personal accounts of a school desegregation crisis
Bullard, Pamela
1980
Describes how the desegregation of the Boston schools in the 1970's affected the lives of selected individual students and several adults, chosen to represent a cross section of the community.
In 1776 Boston, twelve-year-old Daniel Prescott enjoys assuming his father's role in taking care of his mother and sister, as well as his work as a spy and messenger for the American revolutionaries, but the pleasure ends when he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand, and learns that a trusted patriot is actually a British spy.
Photographs and text introduce the Boston Celtics, and briefly describes the history of the professional basketball team, key players and personalities, victories and losses, their fans, and other topics.
A serial killer stalks the women of Boston, killing with surgical precision and the same methods that a previous killer had used. The only hope for catching him seems to lie in Dr. Catherine Cordell, a trauma surgeon who two years earlier killed her attacker and now finds herself being hunted by the copy-cat murderer.
The city of Boston is shocked by a series of crimes in which wealthy men are forced to watch as their wives are brutalized, and Detective Jane Rizzoli believes the culprit is a man who is being influenced by a serial killer that has recently been arrested, but when the killer escapes from prison, Jane finds herself a target.
Boston detectives Jefferson and Brogan, investigating a series of brutal murders in July 2008, find the clues they are looking for in a mysterious salvaged World War II submarine and a sinister island in the South Seas.
Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro reluctantly agree to join the search for a four-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in the middle of the night, but they face a dilemma when they learn that some children are better off missing than found.
