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The last best league

one summer, one season, one dream
2004
Jim Collins, a former editor of Yankee magazine, chronicles a season in the life of the Chatham A's, perhaps the most celebrated team in the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Nest

On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.

The outermost house

a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod
1992
The author chronicles his year-long experiences living in his house on a Cape Cod beach, and describes his surrounding, migrations of the birds, changing seasons, and more.

The salt house

a summer on the dunes of Cape Cod
1999
Cynthia Huntington chronicles the experiences she had as she searched for the true meaning of "home" on the dunes of Cape Cod.

The giant's house

a romance
1996
Story of a lonely librarian who develops a warm and trusting relationship with a young boy who also feels like a misfit and looks at how their feelings develop and strengthen over time.

Remember me

1994
After the death of their two-year-old son, Menley and her husband, a high profile criminal defense attorney, are determined to rebuild a life around their new infant daughter--unaware that someone has a different agenda for them.

Remember me

1995
A young married couple living on Cape Cod becomes trapped in a nightmare.

A year by the sea

thoughts of an unfinished woman
2000
The author describes her journey of self-discovery during a year separated from her husband, exploring the issues in her life and marriage that she confronted while living alone at the family cottage on Cape Cod.

Real pirates

the untold story of the Whydah from slave ship to pirate ship
2008
An illustrated exploration of the eighteenth-century ship "Whydah," which discusses its use as a slave ship, its capture by pirates, and its sinking in Cape Cod in 1717 and describes artifacts from its wreck site.

Fatal forecast

an incredible true tale of disaster and survival at sea
2009
One November morning in 1980, two small lobster boats set out for Georges Bank, a bountiful but perilous fishing ground 130 miles off the Massachusetts coast. The forecast was for typical fall weather but, unknown to the fishermen, a colossal storm was brewing to the southeast. Soon the boats were battered by sixty-foot waves and hurricane-force winds. The crews struggled heroically, but the storm crippled one boat and overturned the other, trapping its crew inside. One man managed to crawl inside a tiny inflatable life raft and spent more than fifty terrifying hours adrift on the stormy open sea.

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