Holly Chamberlin

Returning to Ogunquit, Maine, for an extended visit, successful businesswoman Maggie Weldon reunites with her best friend growing up, native Mainer Delphine Crandall, and together they reflect on their choices and compromises, the girls they were and the women they've become. Original.

Summer Friends

A house share in Martha's Vineyard sets the stage for a summer of cold margaritas, hot guys, and hilarious adventures for three women on the brink of turning 30--and on the verge of finding themselves.

The Summer Of Us

Afetr Sarah Bauer, a Maine teenager announces she is pregnant, her family and friends deal with mixed emotions and secrets of their own, as they band together to make a quilt that reflects their commitment to friendship and hope for the future.

The Beach Quilt

In bestselling author Holly Chamberlin's poignant new novel, a mother and daughter escape to a beautiful coastal town in Maine to find healing in the wake of heartbreaking loss. 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 younger daughter, Frieda has struggled emotionally and financially. Bella, now seventeen, is withdrawn and wary, and Frieda fears losing her too. At her mother's urging, Frieda decides to return to Yorktide with Bella for the summer. Bella gets a job in a local shop, and little by little edges her way back into the world. But it's the unexpected connections they make--with a former schoolmate, a troubled teenage girl, and Frieda's estranged father--that will spur them to find healing amid bittersweet memories, and discover if their bond is strong enough to guide them back to hope once more. Praise for the novels of Holly Chamberlin "Chamberlin's latest is a great summer read but with substance. It will find a wide audience in its exploration of sisterhood, family, and loss." - Library Journal on Summer With My Sisters "Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers into the story." --USA Today on Summer Friends

Home for the Summer

When three friends--Sophie, Eva, and John--are reunited after twenty years, old insecurities, dark secrets, romantic misadventures, and a shocking betrayal threaten to change all of their lives forever. Original.

The Friends We Keep

Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Maine coast, Holly Chamberlin’s novels are a summer staple. Now she weaves a heartfelt story of past and present summers and new beginnings, as a mother and daughter reconnect after decades apart . . . There are moments that change your entire life’s direction. For Arden Bell, owner of a cherished bookstore in the seaside hamlet of Eliot’s Corner, one such moment comes early on a summer day when she opens the door to Laura Huntington—the daughter she hasn’t seen in thirty-seven years. Not a day has passed in which Arden hasn’t thought of the baby she glimpsed only once before her wealthy, powerful parents forced her to give her up for adoption. Shy and sheltered, Arden finally mustered the courage to leave her Maine hometown of Port George, changed her name, and has barely seen her parents since. Nor has she heard from Rob, the boy she was so passionately in love with. Now Laura’s arrival, and her inevitable questions, will propel both women on a journey to forge a new relationship and unravel the past. Amid revelations and discoveries—sometimes painful, often unexpected—they will learn the truth about a long-ago summer, and about the risks we take and sacrifices we make for love.

Barefoot in the Sand

When her daughter, a pretty high school freshman, is targeted by bullies and suffers an emotional breakdown after her best friend Meg's betrayal, Jane Patterson, blaming both Meg and Meg's mother Frannie, tries to help her daughter while dealing with her own guilt and anger. Original.

Last Summer

The bestselling author of "Tuscan Holiday" and "The Friends We Keep" sweeps readers to the picturesque town of Ogunquit, Maine, where a family in flux explores their ties to a beautiful beach house and to each other.

The Family Beach House

Babyland

Refusing to play by the rules, four divorcees--Jess, whose affair with a grad student ended her marriage; Nell, whose husband left her for another man; Laura, whose ex-husband refused to have children; and Grace, who supports her freeloading ex--search for love, sex, and fun in the city of Boston. Reprint.

Back in the Game

Lisa Jackson

Cathy Lamb

Rosalind Noonan

Celebrating love, friendship and second chances, this heartwarming collection of stories includes Lisa Jackson's “The Brass Ring,” in which Shawna, after a car crash robs her fiancé of his memories of her, will stop at nothing to reclaim the love they once shared. Original.

Beach Season

Against the picturesque coastal Maine setting that she evokes so well, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin creates a heartfelt story of family bonds and new beginnings . . . 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 anticipating the day she’ll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenth-century family home on the rocky Maine coast. But forty-five years after leaving Yorktide, Carol suddenly announces that she’s moving back—into Ferndean. Bonnie is indignant. She’s the one who kept the homestead in order and tended to their dying mother. Now Carol expects to simply buy her out? As far as Bonnie is concerned, Ferndean is part of their heritage—not just another of Carol’s improvement projects, to be torn apart and remade according to her whim. The entire Ascher family is in flux, uncovering secrets that upend their relationships. Carol’s longing to be welcomed home is fueled by a painful truth she’s carried for years. It will take an extraordinary summer—in a remarkable place—to lead these women back to each other, buoyed by the tides of friendship and forgiveness.

All Our Summers

"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"--Page 4 of cover.

Summer with My Sisters

Summer Love Affair

The story of a year in the lives of four thirty-something women navigating sex, singlehood, and the big city.

Living single

At Blueberry Bay Bed and breakfast in Maine, Louise Bessire and her daughter, Isobel, are both anticipating an exciting summer. Louise is hosting an important wedding that could make her business. Isobel is looking forward to writing her style and fashion blog and getting to know charming nineteen-year-old Jeff Otten. As the wedding draws closer, Louise has little time to focus on her daughter. Feeling isolated, especially when her father cancels a long-awaited visit, Isobel falls under Jeff's dynamic spell, with dangerous results. And soon, mother and daughter must find the courage to overcome unexpected challenges through the strength of their shared bond.

The summer everything changed

Meet Sophie, Eva and John. In college they did everything together. Then they drifted apart. Now 20 years later, they're about to reunite to compare lives, talk about the past, and plan for the future. But will it bring them closer together or tear them apart?

Mary Carter

Elizabeth Bass

An anthology with contributions by four authors features four unforgettable stories of sun-filled days and warm, intoxicating nights. Original.

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