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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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

50 Book Challenge Suggestions from Saturday, April 20

Here is a list of the books we suggested to the group. If we own them, the link to the item in the catalog is provided. If not, please ask us to interlibrary loan it for you!

1. Twelve by Twelve by William Powers
2. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
3. Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
4. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
5. Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
6. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
7. Elsewhere by Richard Russo
8. Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me by Patricia Volk
9. Saturday Night Widows by Becky Aikman
10. Chief Bruno Courrèges series by Martin Walker
11. What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir by Alice Eve Cohen
12. End of Your Life Bookclub by Will Schwalbe
13. The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
14. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
15. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
16. Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Ann Fowler