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Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth
  • Author(s): Dick Lehr
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1980s

Inspired by the true story of a young man’s false imprisonment for murder, this is a gripping novel about a daughter’s fight for justice against the odds. In his first book for teenagers, Dick Lehr, a former reporter for...

On Beauty

On Beauty
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London, Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families...

Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts
  • Author(s): Celeste Ng
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Boston
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

‘Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere took off (and became a Reese Witherspoon-helmed TV show). Now she’s back with a politically charged tale of 12-year-old Bird Gardner, a Chinese-American child growing up in a dystopian America where difference is being stamped out’ The...

Run

Run
  • Author(s): Ann Patchett
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

A moving story of overlapping lives from the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a...

Someone Else’s Secret

Someone Else’s Secret
  • Author(s): Julia Spiro
  • Location(s): Boston, Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2009/2019

2009. Lindsey and Georgie have high hopes for their summer on Martha’s Vineyard. In the wake of the recession, ambitious college graduate Lindsey accepts a job as a nanny for an influential family who may help her land a...

Still Life With Murder

Still Life With Murder
  • Author(s): P B Ryan
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Boston, 1868: The dawn of the Gilded Age, an era of burgeoning commerce and invention, of unimaginable new fortunes and lavish excess—for some. Born into poverty, young Nell Sweeney scratches by on her wits and little else until fortune...

Summertime Guests

Summertime Guests
  • Author(s): Wendy Francis
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE SEAFARER IS THE PLACE TO SEE AND BE SEEN IN THE SUMMER… With its rich history and famous guests, the glamorous Boston hotel is no stranger to drama. But the bustle at the iconic property reaches new heights...

Thank You for Riding

Thank You for Riding
  • Author(s): Meg Maguire
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Stung ego or not, Caitlin’s relieved her fizzling relationship is over, even if she’s just been unceremoniously dumped between the copier and a dead ficus tree. At least she has an excuse to ditch the lousy office Christmas party...

The American Girl

The American Girl
  • Author(s): Rachael English
  • Location(s): Dublin, Boston, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s nd 2013

From a storyteller who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the elegance of Maggie O’Farrell comes an unforgettable new novel . . . Boston 1968. Rose Moroney is seventeen, smart, spirited – and pregnant. She wants to marry...

The Bone Garden

The Bone Garden
  • Author(s): Tess Gerritsen
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present and early 19th Century

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil-human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles,...

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