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1) Book clubbed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bookstore owner Tricia and her sister, Angelica, try to determine who murdered an unpleasant receptionist at the Booktown Chamber of Commerce after a bookcase crushes her.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased-and the locals think that someone is Tricia. To clear her name,...
Author
Series
Last policeman trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
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When the Earth is doomed by an imminent and unavoidable asteroid collision, New Hampshire homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Tricia Miles, owner of Haven't Got a Clue mystery bookstore, is still settling into Stoneham, New Hampshire, the kind of town where everybody knows your name--and where everyone's quick to lend a hand, even when murder is afoot... The kinder folks of Stoneham might call Pammy Fredericks a free spirit. The less kind, a freeloading thief. Tricia has put up--and put up with--her uninvited college roommate for weeks. In return, Pammy has stolen one hundred...
Author
Publisher
Philippe Rey
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
"Lorsque Eleanor, jeune artiste à succès, achète une maison dans la campagne du New Hampshire, elle cherche à oublier un passé difficile. Sa rencontre avec le séduisant Cam lui ouvre un nouvel univers, animé par la venue de trois enfants : la secrète Alison, l'optimiste Ursula, et le doux Toby. Comblée, Eleanor vit l'accomplissement d'un rêve. Très tôt laissée à elle-même par des parents indifférents, elle semble prête à tous les...
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Series
Troubleshooters volume 10
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann blends high adventure, harrowing drama, and heart-racing passion into thrilling novels of suspense. Whether tackling danger or wrestling with desire, her elite heroes and heroines never fail to give their all, in stories that soar above and beyond expectations. Now, in this electrifying novel, Brockmann takes us Into the Storm.
In a remote, frozen corner of New Hampshire, a Navy SEAL team and...
In a remote, frozen corner of New Hampshire, a Navy SEAL team and...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline...
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Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
2024 DMPL Reading Challenge October Bonus Category: Dark Academia
Readalikes for 'Bright Young Women'
2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
2024 DMPL Reading Challenge October Bonus Category: Dark Academia
Readalikes for 'Bright Young Women'
Description
"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"--
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder...
11) A separate peace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome,...
13) The season of us
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
To outsiders, Appleville, New Hampshire, is a storybook small town complete with a little white church and a gazebo on the village green. To Gincy Gannon Luongo, it was a place to escape from, as quickly and as permanently as she could. Since she moved away twenty years ago, Appleville has been her hometown in name only. But at her brother Tommy's urging, Gincy is coming back to visit their recently widowed mother in the weeks leading up to Christmas...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
A novel narrated by the middle son in a family of five children, one bear, and one dog. Describes the Berry family growing up in three different hotels on two separate continents.
17) A fatal chapter
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by Pete's puzzling last words to her, Tricia begins to consider who had a motive to kill her friend and president of the Stoneham Historical Society. Did Pete take his flirting too far, only to have a jealous husband teach him a lesson? Or did he discover something in the town's historical records that his killer wanted kept secret? Tricia is determined to get to the bottom of things before someone else becomes history.
Author
Series
Josie Prescott mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Josie Prescott's friends thought she was nuts when she left her high-paying New York auction house job and her boyfriend to live on the rugged and beautiful New Hampshire coast. Truth is, Josie wondered a little herself--never mind that her peripheral involvement in a well-publicized price-fixing scandal made the possibility of a new start incredibly enticing. Things are looking better, though, now that she's got her own auction business up and running...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"New superiour court judge Alex Cormier is assigned to preside over the case of the alleged Sterling High School shooter. Lawyer Jordan McAffee represents Peter--the boy who, on the day of the shooting, was found in the corner of the gymnasium holding a gun to his head with a shaky hand. Detective Patrick DuCharme has one star witness, but her story keeps changing. And then there's the biggest problem of all--the star witness happens to be Judge Cormier's...
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