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A circus ship has an accident off the coast of Maine which leaves the animals stranded, but they are soon taken in by the citizens of a small island who grow fond of the new residents and fight to protect them.

During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.

Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.

After his social-worker wife Roxanne has a confrontation with the father of neglected children she has removed, ex-reporter Jack McMorrow sees his life further turned upside down when the mysterious Mandi enters the picture, bringing with her dangers that threaten Jack, Roxanne and their daughter.

Widower police chief Jake Robbins and Kate Sanford, the widow of the man accused of murdering Jake's wife, reevaluate the past when the unearthing of a fifty-year-old time capsule reveals that someone predicted the tragedy.

Takes readers on a tour of Maine, describing the state's history, culture, land, economy, government, and sights, and including unique facts, color maps and photos, the state song, suggested activities, lists of famous people, cultural institutions, and annual events, and other resources.

"Joe Wood has big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he is only thirteen, he has already borrowed money for the equipment to start his own press. But it's April 1861, and the young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war. He has to help Owen, his young assistant, deal with the challenges of being black in a white world torn apart by color. He needs to talk his best friend, Charlie, out of enlisting. He wants to help a young spiritualist, Nell, whose uncle claims she can speak to the dead. And when Owen disappears, it's up to Joe to save him"--Provided by publisher.

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, novelist Mike Noonan is still unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares about a summerhouse called Sara Laughs. Upon his return to the town with the summerhouse, he finds the town's inhabitants in the grip of a vindictive man. As Mike is drawn into the town's struggles, he is also drawn into the mystery of the summerhouse, and its escalating terrors.

Five children are engulfed in a mysterious and impenetrable fog and washed ashore on an island in the NOrth Atlantic called Ayda, Where they are caught in the middle of a power struggle and must find five magical stones and learn to harness the island's mystical power in order to return home safely.