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Bryson, Bill Walk in the Woods:Rediscovering the Appalachian Trail
Random House 0307279464 / 9780307279460 Paperback NEW ~ USED COPIES MAY BE AVAILABLE GRADE 11
With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humor, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey along the Appalachian Trail in this "New York Times" bestseller, available in mass market for the first time.
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Chernoch, Paul Anton Endless Hunt
CCTA 147762919X / 9781477629192 Trade Paperback NEW
Life is a treasure hunt. For what treasures have you been prospecting? Jesus said that we should lay up treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy. To which treasures was he referring? The Endless Hunt proposes a list of twelve spiritual treasures and argues why they should appear at the top of everyone's To-do list. The text is sprinkled with original poems and worship songs and includes a complete novelette, "The Disconnected", exploring loneliness and the universal need to get connected. For those who have questions about the Bible's accuracy, it includes a section addressing issues like creation and evolution, the age of the universe, archeology and prophecy. The text unfolds as a treasure hunt, complete with rhyming riddles, a treasure map, and a compass. Every point is argued both from the Bible and from the author's personal experience. Every treasure is carefully related to the human needs it addresses. Those needs range from existence and survival to personal relationships, and from basic spiritual nourishment to ultimate fulfillment. The book addresses problems like loneliness, depression, unfruitfulness, fear, and poverty. Some of the treasures listed in this book - such as life, liberty and happiness - won't surprise anyone, but two of them surprised even the author. He didn't add them to his list until the last chapters were being written, which is why even after finding God, he keeps on looking. If you are stuck in a spiritual rut, or think you've found all the answers, this book can help you rejoin the endless hunt.
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Coronella, Steve This Thought's on Me
iUniverse 1440169004 / 9781440169007 Trade Paperback New Best Wishes, Steve Coronella
Autographed by the author. A Boston guy reflects on leaving the Hub, becoming a Dub and other topics. Medford's Steve Coronella's collection of essays will have you nodding and saying "Yep, I remember that!" When Steve Coronella moved to Ireland in the early 1990s, he thought he knew what to expect - double-digit unemployment, a pub on every corner and weather only a duck could love. In his entertaining memoir This Thought's On Me, Coronella shares a humorous and insightful collection of anecdotes about his new life in Dublin and the Boston upbringing he left behind. Soon after Coronella arrives, the Celtic Tiger economy springs to life. Ireland is suddenly importing workers rather than shipping people out. And as the money and the good times flow, a profound self-contentment causes the Irish to forget - almost - the hard decades that preceded the boom. Coronella discovers that this is an ideal setting for a writer with a fresh outlook and an interesting turn of phrase. In his dispatches home - which have appeared previously in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and Cape Cod Times - Coronella brings his dual identity to life in such wide-ranging and revealing essays as "Why Europe Doesn't Get Patriotism," "No Blarney, I'm Raising A Dub!" and "The Summer Of My Irish Commune." These thoughtful reflections from a misplaced American provide an intriguing and witty glimpse into what life is really like on the Emerald Isle. About the Author Steve Coronella's insightful column-At Home Abroad-appears regularly in thirty Boston area newspapers. His work has also been featured in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Cape Cod Times. His op-ed pieces for the Irish Times have appeared on several prestigious European web sites.
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Cunningham, Sheila Willow's Walkabout: A Children's Guide to Boston
Bunker Hill 2012 1593730969 / 9781593730963 first Hardcover NEW May 16, 2012
Willow the Wallaby escapes from the Zoo and goes on a tour of Boston from Foxboro to Back Bay, riding Swan Boats, running the Marathon, hopping into the Science Museum and the Children's Museum before touring the Freedom Trail and taking the Duck Tour and the T to dozens more exciting places. Written in bouncy Wallaby Verse, practical and delightful, this guide will become a treasured memento of any visit to the Patriot City!
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Halberstam, David Summer of '49
Harper 0060884266 / 9780060884260 Paperback NEW
With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat. The year was 1949, and a war-weary nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition. The awesome New York Yankees and the indomitable Boston Red Sox were fighting for supremacy of baseball's American League, and an aging Joe DiMaggio and a brash, headstrong hitting phenomenon named Ted Williams led their respective teams in a classic pennant duel of almost mythic proportions--one that would be decided in an explosive head-to-head confrontation on the last day of the season.
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Harriman, Joanne Stoneham (Images of America)
Arcadia 0738502227 / 9780738502229 Trade Paperback NEW
Discover the history of Stoneham, Massachusetts, from its inception in 1725 to the 1990s, in this unprecedented pictorial history. Stoneham invites you back to the days when groceries and ice were home-delivered and when local transportation consisted of the railroad and the "Yellow Peril." Over 200 vintage photographs, many of them never before published, show this historically rich town as it once was. Learn about the automobile industry in early Stoneham and a Stoneham-produced car, which won a transcontinental race in 1909. See the early homes, police and fire departments, churches, businesses, and schools, including the first South School (1851-1938), as well as the second (1938-1998), which helped give the town its unique character and small-town charm. Meet some Stoneham men and women who defended liberty, and see what local folks did on the home front to contribute to the war effort.
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Hogan, Laura I Laura, The Story of a Kansas Family
Ammons 978082761144 Trade Paperback New
This is the autobiography of Laura Schmid Hogan. It tells the story of her family of 17, growing up in eastern Kansas in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. It graphically details American farm life before modern conveniences and during the dustbowl of the depression.
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Howlett, D. Roger The Lynn Beach Painters: Art Along the North Shore, 1880-1920 Art Along the North Shore
Lynn Historical Society 1998 1882162137 / 9781882162130 1st Cloth Very Good - Used, Light reading wear to book & DJ, clean pages, non-smoking home. Oversized. Very Good out-of-print
The picturesque coast of Boston's North Shore, from Revere to Marblehead, was home to a remarkable school of American marine impressionists. From 1882 to the 1890s, seven significant American artists shared a similar technique and interest in the wide beaches, tidal marshes, and working fisherfolk of the Lynn and Swampscott shorelines. The seven -- Nathaniel L. Berry, Edward Burrill, William Partridge Burpee, C.E.L. Green, T. Clark Oliver, Edward A. Page, and Charles H. Woodbury -- developed a particular style of regional impressionism and form the group now known as the Lynn Beach Painters. In this volume, art historian D. Roger Howlett for the first time recognizes the group for both its cohesiveness and its significance, and places the artists' work within the context of late nineteenth-century American art, a period that was strongly influenced by French Impressionism, plein-air painting, and the modern Dutch school. Through careful research and lavish illustration, The Lynn Beach Painters restores this sometimes overlooked school to its rightful place in American art history.
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MacDonald, Michael Patrick All Souls;A Family Story from Southie
Random House 0807072133 / 9780807072134 Paperback NEW ~ USED copies may be available.
A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, "All Souls" takes readers deep into MacDonalds Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.
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McLaughlin, Robert Pleasure Island (Wakefield MA)
Arcadia 0738564605 / 9780738564609 Trade Paperback New 3-5 days
Billed as Boston's answer to Disneyland, Pleasure Island opened on June 22, 1959. William Hawkes, president of Childlife Magazine, and executives at Cabot, Cabot and Forbes collaborated with Marco Engineering of Los Angeles to build what was called the Disneyland of the East. Pleasure Island rose from the wetlands off of Route 128 into an 80-acre theme park. Through photographs, Pleasure Island recalls memories of boat rides to Pirate Cove, searching for the great white whale, driving a Jenney car, getting dizzy in the Slanty Shanty, and taking a ride on Old Smoky. At Pleasure Island, children and children-at-heart entered into a world that traditional amusement parks could not provide, where character actors continually put on a show and the entire park was the stage.
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Merullo, Roland Lunch With Buddha
PFP 2012 0984834567 / 9780984834563 Trade Paperback NEW Signed by the Author!
On the surface, LUNCH WITH BUDDHA is a story about family. Otto Ringling and his sister Cecelia could not be more different. He's just turned 50, an editor of food books at a prestigious New York publishing house, a man with a nice home in the suburbs, children he adores, and a sense of himself as being a mainstream, upper-middle-class American. Cecelia is the last thing from mainstream. For two decades she's made a living reading palms and performing past-life regressions. She believes firmly in our ability to communicate with those who have passed on. It will turn out, though, that they have more in common than just their North Dakota roots. In LUNCH WITH BUDDHA, when Otto faces what might be the greatest of life's difficulties, it is Cecelia who knows how to help him. As she did years earlier in this book's predecessor, BREAKFAST WITH BUDDHA, she arranges for her brother to travel with Volya Rinpoche, a famous spiritual teacher - who now also happens to be her husband. After early chapters in which the family gathers for an important event, the novel portrays a road trip made by Otto and Rinpoche, in a rattling pickup, from Seattle to the family farm in North Dakota. Along the way the brothers-in-law have a series of experiences - some hilarious, some poignant - all aimed at bringing Otto a deeper peace of mind. They visit American landmarks; they have a variety of meals, both excellent and awful; they meet a cast of minor characters, each of whom enables Rinpoche to impart some new spiritual lesson. Their conversations range from questions about life and death to talk of history, marijuana, child-rearing, sexuality, Native Americans, and outdoor swimming. In the end, with the help of their miraculous daughter, Shelsa, and the prodding of Otto's own almost-adult children, Rinpoche and Cecelia push this decent, middle-of-the-road American into a more profound understanding of the purpose of his life. His sense of the line between possible and impossible is altered, and the story's ending points him toward a very different way of being in this world.
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O'Dougherty, Kathleen Woburn (MA Images of America)
Arcadia 2000 0738504009 / 9780738504001 Trade Paperback Very Good - Used
Travel back to the earliest days of Woburn, when life was simple and farming was the chief occupation of its settlers. Then, continue your journey as Woburn transforms itself into a small industrialized city on the brink of the twentieth century. Founded in 1640 by a team of seven able men from Charlestown, Woburn grew, prospered, recorded, and documented its history, providing a legacy for generations to come. Through the weaving of stories and photographs, we witness this growth and marvel at the transformation of village to city. As you delve into these intimate glimpses of Woburn, you will be introduced to rare photographs of Civil War combatants and view significant historical documents, such as the "Bloody Butchery" broadside, which details the battles of Lexington and Concord replete with Woburn heroes. You will be mesmerized by the old-time photographs of landmarks such as "Busy Bend" and "Horn Pond." You will see a Woburn "celebrated for its greenhouses, tanneries, and ice-cutting industries." And you will meet Woburn's celebrities: the famous, the not so famous, and the infamous.
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Philbrick, Nathaniel In the Heart of the Sea
Penguin 0141001828 / 9780141001821 Paperback NEW ~ USED copies may be available. grade 11
Now available in paperback, this true-life bestseller tells the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship "Essex"--an event that served as the inspiration for Melville's "Moby Dick". of illustrations.
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Plimpton, Oakes Robbins Farm, Arlington, Massachusetts by Oakes Plimpton (1995, Paperback, Illustrated): A Local History
Penobscot Press 1995 0897252314 / 9780897252317 2 Trade Paperback Very Good - Used
Moderate reading wear, clean pages, non-smoking home. Now a popular town park and recreation area featuring spectacular views of the Boston skyline, Robbins Farm was once a thriving agricultural enterprise. Oakes Plimpton compiled oral histories from area residents to tell the colorful story of Nathan Robbins, prosperous, hard-working descendant of Minutemen and philanthropists.
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Ruggiero, Maryellen The Little Lotus Learns about Wellness
0983470405 / 9780983470403 Trade Paperback NEW
The Little Lotus hears the word 'wellness' and isn't exactly sure what it means. This tender story of a mother teaching her child the many ways to stay healthy in mind, body and spirit will entertain and educate children ages 3-7 on the essentials of health and wellness. **PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 16, 2012 - April 17, 2012 – Hip Healthy and Holistic, an initiative committed to promoting wellness, literacy and creativity, is excited to announce that its unique children’s book, The Little Lotus Learns About Wellness, has been awarded the PTPA Winner’s Seal of Approval. PTPA Media has North America’s largest volunteer parent testing community, with over 40,000 parents and was rated the Most Trusted Seal by 22,000 parents. Visit the Lotus on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/thelittlelotus. The author is donating a portion of sales to Target Cancer http://targetcancer.info/
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Sammarco, Anthony Boston's North End ( Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Arcadia Publishing 2004 0738534692 / 9780738534695 Trade Paperback NEW 16.95
The streets of Boston's North End, some laid out in the seventeenth century, exude a rich history that has included every generation of immigrants to Boston since 1630. An active port, the neighborhood of the North End also included churches of every denomination, historic homes, and early commercial concerns. Immigrants from Russia, Ireland, Germany, Italy, and most other European countries settled in the North End and contributed to its development over the years. Today, most visitors to Boston tour the North End and see the Paul Revere House and the famous Old North Church. On the weekends, shoppers visit the bustling Haymarket and attend feasts and festivals amidst the appetizing ambiance of restaurant row. This thriving, lively area of town is an alluring meeting place for residents and tourists alike.
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Simcox, Alison and Douglas Heath Lake Quannapowitt (Wakefield MA)
Arcadia 0738573892 / 9780738573892 Trade Paperback New
Lake Quannapowitt is named for James Quonopohit, a member of the Pawtucket tribe of Nipmuc Indians and signer of the 1686 deed selling land to European colonists. A town called Redding (now Wakefield) developed on the shore of the lake that provided colonists with a bounty of fish, including salmon and alewives, until mills stopped their passage upstream. The town remained rural until the Boston and Maine Railroad arrived in 1845. Overnight, new markets became accessible, and Lake Quannapowitt ice was exported to destinations worldwide. Icehouses dominated the shoreline and stood side-by-side with boathouses and bathhouses. Some in Wakefield remember the last days of ice harvesting, although barely a trace of its existence remains. More residents remember Hill's Boathouse and Dance Hall, where many a romance began. For recent arrivals who walk and jog its idyllic 5-kilometer shore, the lake's industrial and complex past will come as a surprise.
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Smilgin, Carol Provenance
iUniverse 2011 0312201656 / 9780312201654 Paperback NEW signed by author
When Jeffrey Lawler inherits a pair of masterworks by two famous European painters, he discovers unexplained gaps in their records of prior ownership. Determined to find the reason, he decides to investigate. He draws up a list of art dealers and gallery owners through whom the artworks may have passed. But just as he is getting closer to solving the mystery, he is killed by a hit-and-run driver-and the list turns up missing.Anxious to avenge Jeffrey's death, his beautiful widow, Rebecca, enlists the help of two experts, Georges Lartigue, a provenance specialist from Paris, and David Neville, an old friend and former lover. The trail leads them from the port of Balboa to the art galleries in Madrid, through the salons of Lisbon and Paris, to the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. There Georges finds the key to the missing piece in the puzzle, but not before Rebecca suddenly realizes that the same people who killed her husband have targeted her for death too.
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Werlin, Nancy Rules of Survival
Puffin 0142410713 / 9780142410714 Paperback NEW ~ USED COPIES MAY BE AVAILABLE IN STORE. GRADE 8
In this thought-provoking exploration of self-reliance and the nature of evil, a young boy sees that he needs to take action to save his family from his unpredictable mother.
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