Welcome to the 50 Book Challenge Blog! Reading fifty books in fifty-two weeks may seem daunting, but if you share the goal with a supportive group, it can be a lot of fun. Our goal is to provide support for those readers who wish to challenge themselves during 2013. This blog helps to make reading suggestions for your 50 books as well as guide you to resources to find your next pick!
Friday, June 28, 2013
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.
http://catalog.bernardsville.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?pos=4
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
http://catalog.bernardsville.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?pos=2
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.
http://catalog.bernardsville.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?pos=14
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.
http://catalog.bernardsville.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?pos=34
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.
http://catalog.bernardsville.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?pos=40
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.
http://catalog.bernardsville.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?pos=50
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.
http://catalog.bernardsville.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?pos=51
Labels:
beach,
family,
fiction,
friends,
living simply,
meeting suggestions,
summer,
sunshine
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