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    The Bookstore on the Beach
    The Bookstore on the Beach
    The Bookstore on the Beach
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Bookstore on the Beach

    Written by Brenda Novak

    Narrated by Amy McFadden

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    About this audiobook

    "A page-turner with a deep heart."—Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer

    How do you start a new chapter of your life when you haven’t closed the book on the previous one?

    Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac’s husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers, and she can’t imagine moving forward without him. But for the sake of their two teenage children, she has to try.

    Autumn takes her kids home for the summer to the charming beachside town where she was raised. She seeks comfort working alongside her mother and aunt at their bookshop, only to learn that her daughter is facing a huge life change and her mother has been hiding a terrible secret for years. And when she runs into the boy who stole her heart in high school, old feelings start to bubble up again. Is she free to love him, or should she hold out hope for her husband’s return? She can only trust her heart…and hope it won’t lead her astray.

    "A heart-tugging romance. Readers are sure to be sucked in.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review  

    Don’t miss New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak’s latest novel, The Seaside Library!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Audio
    Release dateApr 6, 2021
    ISBN9781488210686
    The Bookstore on the Beach
    Author

    Brenda Novak

    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak has written over 60 novels. An eight-time Rita nominee, she's won The National Reader's Choice, The Bookseller's Best and other awards. She runs Brenda Novak for the Cure, a charity that has raised more than $2.5 million for diabetes research (her youngest son has this disease). She considers herself lucky to be a mother of five and married to the love of her life. www.brendanovak.com

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    4/5

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a good story with engaging characters. The ending, however, left some readers feeling let down and wanting more. Some parts of the story could have been left out to focus more on the main plot. Despite these flaws, readers still found the book enjoyable and a nice break from other genres.

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    • 4/5
      This was a good book. Your not sure how it will end until.... At times we are given too much information and I intuitively said what the authors words were while she was saying them. Had to rewind at points to make sense of things because it goes from one point of view immediately to another without any signal or lead in at all, this occurred t many different points of a chapter.
    • 5/5
      I Really enjoyed this story. I was definitely pulled into the various characters and their life events. I was actually happy to hear how it ended. Amy McFadden is a superb narrator..... You feel like you are part of the characters and not someone just reading a story to you. Sidney:)
    • 4/5
      Another wonderful audiobook. On to the next one by same author!
    • 3/5
      This was a good story, but I agree with another review that says an epilog was needed! I felt very let down by the ending.
    • 3/5
      This was an okay book, I think some parts could have been left out, for example the whole bit about Sierra's dad was not really that integral to the story. Time wasted on this character could have been used to tie up the ending a little better. At the end of the book I realized this was a harlequin romance which surprised me. I wish the story had been more about the bookstore and I would have liked to have seen a romance for Mary. I don't usually go for chic lit but this book was okay and I needed a break from all the suspense books I normally listen to.
    • 3/5
      Good story until last chapter where things ended at warp speed. Would of like to seen an epilog.