Product Description: Ruth Lambert left Snow Island when she was a teenager, but returns in the Fall of 1990 after her aunt's death, when she and her sister inherit the old Snow Inn. Nick McGarrell, a Vietnam veteran, has quit his job on the mainland as an engineer and retreated to his island birthplace to work as a carpenter...read more

In the second volume in a multigenerational trilogy that began with Snow Island, thirty-two-year-old Rachel Shattuck, dealing with both her recent divorce and the death of her mother, returns to the island that she had fled at the age of eighteen to care for her injured father and stumbles upon her mother's revealing diaries, hidden away in a closet. Reprint.

Product Description: What is life like for a girl coming of age in the shadow of World War II, a girl who lives on a small, isolated island populated by quahoggers and eccentrics? This tender first novel follows the fate of sixteen-year-old Alice Daggett, who still feels the presence of her father who died six years earlier, and of George Tibbit, a reclusive loner who returns to the island each year in an excessive act of homage to the two women who raised him there...read more