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When Felix Drake Swaggers into Bennett's Island on a new and fancy lobster boat piled high with expensive gear to tie up at the wharf he recently bought, intolerance runs high.
Who is the stranger with his too-ready smile, a part-timer who refuses to sell his catch on the island as the locals do? A wealthy man who lobsters for sport but not for his bread? And who is the beautiful young woman he spirits into his house, keeps behind closed doors,...
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Jennie trilogy volume Book 1
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In 1809, marriage was the best a spirited, healthy, and intelligent girl could hope for, especially if she was an orphan without a fortune. Jennie Hawthorne has been hustled to London by her well-meaning aunt to secure just such a marriage, though Jennie despises the prospective wife parade and yearns for her childhood home by the North Sea. All that changes when she falls for the dashing soldier Nigel Gilchrist, marrying him after a whirlwind romance....
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Jennie trilogy volume Book 2
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When Jennie Gilchrist fled from the Scottish Estate of Linnmore during the fiery violence of the infamous Highland Clearances, she planned to make her way to her sisters in England, but instead she found herself sailing on the brig Paul Revere, bound for the coast of Maine--the New World.
Accompanying her is Alick Gilchrist, cousin to her late husband, now a fugitive. Jennie feels obligated to help Alick escape Scotland, as she is partly to blame...
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As the battle-fit men of Bennett's Island are called to fight in World War II, many of the other inhabitants head to the mainland as well. The small island community becomes a bit of a ghost town, though Joanna Bennett keeps the home fires burning. Rather than dwelling on her husband's fate in the Pacific Theatre, she devotes her time to the raising of her young son, and keeping an eye on her wild and troubled brother. Even when she is forced into...
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Jennie and Alick Glenroy arrived in Maine with nothing, not even their names, starting anew in a different land, leaving the turmoil and violence of Scotland behind them. Almost twenty years later, the "Godless Glenroys" are a prosperous, though sometimes controversial, family. Alick is the proprietor of a successful shipyard, and Jennie has raised their five children to think for themselves, a trait that occasionally raises the ire of their staid...
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Young, vivacious Joanna Bennett desperately wishes to be captain of her own lobstering boat, but despite being the favored daughter of Bennett's Island's founding family, she is still just a girl in the eyes of the community, and a girl living off the coast of Maine in the early 20th century is expected to mind the kitchen, not tend to pot buoys.
While quietly struggling to find her place on insular Bennett's Island, one where she could let her bold...
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Vanessa Barton steps onto Bennett's Island for the first time as if she is stepping into a prison cell. She feels trapped by her marriage, she carries the emotional shackles of a childhood spent as a ward of the state, and she wants nothing to do with the island community. A chance encounter with Owen Bennett sparks off an attraction that brings Vanessa to life, as she discovers something real that eclipses the fantasies of the novels she reads. Owen...
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Philippa Marshall arrives on isolated Bennett's Island as a young war widow eager to provide for her son. The insular island community initially welcomes her as the teacher in their one-room schoolhouse, but when she champions a clutch of neglected children, she finds herself thrust in the midst of a smoldering conflict between two prominent families. The prospect of a lobster war between the Bennetts and Campions threatens the livelihoods of everyone...
9) Storm Tide
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At long last Joanna Bennett is returning to her family's island, the childhood home that her heart has yearned for ever since she was forced to the mainland by catastrophe. At her side stands Nils Sorensen, her oldest friend, stalwart admirer, and new husband. Together they will restore Bennett's Island to its former glory: enticing former residents and other hardworking mainlanders to join their small community, repairing damaged buildings pummeled...
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Rosa Fleming motors her way to Bennett's Island in the dark of the night, fleeing her divorce, her philandering husband and the gossipmongers of her hometown. On the Island she discovers not only a refuge to heal her emotional wounds, but also a community that nurtures her battered confidence and a man who teaches her to love and be loved as an equal.
When a fight breaks out between the island's lobstermen and the invading fishermen who disregard...
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McGraw-Hill
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c1989
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When novelist Eden Winter emerges from completing her latest fictional adventure, she finds that life around her has changed. The usually tranquil coastal community of Job's Harbor is all abuzz over the return of the elderly Edmond sisters. Old-timers breathlessly recount how sixty years ago, Marianne, a brilliant young pianist, eloped with the scoundrel Guy Rigby. Guy, a married man and a respected banker, cleaned out the vault when he left, ruining...
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Mirabelle Taggart volume Book 2
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McGraw-Hill
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c1976
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Early spring in Maine is not the season for swimming nor for the spurts of unexpected violence that begin to erupt when strangers move in to a tranquil country village.