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Summary: On Nantucket Island, detective Meredith Folger investigates the drowning of a man who worked the scallop boats. A tale of drugs and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can't get him to commit. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore, until it's purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier Darling. Xavier hires Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton as his general manager, and Lizbet, in turn, pulls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILMathews, Francine.
Summary: On Nantucket Island, lady-detective Meredith Folger investigates the slaying of Rusty Mason, a local resident who fled to Brazil after an insider-trading scandal, returning home 10 years later. A debut in fiction for a former intelligence analyst with the CIA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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Summary: Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILThayer, Nancy
Summary: Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toyshop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. Even so, Christina firmly believes there may be a warm heart underneath Oscar's steely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THAMathews, Francine
Summary: "Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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Contents: Jim Gordon's big idea -- The power elite and their entourage -- The electrical priesthood -- Birds, fish, and whales -- A pride of pastels -- The passion of Matt Patrick -- Wianno seniors, and those who sail them -- The fourth estate -- The Buzzards Bay oil spill -- The senator from Virginia -- A cold snap -- The pleasure of the governor -- More "public" meetings -- Capitol enemies, capitol...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.9 WILHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: A family Christmas gathering at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: LP FICTION HILMathews, Francine.
Summary: The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry Folger spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and experienced, but this time one of her friends is involved. Del Duarte has returned to Nantucket with a baby, but she's keeping quiet about her daughter's parentage. When her own father, Joe, an experienced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: "Set against Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear... Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at a time, women here know a rare independence -- and the challenges that go with it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises ULC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILBurnham, Gabriella
Summary: "Elise is out dancing the night before her graduation from college, hundreds of miles from home, when her younger sister Sophie calls to tell her that their mother has gone missing. They soon discover that she was arrested on her way home from work and deported to São Paulo, Brazil. Elise decides to return to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly three years to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 MCDBonsee, Peggy Brown.
Contents: " These very different women shared a determination to live as fully as possible, even in the final decades of their long and richly experienced lives. Their stories will delight and inspire you..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging BonseeThayer, Nancy
Summary: A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times best selling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC THAHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan, the Quinns are preparing for a holiday more joyous than any they've experienced in years. And Bart's safe return isn't the family's only good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILHilderbrand, Elin.
Summary: The true feelings and secret relationships of four prominent Nantucket couples, who call themselves the Castaways, come to light after two of them drown when their boat mysteriously capsizes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters who have been at odds for years. ust because twins look exactly the same doesn't mean they're anything alike - and Tabitha and Harper Frost have spent their whole lives trying to prove this point. When a family crisis forces them to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HILHilderbrand, Elin.
Summary: Visiting Nantucket with their children during a summer vacation, three women befriend a local youth and share their struggles with such challenges as infidelity, the loss of a job under scandalous circumstances, and health problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2007
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Summary: "After a trying case, Merry begrudgingly agrees to take a leave from work to meet her fussy future in-laws in Greenwich, but it isn't long before she is summoned back to Nantucket. The body of a young man was discovered in the Sound the weekend of the annual Christmas Stroll. Although a simple drowning is suspected--the water is hardly above freezing, after all--the death isn't sitting well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATThayer, Nancy
Summary: "When four strangers rent bargain-basement rooms in an old hotel near the beach, they embark on the summer of their lives. First there's Ariel Spencer, who has big dreams of becoming a writer and is looking for inspiration in Nantucket's high society. Her new friend Sheila Murphy is a good Catholic girl from Ohio whose desire for adventure is often shadowed by her apprehension. Then there's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC THACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thayer 2022Hilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Returning to prepare for Kevin and Isabelle's wedding, the Quinn family find themselves facing a powerful blizzard, holiday drama, and an emotional reunion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Hilderbrand 2016Hilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. Kevin is about to tie the knot with Isabelle, and there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean there aren't a few dark clouds on the horizon as the family juggle health scares and love triangles. But if there's one holiday that brings the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016