A mysterious, missing shell is the key Julia Montgomery needs to keep her beloved home in the sandy beach of the Florida keys. Julia and her husband started the shell shop in the Florida Keys decades ago, before their now-grown children were born—he sold the rare shells he found on diving trips around the world and she got to raise their kids among the balmy breezes and waving palm trees. But John died in a diving accident and now it’s all up to Julia. Her adult kids are busy with their own lives, and Julia has to dig deep to figure out a way to keep the shop—and her home—afloat. When a world-famous shell collector expects a rare shell that her husband promised to deliver, can the Montgomery family rally together and figure out the method to John’s madness? Find the shell John died trying to find and keep the shop in business? Escape into this feel-good beach series. You’ll fall in love with the Montgomery family while you visit the warm sunny beaches of the Florida Keys!

It was supposed to be a dream come true, but it’s turned into a disaster. As a hurricane barrels toward Pearl Beach, Kelsey Montgomery has the opportunity of a lifetime for a weather girl—no, a meteorologist. But her ambitions of becoming the best meteorologist in south Florida may turn into a sinking ship. Dillon’s unexpectedly trapped and can’t help at all, but Julia’s ready to pick up the pieces if her family can sustain the damage, and her healing continues in a most surprising way.

Pearl Beach isn’t the same after the hurricane, and Julia and her best friend set about trying to salvage what they can of the library. It’s an all-hands-on deck moment, and they put their heads together with Coco—who has her own idea of how to help. A fiesta fundraiser is the plan, and the Montgomery family—and a surprise ally—need to help if there’s any chance of pulling it off. New information surfaces about the lost shell in Bermuda, and Julia has some help in tracking it down. But she’s not the only one who is after it, and it’s a race to see who will get to it first.

One thing about a new day--you really never know where it will go, even if you know where it starts. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is walking on the blanket when he is unexpectedly launched high into the air. Tumbling through space, the bird's-eye view offers our small friend not only a glimpse of the important things in life--his beloved Nana who sleeps in a fancy French bread, a stinky shoe, and a monstrous baby--but also a much bigger picture. Sometimes the most wonderful discoveries are the ones we least expect.

One missing shell. One quirky family. One chance to save the Shell Shop. Julia and her husband started the shell shop in the Florida Keys decades ago, before their now-grown children were born--he sold the rare shells he found on diving trips around the world and she raised their kids among the balmy breezes and waving palm trees.But John died in a diving accident and now it's all up to Julia. Her adult kids are busy with their own lives, and Julia has to dig deep to figure out a way to keep the shop--and her home--afloat. When a world-famous shell collector expects a rare shell that her husband promised to deliver, can the Montgomery family rally together and figure out the method to John's madness? Find the shell John died trying to find and keep the shop in business? Escape into this feel-good beach series. You'll fall in love with the Montgomery family while you visit the warm sunny beaches of the Florida Keys! **Previously published under my pen name, Mia Alexander.** This is Book 1 in a heartwarming women's fiction series.

In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of their respective landscapes.

A stunning, lavishly illustrated, and information-packed introduction to the wonder of shells through the art of observation - the perfect book for young explorers, collectors, and nature lovers everywhere

A presentation of the beauty and variety of worldwide shells.

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.