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New Maine Books February 25, 2025 |
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The crash by Freida McFaddenEight months pregnant and abandoned by her baby's father, Tegan embarks on a desperate journey to her brother's house during a storm, only to crash and find herself at the mercy of a remote couple with potentially sinister intentions.
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Granite harbor
by Peter Nichols
"Set in small-town Maine, an English novelist-turned-detective investigates a serial killer preying on the historic town."
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Hard line
by Gerry Boyle
McMorrow finds himself balancing a personal vendetta against the dangerous man who has abused a family friend with a lethal biker gang hunting for him and his crew. Not to mention fielding calls from reporters and dealing with growing suspicions about his daughter's new teacher. In McMorrow's last adventure, he must use his decades of talent in a stand-off between the forces of violent chaos and law and order-all set amidst the quiet pines, rough towns, and gray skies of rural Maine. As he faces down theend of everything he has held sacred-can Jack keep it all together without becoming the very thing he hates? If he even survives
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The mirror
by Nora Roberts
After inheriting a Victorian mansion on Maine's coast, Sonya MacTavish is greeted by visions of an murder brides and an antique mirror, which she must step through, into the past, to unravel a generations-old curse.
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The Islanders by Lewis Robinson "Shaken by problems at home, confused by the motives of a new love, and reeling from a public meltdown, high school hockey star Walt McNamara joins an exclusive new leadership program controlled by the ultra-wealthy summer residents of Whaleback Island, a granite and spruce oasis off the coast of Maine. But this is no paradise; secrets lurk in its murky waters."
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One big happy family
by Jamie Day
When the Bishop sisters arrive at The Precipice, a legendary, family-owned hotel on the coast of Maine, to claim it, 19-year-old chambermaid Charley Kelly, who pilfers from guests and is hiding a woman on the run, discovers this weekend could be the death of all of them when murder checks in.
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Outermark by Jason Brown
| "The tiny, fictional island of Outermark sits thirty miles off the coast in the waters between Maine and Nova Scotia. When Corson Wills, one of the last people to have lived on the island, is asked to recount its history, he begins by describing it as "a rock in the ocean where no one lives anymore." Corson's tale, and those of his ancestors who also lived there, ferry the reader between the 1980s, when lobster fishing is the only remaining industry, and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries..." |
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Sex, lies and sensibility
by Nikki Payne
Left with nothing but a rustic inn in the middle of nowhere—and each other—after the death of their father, Nora and her free-spirited sister must revamp the inn before Labor Day or lose it all, which pits them against an eco-tour guide who is determined to see them fail. Original.
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Vantage point
by Sara Sligar
"Succession meets Beware the Woman in this seductive, Gothic suspense novel about the dramatic downfall of one of America's most affluent (and cursed) families, by the author of Take Me Apart"
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When the Night Falls by Glenn RolfeRocky Zukas lives with the ghosts of what happens when you fall in love with a monster. November Riley has never been far from the boy that stole her heart. She watches from the shadows, knowing she can never make things right between them, but never giving up on the chance they could try one more time. A new documentary is bringing Gabriel Riley, the Beach Night Killer, back to national consciousness. The dead serial killer has a trio of new fans that are ready to make Old Orchard Beach, Maine their home for the end of the summer season.
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You are fatally invited : a novel
by Ande Pliego
At a private-island writing retreat hosted by author J. R. Alastor, former aspiring writer Mila del Angâel plans revenge but is thrown into chaos when one of the six thriller authors is murdered, forcing her to navigate a deadly game of wits as a storm isolates them and the body count rises
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Now look by Sydney Lea"Set against a backdrop of the remote northern Maine wilderness, fishing, hunting, and the pleasures of outdoor life bring together a mismatched pair of friends - weaving back and forth between past and present, it follows the friendship of ivy-league educated George Mayes and semi-literate woodsman and logger Evan Butcher. George, a drunk from his college days has a critical, life-changing moment of insight, and begins postgraduate life, however improbably, as a reckless school bus driver. After gettingclean and sober, he develops a successful school transportation business. Having taken a number of trips to the north woods, he has come to know and revere Evan. At the story's opening, Evan is a store of knowledge, decency, and even of wisdom. But aftera series of horrendous family tragedies, he begins to succumb to alcohol himself. Now, Look, from Vermont poet laureate and Pulitzer finalist Sydney Lea is a moving novel about second chances, missed chances, and redemption."
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Slippery beast : a true crime natural history, with eels
by Ellen Ruppel Shell
"A fascinating account of a deeply mysterious creature--the eel--mixing true crime, natural history, travel, and big business. What is it about eels? Depending on who you ask, they are a pest, a fascination, a threat, a pot of gold. What they are not is predictable. Eels emerged some 200 million years ago, weathered mass extinctions and continental shifts, and were once among the world's most abundant freshwater fish. But since the 1970s, their numbers have plummeted. Because eels--as unagi--are another thing: delicious..."
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A Town built by ski bums : the story of Carrabassett Valley, Maine by Virginia Wright"Veteran journalist Virginia Wright delves into the surprising history of a town most passersby think is just Sugarloaf. She looks at the early days of when Carrabassett Valley was created and at how the town's unique approach helped it weather both boomtimes and downturns."
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