Back Bay Books
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened — and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.
In the fall of 1943, at- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0316244627
- Language: English
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The Bookseller of Kabul
$17.99 Add to cartThis phenomenal international bestseller is “an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand” (Washington Post).
T- Author: Seierstad, Åsne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0316159417
- Language: English
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
$19.99 Add to cartA deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left.
A starry night is one of nature’s most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quar- Author: Bogard, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0316182915
- Language: English
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartSkeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hell… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0316159352
- Language: English
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May – September 1787
$19.99 Add to cart“Remarkable…If you read only one book on the Constitution in your life, this could be it” (Los Angeles Times): the classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dram… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: September 30 1986
- ISBN10: 0316103985
- Language: English
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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places
$19.99 Add to cartA “passionate amalgam of science and autobiography” that will leave you hearing — and seeing — nature as never before (New York Times Book Review).
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of t- Author: Krause, Bernie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 031608686X
- Language: English
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
$22.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the military’s decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon’s Brain and international bestseller Area … [more below]
- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0316349356
- Language: English
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Consciousness Explained
$23.99 Add to cartDaniel Dennett’s “brilliant” exploration of human consciousness — named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times — is a masterpiece beloved by both scientific experts and general … [more below]
- Author: Dennett, Daniel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 20 1992
- ISBN10: 0316180661
- Language: English
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
$19.99 Add to cartIn Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman — and never went home again.
Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly throug- Author: Bard, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0316042781
- Language: English
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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
$15.99 Add to cart“This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending,” writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to… [more below]
- Author: McCracken, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0316027669
- Language: English
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How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness
$18.99 Add to cart“If there were a quick fix for our troubled globe, it would be the profoundly tolerant message, teeming with humanity, at the heart of this book.” –Thomas Moore
From the author of When Bad Things Hap… [more below]- Author: Kushner, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0316519332
- Language: English
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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
$21.99 Add to cartThe astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South.
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton- Author: Hamilton, Mary Mann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316341371
- Language: English
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartA masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of t- Author: Bogosian, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0316292109
- Language: English
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Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
$21.99 Add to cartThis emotional and honest novel recounts a young man’s experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through during those dark times.
The nightmares began fo… [more below]- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0316501115
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around Us
$19.99 Add to cartThe Guardian‘s Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe.
It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0316381659
- Language: English
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On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
$18.99 Add to cart“Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age,” (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor
After the local newspaper where she… [more below]- Author: Guendelsberger, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509019
- Language: English
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Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
$22.99 Add to cart“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” –Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix
The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters–who went from Mississippi farm- Author: Gordon, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0316164941
- Language: English
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The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
$22.99 Add to cartIn this “lively and entertaining” history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of econom… [more below]
- Author: Appelbaum, Binyamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0316512346
- Language: English
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Hank Williams: The Biography
$18.99 Add to cart– Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many… [more below]
- Author: Macewen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0316734977
- Language: English
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 – 1964
$28.99 Add to cartThe bestselling classic that indelibly captures the life and times of one of the most brilliant and controversial military figures of the twentieth century.
“Electric…Tense with the feeling that this… [more below]- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316024740
- Language: English
