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Born in New Jersey, she grew up in a family where books were an important part of life.
("Sometimes a man has to risk everything to do what's righ...)
"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 docks and ships in Charleston Harbor, close to the seas he longs to sail. Life seems good. But when Michael's protective mistress dies, everything changes, and Michael's friend Jim encourages him to run away. Michael is torn. Should he risk everything for a chance at freedom in some unknown place? Or should he stay -- is staying safe worth staying a slave?
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(Stopping to Home (Original) STOPPING TO HOME (ORIGINAL) B...)
Stopping to Home (Original) STOPPING TO HOME (ORIGINAL) BY Wait, Lea ( Author ) Jan-01-2003 STOPPING TO HOME (ORIGINAL) STOPPING TO HOME (ORIGINAL) BY WAIT, LEA ( AUTHOR ) JAN-01-2003 By Wait, Lea ( Author )Jan-01-2003 Paperback By Wait, Lea ( Author ) Paperback 2003
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( In the world of antiques dealing, there are minor cala...)
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 in the weeks prior to the Rensselaer County Spring Antiques Fair. For Maggie Summer, owner of Shadow Antiques and an antique print expert, the threat of murder is far from her mind as she displays her treasures at the prestigious show. Though rumors abound, security is tight, and Maggie has been in the business too long to be easily rattled, she can't help observing her colleagues with fresh eyes. And when sudden death claims a victim in their midst, Maggie will race to stop a killer -- if she can distinguish those she suspects from the real deal.
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("WHAT HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON IS TOO TERRIBLE TO WRITE. ....)
"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 without a leg -- and without his future. There's no place on a farm for a cripple. And so, after a long winter of healing, Will and his sister Cassie, who blames herself for the accident, go to stay in town with their older sister and her husband. There, as Maine becomes a state, Will learns that perhas even without his leg, there's another, brighter future in store for him. And Cassie, too, learns that maybe, in the changing world of 1820, Will isn't the only one with the chance at a different, exciting future. . . .
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(Maggie Summer's life is full. She has three loves in her ...)
Maggie Summer's life is full. She has three loves in her life: her antique print business, her career as a community college professor, and the new man in her life. She loves using the antique prints to illustrate her lectures on American cultural history. When a special dormitory is built for single parents and their children, Maggie is thrilled to become the faculty advisor to the young parents--until one of the young mothers is poisoned. There is a killer on campus, but is it an outsider or someone Maggie knows and trusts? Does someone want to destroy Whitcomb House or the college? As always, Maggie finds the answers to her questions in the antique prints she knows and loves. And this time, torn between her own needs and those of her students, the most important discoveries Maggie makes are about herself.
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("Maine. Antiques. August." That's all Maggie Summer requi...)
"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 Amy and her husband Drew are restoring in tiny Madoc, Maine, is perfect -- or it will be, once Maggie supplies just the right antique prints. But Amy's type A personality is bordering on hysteria: could her desperation to get pregnant explain the sound of the crying infant that haunts her nights? Perhaps the hostile neighbors -- resentful of transplanted New Yorkers Amy and Drew -- have Amy on edge. But when the body of a missing teenaged girl turns up on their land, Maggie knows the threat is authentic. Now everyone, even Maggie's antiques-hunter friend Will Brewer, is cast in a suspicious light -- as she scratches beneath the surface of small-town New England life, and blows the dust off secrets hidden inside a grand Maine home for generations.
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(What do you do when you don't have a home or a family to ...)
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 it is up to her to build a new life for herself and her little brother, Seth. But carving a future out of the harsh realities of life in Wiscasset, a nineteenth-century Maine seaport, proves difficult, and Abigail fears that there will always be more questions than answers. How long will they be able to stay and work for the young Widow Chase? Will Seth be able to let go of the past? As the months roll by like waves on the sea, Abigail searches tirelessly for a solution and for an answer to the question she holds most dear: Will they ever find a place to call home again?
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(WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WOR...)
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 north, taking with them a few furnishings -- and a deep family secret. In Maine they find only a dirty, isolated farmhouse, and a job for Father that takes him away from home. "I'll have to depend on you," Jake's mother tells him. But how can Jake find food? How can he prepare for the dangerous cold of a Maine winter? How can he protect his mother -- and his family's secret? Slowly, Jake learns the ways to survive, catching game and storing food for the long winter months. Nabby McCord, whose family also has a secret, helps him. So does Granny McPherson, who may be a witch. But when it comes to earning the money they need, Jake knows he's on his own. He shows his determination as the winter approaches, but does he have what it takes to bring his family together to face the future -- and their past? Finest Kind is the powerful story of a boy who is forced to become a man and to learn the truth about courage, friendship, and secrets.
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(Shadows on the Ivy: An Antique Print Mystery (Antique Pri...)
Shadows on the Ivy: An Antique Print Mystery (Antique Print Mysteries (Paperback)) SHADOWS ON THE IVY: AN ANTIQUE PRINT MYSTERY (ANTIQUE PRINT MYSTERIES (PAPERBACK)) By Wait, Lea ( Author )Jul-05-2005 Paperback
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(Antique print dealer Maggie Summer is teaching a college ...)
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 dealing with the problems of students who are single parents: problems that turn dangerous when a young mother is poisoned, and events twist Maggie's own thoughts about motherhood. She suspects a sinister connection between the past and the present, and her prints could provide valuable clues. But some secrets are too hard to see -- even for an expert like Maggie -- and some crimes hit too close to home...
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(She's an antique print dealer, a college professor, and n...)
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 show on their behalf. With her dealer friends, her college, and her lover, Will Brewer, all donating their time and support, everything is falling into place. But someone is harboring a vicious grudge against Our World, Our Children. The adoptive mother of thirteen children is the first victim, and then Maggie begins receiving threats. With the crowded benefit set to open and hundreds of innocent lives at stake, Maggie races to preserve the future with a clue hidden in her prints from the past. . .
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(On September 7, 1804, Charleston, South Carolina was deva...)
On September 7, 1804, Charleston, South Carolina was devastated by one of the worst hurricanes of the 19th century. In this 30-page short story, thirteen-year-old Michael Lautrec confronts the storm as he searches for his father in the city streets and on its wharves, not realizing he and his mother are also in danger, and that this day will change his life. Based on first-person accounts of the storm, The Charleston Hurricane of 1804 is a story complete in itself - but is also the prequel to Seaward Born, Lea Wait's novel which tells the rest of Michael's adventures. Ann Rinaldi called Seaward Born "Thoroughly absorbing! It held me from beginning to end." Award-winning author and historian Lea Wait will pull you into the past, its dangers, and its challenges.
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(The History of Flagellation: The Whip as an Instrument of...)
The History of Flagellation: The Whip as an Instrument of Punishment, Torture, Self-Beatings, Religion, and Erotic Stimulation
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Born in New Jersey, she grew up in a family where books were an important part of life.
Bachelor, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, 1968. Master of Arts, New York University, 1974. DWD, New York University, 1978.
She has written a number of children"s stories for age 7 and up, as well as the Shadows Antique Print Mystery series for adults. Her family summered in Maine. She did her undergraduate work at Chatham College - now Chatham University - in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and her graduate work at New York University, completing all requirements for a doctorate except for the dissertation, a "DWD", and joining American Telephone & Telegraph Company as a manager.
Her grandmother was an antiques dealer, and in 1976 she started an antique print business, and decided she should become a writer
She also, as a single parent, adopted four “older” girls born in of Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong and India. lieutenant was in 1998 that she left the corporate life and moved to live in Edgecomb, Maine.
She now divides her time between her writing and her antique print business.
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(Stopping to Home (Original) STOPPING TO HOME (ORIGINAL) B...)
(Shadows on the Ivy: An Antique Print Mystery (Antique Pri...)
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(From Book 1: Returning to the quaint coastal town of Ha...)
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(October on Cape Cod is always beautiful, and antique prin...)
(Returning to the quaint coastal town of Harbor Haven, Mai...)
(The History of Flagellation: The Whip as an Instrument of...)
(The Mainely Needlepointers are about to learn that no man...)
(On September 7, 1804, Charleston, South Carolina was deva...)
(When a priceless antique is stolen, murder unravels the p...)
(In the summer of 1890, two young women posed for artist W...)
(WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WOR...)
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( In the world of antiques dealing, there are minor cala...)
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("WHAT HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON IS TOO TERRIBLE TO WRITE. ....)
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Member of Maine Antique Dealers Association, Mystery Writers American, Sisters in Crime, Maine Alliance Writers and Publications (secretary since 2002), National Council for Single Adoptive Parents.
Daughter of George W Wait and Sally Eleanor Smart. Married Robert Joseph Thomas, October 28, 2003. Children: Caroline Yoon Kyung Childs, Alicia Yupin Gutschenritter, Rebecca Siu Kuen Wynne, Elizabeth Purnima.