boston (mass.)

The past comes back to haunt three men who shared a friendship as children when Sean Devine, now a policeman, is assigned to investigate the murder of Jimmy Marcus's teenager daughter, a crime the third member of their group, Dave Boyle, is suspected of committing.

Presents a biography of African-American child, James Jackson, written in 1836 by Susan Paul, James's primary school instructor, Sunday school teacher, and family friend.

Text and photographs describe the area in Boston where historically significant events took place, such as the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's famous ride.

When seventeen-year-old Emma's antique-collector parents vanish and her brother's college roommate shows up to become her guardian, he takes her from San Francisco to Boston, where she discovers that she is a powerful "ghostkeeper," which both explains troubling incidents from her past and presents difficult new dilemmas.

After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

Second year surgical resident Abby DiMatteo stumbles onto a horrifying conspiracy when a wealthy patient who has just had a heart transplant becomes ill and Abby, in trying to treat the woman, discovers the donor records have been falsified.

While becoming sicker, Glory tries to do the things she and Katie had planned to do in Boston and tries to find her place in her foster home, at school, and with a new friend.

Jenna Blake investigates a major crime wave in the Boston area.

Profiles the lives of three families in the 1970s as they deal with urban racial issues and school desegregation in Boston over a ten-year period. Follows the McGoff, Twyman, and Diver families, which include a widowed Irish-American family, an African-American family, and a white liberal middle-class family. Describes each family's historical roots and the role of the public figures who shaped the course of the families' lives.

Hester Prynne, a young woman in colonial Boston, has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet A embroidered on her clothes.