Best Small Towns In New England - April 2024

Lessons in Love

Falling in love is never easy…Eleanor Manning is finally leaving behind her glittering but empty life in the city (and her soon-to-be-ex-husband) to return to the comfort of her childhood home in Apollo Bay.She’s landed a lovely new job in her old primary school library and a flatshare with her bubbly best friend, Penny. So yes, she’s well and truly learnt her lesson when it comes to love…But then she meets gorgeous teacher Marcus Blair and Eleanor’s self-imposed rules fly out of the window! Surely she can resist him long enough to keep this fling no strings attached?Perfect for fans... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0008330891
• ASIN: 0008330891
• ISBN: 0008330891
• Manufacturer: HQ Digital

Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town

The true story of a teenage killer and the silence of a small New England town. For twenty years Daniel Paquette's murder in New Hampshire went unsolved. It remained a secret between two high school friends until Eric Windhurst's arrest in 2005. What was revealed was a crime born of adolescent passion between Eric and Daniel's stepdaughter, Melanie- redefining the meaning of loyalty, justice, and revenge.

• ASIN: 0425234657
• ASIN: 0425234657
• ISBN: 0425234657
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town

Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land―observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also snowshoe hares, raccoons, bobcats, turtles, salmon, ravens, hummingbirds, cormorants, sandpipers, and spring peepers). She expertly shows us how they all make their way in an ever-changing habitat. In writing about a displaced garter snake, witnessing the paving of a beloved dirt road, trapping... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1565126181
• ASIN: 1565126181
• ISBN: 1565126181
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

Rumor Has It: In a town this small, a secret is hard to keep

Would you be tempted?Newly single, Tilly Cole impulsively accepts a job offer in a small town as a "Girl Friday." Fun job, country house, fresh start, why not? But soon she finds herself in a hotbed of gossip, intrigue, and rampant rivalry for the town's most desirable bachelor―Jack Lucas.Rumors of Jack's "love 'em and leave 'em" escapes abound, and Tilly decides to do the mature, sensible thing... avoid Jack at all cost. But the more time Tilly spends with Jack, the more the rumors just don't make sense. Tilly doesn't know what to believe... and Jack's not telling.

• ASIN: 1402237502
• UPC: 760789227844
• ASIN: 1402237502
• ISBN: 1402237502
• Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark

A Bitter Brew: Faith, Power, and Poison in a Small New England Town

An investigative journalist provides a close-up look at the 2003 arsenic poisoning of members of the Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden, Maine, a crime that claimed the life of one elderly man and left fifteen others seriously ill, revealing the sinister town secret that lay at the heart of the baffling murder case.

• ASIN: 0425200426
• ASIN: 0425200426
• ISBN: 0425200426
• Manufacturer: Berkley Books

Off-season Ogunquit - Veggie Recipes / Where in New England Is the Best Small Town in America / A Portrait of Orca Bates (Yankee, September 1996)

• ASIN: B002VSX8ZI
• ASIN: B002VSX8ZI

The Heart Beats in Secret

Scotland, 1940In a house on the east coast, Jane faces motherhood alone. With her husband away at war, there is no one to protect her from small town suspicions and she must learn to keep her secrets to herself.Three decades later her daughter Felicity leaves their life behind for Montreal, glad to flee the unknowns that have plagued her so far. But her personal battles are nothing compared to the unrest here, where a commune in rural Quebec and a child of her own might be her saviours.The child grows up to be Pidge, a woman surprised to find that she will inherit her grandmother's Scottish ho... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0008288046
• ASIN: 0008288046
• ISBN: 0008288046
• Manufacturer: The Borough Press

Lights in Water, Dancing: A Novel of Carding, Vermont

Anyone who thinks life in a small town is quiet has never lived in Carding, Vermont.Over at Cooper's General Store and Emporium, owner Andy Cooper notices that the people of Carding are eyeing one another with suspicion, and that makes him uneasy.Up at the Mount Merino Resort, members are busy picking out prime lots to build ever-bigger mansions on a second golf course that's more airway than fairway. For some reason, they haven't noticed there's no land to build their dreams on.Edie Wolfe knows about a secret life wrapped in a book of poetry. It may hold the key to the biggest crime ever comm... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0989548155
• ASIN: 0989548155
• ISBN: 0989548155
• Manufacturer: Full Circle Press

MIDNIGHT GIRL (Love & Mystery in the 6-oh-3)

When a teenager mysteriously disappears in Hawick Falls, New Hampshire, Lisa Raynes fears her kidnapper, who recently escaped from prison, is hunting girls again. She also believes he’s targeted her and is sending her anonymous threats. To add to her problems, her ex-boyfriend Travis Bodell, nephew of her captor, shows up in town. Five years ago, he promised to love her forever, but he left her to start a new life. Trusting him was a mistake she won’t ever repeat. Bad boy Travis Bodell has a history of run-ins with the law. The police suspect he came back to aid his uncle, not to warn Lisa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1720204217
• ASIN: 1720204217
• ISBN: 1720204217
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English: A Novel

In her tender, sweetly comic debut, Natasha Solomons tells the captivating love story of a Jewish immigrant couple making a new life--and their wildest dreams--come true in WWII-era England.At the outset of World War II, Jewish refugees Jack Rosenblum, his wife Sadie, and their baby daughter escape Berlin, bound for London. They are greeted with a pamphlet instructing immigrants how to act like "the English." Jack acquires Savile Row suits and a Jaguar. He buys his marmalade from Fortnum & Mason and learns to list the entire British monarchy back to 913 A.D. He never speaks German, apart from ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316077593
• ASIN: 0316077593
• ISBN: 0316077593
• Brand: Reagan Arthur Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Maine Street: Faces and Stories from a Small Town

Photographer Patrisha McLean moved to the coastal town of Camden, Maine, 18 years ago and found it to be full of characters, in the quirky sense of the word and in terms of the word's other meaning, too-people of character. With camera and pen, McLean zooms in on 80 of her most memorable neighbors to create timeless portraits of the people that make one Maine town a truly representative slice of American life.

• ASIN: 0892727616
• ASIN: 0892727616
• ISBN: 0892727616
• Brand: Brand: Down East Books
• Manufacturer: Down East Books

The Sergeant's Unexpected Family (Small-Town Sweethearts Book 2)

Falling for his brother’s ex—and her baby!A new small-town romance from Carrie NicholsAfter losing friends while serving his country, Sergeant Brody Wilson shut himself off from the world. Enter beautiful Mary Carter, his brother’s former girlfriend, and her adorable infant son. Despite his best efforts, Brody can’t close off his heart to beautiful Mary and little Elliott. But will pushing them away cost the wounded warrior the family he’s always dreamed of?

• ASIN: B07FYHWWX9
• ASIN: B07FYHWWX9
• Manufacturer: Harlequin Special Edition

Rick Steves Pocket London

Rick Steves Pocket guidebooks truly are a "tour guide in your pocket." This colorful, compact 220-page book includes Rick's advice for prioritizing your time, whether you're spending 1 or 7 days in a city. Everything a busy traveler needs is easy to access: a neighborhood overview, city walks and tours, sights, handy food and accommodations charts, an appendix packed with information on trip planning and practicalities, and a fold-out city map. Included in Rick Steves Pocket London: Sights: the National Portrait Gallery, Courtauld Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1631215612
• ASIN: 1631215612
• ISBN: 1631215612
• Brand: RICK STEVES
• Manufacturer: Rick Steves

Christmas in Vermont

A sweet holiday love story about the magic of synchronicity and fate set at a quaint Vermont inn during the week after Christmas. Emma can’t believe her luck when she finds an open pawn shop on Christmas Eve in Manhattan. She’s there to sell the beautiful bracelet her ex-boyfriend gave her when a familiar looking watch catches her eye. It’s the same engraved watch she gave her college boyfriend, Fletcher, years ago. On a whim, she trades the bracelet for the watch and wonders at the timing.Practical Emma thinks it’s just a coincidence, but her best friend Bronwyn believes it’s the ma... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250315913
• ASIN: 1250315913
• ISBN: 1250315913
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Spider's Web in the Green Mountains: A Cooper North Mystery

It’s an old town, in the New England mountains. Everyone knows everyone. It’s mostly quiet here, a safe place. Then, suddenly, one rainy night...A shot. A shattered window. Now something evil stalks these streets. Cooper North, a just-retired prosecutor, is targeted. Even her corgi receives threats. Another nighttime shot. A death. Cooper must find the shooter, and quickly. But, in this old town, murder’s roots can run deep. Here’s one reader’s reaction to Spider’s Web in the Green Mountains—“…a Mack-truck-out-of-nowhere double barrels into a never-saw-it-coming conclusion.... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MTODJC3
• ASIN: B01MTODJC3

Our Little Secret : The True Story of a Teenager Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town

For 20 years Daniel Paquette's murder in New Hampshire went unsolved. It remained a secret between two high school friends until Eric Windhurst's arrest in 2005. What was revealed was a crime born of adolescent

• UPC: 13054947
• Rating: 3.5

In the Evil Day : Violence Comes to One Small Town

A quiet New England town is shattered by violence--and rises above

• UPC: 45840987
• Rating: 3.4

Best Served Cold : A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma

Twenty years ago, the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance and swore that they'd return to the same theatre and stage the same play. Two decades later, they do - with tragic results. DCI

• UPC: 856139155

Falling for Her Best Friend: A Sweet, Small Town Romance

Falling for Her Best Friend: A Sweet, Small Town

• UPC: 806231153

Excavations At Uriconium Aka Viroconium Cornoviorum Or Viroconium In The Late 19Th Century A Roman Town One Corner Of Which Is Now Occupied By The Small Village Of Wroxeter Shropshire England From Our

Excavations At Uriconium, Aka Viroconium Cornoviorum, Or Viroconium, In The Late 19Th Century. A Roman Town, One Corner Of Which Is Now Occupied By The Small Village Of Wroxeter, Shropshire, England. From Our Own Country

• UPC: 192222056
• Model: DPI1957816
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 18 x 11

The Gang : A Small Town Police Force Sarcastic, Irreverent, and Crude to Each Other, Yet Loyal to the Best Interests of Its Citizens.

After twenty-five years working in small-town law enforcement, author Martin J. Biersbach had enough stories to fill a book--so he wrote one. The Gang is a humorous, at times sarcastic, collection of short fictional tales

• UPC: 807875861

A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-

A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States, Ward, Geoffrey

• UPC: 17476402
• Rating: 3.5

The Hand of the Small Town Builder : Vernacular Summer Architecture in New England, 1870-1935

9781567923292

• UPC: 21101422

Excavations At Uriconium Aka Viroconium Cornoviorum Or Viroconium In The Late 19Th Century A Roman Town One Corner Of Which Is Now Occupied By The Small Village Of Wroxeter Shropshire England From Our

Excavations At Uriconium Aka Viroconium Cornoviorum Or Viroconium In The Late 19Th Century A Roman Town One Corner Of Which Is Now Occupied By The Small Village Of Wroxeter Shropshire England From

• UPC: 102236126
• Model: CNVDPI1957816

Best Served Cold : A Small Town Police Procedural Set in Oklahoma

Someone is getting revenge against Milt Kovak with a series of pranks. But things escalate when the brakes on Milt's deputy's car are cut and his wife to crashes. Then two friends of the mother

• UPC: 56120572