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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
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Arthur Miller
Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the play was produced, Miller himself was called before HUAC. In the play, Miller used colonial language to near-poetic effect; the plot involves characters who have to make certain moral choices concerning their ...
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True Compass: A Memoir
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Edward M Kennedy, Senator
In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and 50 years at the center of national events.
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Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine
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Marc S Sabatine
Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, this pocket-sized looseleaf is one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents on the wards and candidates reviewing for internal medicine board exams. In bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms, "Pocket Medicine" provides key clinical ...
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Still Alice
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Lisa Genova
"Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by a first-time author who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Reminiscent of "A Beautiful Mind" and "Ordinary People," this work packs an emotional punch.
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Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Mercy
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Jodi Picoult
Did James McDonald love Maggie so much that he killed her? The law will decide in this courtroom drama.
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Nathaniel Philbrick
A New York Times Bestselling Author From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the ...
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
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Augusten Burroughs
When his dysfunctional family sent Augusten Burroughs away to be raised in the home of his mother's therapist, he became part of an even more dysfunctional and unusual family dynamic. In this bestseller, which has become a classic of the wackier side of memoir literature, Burroughs doesn't flinch at any grotesquerie or atrocity, recording it all- ...
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Face the Fire: Three Sisters Island Trilogy #3
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Nora Roberts
The final book in Nora Roberts's bewitching New England-set Three Sisters Island trilogy brings to a close the saga of modern-day witches Nell Channing, Ripley Todd, and Mia Devlin.
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Night and Day
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Robert B Parker
In Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone confronts a town's darkest secrets, in the shocking new novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author and America's greatest mystery writer ("The New York Sun").
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Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
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Peter Canellos (Editor)
No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy -- the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father's enormous ambitions -- would go on to live a life that no one could have predicted: dismissed as a spent force in ...
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Death in Paradise
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Robert B Parker
In this brooding mystery, sheriff Jesse Stone, a more-or-less-recovered alcoholic, investigates a murder and a case of domestic abuse in the little town of Paradise, Massachusetts.
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Walden or Life in the Woods
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Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, WALDEN vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his ...
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
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Katherine Howe
Written by an author completing a Ph.D. in New England Studies, and whose ancestors had been accused witches in Salem, "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" travels seamlessly between the trials in the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery and discovery.
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Sacred
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Dennis Lehane
Billionaire Trevor Stone is dying, and his grief-stricken daughter has been missing for three weeks. Stone hires detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to track her down. But as they search, Patrick and Angie dig up cult members, millions of dollars of stolen funds, and a huge quantity of heroin. What does all this have to do with Stone's ...
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Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is part of a series called "Bloom's ReViews", which are college-level study guides prepared under the aegis of Harold Bloom, distinguished Yale professor and author of "The Western Canon". Each guide includes an introductory essay by Bloom as well as extracts from renowned scholars on key topics in the work. Good for independent study and ...
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Paul Revere's Ride
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David Hackett Fischer
This widely acclaimed and meticulously researched book is the first serious study of Paul Revere's famous ride. Fischer's exciting narrative offers new insight into the coming of the American Revolution.
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At Risk
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Patricia D Cornwell
Filled with all the chilling suspense, rich characters, and trademark forensics that have made Patricia Cornwell an international phenomenon, this #1 "New York Times" bestseller features a state investigator, his D.A. boss, cutting-edge forensics technology, and the 20-year-old murder of an elderly woman.
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Mitch Albom
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of ...
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Civil Action
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Jonathan Harr
Children in Woburn, Massachusetts began getting leukemia in unusually high numbers in the mid-1960s. At about the same time, the water from two local wells began to taste of chemicals. Despite the complaints of local residents, the wells were not permanently closed until 1979. The site was put on the federal Superfund list, but the leukemia cases ...
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
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Jeanne Birdsall
In this middle-grade novel, a summer of exciting new experiences awaits the lively Penderwick sisters at a summer rental cottage on the large Berkshire estate of Mrs. Tifton, a snobby heiress. With a spacey but loving botanist father, 12-year-old Rosalind is often in charge. Her younger sister, Jane, age 11, is a writer with a dramatic flair. Skye ...
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High Profile
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Robert B Parker
The murder of a controversial talk show host puts Jesse Stone in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. After the body of a young woman is discovered a few days later, the medical examiner reveals a heartbreaking link between the two victims. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
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The MacGregor Brides
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Nora Roberts
In this series spin-off, Daniel MacGregor is determined to see his career-minded granddaughters married and hes hand-picked three unsuspecting candidates as worthy consorts. Soon, cousins Laura, Gwendolyn, and Julia discover that their busybody grandfather has an unerring instinct for love. Reissue.
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Vanish
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Tess Gerritsen
An apparently dead woman turns out to be alive and kicking--or at least, alive and ready to grab hostages--in the fifth suspenseful installment in the Jane Rizzoli/Maura Isles series. Medical examiner Maura Isles is extremely startled when she observes faint signs of life in a battered young woman lying in the morgue, but that's nothing to her ...
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The Dante Club
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Matthew Pearl
The Dante Club includes such scholars and intellectual luminaries of mid-19th-century Boston as Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell. Their attempt to introduce Dante's DIVINE COMEDY to the Harvard curriculum leads to a series of murders based on the grisly deaths in Dante's INFERNO. And it's up to the Dante Club to find the killers.
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