Defenders of the Holy Grail: While vacationing on Nantucket, Elise, a woman from Maine, discovers ancient manuscripts that question the accuracy of Biblical events. The Crusades are relived through psychic flashbacks. Plot moves up and down the New England Coast.
That Jane From Maine About a woman who runs Maine lobstery taking on an ultracheap villain. An old-fashioned tale told in the vernacular of early Maine. Julia's story is interwoven with those of the people she meets as she comes for healing and rest to a small Maine island town. Leaves from the Life of a Portland Family A rather autobiographical and humorous domestic novel, interspersed with verses. The Duality Principle When her best friend talks her into a blind date, she finds herself out with the opposite of her fantasy: Features downtown Portland and Bug Light Park.
The Hierarchy of Needs Mikey Pelletier, year-old virgin, has hidden his bisexuality from everyone, even himself. Now he's ready to lose his virginity to Krissy Porter, whose "hetero-flexible" roommate Rafe also gets in on the action. The Punishment Doctrine ? After a week of pure deviance in Maine, Rafe, Krissy, and Mikey committed to giving this crazy triad thing a shot.
Not with the hundreds of miles separating them, or the doubts clamoring ever louder in his mind. The Perfect Stranger High-powered business executive Nicolle Stone wants nothing more than to be left alone and to escape the pressure to marry fellow executive Willett Porterfield. A vacation at the Seascape Inn seems like just the ticket. Unfortunately, before Nicolle even finishes unpacking, she spies Willett. Desperate to make him leave, she convinces fellow vacationer Joel Brandon to pretend to be her lover for the few minutes it will take to drive Willett away; but when the persistent Willett flatly refuses to go, Nicolle and Joel must continue the charade.
For the Love of Pete Ghosts, an intuitive eight-year old boy Pete , and an unrequited love are the ingredients in this, the fourth book in the Seascape series. The Seascape Inn, a mystical bed and breakfast in Maine, plays a major role. A Seascape Romance Damon Adams doesn't want to get married, and his daughter, Jeri, doesn't want another female around, but Damon does want the contract that will keep the business he inherited from his father afloat.
In order to get the contract, he agrees to his friend Blair's proposal to have her younger sister, Paige Brockway, accompany Damon and Jeri for their stay at Seascape Inn, a magical bed-and- breakfast in Maine. Romance novel that features Monique St. Cyr, an impulsive obituary writer in Maine whose erotic-fiction-writing mother gets her involved in a research project meeting men online. Sequel to Getting Personal. Follows Monique's relationship with her old-fashioned Aunt Lily, who moves in next door after Monique's mother leaves on a 3-month honeymoon. Winner Takes All When a computer spits out 2 winning tickets, Thomas and Karen each attempt to win a contest to settle the matter.
A Long Walk Home Annie agrees to have her sister's year-old daughter come live with her in Maine, but is unprepared for the wild girl in black and body piercings who drives a wedge between Annie, her lover, and her friends. In Illinois, physics professor Jackson Tate cannot grasp the random act of a drunken driver killing his spouse and children.
Unable to cope with the trauma, he runs away from his grief by hitting the highway, eventually ending up in Maine where he meets a fellow sufferer, whose husband has been lost to Alzheimer's. Second book in Meg Langslow series after Murder with Peacocks. Set on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, not in the heroine's small Virginia home town. Stealing History A Julie Williamson mystery Julie Williamson moves from Delaware to quaint Ryland, Maine, to take a new job as director of a busy historical society and museum. But her dream job is more of a nightmare. Then a murder hits especially close to home.
Breaking Ground A Julie Williamson mystery A well-known benefactor of the historical society is murdered on the morning of the ceremony to celebrate construction of an important new building. Anthology of anonymous work by Bangor authors, published to raise money for the Bangor Female Orphan Asylum. Includes utopian short story of an idealised Bangor where there's no slavery, good transportation, worldwide communication, and women remain tied to their households.
During a killing heat wave and drought in Dry Falls, Maine, a mysterious supernatural entity, with a drive beyond mere sexual desire, stalks the tiny spellbound town. In the Maine woods, wealthy computer guru Ty Winsloe keeps 'mythological' creatures in a glass prison, employing witches and a shaman to help him find his prey.
Financial thriller revolving around a major player on Wall Street who moves to Maine seeking refuge from a psychopath who's pursuing him. Justine Nichols, a young vocalist for an all-female band in Portland, Maine, has five secrets that even her closest friends don't know. This is a tale about remembering, forgetting, growing up, and, most importantly, surviving. Vera returns to Winter Haven, Maine, to identify her brother Siggy's body. Siggy disappeared 13 years ago, but his body has not aged. Fictionalized account told in the first person of the life of John Bonython, one of the original settlers of the portion of the Southern Maine Coast now known as Old Orchard.
The narrative is based on fact and includes description of life in the mid s and relations with the Indians at that time. The world blew out in , but there were survivors, struggling to overcome a dark new age of plague, radiation sickness, barbarism and madness. Out of the ruins comes Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors. Emerging from a gateway in Maine, Ryan confronts a ruthless and brutal sea captain, a woman prepared to go to any lengths to get what she wants. The warrior survivalists are reluctant guests in a reactivated twentieth-century medical institute in Maine.
Here scientists still pursue their abstract theories, oblivious to the realities of a world gone mad. But when they take an unhealthy interest in Krysty Wroth, the pressure is on to find a way out of this guarded enclave. Dan Antinori, management consultant, has moved to Maine to distance himself from a violence-plagued past. As a favor to his girlfriend, he agrees to assist her old college roommate, whose estranged husband, Howard, recently killed himself for no apparent reason. Sparked by a tip that Howard's death was not a suicide, Dan gradually uncovers a chilling conspiracy.
Working in complicity with the health care czars of three New England states, a national medical services company is promoting and offering assisted suicide to non cost-effective patients. Billy Halleck -- 50 lbs. He's pleased when he begins to lose weight, and then terrified when he can't stop, no matter how much he eats Denoument occurs in rural Maine. Written by King in Clayton Blaze Blaisdell has fallen into a life of delinquency ever since his father's brutal abuse rendered him feeble-minded.
Chapters alternate recounting Blaze's past mistreatment at a series of Maine orphanages and foster homes with Blaze's current plans to follow through on a kidnapping scheme plotted by his recently murdered partner in crime, George Rackley. Brandy and Bullets Cabot Cove's posh retreat offers struggling artists a European spa, psychiatry and even hypnotism. But soon a suicide attempt and a brutal murder quickly arouse the sheriff's attention -- and Jessica's. And when an old friend mysteriously disappears, Jessica fears a twisted genius is at work writing a scenario for murder.
A Little Yuletide Murder After years of traveling during the Christmas season, amateur detective Jessica Fletcher is happy to be at home in Cabot Cove, Maine for the holidays. But when the local farmer who portrayed Santa Claus for the past 15 years is murdered, Jessica has a killer to catch. With an innocent man's future at stake, will she deliver the murderer in time for Christmas?
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Trick Or Treachery This Halloween-themed installment returns to Cabot Cove for its setting. At the heart of the plot is a self-proclaimed medium claiming to be able to make contact with the spirit world, and the accusations that fly to and fro begin to shed a new light on a suspected arson-related death in the recent past.
Likely set in Maine author lives in South Berwick. During one January in rural New England, the year old narrator Emmett rises early, lights a fire, and writes what comes to mind, generally about the minutiae of life. When he finishes the box of matches, the book is done. Takes place in Virginia, Seattle, Washington, D. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
He is about to disappear in a plane crash -- leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths. John Reese takes matters into his own hands after his daughter is viciously stuck down in her Harvard laboratory by late-night intruders. While she lies in a coma, fighting for her life, Reese struggles to unravel a puzzle that hinges on a mummified relic stolen from the lab.
Reese's search takes him to remote Miracle Isle off the coast of Maine, home base of a megalomaniacal southern preacher, where he uncovers a revelation that may shock the world. The proud descendents of a Highland clan, Calum and Eachann MacLachlan now live in seclusion on an island off the coast of Maine. The brothers are as different in spirit as they are in looks, but they have one thing in common: Eachann finds the perfect brides while spying on a fancy society party: Georgina is basking in the light of her own ball, while Amy is valiantly struggling to conceal her first broken heart.
Within moments, both women are swept away by a strange Scotsman. Kidnapped, captive and furious, they find themselves stranded on a misty island with two brothers and only each other for support. Although the two women were social enemies, their predicament forces them to work together. Paranormal romance set in Maine. Upon A Mystic Tide John and Bess Mystic are on the brink of a divorce after a long separation. Now, with Bess's job threatened, the judge handling her divorce ordering her arrested for contempt, Bess feels certain there's no way things can work out.
She hadn't reckoned on the power of love to heal, or the aid of the magic of Maine's Seascape Inn! Beside a Dreamswept Sea To provide a change of scenery that he hopes will help his three distraught children cope with the pain felt from the recent death of their mother, a guilt-racked Bryce Richards takes his family to the Seascape Inn in Maine. His plan is to share in their healing alongside the misty Maine coast. Caline Tate is on her way to Nova Scotia when she hears the mystic call of the enchanted Inn. Upon arrival, Cally quickly realizes that she has found her destiny, but she carries scars from her past marriage.
However, this is Seascape, where two people hurt by previous relationships can feel the magical healing of the place. Historical fiction about Pittston, Maine. Osier Second Chances In a Maine coastal community in , a widowed preacher is doing his best to bring up two teenagers. The Runaway Dog Team ; ill. Old-fashioned adventure novel of Prohibition Era rum running across the border from Canada into northern Maine.
Lawless men use sled dogs to accomplish their ends, until those same dogs help bring them to justice. Also suitable for young adults. Psycho-sexual thriller charged with eroticism and menace. This story of two sisters begins in Bar Harbor, Maine, where Suzie is murdered. It continues three years later as her sister Penny, now living in New York, finds Suzie's sex diary, propelling her toward a horrifying secret.
Stories From the Coast of Maine A Tale of the Great Northeast Juvenile A fictional account of St. Set from the sea country of Maine to Newfoundland. Novel about growing up black in Maine and in Harlem, examines what it feels like to be black in a predominantly white society. Silhouette Special Editions Though she'd spent a lifetime in her flamboyant twin's shadow, Rachel Hale adored selflessly, single-handedly raising her late sister's son.
But with no time for dating, Rachel couldn't give her beloved nephew the daddy he deserved, until stubborn granite-eyed Jared Carlisle from Maine discovered little Dylan was his. Set in Maine. The members of the Lamont family are looking for personal fulfillment and freedom. A story of ethical values, greed, and personal motivation, told through the perspectives of the chief of snowmaking for the White Woods Ski Resort, the owner of White Woods, and an environmental activist with a past.
Set in New York City and Maine. Marian Bartolph, a year-old Maine mother, housewife and would-be poet, runs into her first love, Myles, whom she has not seen or heard of since her youth, at a convention in New York. She is exposed to some of the seamy side of Greenwich Village and to sexual situations both wild and predictable. She also learns something about her parents' death many years ago, with which Myles was involved.
She is convinced that when she returns home, nobody in Maine will know she has changed, and she will be free to begin exploring her life. But when the designer-turned-renovator finds clues that lead to a missing professor, she wonders if she can finish the house without getting finished off herself in the process. Avery Baker and her boyfriend, Derek Ellis, are flipping a seriously stigmatized house rumored to have ghosts.
As Avery renovates an old carriage house on behalf of a soon-to-be wed friend, she stumbles across a lifeless body -- someone known all too well by the blushing bride. Avery finds a mystery behind the walls of a centuries-old house on an island that has more than its share of deadly secrets. Full Circle series, 2. After inheriting her family's lighthouse and mansion, heiress Julia Rierdon, sister of Jake Rierdon Refuge , travels to the coast of Maine to restore the estate and turn it into a lavish inn.
Temporarily separated from her wealthy fiance, Julia turns to a mysterious stranger for assistance. Motorcycle-riding handyman Trevor Kenbridge is gorgeous, infuriating, and just the man she needs to help her prepare the inn. Could he also be the right man to claim her heart? Northern Lights series, 1. Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a new life with their closest friends. A Play in Two Acts Play set in an island on the Maine coast. Maddie Brogan, fleeing her deranged ex-husband, returns to a remote island off the coast of Maine where a childhood tragedy, which she does not remember, stirs up some of the islanders who want to make sure that she never remembers.
From the moment Eden Chase arrived at Hunter's Hill in Maine, the lovely young woman fell under the dark spell of the owner and master of the isolated old mansion, Tony Hunter. In this house of fear she was held captive by love. New England tales from the rocky headlands of Maine to the surf swept shores of Cape Cod to the quiet villages of Connecticut. Blackington was an NBC Radio broadcaster and this is a collection of tales of Yankees accumulated over his career. Atmospheric novel of literary suspense and romance. The morning after When Maisie Thomas, 17, arrives to spend the summer with her parents at Grange House, a hotel off the coast of Maine, local fishermen make a gruesome discovery: It's only the first in a series of events that cast a shadow of Maisie's summer.
Thrilling debut novel of a writer who won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for a book of short stories. A young girl is murdered in the small town of Flowering Dogwood, Maine. Eighteen years later, the murderer's identity is still a mystery and a second killing has occurred.
Rachel Storrow, the investigating officer, is the daughter of the police chief who held that office at the time of the first murder. His inability to solve the case, together with his suspicions, led to his suicide. As Rachel's investigation continues, it points in directions she'd rather not go. Cassie was coming to Camp Casmaran to fulfill her mother's dying wish, not knowing that she would be initiated into a hellish occult secret society!
The Down East Murders: A Mystery Set on the Coast of Maine Second in the series. Sarah Deane, the English teacher amateur detective, is on summer holiday on a small island off the coast of Maine and finds herself investigating the murder of a cranky local artist. The Student Body The tranquil flaculty life at a Maine college is shattered for Sarah Dean and Dr. Alex McKenzie when they find a campus ice sculpture of a Viking ship contains a well-frozen body of a girl super-student.
Bodies of Water A luxury cruise along the beautiful Maine coast hits rough waters when someone plots a course for murder. The Bridled Groom Dolly Is Dead Everybody loves Dolly Beaugard. At least that's what everybody thought until Dolly's bloated body washed ashore on the same spot as the drunken Gattling brothers the day before.
Coup de Grace Academic backstabbing and murder at a bucolic New England girls' boarding school. Sarah is hired to teach English at Miss Merritt's, only to land in the epicenter of legendary French professor Grace Carpentier's reign of terror. Her passion for excellence has inspired universal fear and loathing. A student discovers Carpentier's cloaked hanging effigy, then Sarah finds a bludgeoned body wearing Carpentier's trademark cape, but the victim is not Carpentier.
Is it a case of mistaken identity? Murder in the Rough Takes place in Maine, partly on a golf course. Intensive Scare Unit Sarah's year-old cantankerous aunt, Julia Clancy, proprietor of the High Hope horse farm, is in the hospital in Bowmouth, Maine, for open heart surgery. While she's recovering, she is the last person to see a patient alive before he's found strangled in the lavatory, and then a shadowy figure in hospital garb slips into her room and tries to strangle her.
During rehearsals at Bowmouth College in Maine of the gender-bending Romiette and Julio, student actors engaging in horseplay leave Todd Mancuso, the brilliant actor playing Mercutio, wounded. When Sarah stumbles on a badly injured student hidden away in a stockroom on Halloween night, events take a turn for the worse. By the time the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured and a student has been killed. When police don't seem to care, McMorrow investigates, only to learn his new home town is a haven for hidden alliances, secret pasts, and murderous intentions.
While researching an article on unwed teenage mothers for an upscale New England magazine, McMorrow discovers what he believes to be a success story in a teenage mother named Missy Hewitt. But when Missy is murdered soon after talking with McMorrow, he begins to investigate and finds that the facts just don't add up. McMorrow's girlfriend takes a job in Portland, Maine, leaving behind an ultimatum.
McMorrow rises to the challenge, signing on as the court reporter for the Kennebec Observer. What he doesn't realize is that he is about to become a suspect when a young woman is murdered. McMorrow's search for the truth about some hemp-growing hippies in rural Maine leads him into the darkest side of the drug trade - and human nature. McMorrow travels to the sleepy town of Scanesett, Maine, when a man disappears from a tour bus. No one seems to care, except McMorrow, who knows there's a story too good to pass up.
When news breaks of the mayor's murder and police arrest Jack's longtime friend, an ex-cop, Jack's plans quickly change. Set in New York City and in Maine. McMorrow investigates the murder of a woman with ties to a very wealthy and prominent Boston family -- who might have buried their dirty secrets with the victim. McMorrow -- now working as a copywriter for the Bangor Clarion and living in a small town called Propsperity -- tries to help a runaway teen and ends up delving into the dark underworld of street teens.
Jack, his wife a social worker , and their young daughter become the target of a deranged satanist after his wife's inquiry into a child abuse case; and, McMorrow pursues a story involving a woman whose newspaper ad offers companionship for hire. Brandon Blake series Port City Shakedown: A Brandon Blake Mystery First in a new series. Set in and around the dark waterfront of Portland, Maine. Blake is a loner who lives on his old wooden cruiser. A steel magnate is murdered before he can cut his philandering wife out of his will.
An astute young attorney and his friend, Korean War vet Capt. Cal Kent, look beyond the obvious to find the murderer. Set on the rocky coast of Maine. A man watched Callie all evening long as if he knew her. That night her roommate was murdered and her nightmare began. She fled to a remote island to hide but it was also the perfect place for another murder.
Cloak of Darkness Romantic suspense, set in Maine. Run for Your Life When murder strikes amongst ten people trapped on an island that has been desolated by a weapon more fearful than the atom bomb, the threat of extinction hangs over them all. Manhattan veterinarian Gracie Taylor returns to her hometown of Idle Point, Maine, only to find that the man she loved and left on the night of their planned elopment has returned, too. Highlights the destructive side of obsessive love on innocent future generations. A Soft Place to Fall But when Kevin dies suddenly, Annie is left with bittersweet memories, never-fulfilled dreams of children and artistic fame, and massive debt from Kevin's secret gambling addiction.
Planning her high-society wedding, she meets a rugged lobsterman. A vacation from the pressures of her upcoming wedding brings Allison more entanglements than she's ever known. A collection of haunting short stories set in fictional Vaughan, a small town on the Kennebec River in Maine. Jessica arrives in Bridgeport, Maine, from Oxford to collect the remains of her little sister, who had been tracing their family's native American roots, and to collect her nine-year-old daughter.
What she finds is a police investigation that is finding its way through tribal traditions and shape-shifting shamans. Tells the story of adolescent Esther Hastings who accepts a teaching position in the Aroostook County backwoods when her father's death leaves her and her stepmother in poverty. Another key part of the plot is set in Belfast.
Christine, or Woman's Trials and Triumphs The first novel to promote every demand of the women's movement. Christine is a women's right's lecturer who founds a women's employment bureau. One of her trials is being duped by her father and aunt who imprison her in the Augusta Mental Asylum. The Kristiana Killers Set in Maine and Canada. Two films in and were based on the book. On a Darkling Plain Samuel Jellerson, 56 and forced into early retirement, is walking in the woods behind the family farm in Maine one fall day when he witnesses a priest molesting a boy.
A novel dealing with the integration of mentally-ill halfway house residents back into society, racism, infidelity, and the struggle to survive economically in a small Maine town. A sea-faring novel of Maine in the s, by a Maine actor and author and playwright. Death by Crystal A Johannah Wilder mystery lesbian sleuth. Well-plotted mystery, evokes the romance of Maine Portland area and addresses underlying serious issues of government power and individual freedom. A Womansleuth Mystery A simple job takes Johanna into life she's been trying to forget, peopled with Russian emigres and dissidents.
Waugh and Martin H. Alexandra, married to a famous painter, Phillip Barton, struggles to reclaim her new husband from the shadows of the past -- the tragic death of his first wife while walking a treacherous path. An Emma Fielding Mystery Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years, and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured professor of archaeology, she has recently unearthed evidence of a 17th-century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years.
But the dead body that accompanies it -- a corpse washed ashore near the site -- has embroiled Emma and her students in a different kind of exploration. At the turn of the century, a Maine fisherman sends his three sons to sea in June, with orders not to return before September. A woman descendant of the family recounts the boys' adventure in their schooner -- storms, shipwreck, murder --as well as the father's motive and the mystery of the mother's absence.
A haunting tale of a man, who while grieving the loss of his twin sister, is visited by the ghost of a young Irishwoman who died in a shipwreck off the coast of Maine in On All Hallows' Eve, a restless spirit is beckoned into the home of tortured artist Oisin MacDara, who lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue Island, by a candle flickering in the window. It is the ghost of the girl whose brief life ended in a shipwreck on the island's shore more than a century earlier. Love in the Asylum A manic-depressive writer and a self-deluding junkie find love and salvation in a mental hospital.
Set in small-town Maine. Lucky Lunt is a third-generation lobsterman, but his world is changing too fast for him. His wife has begun selling sea-glass sculptures to tourists, his daughter is college-bound and his son has turned angry and lawless. Lucky's own heart is failing him, too, so much that he must hire a female deckhand, the not-quite-divorced wife of the local lobster wholesaler.
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In short order, Lucky is in a lobster war and has kicked over all the rules: Novel about four southern Maine families during the period to As the Earth Turns Portrayal of Maine rural life in the s of one family, their children, and the decisions they make. Fictional history and genealogy of the Emery's Bridge area of South Berwick. West of the Hill Heart-warming novel about Maine people two generations ago, simple Americans, the salt of the earth; and their experiences One White Star A novel concerned with the fundamental relationship that exists between man and God and which features a normal American woman, aged 39 in Sing Out the Glory Romance of Althea and Owen, set in a Maine valley town.
The Light Here Kindled A multigenerational story that starts and ends in an old Maine farmhouse. North Carolina author's first novel, set in the town of Locke Horn, Maine, tells the story of Evelyn Hungerford, her gifted artist brother Forrest, Ruth Benson who is in love with Forrest, their parents, and their families and friends as they go about their lives. On assignment, a photographer goes to the coast of Maine to photograph a lighthouse and is confronted with an old love.
Novel inspired by the murder of Charles Howard in Maine, and what took place in gay and lesbian communities after the crime. When actress Johanna Brady goes to Maine, where her new love, novelist Matt Lang, is writing his next best-selling thriller, she finds herself playing the role of her life as he becomes a secretive, irritable stranger, and Johanna descends into a world of betrayal, madness, and cold-blooded murder.
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Novel takes place at a bass fishing lake in Bridgton, Maine. When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger, Greylen MacKeage, a sexy, medieval warrior who's been tossed through time to find the woman he's destined to love.
Loving the Highlander During the chaos of time transformation, Daar lost his magical staff in a Maine pond. Since arriving and settling in their new century, Greylen, now known as Michael, has married his modern day lover. Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the modern world by a wizard's spell.
The Seductive Impostor The first in a dazzling duo of romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast fictional Puffin Harbor and the men who sweep them away. This one features Rachel Foster. Tempting the Highlander She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland. The Dangerous Protector May Second in a duo of sister romances, set in fictional Puffin Harbor, Maine. Duncan Ross tries to wiggle his way into Willow Foster's heart -- assuming he can get past the granite wall she's erected around herself.
Only With a Highlander Oct. Story of a Maine seafaring family. The story of 4 generations of a Maine seafaring family, from young clipper captain to would-be physician who goes to work in herring factory during Great Depression. Three generations of family life on the Maine coast. A young Maine woman, reared aboard a ship, moves ashore and lives through the decline of the days of sail.
The Edge of Darkness Set in Maine, the story develops around the death of Sarah Holt, the matriarch of a small coastal village. A Wesleyan parson who at the turn of the century brings his wife and three children from England when he takes over a Methodist church in downeast Maine. Gifted with a beautiful soprano voice, a Korean-American child Fee growing up in Maine sings in a professional boys' choir. When the choir director molests several boys in the choir, Fee and his friends are consumed by grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the choir director is arrested and imprisoned for his crimes.
Years later, as Fee tries to move forward in his life, he meets a student named Warden -- the choir director's son, who knows nothing of his father's heinous crimes -- and is left with no choice but to confront the demons and ghosts of his brutal past. The Beans of Egypt, Maine The author's first novel, she writes of the olden days and the poverty in Egypt, Maine. Letourneau's Used Auto Parts The main character runs the only going business around so by blood or money, he's pretty much got everybody by the neck.
Novel examines the social climate of small town Maine. Third in the series. Presents thirty years in the lives of four main characters: Novel about a senator's wife and daughter held hostage by a wounded ultra-right wing terrorist from Maine wanted for the murder of another senator. After California's hectic trendiness palls on them, writer Cassie Randall and her boyfriend, pop psychologist Greg Wier, settle in quaint Castine, Maine, where she meets a Czechoslovakian chaplain of Castine's Maine Maritime Academy.
Historical novel set in 17th century England and in the colonial province of Maine. A daughter of Francis Martin Not sure whether this is set in Maine? Skinned , based on her research into the child trafficking trade. While bagging sawdust for mulching her strawberries, Amy Creighton uncovers the body of a young man who had come to rural Granton, Maine to locate his birth parents.
Three dramatic stories, all set in a time when the waters off the coast of Maine were dotted with the sails of working vessels, worked by men whose lives depended on the sea, and of their struggles with its capriciousness and its ruthlessness. Tales of Cedar River Short Stories set in fictional Cedar River, Maine. The Hills of Maine and Other Stories More stories of Cedar River folk. Gwen ends an affair and moves to a Maine island with her widowed mother. A Maine Novel Set in the early s.
Story of courageous young Margaret Winslow, who chose to face life alone, against almost unbelievable odds, when she decided to stay at her home on Horn Pond in Maine rather than push westward to the Ohio country in the Western Reserve. A Novel in Stories Winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. In a prison in Maine, a woman art therapist begins a relationship with a convict serving time for murder.
Her marriage is strained because her husband is a womanizer and she welcomes the convict's attention, but what if he falls in love with her? The Squabbin Bay locals meet visitors to Maine: Wayne is intimidated by Dena, a world-traveling photographer. Randi is afraid to trust Jordan, an apprentice artist. Jess is being sued by Krispin, a tourist she hit with her boat. Will rocky beginnings lead to mayhem or romance? A realistic view of a coastal Maine village. Day of the Trumpet Novel based on Colwell's ancestors' experience as one of the first Maine lobster families.
Twenty-four hours in the lives of two young women who have just graduated from high school, set in a small Maine coastal town during the s. Novel set in a small coastal Maine town, during one summer, from the point of view of three women: The mansion was cold and eerie, deliberately hidden by a thick forest and left to decay in darkness. But if they expected peace and quiet, they had come to the wrong place. In their dream house in Maine, their worst nightmates come true. Detective Holly Winter thinks a week at Waggin' Tail, a camp for canines in the scenic Maine woods, will be a vacation in pet heaven.
When a dog owner turns up dead in a freak accident, and the suspect is the victim's own dog, Holly suspects a frame-up. When Holly Winter awakens clinging to a boulder on the side of a cliff in Acadia National Park, she doesn't recognize her own beloved Malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi. She follows clues back to the guest house of a woman surrounded by an eccentric band of preservationists.
Soon, Holly finds out that she is about to become a killer's next victim. Charlie 'Bird' Parker returns in a moody thriller set in the beautifully evoked Maine woods where Bird has come to lick his wounds and recover from the murder of his wife and daughter explored in a previous book, Every Dead Thing. The Killing Kind When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in her family history and the origins of the shadowy organisation known as the Fellowship.
Thriller set on an island 'Sanctuary' in Maine's Casco Bay. Elements are an ancient massacre, a clannish populace, a 7-foot 2-inch sheriff and a woman hoping to escape a hideous past, and revenge. The Black Angel Investigating the disappearance of a young prostitute, Charlie Parker encounters the myth of an object known as the Black Angel. Story partly set in Maine. Charlie Parker thriller set in Maine.
Charlie Parker thriller, set on the border between Maine and Canada where a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of disenchanted former soldiers, newly returned from Iraq. Places in the Dark In autumn of , a mysterious woman appears in the sleepy little seaside village of Port Alma, Maine, and changes the lives of two brothers forever.
Set on a rocky Maine island, this novel features year-old Hannah Bryant, a successful artist who relishes her seclusion and privacy, and her relationships with her great-uncle, half-sister, and others. In , friends and relatives of the Mowlan family of Tibbetston, Maine, are shattered by a brutal murder that is rooted not only in personal animosity but also in the growing unrest in the American colonies.
The Island Of Heavenly Daze To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen others off the coast of Maine. It is filled with graceful Victorian mansions, carpeted with grey cobblestones and bright wild flowers, and populated by sturdy, hard- working folks -- most of whom are unaware that the island is inhabited, according to divine decree, by angels.
Unexpected hijinks and heart-warming results occur when mortals and immortals cross paths. Grace In Autumn As the townspeople prepare for winter, sacks of undeliverable mail are pouring in with different requests but the same salutation: When news of the letters spread, the townspeople divide over what to do. Will the angels that watch over Heavenly Daze be able to help?
A Warmth in Winter Story centers on Vernie Bidderman, owner of Mooseleuk Mercantile, and Salt Gribbon, lighthouse operator, who despite the vast differences in their struggles are being taught about the ultimate failure and frustration of self-reliance. Set in an island village off the Maine coast. A coming-of-age story of a young woman who is orphaned, has an affair with an older man, marries a local boy, and is faced with a difficult decision when her former lover reappears. Author lives in Castine.
Langdon Mainely Power Mystery set in Brunswick, Maine. Concerns the murder of a security supervisor at a power plant. Maggie May's Diary The discovery of a diary she wrote 18 years ago, when she was fifteen, leads Maggie May to a new awareness of who she is and what she values. Brian Kelly is leading a normal teenage life in Lowell, Mass.
In the landscape of his new home, Brian falls in love for the first time with the clever, sharp-tongued Maggie May Keogh. Sequel to Maggie May's Diary. Miss O'Malley's Maine Summer A young Irish woman spends the summer working in a restaurant near Wells Beach. Rebecca Matlock is a speech writer for the governor of New York when she receives menacing phone calls from a stranger who refers to himself as her boyfriend and who warns her that he will kill the governor. When the police fail to protect her or even believe her, she seeks refuge in Riptide, an isolated community on the Maine coast, where her guardian angel appears, and this suspense thriller takes some dramatic twists and turns.
The Thirteen Greatest Love Songs Richard Croft, professor and poet at a small Maine college, is suspected of murder. Ben Travers thinks about his past 'as he drives the potholed roads of Maine. A Tale of Bar Harbour Desert Island in the Gilded Age. A dying financier arrives at a remote Maine fishing camp with a wish for one last day of sport -- and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him. A Show of Hands: A Maine Island Mystery Retired Intelligence Agent Winston Crisp has forsaken adventure and is comfortably settled on peaceful Penobscot Island off the Maine Coast, that is until the body of a young woman turns up.
The Dead of Winter A murder mystery set on Penobscot Island that rocks the peaceful Maine coastal community. Gus Peake has never had the luxury of redefining himself. Gus just wants to be known as himself. When Gus meets Kalyn, her frankness is refreshing, and they form a deep friendship. And when the accepted version of the truth is questioned, Kalyn and Gus are caught in the center of a national uproar. Can they break free from a legacy of inherited lies and chart their own paths forward? But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges.
When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is divided into two people as well. To her father, she is Emma. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her.
A skill she might even be proud of. Sana Khan is a cheerleader and a straight A student. Rachel was the first girl Sana ever asked out, but Rachel thought it was a cruel prank and has detested Sana ever since. Told in alternative viewpoints and inspired by classic romantic comedies, this engaging and edgy YA novel follows two strongwilled young women falling for each other despite themselves.
From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors — including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco — comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that could cure his fear of death. Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment.
It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home. A question about a class project rapidly evolves into an all-consuming conversation. Haley finds that Martin is actually willing to listen to her weird facts and unusual obsessions, and Martin feels like Haley is the first person to really see who he is. But they better figure it out fast before their meet-cute becomes an epic meet-disaster…. After someone reports that Ritzy is living alone, a social worker shows up and puts her into foster care.
Ritzy has been in foster care before, as an infant, and the woman who cared for her then takes her in again. And neither is the cute, friendly boy next door. But is it the life she should have had? Can she plan for the worst, but still hope for the best? When his dad is caught embezzling funds from half the town, Rob goes from popular lacrosse player to social pariah. Everyone thinks of Maegan as a typical overachiever, but she has a secret of her own after the pressure got to her last year.
And when her sister comes home from college pregnant, keeping it from her parents might be more than she can handle. In her compulsively readable storytelling, Brigid Kemmerer pens another captivating, heartfelt novel that asks the question: Is it okay to do something wrong for the right reasons? Miriam lives in New Jerusalem, a haven in the desert far away from the sins and depravity of the outside world.
Within the gates of New Jerusalem, and under the eye of its founder and leader, Daniel, Miriam knows she is safe. But when the ceremony goes wrong and Miriam winds up with someone else, she can no longer keep quiet. For the first time, Miriam begins to question not only the rules that Daniel has set in place, but also what it is she believes in, and where she truly belongs.
In seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways — the circus. Specifically, the VanDrexel Family Circus where, among the lion tamers, roustabouts, and trapeze artists, Victoria hopes to start a better life. In the box, Callie finds notes that Victoria wrote to herself with tips and tricks for navigating her new world.
Across generations, Victoria and Callie embrace the challenges of starting over, letting go, and finding new families in unexpected places. Name the occasion, and Sophie Evans will be there. Well, she has to be there. Sophie works for the local florist, so she can be found at every big event in her small hometown, arranging bouquets and managing family dramas. The son of the fancy new chef in town, Andrew is suddenly required to attend all the same events as Sophie. Entitled, arrogant, preppy Andrew. Sophie just wants to get her job done and finish up her sketches so she can apply to design school.
But every time she turns around, there is Andrew, getting in her way and making her life more complicated. Told over the course of one year and following Sophie from event to event, this delightful novel from master of romantic comedy Kasie West shows how love can blossom in unexpected places. A feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears.
First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence.
Set against the smoky, gaslit allure of Victorian London, this sweetly romantic historical debut is full of humor and stars a whip-smart female heroine ahead of her time. Miss Lucinda Leavitt is shocked when she learns the author of her favorite serialized novel has died before completing the story.
David is a successful young businessman, but is overwhelmed by his workload. He wants to prove himself to his late father, as well as to himself. Their search for the elusive Mrs. Ryan Russell has life perfectly planned. She teams up with Sawyer, using his star power to draw in sponsors. But the more time she spends with him, the harder it becomes to play by the rules. Famous teen author Thistle Tate struggles to keep her biggest secret: Thistle Tate is a glittering wunderkind — only seventeen, and a bestselling author of the wildly successful Lemonade Skies series, with the highly anticipated final book due to publish next year.
She has diehard fans across the globe, flashy tours, and steep advances. All she wants is for this last book to be written so she can be done with the ruse for good. Then with just two weeks left to deliver the manuscript to her agent and editor, a dramatic turn of events puts everything in jeopardy, and Thistle must grapple with her own identity. Is she a victim, a fraudster, or both? Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping YA fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses, from the sun, the moon, and the stars.
Maia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl, the best she can hope for is to marry well. When a royal messenger summons her ailing father, once a tailor of renown, to court, Maia poses as a boy and takes his place. Maia is one of twelve tailors vying for the job. Backstabbing and lies run rampant as the tailors compete in challenges to prove their artistry and skill.
And nothing could have prepared her for the final challenge: With this impossible task before her, she embarks on a journey to the far reaches of the kingdom, seeking the sun, the moon, and the stars, and finding more than she ever could have imagined. From critically acclaimed authors Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry comes a page-turning, darkly funny teen novel about two teenage girls who have had enough of the controlling men in their lives — and take their rage on the road to make a new life for themselves.
Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happened the night they met outside the police station — both deciding whether to turn their families in. Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows that he locks the pantry door to control her eating and leaves bruises where no one can see them. All they need is three grand, fast. There are so many ways the world could end.
There could be a fire. A super eruption that spews lakes of lava. Ellis Kimball has made note of all possible scenarios, and she is prepared for each one. Hannah calls their meeting fate. But with time ticking down, the search for answers only raises more questions. When does it happen? Who will believe them? How do you prepare for the end of the world when it feels like your life is just getting started? Katie Henry, the author of Heretics Anonymous , delivers an engrossing and thoughtful tale about how people survive — with some faith in family, friends, and maybe a few prepper forums.
But as much Maya and Beau genuinely start to feel for one another, there are unmistakable differences in their worlds. Maya has to figure out whether bridging that gap between the Deaf and hearing worlds will be worth it, or if staying true to herself matters more. Willa and Taylor were supposed to spend the summer after high school sailing from Ohio to Key West with their best friend, Finley. Now, Willa and Taylor have two months and two thousand miles to discover how life works without Finley — and to decide if their own friendship is worth saving.
From acclaimed author Trish Doller comes a poignant tale of forgiveness, grief, and the brilliant discoveries we make within ourselves when we least expect it. Publication Date August 13th by G. While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. With prose that is witty, insightful, and at times heartbreaking, Stacey Lee masterfully crafts an extraordinary social drama set in the New South.
Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots. And she has choices. Will she continue to let circumstances dictate her path? Or will she find power in herself and decide once and for all who and where she is meant to be? But then Birdie falls hard for Booker, a sweet boy with a troubled past…whom she knows her parents will never approve of. As Birdie becomes closer to both Booker and Carlene, she yearns to spread her wings.
Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is. Their last shift together. They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti and writing the report of a lifetime…. You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a seventeen-year-old Haitian American from Miami with way too little life experience, have to say about anything?
And my lean-in queen of a mother is even here to make sure I do things right. Or she might just be lying low to dodge the media sharks after a much more public incident of her own…and to hide a rather devastating secret. When it comes to being social, Athena Graves is far more comfortable creating a mixtape playlist than she is talking to cute boys — or anyone, for that matter.
Then a malicious rumor starts spreading through the halls…a rumor that her popular, pretty, pro-life sister had an abortion over the summer. A rumor that has the power to not only hurt Helen, but possibly see her expelled. Girls Like Us is a historical young adult novel set months before Roe v. The novel weaves the lives of three teenage girls from very different backgrounds who all find themselves pregnant pre-choice; they must decide, before they become too far along in their pregnancies, how to move forward.
But over the course of the following year, Devon finds herself slowly putting the broken pieces back together. That is, until Ashton shows up on the first day of school. Can she forgive him and open her heart again? Or are they doomed to repeat history? From debut author, Ronni Davis, comes a stunning novel about passion, loss, and the power of first love. Publication Date by Simon and Schuster Goodreads.
The story begins when the newest varsity roster is announced, and follows an all-night annual tradition of hazing and team bonding, concluding as the girls take the field for their first scrimmage against a rival team. Publication Date by Simon Pulse Goodreads. When We Were Magic follows the story of a group of high school girls who face up to the consequences of a disastrous magical accident resulting in a dead boy on prom night.
Misaligned follows the story of a teen outcast who is simultaneously swept up in a whirlwind romance and down a rabbit hole of dark family secrets when another Taiwanese family moves to her small, predominantly white Midwestern town. Publication Date by Flatiron Books Goodreads. As she joins the school improv troupe and comes into her own as a comedian, she must face some very un-funny situations when she sees her comedy-hero father fall — in more ways than one.
Publication Date by Disney-Hyperion Goodreads. Rumor Game is a young adult contemporary novel that follows three troubled young women as a high school rumor begins to spiral out of control with dangerous consequences, and only one girl has the power to set things right. But will she even want to? Pitched as The Holiday meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding , Ten Blind Dates is about a girl who breaks up with her boyfriend before the holidays and finds herself set up by her family, all eager to help mend her broken heart, on 10 blind dates over 10 days.
Publication Date by Wednesday Books Goodreads. Tierney James, a year-old girl from an isolated village, is banished to the northern forest with all the other girls her age, where they must survive the wilderness — and themselves — before being allowed to return to society as purified women. The Grace Year examines the twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually grow to become, and the difficult decisions they make in between.
Set in the s. Publication Date by Flux Goodreads. Keeping secrets from her family is not easy, and things become tricky when Willa agrees to help the doctor at a field hospital near the new bridge being built over the Golden Gate. Willa thinks she can handle her new chaotic life, but as she draws closer to a dashing, young ironworker, and risks grow at the bridge, she discovers that hiding from what she truly wants may be her biggest lie of all. Publication Date by Tu Books Goodreads.
Children Of The River Ghost follows the story of sixteen-year-old Katie who, reeling from bullying after her last relationship, moves to New Mexico and falls for a mysterious, beautiful girl who may be the ghost La Llorona. Publication Date by Albert Whitman Goodreads. Resurrection Girls is a young adult contemporary novel about an obsessive friendship between two teen girls who write letters to murderers, eventually leading them to question everything they know about life and death.
Publication Date by Delacorte Goodreads. Publication Date by Tor Teen Goodreads. Publication Date by Poppy Goodreads. Torrey learns on the day he moves into his college dorm that the apiary his uncle willed him is about to be seized. As he balances the beauty — and the burden — of his past with the promises of his future, Torrey will have to battle against the forces of gentrification while hundreds of miles from his L.
But when he shows up with a new girlfriend — a True Believer — she must face the truth about her feelings, and about the night she lost her virginity. Set in a North African-inspired fantasy world, A River of Royal Blood follows the story of two sisters — one with magick of light and persuasion and one with magick of blood and bone — must compete in a duel to the death for the right to inherit the queendom. Publication Date by Duet Goodreads. How To Be Remy Cameron is coming-of-age story about a popular, out-and-proud teen who is assigned to write an essay describing himself, and ends up on a journey to reconcile the labels that people have attached to him.
But when she shows up her teammates with her skills and her refusal to back down, hazing crosses the line into assault. For even more wonderful middle grade novels being published in , please check out this Goodreads list , which includes nearly middle grade novels being published next year for you to choose from. Lester has a lady love to meet. Salvador and his mom are looking to start over. Val needs a safe place to be herself. A basketball-loving girl makes a wish to never miss a basket in this charming middle grade novel that pushes girl power to the max! Lizzy Trudeaux loves basketball.
When she answers what she believes is another bill collecting phone call, Lizzy receives a magical wish: For decades, people have asked the question: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? But just who is this infamous and elusive globe-trotting criminal? But the woman in the red fedora is always one step ahead!
In this novelization, based on the Netflix animated series, Carmen shares her own backstory for the first time ever. Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep — one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken. And ultimately, when his burden of grief and anger from the past can no longer be ignored, Carter learns that a burden becomes lighter when it is shared. Once upon a time, a girl named Kristy Thomas had a great idea: And now twelve-year-old Malia Twiggs has had a great idea too.
And technically, little kids seem gross and annoying, but a paycheck is a paycheck. After a little convincing, Malia and her friends Dot and Bree start a babysitting club to earn funds for an epic birthday bash. What could possibly go wrong? The small town of Clarkville has seen better days. Ever since the Cohen factory burned down a few years ago, jobs are scarce and unemployment is high. But each year for one night the Carnival of Wishes and Dreams comes to town and everyone gets to indulge in a little wonder and delight. The carnival gives him a chance for some seasonal work, and she plans to spend the evening checking up on him and making sure he does his job.
And she is definitely riding that Ferris Wheel. Harlow Cohen is surprised anyone would want to ride the Ferris Wheel with her. Harlow used to be popular. Can these three girls put their differences aside long enough for their wishes to come true? And is it possible to save a friendship that once seemed lost for good? For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Everyone around them realized early on what the two sisters already knew: Iris is no longer so confident; Lark retreats into herself as she deals with challenges at school. And at the same time, something strange is happening in the city around them, things both great and small going missing without a trace.
When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance. But grumpy classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles — so now they have to work as a team. He devises a secret competition to decide who will be the official shelter scribe. Whoever helps get their animals adopted the fastest wins. The loser scoops dog food. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy. Can she find the power within herself to take a stand for who she wants to be?
Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess…except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick.
A sassy entropy sweeper, a documentary about wedgies, a principal who wears a Venetian bauta mask, and heaping platefuls of Cuban food are just some of the delights that await in his mind-blowing novel gift-wrapped in love and laughter. Join the Gemini Detective Agency and help the teenage sleuths solve the theft of a priceless necklace! Twins Zach and Evie Mamuya and their friend Vishal Desai make up the Gemini Detective Agency, which is mainly an excuse to get pizza together or hit the go-kart track. Will they be able to sort through the clues and solve the mystery in time? Readers will love this interactive mystery, where clues can be found throughout the illustrations at the end of each chapter!
Alma has everything she needs, except answers to her questions. Or about life in Portugal, where her parents met. Not even about her father, who Alma cannot find, no matter how many graveyards she searches with her best friend, Julia. There she discovers she has more family than she could have imagined. Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking.
She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Everything is changing for Becket Branch.
From subways to sidewalks to safety rules, Becket is a city kid born and raised. But Becket is ready to put her own spin on country life. Whether selling her mouth-puckering lemonade, feeding hostile hens, or trying to make a best friend of her new neighbor Frieda Franca, Becket is determined to use her city smarts to get a grip on farm living.
Life used to be great for Rose: But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. But one night she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She goes to investigate…and finds herself transported back five hundred years to Hatfield Palace, where she becomes servant and confidant of the banished princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII.
Rose soon discovers something else amazing — a locket with two mysterious images inside it, both clues to her own past. Could the greenhouse portal offer answers to the mysteries of her family…and their secrets? Gideon hates the idea of moving to Nevada from the East Coast. Only one person his age lives nearby: Gid notices right away that Roona is…different.
She wears roller skates and a blanket as a cape when she needs to feel strong. With the reemergence of her mother, Sunny begins a journey to becoming the new Sunny St. Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. So when Mallie is chosen for a dangerous competition in which daring and ideally, orphaned children train flying horses, she jumps at the chance. She knows she has to do her homework…but she gets distracted.
She know she needs to focus…but how can she do that when the people around her are always chewing gum loudly or making other annoying noises? Other kids are starting to notice. When Clea fails one too many tests, her parents take her to be tested, and she finds out that she has ADHD, which means her attention is all over the place instead of where it needs to be. Anthoni has bigger fish to fry. This summer will be different, though. Haunted by flashbacks of the accident that killed his parents, the best he can do is try to distract himself from memories of the past. But when her stepdad accidentally drives up the wrong mountain, she lands at Camp Archimedes — a math camp!
But not everyone is happy about it…someone wants her out of camp at any cost, and starts leaving cryptic, threatening notes all over the grounds. Featuring tricky logic puzzles readers can solve along with the characters and starring a unique, smart, and crafty young heroine, this story has just the right mix of mystery, humor, and wit. When a string of dognappings grips her Denver neighborhood, Kazu Jones vows to track down the culprits. With the help of her gang-including her best friend and expert hacker, March; and her ginormous, socially anxious pup, Genki-Kazu uncovers evidence that suggests the dognapping ring is bigger than she ever imagined.
But the more she digs, the more dangerous her investigation becomes. The dognappers are getting bolder, and Genki could be next…. Every book ever written, and every fact ever known, can be found within its walls. She rockets to the stars, travels to a future filled with robots, and faces down a dark nothingness that wants to destroy all knowledge.
To save the library, Lenora will have to test her limits and uncover secrets hidden among its shelves. Eleven-year-old December knows everything about birds, and everything about getting kicked out of foster homes. All she has of her mother is the book she left behind, The Complete Guide to Birds: Volume One, and a message: The scar on her back must be where her wings have started to blossom — she just needs to find the right tree and practice her flying. Twelve-year-old Sarah is finally in charge. At last, she can spend her summer months reading her favorite science books and bossing around her younger brother, Ellis, instead of being worked to the bone by their overly strict grandmother, Mrs.
Janie has a knack for getting into trouble and asks Sarah to take her to Creek Church: With a bit of luck, this foursome will heal the place they call home and the people within it they call family. Thirteen-year-old Annabelle struggles in school, no matter how hard she tries. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. But this life also brings unexpected surprises — there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for.
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Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. Fig, a sixth grader, wants more than anything to see the world as her father does. Not only has the class not brought Fig closer to understanding him, it has brought social services to their door.
Diving into books about Van Gogh to understand the madness of artists, calling on her best friend for advice, and turning to a new neighbor for support, Fig continues to try everything she can think of to understand her father, to save him from himself, and to find space in her life to discover who she is even as the walls are falling down around her. But everything goes wrong when dark clouds roll in. Old Man Crandall is the first to change — human one minute and a glass statue the next. Dark clouds fill the sky and, at random, people are turned into frozen versions of themselves.
To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly passed away. The only problem is his mother has laid down one major rule: Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together.
But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. Jorgansen, was someplace he had no business being. For Archie, the start of summer means another stint at Camp Shady Brook, where there is a lot more to the camp than meets the eye — just like Archie and his now blended family. For Vivian, thanks to an incident That Shall Not Be Named or Spoken Of, her summer of exotic travels with Mom and Dad has turned into traveling to a dump of a summer camp in the middle of nowhere. But thanks to perfect timing, Vivian soon finds herself in a ring of kids trying to out-con each other — and discovers Camp Shady Brook is more like Camp Shady Crook.
And with how much her mom and dad have been fighting lately, is it possible that her dad may not join them? She has a lot of work to do. Publication Date May 28th by Arthur A. Sarah Anne loves lacrosse, and the MK Nightshade series that everyone was obsessed over in grade school. So she hides her geekiness with a set of rules meant to keep her geek and jock selves separate. Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Without his help, Mimi will never be able to bake something impressive enough to propel her to gastronomic fame.
Who knew there were banyan trees and wild boars in Massachusetts? Together they discover exotic ingredients and bake them into delectable and enchanting treats. In the process, she learns that in life, as in baking, not everything is sweet…. No one turns for home. No one looks back. Living away from her dad is still hard, and she misses her best friend from her old town, but she has her friends and the bookmobile, and San Diego feels more like home than ever.
But then she learns that the bookmobile is going to have to shut down. The Starry Beach Club comes up with different ways to save their favorite store, but none seem to work. But then Emma gets the idea to have a crafts fair…and she wants Juliet to sell her paintings! Meanwhile, Carmen is feeling anxious about the possibility of her mother being deported. Will Juliet be able to be brave for herself and for Carmen?
When a wildfire strikes and Ali and two other kids miss the last rescue helicopter, suddenly, the fight for survival is real. Will she find the self-confidence she needs so they can work together and get out of the wilderness alive? STEM themes and plot strands about body image and divorce are subtly woven into this page-turning tale. Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records stories of the inexplicable and the extraordinary.
And he believes every single one. But then his newborn sister dies, at only eight days old. So Wunder gets rid of The Miraculous. Together, they find an abandoned house by the cemetery and a mysterious old woman who just might be a witch. The old woman asks them for their help. She asks them to believe. According to legend, she has one week before her fate catches up with her — on her 11th birthday. With her time running out, all she wants is to celebrate her birthday with her entire family. Twelve-year-old Luna loves the nighttime more than anything else.
Like the boy and girl from the new family next door…zipping out of the window in a zeppelin and up to the stars. But one night they catch her watching. Now Luna spends her nights on adventures with them, as they clean full moons, arrange constellations, and catch jars of stardust. She even gets to make a wish on a shooting star they catch. But Luna learns that no wish is strong enough to erase the past — as much as she may hope to. But one afternoon something unimaginable happens — the three of them are assaulted by a stranger who targets Indian-American Karina and her grandfather because of how they look.
Her grandfather is gravely injured and Karina and Chris vow not to let hate win. Then, when Papa is finally on the road to recovery, Karina uses her newfound social media reach to help celebrate both his homecoming and a community coming together. Publication Date October 8th by Charlesbridge Goodreads. Jade wishes her family could leave their no-name town in Colorado already. So, stuck in a dead-end town with absolutely zero friends, Jade makes one up. In the pages of her notebook, she writes all about Zoe—the most amazing best friend anyone could dream of.
The stories flow around-the-clock, especially during boring science lessons or lonely lunch periods. But the plot really thickens when Jade loses her notebook and an actual girl named Zoe shows up at school. Jade notices that new Zoe seems to have an awful lot in common with made-up Zoe.
But who could pull off something this incredible? More importantly, are Jade and the real Zoe destined to be best friends, regardless of how or why Zoe turned up in the first place? Publication Date by Scholastic Goodreads. The Forgotten Girl tells the story of a girl who accidentally summons a ghost on a snowy night.
With the help of her best friend, family, and neighbors, she must solve a mystery to help the spirit bring justice to an abandoned segregated graveyard and finally find peace. Publication Date by Aladdin Goodreads. But will tampon crafts, maxi-pad art installations, and dress code rebellions lead to all-out war or social change? A contemporary middle grade novel in the vein of Flora and Ulysses , about a curmudgeonly parrot who composes poems and dreams of escape, the precocious year-old boy who works at the pet shop where the parrot was born, and an eccentric, lonely old woman who has a penchant for chocolate cherry crumble pie.
Publication Date by Capstone Goodreads. The Friendship Lie centers on almost year-old Cora, who uses a mysterious diary she finds in the trash to mend her relationship with her once-best friend. Publication Date by Knopf Goodreads. Sauerkraut is a middle grade comedy about a boy haunted by the ghost of his great-great grandmother and an old family recipe.
Publication Date by Dial Goodreads. The Wild Place follows year-old Cass, who after reconnecting with her maternal grandmother discovers she is a descendant of Etta Place, mistress of the Sundance Kid, and finds herself on a journey to unearth long-lost outlaw treasure. Publication Date by Oni Press Goodreads. The Lemonade Affair follows year-old genius Robbie, who opens a state-of-the-art lemonade stand that can make any flavor of lemonade imaginable.
However, he finds himself in competition with Daphne, another kid on his block who sells lemonade, and their ensuring Lemonade War might just put the whole city in danger. Speculation is a historical fantasy inspired by the works of Edward Eager, in which Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African-American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
Publication Date by Sourcebooks Goodreads. In Case of Emergency follows a year-old girl who is babysitting her neighbors in a semi-rural neighborhood on an island off the Seattle coast, when an earthquake knocks out the power grid and leaves them stranded and disconnected from the mainland. Rosebud is the story of what happens when year-old Hayley Whelan tries to bring her horror-movie vision to the big-screen over the summer holidays. Friendships will be tested, the fake blood will flow, and the snacks budget will be well and truly blown in this wonderful, heart-warming reel of contemporary Australian middle grade.
Publication Date by Chronicle Goodreads. A Girl, A Raccoon, and The Midnight Moon is set in a slightly fantastical version of New York City, where bookish Pearl, the daughter of the librarian, teams up with a ragtag neighborhood crew including a tap-dancing new friend, an older boy Pearl has a crush on, and a pack of uniquely skilled raccoons that live in the library basement, in an attempt to save their branch from closure.
Publication Date by Carolrhoda Books Goodreads. The story will include elements of fantasy and Chinese folklore, and feature themes of family, friendship, identity, and food as cultural connection. Publication Date by HarperCollins Goodreads. Publication Date by Atheneum Goodreads. Inspired by true 12th-century accounts, The Green Children of Woolpit tells the story of a girl who comes upon two mysterious, green-skinned children, only to learn their terrible secret and become caught up in their dark past.
Publication Date by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Goodreads. Hot Off The Press is a regular feature on Pop! Goes The Reader in which I share a selection of new books being published in the forthcoming month. Another new month has begun, and you know what they say: New month, new books! This is not a definitive list. A girl with the power to control the wind, torn between duty and following her dreams. For twenty years, Channelers — women with a magical ability — have been persecuted in Malam by those without magic. Now King Aodren wants to end the bloody divide and unite his kingdom.
Lirra has every reason to distrust Aodren. With Lirra by his side, Aodren sees a way forward for his people. Erin Summerill returns with a high-stakes fantasy full of romance, magic, and revenge perfect for fans of Susan Dennard and C. Publication Date December 4th by Entangled: The Valiant was supposed to save us. Instead, it triggered the end of the world.
Earth is in shambles. The alien invasion begins. They pour into cities around the world through time portals, possessing humans, forcing us to kill one another. The second in a sweeping and action-packed fantasy duology loosely inspired by the early climbers of Mount Everest — perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce and Kristin Cashore. After the terrifying events on Mount Raksha, the witches have returned, and River has betrayed Kamzin to regain his dark powers. If Kamzin is to save Azmiri and prevent the destruction of the Empire, she must find a star that fell in the Ash Mountains to the north.
Fallen stars have immense power, and if Kamzin and Lusha can find the star, they can use its magic to protect their homeland. To get there, Kamzin has allied with Azar — at, the dangerous and deceptive fire demon, who can grant her great power — in exchange for pieces of her soul.
But River wants the star too, and as their paths collide in dangerous and unexpected ways, Kamzin must wrestle with both her guilt and her conflicted feelings for the person who betrayed her. Facing dark magic, a perilous journey, and a standoff against the witches, can Kamzin, Lusha, and Tem find the star and save their Empire? Can she channel it to crush a cunning enemy and save the realm from chaos? Dark magic and romance make the latest installment in the Nissera Chronicles a page-turning read.
A century after her legendary ancestors overcame a bloodthirsty tyrant, seventeen-year-old Valory Braiosa attends a training academy for elicromancers, immortal beings with magical gifts. Then a forbidden resurrection spell awakens a long-dormant evil, and Valory may be the only one who can vanquish this terrifying villain. Together with a band of allies — including an old friend; a haughty princess; and a mysterious, handsome stranger — Valory must learn to harness her power and fight back.
With a handpicked crew by her side, Sky knows she has everything she needs to complete her first heist, and get her boyfriend and mother back in the process. But then she uncovers a dark truth about were-dragon society — a truth more valuable and dangerous than gold or jewels could ever be. Something happened to her mother that night.
Something no one wants to talk about. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound — the ominous thump before all went quiet. The official story was that she left. Her loving, devoted mother! But not even a fresh start working as a model in New York could keep the nightmares at bay.
Before she disappeared, Alexandra Southwood lived an average, happy life: But now, held in a room against her will, Alexandra is forced to imagine how her family is coping in the wake of her disappearance. He thinks of nothing but Alexandra. Even when the police discover her bloody belongings, he cannot accept that she is gone. Charlotte Gorman loves her job as an elementary school librarian, and is content to experience life through the pages of her books.
Woefully unprepared for the glittery world of hair extensions, false eyelashes, and push-up bras, Charlotte is mortified at every unstable step in her sky-high stilettos.
EIGHT YEARS IN AMERICA
Millie Morris has always been one of the guys. And she, just like her four best guy friends and fellow professors, is perma-single. Soon, Millie will have to face her worst fear—intimacy—or risk losing her best friend, forever. Publication Date December 4th by G. On the run, Alex finds himself led to the compound of tech guru Jeffrey Sabazios, the only public figure who stands firm in his belief that aliens are coming. Guided by Sabazios, befriended by his fellow time travelers, and maybe even falling in love, Alex starts feeling like the compound is a real home — until a rogue glide shows him the dangerous truth about his new situation.
Now in a race against time, Alex is forced to reevaluate who he can love, who he can trust, and who he needs to leave behind. My room is paper. My world is paper. Everything outside is fire. All it would take is one spark for me to burst into flames. So I stay inside. Where nothing can touch me. Then my mom hires a tutor. This boy I had a crush on before the world became too terrifying to live in.
But he makes me feel things. Makes me want to try again. Makes me want to be brave. I can almost taste the outside world. But so many things could go wrong, and all it takes is one spark for everything I love to disappear…. After two years of living on cheap beer and little else in a bitterly cold tiny cabin outside an abandoned, crumbling mansion, young programmers Shawn Eagle and Billy Stafford have created something that could make them rich: While Billy walks away with Emily, Shawn takes Eagle Logic, which he uses to build a multi-billion-dollar company that eventually outshines Apple, Google, and Microsoft combined.
Years later, Billy is a failure, beset by poverty and addiction, and Shawn is the most famous man in the world. He decides to set it up in the abandoned mansion they worked near all those years ago. Shawn is forced to bring Billy back, despite their longstanding mutual hatred, to discover and destroy the evil that lurks in the source code. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger.
In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Or can science provide an explanation? These questions have many answers, some of them quite dark indeed. Those who dwell on the river bank apply all their ingenuity to solving the puzzle of the girl who died and lived again, yet as the days pass the mystery only deepens.
The child herself is mute and unable to answer the essential questions: Where did she come from? And to whom does she belong? But answers proliferate nonetheless. Three families are keen to claim her. A wealthy young mother knows the girl is her kidnapped daughter, missing for two years. Today our bodies define us. We color our hair; tattoo our skin; pierce our ears, brows, noses. We lift weights, run miles, break records. We are flesh and blood and bone. Tomorrow has different rules. If you can dream it, you can be it. Science will make us smarter, healthier, flawless in every way.
Our future is boundless. This is a story that begins tomorrow. Because perfection has a way of getting ugly. Lilian Quick is 40, single, and childless, working as a pet portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal aura portraits are a niche market at best. Despite twenty years of unexplained silence, Eleven offers Lilian a place at The Temple, her Manhattan office. Eleven is going to help her cousin become her best self: She learns how to break her negative thought patterns, achieves financial solvency, grows an active and engaged online following, and builds authentic friendships.
She finally feels seen for who she really is. This compelling, heartfelt satire asks us: How do we recognize authenticity when storytelling and magic have been co-opted by marketing? Publication Date December 11th by Margaret K. One year ago, there was a party. At the party, someone died. Five teens each played a part and up until now, no one has told the truth.
Of course…some things are too good to be true. Five arrived, but not all can leave. Will the truth set them free? Or will their lies destroy them all? Twin brothers Ty and Cory Bic are on the run. When they encounter a dying deer in the middle of a remote mountain road with fresh tire tracks swerving down into a ravine, they know they have to help.
But when they reach the wrecked car the vehicle appears empty, with signs that the driver escaped. Ty and Cory are escaping demons of their own. But what they discover in the trunk puts them in the crosshairs of something darker and more sinister than their wildest nightmares. Four girls went missing several years ago, and the police never solved the case. But Haley knows the missing girls were murdered. How else can she explain the hostile presence in her house?
The ghostly girls need something from her. And unless Haley can figure out what they want…she might be next. On their first date back in law school, Natalie and Will Clarke bonded over drinks, dinner and whether they could get away with murder. Working as a criminal defense attorney, Nat refuses to rely on the broken legal system to keep her family safe. She knows that if you want justice…you have to get it yourself. His family is in way too deep to back down now.