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Island Apart

Island Apart
  • Author(s): Steven Raichlen
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

An editor from New York is getting over breast cancer, and coming to terms with other difficult aspects in her life. A healing romance restores her on the island. And the author takes this opportunity to introduce his readers...

The Wraith’s Return

The Wraith’s Return
  • Author(s): Raemi A Ray
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

London lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha’s Vineyard for a summer holiday, hoping for peace after her father’s murder. However, the discovery of a pirate shipwreck and its rumored treasure disrupts her plans. When two salvagers are killed and...

Tigers in Red Weather

Tigers in Red Weather
  • Author(s): Liza Klaussmann
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/1950s/1960s

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summers at Tiger House, the glorious old family estate on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of adulthood, the world...

Fall from Grace (Martha’s Vineyard 1)

Fall from Grace (Martha’s Vineyard 1)
  • Author(s): Richard North Patterson
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Adam Blaine returns to Martha’s Vineyard out of duty rather than grief, after his father – bestselling author and celebrated human rights activist Benjamin Blaine – falls to his death. Having been estranged from his father for ten years,...

Loss of Innocence (Martha’s Vineyard 2)

Loss of Innocence (Martha’s Vineyard 2)
  • Author(s): Richard North Patterson
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

June, 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane – spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha’s Vineyard – life could not be safer, nor the future...

The Storied Life of A J Fikry

The Storied Life of A J Fikry
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Zevin
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Who the hell are you?” A.J. asks the baby. For no apparent reason, she stops crying and smiles at him. “Maya,” she answers. That was easy, A.J. thinks. “How old are you?” he asks. Maya holds up two fingers....

A Chain of Pearls

A Chain of Pearls
  • Author(s): Raemi A Ray
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kyra Gibson goes to Martha’s Vineyard to settle her estranged father’s affairs after his death. Once there, she discovers that her father, a celebrated journalist, was found dead under suspicious circumstances. With the help of world-weary detective Tarek Collins,...

Chances Are . . .

Chances Are . . .
  • Author(s): Richard Russo
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2015 looking back to 60s/70s

One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today–Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and...

Drive

Drive
  • Author(s): John Nuckel
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern back to 1800s

In the late 1800s, a secret society is formed by a captain from Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders with the support of the nation’s leading industrialists and bankers. Over a century later, the tradition continues, in the same saloons and...

LIVES APART

LIVES APART
  • Author(s): Anne M McLoughlin
  • Location(s): County Clare, Boston, Martha's Vineyard, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1800s to 1926

LIVES APART tells the story of young Johanna McNamara, who, in 1877 leaves her quiet life on the family farm in County Clare and emigrates to America to join her successful businessman brother Hugh. Full of hope, she is...

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