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Empire Falls

Empire Falls
  • Author(s): Richard Russo
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last Mrs Whiting...

Fade to White

Fade to White
  • Author(s): Wendy Clinch
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Hollywood Harper Stone arrives at Spruce Peak, Vermont to film a commercial. Stacey Curtis loves to ski and does a few last runs with her friend and ski patrol Chip Walsh. They find a body.

Ghana Must Go

Ghana Must Go
  • Author(s): Taiye Selasi
  • Location(s): New England, New York City (NYC), West Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

With mesmerizing craftsmanship and massive imagination takes the reader on an unforgettable journey across continents and most importantly deeply into the lives of the people whom she writes about. She de-“exoticizes” whole populations and demographics and brings...

Girls I Know

Girls I Know
  • Author(s): Douglas Trevor
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships : one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate...

Glass Houses

Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent, Armand Gamache knows something is seriously wrong, but all he can do...

Go with Me

Go with Me
  • Author(s): Castle Freeman
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Humour, Thriller

Somewhere in backwoods Vermont, a young woman refuses to back down in the face of threats from a violent local villain. Her boyfriend has fled the state in fear, and local law enforcement can do nothing to protect her....

House of Fire

House of Fire
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): New England, Boston, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who struggled with opioid addiction, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is...

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...

Leaves

Leaves
  • Author(s): Michael Baron
  • Location(s): Connecticut
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to Oldham, CT, a small town rich in Colonial heritage while being utterly contemporary. Situated along the Connecticut River Valley, Oldham bursts with color every fall, as the leaves on its trees evolve into an unmatched palette of...

Nantucket Nights

Nantucket Nights
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A full moon, a twenty-year old friendship- and a Nantucket night no one would ever forget… For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette, and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their...

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