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1) Happy place
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"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up...
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It begins with a postcard from Riley Brackett's wife to Clare McClendon, informing her that Riley has been in a serious accident and lost his memory of everything but her and the summer they spent together when Clare was seventeen. Could Clare come to Maine? Perhaps seeing her will cause Riley to recall his wife and two children, and the intervening years. Clare, who is dealing with a faltering marriage and her mother-in-law's cancer, agrees to the...
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Successful Hollywood film agent Terry McQuinn, having returned to his childhood home upon the death of his father, is drawn back into the past and finds hope for the future when he decides to fulfill his caretaker dad's last unfinished work order and open Serenity Cottage for the Christmas homecoming of Katherine Halworth.
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Former movie star and amateur sleuth Charlotte Graham is investigating the murder of Iris Richards, who was killed on her annual climb of Katahdin Mountain. Iris used to write screenplays for Charlotte in the 1940s, but left Hollywood during the investigations of the House Un-American Committee. Now Charlotte uncovers a shocking secret from Iris's past.
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"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of...
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Readers have already fallen in love with the quirky personalities that inhabit Heavenly Daze. In A Warmth in Winter, the unforgettable characters and humorous circumstances offer poignant lessons of God's love and faithfulness. The story centers around Vernie Bidderman, owner of Mooseleuk Mercantile and Salt Gribbon, the lighthouse operator, who despite the vast differences in their struggles are being taught about the ultimate failure and frustration...
10) Incubus: a novel
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Life is disrupted in the small agricultural community of Dry Falls when the women of the town fall prey to the sexual persecution of an unseen invader which seems to focus its attentions on Cora, the wife of Henry Lieber, the rector of St. Anthony's Church.
11) Grace in autumn
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The island community of Heavenly Daze finds its coastal Maine residents preparing for their annual Thanksgiving community festivities and the coming months of cold and snow only to experience unexpected lessons in humility, trust, and hope.
12) Criminal intent
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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...
13) Site unseen
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Now a film for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and James Tupper!
Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years -- and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured professor, she has recently unearthed evidence of a seventeenth-century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years....
14) Romeo blue
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During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
15) Signal & noise
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Chester Ludlow, chief American engineer on the 1857 quest to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable, is spurred by the project's primary investor to embark on a fundraising lecture tour while his wife, Franny, at home in Maine, joins Chester's brother Otis in attempting a different type of communication to contact her dead child.
16) Winter's end
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As a violent storm rages over the small town of Winter's End, Sheriff Dale Townsend comes upon a chilling scene--a young man, knives in his hands and the body of a woman at his feet.
But the enigmatic suspect refuses to answer any questions, and, bizarrely, there is no forensic evidence to link him to the crime.
So Sheriff Townsend he calls his childhood friend Alex Rourke back to his sleepy home town in wooded hills of north-eastern Maine. After...
17) Overkilt
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Liss MacCrimmon's meddlesome mother is back in Moosetookalook, Maine, to serve a hefty portion of trouble in time for Thanksgiving. But when a scandalous murder case threatens to leave Liss alone at the table, family drama takes on a terrifying new meaning... While Liss preps the Scottish Emporium for November's inevitable shopping rush, other local businesses aren't half as lucky. Year after year, her father-in-law's rustic hotel can barely turn...
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"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at...
19) Harbor Island
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Sharpe & Donovan novels volume 4
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Sharpe and Donovan volume 04
Sharpe and Donovan novels volume 4
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Sharpe and Donovan volume 04
Sharpe and Donovan novels volume 4
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While tracking down stolen artifacts from Boston to Ireland to the coast of Maine, Emma Sharpe, the granddaughter of a world-renowned art detective, and her fianc©♭, FBI deep-cover agent Colin Donovan, must outwit one of the smartest, most ruthless killers they have ever encountered.
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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...
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