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From Nora Roberts comes the #1 New York Times bestseller Shelter in Place (June 2018)--a powerful tale of heart, heroism...and propulsive suspense. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tended to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and...
2) The cutting
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape a dark past: both the ex-wife who'd left him for an investment banker, and the tragic death of his brother, a hero cop gone bad. He sought to raise his young daughter away from the violence of the big city. So he's unprepared for the horrific killer he discovers, whose bloody trail may lead to Portland's social elite.--From publisher's description.
4) Snowed in
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Struggling with the freezing conditions of her Portland, Maine, home, her husband's roving eye, and a problematic mother-in-law, Sophie Quinn finds her life turning around due to unlikely opportunities and an unexpected new relationship.
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Moosepath League chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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In 1896 Portland, Maine, social columnist Mollie Peer pursues a lead on a gang of smugglers and comes face to face with the zany founders of the Moosepath League, as well as other amusing characters.
6) The furies
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Private investigator Charlie Parker is unwittingly drawn into a world of vengeance ... two separate -- but vitally connected -- investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career. In The Sisters Strange, criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, Maine, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers -- the enigmatic sisters Strange. And in the title novel, The Furies,...
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Moosepath League chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2000]
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IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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During the Christmas holidays in nineteenth-century Maine, Tobias Walton and his fellow companions in the Moosepath League become caught up in the lives of colorful associates of country lawyer Daniel Plainway
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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A sequel to The Truth of All Things finds late-19th century police detective Archie Lean and his half-Native American partner, Perceval Grey, investigating the theft of a recently buried body and the staging of a bizarre occult scene that is linked to a centuries-old magical relic.
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Maine justice volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Portland, Maine, police detective Harvey Larson and the Priority Unit investigate the disappearance of a software designer and he meets a young woman who will change his life as he attempts to save her from the same grim fate that claimed her co-worker"--
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Moosepath League chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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At the turn of the century, Cordelia Underwood of Maine inherits a parcel of land which is believed to contain a treasure, the hunt for which involves her with wacky characters. A tale of romance, smugglers and moose, and a debut in fiction.
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Witness Impulse
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Fall in Portland, Maine usually arrives as a welcome respite from summer's sweltering temperatures and, with the tourists gone, a return to normal life--usually. But when a retired cop is murdered, things heat up quickly, setting the city on edge. Detective Sergeant John Byron, a second-generation cop, is tasked with investigating the case--at the very moment his life is unraveling. On the outs with his department's upper echelon, separated from...
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Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with whom he follows a trail to the spiritual societies of gothic New England.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Maine, 1969. After losing her parents in a car accident, aspiring artist Annalisa Mancuso lives with her grandmother and their large Italian family in the stifling factory town of Payton Mills. Inspired by her mother, whose own artistic dreams disappeared in a damaged marriage, Annalisa is dedicated only to painting. Closed off to love, and driven as much by her innate talent as she is the disillusionment of her past, Annalisa just wants to come into...
16) Beyond the truth
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English
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"A gripping atmospheric thriller that finds the dark side of Portland, Maine. The Detective Byron mystery series is one of the finest to arrive in a long time." --#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston In this latest enthralling mystery from #1 bestselling author Bruce Robert Coffin, Detective Sergeant John Byron faces the greatest challenge of his career. When a popular high school senior is shot by police following a late night robbery,...