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2024.
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"Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island. Grace La Motťe, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back. So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful...
82) Love notes
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Pub. Date
2023.
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As a February snowstorm blankets the island, the Rose Cottage Book Club members join a Valentine’s Day challenge created by visitor Dr. Julia Soares. They each choose a special person to anonymously shower with gifts and appreciation. The fourteen-day event frustrates some and surprises others, showing them the true meaning of selflessness. Dr. Julia is a well-known TV personality. However, before her challenge begins, her life is upended. Her decades-long...
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Narrativa) volume 231
Pub. Date
2018.
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"En un Londres devastado por las bombas y que empieza a recuperarse de las terribles heridas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Juliet Ashton, una joven escritora en busca de inspiración novelsca, recibe la carta de un desconocido llamado Dawsey Adams. El hombre, que vive en la isla de Guernsey, un pequeño enclave en el canal de la Mancha, está leyendo un libro de Charles Lamb que había pertenecido con anterioridad a Juliet. ¿Cómo ha llegado ese...
84) A new chapter
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Rose Cottage book club volume 11
Pub. Date
2023.
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May heralds in a time of change on Nantucket. As tourists flock to the island and temperatures rise, the members of the Rose Cottage Book Club grapple with changes of the heart. While her boyfriend, Luke Harris, visits a law school friend in Syracuse, New York, bookshop owner Meagan Poe tries to find the perfect book to showcase at Nantucket’s Wine and Food Festival. Soon, a mystery involving a best-selling memoirist snatches her attention and urges...
85) Read and buried
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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"Award-winning novelist Derek Alton should have been the featured guest at the December meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society. Instead, he turned up dead on Lizzie Turners living room carpet. But this was Derek Alton 's first visit to Ashton Corners, so who would have wanted him dead? Surely not Sally-Jo Baker, Lizzies cohort and good friend! But the police have her heading the suspect list. That sets Lizzie and...
86) Books vs. looks
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Mermaid tales volume 15
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Kiki wants to start a book club, but Pearl tries to steal the spotlight with a rival fashion club in this sparkling Mermaid Tales adventure. Kiki misses her brother, Yuta, who lives on the other side of the ocean. To help keep in touch, the two of them start a book club, and Kiki decides it would be fun to expand the club for all of Trident Academy. But Pearl doesn't want anything to do with a boring book club. Instead, she decides she's going to...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"The story of a book club of broken hearts, where four women come together and discover the power of female friendship and find the courage to pursue their dreams. Jazmine was supposed to be a professional tennis player, but her plans to go pro were quashed in a car crash. Now she's a top sports agent balancing a demanding career and single motherhood. Judith is an empty nester stuck in an unhappy marriage. After her husband's sudden death, she has...
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Bromance book club volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Country music's golden boy Colton Wheeler felt the most perfect harmony when he was with Gretchen Winthrop. But for her, it was a love him and leave him situation. A year later, Colton is struggling to push his music forward in a new direction. If it weren't about to be the most magical time of year and the support of the Bromance Book Club, he'd be wallowing in self-pity. It's hard for immigration attorney Gretchen not to feel a little Scrooge-ish...
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2024.
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Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members!
When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it's not the 'good life' she'd imagined, as three hours of digging barely yields a single straggly carrot. Worse, her teenage daughter is acting up, and her husband seems to find every strange excuse under the hot French sun to disappear.
So when her friend entreats her to join the...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"As April descends on the harbor town of Nantucket, bookshop owner Meagan Poe embraces the promise of fresh starts—beginning with the first book club meeting at Rose Cottage Books. She soon discovers that the few but mighty inaugural members bring big personalities and plenty of new revelations to break the ice. Married for two years to the love of her life, Olivia James has uncovered information about her husband that makes her question everything...
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Somerset Lake volume 2
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"When Lucy Hannigan returned to her childhood home in Somerset Lake, one of the first things she did was join the local book club. And thank goodness, because now that Lucy's first Christmas without her mother is bearing down upon her, she can use all the help and support she can get. Especially when she has to take in a tenant and the only person interested is Miles Bruno, her ex-fiance. Lucy's friends keep teasing her about the way Miles is trying...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The League of Literary Ladies is currently enjoying Margaret Mitchell's saga of the South, Gone with the Wind. But there's one situation on South Bass Island that they wish would simply blow over. Kidnapped as teenagers, the children of a famous movie star are now media darlings after a miraculous escape. What's next for the celebrity twins? They're opening an over-the-top B and B called Tara on South Bass Island, and frankly, they don't give a damn...
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Pub. Date
2023
Description
London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named Hedy. When the Blitz begins and bombs whistle overhead,...
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Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
"Paul Slater and Derrick Anderson's Shenandoah Valley Bed and Breakfast, The Hummingbird House, has become renowned as a destination of distinction that specializes in hosting events celebrating life's most magical moments. And while the celebration rarely goes as planned, the magic never fails. In "Love, From the Hummingbird House" Paul and Derrick host the Queen of Romance for a Valentine's Day Book Lover's Extravaganza, and invite members of their...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
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2008.
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As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
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