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1) Storm tide
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Tide trilogy volume 2
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At long last Joanna Bennett is returning to her family's island, the childhood home that her heart has yearned for ever since she was forced to the mainland by catastrophe. At her side stands Nils Sorensen, her oldest friend, stalwart admirer, and new husband. Together they will restore Bennett's Island to its former glory: enticing former residents and other hardworking mainlanders to join their small community, repairing damaged buildings pummeled...
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Rosa Fleming motors her way to Bennett's Island in the dark of the night, fleeing her divorce, her philandering husband and the gossipmongers of her hometown. On the Island she discovers not only a refuge to heal her emotional wounds, but also a community that nurtures her battered confidence and a man who teaches her to love and be loved as an equal.
When a fight breaks out between the island's lobstermen and the invading fishermen who disregard...
3) The harbor
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Shattered by her father's murder, Zoe West abandoned her plans to become an FBI agent and left her hometown of Goose Harbor, Maine. But a new home and job did nothing to get her life back on track, and now Zoe knows only one thing will -- returning to Goose Harbor and confronting the past.
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Thomas H. Cook's novels, including Instruments of Night and Breakheart Hill, pull readers deep into their webs of obsession, passion, and fear. A best-selling author, Cook won the Edgar Award for The Chatham School Affair. In 1937, a slender young woman arrived in a small Maine town. Dora March was lovely, quiet, and mysterious. Soon the tragedies began: a house fire, a murder, a suicide. Within a year, Dora vanished, leaving behind dark, unanswered...
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Tide trilogy volume 1
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Young, vivacious Joanna Bennett desperately wishes to be captain of her own lobstering boat, but despite being the favored daughter of Bennett's Island's founding family, she is still just a girl in the eyes of the community, and a girl living off the coast of Maine in the early 20th century is expected to mind the kitchen, not tend to pot buoys.
While quietly struggling to find her place on insular Bennett's Island, one where she could let her bold...
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The typically tranquil backcountry town of Mattagash, Maine, is buzzing with news. Amy Joy Lawler, the last of Mattagash's founding clan, just announced her engagement to Jean Claude Cloutier-an outsider. Her scandalized mother takes to bed in protest while the rest of the town gleefully anticipates the social event of the year. As guests roll in, the no-good Giffords plot to steal wedding gifts and hubcaps, and motel owner Albert Pinkham devises...
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Moosepath League chronicles volume 1
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Step back in time to Portland, Maine, in 1896. When the young, beautiful, redheaded Cordelia Underwood inherits a parcel of land from her seafaring uncle, it sets in motion a chain of events that leads to the unearthing of a family secret two centuries old. Cordelia soon crosses paths with Mister Tobias Walton and finds herself aided in her quest by the warmhearted gentleman, who has never heard of an adventure he isn't eager to join. Together with...
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A second chance at love. The setting is 1910s Maine, the heroine, Roberta Jewett, a divorcee and a man hater. In those days a divorcee was the equivalent of a slut and Roberta must put up with opprobrium from the town and lechery from men. Luckily, there is Gabriel Farley, a widower, and his children like Roberta's children.
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Spring has sprung in Tinker's Cove, and Lucy Stone has a mile-long to-do list from painting eggs with her grandson, to preparing the perfect Easter feast, to reviving her garden after a long, cold winter, she hardly has time to search for a killer with a deadly case of spring fever. Lucy has always loved covering the annual Easter egg hunt for the Pennysaver. Hosted by elderly socialite Vivian Van Vorst at Pine Point, her luxurious oceanfront estate,...
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Lobster Bay volume 1
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Claire Turner finally has everything she wants. A successful business, a small bungalow near the beach, and the camaraderie of her two best friends. She's successful and independent--something she would never have thought possible before her husband's midlife crisis and their subsequent divorce. This is Book 1 in the Lobster Bay series--a heartwarming journey of friendship, love, and loss set in a quaint beach town with a touch of romance in every...
11) Murder on high
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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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When her mother disappears without a trace during a weekend trip, Florine's childhood is turned upside down. Her days in the small coastal Maine town were spent watching for her father's lobster boat, and making bread with her grandmother. As she finds her way to adulthood, Florine clings to the hope that her mother will return.
13) Making waves
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Lobster Bay volume 3
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"Maxi Stevens is at a crossroads. Things between her and James haven't been the same since their kids left the nest. When she finds proof that indicates he may have strayed, she strikes out on her own. Jame's infidelity has a silver lining, though, Maxi can finally do all the things James wouldn't approve of like pursuing her lifelong dream of becoming an artist. But everything is not as it seems, James wants Maxi back and will do anything to win...
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