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Compulsion
by Keith Ablow, is a taut psychological thriller set on Nantucket.
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The Off-Islanders
by Nathaniel Benchley. This is the delightful story that became the film The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming. MBC reprinted this in 1984.
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Prince of Nantucket
by Jan Goldstein.
A selfish, ambitious politician finally grasps what's important when he reconciles with his long-estranged mother on Nantucket.
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Miriam Coffin, or The Whale-Fishermen
by Joseph C. Hart. Originally published to critical acclaim in 1834, the novel is based on the life of the notorious Kezia Coffin, and takes its place among the sweeping epics of the nineteenth century. In the historical introduction to this new edition, Nathaniel Philbrick says we "experience that intangible sense of what it was like to be alive in another time."
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Barefoot
by Elin Hilderbrand
The sixth novel by the best-selling writer who delights thousands with her stories every season.
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The Beach Club
by Elin Hilderbrand, is a high-spirited novel set at a Nantucket beach club. Fun in the sun.
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Love Season
by Elin Hilderbrand
is the author's fifth bestselling novel set on Nantucket.
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Nantucket Nights
by Elin Hilderbrand. Elin's second novel combines romance and intrigue with a Nantucket setting.
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Summer People
the third novel set on Nantucket by island resident Elin Hilderbrand, is a compulsively readable story of a family’s drama large and small during a Nantucket summer.
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The Last Boat
by Michael Hite
A well-written historical novel set in Nantucket, Brooklyn and the battlefields of WWI France.
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Death in a Mood Indigo
by Francine Matthews, is the third of the Merry Folger detective novels set on Nantucket.
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Moby Dick
This highly academic edition includes criticism, research sources and letters by Melville. This is the version choosen for the English class at the Nantucket High School.
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville. MBC sells several editions of Moby Dick ranging in price from $4.95 to $65.00. This edition with reproduced illustrations and page design was created by Rockwell Kent for Random House in 1930.
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Moby Dick or, The Whale
by Herman Meville with forword by Nathaniel Philbrick. This is the 150th year Anniversary Edition.
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Moby Dick
(Spinner Publishing).
This edition of the great American classic, though not the complete text, contains hundreds of photos, drawings and illustrations that add to the enjoyment of the novel.
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Ahab's Wife
by Sena Jeter Naslund, is a hefty historical novel much of which is set in nineteenth century Nantucket.
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In the Same Space
by Charles Soule
An espionage thriller set in contemporary Nantucket.
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Veneer
by Andrew Spencer
A new murder mystery set on Nantucket. In it the author, a Nantucket resident, strips off the veneer of charm and perfection that are associated with summers on the island.
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Smuggler’s Luck,
by Edouard A. Stackpole, chronicles the adventures of a Nantucket boy as he experiences the island’s trials and tribulations during the American Revolution.
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Nantucket Diet Murders
by Virginia Rich. This mystery story unfolds in an atmosphere of food appreciation.
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You Fight For Treasure!
by Edouard A. Stackpole
is a novel first published in 1932 and tells of Timothy Pinkham’s second adventure (after Smuggler’s Luck), this time involving treasure, pirates and a dramatic return to Nantucket.
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The Hot Flash Club Chills Out
by Nancy Thayer.
This fourth “Hot Flash Club” novel by the popular island writer, is set on Nantucket.
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