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Guideposts
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English
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After discovering a map that may have been used by the Lewis and Clark expedition in her Aunt Edie's private collection, Anne Gibson tries to determine how her aunt came to possess a map stolen from the Blue Hill Historical Society one hundred years ago and worries about her nine-year-old son's increasingly strange behavior.
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Guideposts
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English
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It's early February in Blue Hill and Anne Gibson is surprised to receive a Valentine's Day postcard from an exotic locale addressed to her late aunt Edie. What puzzles Anne even more is the year-old postmark. The sender, whose scrawled first name is illegible, references a reunion at an undisclosed location in two weeks. Anne doesn't want the mystery coorespondent to travel halfway around the world for a meeting that can't hapen, but how can she figure...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Anne finds a key among her Aunt Edie's holiday decorations as she is busy preparing for Christmas and soon discovers that it unlocks a cubby in the church's Advent cabinet, which contains a beautiful sapphire ring. She wonders if the ring may belong to her recently deceased great-aunt and if so, why it is not among her other jewelry? Meanwhile, the production of the Christmas play is in jeopardy when costumes go missing and the director becomes ill....
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Guideposts
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English
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When Anne finds a roll of undeveloped film in an old camera of her great-aunt Edie's and has it processed, she makes a startling discovery. Anne's father's cousin Carl was reported killed in action in Vietnam in 1970, so how is it possible that he is standing next to Aunt Edie in a photograph taken at the bicentennial celebration in Washington, D.C.? While digging through the newly revealed family photographs and the storehouse of albums and scrapbooks...
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Blue Hill is celebrating its first-ever Railroad Days Festival, and the main event is an antiques appraisal and auction. Contributions come from many of the townspeople, but the most valuable item -- an ancient Chinese vase worth ten thousand dollars -- has been donated anonymously. The benefactor has asked that the proceeds from the vase go to the Blue Hill Library, but Anne barely has time to wonder who could be so generous before the vase is stolen...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious find in a victorian house leads to romance, both past and present.
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 9
Publisher
Guideposts
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English
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Anne and Wendy decide to organize a used books sale to raise money for the library.
11) For the birds
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 19
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
c2015
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English
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Coraline Watson brings her yellow-naped Amazon parrot to the library one night for the Birders Club meeting and Liddie takes an instant liking to the beautiful bird. Anne doesn't pay much attention to Coraline's wild stories about spies from a nearby chemical company until the next morning when the parrot, Lorenzo, appears at Liddie's window. Anne tries to return the bird but Coraline's house is dark and empty, the front window is broken and no one...
12) Mum's the word
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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When Anne finds an ancient Egyptian clay pot in the attic, which Aunt Edie excavated at an archaeological dig, she decides to put it on display in the library. Mildred Farley takes one look at it, then trips and falls, suffering a badly sprained anke. "It's cursed!" she exclaims, visibly shaken by the artifact's reappearance. Soon all of Blue Hill is in an uproar, recounting various disasters brought on by the relic when Aunt Edie first brought it...
13) Finding home
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Publisher
Guideposts Book & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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When Alex Ochs recieves a bank overdraft statement on an account in his sister's name, he brings it to Anne for help. After his sister, Marla, and her husband died in a car accident four years ago, Alex made sure all of their accounts were closed. He never knew of this overdrawn account until now but quickly learns it is tied to Marla's work at Heaven's Child, an organization that provides funding to families planning to adopt. Someone is clearly...
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a fire in an empty warehouse damages the historic Blue Hill Theater, Anne is shocked to learn that her son, Ben, was seen in the area and is suspected of being involved. Alex hires a woman to help him with the cleanup of the fire's aftermath while he tackles the repair and renovation of the damaged theater, but someone keeps vandalizing the work site. Who would want to prevent the theatre from being restored? Can Anne prove her son had nothing...
15) All sewn up
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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While scouring Aunt Edie's attic for supplies to help Wendy with her latest project, Anne discovers a receipt for two dozen top-of-the-line sewing machines paid for with cash. Anne has seen only one sewing machine in Aunt Edie's house, and it's a different model than the ones listed on the receipt. Why did her aunt buy so many sewing machines and what happened to them? Meanwhile, when kindergartner Liddie notices that one of her classmates doesn't...
16) Off the shelf
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 6
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
When a powerful storm blows through Blue Hill, Anne's children are rescued by a drifter named Jack Kendall. Anne doesn't want this stranger near her children, but they immediately grow attached to him, enthralled by stories of his adventures. Meanwhile, Ben and Ryan are determined to help raise money for their classmate Cade who has leukemia. His family needs help paying the medical bills, and the whole town rallies around them. Inspired by Jack's...
18) Stagestruck
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Anne is thrilled when her old high school friend Tami Bates returns to Blue Hill for a visit. Tami is a theater producer's assistant in London and she is searching for a missing play by Hugh Bettridge, a famous playwright. Anne learns that other people are searching for the valuable manuscript and are willing to go to great lengths to get it. Meanwhile, the local drama society is putting on a play to raise money for the theater's new roof.
20) Frozen in time
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Anne is assisting Wendy Pyle and Maggie Sloan plan a ceremony for the opening of Blue Hill's time capsule. The capsule is stored in a statue of Lois Stover, one of the town's most famous citizens. Stover not only served as a special agent during World War I, but she was also the first female architect registered in Pennsylvania and provided inspiration for many of Aunt Edie's adventures. But mere days before the ceremony, both the statue and its...