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101) The ghost
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The romance of Sarah Ferguson, an 18th century countess who flees her abusive husband in England to join her French lover in America. It is presented through the eyes of a modern man who reads her diary, drawing inspiration from it to improve his own love life.
102) Death takes priority
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her aunt and being dumped by her fiance, Cassie Miller returns to her small hometown in the Berkshires. When somebody breaks into the post office where she works and an unidentified body is found in the woods, Cassie finds hereself drawn into the case.
103) Red 1-2-3
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sharing nothing in common except their red hair, three women from drastically different backgrounds receive chilling letters in the mail from a killer who makes them fear for their lives until they find one another and use the clues he has left behind to work together and protect one another.
104) Next to love
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows the stories of three young couples whose lives are irrevocably changed in the years following World War II, a period during which they struggle with difficult losses and witness profound transformations in American culture.
105) The broken teaglass
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher ... a hidden cache of coded clues ... a story written by a phantom author ... an unsolved murder in a gritty urban park - all collide memorably in Emily Arsenault's magnificent debut at once a teasing literary puzzle an ingenious suspense novel and an exploration of definitions: of words of who we are and of the stories we choose to define us.
106) Steward of song
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Douglas, a usurper sitting on the throne of Faery, uses his powerful magic and his loyal lieutenant, Martes, to hold the Queen and the land hostage, while in Massachusetts, an infant is abandoned on the doorstep of Douglas' brother Scott, who is troubled by visions of the future
107) The God project
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent’s darkest fears. Something is taking the children one by one. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. there must be a reason for the terror. They all know it. But no one ever suspected . . .
Genetic experimentation creates a conspiracy of silence and fear for families in Eastbury, Massachusetts.
108) The perfect daughter
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the abandoned girl she adopted years earlier is locked in a decaying psychiatric hospital amid murder allegations, Grace embarks on a desperate search for the origins of her daughter’s multiple-personality disorder.
109) Prep: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
During the late 1980s, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves behind her close-knit, middle-class Indiana family to enroll in an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts, becoming a shrewd observer of, and eventually a participant in, their rituals and customs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Black Sheep Knitters meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating an intricate, durable pattern of friendship. Now a shocking murder has peaceful Plum Harbor, Massachusetts, in knots--and the Black Sheep women must herd together to protect one of their own from a scandalous frame-up.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
October on Cape Cod is always beautiful, and antique print dealer Maggie Summer is happy to visit there to help with her best friend's wedding preparations. Maggie doesn't anticipate the murder of a neighbor, nor being called into service as a counselor and interpreter. Is she really essential to the investigation, or is she avoiding a critical discussion with the man she loves? Before she knows the answer, there's another murder...and a hurricane…and...
Author
Series
Peter Fallon novels volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rare book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, are on the trail of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. Notes in its margin spell out in detail the Founders' intentions - the unmistakable meaning of the Bill of Rights. With a search underway by both sides of the political spectrum, Peter and Evangeline know they must get the document first so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands...
113) Surrender bay
Author
Series
Nantucket love stories volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Samantha Owen's estranged stepfather dies, she inherits his cottage in Nantucket--a place she left years before, never planning to return. As a single mom, Sam can't afford to pass up a financial windfall like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it...never expecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again, Sam must face the fact that Landon still doesn't...
114) The locals: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts in the early 2000s who, after being swindled by a finanical advisor, feels opportunity passing him by. In the paranoid days after 9/11, a New York money manager, Philip Hadi, moves his family to Howland and hires Mark to turn his his house into a "secure location." When Howland's first selectman passes away suddenly, Hadi runs for office, and begins subtly transforming the town in his image....
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they’ve known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in the mountainside villages of Puerto Rico and promises to return. Months later, when Andrea and Pablo are brought back to Massachusetts, they find their hometown significantly changed. As they navigate the...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For Ruthie, the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. But this is no picturesque New England. Once "home of the bean and the cod, where Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God," by the 1980s it is an unforgiving place, awash with secrets. Very Cold People tells Ruthie's story, through her eyes: from the shame handed down through her Italian and Jewish immigrant forebears and indomitable...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling,...
118) Picked to die
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's harvest time in Granford, Massachusetts, and orchard owner Meg Corey and her fiance, Seth, are both racing to beat the New England winter. Meg is bringing in her apple crop with a team of workers, while Seth is working to restore an old building in the center of town. But when his project is set back due to the unexpected discovery of a skeleton under the building--and even worse, a young man related to one of Meg's former apple pickers is found...
119) Before everything
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A luminous and richly layered novel evoking The Big Chill--the story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now, mortality Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known one another since they were girls. They've faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group's trailblazer and brightest spark,...
120) A whisker of a doubt
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The holiday season on Daybreak Island is a mixed bag for Maddie James. On the one hand, her Christmas spirit is in the doghouse after a break-up. On the other, she's busy enough that she doesn't have to pretend to be merry. Business at her cat cafe is booming, and Maddie's care-taking of a feral cat colony in one of the area's wealthiest communities only helps her bottom line. But tensions between the homeowners and animal activists are escalating...
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