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High country fall High country fall Margaret Maron With friends and family over-reacting to her announcement that she plans to marry Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott gratefully seizes the opportunity to put a five-hour drive betwee… OL100011W
Wish You Were Here Wish You Were Here Stewart O'Nan "It's been a year since the death of her husband, Henry, and Emily Maxwell gathers her family in Lake Chautauqua in western New York for what will be their last vacation at their summer cottage befor… OL115932W
Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad Company. “This pamphlet was designed for distribution to travelers and business people, “compliments of the passenger department” of the Detroit, Lansing, and Northern Railroad. It promotes tourist destinatio… OL12076056W
Bay View Bay View Mary Jane Doerr Winner - 2011 Sate History Award from the Historical Society of Michigan. Distributed by Wayne State University Press. Includes new information about Ernest Hemingway, the Custer family, Irma Romb… OL15978848W
The Sea View Hotel The Sea View Hotel James Stevenson The only child at the Sea View Hotel, Hubert's two week vacation is miserable until he encounters the hotel handyman. OL16053611W
Amelia Anne is dead and gone Amelia Anne is dead and gone Kat Rosenfield Unveils the details of a horrific murder, its effects on permanent and summer residents of the small Appalachian town where the body is discovered, and especially how the related violence shakes eigh… OL16175896W
Lost Lake Lost Lake Sarah Addison Allen "Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one me… OL17080323W
Prudence Prudence David Treuer On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, headed for the darkened skies over Eur… OL17890232W
Three Bird summer Three Bird summer Sarah St. Antoine An introspective boy and an adventurous girl uncover a poignant family mystery during a summer on the shores of Three Bird Lake. OL20015079W
The Accidental The Accidental Ali Smith The Accidental is a 2005 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith. It follows a middle-class English family who are visited by an uninvited guest, Amber, while they are on holiday in a small village in Nor… OL2412076W
Al faro / To the Lighthouse Al faro / To the Lighthouse 251 pages ; 19 cm OL26382900W
Help! I'm drowning! (and other emergencies) Help! I'm drowning! (and other emergencies) Peggy Downing A plot-it-yourself adventure story set in a mountain resort. The reader's decisions determine the outcome of the plot. OL2925818W
Summer in Eclipse Bay Summer in Eclipse Bay Jayne Ann Krentz Summer has arrived in Eclipse Bay and things are definitely heating up between the Hartes and the Madisons. It seems that the mysterious new gallery owner, Octavia Brightwell, is thinking about havin… OL34329W
Lifeguards only beyond this point Lifeguards only beyond this point Michael French During a summer as a lifeguard at an exclusive resort hotel, ambitious sixteen-year-old Max falls for wealthy Annabel and learns something about other people's limitations and his own. OL4438343W
Belle Ruin Belle Ruin Martha Grimes A douze ans, Emma Graham a déjà tout d'une détective chevronnée. Devenue, grâce à ses aventures, une véritable star dans sa petite ville de Spirit Lake, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, elle doit écrire le ré… OL464352W
Cold Flat Junction Cold Flat Junction Martha Grimes Martha Grimes's Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year's best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl's une… OL464357W
Leeway cottage Leeway cottage Beth Richardson Gutcheon In this beautifully written tour de force of a novel, Beth Gutcheon takes readers back to the coastal village of Dundee, Maine. There, in a Victorian summer house called Leeway Cottage, we witness th… OL489536W
Summer Summer Jeff Mariotte Kerry is enjoying working at a California resort when a handsome young man, Daniel Blessing enters her life. He's on the run from a powerful witch named Season. OL5738648W
Garner Garner Kirstin Allio Landlocked, sail-shaped Garner, New Hampshire, is a town delineated by its Puritan ethics and its “Live Free or Die” mentality. Like the forbidding landscape of Wharton’s *Ethan Frome*, this New Engl… OL5822317W
A summer holiday A summer holiday Chicago and North Western Railway Company. “This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of E… OL7686903W
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