New England Fiction

With the powers of observation and richness of plot and character, the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town’s past, the secrets of a prominent...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK, INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MGM+ ORIGINAL SERIES Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and...

The New England Masterworks Collection gathers ten works connected with New England life, literature, history, reform, and imagination.

Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, has come to the end of a very long and unusual journey, and for the second time in his life he has the time to think about all the things that have and have not come to pass. The truth is, a lot of remarkable things have happened in...

"Listening to a rollicking adventure mystery narrated well is a delight, and that's the case with this newest installment in the Enola Holmes series. Payne brings the wry humor, boisterous personality, and incomparable wit of Enola to life so well that listeners will wish they could join her for...

"A young girl who is empowered, capable, and smart...the Enola Holmes book series convey an impactful message that you can do anything if you set your mind to it, and it does so in an exciting and adventurous way." - Millie Bobby Brown "This audiobook is a welcome addition to an engaging and...

"[Narrator Matt] Biddulph’s enthusiastic, emotive delivery stands out as a strong addition to [narrator Tamaryn] Payne’s fantastic character work. Payne's versatile voice acting and comedic flair make this Victorian mystery sparkle." — Kirkus Enola Holmes—international bestselling and...

In this collection of four short stories, 19th-century writer Sarah Orne Jewett explores the theme of female friendship. Tana Hicken brings authenticity to the New England towns in which each story is set. The skillful reading and vivid descriptions conjure images of strong country women living simple, inspirational lives. In "Martha's Lady", the listener's own chest nearly fills with pride as Martha is inspired by a visitor's kind words.

From #1 bestselling author of The Perfect Couple, Elin Hilderbrand, and her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, deliver the irresistible, deliciously scandalous story of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. It’s move-in day at Tiffin Academy and amidst the happy chaos of friends...

What if your worst nightmare was the best thing that ever happened to you? Nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann has spent her entire life sheltered under a glass jar - anxious, coddled, and completely reliant on grown-ups to make every single decision for her. But when her quiet life is turned upside...

A New England Nun is the tale of Louisa Ellis' struggle with the commitment of marriage after having waited 14 years for her fiancé to return from his stay in Australia. Complication arises when her fiancé falls in love with another woman, and Louisa does not want her independent life disrupted.

We've all heard that if we don't like the weather just give it five minutes and it will change. This short story by humorist Mark Twain may have been the origin of the idea. Twain seems convinced that no weather is more varied than in New England. No forecast is so difficult to claim as true as New England. Then again, each region could make the claim and be proud of their prognostication.

From the acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin, here is a sumptuous, sweeping, powerfully moving new novel about a British family whose lives and loves are indelibly shaped by the horrors of World War I and the hopes for its aftermath. In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era the McCosh...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some say that things and places have souls. The Street was born with the colony itself: a quiet path of oaks and wells, walked by settlers, by soldiers marching to war, by generations of children who grew old in its houses. But centuries pass. The old...

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. THE BOILED BEEF OF NEW ENGLAND: The shabbiness of our English capital, as compared with Paris, Bordeaux, Frankfort, Milan, Geneva almost any important town on the continent of Europe I find very striking after an absence of any duration in foreign parts.

The residents of a New England town become obsessed with finding the cure for a mysterious ailment spreading through their community in this “kaleidoscopic and gorgeous” (People, Book of the Week) novel about love’s capacities in a changing world. “The Emilys is a smart, soulful novel...

As a young Queen Elizabeth II prepares to take the throne, three women in her employ will discover where they belong in a rapidly changing world in this heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. London, 1953. Buckingham Palace and the many employees vital to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “old-fashioned love letter to summer” (The New York Times Book Review), set over the course of one transformative season in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss, and the choices she must make to move forward. “The...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER When a daughter and her famous mother return to Winthrop Island to confront their complicated past, they discover a secret trove of paintings that connect them to a mysterious woman who vanished on a luxury steamship two centuries earlier. From the New York Times...

Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in Promise, a “magical, magnificent novel” (Marlon James) from “a startlingly fresh voice” (Jacqueline Woodson). A KIRKUS...