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Donna Tartt's The Secret History is the original American campus novel. When Richard Papen joins an elite group of clever misfits at his New England college, it seems he can finally become the person he wants to be. But the moral boundaries he will cross with his new friends - and the deaths they are responsible for - will change all of their lives forever. The Secret History recounts the terrible price we pay for mistakes made on the dark journey...
2) In the fall
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Union soldier Norman Pelham returns from the war with his wife Leah, a runaway slave, and the two begin a life together in Vermont marked by their passionate devotion to one another, the lingering impact of the war, and the racism that haunts three generations.
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A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love, tormented, funny, and affecting, and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of "terminal cases," The World...
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Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
Afterword by T. H. Watkins
Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations...
Afterword by T. H. Watkins
Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations...
5) The old man
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Decades after taking millions of dollars during a mission in Libya and starting over in Vermont under a new name, former Army intelligence officer Dan Chase is forced back on the run after eluding two attackers with an interest in obtaining the loot.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
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One day in Vermont, an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist its a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property. Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again after his...
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When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was...
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"Once upon a time, Christmas was Kayla Green's favorite time of year. Now all the workaholic wants for Christmas is for it to be over-- as fast as possible! So when duty calls her to snowy Vermont to close a deal with a new client, Kayla is grateful for an excuse to avoid the holidays for another year. Jackson O'Neil left a thriving business behind to return home and salvage his family's resort-- it's in his blood, and he can't let it fail. Now that...
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Callie Grey, facing her thirtieth birthday and upset her boss, and five-week fling, has proposed to a coworker, decides to start dating veterinarian Ian McFarland, whose personality is completely opposite from hers, and is surprised when she actually begins to fall for him.
11) Breathing water
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A novel on an abusive relationship, chronicling the way a woman got into it and the way she managed to get out. The heroine is Effie Greer of New England who fell in love with the wrong man in college.
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Briar Creek novels volume 5
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Bakery owner Kara Hastings believes she can triumph over city slicker Nate Griffin in Briar Creek, Vermont's holiday contest, but never expects her feelings to get in the way of the competition.
13) Two Rivers
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In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the railroad and raising his daughter the best way he can. Then one fall day, a train derails, and Harper finds a survivor - a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched eyes and skin the color of blackberries who needs a place to stay. Plagued by his role in a brutal crime...
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The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Island of Lost Girls" presents a chilling work in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt a group of friends in terrifying ways.
Calling themselves the Dismantlers, three daring misfits--Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz--spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts of vandalism and plotting elaborate pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted...
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"It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president...
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Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair, alive only in the memories of Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot. The three played there as girls until the day that their games uncovered something dark and twisted in the motel's past, something that ruined their friendship forever. Now adults, Piper and Margot have tried to forget what they found that fateful summer, but their lives are upended when...
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"With its historic charm and picture-perfect library, the Maple Sugar Inn is considered the winter destination. As the holidays approach, the inn is fully booked with guests looking for their dream vacation. But widowed far too young, and exhausted from juggling the hotel with being a dedicated single mom, Hattie Coleman dreams only of making it through the festive season. But when Erica, Claudia and Anna--lifelong friends who seem to have it all--check...
18) Ghost dance
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Former documentary filmmaker Patrick Gallagher and policewoman Andie Nightingale are drawn into the horrors of a past century when they attempt to discover who or what is killing people in the sleepy town of Lawton, Vermont.
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Regan Reilly mysteries volume 9
Alvirah and Willy volume 08
Regan Reilly mystery volume 09
Alvirah and Willy volume 05
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Alvirah and Willy volume 08
Regan Reilly mystery volume 09
Alvirah and Willy volume 05
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"Lottery-winner-turned-amateur-sleuth Alvirah Meehan rejoins P.I. Regan Reilly to solve a Christmas mystery. Last time, they rescued Regan's kidnapped father in Deck the Halls. This time they're involved in a dangerous case involving an 80-foot Blue Spruce and a hidden fortune of jewels. Alvirah and Regan know this tree has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree. But just before the tree is sent to New York City,...
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Schoolteacher Allison Banks, the long-divorced mother of a teenager on the cusp of college, has at last fallen in love. The object of her desire? Dana Stevens, a professor at the nearby university and her instructor for a summer film and literature course. Her daughter, Carly, watches with pleasure her mother's newfound happiness, but her ex-husband, Will, the president of Vermont Public Radio, is jealous. Still secretly in love with his ex-wife,...
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