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Barbara Gleason
Great EsCapes
A wonderful picture book that focuses on the individual towns of Cape Cod! |
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Lynn Kiele Bonasia
Countess Nobody
“Countess Nobody” is a young adult novel about a fifteen-year-old girl who discovers that her twin brother can inherit her father’s French title, but she can’t because the title only passes to male heirs. |


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Jamie Cat Callan:
Bonjour, Happiness! Secrets to Finding Your Joie de Vivre
This inspirational and thought-provoking book, based on the author's journeys through France, delves into the differences between French and American women, revealing how French women, in order to attain happiness, know how to balance their lives and still make time for themselves.
French Women Don't Sleep Alone
Presents advice for American women on dating and finding love based on the behavior and customs of French women.
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Claire Cook:
Best Staged Plans
A professional home stager in the Boston suburbs, Sandy Sullivan, after reading her family the riot act, takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta where she becomes immersed in other people's lives while trying to fix up her own.
Seven Year Switch
Roll out your beach blanket for this sweet summer read about making mistakes and moving on. Struggling and sassy single mom Jill—left to raise three-year-old Anastasia when husband Seth runs away to join the Peace Corp—is just about over the devastating loss when Seth reappears seven years later ready to pick up where they left off. Jill wrestles with her still-raw anger and her precocious daughter's heart-breaking need for her daddy back in her life. Honey, if you don't forgive him, it'll eat you alive, counsels Jill's boss and best friend, Joni. For his part, It wasn't the life we planned, Seth explains. But Anastasia helps him remember it's the life he needs while Jill discovers letting go teaches you how to hold onto new possibilities. Cook (Must Love Dogs) creates an impossible-not-to-love cast of imperfect, funny, wistful, and wise characters. |
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George Heineman:
Sudoku on the Half Shell
It's sudoku-half off! The popular puzzle has been sliced in half along the diagonal to leave a 45-cell triangle rather than the usual square. Fill in the empty cells with digits from 1 to 9-and remember, no repeated numbers! The 150 puzzles come in five levels of difficulty. |
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Lisa Genova:
Left Neglected
The best-selling author of Still Alice presents the story of a woman in her 30s who suffers a traumatic brain injury in a car accident that leaves her unable to perceive left-side information, a disability that prompts her struggle to recover and heal an estrangement.
Reading Group and Book Club Discussion Guide available here! |
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Leslie Hatton:
Cape Cod ABC's
A beautiful new Cape Cod children's book with exquisite illustrations by Kate Walls. A must-have for families who love the Cape! |
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Dwayne Raymond:
Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship
The young man who worked as Norman Mailer's personal assistant during the last five years of the author's life offers an intimate, revealing memoir that recasts the literary lion in a new light, not as combative and verbose as his legend dictated, but rather as a temperate man who taught his assistant how to navigate his own personal challenges. |
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Debra Lawless:
Chatham from the Second World War to the Age of Aquarius
Picking up where Chatham in the Jazz Age left off, this exciting new book by Debra Lawless explores the history of Chatham, from the beginning of the Second World War to the end of the 1960s. Meet a brave group of people who rationed their food and mourned the loss of their sons, including Robert Scott Brown, the only soldier from Cape Cod killed at Pearl Harbor. As the military took over the Chatham Light and local radio station WCC, wartime security became so tight that Chatham's fishermen were photographed and fingerprinted. Experience the transition into the 1950s, when even as tourism boomed, Cape residents feared polio and called for zoning to ban hot dog stands. Finally, hang out with hippies as Chatham's sons were sent to another war, in Vietnam, and the nation geared up to begin its war on drugs. |
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Chris Seufert:
Cape Cod and The Islands: Reflections
Over 200 color photos provide a unique perspective on life in and around Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Enjoy colorful tours of Provincetown, Nantucket, Orleans, Martha's Vineyard, Brewster, Eastham, Chatham, Harwich, Falmouth, Sandwich, Dennis, and Barnstable; beaches of Cape Cod National Seashore, Dionis, Nauset, Red River, Lighthouse, and Outer Beach; wildlife refuges, regional wildlife, harbors, lighthouses, lobster shacks, architectural gems, and much more. |
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Theresa Barbo:
Nantucket Sound: A Maritime History
An ancient fishing ground, vital shipping passage and final resting place for those unable to navigate its rocky shoals, Nantucket Sound- bordered by Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod and, of course, Nantucket- remains one of New England's most historic waterways. Here, the first rays of morning sunlight touch the United States before sweeping westward. In fact, the area's early inhabitants were called Wampanoag: 'People of the Dawn.' From whaling culture and infamous shipwrecks to legends of Vikings, sea gods and John Smith, local author Theresa Mitchell Barbo unearths the stories hidden beneath these rough waves. At once unforgiving and generous, Nantucket Sound has seduced countless seafarers with its siren song but still overflows with diverse marine life.
With a Foreword by Congressman Bill D. Delahunt
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Jennifer Eldredge Stello:
Chatham At Its Best
Jennifer Eldredge Stello is a professional photographer and a life-long resident of Chatham, Massachusetts where her family goes back eleven generations. A graduate of Green Mountain College in Vermont, Jennifer specializes in child and family potraiture in addition to capturing the beauty of her native Cape Cod. During any season, you're likely to see Jennifer walking with her camera and tripod through the peaceful streets of Chatham's old village capturing the morning light, or scooting around in her boat cataloging shifting sands, fragile beach shanties, and local fishermen.
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Edward and Yolanda Lodi :
Cranberry Memories: Voices from the Bogs
Twenty-nine writers, many of them first-time authors, have contributed photographs and personal recollections to Cranberry Memories, a new anthology from Rock Village Publishing. The book is a collection of stories about cranberries and the ways in which these little red berries and the bogs they grow on have profoundly affected people’s lives in southeastern Massachusetts. The memoirs are colorful and varied, told from the perspective of laborers, growers, truck drivers, seasonal workers, tourists, and those who grew up playing near--or working on--the bogs, in the towns stretching from Cape Cod to Duxbury, Plymouth to Middleboro and Lakeville, Wareham to Mattapoisett.
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Debra Lawless:
Chatham in the Jazz Age
Between the town's bicentennial celebration in 1912 and the start of the Second World War, Chatham was transformed from an undiscovered fishing village into a popular tourist destination. As hemlines rose and an old way of life began to collapse, a curious cast of characters put Chatham on the national map. Local author Debra Lawless investigates five prominent residents- Harold C. Dunbar, Alice Walker Guild, Heman Andrew Harding, Joseph C. Lincoln and Alice Stallknecht Wight- whose lives changed Chatham's landscape forever. From the Twin Lights to the dark side of town, discover the hidden truth- theft, racial tension, even murder- of this supposed Eden. |
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J. North Conway: The Cape Cod Canal: Breaking Through the Bare and Bended Arm
Construction on the Cape Cod Canal started 100 years ago in 1909!
The cradle of New England's shipping doubled as its casket, earning the sailing route around Cape Cod the nickname of graveyard of the Atlantic. From the moment sailors began rounding the Cape, they wished they could sail through it instead. Only after three hundred years of wrecked ships and bureaucratic limbo did August Belmont Jr. arrive- financier of New York's legendary subway system; breeder of one of the world's finest horses, Man O' War; and grandson of one of the world's most famous seamen, Commodore Matthew Perry, who opened Japan to the West.
J. North Conway plunges into the character of Cape Cod, from its discovery to its chowder, and of the man who managed to cut a path through it. |
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J. Bean Palmer: The Cape Cod Witch and Pirate's Treasure Series
An incredibly popular children's series for intermediate readers! |
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Kathryn Kleekamp: Cape Cod and the Islands: Where Beauty and History Meet
Cape Cod and its neighboring islands, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, possess extraordinary beauty. Magnificent ocean vistas, spectacular sand dunes, quiet marshes, and historic seaside villages, bring people back year after year. For the inquiring visitor the remarkable stories of courage and enterprise by those who settled the land and shaped its character provide background for thoughtful reflection.
This stunning new book features fifty of Kathryn Kleekamp’s original oil paintings depicting land and seascapes along with rare historic photographs. Image and text capture the fundamental nature of this remarkable area: the heartbeat of those who farmed the land, fished the seas, captained the great schooners, or waited at home for a loved one’s return. The historic vignettes explore major influences that made Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard what they are today. Traditional Cape and Island recipes found here are another link to the present from the past.
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William Sargent: Sea Level Rising:
The Chatham Story
On April 16, 2007, an early spring storm broke through Cape Cod’s barrier beach. Overnight, the citizen’s of Chatham had to contend with as much sea level rise as most communities will face in the next fifty years. A dozen homes were swept away in as many months and, today, a new inlet is aimed at the heart of the village. Another hundred houses and the third most lucrative fishing port in New England will be endangered in the coming years.
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Lisa Genova: Still Alice
Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self gradually slips away. A first novel that quickly gained global attention!
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Polhemus Savery DaSilva:
Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer
The work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders reflects the special qualities of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. This is a region of stunning landscapes and water views, crisp ocean-reflected light, classic villages, and abundant opportunities for playful living. Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer presents more than ten years of evocative design and well crafted construction that is rooted in this fabled place. In an architectural world increasingly polarized between strict revivalist classicism and avant-garde abstraction, the work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva displays a compelling third way. The book features twenty-five projects that range from modest to elaborate. Each is an individual creation tailored to its specific location and client. Several additional projects are depicted in a chronology of the firm's major work. The volume contains an eloquent introduction and text by Michael J. Crosbie, as well as forewords by renowned architects Cesar Pelli and Robert Venturi. An essay by John R. DaSilva, Design Partner, describes the firm's approach and revisits the genesis of the Shingle Style that is so influential in residential architecture today. Drawings by the firm and more than four hundred color photographs by leading architectural photographers illustrate this sixth volume of the New Classicists series. | |
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