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University of California Press
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English
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"The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans to its life-sustaining shores for millennia. And while the gull's cry and the cove's splendor have remained constant throughout time, our relationship with the beach has been as fluid as the runnels left behind by the tide's turning. The Lure of the Beach is a chronicle of humanity's history with the...
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English
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This magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results.
The Fortune Rock's Quartet collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for...
The Fortune Rock's Quartet collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for...
7) Beach day
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English
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Rhyming text describes a perfect day at the beach, complete with sandy knees, deviled eggs, and a castle with a moat
10) Wave
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book that shows a little girl's first experiences at the beach, as she goes from being afraid of the roaring waves to playing on the shore while gulls soar overhead
11) At the beach
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Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"In this easy reader, kids will have fun seeing photographs and reading about the fish that live in the ocean, sand castles on the beach, and birds in the sky"--Description from Amazon.com.
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Bellinger sisters romances volume 1
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English
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The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from #1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood "It Girl" is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong.
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are
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English
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Twelve-year-old Jane, who lives at the beach in a run-down old house with her mother, two brothers, and sister, has an eventful summer accompanying her pastor on bible deliveries, meeting former boyfriends of her mother's, and being coerced into babysitting for a family of ill-mannered children
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English
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"Pete is spending the day at the seashore. He has fun collecting shells and building a sand castle. But the beach is very hot. There is a whole ocean for Pete to cool off in, but it looks scary. Pete's brother, Bob, offers to teach Pete to surf. Will that be enough to help Pete get over his fear of the water?"--Description from Amazon.com.
15) The sand castle
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English
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A life-changing lesson about family and the pleasure and heartbreak that comes with it is told in this story of two sisters, their motherless cousin, and their day-trip to the shores of Chesapeake Bay in August, 1952
17) At the beach
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 15 x 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and brief rhyming text depict a boy and his mother spending a day at the beach.
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English
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The Whitaker family Connecticut mansion, Muses by the Sea, has always been a haven for artists, a hotbed of creativity, extravagances, and the occasional scandal. Art patrons for generations, the Whitaker's supported strangers but drained the life out of each other. Now, after being estranged for years, four generations of Whitaker women find themselves once again at The Muses. Leo, the Whitaker matriarch, lives in the rambling mansion crammed with...
19) Beach race
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English
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"Axel the truck may be little, but he has big wheels, a big heart, and a big appetite for adventure...Axel the truck heads to the beach for a sandy, salty, muddy, super-fun day that includes a race with the monster trucks...and some fast fish, too!"--Dust jacket.
20) Sandcastle
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Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While playing on the beach, Kipper the dog finds the finishing touches to his sandcastle in an unlikely place
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