Maxwell, Alyssa
Summary: "August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, wife of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Listening to the speakers and observing the ladies in attendance, Emma is struck by the contrast of the Viking warrior inspired elements in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: Sarah Crowe left Atlanta to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant, a parapsychologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on the property. Tied to local legends of supernatural magic, accidents, and murders, the gnarled tree takes root in Sarah's imagination, prompting her to write her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Updike 2009Updike, John.
Summary: Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie return to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne. Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women. And, among the local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC UpdDeSilva, Bruce
Summary: To solve Rhode Island's budget crisis, the state's colorful governor, Attila the Nun, wants to legalize sports gambling; but her plan has unexpected consequences. Organized crime, professional sports leagues, and others who have a lot to lose--or gain--if gambling is made legal flood the state with money to buy the votes of state legislators. Liam Mulligan, investigative reporter for The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DESRand, Johnathan.
Summary: "Jalen, LeeAnne and Wendy think they have found a stray dog in Pawtuckett, Rhode Island, but they could not be more wrong. They haven't found a wayward pooch, but dozens of giant, mechanical rodents! They soon discover that stopping the rampaging rodents isn't on their list ... just trying to escape to with their lives." -- Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audiocraft Publishing, Inc. 2019
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Summary: The third volume in our five-volume selected edition of the novels of John Updike includes three books: The Coup, one of Updike's most outlandish satires, set in a fictional African nation; Rabbit Is Rich, the third, and many say best, novel starring his most famous protagonist; and the wildly popular The Witches of Eastwick, which was memorably adapted in the film starring Cher, Michelle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDRice, Luanne
Summary: "A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC RICMoore, Meg Mitchell
Summary: "Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother's play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships. Sam, Amy's daughter, was a Disney child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MOONorman, Hilary
Summary: A ruthless psychopath with a long-held grudge unleashes a terrifying scheme of revenge on a small New England town in this tautly-paced, compelling thriller. Liza Plain, a Boston-based journalist hoping for her big break, is dreading spending Christmas in Shiloh, Rhode Island, with her difficult grandfather - until news of the disappearance of a retired local priest triggers her realization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORDelinsky, Barbara
Summary: One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone, running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian. Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELBennett, Jenn
Summary: Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it's not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there. What she doesn't plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BENGaynor, Hazel
Summary: From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. "They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty." 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAYMoore, Meg Mitchell
Summary: "Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother's play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships. Sam, Amy's daughter, was a Disney child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'NANorwich, William D.
Summary: Called upon to inventory the estate of a wealthy woman, Emilia Brown, a frugal and unnoticed woman in small-town Rhode Island, discovers an exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta dress in the woman's collection and changes her life to be able to purchase the dress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Summary: Returning to an idyllic Rhode Island oceanfront community for the summer of 1938, New York socialite Lily Dane is devastated by the appearance of her newly married ex-fiance and her former best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WILRice, Luanne
Summary: "During a blizzard in Rhode Island, a renowned artist is found murdered and her young daughter gone missing, plunging Detective Conor Reid, his brother Tom and the woman's grieving sister into a chilling investigation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RICDelinsky, Barbara
Summary: One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone, running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian. Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DELRice, Luanne.
Summary: Neve Halloran and her daughter Mickey are starting a new life near a wildlife sanctuary in South County Rhode Island. Mickey becomes friends with a lonely boy who is also fascinated by the creatures of the coasts and Neve is drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2007
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Summary: "Becca Meister Fitzpatrick - wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community - is the dutiful steward of her family's iconic summer tradition. That is until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter's boldness in the face of impending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLADelinsky, Barbara
Summary: ""A first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors," (The Boston Globe), Barbara Delinsky presents a captivating new novel about a woman whose unexpected reunion with her estranged family forces her to confront a devastating past. One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Delinsky 2020Pezzelli, Peter.
Summary: When Jason Mirabella returns to his childhood home on a blustery winter day, the only thing he's sure of is that he'll be staying in Providence just long enough to get on his feet again. It's been four years since Jason moved to Los Angeles. Brimming with ambition, smart and hardworking, he found the kind of high-flying success that he cold never have achieved working for his family's B &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010