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Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them. In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks...

At the Van Meter family's retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke, Winn and his wife Biddy are preparing for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff. Though Biddy has planned the wedding with military precision, the arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust. --Adapted from dust jacket.

In this conclusion to the Jackaby series, the eccentric detective and his assistant Abigail Rook find themselves in the middle of a war between magical worlds.

Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature.

The residents of the New England town of Dorsetville are dealing with many of their own issues, but they rally together when the Gallagher twins accidently fall through the ice.

Set in nineteenth-century New England, this novel tests a woman's love against her husband's utopian quest.

"The true story of the Indigenous Nations of the American Northeast, including the Wampanoag nation and others, and their history up to present day"-- Provided by publisher. "When you think about the beginning of the American story, what comes to mind? People in buckled hats and shoes stepping off the Mayflower, eager to start a new country? In reality, the Pilgrims didn't arrive to a vast, empty land ready to be developed. They disembarked to find...