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A Hundred Summers

A Hundred Summers
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

The New York Times bestselling novel. Rhode Island, 1938. A sweltering summer of secrets, passion and betrayal… Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family have summered for generations. She’s hoping for an escape from the...

Ocean State

Ocean State
  • Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For the Oliviera family – mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie – autumn 2009 in the once-prosperous beach town of Ashaway, Rhode Island is the worst of times. Money is tight, Carol can’t stay away from unsuitable men, Angel’s...

The Lowland

The Lowland
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to modern

From Subhash’s earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his...

The Marriage Plot

The Marriage Plot
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Location(s): Providence, Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real...

My Sister’s Keeper

My Sister’s Keeper
  • Author(s): Jodi Picoult
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘A major decision about me is being made, and no one’s bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.’ The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to...

The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners

The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Capri, Newport (R I)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Years ago, Lyra Davis fled the people she loved most, unable to reconcile the expectations of her wealthy family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle...

Three Women

Three Women
  • Author(s): Lisa Taddeo
  • Location(s): North Dakota, Indiana, Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a...

Where or When

Where or When
  • Author(s): Anita Shreve
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Charles Callahan chances on a newspaper photograph of Sian Richards, a woman he loved when they were both only thirteen, he is hardly in a position to do anything about it. He has been faithfully married for years...

An Enlightening Quiche

An Enlightening Quiche
  • Author(s): Eva Pasco
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present time

Taking place in northern Rhode Island’s Blackstone Valley region where the mighty falls of the Blackstone River once wielded power over the French-Canadian mill community of Beauchemins, two headstrong women in their forties coming from different moral directions clash:...

For the Best

For the Best
  • Author(s): Vanessa Lillie
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Suspected of a murder she can’t remember, a troubled woman takes an unusual approach to proving her innocence in this gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Little Voices. When Jules Worthington-Smith’s wallet is found next to a dead...

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