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Publisher
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A cold and malevolent universe is all the humanity can ever know. In the near future, Vonnegut's scientific researchers learn that the substance of which that galaxy is made, IceT, assures that human life will ever be Emily Dickinson's "zero at the bone." Any belief in manifest human destiny or compassion is doomed. Reissued in hardcover after SLAUGTHERHOUSEFIVE as part of a reevaluation of the importance of Vonnegut's work.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The first novel in an epic crime saga from the New York Times bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy and The Force--
Two criminal empires together control all of New England.
Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.
Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body...
4) Mill
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Pen-and-ink drawings of nineteenth century New England mills demonstrate their changes in architecture, power production and mechanization.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors, (The Boston Globe), Barbara Delinsky presents a captivating new novel about a woman whose unexpected reunion with her estranged family forces her to confront a devastating past. One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone-running from the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, an Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Perron family received this advice from the previous homeowner of their Rhode Island farmhouse: For the sake of your family, leave the lights on at night! A ghostly witch named Bathsheba led the haunting of the Perron family, physically and psychologically tormenting them. This legendary ghost story eventually became the subject of the movie The Conjuring, and continued to haunt the Perron family for years to come--
7) Ocean state
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Language
English
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Description
In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable....
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious teen returns to her hometown after years away, she find that her plans get interrupted once she lands herself in some trouble and begins to fall for the town's bad boy-a.k.a. her childhood best friend--
Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it's not...
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