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Confessions from the Cotton Fields

Confessions from the Cotton Fields
  • Author(s): Linnea Nilsson
  • Location(s): Boston, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Pre-Civil War America

“Confessions from the Cotton Fields” is an erotic historical novel set in Virginia before the American Civil War. It is the debut for the author in erotic literature. Octavia’s life was falling apart. An unfaithful husband, a life that...

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...

Girl Missing

Girl Missing
  • Author(s): Tess Gerritsen
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Originally published under the title: Peggy Sue Got Murdered. She’s young. She’s beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets—except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers...

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...

How High the Moon

How High the Moon
  • Author(s): Karyn Parsons
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Boston was nothing like South Carolina. Up there, colored folks could go anywhere they wanted. Folks didn’t wait for church to dress in their fancy clothes. Fancy was just life. Mama was a city girl . . . and...

Interpreter of Maladies

Interpreter of Maladies
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): West Bengal, Boston
  • Era(s): Modern

Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives...

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...

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...

LIVES WITHOUT END

LIVES WITHOUT END
  • Author(s): Anne M McLoughlin
  • Location(s): Boston, County Clare, County Wexford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1838 to 1978

LIVES WITHOUT END An emotional tale of family secrets spanning three generations. Mary Ann survives the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and lives on to become matriarch of the McNamara family. This solid rock of a woman is...

Nighthawks

Nighthawks
  • Author(s): Lambert Nagle
  • Location(s): Rome, Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When art, money and power collide… A Mafia boss addicted to beautiful art. A Catholic priest who knows too much. A modern-day Jay Gatsby. And a woman on the run. Disgraced London detective Stephen Connor is given an ultimatum:...

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