boston (mass.)

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.

"[A story] about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early in twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were too unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine, a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her 'How did you get to be the woman you are today.'"--Provided by publisher.

When substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Massachusetts, they witness the Battle of Lexington and learn about the Declaration of Independence.

Recounts the events of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, tracing the experiences of Patriot leader Dr. Joseph Warren, a newly recruited George Washington, and British General William Howe.

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.

Fritz Brubaker and his wife, Linda, have it all, the perfect jobs, the perfect children, and the perfect house, but their comfortable world is turned upside down when Fritz is arrested for insider trading.

Alice Thrift, an intelligent surgical intern who is sorely lacking in social skills, gets a little help from her friends when she is drawn into a relationship with Ray Russo, a loud-mouthed fairground food vendor.

Lily Connor is shocked to find evidence that the Book of Light, a biblical document purportedly containing the transcribed words of Jesus, has been found, and that there is a group of people who will do anything to keep it from being revealed.

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.

Examines the lives of immigrants in Boston from 1790 to 1880, discussing the process of arrival in the city, the physical and economic adjustment, the development of group consciousness, hostility toward the Irish, and the city's eventual relative stability.