Jenny Colgan
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Christmas bookshop volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
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In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie’s is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop’s manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire.
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Little Beach Street Bakery volume 2
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Polly Waterford leaves behind a failed relationship and moves to a Cornish seaside resort, where her hobby of making bread deepens into a passionate practice in her own bakery, sweetened with honey from a handsome local beekeeper.
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Little Beach Street Bakery volume 4
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Marisa Rosso can't understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly? Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth-the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, whilst carrying on her job as...
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Island of Mure novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
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On the remote Scottish island of Mure, the Christmas season is stark, windy, and icy-yet incredibly festive and beautiful... It's a time for getting cozy in front of whisky barrel wood fires, and enjoying a dram and a treacle pudding with the people you love-unless, of course, you've accidentally gotten pregnant by your ex-boss, and don't know how to tell him. In the season for peace and good cheer, will Flora find the nerve to reveal the truth to...
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Island of Mure novels volume 4
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"On the tiny, beautiful, and remote island of Mure, halfway between Scotland and Norway, a new hotel opening is a big event. New mother Flora MacKenzie and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get it ready in time for Christmas. The new hotel's impressive kitchens throw together two unlikely new friends: Isla Gregor is the hardworking young girl who has been a waitress in the island's cafe, dreaming of a bigger, better life now...
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Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile--a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing...
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Series
Christmas bookshop volume 1
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When she is out of a job just in time for the holidays, Carmen, with little cash and few options, is forced to move in with her perfect sister where she takes a job at a book store that desperately needs her help-and helps her in return.
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Little school by the sea volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 283 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
The first book of Jenny Colgan's delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea. Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance? It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding...
Author
Series
Island of Mure novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 395 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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A London girl-about-town returns to her family's farm on a small Scottish island following her mother's death. Her father and her four brothers remain, and it's up to them to run the farm. But as she soon discovers, they aren't quite up to the task, and need all the help they can get. Leaving behind a bustling, high-stakes life in the city, our heroine builds a life for herself in her hometown, opening a cafe using the local produce of the region....
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Rosie Hopkin's sweet shop volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vi, 422 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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After arriving in the country to care for her injured great aunt, Rosie finds herself falling under the spell of the village and the people there, especially a mysterious, solitary man, Stephen, who's bitterly healing from an injury himself.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 21 cm
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Desperate to escape London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four-year-old son, Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night, and Hari's dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually broke DJ, is no help at all. But his sister, Surinder, comes to Zoe's aid, hooking her up with a job as far away from the urban crush as possible: working at a...
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"Faced with the harsh reality that there are twenty five thousand more women than men in London, Katie's dating prospects are at an all-time low. While she's glad it's not a man's world anymore, her own world really needs more eligible bachelors, a lot more. Resigning herself to the fact that there's no sex in the city for her, Katie decides to head for the hills--or the Scottish Highlands to be exact. A new job takes her to the charming town of...
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Little school by the sea volume 3
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
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School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House... Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie's attraction to her colleague David McDonald has caught fire. Now both are facing an uncertain future as they try to figure out how to stay committed to their careers--and each other. Meanwhile, the girls...
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"They may be twins, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites. Penny is the life of the party--loud and outrageous, while quiet and thoughtful Lizzy is often left out of the crowd. The one trait they do share is a longing to do something spectacular with their lives, and as far as these two are concerned, there's no better place to make their dreams come true than London. Presented with a once-in-a-lifetime house-sit at their grandmother's...
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Series
Island of Mure novels volume 5
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 388 pages ; 24 cm
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"Flora MacKenzie and her fiancae have their plans for their tiny "sweetheart wedding" on the Scottish island of Mure disrupted when an expat with money wants to throw the most extravagant wedding possible on the same day"--
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 341 pages : illustration, genealogical table ; 24 cm
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"In her comfy cottage nestled in the Derbyshire hills, Rosie Hopkins has good reason to feel a warm blush in her cheeks. With Christmas weeks away, the holiday is being ushered in with England's first glorious snowfall of the season. Her boyfriend Stephen is starting his new job as a teacher in the village school. Her quaint Sweetshop and Confectionery has been restored to its former glory, and she has a loveable mop of a new puppy named Mr. Dog....
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Series
Island of Mure novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
xi, 393 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Description
When Flora MacKenzie traded her glum career in London for the remote Scottish island of Mure, she never dreamed that Joel her difficult, adorable boss would follow. Yet now, not only has Flora been reunited with her family and opened a charming café by the sea, but she and Joel are taking their first faltering steps into romance. With Joel away on business in New York, Flora is preparing for the next stage in her life. And that would be ? Love? She's...
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Series
Little school by the sea volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Maggie Adair's first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she's learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls' boarding school by the sea. Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie's just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague at the boys' school down the road. Well, hasn't she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 20 cm
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"Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She's also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to an island plane service she runs with her grandfather. The islands--over 500 dots of windswept land that reach almost to Norway--rely on their one hardworking prop plane to deliver mail, packages, tourists, medicine, and the occasional sheep. As the keeper of this vital lifeline, Morag...