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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in N.H. Vt. Maine

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  • The Frozen River
    Ariel Lawhon
    Paperback: 11/05/2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping ...
  • Tell Me Everything
    Elizabeth Strout
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships...
  • Promise
    Promise: A Novel
    Rachel Eliza Griffiths
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their ...
  • Ink Blood Sister Scribe
    Emma Torzs
    Paperback: 06/11/2024
     
    In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of ...
  • Beyond That, the Sea
    Laura Spence-Ash
    Paperback: 05/07/2024
     
    A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families...
  • This Other Eden
    Paul Harding
    Paperback: 12/19/2023
     
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, ...
  • Unlikely Animals
    Annie Hartnett
    Paperback: 02/28/2023
     
    A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-...

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