Tropical Travel Through Books (Adults)

Updated February 3, 2026
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Island affair
Oliveras, Priscilla
Paper Book
"This is Us" meets "The Wedding Date"...Latinx style! When social media influencer Sara Vance is stranded sans her flaky boyfriend just before a Key West family vacation, a meet-cute with Cuban-American firefighter Luis Navarro in the parking lot of the airport is the answer to her...
A salty piece of land
Buffett, Jimmy.
Paper Book
The beloved traveler/troubadour offers up a plate of stories from his world of seaplanes, tropical isles, and wayward adventures. A Salty Piece of Land takes readers to a warm beach and introduces some of the wildest characters ever to dip their toes in the ocean. This irresistible collection will...
The love haters
Center, Katherine
Paper Book
Featuring beautiful spray-painted edges with vibrant designed endpapers. It's a thin line between love and love-hating in the newest laugh out loud, all the feels rom-com by New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center. Katie Vaughn has...
Island time : a novel
Clark, Georgia
Paper Book
"A delicious escape." --People Love is in the salty sea air in this smart and steamy ensemble romantic comedy set in a tropical paradise, from the author of the "sparkly and entertaining" (Oprah Daily) It Had to Be You. This is one island you won't want to...
Sweetness in the skin
Robinson, Ishi
Paper Book
A delicious debut novel about a young Jamaican girl who tries to bake her way to a better life in France. Pumkin Patterson lives in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother, who wants to improve the family's social standing; her Aunt Sophie, who wants to take Pumkin...
Meet me in paradise
Hubscher, Libby
Paper Book
Ever since her journalist mother died on an assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside Tennessee. Her younger sister, Sadie, has trotted the globe as a photographer, taking on all kinds of dangerous jobs. When Sadie returns looking a little worse for wear, Marin reluctantly...
Pieces of blue
Sloan, Holly Goldberg
Paper Book
A Best Book of Summer (The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post) "Bursting with humor, chaos, and raw tenderness." --Oprah Daily "Pieces of Blue is a brilliant and bighearted page-turner." --Maria Semple, New York Times...
The Hawaiian discovery
Brunstetter, Wanda E.
Paper Book
An Amish Woman Finds Love in Hawaii Ellen Lambright mourned when her best friend, Mandy, moved from Indiana to Hawaii. But now Ellen has received the Amish church's permission to go to Hawaii and help Mandy through challenging times. Rob Smith works on the Williams...
Leaving Lavender Tides
Coble, Colleen
Paper Book
Shauna and Zach's dream honeymoon--turned nightmare. Having narrowly avoided tragedy in their hometown of Lavender Tides, Washington, Shauna and Zach Bannister are finally on a honeymoon cruise through the Hawaiian islands. Lost in the glow of their newfound love, they...

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