Fiction

New Items ~ March 2020

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FICTION The authenticity project by Clare Pooley.  The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship…and even love. A beautiful crime by Christopher Bollen.  A twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a high-stakes con. Cesare by Jerome Charyn.  Beginning in 1937 Germany, this is a literary thriller and love story born of the horrors of a country whose culture has died, whose history has been warped, and whose soul has disappeared. The chill by Scott Carson.  A century …

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Maine Bicentennial

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M ~ The moose with loose poops A ~ A is for Acadia I ~ In Peppermint peril N ~ Nautilus E ~ Emmeline   B ~ Bag of bones I ~ Interrupted forest C ~ Cousins Maine Lobster E ~ Eagle flies at night T ~ Take heart E ~ Enjoying Maine birds N ~ Now that you mention it N ~ No news is bad news I ~ Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe A ~ Answer in the tide L ~ Lighthouse dog to the rescue

New Items ~ February 2020

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FICTION American dirt by Jeanine Cummins.  Intensely suspenseful and deeply humane, this novel makes migrants seeking to cross the southern US border indelibly individual. The bells of hell by Michael Kurland.  A counter-intelligence agent recruits a number of civilians to help foil a suspected terrorist attack by German spies in New York in 1938. The better liar by Tanen Jones.  When a woman conceals her sister’s death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets. The blaze by Chad Dundas.  One man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson, fifteen years apart, in …

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January Weather

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J       January rides the wind A       Annie and Snowball and the magical house N       Name of the wind U       Uncommon appeal of clouds A       After the snow R        Rising storm Y        Young snowboarder   W      Winter storms E        Energy from wind A       And the wind blows free T       Tracks in the snow H       Hello snow! E        Eye of the storm R        Really good snowman

New Items ~ January 2020

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FICTION Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin.  Set in a small Nova Scotia Town settled by former slaves, this depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. After Kilimanjaro by Gayle Woodson.  Medical fiction of this kind is rare – it’s not a thriller or tearjerker, but a thoughtful novel about doctors, the work they do, and the impact that has on their patients. The Andromeda evolution by Michael Crichton.  In this sequel to the techno-thriller that started it all, the threat returns in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.  …

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New Items ~ December 2019

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FICTION Agent running in the field by John Le Carre.  A seasoned solitary figure, in a desperate attempt to resist the new political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a very dangerous path. All this could be yours by Jami Attenberg.  A timely exploration of what it means to be caught in the web of a toxic man who abused his power.  It shows how those webs can tangle a family for generations and what it takes to – maybe, hopefully – break free. Blue moon by Lee Child.  Jack Reacher comes to the aid …

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