Books with author Mary Jane

A potato farm in Maine is a dreary enough place to visit, city-bred Priscilla reflects gloomily, but how could her mother and brother, Lee, consider living here? Nothing exciting ever happens in Aroostook County…until the day the windmill on the farm next door stops turning. Standing there like some stricken monster, it lends the whole landscape an atmosphere of eerie menace. And its owner, the eccentric farmer and inventor, Nils Gustafson, has vanished, apparently into thin air.Rumors fly as neighbors try to account for the mild-seeming old man's mysterious disappearance. Lee and Priscilla, with their cousin, Greg, have their own theories. When they discover an ancient feud, an Indian plot, and a lost silver mine, they find themselves in real and spine-chilling danger!

A potato farm in Maine is a dreary enough place to visit, city-bred Priscilla reflects gloomily, but how could her mother and brother, Lee, consider living here? Nothing exciting ever happens in Aroostook County…until the day the windmill on the farm next door stops turning. Standing there like some stricken monster, it lends the whole landscape an atmosphere of eerie menace. And its owner, the eccentric farmer and inventor, Nils Gustafson, has vanished, apparently into thin air.Rumors fly as neighbors try to account for the mild-seeming old man's mysterious disappearance. Lee and Priscilla, with their cousin, Greg, have their own theories. When they discover an ancient feud, an Indian plot, and a lost silver mine, they find themselves in real and spine-chilling danger!

A Maverick Pilgrim Way is more than a travel guide. It’s a self-help guide to hiking, to overcome grief.In her Maverick fashion, Mary Jane walked for years after her mother died. She trekked along the winding ancient roads of Old-World pilgrims, including parts of the Camino de Santiago or St James's Way, the West Highland Way, and climbed Mt Blanc, to name a few. Along the way she came to St Petersburg with its golden palaces, which is her favourite city in Europe.Pilgrim ways aren’t just for the religious. People of all ages and walks of life come to hike them. She stayed with Russian Jews in Barcelona, so learnt no Spanish. She stayed on a commune just outside of San Sebastian run by a religious group called the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who tried to convert her. She loved Basque food and stayed in an Airbnb where the guy grew marijuana in his lounge.She was amazed by the vineyards and weird hollow mountains of Cappadocia. In Russia, she got invited to a Pussy Riot punk rock party in St Petersburg and was followed around by internal security spies.With 581 photos, maps and other images. BY THE AUTHOR OF A MAVERICK NEW ZEALAND WAY, FINALIST IN THE TRAVEL CATEGORY, INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS, 2018.

1926 was the year of the General Strike, but Adams Enterprises, under the wily management of Sammy Adams, youngest entrepreneur in Walworth and Lambeth, was doing very well. All the Adams brothers worked in the business, and so did two of the wives, Emily and Susie. There was just one dark cloud on the horizon - the impending trial of Gerald Ponsonby. Boots had been the one responsible for catching the murderer, and Ponsonby hated Boots and, indeed, the entire Adams family. He was determined to get his revenge and make them suffer. When a dapper, quiet, but rather odd lodger turned up at Doreen Paterson's house, nobody thought anything was amiss. It never occurred to Doreen - who worked for Boots in Adams Enterprises and thought him just wonderful - that the strange lodger might be plotting the downfall of the irrepressible, outrageous, and larger-than-life Adams clan.

What if the ghost in your head is more frightening than the one right in front of you? Fifteen-year-old Libby has spent her whole life in the shadow of her superstar sister. Then her sister dies, and the light goes out. When Libby's parents drop her off in Sayers Beach, Maine, to stay at her aunt and uncle's inn for the summer, she sees a chance to escape her secrets and reinvent herself. Libby's finally caught the attention of the cute, popular guy, no one sees her as the lonely bookworm, and nobody knows why she blames herself for her sister's death. Nobody except the ghost in the lighthouse. And the ghost has a few secrets of her own. Lumens is an unexpected story of mystery, of love, and of finding your own way through the darkness.

The sea keeps secrets.Gryshen’s never belonged. She’s always been . . . odd. And she’s never wanted her role as chieftain’s daughter.There are too many expectations. She’s expected to lead a pod of iloray who don’t seem to trust her. To be the responsible sibling, while her charming kid brother jokes, hunts, and woos. To marry her father’s unbearably dependable aide, Bravis.Life in the water has always moved too fast. And now it’s speeding up.Gryshen’s beloved father is dying, leaving her to take the throne and guard her pod’s sacred pearl, a magical gem that gives life to all iloray.When she meets the remarkable Coss, son of the most ruthless chieftain in Oceas, she finally finds a way out. But her dreams come undone as her father’s health collapses, the sacred pearl goes missing, and an ancient test reveals just how much of a stranger she is.Now, Gryshen—who’s never led anything—must lead warriors from pods around the sea in a battle to save their kind. Will she discover what she is along the way?The sea is full of secrets, and it’s time for them to surface.

Rap, rap, rap. The eerie sound is coming from the deserted house. Gail is sure of it! But no one has lived there for ages. Gail has never before dared to walk past the ghostly house by moonlight -- not by herself. Why, oh why, had she run ahead of Conan and her brothers? If only she had waited for them! then she hears it again -- that hollow sound behind the ruined walls -- rap, rap, rap. Frightened, she calls to the boys, "Come quick!" How can they know this is only the beginning of many strange and baffling happenings that will involve them all?

It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin's wedding. Not only is Piper creating the sugar-sand-dollar-festooned wedding cake, she's also the maid of honor.But a cloud seems to be hovering over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor's car is run off the road and a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened to keep silent. Then a body is found on the beach where the wedding will take place. With the nuptials in jeopardy, it falls to Piper to unmask a killer.As Piper gets close to figuring out who's been covering his guilty footprints in the sand, the cunning killer has already set his sights on Piper as his next victim!