Books set primarily in Massachusetts
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North Woods: A Novel
by Daniel Mason
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and ...
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Women and Children First: A Novel
by Alina Grabowski
Hardcover: May 2024
A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town.
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
by Stephen Puleo
Hardcover: Apr 2024
The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.
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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people
by Tracy Kidder
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Jan 2024
The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston's homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Wild and Distant Seas: A Novel
by Tara Karr Roberts
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.
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We All Want Impossible Things: A Novel
by Catherine Newman
Hardcover: Nov 2022
Paperback: Nov 2023
For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.
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Act of Oblivion: A Novel
by Robert Harris
Hardcover: Sep 2022
Paperback: Sep 2023
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King...
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Our Missing Hearts: A Novel
by Celeste Ng
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Aug 2023
From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother's unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.
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Either/Or
by Elif Batuman
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: May 2023
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood.
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Glassworks
by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Feb 2025
A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms.
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We Do What We Do in the Dark: A Novel
by Michelle Hart
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: May 2023
A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman.
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Mercy Street: A Novel
by Jennifer Haigh
Hardcover: Feb 2022
Paperback: Feb 2023
The highly praised, "extraordinary" (New York Times Book Review) novel about the disparate lives that intersect at a women's clinic in Boston, by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh
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