Annie O'Harran is getting married . . . all over again A divorced, single mum, Annie is about to tie the knot with David. But there's a long summer to get through first. A summer where's she's retreating to a lonely house in Cornwall, where's she's going to finish her book, spend time with her teenage daughter Flora and make any last-minute wedding plans. Annie should be so lucky. For almost as soon as Annie arrives her competitive sister and her...

"Everly Swan, owner of the Sun, Sand, and Tea shop on the small island of Charm, North Carolina, has never been overly fond of her two great-aunts' beekeeping hobby. Especially when an aging actress they had hired to appear in a documentary about bees turns up dead, and really puts a bee in Everly's bonnet. With the notoriously nosy reporter, Ryan, back in town and continued mixed signals from the town's sole detective (are he and Everly a thing,...

Seaside is a film about Cayeux, a small beach town in France. Beautiful young Marie works at a pebble processing plant. Her boyfriend, Paul, a warehouse employee in winter and a lifeguard in summer, doesn’t understand Marie’s dreamy temperament and stifles her with his clumsy love. The people who vacation in Cayeux remind Marie that youthful dreams lie elsewhere. She wants to leave, and when Albert, a young executive at the plant gets fired, he...

Tati portrays the endearingly eccentric character, Hulot, whose presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another.

Childhood rivals and co-CEOs of a billion-dollar business conglomerate find sparks flying between them, but must contend with shocking secrets and a breaking scandal.

New York Times bestselling author and America's favorite guidette, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi's latest novel set on the famed and fun-filled Jersey Shore! Jersey Shore's breakout star Snooki became a New York Times bestseller with her debut novel, A Shore Thing. Now she's back for more in this fun follow-up novel. In Gorilla Beach, Gia and Bella return to Seaside Heights for another sexy summer on the beach, in search of tans, good times, and of course,...

"In 1896 ... Sarah Orne Jewett published her finest work, The Country of the Pointed Firs, about a woman writer who retreats one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, to find seclusion to do her work. In the novel and stories collected here, Jewett explores the world of the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns, offering a detailed view of lives molded by the long Maine winters, by the surrounding rock-filled fields, and by...

A historical debut novel about a young woman in turn-of-the-century England who finds love and independence at a seashore resort. As Betsy and Mr. Jones grow closer, she begins to dream that she might finally have found her place in the world--but when her past returns to haunt her, she must fight for everything she's worked for.