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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"The newest, highly anticipated novel from beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover. Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It's the late spring of 2020 and Jake's wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Presidential election. There must be a mistake, Link thinks. How do Mallory and Jake know each other? Flash back to the sweet...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life--and Atlas Corrigan is the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) delivers another immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.
After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore -- until it's purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
March breaks up with her boyfriend, Hollis, and marries another. Twenty years later she visits her hometown, Hollis is a widower, and the romance resumes. But March forgot how violent he is.
10) Massachusetts
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the spectacular views in Cape Cod to the Basketball Hall of Fame, there's lots to see and do in Massachusetts! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Massachusetts special"--Publisher's website.
11) The red garden
Author
Publisher
Crown Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A young wounded civil war solider is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet falls in love with a blind man, and a mysterious traveler comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
12) Massachusetts
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the Bay State, Massachusetts.
13) Dreams
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Three popular novels from the Crosslyn Rise trilogy follow the efforts of three couples as they struggle to restore the once magnificent estate of Crosslyn Rise.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials... Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were...
16) La Doctora Cole
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
After a divorce, a woman physician forgoes a career in a prestigious hospital for a private practice in a small town in New England. Hoping for a simpler and richer life, she finds herself facing the same pressing issues she had hoped to leave behind in Boston.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Interwoven with accounts of Thoreau's daily life (he did not live as a recluse but received visitors and almost daily walked into Concord) are meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics, expressed with clear-headed wisdom and remarkable beauty of style.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"All Creatures Great and Small meets Being Mortal in this compelling memoir of one woman's dream to become a veterinarian in a field historically dominated by men, and how, through her work both with her patients and their people, she comes to better understand humanity, mortality, and the unique role animals play in our lives. Karen Fine always knew that she wanted to be a vet and wasn't going to let anything stop her: not her allergy to cats, and...
19) We were liars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isn't cutting it. Seeking direction-and dental insurance-Steinberg...
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