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- 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): 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...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Paranormal
- Era(s): Modern
In the alleys of the decrepit Boston neighborhood known as the Weird, fairy prostitutes are turning up dead. The crime scenes show signs of residual magic, but the Guild, which polices the fey, has more “important” crimes to investigate...