boston

Describes sights and events of interest in Boston, including historic buildings, the Boston Public Garden, Beacon Hill, and the Freedom Trail.

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

Introduces the life of Crispus Attucks, a former slave who died in the Boston Massacre, a fight between the British and American colonists that occurred before the American Revolution. Presented in Spanish.

In 1773, twelve-year-old Silence works to please her mother through household chores and weekly etiquette lessons in hopes of spending time with her beloved horse, Lily, while the men of Boston, including her Loyalist father and brother, discuss a possible war over taxation without representation.

In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood{8212}in the throes of Cold War paranoia{8212}seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son. Years later, when Lewis and Rose reunite to untangle the final pieces of the tragic puzzle, they must decide: Should you tell the truth even if it hurts those you love, or should some secrets remain buried?.

After Daryl Gordon decides to reopen her mother, Emily Gordon's murder case after thirty years, private investigator Spenser faces very difficult and dangerous events which will test his bravery to the limit.