Geographic Orientation/Massachusetts
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Dirty Old Boston: Four Decades of a City in Transition
$39.95 Add to cartWhen Jim Botticelli launched the Dirty Old Boston Facebook page as a salute to the gritty city he once knew, he discovered that thousands of people were equally nostalgic and curious about Boston’s re… [more below]
- Author: Botticelli, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1934598127
- Language: English
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Mary Emma & Company
$16.95 Add to cartThe protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in… [more below]
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803282117
- Language: English
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Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday
$7.99 Add to cartLearn the true story of Thanksgiving with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time, Magic Tree House Track the facts with Jack and Annie in this nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #27… [more below]
- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Fact Tracker #13
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 27 2005
- ISBN10: 037583219X
- Language: English
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Summer People
$19.00 Add to cart“Things get more twisted at every turn, with enough lies and betrayals to fuel a whole season of soap operas…readers will be hooked.”–Publishers Weekly on Elin Hilderbrand’s Summer People
Every sum- Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0312628277
- Language: English
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The Nantucket Sea Monster: A Fake News Story
$25.99 Add to cartA JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION
2018 National Council of Teacher’s of English (NCTE) Notable Children’s Book in Language Arts
Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper?
Early in August 1937, a
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1629440825
- Language: English
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On the Loose in Boston: A Find-The-Animals Book
$17.99 Add to cartWith simple rhymes and colorful, highly detailed painting, the prize-winning Atlantic Online cartoonist creates a Where’s Waldo?-type hit, setting animals free from Franklin Park Zoo and challenging c… [more below]
- Series: Find the Animals
- Author: Stossel, Sage
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933212926
- Language: English
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Nantucket Nights
$17.99 Add to cartThe ties between women can run as deep as the ocean–but so can their secrets.
For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put- Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12, 2009
- ISBN10: 0312565313
- Language: English
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Prayers for Rain: A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel
$16.99 Add to cartWhen a former client jumps naked from a Boston landmark, Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why. Once a perky young woman in love with life, her suicide is the final fall in a spiral of
- Series: Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro #5
- Author: Lehane, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 16, 2013
- ISBN10: 0062224050
- Language: English
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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
$18.99 Add to cartThe seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune)
A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod b- Author: Beston, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 080507368X
- Language: English
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Run
$19.00 Add to cart“Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving…a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, a
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Patchett, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061340642
- Language: English
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Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War
$19.00 Add to cart“Vivid and remarkably fresh…Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages.”–The New York Times Book Review
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143111973
- Language: English
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Live by Night
$0.00 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties–now a Warner Bros. movie
- Series: Joe Coughlin #1
- Author: Lehane, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14, 2013
- ISBN10: 0062197754
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$6.00 Add to cartAn “A” for “adultery” marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly res
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 02, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280489
- Language: English
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The Given Day
$15.99 Add to cartSet in Boston at the end of the First World War, bestselling author Dennis Lehane’s extraordinary eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossro
- Author: Lehane, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 722
- Publish Date: September 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0380731878
- Language: English
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Ghosts of the Bridgewater Triangle
$14.99 Add to cartFor the past twenty-five years, the people along the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border have known about the Bridgewater Triangle and the odd things that occur there. But for centuries before that, the… [more below]
- Author: Balzano, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0764330063
- Language: English
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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
$22.00 Add to cartAhead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
In March 1621, w- Author: Silverman, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 163286925X
- Language: English
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
$17.99 Read more- Author: Cooper, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1538746859
- Language: English
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Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
$20.99 Add to cartBeginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers–mainly young women–suffered from unseen to… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Baker, Emerson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190627808
- Language: English
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
$26.95 Add to cartPresenting the events of Salem’s witch hysteria in 1692 and 1693 in a chronological format, this authorative book makes use of previously unknown court records and documents.
- Author: Roach, Marilynne K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 22, 2004
- ISBN10: 1589791320
- Language: English
