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Next to Love

Next to Love
  • Author(s): Ellen Feldman
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Middle of the 20th Century

Babe, Grace and Millie have been best friends since their first day at kindergarten. Now they are newly married, and the men have gone to war. They thrive on letters from their absent sweethearts, and on the closeness they’ve...

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...

One Stupid Thing

One Stupid Thing
  • Author(s): Stewart Lewis
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was just one stupid thing that happened… Summer on Nantucket island. Three high school friends drinking warm beer on a rooftop. Everything is cool, until a seemingly innocent game takes a sinister turn, and the course of their...

Seating Arrangements

Seating Arrangements
  • Author(s): Maggie Shipstead
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and 2012 L.A. Times First Novel Prize The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the...

Snowblind

Snowblind
  • Author(s): Christopher Golden
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards . . . but never one like this. Icy figures danced in the wind and gazed through children’s windows with soul-chilling eyes. People wandered into the whiteout...

Summer Secrets

Summer Secrets
  • Author(s): Jane Green
  • Location(s): London, Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

June, 1998. At twenty-seven, Cat Coombs is struggling. She lives in London, works as a journalist, and parties hard. When she discovers the identity of the father she never knew she had, it sends her into a spiral. She...

That Old Cape Magic

That Old Cape Magic
  • Author(s): Richard Russo
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod – where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon – for a wedding. Cracks are begining to show in Jack’s peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He’s driving round with his...

The Audacity Of Sara Grayson

The Audacity Of Sara Grayson
  • Author(s): Joani Elliott
  • Location(s): Maryland, London, Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens when your mother’s dying wish becomes your worst nightmare? What happens when the world’s greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her best-selling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in...

The Buffalo Soldier

The Buffalo Soldier
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Vermont

With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional family-the ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after their twin...

The Good Lord Bird

The Good Lord Bird
  • Author(s): James McBride
  • Location(s): Boston, Kansas
  • Era(s): 1850s

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857: the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry...

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