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A Box of Matches

A Box of Matches
  • Author(s): Nicholson Baker
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. Here...

A Little Hope

A Little Hope
  • Author(s): Ethan Joella
  • Location(s): Connecticut
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the small city of Wharton, Connecticut, lives are beginning to unravel. A husband betrays his wife. A son struggles with addiction. A widow misses her late spouse. At the heart of these interlinking stories is one couple: Freddie...

Blood In The Water

Blood In The Water
  • Author(s): Jack Flynn
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Homeland Security agent, Kit Steel, is committed to avenge terrorism. And she’s after the blood of her nemesis, one of world’s most ruthless and dangerous criminals, Vincente Carpio. He has the blood of her husband and young son on...

Damage

Damage
  • Author(s): Caitlin Wahrer
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sometimes, the true story is the hardest to believe. TONY has always looked out for his younger brother, Nick. So when Nick is badly hurt and it looks like he was the victim of sexual assault, Tony’s anger flares....

False Allegiance

False Allegiance
  • Author(s): Nick Thacker
  • Location(s): Massachusetts, Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), Gambia / Senegal border
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Someone wants Jake Parker dead. He’ll find out why, or die trying… Ex-army, ex-police, widowed husband, estranged son. Jake Parker has no family, no one to care if one of the government-contract jobs he takes goes wrong. So he’s...

If I Had Two Lives

If I Had Two Lives
  • Author(s): Abbigail N Rosewood
  • Location(s): New England, New York City (NYC), Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000's

This luminous debut novel follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life as an immigrant in the United States – and her necessary return to her homeland. As a child, isolated from the world in...

Orphan Train

Orphan Train
  • Author(s): Christina Baker Kline
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and modern

Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be. Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. A community...

Sandwich

Sandwich
  • Author(s): Catherine Newman
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong…? For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their rustic beach-town rental has been the site...

Still Missing

Still Missing
  • Author(s): Beth Gutcheon
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The New York Times’s reviewer wrote: ‘Love is hard enough to write about, but a parent’s love for a child is almost inexpressible in its universality and in the uneventfulness of its nature under ordinary circumstances. When Alex disappears,...

Telling Sonny

Telling Sonny
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gauffreau
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1925-1945

An atmospheric historical novel set in small-town Vermont, where 19-year-old Faby lives with her close-knit French family, Maman Aurore, Papa, Mémère, and sister Josephine. The story traces an eventful year in Faby’s young life when she meets and marries...

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