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1) Little women
Author
Series
Little Women volume 1
Language
English
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American author Louisa May Alcott's 1869 novel about four New England sisters who come of age during the Civil War; also includes a critical essay and an 1875 review.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
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For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas commits a violent act that affects both their lives, Dominick decides to leave his home and search for his true identity.
5) 'Salem's Lot
Author
Language
English
Description
A stranger with an evil secret harms the lives of many inhabitants of a small New England town.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff. Winn’s wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
314 p.
Language
English
Description
It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help...
9) Cold river
Author
Series
Black Falls volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
507 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Shay is finally about to finish law school. Already the successful owner of the Three Sisters Café, Hannah should be feeling confident about herself. But when Sean Cameron returns to town after the death of his father, Hannah can't help be swayed. Meanwhile, the café becomes the epicenter of a crime ring investigation, and Hannah and Sean find themselves caught in a spiderweb of secrets with a killer lurking close by.
10) Home fires
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
11) Second growth
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1985], c1947
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
12) Cold dawn
Author
Series
Black Falls volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe again -- until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition. Almost. Rose is certain that she knows the victim's identity.and that his death was no accident. Nick Martini also suspects an arsonist's deliberate hand. Another fire killed an arson investigator in California months ago. Now the rugged smoke jumper is determined to follow the killer's...
13) Bunny
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Language
English
Description
"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny,' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
Author
Language
English
Description
Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay — and a wife frustrated by his inertia. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father — a mystery that his wife insists he must solve to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother’s former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There, in...
16) Little women
Author
Publisher
QEB Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
46 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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A simplified retelling of the adventures of the four March sisters living in New England during the time of the Civil War.
17) The dead zone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
Beware, The Wheel of Fortune...
Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into...the dead zone.
Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into...the dead zone.
John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible
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Language
English
Description
In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden...
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Language
English
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"As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds in the collection a rare drum -- a powerful yet delicate...
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