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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Summerhouse
Jude Deveraux · 362 pages
Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating at a summerhouse in Maine, Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse: the chance for each of them to turn their “what-might-have-beens” into reality…
The Pretty Delicious Cafe: Looking for summer, romance, friends and food? Come visit Ratai Beach.
Danielle Hawkins · 335 pages
On the outskirts of a quiet hamlet on the New Zealand coast, Lia and her friend Anna work serious hours running their restored 'villa' cafe. The busy season, they know, is just around the corner. There are plenty of other things distracting them too. Anna is about to marry Lia's twin brother; Lia's older half-brother, who lives hours away on the family farm, looks like he might be disinherited by
Beautiful Day
Elin Hilderbrand · 404 pages
Gathering on Nantucket for a wedding planned to the letter by the bride's late mother, the Carmichaels and the Grahams hide their scandal-ridden, crumbling lives from the blissfully unaware, happy couple.
Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe
Debbie Johnson · 352 pages
Summer Shift
Lynn Kiele Bonasia · 315 pages
Summer at the Lake
Erica James · 384 pages
It was a wedding invitation that changed everything for Floriana ... If she hadn't been so distracted at the thought of having to witness the one true love of her life get married, she would have seen the car coming. If she'd seen the car coming, there would have been no need for elderly spinster Esme Silcox and local property developer Adam Strong to rush to her aid. And if Floriana hadn't met Ad
The Beach House
Mary Alice Monroe · 496 pages
Known for her moving characters and emotional honesty, Mary Alice Monroe brings readers a beautifully rendered story that explores the fragile yet enduring bond between mothers and daughters.Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother—coming just as her own life is spinning out of control—has Cara heading back to the
The Little Kiosk by the Sea
Jennifer Bohnet · 342 pages
Under a Summer Sky
Nan Rossiter · 386 pages
Nan Rossiter transports readers to Cape Cod with a warm, compelling story of family, new beginnings, and finding the courage to love honestly and well . . The old Cape Cod house that Laney Coleman shares with her minister husband Noah and their five boys is usually brimming with cheerful chaos. There's nothing fancy about the ancient kitchen or the wooden floors scuffed by the constant parade of a
Summer by the Sea
Jenny Hale · 346 pages
Finding Colin Firth
Mia March · 366 pages
Three women, connected in secret and surprising ways, are in for a life-changing summer when rumor has it that actor Colin Firth is coming to their Maine town to film a movie.
The Color of Light
Karen White · 267 pages
Summer at the Cornish Cafe
Phillipa Ashley · 320 pages
The Shark Club
Ann Kidd Taylor · 288 pages
The Island House
Nancy Thayer · 416 pages
"Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Courtney has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for the allure of Nantucket. Now an established university professor, she finds herself caught between two lifestyles and two very different men. This summer has taken an unexpected turn and now she must decide what she really wants"--
Up at Butternut Lake
Mary McNear · 400 pages
It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake. She's promised her five-year-old son, Wyatt, that they will be happy there. She's promised herself that this is the place to begin again after her husband's death in Afghanistan. The cabin holds so many wonderful memories, but Allie is seized with doubts. Has she done the right t
My Map Of You
Isabelle Broom · 432 pages
Summer Blowout
Claire Cook · 249 pages
Bella Shaughnessy is the spitfire middle daughter in a large, noisy, faux Italian family (they're really Irish) of beauty salon owners (think Lucia, Lucia). She works as a hairdresser and makeup artist in her family’s salon, along with her four half-brothers and sisters, where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, is a gregarious charmer with Donald Trump hair who
The Book of Summers
Emylia Hall · 400 pages
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter telling her that Marika, her long-estranged mother, has died. There is also a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it is full of photos and mementos recording the seven glorious childhood summers that Beth spent in rural Hungary. Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estr
Fly Away Home
Jennifer Weiner · 401 pages
A politician's wife retreats with her grown daughters to a Connecticut beach house after a painful public betrayal, an escape marked by new beginnings and her younger daughter's pregnancy.
One Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle · 272 pages
Summer at the Star and Sixpence
Holly Hepburn
Summer Reading
Hilma Wolitzer · 272 pages
Can reading change your life?Following her acclaimed novel The Doctor's Daughter, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer has now written a stirring tale about friendship, romance, inspiration, longing, and, especially, the love of good books. Summer Reading offers a seductive glimpse into the intersecting lives of three very different women.Summer in the Hamptons means crowded beaches during the day