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Here Carolyn Chute, Stephen King, Bill Roorbach, Richard Russo, Monica Wood, and nine other stellar Maine writers prove that the state is a superb source of inspiration for fiction. They capture Maine's atmospheric landscape, sharply defined seasons - and an assortment of unforgettable characters. Originally published as Contemporary Maine Fiction, the paperback edition bears a new title. Selected by Maine's premier anthologist, this is truly the...
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When a weight-loss program featuring hunk Dirk DeLeon as the trainer descends on Natalie Barnes' Gray Whale Inn in Cranberry Island, Maine, the women of the town become suddenly body-conscious. When Dirk turns up dead, however, Natalie's boyfriend John becomes the lead suspect, and Natalie sets out to find the real killer and clear his name.
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It's Valentine's Day in Tinker's Cove. And while the cupcakes Lucy Stone is baking for her children will have pink frosting and candy hearts, Lucy's thoughts aren't centered on sugary sentiments. She's barely arrived at her first board meeting of the newly-renovated library when Bitsy Howell, the new librarian, is found dead in the basement, shot only minutes before story hour was to start. The agitated board members assume that Bitsy was killed by...
7) Kilt dead
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Professional Scottish dancer Liss MacCrimmon returns to her hometown to help her aunt run a Scottish emporium and soon finds herself pulled into a murder investigation when one of the shop's customers is found dead.
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Trading in Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up buttery muffins and other rich breakfast treats for her guests until Bernard Katz checks in. The overbearing land developer plans to build a resort next door where an endangered colony of black-chinned terns is nesting. Worried about the birds, the inevitable transformation...
11) Saint's gate
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Emma Sharpe, having been contacted by a nun at a convent on the Maine coast to answer questions about a mysterious painting with a connection to her family, finds herself in the middle of a murder and art theft investigation when the nun is found dead, and, while working with deep-cover FBI agent Colin Donovan, she soon realizes her life and heart are in danger.
12) Touch blue
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
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Once again, Leslie Meier gives mystery fans a reason to give thanks for the eccentric charms of Tinker's Cove and the intriguing exploits of its resident amateur sleuth, Lucy Stone.
Turkey Day Murder
Tinker's Cove has a long history of Thanksgiving festivities, from visits with TomTom Turkey to the annual Warriors high school football game and Lucy Stone's impressive pumpkin pie. But this year, someone has added murder to the menu, and Lucy intends...
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"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 years ago doesn't necessarily want...
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"A page-turner, a love story and a vivid drama of man (and woman) against the elements . . . A great read by a wonderful writer." -Newsday
When the "Storm of the Century" threatens western Maine, Eric closes his office early and heads to the grocery store. In line ahead of him, an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman comes up short on cash, so Eric offers her twenty bucks and a ride home. Trouble is, Danielle doesn't really have a home....
16) Colony: a novel
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While waiting for her granddaughter to arrive at her summer home in Retreat, Maine, ninety-year-old Maude Chambliss looks back on her life.
17) Grit
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Darcy, who has a reputation and is used to rumors swirling around her, wrestles with what happened the same night her friend disappeared the previous summer and struggles with the weight of the dark secret she and her cousin share.
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When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death.
19) Exit the milkman
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Local sleuth Peter Shandy is dragged into a convoluted case when his neighbor, Jim Feldster, a professor of dairy management, goes out for an evening meeting and fails to return.
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