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A little maid of Narragansett Bay
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Alice Turner Curtis |
Penelope Balfour and her brother Ted find ways to provide help to the American patriots camped near their Rhode Island farm during the Revolutionary War. |
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Defenseless
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Celeste Marsella |
They're overworked, underpaid, and unstoppable: four young women in a big-city attorney general's office. But when best friends Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth find themselves in the wrong place … |
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Whisper in the dark
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Joseph Bruchac,Sally Wern Comport |
Every monster can be overcome if you know the right way to go about it.Maddy has always loved scary stories, especially the spooky legends of her Native American ancestors. But that was before she he… |
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Summer by the sea
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Susan Wiggs |
With a little determination and a lot of charm, Rosa Capoletti took a run-down pizza joint and turned it into an award-winning restaurant that has been voted “best place to propose” three years in a … |
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Angel of the Battlefield (The Treasure Chest #1)
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Ann Hood |
While exploring The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie are transported to a Massachusetts farm in 1836. Disappointed that they have not landed in their beloved New York City, they wonder why they were … |
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Tighter
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Adele Griffin |
Based on Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw," tells the story of Jamie Atkinson's summer spent as a nanny in a small Rhode Island beach town, where she begins to fear that the estate may be haunted… |
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Will work for prom dress
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Aimee Ferris |
This is a wonderful book and a great piece of literature suitable for children 11+. |
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Pearl Buck, Jewel of the East (The Treasure Chest #3)
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Ann Hood |
When Felix Robbins gets a crush on Lily Goldstein, a classmate who is adopted from China, he decides to try to take her back in time so that she can see the country where she was born. Maisie discove… |
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Tangled threads
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Pegi Deitz Shea |
After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her gra… |
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Deadly little lessons
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Laurie Faria Stolarz |
Finishing her junior year of high school, Camelia leaves family and boyfriend drama behind to attend a summer arts program in Rhode Island, where she must use her power of psychometry to help find a … |
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Spellcaster
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Claudia Gray |
"Descended from witches, high school senior Nadia can tell as soon as her family moves to Captive's Sound that the town is under a dark and powerful spell. Then she meets Mateo, the teenage local who… |
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Fractured
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Sarah Fine |
In the week since Lela returned to Rhode Island, local news has been dominated by chilling sightings of human-like creatures running on all fours. Lela knows there's only one explanation: the Mazikin… |
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Providence rag
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Bruce DeSilva |
"Edgar Award-winner Bruce DeSilva returns with Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Mulligan knows every street and alley, every prie… |
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Trespass
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Grace Dane Mazur |
"Maggie Gifford is shocked to see a strange man bathing in her laundry tub, but even more shocked by her response: an offer to scrub his back. Unleashing an erotic madness reminiscent of A Midsummer … |
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A scourge of vipers
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Bruce DeSilva |
To solve Rhode Island's budget crisis, the state's colorful governor, Attila the Nun, wants to legalize sports gambling; but her plan has unexpected consequences. Organized crime, professional sports… |
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Providence noir
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Ann Hood |
Following the success of Dennis Lehane's best-selling Boston Noir, the Akashic Noir Series delves deeper into New England's underbelly. |
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Love unrehearsed
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Tina Reber |
When A-list film actor Ryan Christensen ducked into her pub to escape his screaming fans, never in a million years did Taryn Mitchell think her life was about to change forever. But now, eight months… |
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Knitting Circle
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Ann Hood |
"Since the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter has been unable to read or write, unable to pursue the activities that used to be her primary source of comfort. At her mother's suggestion, she … |
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Something Upstairs
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Avi |
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth … |
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The Man Who Was Poe
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Avi |
In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a… |
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