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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 07
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
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
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the Mayor of Blue Hill visits Anne to talk about a new tax proposal that will soon go before the town council, she's excited about the possibilities. The additional funding could provide more library resources and programs. But when popular children's books begin vanishing from the shelves, Anne discovers that it is just the tip of an iceberg of political intrigue.
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 10
Language
English
Description
Anne and Wendy decide to organize a used books sale to raise money for the library.
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 04
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Anne Gibson is alarmed when identity thefts leave elderly Blue Hill citizens with bank accounts drained and credit cards maxed out. When a mysterious young woman arrives at the library's first book club meeting and starts asking personal questions of Anne's friend Mildred Farley, Anne wonders if the stranger is behind the thefts. As Anne sets out to uncover the truth, she discovers that there is far more behind the woman's curious behavior than she...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 03
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an unmarked envelope arrives at the library, containing a mock-up of a newspaper article, Anne is shocked to learn that she and several of her old high school friends are implicated in a crime that took place the night of their school's homecoming.
7) Stagestruck
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 14
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Anne is thrilled when her old High School friend Tami Bates returns to Blue Hill for a visit and she has an intriguing mystery for Anne. In the pocket of a costume she purchased at an auction, Tami found a note that mentions the legendary missing play by Hugh Bettridge. The note is signed by Edie Summers and indicates Anne's aunt had the missing play. Anne agrees to look for it. She quixkly learns several other people are also searching for the manuscript...
8) All sewn up
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 08
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While scouring Aunt Edie's attic for supplies, Anne discovers a receipt for two dozen top-of-the-line sewing machines paid for with cash. Anne has seen only one swing maching in her Aunt's house and it's a different model. Why did Aunt Edie buy so many sewing machines? What happened to them? Did someone take advantage of her?
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 11
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Anne and Wendy are preparing for a new adult literacy class when Ben races inside the library to tell his mother that their dog has found a package on the porch. Anne is finally able to retrieve it and discovers an envelope with several thousand dollars of cash inside. Wendy is convinced the money is an answer to prayer. But where did all the money come from and who does it belong to?
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 18
Language
English
Description
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...
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 09
Language
English
Description
After a heavy rain, Anne discovers that one of the walls in the library basement is crumbling. She asks Alex to evaluate the damage, but while they're examining the hole, they uncover a human skeleton! Her beloved Aunt Edie's bow and arrow is found hidden nearby. Surely her relative had nothing to do with this person's death, did she? Meanwhile, Anne stumbles on a flyer for the church's father-son retreat in Ben's trash and is determined to find a...
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 23
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War reenactment group has turned Blue Hill's park into a historic battlefield, but thre's a battle of a different type brewing after a precious heirloom goes missing.
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 24
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Love is in the air when a stray cat shows up at the Blue Hill Library with a diamond engagement ring attached to its collar. Anne is determined to find the cat's owner before Liddie falls in love with their new furry friend, but news of the ring brings more than one prospective bride to claim it as her own. As Anne tries to discover the truth, two handsom men vie for her attention, and she realizes she may be in danger of falling in love herself"...
14) For the birds
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Series
Thomas Emily volume 19
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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...
15) Finding home
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 20
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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...
16) Mum's the word
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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 17
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
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. But Mildred Farley takes one look at it, then trips and falls, suffering a badly sprained ankle. “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...
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