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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Siena's visions of the past intensify when her family moves to the Maine coast hoping her little brother will begin speaking, and she connects with residents of the house from many years earlier who faced a similar problem.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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...
24) Olive, again
Author
Series
Olive volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return..."* And now, indeed, Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever. "It turns out--I just wasn't done with Olive," said Strout. "It was like she kept poking me in the ribs, so I finally said 'Okay, okay...'" Now Olive returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
26) Echo Mountain
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Annie Dawson's recurring nightmare haunts her, as does the mystery of the rag doll she finds in the attic of her home.The little doll, accented with the childish embroidery of a small bird on its tiny apron becomes the focus of a mystery unraveling in the small coastal town of Stony Point, Maine.
28) 'Salem's lot
Author
Language
English
Description
When a writer returns to his Maine home town, he discovers that the peaceful hamlet is being overrun by vampires and sets out to curb this ancient evil before it can spread.
29) The beach quilt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Afetr Sarah Bauer, a Maine teenager announces she is pregnant, her family and friends deal with mixed emotions and secrets of their own, as they band together to make a quilt that reflects their commitment to friendship and hope for the future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Jake Marlowe, a co-owner of Downeast Mortgage in Tinker's Cove, Maine, is murdered, and his partner, Ben Scribner, begins receiving death threats after claiming to be visited by Marlowe's ghost, Ludy Stone is on the case.
31) Pet sematary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a little boy's pet dies, and he persuades his parents to bury it in an old Indian cemetary, reputed by legend to house restless spirits, a nightmare of death and destruction begins.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Join Annie Dawson and the members of the Hook and Needle Club of Stony Point, Maine, as they track down mysteries connected with the contents found in the attic of Annie's ancestral home, Grey Gables. In Map in the Attic, Annie starts to make a connection between a terrible house fire and a vintage piece of embroidery she found in the attic.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back. Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen...
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three St. Patrick's Day themed novellas set in Maine feature Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell, and Julia Snowden all trying to solve suspicious deaths in unexpected circumstances.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her lobsterman brother-in-law is found murdered, Anna Winslow teams up with her younger sister, Izzie, to find the killer, uncovering dark secrets on their quaint home on Quarry Island.
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
HAUNTED HOUSE MURDER by LESLIE MEIERNewcomers to Tinkers Cove, Ty and Heather Moon have moved into a dilapidated house reputed to be a haven for ghosts. Now strange noises and flickering lights erupt from the house at all hours and neighborly relations are on edge. And when a local boy goes missing near the house, its up to Lucy Stone to unravel the mystery of the eccentric couple and their increasingly frightful behavior. DEATH BY HAUNTED HOUSE by...
Author
Series
Amgash volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and...
Author
Series
Lucy Stone mystery volume 19
Language
English
Description
Covering the annual Easter egg hunt for the Pennysaver is always one of Lucy Stone's favorite assignments. But when Lucy arrives with her three-year-old grandson, W's normal welcoming gates are locked, and a man dressed as the Easter Bunny emerges only to drop dead moments later. The victim is Van Vorst Duff, W's grandson. It turns out that all is not as idyllic as it seems at Pine Point. As Lucy gathers a basketful of suspects, she must find a killer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learning to sail almost makes up for being separated from the other Girlz at Camp Galilee in Maine, but twelve-year-old Lily is homesick, feels like an outsider in her cabin, and makes a choice that causes Suzy to declare she'll never speak to Lily again.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Louisa has come to her parents' house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely written book, and a trunkful of resentment. Left behind in Brooklyn is her husband, who has promised that after this final round of fundraising at his startup he will once again pick up his share of the household responsibilities. Louisa is hoping that the crisp breeze off Penobscot Bay will blow away the irritation she is feeling with her life choices...