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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
Author
Series
Newspaper club volume 1
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nellie Murrow, daughter of two journalists, is determined to break the story of a local park's struggle with vandalism but she knows she needs help so she organizes a club with the goal of becoming the town's first independent newspaper.
63) The edge
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless operatives. In need of someone who can solve the murder quickly and retrieve the missing information, the U.S. government knows just the chameleon they can call on. Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine spent his time in the...
64) Bag of bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story.
Author
Publisher
Islandport Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A gritty coming-of-age story that explores the often hidden pockets of Maine and features a poignant and troubled cast of characters who are caught in the undercurrents of a struggling coastal town. The powerful novel, with its characters, setting, and storyline, should resonate with anyone who also came from, as in singer Kris Kristofferson's evocative phrase, "just the other side of nowhere."
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories we choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide. Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is she? Edith's boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate...
Author
Series
Oyster Cove Guesthouse volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
74) Sea glass summer
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After a painful divorce, Sarah has moved to the picture-postcard village of Sea Glass on the Maine coast, and is soon caught up in the lives of its inhabitants. As she helps elegant but troubled widow Gwen cope with her desperately ill son, and assists nine-year-old orphan Oliver in uncovering the secrets surrounding the mysterious Cully Mansion, Sarah's broken heart begins to heal. She isn't looking for new romance, but love finds a way of seeking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
'Never Never trust a man without secrets.' These are the last words retired game warden Charley Stevens speaks to his surrogate son, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, before the old man vanishes without explanation into a thousand miles of forest along the Canadian border. Mike suspects his friend's sudden disappearance has to do with an antique badge hat belonged to a warden who was presumed dead fifteen years ago but whose body was never recovered....
76) No escape claws
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sarah Grayson and her feline ally, Elvis, get a chance to see if their sleuthing skills are up to scratch in the sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling Second Chance Cat Mysteries.
77) Dead man's wake
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake. When they arrive at the scene, their spotlight reveals a gruesome sight: a severed arm floating just beneath the surface. As day breaks, the warden dive team recovers not one but two naked corpses: a dismembered man and the married woman with whom he was having an affair....
78) Undercover kitty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired to look into who is sabotaging cat shows in the state, Sarah, along with Charlotte's Angels, finds things getting hairy when murder enters the competition, and must pounce on the killer before it's too late.
79) Elevation
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Language
English
Description
"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
80) Homeport
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A woman art historian and an art thief join forces to find a stolen 15th century statue of the Dark Lady, one of Michelangelo's mistresses. Love blooms between Dr. Miranda Jones, a six-foot redhead, and Ryan Boldari, a handsome Irish-Italian, but can she trust him? Lots of detail on authenticating art.
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