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Beautifully written, compassionate and wise, Rosellen Brown's novel is the extraordinary story of a family's struggle to survive the throes of a tragedy. Before and After centers on Carolyn and Ben Reiser and their two children, Judith and Jacob, who live comfortably in a small New England town. When the chief of police comes looking for seventeen-year-old Jacob to question him about the bludgeoning to death of his girlfriend, the Reisers' lives are...
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Handsome and ambitious, Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman have it all-two precious children, dual careers, a great old colonial house on Massachusetts's North Shore, a golden retriever. The only thing they lack is reliable child care.
Enter Randi Gill, sent by Family Options, Ltd., an agency specializing in Midwestern girls with teaching aspirations ("Could you be Comfortable with Anything but the Best for Your Family?. . . Guaranteed Nationwide...
5) Blue moon
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Luanne Rice, the New York Times best-selling author of Firefly Beach (L1033), masterfully conveys the emotionally complex bonds that tie families together. In Blue Moon, restauranteur Cass and her fisherman husband Billy have a passionate marriage, filled with steamy sex. But the strain of raising a hearing-impaired daughter is wearing their love thin. When disaster at sea strikes, Cass must lean on her family for the support she needs.
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In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda is catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister...
7) Half a heart
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When her biracial daughter appears suddenly after eighteen years searching for the mother who left her, former civil rights activist Miriam Vener begins a painful confrontation with her past.
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"For as long as it has stood overlooking New England's jagged coastline, Lexington House has been the witness to madness-- and murder. But in recent years the inexplicable malice that once tormented so many has lain as silent as its victims. Until now. A member of the nation's foremost paranormal forensic team, Jenna Duffy has made a career out of investigating the inexplicable. Yet nothing could prepare her for the string of slayings once again plaguing...
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"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
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Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O; and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures.
12) The road taken
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Rose Smith and her daughters witness the great changes in the country through the twentieth century.
13) The dead zone
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Left with a sixth sense as a result of two accidents and a five year coma, John Smith wanted to remain a private person and was reluctant to use his talent. Then he meets a local politician whom he senses to be malevolent and dangerous and realizes that ony death can keep him from becoming President of the United States.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2007
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Until the murder in the New England town of Elm Harbor, the perfectly constructed veneer had hidden the racial complications of the town's past, the secrets of a prominent family, and the most hidden bastions of African-American political influence. At the center is Lemaster Carlyle, the university president, and his wife, Julia, a dean of the divinity school, who are living 'in the heart of whiteness.' The murder victim was Julia's lover years earlier....
16) Fly away home
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Bantam Books
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1997
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A woman teacher in a boarding school in New Hampshire becomes suspicious that the principal's son is not his real child, that the boy was snatched as a baby from his biological parents. But if her suspicions prove correct, will the boy be better off being returned? By the author of One Last Kiss.
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Little, Brown
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2012
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In a quaint New England town with a history of witches and pilgrims, misunderstood eleven-year-old Norman Babcock (who can see and talk to ghosts) must save his town from pilgrim zombies, take on an angry witch, an annoying sidekick, and his boy-crazy teenage sister, as well as dozens of moronic grown-ups who get in his way!