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BostonPL_In the Summertime

Beach bound? Why go away when you can stay local and get all the reads you need right here? From classics to romances and everything in between, these novels just might inspire you to take a much-needed staycation on Cape Cod and the Islands.

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  • On Nantucket, while contemplating a new relationship, Darcy is unexpectedly drawn into the dramas of three families, including those of her recently married ex, a situation that compels her to consider what she truly wants.
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, [2017] — FICTION THAYER N
  • A Cape Cod clam bar owner struggles to find the peace, love, and human connection that have eluded her for decades as she copes with her beloved great-aunt's descent into Alzheimer's disease.
    BookNew York, NY : Touchstone, c2010. — PS3602.O6563 S86 2010x
  • Victoria and Caitlin, two girls from very different backgrounds, form a friendship that blooms over their summers spent on Martha's Vineyard, until heartbreak and betrayal tear them apart.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, 1998. — BLUME J
  • The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense to host a lavish ceremony at their oceanfront estate on Nantucket. But it's going to be memorable for all the wrong…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
  • For seven years the Mitchell family has shared their lovely Cape Cod style fixer-upper on Nantucket with their best friends. Now, with summer approaching, will the tradition continue after a tragic accident?
    eBookBookBaby, 2016
  • Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including weddings, deaths, and divorce.
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, 2010. — FICTION RUSSO R
  • In Sconset, Nantucket, as Bess packs up the family home that is about to crumble into the sea, she unravels the secrets that have been kept by Cliff House for over a hundred years.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, [2017]. — FICTION GABLE M
  • Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters who have been at odds for years. Then there's a family crisis...
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — FICTION HILDERBR E
  • On Martha's Vineyard, three generations of women are brought together by a crisis and learn over the course of one hot summer the power of family to support, nourish, and surprise.
    BookToronto, ON : HQN Books, [2018] — FICTION MORGAN S
  • Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual vacation—and they are carrying more secrets than suitcases.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015. — FICTION FRANCIS W
  • On the idyllic island of Nantucket, a widow hopes that her upcoming wedding will reunite her estranged daughters.
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, [2018] — FICTION THAYER N