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Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 17
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Anne finds an ancient Egyptian clay pot in the attic, which Aunt Edie excavated at an archaeological dig, she decides to put it on display in the library. Mildred Farley takes one look at it, then trips and falls, suffering a badly sprained ankle. "It's cursed!" she exclaims, visibly shaken by the artifact's reappearance. Soon all of Blue Hill is in an uproar, recounting various disasters brought on by the relic when Aunt Edie first brought it...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 15
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a powerful storm blows through Blue Hill, Anne's children are rescued by a drifter named Jack Kendall. Anne doesn't want this stranger near her children, but they immediately grow attached to him, enthralled by stories of his adventures. Jack claims to have known Aunt Edie, but Anne finds his stories too outrageous to be true. As Jack works his way into the hearts of Blue Hill's residents, she tries to figure out what he wants -- and if he can...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 02
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While cataloging books at the library, Anne stumbles on an old, yellowed map of Pennsylvania tucked inside the pages of a historical book from Aunt Edie's private collection. When Anne studies the map, she sees markings that hint at its use by Lewis and Clark! Could it really be authentic? And if it is, how did Aunt Edie come to possess a map that had been stolen from the now-defunct Blue Hill Historical Society one hundred years ago? Meanwhile, Anne's...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 03
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an unmarked envelope arrives at the library containing a mock-up of a newspaper article, Anne is shocked to learn that she and several of her old high school friends are implicated in a crime that took place the night of their school's homecoming. Worse, the writer threatens to expose secrets that would ruin the classmates' reputations and possibly cost them their jobs. Who wrote this tale of hijinks and what does the instigator want from Anne...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 01
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While converting the Victorian home left by her great-aunt Edie into a library, Anne Gibson stumbles upon a fascinating find. Hidden behind an old star quilt is a tiny sealed-off room with a small writing desk and a faded photograph of Edie in a wedding gown. Anne is certain Aunt Edie never married, so who is the handsome young man with her in the photograph? Could he still hold claim to the house bequeathed to Anne? As Anne sets out to solve the...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 19
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Coraline Watson brings her yellow-naped Amazon parrot to the library one night for the Birders Club meeting, and Liddie takes an instant liking to the beautiful bird. Anne doesn't pay much attention to Coraline's wild stories about spies from a nearby chemical company, until the next morning, when the parrot, Lorenzo, appears at Liddie's window. Anne tries to return the bird, but Coraline's house is dark and empty, the front window is broken, and...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 13
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Following a meeting of the Blue Hill Library's writing group, Lucas Miller disappers. His teenage daughters, Remi and Bella, who are also part-time library employees, are unable to console their distraught mother when Lucas's car is found crashed into a tree outside town, without him in it.. Anne reluctantly agrees to look into the published author's disappearance, but the mystery gets more tangled with each clue she finds.
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 18
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Blue Hill is celebrating its first-ever Railroad Days Festival, and the main event is an antiques appraisal and auction. Contributions come from many of the townspeople, but the most valuable item - an ancient Chinese vase worth ten thousand dollars - has been donated anonymously. The benefactor has asked that the proceeds from the vase go to the Blue Hill Library, but Anne barely has time to wonder who could be so generous before the vase is stolen...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 16
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a fire in an empty warehouse damages the historic Blue Hill Theater, Anne is shocked to learn that her son, Ben, was seen in the area and is suspected of being involved. Alex hires a woman to help him with the cleanup of the fire's aftermath while he tackles the repair and renovation of the damaged theater, but someone keeps vandalizing the work site. Who would want to prevent the theatre from being restored? Can Anne prove her son had nothing...
10) Stagestruck
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 14
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Anne is thrilled when her old high school friend Tami Bates returns to Blue Hill for a visit. Tami is a theater producer's assistant in London, and she has an intriguing mystery for Anne. In the pocket of a costume she purchased at an auction, Tami found a note that mentions the legendary missing play by Hugh Bettridge, a famous playwright. The note is signed by Edie Summers and indicates Anne's aunt had the missing play. Anne soon discovers that...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 11
Publisher
Guidepost
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Anne and Wendy are preparing for a new adult literacy class when Ben races inside the library to tell his mother that their dog, Hershey, has found a package on the porch. Anne chases Hershey around the yard until she is finally able to retrieve it and discovers and envelope with several thousand dollars of cash inside! Wendy is convinced the money is an answer to prayer -- the library's elevator is in severe need of repair -- but Anne doesn't feel...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 04
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Anne Gibson is alarmed when identity thefts leave elderly Blue Hill citizens with bank accounts drained and credit cards maxed out. When a mysterious young woman arrives at the library's first book club meeting and starts asking personal questions of Anne's friend Mildred Farley, Anne wonders if the stranger is behind the thefts. As Anne sets out to uncover the truth, she discovers that there is far more behind the woman's curious behavior than she...
13) Off the shelf
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 06
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the mayor of Blue Hill visits Anne to talk about a new tax proposal that will soon go before the town council, she's excited about the possibilities. The additional funding could provide more library resources and programs, as well as pay some of Anne's dedicated volunteers. But when popular children's books begin vanishing from the shelves, Anne discovers that it is just the tip of an iceberg of political intrigue involving the proposed levy....
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 12
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It's early February in Blue Hill and Anne Gibson is surprised to receive a Valentine's Day postcard from an exotic locale addressed to her late aunt Edie. What puzzles Anne even more is the year-old postmark. The sender, whose scrawled first name is illegible, references a reunion at an undisclosed location in two weeks. Anne doesn't want the mystery coorespondent to travel halfway around the world for a meeting that can't hapen, but how can she figure...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 05
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Anne finds a key among her Aunt Edie's holiday decorations as she is busy preparing for Christmas and soon discovers that it unlocks a cubby in the church's Advent cabinet, which contains a beautiful sapphire ring. She wonders if the ring may belong to her recently deceased great-aunt and if so, why it is not among her other jewelry? Meanwhile, the production of the Christmas play is in jeopardy when costumes go missing and the director becomes ill....
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 22
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A Civil War reenactment group has turned Blue Hill's park into a historical battlefield, but there's a battle of a different type brewing after a precious heirloom goes missing." -- page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 21
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a big-box discount store wants to build in Blue Hill, the community is in an uproar. Competition is fierce among landowners and someone is sabotaging the land surveys. Can Anne discover the saboteur before someone gets hurt?
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 24
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 10
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Anne and Wendy decide to organize a used books sale to raise money for the library.
20) Gone in a flash
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 07
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Anne finds a roll of undeveloped film in an old camera of her great-aunt Edie's and has it processed, she makes a startling discovery. Anne's father's cousin Carl was reported killed in action in Vietnam in 1970, so how is it possible that he is standing next to Aunt Edie in a photograph taken at the bicentennial celebration in Washington, D.C.? While digging through the newly revealed family photographs and the storehouse of albums and scrapbooks...