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"A gentlewoman in reduced circumstances, Miss Rachel Ashford loves as a guest in Ivy Cottage. With her meager funds rapidly depleting, she is determined to earn her own livelihood... somehow. Her friend Jane Bell and the other village women encourage her to open a circulating library with the many books she's inherited from her father. As villagers donate additional books and Rachel begins sorting through the volumes, she discovers mysteries hidden...
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"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her mountain community during the Great Depression. Even the rough people-like ornery Perdita Sweet-have their charms. But can love bloom in such rocky soil?" --
Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. When a charming writer...
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Mysteries of Martha's Vineyard volume 24
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2019.
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English
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"Priscilla and Gerald's preparations for their upcoming nuptials are interrupted when Gerald's heirloom eighteenth-century ship's figurehead is stolen from the East Shore Historical Museum. While the police try to track down the culprit, elderly Alzheimer's patient Tom Campbell claims he knows how it was done, but he doesn't remember who did it or when. It soon appears, however, that the thief would rather get rid of the old man than have him remember...
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While converting the Victorian home left by her great-aunt Edie into a library, Anne Gibson stumbles upon a fascinating find. Hidden behind an old star quilt is a tiny sealed-off room with a small writing desk and a faded photograph of Edie in a wedding gown. Anne is certain Aunt Edie never married, so who is the handsome young man with her in the photograph?
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 07
Pub. Date
c2014
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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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[2013]
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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.
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 10
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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.
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 04
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[2013]
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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...
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 03
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[2013]
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English
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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.
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While cataloging books at the library, Anne stumbles on an old, yellowed map of Pennsylvania tucked inside the pages of a historical book from Aunt Edie's private collection. When Anne studies the map, she sees markings that hint that it was used by Lewis and Clark! Could it really be authentic? And if it is, how did Aunt Edie come to possess a map that had been stolen from the now-defunct Blue Hill Historical Society one hundred years ago? Meanwhile,...
12) Stagestruck
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 14
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[2014]
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English
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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...
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 11
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[2014]
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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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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 18
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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...
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 09
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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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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 16
Pub. Date
[c2014].
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English
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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 theater from being restored? Can Anne prove her son had nothing...
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 23
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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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.
18) Finding home
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 20
Pub. Date
[2015]
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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...
19) Mum's the word
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 17
Pub. Date
c2014.
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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. 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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Patchwork mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2012.
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Sarah's daughter-in-law Maggie is going to an antiques auction in Boston with her friend Nicole, who is visiting from California. Irene Stuart of the Historical Society asks Sarah to tag along to bid on a quilt made for one of the early families of Maple Hill. Sarah is excited to spend the week with her daughter-in-law, but when Sarah arrives, she is surprised to find that the historic quilt may not be authentic. As she tries to verify its age, she...
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