martha's vineyard (mass.)

After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind.

This book examines how the Wamapanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/English coexistence and the long-term survival of Wamapanoag communities on the island of Martha's Vineyard, even as the racial barrier between peoples grew more rigid. On an island marked by centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land, community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists' exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division.

Alex Powell teams up with a fellow journalist and old friend to try and find the man, or woman, who killed their friend Ev.

Old secrets are revealed and lives become unraveled when the children of a well-heeled New England family discover the body of murder victim near Tiger House, their estate on Martha's Vineyard.

Winnie's hopes for an uncomplicated summer--between her junior and senior years of high school--are dashed when a troubled young man comes to stay at the Martha's Vineyard vacation home where she has a cushy babysitting job.

When Kendra's best friend Mona returns to Martha's Vineyard for the summer after spending the school year in Boston, they discover that their friendship--along with a lot of other things--has changed.

Sixteen-year-old Cricket Callahan, the daughter of the president of the United States, moves in with retired cop J.W. Jackson and his wife after a threat is made on her life while vacationing at Martha's Vineyard.