Think BEACH!

The Beach House by Jane Green

Disregarding local gossip that pegs her as an eccentric, sixty-five-year-old Nantucket widow Nan skinny-dips in unattended pools and steals her neighbors' flowers before her dwindling funds force her to take in boarders, a change that brings an unexpected visitor.

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Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank

Returning to Folly Beach, her childhood home, newly widowed Cate Cooper, whose late husband's financial exploits have left her homeless and broke, discovers that it is possible to go home again and discover the person she was meant to become

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Beach House Memories by Mary Alice Monroe

A tale set in the 1970s American South shares the story of Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.

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The Cottage at Glass Beach by Heather Barbieri

Learning of the infidelity of her husband, Nora Cunningham packs up her daughters--Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve--and takes refuge on Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of Maine where her mother disappeared at sea long ago. Just as Nora begins to regain her balance, her daughters embark on a reckless odyssey of their own--forcing Nora to finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother, and her long-buried past.

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The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine

A modern tale inspired by Sense and Sensibility finds financially strapped literary sisters Miranda and Annie moving in with divorcee Betty in a run-down Connecticut beach cottage, where they find love among the suburban aristocracy.

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The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice

Returning for a final visit to the Martha's Vineyard beach house where they were most happy in childhood, three sisters struggle with family memories and discover astonishing truths in a cache of old letters that compels a journey to their ancestral Ireland.

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Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

Descending on a family beach house won in a bet years earlier, three generations of women gradually impart difficult respective secrets including a pregnancy, a terrible crush and a deeply held resentment for past misdeeds. 

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Amazon Editors' Top 20 Picks for the Best Books of the Year So Far

So far, Amazon has picked 20 books which they believe are the best books this year...so far.  Why not pick one as one of your 50 books to read?

After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Between Man and Beast by Monte Reel
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Gulp: adventures on the alimentary canal by Mary Roach
The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Joyland by Stephen King
Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Schroder by Amity Gaige
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Smoke and Pickles: Reciples and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen by Edward Lee
The Son by Phillip Meyer
Tenth of December: stories by George Saunders
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

BVPL Staff Picks

Looking for a book suggestion? These titles are located on our Staff Picks shelves. Take a suggestion from a Bernardsville Public Library staff member for one of your 50 books!

Anne's Pick: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Annette's Pick: The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
Felicia's Pick: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Kathy's Pick: The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Lia's Pick: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Margaret's Pick: Following Atticus by Tom Ryan
Mary Jo's Pick: City Dharma: Keeping Your Cool in the Chaos by Arthur Jeon
Rosalie's Pick: Confederates in the Attic: dispatches from America's unfinished Civil War by Tony Horowitz
Sarah's Pick: Cemetery John : the undiscovered mastermind of the Lindbergh kidnapping by Robert Zorn
Susan's Pick: The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee