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1) Jo's boys
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This adaptation of the original story follows the activities of seven in children nineteenth-century New England as they prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday while Mother is away caring for Grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brothers Ethan and Seth spend a long day helping their parents gather sap and make maple syrup when March brings the first hint of spring to their New England farm. Includes a legend of how Native Americans first began to make and use maple syrup.
4) Little Women
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay--and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died...
Author
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Perennial Classics edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 352 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Often satirical chronicle following the fortunes of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs, a once lively New England seaport declining into respectability. Old Captain Leander Wapshop is in love with his ferryboat, which he loses, regains, and loses again. His sons, Coverly and Moses, stand to inherit a fortune from their eccentric Aunt Honora if they marry and produce male heirs. They pursue their fortunes in New York and Washington and become involved...
7) Homecoming
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Abandoned by their father and then their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
8) Run
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children-all his children-safe....
9) Postcards
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1992
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Postcards are the only communication between Loyal Blood and the poor, hardworking farm family he leaves behind in Vermont. The secret Loyal carries with him--the accidental killing of his girlfriend, Billy--is revealed in the first pages, and thereafter, as he prospects for uranium, traps coyotes, or digs for dinosaur bones, his messages continue to arrive home from across the U.S., long after his father has died and his brother, sister, and mother...
Author
Series
Publisher
Whitman
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
159 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse. Near the house there is an old woodshed that holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.
12) The painted drum
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Read where you are: New England titles for Adults
Celebrating Indigenous Authors
Native American Heritage Month
Read where you are: New England titles for Adults
Description
Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it.
13) Born wicked
Author
Series
Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012., 2013
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of two girls, has to worry about is whether or not she fed her daughters enough carbs the night before; why her husband, Thomas, hasn't kissed her in ages; and why she can't get over the loss of her brother who shot himself a few years ago. But Annie's world is about to change. From the bleachers, looking...
15) The summer wives
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda's catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister--all...
Author
Series
Sparrow sisters volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
365, 4 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Sparrow sisters are as tightly woven into the New England seaside town of Granite Point as the wild sweet peas that climb the stone walls along the harbor. Sorrel, Nettie and Patience are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk. Patience is the town healer and when a new doctor settles into Granite Point he brings with him a mystery so compelling that Patience is drawn to love him,...
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