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Lea Wait's Books
There are 8 books
1.
Shadows on the Coast of Maine
An Antique Print Mystery
By: Lea Wait
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: November 28, 2007
Maine. Antiques. August. That's all Maggie Summer requires for a guaranteed fun getaway. But there is an unexplained urgency behind the invitation from her former college roommate, Amy Douglas. The eighteenth-century house...
2.
Finest Kind
By: Lea Wait
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: October 10, 2006
Ages: 8 - 12
WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WORLD IS FALLING APART?
It's 1838. Jake's father has lost his job and his savings. Hearing of work in Maine, the family leaves their large home in Boston and heads...
3.
Shadows at the Spring Show
An Antique Print Mystery
By: Lea Wait
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: June 20, 2006
She's an antique print dealer, a college professor, and now...a parent? Maggie Summer is considering adopting a child from the New Jersey agency Our World, Our Children, and she has happily agreed to stage a benefit antiques...
4.
Wintering Well
By: Lea Wait
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: March 7, 2006
Ages: 8 - 12
"WHAT HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON IS TOO TERRIBLE TO WRITE. . . . PLEASE, GOD, LET WILL LIVE. AND, PLEASE, GOD, FORGIVE ME."
All Will Ames ever wanted to do was farm. But when he's injured in a farm accident, Will is left...
Other Formats: eBook
5.
Shadows on the Ivy
An Antique Print Mystery
By: Lea Wait
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: July 5, 2005
Antique print dealer Maggie Summer is teaching a college course on "Myths in American Culture," using prints by Currier & Ives and other nineteenth century artists to illustrate her points. As a faculty advisor, she's also...
Other Formats: eBook
6.
Shadows at the Fair
An Antique Print Mystery
By: Lea Wait
This edition: eBook, 272 pages
Publication date: March 5, 2003
In the world of antiques dealing, there are minor calamities...like accidentally selling a rare engraving for $170 instead of $1,700. And then there are worse tragedies -- such as the chain of suspicious deaths among dealers...
7.
Seaward Born
By: Lea Wait
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2003
Ages: 8 - 12
"Sometimes a man has to risk everything to do what's right. Doing it is what makes him a man."
Thirteen-year-old Michael knows he is lucky. Few slaves in 1805 Charleston are where they want to be. But Michael works on the...
8.
Stopping to Home
By: Lea Wait
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2003
Ages: 8 - 12
What do you do when you don't have a home or a family to call your own anymore?
Eleven-year-old Abigail is not entirely sure how she'll do it, but after losing her mother to smallpox and her father to the sea, she knows that...
