Strout, Elizabeth.
Summary: In a small town in New England, a girl has an affair with her schoolteacher. Amy Goodrow lives with her protective single mother and the novel examines the way the scandal affects their relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRUlrich, Laurel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 ULRCoombs, Linda
Summary: "Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists. Here's the true story of America from the Indigenous perspective. When you think about the beginning of the American story, what comes to mind? Three ships in 1492, or perhaps buckled hats and shoes stepping off of the Mayflower, ready to start a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.004 COOGorton, Wendy
Summary: The latest entry into the bestselling 50 Hikes with Kids series highlights the most kid-friendly trails in New England. It offers all the basics--maps, length of hike, things to see along the trail--plus fun extras that will foster a curiosity about the region's flora, fauna, and geology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press, Incorporated 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 GORMuse, Vance
Summary: Historic towns and cities and natural wonders of northern New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1989
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Summary: In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. The sights and sounds that Thoreau experienced on his daily walks through 19th-century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 FOSAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ALCBuehrens, John A.
Summary: Conflagration illuminates the connections between key members of the Transcendentalist circle--including James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Healey Dall, Elizabeth Stanton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller--who created a community dedicated to radical social activism. These authors and activists laid the groundwork for democratic and progressive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 141.3 BUEAnderson, Robert Charles
Summary: "Covering individuals not included in previous Great Migration compendia, this complete survey lists the names of all known to have come to New England during the Great Migration period, 1620-1640. Each entry provides the name of the head of household, English or European origin (if known), date of migration, principal residences in New England, and the best available sources of information for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.374 AndersonAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: The story of the joys and trials of the March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy that they encountered through their youth and young womanhood in and around their New England Home and how they attempted to support the family while their Father is away at war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCLamb, Wally.
Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMBair, Diane
Summary: Whether you want to visit Cape Cod's beaches, eat lobster in Maine, or ski in Vermont, the local Fodor's travel experts in New England are here to help! Fodor's New England guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two neighbors in a small New England town go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with a so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCKull, Andrew
Summary: New England Cemeteries highlights the cultural treasures to be found within this regions graveyards. There are 260 cemeteries worth visiting, and New England Cemeteries will route you to them. -from book jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Greene Press 1975
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.574 KullSummary: The third and final season sees the wheel of fate keep spinning for Boston's favorite cop-for-hire and company. Spenser's independently minded inamorata, Susan Silverman, returns from the West Coast, determined to bridge their sundered relationship. Spenser's longtime friend and valued ally in the Boston PD, Lt. Martin Quirk, get sidelined with a heart condition. Lucky for Spenser, Hawk stands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SPEJunger, Sebastian.
Summary: The incredible true account of the most extraordinary storm of the 20th century, this is the story of a tempest born from so rare a combination of factors it was deemed "perfect" and of the doomed fishing boat with her crew of six that was helpless in the midst of a force beyond comprehension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.45 JUNMann, Thomas C. (Thomas Clifford)
Summary: From the Blurb: When you get right down to it: where's the best place to tell your story or state what you stood for? Average old-time New Englanders and a number of modern ones believed that the logical place to say their say was on their gravestones. Their often stunning frankness has produced three centuries of highly personal comments on religion, politics, death, wars, love, marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Greene Press 1962
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 MANWessels, Tom
Summary: This is a field guide that residents and visitors, landowners and foresters, students and hikers, and anyone who walks in the woods of the Northeast can use to discern the history of virtually any piece of land. What is the evidence: Are trees old or young? Are they standing or have they fallen? Did they snap mid-trunk or tip up with their roots? What is the human footprint on the land -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Terror hits home in this harrowing psychological thriller that will chill you to the bone. Recently widowed child psychologist Mary Portman lives an isolated existence caring for her bedridden stepson in rural New England. But when a young boy Mary is treating goes missing in a snowstorm and is presumed dead, she becomes convinced that his ghost is haunting her, and soon Mary's grip on reality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHUHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: 1n a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1963
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWShreve, Anita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ShrevSummary: After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008