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Author
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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While spending a week at her friend's Christmas tree farm, Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin is drawn into a mystery involving a dead body in a shipment of Scotch pine, a series of "accidents," and a strange maze of trees.
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 4
Language
English
Description
"With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war. The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah...
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Series
Outlander novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser, a twentieth-century woman and a Scottish Highlander who fell in love when Claire traveled back in time through a stone circle, following the couple to the American colonies, where their attempts to make a new life for themselves are complicated by the arrival of their daughter Brianna, who has news from the future.
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Series
Outlander novels volume 9
Language
English
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"It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won't...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Scottish immigrants attempt to build new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains of brutal, beautiful Montana at the turn of the 20th century.
Anna Ramsey and Angus McCaskill engage in a fateful contest of the heart as they forge new lives in the beautiful Two Medicine country of Montana.
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Series
Outlander novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas during the American Revolution, they encounter privateers and ocean battles. Meanwhile in the relative safety of the 20th century Brianna (Claire and Jamie's daughter) and Roger MacKenzie, Brianna's husband, search for clues not only to Claire's fate--but to their own fate in the Highlands.
8) Scotched
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine hosts the First Annual Maine-ly Cozy Con, a mystery book conference, Liss MacCrimmon and her fiancée Dan discover that the truth is stranger--and deadlier--than fiction when a muckraking reviewer with a grudge supposedly jumps to her death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In Moosetookalook, Maine, Liss MacCrimmon wants a simple wedding ceremony when she marries Dan Ruskin on the same weekend as the Western Maine Highland Games. However, her mom demands a tartan celebration instead of vanilla as her daughter prefers. Someone murders charming history professor Alfred Leon Palsgrave using the academic's broadsword. Liss has solved homicides before (see The Corpse Wore Tartan and Scotched) but plans to stay out of this...
10) X marks the Scot
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After she hires an archivist to help her research a treasure map that she found at the Chadwick estate in Moosetookalook, Maine, Scottish Emporium owner Lisa MacCrimmon is horrified when the archivist is murdered, and takes it upon herself to find the killer.
14) A view to a kilt
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A series of blizzards have kept tourists away from Moosetookalook, Maine, and shoppers out of Liss MacCrimmons Scottish Emporium. But as warmer weather brings promises of tartan sales and new faces, melting snow reveals cold-blooded murder . . . Liss has suddenly found herself in charge of the March Madness Mud Season Sale, a town-wide celebration created to boost the local economy during the slushy weeks of early spring. With businesses ailing after...
16) Overkilt
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Liss MacCrimmon's meddlesome mother is back in Moosetookalook, Maine, to serve a hefty portion of trouble in time for Thanksgiving. But when a scandalous murder case threatens to leave Liss alone at the table, family drama takes on a terrifying new meaning . . . While Liss preps the Scottish Emporium for November's inevitable shopping rush, other local businesses aren't half as lucky. Year after year, her father-in-law's rustic hotel can barely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Liss and the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society get snowed in during a gathering for the Robert Burns Night Supper, old grudges and whiskey heat up the atmosphere. Then a tartan-covered body is discovered in a storage room, and Liss helps her friends sort out the facts before more tempers--and lives--are lost.
Author
Publisher
Evergreen Farm, an imprint of Gilead Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of Peter Marshall, a poor Scottish immigrant who came to America and rose from ditch-digger to minister, becoming one of the most revered men in the country. When elected Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, Peter's winsome ability to bring God into the affairs of government touched the very soul of America.
19) Out of the mist
Author
Series
Stewart sisters trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"The protagonist of this historical novel, which is set in the Shetland Islands and also New York City around 1840, is Christian Robertson, a crofter and son of a crofter (small, struggling tenant farmer). When Christian's brother frames him for the theft of a bag of coins, Christian must leave home and embark on a journey to return the coins and clear his name"--
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