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Berserker Man Berserker Man Fred Saberhagen [Berserkers][1]: Relentless, remorseless, pity less, tireless, adaptive, cunning, self replicating, artificially intelligent, genocidal doomsday weapons of a long forgotten interstellar war between t… OL100120W
The Edge of Winter The Edge of Winter Luanne Rice Neve Halloran and her daughter have shared a fierce love for the austere beauty of Rhode Island's South County ever since Neve guided Mickey's first baby steps along the sandy shore. Now, with Micke… OL106215W
Dance Upon the Air Dance Upon the Air Nora Roberts When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband--and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months a… OL111597W
Where or when Where or when Anita Shreve Charles Callahan is reading the Sunday paper when an alluring and oddly familiar photo catches his eye: it is Sian Richards, his first love, a face he has not seen for more than three decades. He is … OL116675W
The witches of Dredmoore Hollow The witches of Dredmoore Hollow Riford McKenzie Strange things begin happening at Elijah's New England home just before his twelfth birthday in 1927, especially after two aunts he had never met whisk him away to Moaning Marsh, where he realizes th… OL13685460W
Goldengrove Goldengrove Francine Prose A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward unders… OL14952621W
Little vampire women Little vampire women Lynn Messina "Christmas won't be Christmas without any corpses."The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo,… OL15082790W
Safe harbor Safe harbor Luanne Rice Grieving over the death of her sister, artist Dana Underwood returns to her childhood home to care for her nieces, but as she begins to fall for marine biologist Sam Trevor, she must search for the t… OL15151172W
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The house of the seven gables Nathaniel Hawthorne's The house of the seven gables Jan Fields A prominent New England family suffering under a two-hundred-year-old curse is plagued by greed, vengeful acts, and violent death. OL15300114W
Cold ridge Cold ridge Carla Neggers Photographer Carine Winters unwittingly becomes immersed in a murder investigation that forces her to team up with to Tyler North, the pararescueman who left her at the altar, an unlikely alliance th… OL15927297W
Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Lisa Mullarkey In early twentieth-century New England, talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but r… OL15932993W
A killer crop A killer crop Sheila Connolly "After an English professor-and old friend of her mother-is found dead in a cider house, orchard owner Meg Corey starts to wonder: Could her own mother have committed murder?"--Publisher information. OL16559403W
Red leaves Red leaves Paullina Simons On a New England college campus, the naked body of a beautiful student is found frozen in a bank of snow. Why had she not even been reported missing by her friends? Spencer O'Malley, the police de… OL17736593W
Escape Escape Barbara Delinsky Emily Aulenback is an idealistic young lawyer who once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse. Instead, she now spends her days in a cubicle arguing victims of corporate greed out of thei… OL18159570W
The Rathbones The Rathbones Janice Clark Moses, the revered patriarch of the Rathbone family, possessed an otherworldly instinct for spotting the whale. But years of bad decisions by the heirs to his fortune have whittled his formerly robus… OL18181824W
A Gathering of Days A Gathering of Days Joan W. Blos The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend. OL1869479W
I Know This Much Is True I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb E-book extra: "Who Is Wally Lamb?" The author recalls events surrounding the acclaimed publication of I Know This Much Is True. ( Not available in print editions of this work.)Wally Lamb's masterful … OL1952159W
Slider Slider Patrick Robinson Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off the New England coast, the nation's best college players gather to play the most important baseball of their lives.Jack Faber is a young hotsho… OL1973606W
The ghost in the glass house The ghost in the glass house Carey Wallace In a seaside New England town in the 1920s, twelve-year-old Clare finds refuge from the cruelty of her society friends in a mysterious glass house inhabited by Jack, a charming and playful ghost who … OL19974877W
Death of the Black-Haired Girl Death of the Black-Haired Girl Robert Stone In an elite New England college, Professor Steven Brookman embarks upon a careless affair with a brilliant but reckless student, Maud Stack. She is a young woman whose passions are not easily contain… OL21270473W
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