maine

Nate's visit to Grandpappy's house in Maine is filled with such everyday adventures as finding a four-leaf clover, watching a gray heron, and shopping for supplies.

Colleen Templeton spends a romantic summer before starting college working at Bobb's Lobster, sorting out her feelings for two possible boyfriends, and sharing a house with friends on the tiny Maine island she calls home.

As the number of Invalids in a dystopian future United States grows, government regulators infiltrate the Wilds to stamp out these rebels once and for all. Finding herself at the center of a growing resistance movement, Lena prepares for a final confrontation that will decide the future of her world.

Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

Dolores Claiborne finally tells the police why she murdered her husband Joe and her longtime employer Vera Donovan.

When seventeen-year-old Graham Larkin accidentally sends seventeen-year-old Ellie O'Neill across the country an email about his pet pig, Wilbur, it sparks a humorous string of correspondence that lasts throughout one crazy summer. Ellie and Graham share much--but not all--about their lives, until one day Graham has the opportunity to travel to Ellie's hometown, with the chance to take their relationship into the personal world.

Hannah longs to be a normal woman but she's not. Now she can see a tracing of scales on her legs and notices how waves comfort her. Her two sisters have been separated from her due to a violent storm and have gone their separate ways. Hannah grew up in an orphanage, but now is a humble maid of a wealthy family. Through a series of special encounters Hannah learns that she must make a choice between the land and the sea.

In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares.

Lucy, languishing in stuffy New York society, travels with her family to a seaside community where she learns some hidden truths about herself and her family. Her social-climbing parents push her to marry someone within their own social standing but Lucy has met and fallen in love with a shipbuilder who shares her love of the sea. Her mother plots to keep them apart no matter what she has to do including murder and a web of lies.