks three languages. As the oldest, Hollis is always first to try and first to succeed. According to the other Jeffries sisters, she's practically perfect...until she's not. Matthew Locke grew up in the shadow of his brother's death and with the...
28) Partners in lime
Author
Series
Seaside café mystery volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 points to Matt, Everly's friend and one-time fling. As Grady...
29) The beach house
Author
Series
Beach house volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first release in The Beach House series is the story of four women, friends from childhood, who reunite to celebrate their fortieth birthdays. After the distance of time and geography, they look forward to the camaraderie of old friends and the escape from everyday life as they stay at a San Diego beach house.
When thoughts and discussion turn to the history of their friendship, will problems of the past threaten to overtake the present?
The quest...
30) The sea
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Vintage International ed.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child--a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without his recently deceased wife. It is also a return to the place where he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time and his memories of the past.
31) Tidal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Penn and Lexi determined to kill Gemma and replace her with another siren, Gemma, aided by Harper and Daniel, must delve into her enemies' mythical past and darkest secrets in a last-ditch effort to protect all that she holds dear.
32) Missing witness
Author
Series
Chambers of justice volume 4
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a nerve-shattering encounter with military justice in The Accused, Craig Parshall's third novel, all lawyer Will Chambers wants to do this summer is relax with his wife, Fiona...
A long stay on the North Carolina coast seems perfect. But when Will reluctantly looks into a local inheritance case involving Jonathan Joppa, a down-on-his-luck preacher-
"Piracy charge-Joppa's ancestor? What...when?"
"Why, for being part of Blackbeard's pirate crew...in...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Maris Brown has been told two things about her destiny: She will fall happily and madly in love; and she could be dead before she turns eighteen. The summer before that fateful birthday, Maris is in the beach town of Cross Cove with her estranged father and his new family-- and the infamous Duvals. Since the youngest member of the Duval family, Edison, is back from college and back in the arms of Maris's new stepsister, her summer looks to be a long...
35) Termush
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 105 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unnamed disaster has destroyed the world outside. Within the walls of the seaside resort called Termush, a select group of guests continues to life life undisturbed -- for now. As time passes, signs of the cataclysm begin to bleed into their gilded idyll. Before long, their peaceful days have turned into an agonizing wait for things to fall apart."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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...
37) Beach dreams
Author
Series
Beach house volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
331 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Paige Mattheson is reputed to be as beautiful as the alabaster sculptures she creates, and just as cold. An intensely private person, she is perfectly happy living by herself, until Jesse Dallas walks into her life. Paige's fierce desire for Jesse both exhilarates and terrifies her. And after spending six glorious weeks with him at her isolated beachfront home, she is a woman passionately in love. But can she trust this loner not to walk out of her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2015], c2006.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6.5 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Raisin thinks she's in for a treat when her ex-husband, James Lacey, invites her on a holiday. But to her horror, his idea of an exotic destination is a small, rundown resort in Snoth-on-Sea. Needless to say, the break doesn't go as planned. When a fellow guest in their hotel is found murdered, Agatha herself becomes a suspect--and it looks as if she will be solving this particular case from the confines of a prison cell.