U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.
Miranda Popescu's world is turned upside down when she learns she is a princess in Bucharest and that her native country's political and economic future rests on her shoulders.
Explains the social processes underlying support and resistance to collective action against witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts; providing theological interpretations of witchcraft, focusing on the relationship between witchcraft and magic, and considering the interrelationships between the two.
An introduction to the history, culture, geography, industries, wildlife, and sights of Massachusetts, featuring photographs, maps, charts, and sidebars.
In 1814, when their father leaves them in charge of the Scituate lighthouse outside of Boston, two teenaged sisters devise a clever way to avert an attack by a British warship patrolling the Massachusetts coast.
Delighted when her prayers for an Irish wolfhound are answered, thirteen-year-old Annie, living in a small Maine town where her father is an Episcopal minister, soon finds herself in trouble when she tries to deal with the consequences of the large dog's playful curiosity.
A visual history that tells the story of the first pilgrims in America, discussing their voyage on the Mayflower, the settlement at Plymouth Harbor, their experiences in the new land, and the original Thanksgiving feast.
Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of Massachusetts, home to Plymouth Rock and the Basketball Hall of Fame.
