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Book Shelf: Easy, Relaxing Reads

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These quick reads are page turners that will keep you on the edge of your seat.  From romance to psychological thrillers, these titles won't disappoint the person who reads to relax.
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Psychological Thrillers

You never know what will happen next in these thrillers that bring surprises with each twist and turn.

 
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Quick mystery read... page turner. Finished this in two days!
The Teacher
 
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Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel return...
The Silent Patient
 
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Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a...
The Housemaid
 
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As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in ...
The Villa
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None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and a...
Bad Summer People: A Novel
 
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Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beaut...
The Family Across the Street: A Thriller
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Everyone's Dying to Join . . . The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and th...
The Club: A Reese's Book Club Pick
 
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Meet Emma McCarthy, a thirty-year-old failed actress that just moved home to Plymouth, MA. And her mother, Cindy, a yoga instructor in the Pinehills, an exclusive golf community in Plymouth. They’ve just inherited Court Street Investigations, a pr...
Plymouth Undercover (Court Street Investigations)
 
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Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right th...
The Coworker
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A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker "You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and ...
The Housemaid Is Watching
 
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It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their sh...
The Housemaid's Secret
 
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The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars… As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: Treat all prisoners with respect. Never reveal any personal information. Never EVER...
The Inmate
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A twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! Some doors are locked for a reason… While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea ...
The Locked Door

Romance

Beach reads full of relationship drama, growth, and rekindling.

 
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Another great summer read!
The Hotel Nantucket: Hilderbrand, Elin
 
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Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ev...
People We Meet on Vacation
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Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up five months ago. And still ...
Happy Place
 
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Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she...
It Ends with Us: A Novel (1)
 
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How do you know if you've found the one? Can you really love the one you're with when you can't forget the one who got away? Emily Giffin, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof, poses thes...
Love the One You're With: A Novel
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A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her...
Summerland: A Novel
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With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, the...
The Castaways: A Novel
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Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the ...
The Matchmaker: A Novel
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Nantucket is only eleven miles away from Martha's Vineyard. But they may as well be worlds apart for estranged twin sisters Harper and Tabitha Frost. After not speaking for more than a decade, Harper and Tabitha switch islands-and lives-to save what...
The Identicals

Friendship

Stories of friendship - good and bad.

 
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Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe—a celebrity chef with an insatiable appetite for life—and a passionate dislike of one another. All three are remarkable, spirit...
Here's to Us
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Elin Hilderbrand books are always great reads!
The Five-Star Weekend - Books

Chick Lit

Fun, easy reads for the beach!

 
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A seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, thanks in part to her flawless blond highlights and Botox-smoothed skin. An adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. S...
Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty
 
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. ...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
 
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Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her...
Regretting You
 
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Almost a decade has passed since Andy Sachs quit the job “a million girls would die for” working for Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine—a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Andy and Emily, her former nemesis and co-assistant, have since joined...
Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns
 
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LAST SUMMER’S SECRET It was one harmless little lie, that was all. You were only looking out for your daughter, like any mother would. IS THIS SUMMER’S HOTTEST SCANDAL . . . But secrets always surface. Now yours is suddenly the talk of the town....
One Little Lie
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New York Times bestselling author Lauren Weisberger returns with a novel starring one of her favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada—Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who’s just lande...
The Wives: A New Devil Wears Prada Novel