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2) Dead by dawn
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English
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"Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in the middle of nowhere, having lost his gun and any way to signal for help, Mike fights his way to the surface. But surviving the crash is only the first challenge. Whoever set the trap that ran him off the road is still out there, and they're coming for him. Hours earlier, Mike was called to investigate...
3) Trespasser
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Mike Bowditch novels volume 2
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English
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Stumbling on a case that suggests that a man convicted of murder seven years earlier may have been framed, game warden Mike Bowditch ignores warnings by local authorities and risks his relationship with his girlfriend to conduct a secret investigation.
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Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 1
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English
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Four generations. Four girls. One family.An amazing new four-book series from Ann M. Martin.
This first book in an all-new quartet from the phenomenal Ann M. Martin follows Abby Nichols in the 1930s in Maine. After her mother's death, Abby is largely responsible for raising her siblings, but she longs to write and live in New York City, far away from the tiny Maine town where she lives now. Once her father remarries and Abby has a stepmother she...
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"John Cole's classic In Maine is a sometimes moving, sometimes lyrical, but always personal book that reveals a man examining the progress of life and a man reveling in a natural world that not only unfolds around him, but a world in which he is an active participant. In Maine features selected essays that first appeared in ⁰́₋John's Column⁰́₊ in the Maine Times -- the influential newspaper he co-founded in 1968 and guided during its glory...
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A searing memoir of the author's efforts to understand her late mother's life and murder describes the traumatic loss of her mother in childhood, the 12-year manhunt for the killer and the author's investigations into her mother's past in the dark corners of a small Maine community.
8) Bag of bones
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English
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On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story.
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By her own account she's an old Yankee bitch, Dolores Claiborne: foul temper, foul mouth, foul life. Folks on Little Tall island have been waiting thirty years to find out just what happened on the eerie dark day her husband, Joe, died-the day of the total eclipse. The police want to know what happened yesterday, when rich, bedridden Vera Donovan, the island's grande dame sans merci and Dolores's longtime employer, died suddenly in her care. With...
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Once upon a time, in the haunted city of derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and...
11) Olive Kitteridge
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The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
12) Shelter In Place
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From Nora Roberts comes the #1 New York Times bestseller Shelter in Place (June 2018)―a powerful tale of heart, heroism...and propulsive suspense. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tended to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and...
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"Annie Dawson is enjoying rummaging through the jumble of memorabilia, old toys, and discarded furniture in the attic of Grey Gables, the stately Victorian house in Stoney Point, Maine, that she has inherited from her grandmother. But when she discovers a carved wooden case holding two World War II military medals she is dumbfounded...and troubled. Grandpa Holden's military service medals are on full display in the living room. Are these also Grandpa's?...
15) Song of Susannah
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Dark Tower volume 6
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English
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Stephen King The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen...
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DRG
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Annie Dawson's grandmother, Betsy Holden, had taken her share of strays into her old Victorian home, Grey Gables. Orphaned kittens and puppies--and her fair share of weary and worn people as well--had been welcomed to share the warmth of her hearth. But now Annie, heir to the Holden estate, is face-to-face with Tara Frasier, an orphaned young woman searching for an emotional connection to her dead mother. Annie knew Gram would embrace this stranger,...
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DRG
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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In the twelfth volume of the cozy mystery series, Annie Dawson and her friends from the Hook and Needle Club are going to be extras in a made-for-TV Christmas movie being filmed in Stony Point, Maine. Annie pulls a small leather-bound suitcase from the attic at Grey Gables to donate as a prop. Her prop is nearly stolen in a mugging, after which her best friend is kidnapped, setting the stage for adventure and intrigue.
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DRG
Pub. Date
c2011, c2013
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English
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In the ninth book of the cozy mystery series, Annie Dawson discovers a deed that has been locked away for years in a trunk in the attic of Grey Gables. The discovery launches a series of adventures that reveal how and why her grandmother came to own the old estate and what happened to the original owners.
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Dark Tower volume 7
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Donald M. Grant, Publisher
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Annie's Attic
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Since the death of her husband, Annie Dawson has refused to allow even the prospects of love for another man. But then she receives several anonymous phone calls. An Internet search leads her to the caller's name: Grady Holden, her former, though unreveald, first love. Memories from fourteen years ago come flooding back to her. What could Grady Brooks want? At the same time, while cleaning the library, Annie comes across a mysterious music box belonging...