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	(by author)

	Lost Daughters	Alberts, Laurie
	The Price of Land in Shelby	Alberts, Laurie
	The Story of a Bad Boy	Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. A. B. Frost, illus.; David Watters, introd.
	The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life—A Novel	Begiebing, Robert J.
	Professor Romeo	Bernays, Anne
	Water Witches	Bohjalian, Chris.
	A Tourist’s New England Travel Fiction, 1820–1920	Brown, Dona, ed.
	The Waters Between A Novel of the Dawn Land	Bruchac, Joseph
	The Gore	Citro, Joseph A.
	Guardian Angels	Citro, Joseph A.
	Lake Monsters	Citro, Joseph A.
	Shadow Child	Citro, Joseph A.
	A Great Place to Die	Connolly, Sean
	The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost Being an Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as Faithfully Translated from the Ming Tsun Chronicles and Diligently Compared with other Contemporary Histories	Fender, J. E.
	Understood Betsy	Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
	Seasoned Timber	Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. Mark J. Madigan, ed.
	Suburban Guerrillas A Novel	Freda, Joseph
	Judgment Hill A Novel	Freeman, Castle, Jr.
	Leaving Pico	Gaspar, Frank X.
	Exile in the Kingdom	Harnum, Robert
	The Dogs of March	Hebert, Ernest
	Live Free or Die	Hebert, Ernest.
	The Old American A Novel	Hebert, Ernest
	The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories	Jewett, Sarah Orne. Sarah Way Sherman, ed. and introd.
	This World Is Not Conclusion Faith in Nineteenth-Century New England Fiction	MacFarlane, Lisa, ed.
	Hard Bottom A Novel	Michelsen, G. F.
	Rain Line	Pierce, Anne Whitney
	J. Eden A Novel	Reed, Kit
	Danvis Tales Selected Stories	Robinson, Rowland E. David Budbill, ed.; Hayden Carruth, introd.
	Summer Light	Robinson, Roxana.
	The Best Revenge Short Stories	Rule, Rebecca.
	The Linwoods: or, “Sixty Years Since” in America	Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Maria Karafilis, ed. & fwd.
	How Many Die	Skillings, R. D.
	Where the Time Goes	Skillings, R. D.
	Pipers at the Gates of Dawn A Triptych	Stegner, Lynn.
	Novemberfest	Weesner, Theodore
	The Wisest Man in America	Wetherell, W. D.
	Wharton’s New England Seven Stories and Ethan Frome	Wharton, Edith. Barbara A. White, ed.
	The Hair of Harold Roux	Williams, Thomas.
	The Round Barn	Wizowaty, Suzi

 

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