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The incomparable Don Brown chronicles the ballooning misadventures of John Jeffries, scientist and aviation pioneer.

Tells the story of George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in the Boston Tea Party and other events of the American Revolution; examines Hewes's memories of the rebellion as he shared them when he was in his nineties; and considers the historical value of oral testimony and memory.

Jeff Bauman shares the story of losing his legs at the Boston Marathon Bombing.

In graphic novel format, retells the story of Hester Prynne, who is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.

High school players in a working class neighborhood of the 1970s gain desperately needed structure and guidance from Jack Clyde Dempsey, a scrappy, charismatic coach who seems like nothing more than a football geek. But Coach also happens to be the toughest guy on the streets of Boston, with a temper to match, and it s his secret life as a mob enforcer/collector that forces him to flee the country, becoming one of America s most wanted. In this memoir, a devoted Dempsey disciple, who later becomes a dean at a world private school outside Boston, tries thirty-five years later to understand his former coach, role model, and mentor both his good side and his very dark side and Dempsey s impact on his own life. A COMPLETELY TRUE STORY.

One of Hawthorne's great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author's experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841. Blithedale ("Happy Valley"), another would-be modern Arcadia, is the stage for Hawthorne's grimly comic tragedy (Henry James famously called the novel "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions"). In his introduction, Robert S. Levine considers biographical and historical contexts and offers a fresh appreciation of the novel's ironic first-person narrator. The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text to The Blithedale Romance in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Explores the history and the criminal case of Jesse Pomeroy, a child himself, and a child serial killer in Boston in the late nineteenth century.

The definitive story of the theft of thirteen masterpieces stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Musem in Boston some twenty-five years ago. Who would steal these paintings only to leave them hidden for so long? And does the theft have anything to do with Boston's notorious gang wars of the 1980's? The author reveals the identities of those he believes plotted the heist, the motive for the crime, and the details the FBI refused to discuss.

Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.

In 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts was attending a school in Boston. Then one day she was told she could never come back. She didn't belong. The Otis School was for white children only. Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made history. Roberts v. City of Boston was the first case challenging our legal system to outlaw segregated schools. It was the first time an African American lawyer argued in a supreme court.