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Understood Betsy

Understood Betsy
  • Author(s): Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified at the prospect of going to live with her country cousins. But as she helps with chores around the farm and makes new friends, the sickly, self-centered girl is transformed into confident, independent Betsy....

Unshapely Things

Unshapely Things
  • Author(s): Mark Del Franco
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

In the alleys of the decrepit Boston neighborhood known as the Weird, fairy prostitutes are turning up dead. The crime scenes show signs of residual magic, but the Guild, which polices the fey, has more “important” crimes to investigate...

Vernon Downs

Vernon Downs
  • Author(s): Jaime Clark
  • Location(s): Boston, New York City (NYC), Phoenix
  • Era(s): Modern

This is a moody novel which follows the exploits of Charlie as he gravitates from one woman to the next.

Villa del Sol

Villa del Sol
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Lugano, Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Jennifer Logan just buried her husband, the beloved senior senator from Rhode Island. To find solace and peace for her troubled soul, she rents a villa in a small town on the Swiss-Italian border. For the next six months,...

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,...

We Ride Upon Sticks

We Ride Upon Sticks
  • Author(s): Quan Barry
  • Location(s): Massachusetts, Danvers
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In the coastal town of Danvers, MA, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals — even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers....

We Shall Not All Sleep

We Shall Not All Sleep
  • Author(s): Estep Nagy
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fictional Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family–Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue...

What Have You Done?

What Have You Done?
  • Author(s): Shari Lapena
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors...

What She Inherits

What She Inherits
  • Author(s): Diane V Mulligan
  • Location(s): Casco, South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Angela Ellis returns to her childhood home on St. Nabor Island, South Carolina, her junior year of college interrupted indefinitely by her mother’s death, she doesn’t know how she’ll ever be able to function in the world without...

When We Were the Kennedys

When We Were the Kennedys
  • Author(s): Monica Wood
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1963

1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father’s wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood...

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