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Here Carolyn Chute, Stephen King, Bill Roorbach, Richard Russo, Monica Wood, and nine other stellar Maine writers prove that the state is a superb source of inspiration for fiction. They capture Maine's atmospheric landscape, sharply defined seasons - and an assortment of unforgettable characters. Originally published as Contemporary Maine Fiction, the paperback edition bears a new title. Selected by Maine's premier anthologist, this is truly the...
4) Hawke's Cove
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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Evangeline Worth, a young wife in 1944 whose husband John is fighting in World War II, returns to her grandmother's farm in the New England town of Hawke's Cove where she begins an ill-fated relationship with Joe Green, but years later, after their children meet and fall in love, Joe and Evangeline know it is time to face the past.
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Stone Barrington has inherited a house on the island of Dark Harbor, Maine, from a cousin after the death of him and his family which the local police believe to be a murder/suicide. Stone along with Lt. Dino Bacchetti, CIA agent Lance Cabot and Holly Barker go to Maine to look into the deaths.
11) Time of wonder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
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English
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Four friends' association with a mentally handicapped boy with supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts that come in handy when they unite as adults for an annual hunting trip in Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion.
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When a weight-loss program featuring hunk Dirk DeLeon as the trainer descends on Natalie Barnes' Gray Whale Inn in Cranberry Island, Maine, the women of the town become suddenly body-conscious. When Dirk turns up dead, however, Natalie's boyfriend John becomes the lead suspect, and Natalie sets out to find the real killer and clear his name.
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It's Valentine's Day in Tinker's Cove. And while the cupcakes Lucy Stone is baking for her children will have pink frosting and candy hearts, Lucy's thoughts aren't centered on sugary sentiments. She's barely arrived at her first board meeting of the newly-renovated library when Bitsy Howell, the new librarian, is found dead in the basement, shot only minutes before story hour was to start. The agitated board members assume that Bitsy was killed by...
15) Olive Kitteridge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A collection of thirteen linked short stories recounting the experiences of Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who witnesses the changes in her town and the world at large.
17) Bloodstream
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Dr. Claire Elliot, having moved from the city with her son to set up practice in Tranquility, Maine, is looking forward to a peaceful life, but when the town's teenagers start committing violent acts, Claire knows she has to find the cause before it ruins Tranquility and her family.
19) The killing kind
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
20) Kilt dead
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English
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Professional Scottish dancer Liss MacCrimmon returns to her hometown to help her aunt run a Scottish emporium and soon finds herself pulled into a murder investigation when one of the shop's customers is found dead.
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