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Heavenly Daze volume 3
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The angels who guard the Island of Heavenly Daze go on full alert during the holiday season when Vernie Bidderman receives a phone call from her husband who has not been heard from since he left to go bowling twenty years earlier, and seventy-year-old lighthouse keeper Salt Gribbon, secretly caring for his grandchildren, comes down with the flu.
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A German comes to Maine to investigate his brother's long-forgotten murder Dieter Kallick fought for Rommel in North Africa, doing his duty to the Fatherland right up until he was captured by American GIs. He and his comrades had been told stories of the savagery of the Americans, but when he arrived at the work camp in Maine, he was surprised to find the countryside beautiful and the people kind. In the summer of 1944, he worked in a logging camp...
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In this delightful and witty third book in our wonderful series created by veteran dog trainer Lee Charles Kelley, a clever kennel owner, his lady love, and his loyal canines must solve their most sinister mystery yet!
One of Maine kennel owner Jack Field's favourite pastimes is spending quality time with a fun-loving pooch--which is why he's playing fetch with a Corgi named Tipper instead of mingling at a July 4th shindig. But when Tipper returns...
4) Slipknot
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As she proved in The Hungry Ocean, no one knows the sea like Linda Greenlaw. And as she proved in The Lobster Chronicles, no one spins better tales of Maine village life.
Slipknot is the first installment in Greenlaw's mystery series features everything readers want: a great setting, wonderful characters, an authentic and original detective-and a story that will keep them on the edge of their seats.
When Jane moves back to Green Haven, the sleepy...
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"It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka "that woman," is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she's retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her. Her collaborator is impressed by Dorothy's...
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YOU CAN RUN...;
The police said it was an accident-;a late-night crash on afog-drenched Mississippi highway that took the life ofRobin Spinney's deputy sheriff husband, Mac.
Two years later Robin stumbles across his journal-;and thefrantic final entry-;and she is certain Mac's death was noaccident. Terrified, she goes to the only person she can trustwith the damning evidence. In less than twenty-four hours he,too, is dead. Convinced she is in grave...
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There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. There is cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler; tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless clinging babies; and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him...
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Returning to Maine after a blissful honeymoon in Mexico, kennel owner Jack Field and his smart and sexy bride, chief medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter, are ready to fulfill a promise made to a new friend they met there. The daughter of retired general Lamar MacLeary asked dog expert Jack to help her father "rewire" his wired wire-haired fox terrier, Molly, whose incessant digging is driving the general crazy. But Jack arrives to find Molly's most...
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"Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's funeral that she and her sister, Yanne, have lived their entire...
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Lucy Stone mystery volume 30
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"When a community center opens in town, many embrace it as a space where locals of all ages can gather and create. Others view it as a waste of taxpayer dollars. The director, Darleen Busby-Platt, is no less controversial. Intense and showy, Darleen has huge plans for her new role. But Lucy believes the woman isn't exactly as warm hearted--or qualified--as she seems. That hunch deepens when Darleen and a young employee vanish... and dismembered remains...
12) Rocky road
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Sons of scandal volume 2
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"FBI Agent Jude Camden handles every aspect of his job with by-the-book professionalism. There's no reason why his latest assignment--which calls for him to pose as the boyfriend of perfumer Gemma Clare--should be any different. Except Gemma is different. She's creative, bold, and feisty. And as soon as she meets Jude, she wants to loosen him up, wrinkle his perfect shirts, and test every ounce of his towering self-control."--
13) On thin ice
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Twenty years ago, two weeks before their intended wedding day, tragedy tor Megan Brooks and Alec Black apart. They haven't seen each other since. Someone has been watching them, though, and attacking the members of the would-be bridal party. Megan knows she must confront her past by coming home and facing Alec, now the sheriff of Whisper Lake, Maine. He's the last man she wants to see, yet he's the only one who can keep her safe.
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Martini Club volume 1
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"Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she's living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie's driveway, she knows it's a message from former foes who haven't forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends -- all retirees from...
15) Cougar clues
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Young sleuths Abbi, Lydia, and Daniel are excited to search for clues of a cougar near Abbi's home, but they soon discover something more might be going on.
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Simone Yang is excited to be visiting her grandmother and her best friend Olive in Maine, but Olive and her friends want to visit the carnival that just arrived and ride the ferris wheel, and Simone is really, really afraid of heights; she does not want to let her friend down, but the rides at the Forever Fun Carnival are falling apart, the workers are creepy--and the fortune-telling machine is telling her "you are right to be scared."
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A novel set against the backdrop of the chaotic spring of 2020 intimately explores a fractured marriage and the struggles of modern parenthood.
Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the Covid pandemic takes hold in New York City, Alice packs up her family and flees to their vacation home in Maine. She hopes to find sanctuary--from the uncertainties of the exploding pandemic and her faltering marriage. Putting distance between herself...
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Fall in Portland, Maine usually arrives as a welcome respite from summer's sweltering temperatures and, with the tourists gone, a return to normal life...usually. But when a retired cop is murdered, things heat up quickly, setting the city on edge. Detective Sergeant John Byron, a second-generation cop, is tasked with investigating the case, at the very moment his life is unraveling. On the outs with his department's upper echelon, separated from...
19) Hearts at home
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Edith is trying to lose weight in every way imaginable to get into a certain dress by the time Salt and Birdie's April wedding rolls around. Olympia dies suddenly, leaving her daughter Annie the beloved old house, which she can't afford to keep and maintain on her professor's salary. Leaving it would be cutting herself off from Heavenly Daze, and she can't bring herself to do that, although A.J. is urging her to move to New York to be near him. Plus,...
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"Lush with sensory detail and emotional complexity, Dream House is about family, home, and an architect's journey to understand the crippling hold one house has on her. In the months following her parents' fatal car accident in Maine, architect Gina Gilbert is coming apart: anxious with her two young children, alienated by her clients' grand house dreams, and no longer certain she feels at home in San Francisco. While she and her sister Cassie are...
