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1) Last summer
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The town of Yorktide, close to Maine s beautiful beaches and the city of Portland, seems like the perfect place to raise a family. For Jane Patterson, there's another advantage: her best friend, Frannie Giroux, lives next door, and their teenaged daughters, Rosie and Meg, are inseparable. But in the girls freshman year of high school, everything changes. Rosie quiet, shy, and also very pretty attracts the sneers and slights of a clique of older girls....
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Some houses have a personality of their own. Larchmere is that kind of place -- a splendid, sprawling home with breathtaking views that open to briny Atlantic air and seabirds' calls. It's the place where Tilda McQueen O'Connell grew up and now vacations each year, and where she and her three siblings -- Adam, Hannah, and Craig -- have gathered to commemorate the tenth anniversary of their mother's passing. But instead of the bittersweet but relaxing...
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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 someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call...
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"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...
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Everyone in Yorktide, Maine, knows sixteen-year-old Sarah Bauer. She's a good student, a dutiful daughter, and Cordelia Kane's best friend. It's a surprise to all when Sarah reveals that she's pregnant. Her family is shocked but supportive. But while Sarah reconciles herself to a new future, the consequences ripple in all directions. Sarah's mother seizes on an idea: band together and make a baby quilt. Piece by piece, a beautiful design emerges as...
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Renting out three bedrooms and setting up a bed-and-breakfast of sorts, widow Sandra Pennington is eager to try and build a community of like-minded mature women for companionship and support during a summer of self-discovery, renewal and the healing power of friendship.
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"At first glance, Nell King's cozy home in Yorktide 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 here. Now, faced with what may be their last Christmas together, Nell feels anxious. She gave up her own ambitions when she married. With the daily obligations of motherhood coming...
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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...