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The Switch

The Switch
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): Boston, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Michael Tanner is heading home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong laptop from security. What he doesn’t know is that the owner is US senator Susan Robbins, and her laptop contains top secret files...

The Visionist

The Visionist
  • Author(s): Rachel Urquhart
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Era(s): 1842

Massachusetts, 1842. Fifteen-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to her family farm, killing her abusive father. With his fiery ghost at her heels, Polly and her young brother seek refuge in a local Shaker community – the City of Hope....

The Way You Look Tonight

The Way You Look Tonight
  • Author(s): Richard Madeley
  • Location(s): Boston, Florida Keys, New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Not until she was 16 did Stella Arnold learn the full truth about her father, how handsome, charming James turned out to be a cold-blooded, psychotic extortionist, racketeer and killer. Knowing now what her father was capable of, she...

The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water
  • Author(s): Anita Shreve
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th century and late 20th century

On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent...

The Wraith’s Return

The Wraith’s Return
  • Author(s): Raemi A Ray
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

London lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha’s Vineyard for a summer holiday, hoping for peace after her father’s murder. However, the discovery of a pirate shipwreck and its rumored treasure disrupts her plans. When two salvagers are killed and...

Down To The River

Down To The River
  • Author(s): Anne Whitney Pierce
  • Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s / 1970s

Down to the River is a family saga set in the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Twin brothers, Nash and Remi Potts, have grown up as entitled, Harvard-educated, golden boys, heirs to...

Maine

Maine
  • Author(s): Courtney Sullivan
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Kelleher clan’s beachfront holiday house creaks under a weight of secrets. It’s a place where cocktails follow morning mass, children eavesdrop, and ancient grudges fester. One summer, three generations of Kelleher women descend on the shore. Kathleen, finally...

Tigers in Red Weather

Tigers in Red Weather
  • Author(s): Liza Klaussmann
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/1950s/1960s

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summers at Tiger House, the glorious old family estate on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of adulthood, the world...

A Prayer For Owen Meany

A Prayer For Owen Meany
  • Author(s): John Irving
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend’s mother. Owen doesn’t believe in accidents: he believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen...

BEFORE

BEFORE
  • Author(s): J Kilburn
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990's

BEFORE by Vermont writer J. Kilburn takes your average teenagers, gives them family and community, and then plausibly and seamlessly drops them into international intrigue in a small New England college town. These teenagers go about their sweet and...

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