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21) Olive Kitteridge
Author
Series
Olive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 11
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
474 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A latest entry in the popular series finds the intrepid detective racing against time to acquire a list of strategically important names from the site of a mysterious plane crash in the Maine woods, an effort that lures both good and evil individuals including a brutal serial killer.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories we choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide. Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is she? Edith's boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal...
24) The busy body
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a very public defeat, former Senator Dorothy Gibson retreats to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her, and soon the two women are drawn into a mystery when a neighbor dies under suspicious circumstances and find their investigation unfolding in a way no one could've ever expected.
25) Olive, again
Author
Series
Olive volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return..."* And now, indeed, Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever. "It turns out--I just wasn't done with Olive," said Strout. "It was like she kept poking me in the ribs, so I finally said 'Okay, okay...'" Now Olive returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Working as an organic farmer in a near-future world devoid of technology, a former Los Angeles screenwriter unexpectedly reconnects with his once-famous partner, who has retrofitted a nuclear-powered digger to launch an unknown agenda.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One step forward. Two steps back. 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...
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three St. Patrick's Day themed novellas set in Maine feature Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell, and Julia Snowden all trying to solve suspicious deaths in unexpected circumstances.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 5
Language
English
Description
Assisting a friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and...
32) Harbor Island
Author
Series
Sharpe and Donovan novel volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 fiance, FBI deep-cover agent Colin Donovan, must outwit one of the smartest, most ruthless killers they have ever encountered.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...
34) Mile 81
Author
Publisher
Audioworks
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (ca. 2.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Pete Simmons just wanted to have some fun and explore when he stumbled onto the old abandoned rest stop at Mile 81 on the Maine turnpike. Instead, he discovers a scene of bloodshed and carnage. A car has pulled into the boarded-up service station, a run-down, muddy station wagon without any plates, and without a driver. As the car claims the lives of one would-be good Samaritan after another, Pete decides that it's up to him to stop the evil...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher gets caught in the middle of an off-the-books FBI drug investigation when he spots an old nemesis--believed to be dead for ten years--alive and well in Boston and his attempts to tap into his old resources for help brings the federal agents to his door.
Author
Series
Dog whisperer volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Emily's nightmares of drowning lead her to an injured dog near her family's coastal home. As she nurses him back to health, she becomes aware that they have a strange, psychic connection.
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of Easter-themed mysteries set in coastal Maine features sleuths from three best-selling cozy mystery series: Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell and Julia Snowden, who investigate a deadly art theft and a body that mysteriously vanishes after being discovered.
39) Keeper's reach
Author
Series
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discovering that two friends from his military past are conducting a secret investigation on the Maine coast, Colin Donovan's brother, Mike, investigates a freelance intelligence analyst before discovering a link to Emma Sharpe.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The much-anticipated wedding of local resident Maggie Tremont and popular baker Herr Georg Wolfsburger has stirred up the usually quiet coastal town of Cape Willington. To make sure the wedding of the year goes off without a hitch, the participants gather at a pre-wedding dinner -- everyone, that is except the best man ... from the publisher.