Chamberlin, Holly
Summary: Every June, the quiet beach town of Ogunquit is overtaken by wealthy families who hire local young women like Amy Latimer and Hayley Franklin to care for their children. Best friends since childhood, Amy and Hayley are eager to secure lucrative summer jobs. Amy wants to finance her upcoming move to Boston. Hayley hopes to squirrel away enough money so that her mom can finally leave her abusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Summary: From Holly Chamberlin, author of Tuscan Holiday and Summer Friends, comes a witty, insightful novel chronicling a year in one woman's quest to find love, joy--and herself. . . At twenty, singlehood is a lifestyle choice. At thirty-two, it starts to feel like an affliction. Erin Weston has a rewarding PR career, loyal friends, and a wonderful Boston condo. But in between weekend brunches,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2012
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Chamberlin, Holly
Summary: The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and Aaron Braithwaite and their two daughters. Frieda loves her mother's old farmhouse, and the girls have grown closer there, sharing a bedroom and spinning stories into the night. But that was before when tragedy was something that happened to other families. Since the car crash that claimed the lives of her husband, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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Summary: Gincy Gannon Luongo escaped from the storybook small town of Appleville, New Hampshire twenty years ago. Now, she is bringing her teenage daughter Tasmin with her to visit her recently widowed mother in the weeks leading up to Christmas at her brother Tommy's urging. Her once feisty and strong-willed mother Ellen Gannon is mired in depression and her brother isn't doing much better. With each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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Summary: Bess Culpepper has long been sure of two things--that her group of college friends would stay close, and that love is worth the wait. At forty-two, she's found the right man, and she's celebrating her upcoming wedding by inviting her best friends to beautiful Kennebunkport. Bess has always been at the helm of these reunions, herding everyone together despite distance and outside commitments....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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Summary: At first glance, Nell King's cozy home in Yorktide, Maine, seems a step down from the impeccably decorated Boston house she shared with her husband. But in the six years since he abruptly left to marry another woman, Nell and her almost-grown daughters have found real happiness and comfort here. Now, faced with what may be their last Christmas together, Nell feels anxious. She gave up her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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Summary: Despite having a rewarding career and loyal friends, thirty-something executive Erin Weston, determined to keep the loneliness at bay, sets out to find what is missing from her life and, in the process, discovers who and what she really needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 0000
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Summary: Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It’s a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn’t seen in sixteen years—not since her baby’s father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping, sustained by the thought that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub Corp 2016
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Summary: When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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Summary: In a picturesque shore town in Maine, the members of a family in flux explore their ties to a beautiful beach house--and to each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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Summary: The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and Aaron Braithwaite and their two daughters. Frieda loves her mother’s old farmhouse, and the girls have grown closer there, sharing a bedroom and spinning stories into the night. But that was before—when tragedy was something that happened to other families. Since the car crash that claimed the lives of her husband, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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Summary: "Sometimes you sense something, deep inside, long before it's proven true. Thirty-year-old Petra Quirk has always felt as if a vital element of her life is missing. It's not until she moves back to the small town of Eliot's Corner for the summer that she learns why. Rummaging in the attic, Petra comes across a diary. The discovery prompts her mother, Elizabeth, to make a confession to her three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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Summary: Every June, the quiet beach town of Ogunquit is overtaken by wealthy families who hire local young women like Amy Latimer and Hayley Franklin to care for their children. Best friends since childhood, Amy and Hayley are eager to secure lucrative summer jobs. Amy wants to finance her upcoming move to Boston. Hayley hopes to squirrel away enough money so that her mom can finally leave her abusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2018
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Summary: Three strangers share a beach house for the summer and find that friendship isn't always based on how well you know a person's past, but in opening each other's eyes to the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2011
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Summary: "It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New York City. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriage and motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol's teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both their girls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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Summary: A bookstore owner in a seaside village on coastal Maine is shocked when the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption thirty-seven years prior arrives at her door and the pair attempt to forge a new relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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Summary: Becca Rowan has driven from Boston with only one thought--reclaiming the daughter she gave up when she was a frightened teenager. Now thirty-two, with her career success assured, Becca's recurring fantasies are about the life she'll have with her daughter. Raised by Becca's older brother and his wife, Rain Rowan, now sixteen, has no idea she was adopted. Though she had promised not to reveal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: "Bess Culpepper has long been sure of two things--that her group of college friends would stay close, and that love is worth the wait. At forty-two, she's found the right man, and she's celebrating her upcoming wedding by inviting her best friends to beautiful Kennebunkport. Bess has always been at the helm of these reunions, herding everyone together despite distance and outside commitments....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2019