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Books set in Boston, MA and the immediate area...fiction and non-fiction
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All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
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Thin Air (Spenser, #22)
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Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
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The Big Three
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Walking Shadow (Spenser, #21)
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Relentless: A Memoir
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Early Autumn (Spenser, #7)
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Tales from the Patriots Sideline
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Widow's Walk (Spenser, #29)
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Playmates (Spenser, #16)
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Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
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The Curse of the Bambino
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Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective
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'78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City
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Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
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The Salem Witch Trials Reader
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A Tale of Two Cities: The 2004 Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry and the War for the Pennant
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Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
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Mr. Red Sox: The Johnny Pesky Story
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
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The Blueprint: How the New England Patriots Beat the System to Create the Last Great NFL Superpower
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Blood Feud: The Red Sox, the Yankees, and the Struggle of Good versus Evil
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The Day the American Revolution Began : 19 April 1775
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Yaz: Baseball, the Wall, and Me
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Orr: My Story
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The Four Seasons
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At Fenway: Dispatches from Red Sox Nation
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Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within
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Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits
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Beacon Hill
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Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
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Reverted title back to the original. Someone, not the list creator, had changed it.
Just a head's up - I did add "Phonogram Cards: The Writing Road to Reading" to this list, only when I did it was entitled "Mystery at the Museum" by Betty Cavana!!!Stupid Amazon bots have 'improved' the dataset. Again.
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Betty Cavanna, Romalda Bishop Spalding (Illustrator)
Boston teen Ellen is excited about the prospect of a summer spent working in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and, once there, she enjoys being part of a circle of young artists where "unconventionality was the rule." However, when a priceless Greek gold bracelet is stolen and replaced by a clever fake, it is up to Ellen to help figure out who the thief is.
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