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Missing Links

Missing Links
  • Author(s): Rick Reilly
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A book for GOLF enthusiasts set in/around Boston: Missing Links recounts the tale of a coterie of golfing friends who ply their hobby at Ponkoquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli. An 18-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a...

My Sister’s Keeper

My Sister’s Keeper
  • Author(s): Jodi Picoult
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘A major decision about me is being made, and no one’s bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.’ The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to...

Pantheon

Pantheon
  • Author(s): Sam Bourne
  • Location(s): New Haven, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set in 1940, James Zennor is an Oxford don who was wounded in the Spanish Civil War, and is in no fit state to fight the Nazis. His wife and son vanish and he eventually finds leads that take...

Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road
  • Author(s): Richard Yates
  • Location(s): Connecticut
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary. With heartbreaking compassion...

Sea Glass

Sea Glass
  • Author(s): Anita Shreve
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1929

The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of...

Secrets at Maple Syrup Farm

Secrets at Maple Syrup Farm
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Ashford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy would do anything for her mom…but she never expected to end up promising to leave her. After her mom got sick, Lucy dropped everything to take care of her, working all hours in a greasy diner just to...

The Art Forger

The Art Forger
  • Author(s): B A Shapiro
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern, looking back to 1990 and late 19th century

Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—still the largest unsolved art theft in history—one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has...

The Cottage at Glass Beach

The Cottage at Glass Beach
  • Author(s): Heather Barbieri
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nora, has come to Glass Beach to find out who she is and what she needs to do after being devastated by her husband’s infidelity. This is where Nora’s spent some of her childhood and as she and her...

The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners

The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Capri, Newport (R I)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Years ago, Lyra Davis fled the people she loved most, unable to reconcile the expectations of her wealthy family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle...

The Fort

The Fort
  • Author(s): Bernard Cornwell
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Historical

The story is set principally about the Americans attempting to dislodge a British incursion at Majabigwaduce, Massachusetts, Summer 1779. Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Navy. Their orders: to build a fort...

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