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The Boston Girl

Author : Anita Diamant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143919937X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Boston Girl written by Anita Diamant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller! An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told “with humor and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine” (People)—from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent. Anita Diamant’s “vivid, affectionate portrait of American womanhood” (Los Angeles Times), follows the life of one woman, Addie Baum, through a period of dramatic change. Addie is The Boston Girl, the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family, born in 1900 to parents who were unprepared for America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End of Boston, 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. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, to finding the love of her life, eighty-five-year-old Addie recounts her adventures with humor and compassion for the naïve girl she once was. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world. “Diamant brings to life a piece of feminism’s forgotten history” (Good Housekeeping) in this “inspirational…page-turning portrait of immigrant life in the early twentieth century” (Booklist).

North of Boston

Author : Elisabeth Elo
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472206320
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book North of Boston written by Elisabeth Elo and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year's Best Crime Novels: 2014, Booklist Dennis Lehane meets Smilla's Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo's debut novel introduces Pirio Kasparov, a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north. Pirio Kasparov finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic when the fishing boat she's on is rammed by a freighter. She somehow survives for nearly four hours in the freezing water before being rescued, but Pirio's friend, Ned, is not so lucky. He disappears without a trace. Pirio can't shake the suspicion that the boat's sinking was no accident, and begins to unravel a lethal plot that takes her to Northern Canada and the ice-cold waters of Baffin Bay. To survive, she must overcome a deadly betrayal from someone in her past, and, most importantly, learn to trust her own instincts above all else. Elisabeth Elo's mesmerising novel follows a dark and treacherous quest that brings to light some horrifying truths.

A City So Grand

Author : Stephen Puleo
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080700149X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A City So Grand written by Stephen Puleo and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively history of Boston’s emergence as a world-class city—home to the likes of Frederick Douglass and Alexander Graham Bell—by a beloved Bostonian historian “It’s been quite a while since I’ve read anything—fiction or nonfiction—so enthralling.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island Once upon a time, “Boston Town” was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world’s great metropolises—one that achieved national and international prominence in politics, medicine, education, science, social activism, literature, commerce, and transportation. Long before the frustrations of our modern era, in which the notion of accomplishing great things often appears overwhelming or even impossible, Boston distinguished itself in the last half of the nineteenth century by proving it could tackle and overcome the most arduous of challenges and obstacles with repeated—and often resounding—success, becoming a city of vision and daring. In A City So Grand, Stephen Puleo chronicles this remarkable period in Boston’s history, in his trademark page-turning style. Our journey begins with the ferocity of the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and ends with the glorious opening of America’s first subway station, in 1897. In between we witness the thirty-five-year engineering and city-planning feat of the Back Bay project, Boston’s explosion in size through immigration and annexation, the devastating Great Fire of 1872 and subsequent rebuilding of downtown, and Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone utterance in 1876 from his lab at Exeter Place. These lively stories and many more paint an extraordinary portrait of a half century of progress, leadership, and influence that turned a New England town into a world-class city, giving us the Boston we know today.

Houses of Boston's Back Bay

Author : Bainbridge Bunting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674409019
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Houses of Boston's Back Bay written by Bainbridge Bunting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologically speaking, the Back Bay is Boston's fashionable residential quarter -- or so it was until the great depression of 1929 began the gradual conversion of its aristocratic dwellings to more modest uses. Occupying about two hundred acres in the center of the greater filled region, the limits of this smaller area are the river, the Public Garden, Boylston Street, and Fenway Park. The Back Bay is interesting to Bostonian and visitor of the present day for a variety of reasons. Some will look at the area as a remarkably complete example of nineteenth century American architecture. Some people with a sociological interest will study the area's changes in property use and occupancy over the last thirty-five years and try to foresee the role the Back Bay is to play in the future development of the metropolitan center. Still others are concerned with the area as a convenient place to live or with property values and tax rates. With a precision almost unique in American history, the buildings of the Back Bay chart the course of architectural development for more than half a century. - Introduction.

Lost Boston

Author : Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558495272
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Lost Boston written by Jane Holtz Kay and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a fascinating narrative and a visual delight, Lost Boston brings the city's past to life. This updated edition includes a new section illustrating the latest gains and losses in the struggle to preserve Boston 's architectural heritage. With an engaging text and more than 350 seldom-seen photographs and prints, Lost Boston offers a chance to see the city as it once was, revealing architectural gems lost long ago. An eminently readable history of the city's physical development, the book also makes an eloquent appeal for its preservation. Jane Holtz Kay traces the evolution of Boston from the barren, swampy peninsula of colonial times to the booming metropolis of today. In the process, she creates a family album for the city, infusing the text with the flavor and energy that makes Boston distinct. Amid the grand landmarks she finds the telling details of city life: the neon signs, bygone amusement parks, storefronts, and windows plastered with images of campaigning politicians-sights common in their time but even more meaningful in their absence today. Kay also brings to life the people who created Boston-architects like Charles Bulfinch and H. H. Richardson, landscape architect and master park-maker Frederick Law Olmsted, and such colorful political figures as Mayors John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley. The new epilogue brings Boston's story to the end of the twentieth century, showing elements of the city's architecture that were lost in recent years as well as those that were saved and others threatened as the city continues to evolve.

Gaining Ground

Author : Nancy S. Seasholes
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262350211
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.

Banned in Boston

Author : Neil Miller
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080705111X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Banned in Boston written by Neil Miller and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively history of the Watch and Ward Society--New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years. Banned in Boston is the first-ever history of the Watch and Ward Society--once Boston's unofficial moral guardian. An influential watchdog organization, bankrolled by society's upper crust, it actively suppressed vices like gambling and prostitution, and oversaw the mass censorship of books and plays. A spectacular romp through the Puritan City, here Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase "banned in Boston."

A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts

Author : Joseph M. Bagley
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684580781
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts by : Joseph M. Bagley

Download or read book A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts written by Joseph M. Bagley and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bagley, city archaeologist of Boston, uncovers a fascinating hodgepodge of history-from ancient fishing grounds to Jazz Age red-light districts-that will surprise and delight even longtime residents. Each artifact is shown in full color with a description of the item's significance to its site location and Boston's larger history"--

On Beauty

Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218118
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book On Beauty written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth "In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars—on both sides of the Atlantic—serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.

All the Beauty in the World

Author : Patrick Bringley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982163313
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book All the Beauty in the World written by Patrick Bringley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--

The Crook in the Lot

Author : Thomas Boston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Crook in the Lot written by Thomas Boston and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Bodies, Ourselves

Author : Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671221454
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Our Bodies, Ourselves written by Boston Women's Health Book Collective and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the many roles of women and the choices open to them. Includes detailed treatment of feminine hygiene.

Imperishable Beauty

Author : Yvonne J. Markowitz
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780853319979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Imperishable Beauty written by Yvonne J. Markowitz and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewellery.

Sparrow

Author : L J Shen
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781073380275
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Sparrow written by L J Shen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troy BrennanEvery Southie in Boston knows that name. The son of a dead mobster. The heart-throb with steel-blue eyes. "The Fixer" who can make or break you in this city. Oh, and my new husband. Sparrow Raynes That's me. No one seemed to remember my name up until he barged into my life. But then he caged me. Kidnapped me. And killed every chance I had to run away from the place where we grew up. Put simply, Troy Brennan clipped my wings. I have dreams, big ones, but I doubt he'll ever let me chase them. I have no idea why he decided to take me as his wife. But I do know this: pissing off this man will not do me any good. At all. Sparrow is an Amazon international bestseller.

111 Places in Boston That You Must Not Miss

Author : Heather Kapplow
Publisher : Emons Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9783740820565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book 111 Places in Boston That You Must Not Miss written by Heather Kapplow and published by Emons Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The ultimate insider's guide to Boston - Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides - Part of the international 111 Places series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide - Appeals to both the local market (more than 690,000 people call Boston home) and the tourist market (more than 19 million people visit Boston every year!) - Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs - New revised and updated edition Faneuil Hall is fine and the duck boats are just dandy, but if you want to go beyond the Boston of brochures and get to the heart of this mysterious, charming old metropolis, you have to dig deep and be willing to get a little weird. 111 Places in Boston That You Must Not Miss is a guidebook with a twist: one that takes you far off the beaten path - and the Freedom Trail - to explore a side of the city that's offbeat, unexpected, and completely fascinating for visitors and locals alike. Whether you want to pay your respects at the memorial for a fictional character, sneak behind a vending machine to go shopping for sneakers, sip cocktails where hardened criminals sat behind bars, or hang out with some life-sized puppets, you can do it all here... and before dinnertime, to boot. Throw on your Red Sox cap, hop on the T, and uncover some secrets along the way.

Mapping Boston

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262112444
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Boston written by Alex Krieger and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated tour of Boston through its cartography uses a wide historical, urban planning, and regional maps, as well as numerous illustrations, to show how the city was born, grew, and changed over the last three decades.

The Beauty and Glory of the Last Things

Author : Joel R. Beeke
Publisher : Reformation Heritage Books
ISBN 13 : 1601787073
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty and Glory of the Last Things written by Joel R. Beeke and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a challenging cultural moment; there are reasons for great alarm and concern in society around us and it’s easy to lose heart. Yet the Christian hope of the last things, so wonderfully disclosed in the Scriptures and so certainly embodied in our risen Savior, is a beacon of beauty and glory shining on our way as we traverse the ugly and the gloomy. In this book, you will encounter encouraging messages that address the end times from a variety of perspectives (exegetically, topically, historically, and experientially). Contributors include Michael P. V. Barrett, David Strain, Daniel Timmer, David P. Murray, Derek W. H. Thomas, Greg Salazar, Adriaan C. Neele, William VanDoodewaard, Joel R. Beeke, and Gerald Bilkes. Contents: Scriptural Studies 1.The Day of the Lord: Escaping the Inescapable (Zephaniah 1–2) —Michael P. V. Barrett 2. The Number of the Sealed (Revelation 7) —David Strain 3. The Last Battle (Revelation 19:11—20:15) —David Strain 4. Beauty and Glory in Revelation 21 and 22 —Daniel Timmer Topical Studies 5. The Signs of the Times —David P. Murray 6. Heaven —Derek W. H. Thomas 7. Jesus Believed in Hell: The Christian’s Modern Dilemma —Derek W. H. Thomas Historical Studies 8. The Beauty and Glory of the Puritan Millennium —Greg Salazar 9. Jonathan Edwards: Surprised by the Beauty and Glory of God —Adriaan C. Neele 10. Thomas Boston and the Kingdom of Heaven —William VanDoodewaard Experiential Studies 11. The Marriage of Christ and His Church (Revelation 19:7–9) —Joel R. Beeke 12. The Final Victory (1 Corinthians 15) —Gerald M. Bilkes