Author: Anita Diamant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143919937X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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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).
Author: Kathrine Switzer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 030682566X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one of the event's directors who attempted to violently eject her. In one of the most iconic sports moments, Switzer escaped and finished the race. She made history-and is poised to do it again on the fiftieth anniversary of that initial race, when she will run the 2017 Boston Marathon at age 70. Now a spokesperson for Reebok, Switzer is also the founder of 261 Fearless, a foundation dedicated to creating opportunities for women on all fronts, as this groundbreaking sports hero has done throughout her life. "Kathrine Switzer is the Susan B. Anthony of women's marathoning."-Joan Benoit Samuelson, first Olympic gold medalist in the women's marathon
Author: Elizabeth Hourihan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595169635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Two Ladies from Boston is an upstairs/downstairs tale of two Irish maids who arrive in hostile Boston in 1920 to the homes of Gertrude Casey and Clementine Talbert. Gertrude and Clee meet through their music and form a friendship that survives Gertrude’s marriage to political boss James Michael Hurley and Clee’s escapades. The story of two cultures, Two Ladies From Boston brings you on a wild ride through the thirties and forties, as Gertrude's husband is re-elected to office from jail and Clee is forced to flee the country for her young fling as a member of the communist party.
Author: The Boston Globe
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN: 9781572438927
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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In a single moment, an entire career reputation can be sealed and a franchise’s history cemented thanks to a last-second, game-winning finish, and this book chronicles 50 of the most memorable finishes in Boston sports. Vibrant four-color photos, statistics, quotes, and stories offer fresh details on some of the most famous events in Boston sports history, including Carlton Fisk’s Fenway Moment, “Havlicek Stole the Ball!,” Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary in Miami, and the Red Sox’s Greatest Comeback Ever. For those sports fans too young to have seen these famous moments or for those who wish to relive them over and over again, this encyclopedia of sporting greatness is a must-have for all passionate Boston fans.
Author: Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063417
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375893997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Fans of adventure, romance, and a strong heroine will love this this action-packed historical trilogy by three-time Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Holm. 1855. The unknown wilds of the Pacific Northwest—a land not yet tamed, and certainly not fitting for a proper young lady! Yet that’s just where Miss Jane Peck finds herself. After a tumultuous childhood on the wrong side of Philadelphia high society, Jane is trying to put aside her reckless ways and be accepted as a proper young lady. And so when handsome William Baldt proposes, she joyfully accepts and prepares to join him in a world away from her home in Washington Territory. But Miss Hepplewhite’ s straitlaced finishing school was hardly preparation for the treacherous months at sea it takes to get there, the haunting loss she’ll face on the way, or the colorful characters and crude life that await her on the frontier.
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Boston Athenaeum
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Author: LC Giroux
Publisher: L.C. Giroux
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Psst… I’ve got a secret and I want to share it. If you join my reader’s group I’ll send you Pay Back, the second book in my Lovers and Other Strangers series, and the Lovers and Other Strangers series: The Short Stories free. To sign up all you have to do is go to my website! You can find all of my books listed there along with longer excerpts. Hope to see you soon! The first three books in the Lovers and Other Strangers Series, His Lady Godiva, Pay Back, His Deception plus the bonus short story Wild Child. These stories all take place in and around Boston, a city that I love, before the series moved to the Southwest. His Lady Godiva: Michael Dennison is a brilliant surgeon and a broken man. Violet Bellows has the power to make him whole if only he'll surrender his fear. Together they will discover facets of themselves they never knew existed. Pay Back: Being auctioned off like a piece of meat was not high on Joseph Camenitti's bucket list, meeting a mystery woman from his past, that he could like, a lot. Evie Tolland had spent WAY too long thinking of herself as the ugly duckling and that was going to change immediately. He's all caveman, she's an old fashioned girl. Something's gotta give! Wild Child: Delia Kelly had always used her head. When her friends were out messing around and spending their parent’s money, she hit the books and stashed the cash she made working for Hutchinson Investigations. Now she is all grown up and she is ready to bust loose. Jonah Hutchinson is the poster boy for 'lov'em and leav'em'. He knew exactly what women wanted and gave it to them, as long as it wasn't polite conversations or security. One Summer Fling and both of them are in for the surprise of their lives. His Deception: Allyn Bellows was the picture of responsible respectability and worried he was growing old long before his time. The only woman he loves is the one woman he can never have. Marie-Hélène Girard was the merry trickster of the family but she has kept a secret in her heart for far too long. It all starts with a little deception, but the question is, who is deceived more.
Author: Carrie Richardson Blake
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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