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Summary: "In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais' in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. 2.2 miles down a poorly marked, one lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack--it had no electricity, no modern plumbing, the roof leaked, and mice had invaded the walls. It was perfect. Sitting on Tisbury Great Pond--well-stocked with oysters and crab for foraged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAIS, MADELEINE BLAHostin, Sunny
Summary: In the exclusive black beach community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the three unofficial "goddaughters" of Amelia Vaux Tanner, successful women from different backgrounds, gather for one last summer together before Amelia moves to the south of France and gives her home to one of them. The exclusive beach community of Oak Bluffs is a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSHostin, Sunny
Summary: A novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard. Oak Bluffs is the most exclusive black beach community in the country, a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society. Thirty years ago, Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a house high on the bluffs, a cottage they named Chateau Laveau. "Ama's" three gifted "goddaughters:" Esperanza "Perry" Soto, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOSWalther, K. L.
Summary: Even though she is still grieving over her sister's death, eighteen-year-old Meredith Fox plans to reconnect with family and friends when they gather on Martha's Vineyard for her cousin's big wedding--unless she gets distracted by a week-long game of Assassin and a handsome groomsman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BEASummary: A beautiful place to die: After being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARStone, Jean
Summary: "After a winter spent writing her latest novel, Annie looks forward to a summer with friends who have become like the family she never had. But then her landlord announces that his grandson will be moving into her cozy Chappaquiddick cottage--and she'll be moving out. Year-round island housing is tough to find at any time; in summer, it's nearly impossible. Shaken by the thought of being forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STOSummary: A Beautiful Place to Die: After being forced into retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving. Riddled With Deceit: Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madeiras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also a murderer. Ships in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters who have been at odds for years. ust because twins look exactly the same doesn't mean they're anything alike - and Tabitha and Harper Frost have spent their whole lives trying to prove this point. When a family crisis forces them to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HILLeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRACraig, Philip R.
Summary: When a union striker is killed in an engine room explosion and accused of setting the bomb that ended his life, J. W. Jackson is entreated by the victim's widow to prove the man's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRACraig, Philip R.
Summary: A recent murder has J.W. Jackson wondering if a killer is still free on the island, while his wife, Zee, seems curiously distant from J.W. and the kids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRACraig, Philip R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRAWinters, Katie
Summary: After over twenty years away, Christine Sheridan--forty-one, unable to have children, and with nowhere to go--returns home to the Vineyard and her family. But the Sheridan clan is never far from heartbreak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WINCraig, Philip R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRACraig, Philip R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRAGalland, Nicole
Summary: "From the author of Stepdog and The Fool's Tale comes a romantic comedy that tells the story of one journalist secretly juggling two bylines for competing newspapers on a small island - Hepburn and Tracy meet Romeo and Juliet on Martha's Vineyard"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Galland 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P FIC GALRiggs, Cynthia.
Summary: When the coffin of a Norton girl goes missing, Victoria Trumbull becomes increasingly alarmed as everyone connected to the coffin is brutally murdered, a situation that appears to be related to a mysterious yew tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIGCraig, Philip R.
Summary: Former policeman J.W. Jackson, now a fisherman in Martha's Vineyard, has a fight with a state environmental officer over the closure of a beach during a film shoot. When the officer is murdered, Jackson is a suspect and must clear his name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRACraig, Philip R.
Summary: J.W.'s happy domesticity with Zee and the kids is disrupted by a surprising call from a reckless old friend who needs help hiding from would-be assailants, a situation with ties to a beautiful woman's disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRACraig, Philip R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRACraig, Philip R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRAHawley, Noah
Summary: "On a foggy summer night, eleven people -- ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter -- depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs -- the painter -- and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016