boston (mass.)

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.

Moving to a new home in Boston at the same time he turns thirteen, Tony DiMarco befriends four boys from different time periods who each lived in his attic bedroom and who help him to catch a murderer, solve a mystery, and find a hidden treasure.

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.

Investigates the history of the Red Sox, arguing that the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees was not the cause for the team's poor performance, but rather a failure by the ownership to choose managers and players based on talent instead of personal preference.

Looks at the Boston Marathon Bombings that happened on April 15, 2013, when two bombs exploded killing three people and injuring 264 others.

"The wives of some of Boston's wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired to stop him. When the women start dying one by one, Spenser's new assignment becomes murder."--back cover.

Recounts the events surrounding the devastating Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942, the deadliest nightclub fire in American history, and the allegations and trial that followed.

Explores the construction of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project in Boston, Massachusetts; discussing engineering, political, and financial aspects of the "Big Dig" and including photographs.