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The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire
  • Author(s): John Irving
  • Location(s): Maine, New Hampshire, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

‘The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.’ So says John Berry, son of a hapless...

The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop and Cafe

The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop and Cafe
  • Author(s): Mary Simses
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in fictional Beacon, Maine: Manhattan lawyer Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother’s dying wish – to find the hometown boy she once loved and give him her last letter. Beacon, Maine, home to blueberry fields and...

The Kind Worth Killing

The Kind Worth Killing
  • Author(s): Peter Swanson
  • Location(s): Boston, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Hello there.’ I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger’s face. ‘Do I know you?’ Delayed...

The Lake House

The Lake House
  • Author(s): Marci Nault
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Enter this thoughtful novel full of romance, friendship, jealousy, tragedy, and above all hope. The community of Lake Nagog is small and secluded and provides a beautiful backdrop for the storyline.

The Lowland

The Lowland
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to modern

From Subhash’s earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his...

The Marriage Plot

The Marriage Plot
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Location(s): Providence, Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real...

The Mill River Redemption: A Novel

The Mill River Redemption: A Novel
  • Author(s): Darcie Chan
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Sequel to the Mill River Recluse New York Times bestselling author Darcie Chan returns to the enchanting town of Mill River in a heartwarming novel of family, self-discovery, and forgiveness. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy. Josie DiSanti is...

The Narrow Land

The Narrow Land
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the summer with Richie and his glamorous but troubled mother. Left to their own devices, the boys meet a couple living nearby – the artists Jo...

The Paper Palace

The Paper Palace
  • Author(s): Miranda Cowley Heller
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious freshwater pond below ‘The Paper Palace’ — the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod...

The Santa Shop

The Santa Shop
  • Author(s): Tim Greaton
  • Location(s): New York State, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A poignant and uplifting story. Skip Ralstat loses his wife and baby son on a Christmas Eve fire, Skip’s palpable guilt that he wasn’t there for them causes him to lose his job as a lawyer: and he becomes...

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