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The Eleventh Trade

The Eleventh Trade
  • Author(s): Alyssa Hollingsworth
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Boston
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

For fans of WONDER and REFUGEE BOY – meet Sami, a twelve-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, as he searches for friendship, a place to call home and his grandfather’s most prized possession. Back in Afghanistan, before the Taliban came, Sami’s...

The Many Meanings of Meilan

The Many Meanings of Meilan
  • Author(s): Andrea Wang
  • Location(s): Boston, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston’s Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself in this resonant...

The Midwife’s Revolt

The Midwife’s Revolt
  • Author(s): Jodi Daynard
  • Location(s): Quincy (formerly "Braintree), Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Revolutionary War 1770s

The Midwife’s Revolt is the first of a trilogy On a dark night in 1775, Lizzie Boylston is awakened by the sound of cannons. From a hill south of Boston, she watches as fires burn in Charlestown, in a...

The Ninth Daughter

The Ninth Daughter
  • Author(s): Barbara Hamilton
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Revolutionary America

1773: Massachusetts colony is torn between patriots who want independence from British rule and loyalists who support the King. At the center is the educated and beautiful Abigail Adams-wife of John Adams, a leader of the Sons of Liberty,...

The Saturday Evening Girls Club

The Saturday Evening Girls Club
  • Author(s): Jane Healey
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1908

In Boston’s North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind—but never one another. For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy. But at least they have one another...

The Time Between Us

The Time Between Us
  • Author(s): Marina McCarron
  • Location(s): Normandy, Boston
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1937, 2009

Normandy, 1937. Sixteen-year-old Elise embarks on a whirlwind romance with a young American man, which transports herfrom the drudgery of her everyday life caring for her mother. But neither she nor William is prepared forthe warthat will threaten to...

The Trumpet of the Swan

The Trumpet of the Swan
  • Author(s): E B White
  • Location(s): Philadelphia, Boston
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): late 20th century

THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN is an uplifting story by E. B. White, author of CHARLOTTE’S WEB in which wildlife and nature blend with fantasy to make a tender, humorous and unforgettable animal tale. Unlike other cygnets, Louis, the...

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.

White Ivy

White Ivy
  • Author(s): Susie Yang
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ivy Lin was a thief. But you’d never know it to look at her… Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant growing up in a low-income apartment complex outside Boston, is desperate to assimilate with her American peers. Her parents disapprove,...

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