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Author: Kay McLaughlin
Publisher: Penguin Unity Enterprises
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780980166408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlex, a nine-year-old girl, narrates a story of beach experiences she has with her grandparents at their Cape San Blas home on the Gulf of Mexico, and her special love for them. The highlight of her day as seeing a school of dolphins swimming in the Gulf.
Author: Caroline Anderson
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-07-15
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1459252969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Are you out there, Mary Poppins?" James Carmichael's wryly humorous plea caught Poppy's attention as she scanned the advertisements for a new job. How could she resist applying, particularly when his voice sounded so wonderful over the phone? Though when his eight-year-old twins greeted her arrival with a flour bomb, she very nearly changed her mind! Until she saw a man and two small boys who'd forgotten how to be a family—and Poppy knew she could be just the miracle James needed….
Author: Tina Murray
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Published:
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1645405524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Search of a Safe Harbor... Finally, after years of struggle, Heston Demming is at the peak of his acting career—a Hollywood heartthrob, his handsome face on every tabloid. When he comes home to Naples, Florida, his opulent lifestyle is a declaration of victory over the poverty and hardship of his youth. But his triumphant return is a sham, a lie he's told himself to keep from facing the truth. The truth is, his life is falling apart. It's as though he is standing on the beach in the edge of the surf, each wave washing more sand from beneath his feet. And, with nothing solid to hang onto, he is going down. Then one “real” person comes back into his life, Poppy Talbot. The woman left behind in his quest for money and fame. Poppy still has the same sweetness as she did when they were love-struck teenagers. She could save him—if he could get her to forgive the past and win her trust... In Search of Escape... All the years Heston was away, Poppy Talbot dreamed of seeing him again. And had vivid nightmares about it. About the consequences. Poppy has a long-kept secret—a soul-deep secret. One, which, if she lets Heston back into her life, is certain to rip them apart... Set in sophisticated, tropical Naples, Florida. A Chance to Say Yes takes you inside the volatile private life of the exclusive beachfront community's most celebrated son. "There's so much fakery in Hollywood, it's hard to go back to being real... A Chance to Say Yes is a novel of facing the mistakes of one's past, highly recommended." 5 stars—Midwest Book Review "In A Chance to Say Yes, Tina Murray skillfully portrays an elite world jam-packed with romance, glamour, lust, greed, deception, betrayal, and surprising twists and turns to keep you captivated to the very last word." —Jane Kennedy Sutton Author of The Ride
Author: Elvi Rhodes
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1448110823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn emotional story of recollections and reminiscences, The Birthday Party sees multi-million copy seller Elvi Rhodes at her heart-warming best. Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Erica James will not be disappointed. Readers are loving THE BIRTHDAY PARTY! 'I just couldn't put this book down' -- ***** Reader review 'Keeps you interested right up to the very last word' -- ***** Reader review 'Wonderful' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************** A LANDMARK BIRTHDAY BRINGS BACK MEMORIES - SOME HAPPIER THAN OTHERS Poppy's family is gathering to celebrate her eightieth birthday. Her children, grandchildren and even one great-grandchild are converging on her Sussex home. As she prepares to welcome them all, her mind goes back over her life - to her tough childhood in Yorkshire; to her mother - who scrimped and saved to bring her up decently; to her three husbands and to Alun, the great love of her life who was taken from her by the war. Yes, she has had a full life - a lot fuller than her family realises. As they toast their beloved matriarch, little do they know what an extraordinary and often shocking life she has led...
Author: Karla Courtney
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1536211524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"On top of a hill, where the ocean shines on all sides, sits a little yellow house. This is where Poppy lives."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Portia Moore
Publisher: Portia Moore
Published: 2020-04-29
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing up poor on the rough side of Indiana didn’t make my life easy. It made it hard. My mom worked two jobs and didn’t have time to read me many fairy tales. We couldn’t afford the princess costumes or the trips to expensive magic kingdoms. My life was black and white, and a hint of grey was the most I had to look forward to…until I met Zachary Rostov—tall, beautiful, with a perfect smile. Unfortunately, as with most stories, ours had to come to an end. When I turned nineteen, after escaping the soul-sucking pit of Indiana, one bad decision almost destroyed everything. The way my story had been written up to that point meant my dreams of more should have come to an end. But it was the same day I met Vincent Jamison, and if my life were a fairy tale, he would have been the prince who had come to save me. I don’t remember in any of those stories being saved coming with a debt.
Author: Anna Bennett
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 2023-01-24
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1250793947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe next delightful novel in Anna Bennett's Rogues to Lovers series! "Tantalizing...readers will be swept away." - Publishers Weekly A FISHERMAN’S DAUGHTER Miss Poppy Summers is determined to keep her family’s fishing business afloat. Her poor widowed father has fallen ill, and her foolhardy brother has moved to London, leaving her precious little time to read or pursue her own dreams. But she’ll do anything for her family, so she cheerfully spends mornings in her rowboat, casting her nets. The very last thing Poppy expects or wants to find tangled in them is a dangerously attractive man. Especially one with a head wound—who’s convinced he’s a duke. AND A DUKE OUT OF WATER Andrew Keane is the Duke of Hawking, but he’s having the devil of a time convincing his fiery-haired rescuer of that fact. The truth is he came to the seaside resort of Bellehaven Bay to escape his life in London. Unfortunately, someone in Bellehaven wants to kill him—and he intends to find out who. He implores Poppy to tend to his injuries and hide him on her beach, reasoning it will be easier to find his attacker if that man assumes Keane is already dead. She wants no part of the scheme but can’t refuse the generous sum he offers in exchange for food and shelter while he recovers. It’s a mutually beneficial business arrangement...nothing more. ARE ABOUT TO MAKE WAVES Under Poppy’s care, Keane regains his strength—and a sense of purpose. As they work together to solve the puzzle of his would-be murderer, he’s dazzled by her rapier wit and adventurous spirit; she’s intrigued by his mysterious air and protective streak. Though Poppy’s past gives her every reason to mistrust someone like Keane, the seawalls around her heart crumble in the storm of their passion. But when clues hint at the prime suspect in Keane’s attempted murder, Poppy must decide where her loyalties lie. Torn between the world she’s always known and the one she’s always dreamed of, she’ll need true love for a shot at her fairytale ending.
Author: Patricia Johns
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-03-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1488039631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe’s always been the one… She’s always been just a friend! Grace Beverly spent years hopelessly in love with her best friend, Billy Austin. Now he’s back in Eagle’s Rest, Colorado, determined to provide the best life possible for his four-year-old daughter. He’s just not sure how. Helping Billy navigate the world of parenting is a one-way ticket back to heartache. Yet how can Grace say no to her oldest friend?
Author: James Vachowski
Publisher: Vagabondage Press LLC
Published:
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery boy sees his grandfather as something of a legend, and Richard Petty Schultz is no exception. His Poppy fought the Nazis during the War and notched 17 confirmed kills before a sniper’s bullet left him blind in one eye. In peacetime, the man survived heartbreak, cancer, bankruptcy, and a stroke. Most importantly, Poppy Schaeffer built the Eiffel Tower, which made Christmas everything that it is today. But even the greatest of men have to die sometime. Over the course of one hot summer weekend, Richard narrates from his eighth-grade perspective as he and the rest of the tourist-trap community of Christmas, Florida, struggle to accept Poppy’s impending death. A legend of a man who drew in traffic from across the Southeast by building scale replicas of French monuments using nothing but empty beer cans and quick dry cement, Poppy Schaeffer’s passing marks the end of an era for a town that has itself been dying for years, thanks to an untimely Interstate bypass.
Author: Christina Clancy
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2020-06-02
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1250239605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A novel of family and place and belonging." —Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer Prize finalist "Tender and suspenseful." —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author Some places never leave you... After a disastrous summer spent at her family’s home on Cape Cod when she is seventeen, Ann Gordon is very happy to never visit Wellfleet again. If only she’d stayed in Wisconsin, she might never have met Anthony Shaw, and she would have held onto the future she’d so carefully planned for herself. Instead, Ann ends up harboring a devastating secret that strains her relationship with her parents, sends her sister Poppy to every corner of the world chasing waves (and her next fling), and leaves her adopted brother Michael estranged from the family. Now, fifteen years later, her parents have died, and Ann and Poppy are left to decide the fate of the beach house that’s been in the Gordon family for generations. For Ann, the once-beloved house is forever tainted with bad memories. And while Poppy loves the old saltbox on Drummer Cove, owning a house means settling, and she’s not sure she’s ready to stay in one place. Just when the sisters decide to sell, Michael re-enters their lives with a legitimate claim to a third of the estate. He wants the house. But more than that, he wants to set the record straight about what happened that long-ago summer that changed all of their lives forever. As the siblings reunite after years apart, their old secrets and lies, longings and losses, are pulled to the surface. Is the house the one thing that can still bring them together––or will it tear them apart, once and for all? Told through the shifting perspectives of Ann, Poppy, and Michael, this assured and affecting debut captures the ache of nostalgia for summers past and the powerful draw of the places we return to again and again. It is about second homes, second families, and second chances. Tender and compassionate, incisive and heartbreaking, The Second Home is the story of a family you'll quickly fall in love with, and won't soon forget.
