boston

Jeff Bauman remembered everything from the bombing of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. When he woke up after his lifesaving surgeries (including having his legs amputated), on April 16, 2013, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote "Saw the guy. Looked right at me." setting off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history. Jeff had been at the finish line, cheering on his girlfriend Erin, when the first bomb went off at his feet. And what he remembered would give the Boston police their first important breakthrough.

Baseball star Johnny Damon recounts the Boston Red Sox's 2004 season, during which the team, by sheer force of will, managed to overcome a bleak losing streak and win the World Series.

Hired to find Jenna Angeline, an Afro-American cleaning woman accused of stealing confidential Statehouse documents, private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, find themselves in the middle of a raging gang war and a scandal extending from the ghetto to the highest levels of state government.

"As a young boy growing up in Ireland, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore loved music--the louder, the better! This love of music followed him to Boston in 1849, where he became a band leader. During the brutal Civil War, it was music that kept up his spirits and those of his fellow soldiers. So when the war ended and peace was restored to the country, Patrick had an idea. He would create the biggest, boldest, loudest concert the world had ever known to celebrate"--Jacket flap.

Chronicles the January 15, 1919 Boston Molasses Flood that killed twenty-one people when over two million gallons of molasses poured out of the steel tank that stored it and traveled through the city's North End.

An account of one of the twentieth century's greatest art heists that occurred in the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, when thieves posing as police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and left with a dozen masterpieces, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, valued at five hundred million dollars.

Poet Nick Flynn describes his childhood in Massachusetts, which ended when his mother committed suicide; chronicles his years as a caseworker at a homeless shelter, where he met his absent father, a homeless, alcoholic con-man and would-be writer, for the first time; and reflects upon the parallels between their lives.

Working undercover as a mild-mannered secretary has private investigator Carlotta Carlyle bored. She starts moonlighting, but soon finds herself over her head in a storm of events that threaten to make this investigation her last.