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- Location(s): Egypt, Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante’s continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end. Words can bleed. In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Boston
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
For fans of WONDER and REFUGEE BOY – meet Sami, a twelve-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, as he searches for friendship, a place to call home and his grandfather’s most prized possession. Back in Afghanistan, before the Taliban came, Sami’s...
- Location(s): Boston, Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1600s
A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a...
- Location(s): Boston, Ohio
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston’s Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself in this resonant...
- Location(s): Quincy (formerly "Braintree), Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Revolutionary War 1770s
The Midwife’s Revolt is the first of a trilogy On a dark night in 1775, Lizzie Boylston is awakened by the sound of cannons. From a hill south of Boston, she watches as fires burn in Charlestown, in a...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
- Era(s): Revolutionary America
1773: Massachusetts colony is torn between patriots who want independence from British rule and loyalists who support the King. At the center is the educated and beautiful Abigail Adams-wife of John Adams, a leader of the Sons of Liberty,...
The Saturday Evening Girls Club
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1908
In Boston’s North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind—but never one another. For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy. But at least they have one another...
- Location(s): Normandy, Boston
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1937, 2009
Normandy, 1937. Sixteen-year-old Elise embarks on a whirlwind romance with a young American man, which transports herfrom the drudgery of her everyday life caring for her mother. But neither she nor William is prepared forthe warthat will threaten to...
- Location(s): Philadelphia, Boston
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): late 20th century
THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN is an uplifting story by E. B. White, author of CHARLOTTE’S WEB in which wildlife and nature blend with fantasy to make a tender, humorous and unforgettable animal tale. Unlike other cygnets, Louis, the...
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