Seven years ago college student Flora Dane was kidnapped and held captive for over a year but survived. She is trying to return to normal life with the help of her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. However, when Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a murder, she discovers that Flora may have transformed from a victim to a vigilante, and she could hold the key to another missing college student. But then Flora disappears and D.D. learns that a more sinister predator is out there, and this time Flora might not escape.
Addie Baum, born in Boston in 1900 to immigrant parents, reflects on her life experiences, including her childhood, her teenage years, her first love affair, her career as a newspaper typist, and the pursuit of her dreams.
Rose Levenson is a 17-year-old ballerina who is watching her mother slowly die from Huntington's Disease. Which means, Rosie has a 50/50 chance of having the disease herself. Determined not to allow herself to pursue dreams that could be dashed if she does have the disease, she refuses to consider love or go after her dream of dancing professionally. That is until she meets a boy who changes her mind.
Describes how Henry Knox saved the city of Boston from the British during the American Revolution. Includes a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.
Presents biographies of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two Chechen American brothers who orchestrated the Boston marathon bombing of April 15, 2013, and discusses the factors that may have led to their terrorist actions.
An abridged version of the story of five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as she feels the effects of the War of 1812 while living with her family near Boston.
Reconstructs the life of African-American photographer Robert Gilbert through an examination of over two thousand antique glass plate negatives found in an old Massachusetts estate, believed to have been taken by Gilbert when he worked as an assistant to famed nineteenth-century ornithologist William Brewster.
State police trooper Tessa Leoni claims to have killed her husband in self-defense, but detective D.D. Warren soon realizes it is far from an open-and-shut case when it is discovered that Tessa's six-year-old daughter is missing and the clues lead to a shocking conspiracy that could destroy them all.
