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Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 17
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.
24) Lullaby
Author
Series
Watersong volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When Gemma runs off with a dangerous clique of powerful girls, Harper teams up with Daniel and faces unprecedented dangers to rescue her sister, who develops increasingly formidable magical abilities.
Author
Description
Maggie Downing invites her adult daughters for a week of fun in the Florida sunshine, expecting that they will be able to regain some of the closeness they have lost over the years. But both daughters initially resist: Sarah pleads the excuse of not being able to leave her two young children, while the younger Corinne claims she cannot take a vacation from the three fledgling businesses she is trying to run. They do come, but are armed with cell phones...
26) The seas
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid. True to myth, she finds herself...
Author
Series
Seaside seasons volume 5
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"When one of Carrie's employees is killed, former cop Greg finds himself drawn into helping Carrie solve the mystery-- and into her life. But when Carrie's own painful past revists her, the world she has carefully constructed begins to fray"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strangleholds on local economies, reckless construction, erosion of beaches, weighty carbon footprints,...
31) Hawkes Harbor
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
An orphan and a bastard, Jamie Sommers grew up knowing he had no hope of heaven. Conceived in adultery and born in sin, Jamie was destined to repeat the sins of his parents -or so the nuns told him. And he proved them right. Taking to sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner-and murderer. Tough enough to handle anything, he's survived foreign prisons, pirates, and a shark attack. But in...
35) Winter winds
Author
Series
Seaside seasons volume 4
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
When Dori MacAllister learns the man who raised her is gravely ill, she returns to her childhood home to care for him, but when she is drawn into a web of lies and betrayal, she must choose between her past and her future
36) Seaside dreams
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Bella has returned to Seaside Cottages in Wellflee, Massachusetts as she does every summer. Only this year, Bella has more on her mind than sunbathing and skinny-dipping with her girlfriends. She's quit her job, put her house on the market, and sworn off relationships while she builds a new life in her favorite place on earth....until a prank takes a bad turn and a sinfully sexy police officer appears on the scene..."--Cover
37) Bloody point
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Grieving FBI Special Agent Cassidy McKenna leaves the Bureau and retreats to a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay. When her former partner, Jake, is assaulted and her marina is torched, Cass decides to find the perpetrator before she, herself, becomes a victim"--
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Description
At thirty-two Jillian Parrish finally finds the courage to take charge of her life and discover what really lives in the dark spaces under her bed. Pregnany and recently divorced, she takes her seven-year-old daughter to seek refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina--Jillian's only source of happy childhood memories. Summers spent at her grandmother's beach house were Jillian's sanctuary from indifferent parents until her best friend, Lauren...
Author
Series
Watersong volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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.
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