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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives The Good Daughters They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth Plank is an artist and a romantic with a rich, passionate, imaginative life. The last of five girls born to a gentle, caring farmer and his stolid...
22) Harmony: a novel
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC/Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016], 2017.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Hammonds are living in suburban DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that their older daughter, Tilly, is developing differently from other kids her age. Alexandra and her husband, Josh, have tried everything to help their off-the-charts genius but impossible daughter, who has been called 'undiagnosable,' though she seems to fall somewhere on the autism spectrum. After exhausting school after school, they have...
23) Countdown city
Author
Series
Last policeman volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set three months before a deadly asteroid is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures of Hank Palace. The Concord Police Department is now operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, and Hank is out of a job-until he's hired by a business tycoon to help find the man's estranged son. It isn't long before Hank's missing-person case turns into a murder investigation.
24) Riding lessons
Author
Series
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished.
Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage daughter to this place of pain and memory, where...
25) Book clubbed
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cranky Chamber of Commerce receptionist Betsy Dittmeyer is done reading people the riot act. After she's crushed by a fallen bookcase, the next item to be read is her last will and testament--which is packed with surprises. It soon comes to light that Betsy was hiding volumes of dark secrets behind that perpetual frown of hers--and one of them just might have been a motive for murder. While Tricia tries to help Angelica--the newly elected Chamber...
Author
Series
Booktown mystery volume 6
Language
English
Description
When she discovers the proprietress of a cozy inn murdered, bookshop owner Tricia Miles must protect the hotel's co-owner, and prime suspect, who she believed to be dead for twenty years.
27) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jess Morgan is growing tired of living her life to please everyone else. When she discovers her late aunt's diaries, Jess learns she's not the only one struggling to hide who she really is. But was her aunt Anna truly the Romanov princess Anastasia? Or is this some elaborate hoax? As Jess digs into the century-old mystery she discovers another, bigger truth: only you can write your own story. -- Adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A local election becomes complicated when a candidate is murdered and bookshop owner Tricia Miles must clear her sister's name and find the real killer in the seventh installment of the New York Times best-selling mystery series.
29) The season of us
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Gincy Gannon Luongo escaped from the storybook small town of Appleville, New Hampshire, twenty years ago. Now she is bringing her teenage daughter, Tamsin, with her to visit her recently widowed mother in the weeks leading up to Christmas at her brother Tommy's urging. Her once feisty and strong-willed mother, Ellen Gannon, is mired in depression and her brother isn't doing much better. With each passing day, dealing with the imagined slights and...
31) About tomorrow
Author
Language
English
Description
"The first lie I told myself was that he was just an old friend. I wish it had been the only lie because the other lies would destroy us all. I close my eyes as I hear him speak. I take one very long and deep breath hoping to calm the immediate butterflies that take flight in my stomach and hope to slow down the racing of my heart. The voice was slightly deeper but the timbre was one that was achingly familiar. My actions did little to help, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st William Morrow ed.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A powerful story of a woman's search for her past. After the death of her adoptive mother, Chelsea Kane is a woman consumed by a need to discover her natural heritage. She arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, aching for answers. It is while she is looking for them that she finds something quite unexpected: a love she thought she would never know. As Chelsea gets closer to the truth, she realizes that someone is determined to stop...
33) Chapter & hearse
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tricia Miles, owner of the Haven't Got a Clue mystery bookstore in Stoneham, New Hampshire, can't walk away from a good mystery. Her sister Angelica, who sees herself as the next celebrity chef, is hosting a launch party for her first cookbook when a nearby gas explosion injures her boyfriend, Bob Kelly. When Tricia reads that Bob is being tight-lipped about the accident, and how it killed the owner of the town's history bookstore, it's time to take...
35) Helpless
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning home to Shilo, New Hampshire, to raise his teenage daughter after his ex-wife is murdered, former Navy SEAL Tom Hawkins becomes the target of vicious rumors and implicated in a series of disturbing crimes.
36) Cold Ridge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cold Ridge: Carine Winters accepts the job of photographing Sterling Rancourt's historic Boston home knowing she's taking a risk--she could run into Tyler North, the pararescuer who once saved Rancourt's life and the man who all but left Carine at the altar a year ago. Then Carine finds a body in Rancourt's house--and the prime suspect in the murder is Tyler North's best friend. Tyler is returning from a rescue mission on dangerous Cold Ridge in northern...
37) The big dark
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What would happen if electricity suddenly failed? If every cell phone, computer, car engine, battery, and electrical circuit stopped functioning? When residents of a remote New Hampshire village gather to watch the northern lights, they're expecting to see something spectacular. What happens next will change their lives and challenge their very existence. A massive solar flare knocks out the power grid, and as darkness overwhelms America, cutting...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten-part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower-and single mother to a now distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen, and the death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiance, brings Sunny back to the scene of her unhappy adolescence, to the community that remembers her solely, nervously, as the girl who golfed. Reentry is to be dreaded; there's no hiding in a town with one...
39) Lost nation
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to unveil a startling parable of individualism and nationhood. The novel opens with a man known as Blood, guiding an oxcart of rum toward the wild country of New Hampshire, an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream - a land where the luckless or outlawed have made a fresh start. Blood is a man of contradictions, of learning and wisdom, but also a...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gaia Gill is the last person in the world anyone would expect to go missing. Beautiful, athletic, and recently accepted to a prestigious college, she has everything to look forward to--but the night of her going-away party at the Moon Mountain ski resort, she disappears. Gaia's younger sister Esme is supposed to be flying back to England with her family after the party, but she can't leave with Gaia missing--especially because nobody remembers Gaia...