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1) 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 is searching for a missing play by Hugh Bettridge, a famous playwright. Anne learns that other people are searching for the valuable manuscript and are willing to go to great lengths to get it. Meanwhile, the local drama society is putting on a play to raise money for the theater's new roof.
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 18
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Blue Hill is celebrating it's first-ever Railroad Days Festival, and the main event is an antiques appraisal and auction. An ancient Chinese vase worth ten thousand dollars has been donated anonymously. Soon the vase is stolen and replaced with a fake. Worse yet, Anne's friend seems to be the prime suspect.
Author
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 anke. "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 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 no one...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 3
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. Who wrote this tale of hijinks, and what does the instigator want from Anne and her former classmates?
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...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 2
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After discovering a map that may have been used by the Lewis and Clark expedition in her Aunt Edie's private collection, Anne Gibson tries to determine how her aunt came to possess a map stolen from the Blue Hill Historical Society one hundred years ago and worries about her nine-year-old son's increasingly strange behavior.
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 24
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Love is in the air when a stray cat shows up at the Blue Hill Library with a diamond engagement ring attached to its collar. Anne is determined to find the cat's owner before Liddie falls in love with their new furry friend, but news of the ring brings more than one prospective bride to claim it as her own. As Anne tries to discover the truth, two handsom men vie for her attention, and she realizes she may be in danger of falling in love herself"--Back...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 6
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 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. Meanwhile, Ben and Ryan are determined to help raise money for their classmate Cade who has leukemia. His family needs help paying the medical bills, and the whole town rallies around them. Inspired by Jack's...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 1
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 th ehouse bequeathed to Anne?
13) Frozen in time
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 22
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Anne is assisting Wendy Pyle and Maggie Sloan plan a ceremony for the opening of Blue Hill's time capsule. The capsule is stored in a statue of Lois Stover, one of the town's most famous citizens. Stover not only served as a special agent during World War I, but she was also the first female architect registered in Pennsylvania and provided inspiration for many of Aunt Edie's adventures. But mere days before the ceremony, both the statue and its...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 5
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 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.
16) Without a trace
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 disappears. When Lucas's car is found crashed into a tree outside of town, Annie agrees to look into the disappearance.
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 9
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a heavy rain, Anne discovers that one of the walls in the library basement is crumbling. She asks Alex to evaluate the damage, but while they're examining the hole, they uncover a human skeleton! Her beloved Aunt Edie's bow and arrow is found hidden nearby. Surely her relative had nothing to do with this person's death, did she? Meanwhile, Anne stumbles on a flyer for the church's father-son retreat in Ben's trash and is determined to find...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 23
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 4
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Librarian Anne Gibson tries to uncover the truth behind the identity thefts that have affected elderly Blue Hill residents while she and her children plan a big dinner at the library for their new friends.
20) Finding home
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 20
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Alex Ochs recieves a bank overdraft statement on an account in his sister's name, he brings it to Anne for help. After his sister, Marla, and her husband died in a car accident four years ago, Alex made sure all of their accounts were closed. He never knew of this overdrawn account until now but quickly learns it is tied to Marla's work at Heaven's Child, an organization that provides funding to families planning to adopt. Someone is clearly...
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