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The First Witch of Boston

The First Witch of Boston
  • Author(s): Andrea Catalano
  • Location(s): Boston, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1600s

A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a...

Watch Your Back

Watch Your Back
  • Author(s): Terri Parlato
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amid the depths of a bleak Boston winter, a recently married couple find their lives and their relationship unraveling after a series of deadly accidents, in this brilliantly twisting domestic thriller perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham, Greer Hendricks,...

It Ends With Us

It Ends With Us
  • Author(s): Colleen Hoover
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and...

From a Paris Balcony

From a Paris Balcony
  • Author(s): Ella Carey
  • Location(s): Paris, Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2015 looking back

Secrets of Paris Book 3 The small green chest was concealed at the back of her father’s wardrobe. Its hinges were made of brass that must once have shone, but now the surface was roughened and dull. As she...

History Reinterpreted: The Myles Standish Hotel

History Reinterpreted: The Myles Standish Hotel
  • Author(s): Patrick Ahearn
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s–current

History Reinterpreted, the second published work from celebrated architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects Patrick Ahearn, explores the renovation and reimagination of the 1871 Myles Standish Hotel in Duxbury, Mass., as a grand single-family residence. Highlighting...

Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts
  • Author(s): Celeste Ng
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Boston
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

‘Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere took off (and became a Reese Witherspoon-helmed TV show). Now she’s back with a politically charged tale of 12-year-old Bird Gardner, a Chinese-American child growing up in a dystopian America where difference is being stamped out’ The...

The Time Between Us

The Time Between Us
  • Author(s): Marina McCarron
  • Location(s): Normandy, Boston
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1937, 2009

Normandy, 1937. Sixteen-year-old Elise embarks on a whirlwind romance with a young American man, which transports herfrom the drudgery of her everyday life caring for her mother. But neither she nor William is prepared forthe warthat will threaten to...

Yuki Means Happiness

Yuki Means Happiness
  • Author(s): Alison Jean Lester
  • Location(s): Tokyo, Boston, Oahu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Diana is young and uneasy in a new relationship when she leaves America and moves halfway around the world to Tokyo seeking adventure. In Japan she takes a job as a nanny to two-year-old Yuki Yoshimura and sets about...

The Many Meanings of Meilan

The Many Meanings of Meilan
  • Author(s): Andrea Wang
  • Location(s): Boston, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston’s Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself in this resonant...

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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