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On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the...
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A novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard. Oak Bluffs is the most exclusive black beach community in the country, a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society. Thirty years ago, Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a house high on the bluffs, a cottage they named Chateau Laveau. "Ama's" three gifted "goddaughters:" Esperanza "Perry" Soto, an Afro-Latina lawyer; Olivia Jones, a Wall Street analyst; and...
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"Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn't be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She's inherited her father's rundown house on Martha's Vineyard, but she can't hold down a job, and her latest romantic disaster has the entire island talking. Tabitha Frost is dignified, refined. She prefers a fine wine and has inherited the impeccable taste of her mother, the iconic...
4) Liar's beach
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"Michael Linden--or just Linden to his preppy boarding school pals--doesn't belong in wealthy, storied Martha's Vineyard. But when his roommate Jasper invites him to spend the end of summer at his massive beachfront home, August House, Linden tries his best to fit in. Linden wouldn't call it lying, exactly. Though it turns out August House is full of liars. Then someone is found unconscious in Jasper's pool, and everyone has something to hide--Jasper,...
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In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changed forever -- when Caitlin Somers chose her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomed Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha's Vineyard, a magical, wind-blown island where two friends became summer sisters..... Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting...
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SILENT AS THE GRAVE. It's particularly quiet on Martha's Vineyard this summer, since a shadowy figure called "the Silencer began his covert campaign of destruction--disabling the audio systems in the homes and vehicles of selfish, music-blasting islanders. A respite from the unwanted noise suits fishing enthusiast, former cop, and sometime investigator J.W. Jackson just fine--until a gargantuan new Chappaquiddick mansion is vandalized and a night...
10) The silver boat
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Three far-flung sisters come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth--especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back...
11) Fall from grace
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Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his father's death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know.
12) Touch-me-not
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A mathematical knitters group is working on a coral reef quilt for a competition to draw attention to global warming. When a telephone stalker begins preying on their members, they turn to Victoria for help.
13) Vineyard prey
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Spending the winter at Martha's Vineyard with his family, retired cop J.W. Jackson is asked to help an old friend sneak back into his Vineyard home and discovers that the friend has been targeted for a past involvement in a dangerous mission.
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A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.
15) Eden in winter
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Blaine Family volume 3
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After the suspcious death of his father, Adam Blaine attempts to help his family heal as the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicion on those closest to him.
Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's...
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It's spring on Martha's Vineyard and at the suggestion of her beekeeper, Victoria Trumbull takes in a new boarder. Orion Nanopoulos is leading a project to lay a fiber-optic cable across the island. When a body is found in the trench where they are laying the cable, Orion recognizes the dead man as a potential investor. Victoria, renowned for her crime solving skills and for her knowledge of the island's residents, is hired by the victim's sons to...
17) Up-island harbor
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[2024]
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"The quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha's Vineyard that tourists don't always see. Maddie Clarke's late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy's cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenureship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything . . . It turns out Grandma Nancy didn't...
20) Indian pipes
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[2009]
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Victoria Trumbull, the ninety-two-year-old deputy police officer of Martha's Vineyard spots a man in trouble halfway down a cliff. After he dies, Victoria's investigation of the possible murder looks at the victim's connection to the blackmail of a gay man, a disruptive motorcycle rally, and gambling.
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