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Rising Tides: The Chesapeake Bay Saga #2 (The Quinn Brothers Trilogy)
Nora Roberts
Jove, 1998
My Favourite of ALL the brothers!!!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS BOOK!!! this was the first i read in the trilogy about the Quinn brothers (i have since read them all) and i have to say it was my favourite! All are just terrific but this one was especially great for me. it was also the first nora roberts ...
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Sea Swept: The Chesapeake Bay Saga #1 (Chesapeake Bay)
Nora Roberts
Jove, 1998
A great story
I really love this book ,great characters and a very touching story.
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Inner Harbor: The Chesapeake Bay Saga #3 (Chesapeake Bay)
Nora Roberts
Jove, 1999
A wonderful ending to a wonderful series
Great story to complete the series. I like the way the new characters mix with my old favorites. The only problem is that is leaves you dieing to find out what happens to Seth. Read Chesapeake Blue to find out what happens to Seth
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Pure Sea Glass: Discovering Nature's Vanishing Gems
Richard LaMotte, Sally Lamotte Crane
Chesapeake Seaglass Pub., 2004
Pure Sea Glass
This is a lovely coffee table book that is amazingly beautiful as well as informative. I have recently started collecting beach glass and I learned so much about the various colors, how rare each is and where the glass might have come from. I highly recommend this ...
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
William W. Warner
Back Bay Books, 1994
What would Warner think now?
A recent trip to the Eastern Shore area led me to pick up this book. It's as fascinating as everyone here says, with moving descriptions of both the watermen who work the Bay and the creatures they catch. With blue crab populations now down more than 70 percent from ...
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Nora Roberts: The Chesapeake Series (Chesapeake Blue, Inner Harbor, Sea Swept, Rising Tides)
Exquisite
Forget about simply being confined to the Romance genre. These four books are on a par with any top notch novelist. The writing is beautiful and the characters incredibly compelling. Roberts has written four achingly beautiful heartbreaking and ultimately redemptive ...
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Chesapeake Blue: The Chesapeake Bay Saga #4 (Chesapeake Bay)
Nora Roberts
Jove, 2004
A rollercoaster of emotion that you just don't want to get off of!
Chesapeake Blue: The Chesapeake Bay Saga #4 (Chesapeake Bay)
This book is a MUST READ! I love Nora Roberts' writing style so much!!! She has this way of building the characters so that you FEEL like you're right there in the book and you are experiencing ...
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Chesapeake: A Novel
James A. Michener
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
My First Michener
I've always been put off by the length of Michener's novels, but when a near relative so enthusiastically recommended this book, I decided to give it a try. Well! I have to say that I thoroughly, completely enjoyed every page. Michener's style is so simple, so ...
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Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
HarperCollins, 1977
The Magic of Friendship
I have read this countless times since the 4th grade, and it still continues to be one of my favorite books ever. The odd thing is that I remember being severely disappointed to learn this was not a fantasy.
But the real story is stronger, that of a deep friendship ...
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The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America
H. Bruce Franklin
Island Press, 2007
Wow! Who knew?! Maybe menhaden ARE the most important fish in the sea...at least along the Atlantic seaboard.
Franklin weaves a compelling tale that includes the biology, natural history, fishery development, politics, and ecological significance of menhaden to marine communities along the Atlantic seaboard of North America.
Menhaden are unusual fish. They are ...
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The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1 (Chesapeake Bay)
Nora Roberts
Berkley Trade, 2006
Quinn Brothers
Nora Roberts is a favorite author of mine. This series was just wonderful.
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The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake
William B. Cronin
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
A book to keep or a book to give
I was so delighted with this book, which was a purchase for my library's collection, that I bought another copy for myself! Living on the Chesapeake Bay myself, I am always on the hunt for great books for my personal library. When folks come for a visit, it's nice to ...
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Life in the Chesapeake Bay
Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
The awesome beauty of small things.
Expanded revision of the 1984 Guide. I live in New Jersey & this wonderful book is one of the best teachers for my home waters. "Life in Chesapeake Bay" is organized to take the reader from an overview of bay ecology, across the sand beaches, around the piers & ...
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Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels (The Million Dollar Mysteries, Book 2)
Mindy Starns Clark
Harvest House Publishers, 2003
Suspenseful, intelligent Mystery set in the Chesapeake
"Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels" was the first book I've read by author Mindy Starns Clark, and this book turned out to be a dandy thriller. This is the second book in Ms. Starn's Million Dollar Mystery series. The first few chapters were a bit slow to get into the ...
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The Quinn Legacy (Chesapeake Bay)
Nora Roberts
Berkley Trade, 2006
A Family Affair
I read the second installment on the new printouts that Nora has published (4 Quinn novels - 2 in each book) and I have to say Phillip and Seth's story were every bit as good, if not better, than the first half - The Quinn Brothers - Cameron and Ethan. The first ...
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