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1) Blue Smoke
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English
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Reena Hale at 12 is almost raped, her family restaurant burned to the ground. In university, her boyfriend burns in his apartment. She becomes an arson investigator, haunted by obscene phone calls and horrific crimes. On the good side is Bo Goodnight, who sought Reena for years, and will not let her go.
2) Best in show
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English
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A sleuth must find a killer amid a plethora of poodles in this "charming" cozy mystery by an Agatha Award finalist (Publishers Weekly).
There are dog shows. And then there's The Poodle Club of America National Specialty Dog Show. For poodle purists, it's the pinnacle of the season, drawing competitors and spectators from all over the world.
Once in Maryland, Melanie Travis is put to work selling raffle tickets...
There are dog shows. And then there's The Poodle Club of America National Specialty Dog Show. For poodle purists, it's the pinnacle of the season, drawing competitors and spectators from all over the world.
Once in Maryland, Melanie Travis is put to work selling raffle tickets...
3) Birthright
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English
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When 5,000-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger and romance.
4) Hot rocks
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English
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When her past catches up with Laine Tavish, the proprietor of the antique shop Remember When, it's up to her and a stranger named Max Gannon to find out who's chasing her, and why.
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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In the summer before World War I, nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and uncle's Beltsville, Maryland, farm until she meets Theodore, who calls her a "city slicker" and spurs her to prove that she's just as clever and brave as he is.
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Chesapeake Bay saga volume 4
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English
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After a five-year absence, Seth Quinn has returned home from Europe a world-renowned artist. He's ready to settle down in the same picturesque town on the Bay where the three step-brothers who raised him now live. Soon, Seth meets beautiful, independent Druscilla "Dru" Whitcomb Banks and falls in love with her almost immediately. Life takes on an idyllic glow until someone from his past begins blackmailing him again.
7) Divine evil
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English
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Sculptor Clare Kimball has captured the attention of the New York art world. But big-city success cannot burn away the half-remembered nightmares that have plagued Clare since childhood. These phantoms of the past have drawn her home to Emmitsboro, Maryland, to the small town where she grew up and where her father died in circumstances never really explained. Not much in her hometown seems to have changed, but within the dark woods of Emmitsboro something...
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English
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Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation.
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Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE
Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husband’s death—and perhaps find a way back to her first love: photography. Easing her transition into this strange, mannered world is Emma Crofton, the grand matriarch of the foxhunting community,...
Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husband’s death—and perhaps find a way back to her first love: photography. Easing her transition into this strange, mannered world is Emma Crofton, the grand matriarch of the foxhunting community,...
10) Amber House
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Series
Amber House trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
After her grandmother's death Sarah Parsons, nearly sixteen, delights in exploring her family's centuries-old Maryland estate with new friend Jackson, but soon she is having vivid visions of her ancestors, one of whom may be a threat to Sarah's autistic brother, Sam.
11) Bingo
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Julia and Louise novels volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
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English
Description
Two elderly widows, Sulia and Louise Hunsenmeir, fight over Ed Tutweiler while Julia's daughter, Nickel, faces her own battles to save the local newspaper from corporate takeover and understand her own sexuality.
12) Flight lessons
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English
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For sixteen years Anna has studiously avoided her aunt Rose. Exchanging cards at holiday time, that's as far as Anna is willing to go with the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world. That love died the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother, Rose's own fatally ill sister, and Anna can't forgive or forget. Years have passed since she's been back to her hometown on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where Rose still runs the aging family restaurant,...
13) The last place
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 7
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English
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Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan knows what to do with a jerk who prowls the Internet looking for love in all the wrong places: pretend to be smitten, slip one of his own date-rape drugs into his drink, cover him with depilatory cream, and leave him in a public place so he'll be too ashamed to do it again. It's hard to follow an opening chapter like that, but Lippman manages it nicely, putting her smart-mouth series sleuth in court-ordered anger-management...
14) Hemlock Bay
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English
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FBI agents Dillon and Lacey (Sherlock) Savich rescue two boys kidnapped from Maryland and then rush off to California to save Dillon's sister from a greedy art collector.
15) Loose lips
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Series
Julia and Louise novels volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The tale of two sisters in a Southern town during World War II. They are always bickering and have to open a beauty salon to pay for a soda fountain they demolished during a fight. On Civil Air Patrol duty they sound the siren, mistaking a flight of geese for German dive bombers.
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English
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Owen is the organizer of the Montgomery clan, running the family's construction business with an iron fist. And though his brothers bust on his compulsiveness, the Inn BoonsBoro is about to open on schedule. The only thing Owen didn't plan for was Avery McTavish. Avery's popular pizza place is right across the street from the inn, giving her a first-hand look at its renovation - and an appreciation for Owen, who was her first boyfriend when they were...
17) Bloody point
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Grieving FBI Special Agent Cassidy McKenna leaves the Bureau and retreats to a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay. When her former partner, Jake, is assaulted and her marina is torched, Cass decides to find the perpetrator before she, herself, becomes a victim"--
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Series
Chesapeake diaries volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Thirtysomething actress Dallas MacGregor travels to Chesapeake Bay to escape the fallout from her soon-to-be-ex-husband Emilio's involvement in a sex scandal and reconnects with her high school flame, veterinarian Grant Wyler, but soon finds her new life threatened when Emilio shows up and challenges her for custody of their son.
19) A hope beyond
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Ribbons of steel volume 2
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English
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"With the loss of her first true love, Carolina Adams finds life at the family plantation nearly unbearable. Desperate to escape, she moves to Baltimore to become a nanny to Victoria, a little girl whose mother has died. After breaking his wedding engagement with Virginia Adams, Carolina's older sister, James Baldwin immerses himself in work for the B&O Railroad, the other passion in his life besides Carolina. But when a shocking business proposal...
20) Amelia's war
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A Confederate general's threat to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless its citizens pay him an exorbitant ransom, prompts twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend to find some way to save their community.