Books set primarily in Rhode Island or Connecticut
Conn. & R.I.
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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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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Sep 2023
Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain ...
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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance: A Novel
by Alison Espach
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: Apr 2023
From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editor's Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I'm Home.
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Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
by Anne Gardiner Perkins
Hardcover: Sep 2019
Paperback: Jul 2021
"If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer do without."
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Hardcover: Jun 2019
Paperback: Jun 2021
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
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The Maze at Windermere
by Gregory Blake Smith
Hardcover: Jan 2018
Paperback: Jan 2019
A richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island.
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Brass
by Xhenet Aliu
Hardcover: Jan 2018
Paperback: Jan 2019
Told in equally gripping parallel narratives with biting wit and grace, Brass announces a fearless new voice with a timely, tender, and quintessentially American story.
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Did You Ever Have A Family
by Bill Clegg
Hardcover: Sep 2015
Paperback: May 2016
The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.
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The Wonder Garden
by Lauren Acampora
Hardcover: May 2015
Paperback: Feb 2016
Deliciously creepy and masterfully complex The Wonder Garden heralds the arrival of a phenomenal new talent in American fiction.
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The Gospel of Winter
by Brendan Kiely
Hardcover: Jan 2014
Paperback: Feb 2015
A fearless debut novel about the restorative power of truth and love after the trauma of abuse.
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The Lowland
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Hardcover: Sep 2013
Paperback: Jun 2014
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are
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The Marriage Plot: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: Sep 2012
With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own...
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