Caleb’s Crossing
Written by Geraldine Brooks Brooks who also wrote “Year of Wonders” and “March” has taken a little known piece of history and woven together a rich and inspiring tale. The novel is written from the...
View ArticleThe Next Best Thing: A Novel
Written by Jennifer Weiner Inspired by Weiner’s short story Swim this novel is about Ruth Saunders who moves from Massachusetts to California with her 70-year-old grandmother. Ruth has lived a...
View ArticleIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Written by Mindy Kaling Published November 1, 2011 Before Mindy Kaling starred in the FOX television program “The Mindy Project” she was a writer and actress on “The Office”. This book is a collection...
View ArticleTrading Christmas
Written by Debbie Macomber Published October 25, 2011 (Originally published in 2004 as “When Christmas Comes”) This funny, heartwarming and romantic story from Debbie Macomber makes it a perfect...
View ArticleYou Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Written by Augusten Burroughs Published on October 27, 2009 This memoir is a collection of Christmas memories from Burroughs’ childhood through recent years. Readers that have read any of Burroughs’...
View ArticleDark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Written by Stephen Puleo Published on September 16, 2004 On January 15, 1919 a 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses ruptures destroying homes and businesses in the...
View ArticleWhiskey Beach
Written by Nora Roberts Published in 2013 I picked this up looking for a light beach read, and this book did not disappoint from that standpoint. This classic Nora Robert’s style book is about Eli...
View ArticleIn These Girls, Hope is a Muscle
Written by Madeleine Blais Published in 1996 This book is about the Amherst Lady Hurricanes, a high school basketball team from Amherst, Massachusetts and the lives of the young women that make up the...
View ArticleEleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph
Written by Travis Roy Published in 1998 with an afterword from 2005 On October 20, 1995 just eleven seconds into his first Boston University hockey game Travis Roy went head first into the boards after...
View ArticleKraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
Written by Wendy Williams Published March 2011 Wendy Williams is a science journalist from who has worked with the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and now lives in Cape Cod....
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