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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
Home fires Home fires Luanne Rice Anne Davis has returned to the house where she grew up, trading her glamorous Manhattan lifestyle for a harsh winter on a wind-whipped New England island. Her marriage has crumbled in the wake of a t… OL106220W
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
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
Emily Hudson Emily Hudson Melissa Jones Based on an episode in Henry James's life, the captivating story of a young heroine with ambitions and desires beyond her time. By the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson has lost her entire family … OL17377471W
An arsonist's guide to writers' homes in New England An arsonist's guide to writers' homes in New England Brock Clarke This book is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist and murderer narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love a… OL17729059W
Always, forever Always, forever Nancy Ohlin When Tess transfers to New England's premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey, she quickly falls for mysterious, brooding Max but Max is still mourning the death of his girlfriend, Becca, and Becca's gho… OL17915834W
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
The dulcimer boy The dulcimer boy Tor Seidler Twin brothers are abandoned on their uncle's doorstep in early twentieth-century New England with nothing but a silver-stringed dulcimer. OL1932869W
The haunted life The haunted life Jack Kerouac "In late 1944, under rather mysterious circumstances, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's home… OL19707533W
Here we lie Here we lie Paula Treick DeBoard Although they have different backgrounds, Midwesterner Megan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey, the daughter of a Senator, are close college friends, but their relationship becomes complicated when Megan is … OL19731210W
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
Misty Gordon Misty Gordon Kim Kennedy While assisting her father, an estate and antiques dealer, teenaged Misty discovers a journal and pair of glasses that allow her to see ghosts, including those of pirates who founded her New England … OL1979837W
Captains Courageous Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous tells of the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlanti… OL19842W
The Jakarta pandemic The Jakarta pandemic Steven Konkoly In the late fall of 2013, a lethal pandemic virus emerges from the Islamic Republic of Indonesia (IRI) and rages unchecked across every continent. When the Jakarta Flu threatens his picture perfect M… OL19952060W
Sons and daughters of ease and plenty Sons and daughters of ease and plenty Ramona Ausubel "From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune--and its bearings. Lab… OL20030323W
The English teacher The English teacher Lily King Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. By living on campus, on an island off the New England coast, Vida has cocooned herself and her son, Peter, from the out… OL20321W
Little Women [adaptation] Little Women [adaptation] Ronne Randall "Meet the March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. When their father goes away to war, their mother struggles to make ends meet. But as the girls start to grow up, they learn some valuable lessons that… OL22062625W
A Halloween scare in New England A Halloween scare in New England Eric James "On Halloween, when ghouls and ghosts, beasts and banshees, vampires and witches are on the prowl, are you prepared for the scariest night in New England?"--Page 4 of cover. OL27719548W
Life, Letters and Journals Life, Letters and Journals Ednah Dow Ednah Dow Cheney,Ednah Dow Littlehale 1824-1904 Cheney,Louisa May Alcott,Ednah D. Cheney,Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney,Ednah Dow 1824-1904 Cheney Excerpts from the author's diaries, written between the ages of eleven and thirteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings and her early poetic efforts. OL29984W
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