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Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklingsby Robert McCloskeyISBN 0874996597 (0-87499-659-7)
Softcover, Live Oak Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklings'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring. [via]
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- Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0874996678 (0-87499-667-8)
Softcover, Live Oak Media - Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0613017048 (0-613-01704-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0874996600 (0-87499-660-0)
Hardcover, Live Oak Media - Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0874996597 (0-87499-659-7)
Softcover, Live Oak Media
- Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0874996678 (0-87499-667-8)
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All Soulsby Michael Patrick MacDonaldISBN 034544177X (0-345-44177-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Souls'Book summary:Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"--the Old Colony projects of South Boston--where 85% of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All Souls, MacDonald takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie. With radiant insight, he opens up a contradictory world, where residents are besieged by gangs and crime but refuse to admit any problems, remaining fiercely loyal to their community. MacDonald also introduces us to the unforgettable people who inhabit this proud neighborhood. We meet his mother, Ma MacDonald, an accordion-playing, spiked-heel-wearing, indomitable mother to all; Whitey Bulger, the lord of Southie, gangster and father figure, protector and punisher; and Michael's beloved siblings, nearly half of whom were lost forever to drugs, murder, or suicide. By turns explosive and touching, All Souls ultimately shares a powerful message of hope, renewal, and redemption. [via]
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Ancient Art To Post-Impressionism: Masterpieces From The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagenby Mary BeardISBN 1903973503 (1-903973-50-3)
Hardcover, Royal Academy of Arts
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Art To Post-Impressionism: Masterpieces From The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen'Book summary:Begun in 1878 by a prominent Danish family, the collection now housed in Copenhagen's renowned Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek includes exceptional Greek, Roman, and Etruscan sculptures, works by Danish Golden Age artists and by French artists such as Rodin and Carpeaux, and notable canvases and ceramics by Paul Gauguin. Published to coincide with an exhibition of works from the Glyptotek, this important volume illustrates some 200 artworks. AUTHOR BIO: Flemming Friborg is director of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Mary Beard teaches classics at Cambridge. [via]
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoirby Nick FlynnISBN 0393329402 (0-393-32940-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir'Book summary:"Devastating....Ranks with Frank Conroy's Stop-Time."--Michael Cunningham
"Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up." Nick Flynn met his father for the third time when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Nick, his own life precariously unsettled, was living alternately in a ramshackle boat and in a warehouse that was once a strip joint. In bold, dazzling prose, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (a phrase Flynn senior uses to describe his life on the streets) tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led Nick and his father into that homeless shelter, onto those streets, and finally to each other. [via]More editions of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir:
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia PlathISBN 0899668151 (0-89966-815-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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- The Bell Jar: ISBN 0553260081 (0-553-26008-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0553278355 (0-553-27835-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0571081789 (0-571-08178-9)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0606022945 (0-606-02294-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0783819870 (0-7838-1987-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0899668151 (0-89966-815-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
- The Bell Jar: ISBN 0553260081 (0-553-26008-1)
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The Bell Jarby Cliffs Notes Staff, Jeanne InnessISBN 0822002264 (0-8220-0226-4)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between FBI and the Irish Mobby Gerard O'Neill, Dick LehrISBN 0060959258 (0-06-095925-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between FBI and the Irish Mob'Book summary:In the spring of 1988, Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill set out to write the story of two infamous brothers from the insular Irish enclave of South Boston: Jim "Whitey" Bulger and his younger brother Billy. Whitey was the city's most powerful gangster and a living legend--tough, cunning, without conscience, and above all, smart. Billy, president of the state Senate, was a political heavyweight in Massachusetts. These facts alone make for an intriguing story, but as Lehr and O'Neill found out, this was only the beginning.
John Connolly, a rising FBI agent and fellow "Southie," had known the Bulgers since boyhood when Whitey rescued him from a playground fight. After investigating organized crime in New York, Connolly was reassigned to the bureau's Boston office in 1975, and was determined to make a name for himself by relying on his old connections. He succeeded in a big way by lining up Whitey as an FBI informant in an effort to bring down the Italian Mafia--a major coup for both the FBI and Connolly. In exchange, Bulger received protection. Though heavily involved in extortion, intimidation, assassination, and drug trafficking, Connolly's "good bad guy" did not receive so much as a traffic infraction for over 20 years. In time, however, the deal changed, and information began flowing the other direction, with Bulger manipulating Connolly and a small group of corrupt FBI agents to further his nefarious network. The criminals and the lawmen eventually became virtually indistinguishable.
Black Mass expertly details the twists and turns of this complex story, painting a vivid portrait of Boston's underbelly and its inclusive political machine, as well as exposing one of the worst scandals in FBI history. It's also an examination of loyalty--to family, home, and heritage--and "a cautionary tale about the abuse of power that goes unchecked." As a final favor, Connolly tipped off Bulger that he was to be indicted on racketeering charges in 1995, allowing him time to go on the lam (he's reported to have access to secret bank accounts across the country). He was added to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List" in 1999. --Sharon M. Brown [via]
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Boston: A Topographical Historyby Lawrence W. Kennedy, Walter Muir WhitehillISBN 0674002687 (0-674-00268-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Boston: A Topographical Historyby Walter Muir WhitehillISBN 0674079515 (0-674-07951-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A Catskill Eagle: A Spenser Novelby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0816138923 (0-8161-3892-3)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall
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Ceremonyby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0816138338 (0-8161-3833-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Familiesby J. Anthony LukasISBN 0394746163 (0-394-74616-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families'Book summary:The climax of this humane account of 10 years in Boston that began with news of Martin Luther King's assassination, is a watershed moment in the city's modern history--the 1974 racist riots that followed the court-ordered busing of kids to integrate the schools. To bring understanding to that moment, Lukas, a former New York Times journalist, focuses on two working-class families, headed by an Irish-American widow and an African-American mother, and on the middle-class family of a white liberal couple. Lukas goes beyond stereotypes, carefully grounding each perspective in its historical roots, whether in the antebellum South, or famine-era Ireland. In the background is the cast of public figures--including Judge Garrity, Mayor White, and Cardinal Cushing--with cameo roles in this disturbing history that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. [via]
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The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 034549038X (0-345-49038-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dante Club'Book summary:The New York Times Bestseller
Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dantes Inferno. Only an elite group of Americas first Dante scholarsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fieldscan solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. [via] -
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919by Stephen PuleoISBN 0807050210 (0-8070-5021-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919'Book summary:Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window-"Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!"
A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn't known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster. [via]More editions of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919:
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Darkness, Take My Handby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380726289 (0-380-72628-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness, Take My Hand'Book summary:In Darkness, Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane gives readers an authentic view of the Boston suburb of Dorchester, the scene of A Drink Before the War, winner of the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Dorchester, a solid blue-collar town with no shortage of good spots at which to sully up to the bar for a beer, is tarnished by a 20-year string of strangely similar killings. Patrick Kenzie, a local, becomes the improbable hero of this tale when he makes it his business to solve the slayings. The characters he encounters in Dorchester, with their distinctive accents and colorful pasts, make this mystery not only thrilling, but wildly entertaining. [via]
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A Drink Before the Warby Dennis LehaneISBN 0156029022 (0-15-602902-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Drink Before the War'Book summary:Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents. But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive once they have. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders, while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government. [via]
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A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Handby Dennis LehaneISBN 006117226X (0-06-117226-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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El Club Dante/The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 8432296325 (84-322-9632-5)
Softcover, Seix Barral
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God Save the Childby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0440128994 (0-440-12899-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Save the Child'Book summary:Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too. [via]
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The Godwulf Manuscriptby Robert B. ParkerISBN 1568493177 (1-56849-317-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godwulf Manuscript'Book summary:For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder. [via]
More editions of The Godwulf Manuscript:
- The Godwulf Manuscript: ISBN 0425039676 (0-425-03967-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - The Godwulf Manuscript: ISBN 0440129613 (0-440-12961-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Godwulf Manuscript: ISBN 0893402184 (0-89340-218-4)
Softcover, L P Books - The Godwulf Manuscript: ISBN 1568493177 (1-56849-317-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
- The Godwulf Manuscript: ISBN 0425039676 (0-425-03967-6)
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Gone, Baby, Goneby Dennis LehaneISBN 0061336211 (0-06-133621-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone, Baby, Gone'Book summary:Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who'd somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn't try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I'm clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane's fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane's success.
Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he's involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child's life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.
Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: Darkness, Take My Hand, A Drink Before the War, Sacred. --Dick Adler [via]
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Johnny Tremainby Esther ForbesISBN 0440442508 (0-440-44250-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnny Tremain'Book summary:This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up hip-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including adventure, loss, courage, and history in a wonderfully written, very dramatic package. It's probably not great for little guys but mature 11-year-olds or older will find it a great adventure. [via]
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- Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0440942500 (0-440-94250-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0395067669 (0-395-06766-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0395775353 (0-395-77535-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School - Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0395900115 (0-395-90011-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0881030287 (0-88103-028-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0440228271 (0-440-22827-1)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books - Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0395954479 (0-395-95447-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0440442508 (0-440-44250-8)
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- Johnny Tremain: ISBN 0440942500 (0-440-94250-0)
Judas Goatby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0893402206 (0-89340-220-6)
Softcover, John Curley & Assoc
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Looking for Rachel Wallaceby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0440153166 (0-440-15316-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking for Rachel Wallace'Book summary:Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post
Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself." --The Boston Globe [via]More editions of Looking for Rachel Wallace:
Lost Bostonby Jan Holtz KayISBN 1558495274 (1-55849-527-4)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Boston'Book summary:LOST BOSTON is a visual feast, a stunning presentation of a city's physical development, and an eloquent appeal for the preservation of what makes the city special. Bringing history to life with more than 350 photographs and prints, Jane Holtz Kay traces Boston's evolution brick by brick and block by block, creating what THE WASHINGTON POST hailed as "an elegant architectural history, excellently illustrated."[via]More editions of Lost Boston:
- Lost Boston: ISBN 0395966108 (0-395-96610-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company - Lost Boston: ISBN 0395321336 (0-395-32133-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Lost Boston: ISBN 0395276098 (0-395-27609-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Lost Boston: ISBN 1558495274 (1-55849-527-4)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
- Lost Boston: ISBN 0395966108 (0-395-96610-8)
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Make Way for Ducklingsby Robert McCloskeyISBN 0140564349 (0-14-056434-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Make Way for Ducklings'Book summary:It's not easy for duck parents to find a safe place to bring up their ducklings, but during a rest stop in Boston's Public Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard think they just might have found the perfect spot--no foxes or turtles in sight, plenty of peanuts from pleasant passers-by, and the benevolent instincts of a kindly police officer to boot. Young readers will love the mother duck's proud, loving protection of her wee webbed ones, and those with fond memories of Boston will enjoy familiar locales, from Beacon Hill to Louisburg Square, and over the Charles River--often from a duck's-eye view. Robert McCloskey, creator of Blueberries for Sal, never fails to elicit happy story-time giggles from youngsters, and his soft, brown-toned, Caldecott-winning illustrations make this gentle world come alive. (Ages 3 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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- Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0140951180 (0-14-095118-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0670451495 (0-670-45149-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0140501711 (0-14-050171-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0140544348 (0-14-054434-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0670035386 (0-670-03538-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0140564349 (0-14-056434-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Make Way for Ducklings: ISBN 0140951180 (0-14-095118-0)
Mortal Stakesby Robert B. ParkerISBN 1560543140 (1-56054-314-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneISBN 0060185635 (0-06-018563-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystic River'Book summary:Dennis Lehane's Mystic River takes the material of the ordinary police procedural thriller and shapes it into heart-break. As boys, Jimmy, Dave and Sean were friends, until one day Dave was abducted by two men pretending to be cops, and was never quite the same again. As men, Dave is a damaged fantasist, safe in a quietly happy marriage; Jimmy a retired criminal making a good respectable living for the sake of his children; and Sean is the homicide cop who finds himself investigating the murder of Jimmy's eldest daughter Katie. This is not just a book about what becomes of the children who grow into adults; it is about what happens to a neighbourhood when the rules change, when an old established working-class district acquires gentrified espresso bars at one end and the beats of the city's most dangerous whores at the other. It is also a book about the tragedy of all sudden violent deaths; we never forget our sense of Katie as she was, dancing on the last night of her life--she is never just the corpse here, never just the object of mourning and investigation. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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- Mystic River: ISBN 0060584750 (0-06-058475-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Mystic River: ISBN 0380731851 (0-380-73185-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Mystic River: ISBN 0593044762 (0-593-04476-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square - Mystic River: ISBN 0688163165 (0-688-16316-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Mystic River: ISBN 0060093102 (0-06-009310-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Mystic River: ISBN 8478715223 (84-7871-522-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc - Mystic River: ISBN 8478710493 (84-7871-049-3)
Hardcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc - Mystic River: ISBN 0060185635 (0-06-018563-5)
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- Mystic River: ISBN 0060584750 (0-06-058475-0)
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 1594200637 (1-59420-063-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Beauty'Book summary:Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction and from the celebrated author of White Teeth comes another bestselling masterwork Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle , this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars-on both sides of the Atlantic-serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent. Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, Time , and Publishers Weekly A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post , and Publishers Weekly bestseller A Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Christian Science Monitor , and Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Book of the Year Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize BACKCOVER: Praise for On Beauty : "A thoroughly original tale . . . wonderfully engaging, wonderfully observed . . . That rare thing: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining, as provocative as it is humane." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A thing of beauty. Oh happy day when a writer as gifted as Zadie Smith fulfills her early promise with a novel as accomplished, substantive and penetrating as On Beauty ." - Los Angeles Times "Smith's specialty is her ability to render the new world, in its vibrant multiculturalism, with a kind of dancing, daring joy. . . . Her plots and people sing with life. . . . One of the best of the year, a splendid treat. [via]
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- On Beauty: ISBN 0143037749 (0-14-303774-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On Beauty: ISBN 0670045276 (0-670-04527-6)
Hardcover, Viking Canada - On Beauty: ISBN 0241142938 (0-241-14293-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton - On Beauty: ISBN 078628319X (0-7862-8319-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - On Beauty: ISBN 1594200637 (1-59420-063-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
- On Beauty: ISBN 0143037749 (0-14-303774-9)
Prayers for Rainby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380730367 (0-380-73036-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prayers for Rain'Book summary:Prayers for Rain is Dennis Lehane's fifth installment in his intricately plotted, beautifully written, and much underacknowledged Boston mystery series. Lehane's books reflect our morally complex times, when the borders between right and wrong are somewhat blurry.
Private investigator Patrick Kenzie is in the middle of a personal crisis--he's lost his passion for the profession, and is tired of people with their "predictable vices, their predictable needs and wants and dormant desires." Angie Gennaro, his occasional sweetheart, lifelong friend, and fellow investigator has quit the business. She's still deeply resentful about Patrick's handling of the Amanda McCready case, the focus of Gone, Baby, Gone. Without Angie, private investigating has lost its fizz.
The suicide of a former client, Karen Nichols, gives Kenzie his investigative itch back. Six months earlier, Kenzie tracked down a stalker who had been harassing Nichols, and put an end to his heinous hobby. But Nichols needed more help than this PI could ever have imagined. "She'd been drowning, and I'd been busy." The successful, middle-class young woman had been sinking into a sea of drugs, alcohol, and prostitution, hitting the bottom when she jumped from the Boston Custom House. Her death consumes Kenzie--he is convinced that someone pulled her into the vortex, although her nearest and dearest simply call her weak.
Kenzie teams up with his explosive, loving, gun-toting friend Bubba Rogowski, and, after a boozy reunion, Angie Gennaro joins them. This fearless threesome must surely be the most original team in contemporary crime fiction. Good at the core--but seriously screwed up by various demons from their pasts--tact and decorum is hardly their style. They work their way across Boston, doing whatever it takes to question Nichols's family and acquaintances. By unveiling the real Nichols, tragic family secrets, betrayals, and conspiracies are also unmasked.
If you haven't experienced Dennis Lehane's world before, be prepared for an invigorating new reading experience. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Sacredby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380726297 (0-380-72629-7)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred'Book summary:Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St. Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming. [via]
Stardustby Robert B. ParkerISBN 1560540680 (1-56054-068-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stardust'Book summary:Spenser's never had a client like Jill Joyce, the star of TV's Fifty Minutes. She's beautiful, bitchy, sexy--and someone is stalking her. Spenser can hardly blame the would-be assassin...until he means the true meaning of "stage fright."[via]More editions of Stardust:
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Wickett's Remedyby Myla GoldbergISBN 1400078121 (1-4000-7812-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wickett's Remedy'Book summary:One day in her kitchen, Lydia Wickett devises a harmless, medicinal-tasting concoction that her enterprising husband bottles under the moniker "Wickett¹s Remedy." Myla Goldberg's unconventional second novel, named for the potion, follows the (mis)fortunes of the loving Wicketts and the strange fate of their recipe as it is reincarnated by an unscrupulous businessman as the trendy "QD Soda." But there is nothing effervescent about Wickett's Remedy, a beautifully written but pessimistic follow-up to Goldberg's bestselling debut, Bee Season. Set mostly in working-class south Boston before and during the First World War, the novel is laden with illness and tragedy. Poor Lydia barely staggers onto her feet after her young husband's sudden death of pneumonia when her family is swirled into the Influenza epidemic of 1918--fascinatingly, horribly described by Goldberg. Death follows death, until Lydia, volunteering in the overwhelmed wards of the local hospital, discovers the profound intimacy of nursing: a "shared human undercurrent detectable only when the dictates of name, sex, and social standing were erased."
Lydia's experiences are annotated with marginal comments from the dead (literally marginal: the remarks are in a smaller type in the outside margins of the text). This "whispering undercurrent" rises into articulation when one of the dead feels an urge to comment on Lydia's memories. The statements of the dead can be funny or poignant (e.g. "Jefferson Carver, the Public Health Services first colored elevator operator and the car¹s fourth occupant, has become resigned to his omission from the partial memories of his white passengers."), but most often correct fine points in the narrative or complain about slights and oversights. The dead have a "shared desire: that in an unguarded moment, Our whisperings will broach a living ear." Sadly, they don't have much more to contribute than the kind of cantankerous ego-babble we expect from the living.
Although this chorus of the dead is a brave innovation, it fails Wickett¹s Remedy because the perspective of eternity lessens the force of Lydia's story. It would lessen anyone's story. It may be more realistic to view our sufferings and ambitions--our very personalities--as specks in a cosmic blur, but it puts a damper on our wilder emotions. --Regina Marler [via]
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Zodiacby Neal StephensonISBN 0553573861 (0-553-57386-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zodiac'Book summary:Believe it or not, some readers find Zodiac even more fun than Neal Stephenson's defining 1990s cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash. Zodiac is set in Boston, and hero Sangamon Taylor (S. T.) ironically describes his hilarious exploits in the first person. S. T. is a modern superhero, a self-proclaimed Toxic Spiderman. With stealth, spunk, and the backing of GEE (a non-profit environmental group) as his weapons, S. T. chases down the bad guys with James Bond-like Zen.
Cruising Boston Harbor with lab tests and scuba gear, S. T. rides in with the ecosystem cavalry on his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. His job of tracking down poisonous runoff and embarrassing the powerful corporations who caused them becomes more sticky than usual; run-ins with a gang of satanic rock fans, a deranged geneticist, and a mysterious PCB contamination that may or may not be man-made--plus a falling-out with his competent ("I adore stress") girlfriend--all complicate his mission.
Stephenson/S. T.'s irreverent, facetious, esprit-filled voice make this near-future tale a joy to read. [via]
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Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklingsby Robert McCloskey, Osvaldo Blanco, De Osvaldo BlancoISBN 014056182X (0-14-056182-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklings'Book summary:A mallard family on the move interrupts virtually everyone in town, inciting patient and not-so-patient waits at duck crossings, in a classic Caldecott Medal-winning storybook that is filled with pen-and-ink illustrations. [via]
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El Club Dante/ The Dante Clubby Matthew Pearl, VICENTE VILLACAMPAISBN 8432217204 (84-322-1720-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dante/ The Dante Club'Book summary:Una magistral obra de suspense mundialmente aclamada. Boston, 1865. Importantes personalidades est´n siendo brutalmente asesinadas por un criminal inspirado en los tormentos del Infierno de Dante. Sólo los miembros del club Dante --poetas y profesores de Harvard dirigidos por Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-- pueden anticiparse al asesino e identificarle. Mientras preparan la primera traducción americana de La divina comedia enfrentándose a la oposición de la puritana vieja guardia de Harvard, los intelectuales deberán convertirse en detectives y pasar a la acción. Nicholas Ray, el primer policía negro del departamento de Boston, dirigirá la investigación oficial mientras los miembros del club llevan a cabo sus insólitas pesquisas. Un dantesco infierno medieval se cierne sobre las calles de la ciudad, en una época que toca a su fin, convulsa por la recién terminada guerra civil, el asesinato del presidente Lincoln y los disturbios raciales. Comparada insistentemente con El nombre de la rosa, de Umberto Eco, aclamada por la crítica con una unanimidad asombrosa y refrendada por el público con su presencia en las listas de los libros más vendidos de New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, entre otros, El club Dante (http://www.seix-barral.es/club-dante) está a punto de ser publicada en veintiún países antes de ser llevada al cine. Matthew Pearl ha logrado un equilibrio perfecto entre realidad y ficción, una novela histórica de suspense que sorprende de principio a fin. [via]
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