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Against the Tide, The Fate of the New England Fisherman
• Richard Adams Carey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A discussion the crisis that faces the New England fishing industry from a journalist who spent a year among the fishermen of Cape Cod.
(USE44, $13.00)
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Angel in the Whirlwind, The American Triumph of the American Revolution
• Benson Bobrick
• HISTORY
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A lively, narrative history of the American Revolution.
(USE168, $18.00)
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Backroads of New England, Your Guide to New England's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures
• Kim Knox Beckius
• GUIDEBOOK
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A driving tour guidebook to New England, covering the most picturesque routes through Cape Cod, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island.
(USE371, $21.95)
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Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered
• James Kirby Martin
• HISTORY
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A revisionist biography of the famous traitor.
(USE171, $22.00)
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The Berkshire Cottages, A Vanishing Era
• Carole Owens
• HISTORY
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A tour of the grand estates built in the Berkshires during the Gilded Age.
(USE166, $29.95)
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The Berkshire Reader
• Richard Nunley
• LITERATURE
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An anthology of Berkshire-inspired writings by residents and visitors to the area, including Edith Wharton, Nathanial Hawthorne and Paul Metcalf.
(USE165, $16.95)
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The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession
• Mark Obmascik
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled.
(BRD29, $14.00)
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Bird News, Vagrants and Visitors on a Peculiar Island
• E. Vernon Laux
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A bird's-eye natural history of Martha's Vineyard by a longtime resident -- and one of its most enthusiastic birders. Organized by season, this memoir by the editor of "Bird News" captures the life and lore of the Vineyard.
(BRD07, $20.00)
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The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife
• Christopher W. Leahy
• Gordon Morrison
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching.
(NAM21, $19.95)
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The Boston Irish, A Political History
• Thomas O'Connor
• HISTORY
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A thorough account of the Irish political machine in Boston.
(BOS22, $21.99)
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Boston Red Sox: 100 Years: The Official Retrospective
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• HISTORY
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The story of the Red Sox in baseball history.
(BBL07, $40.00)
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Cape Cod
• Henry David Thoreau
• Paul Theroux
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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In his signature style, Thoreau muses on the ocean and his surroundings, as he combs the beaches of Cape Cod. Though written nearly 150 years ago, his essay is a compelling, sardonic portrait of coastal Massachusetts, its human and natural history.
(USE65, $14.00)
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Cape Cod Map
• Rand McNally Maps
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A map of Cape Cod, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Island, at a scale of 1:40,000.
(USE68, $4.95)
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Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
• John Miller
• Tim Smith
• Alice Hoffman
• ANTHOLOGY
• OUT OF PRINT
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A collection of short stories set in and around Cape Cod, featuring the writing of such famous American writers as Herman Melville, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia Plath and John Cheever.
(USE33, $14.95)
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Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket: An Explorer's Guide
• Kimberly Grant
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to the popular tourist destinations of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, compiled by a local photographer and writer.
(USE105, $19.95)
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A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
• Witold Rybczynski
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A lovely biography of the creator of Central Park (Manhattan) and Prospect Park (Brooklyn), the largest parks in their respective boroughs.
(NYC62, $15.95)
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Cod, A Biography of a Fish that Changed the World
• Mark Kurlansky
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A sparkling extended essay on the cod in the tradition of Lopez or McPhee, looking at the importance of the fish to cuisine and commerce, throwing much light on the plight of the Grand Banks and fisheries.
(OCE10, $15.00)
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Compass Guide Massachusetts
• Patricia Harris
• GUIDEBOOK
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A wonderfully written handbook to Massachusetts.
(USE344, $21.95)
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Death of a Hornet and Other Cape Cod Essays
• Robert Finch
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A collection of serene essays on the nature, wildlife, and inhabitants of Cape Cod by a keen observer and year-round resident.
(USE84, $15.00)
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Eastern Backyard Birds
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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A laminated, illustrated, fold-out guide to the birds of the Northeast.
(USE229, $5.95)
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The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
• Paul Schneider
• HISTORY
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The natural and human history of Cape Cod and its surrounding islands, as written by a resident of Martha's Vineyard.
(USE66, $17.00)
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The Everything Guide to New England, Lodging, Restaurants, Beaches, and Must-See Attractions
• Kim Knox Beckius
• GUIDEBOOK
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(USE372, $14.95)
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A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-Central North America
• Roger Tory Peterson
• Rosemary McKenna
• FIELD GUIDE
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A best-selling guide to wildflowers in a handsome paper edition, featuring drawings, color illustrations, and short descriptions. Covers 1,293 species.
(FG38, $19.00)
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The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius
• Joyce Chaplin
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This biography focuses largely on Franklin's scientific side, arguing convincingly that his genius in the realm of natural science contributed to his skill for political science, and helped him craft the image of a man of letters. Through this lens, Chaplin describes Franklin's influential role as a Founding Father and a diplomat on the international stage.
(GEN359, $27.50)
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France and England in North America, Vol. 1
• Francis Parkman
• HISTORY
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Francis Parkman's monumental history.
(USE173, $45.00)
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France and England in North America, Vol. 2
• Francis Parkman
• HISTORY
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Francis Parkman's monumental history.
(USE174, $45.00)
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Frommer's Boston Day by Day
• Marie Morris
• GUIDEBOOK
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A brief guide to Boston, ideal for a short visit, featuring a section of best recommendations for the best everything from food, hotels and neighrborhoods to shopping and favorite moments.
(BOS29, $12.99)
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Good Will Hunting
• Gus Van Sant
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The Oscar-winning story of the troubled prodigy Will Hunting (Matt Damon) and the therapist who finally reaches him (Robin Williams), set in Boston.
(USE331, $19.99)
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Harvard A to Z
• John T. Bethell
• Richard M. Hunt
• Robert Shenton
• REFERENCE
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An encylopedia of Harvardiana, from notable alumni to architectural gems, historical and cultural significance, and centuries-old traditions and lore.
(BOS26, $25.95)
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The House on Nauset Marsh
• Wyman Richardson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A Cape Cod classic first published in 1947, these leisurely essays form a reflective portrait of the land, sea and wildlife.
(USE83, $14.95)
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In Season, A Natural History of the New England Year
• Nona Bell Estrin
• Charles W. Johnson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A loosely organized, illustrated overview of New England and its wildlife as depicted in watercolor paintings and short essays.
(USE299, $25.95)
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In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
• Nathaniel Philbrick
• HISTORY
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The seafaring tale of fearsome whales, cannibalism and sturdy 19th-century Nantucketers; a history of the true life events that inspired Melville's "Moby Dick" -- and a fascinating history of 19th-century society in Nantucket.
(OCE47, $15.00)
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Insight City Guide Boston
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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(BOS36, $16.95)
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Insight Compact Guide Cape Cod
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A brief, easy-to-carry and colorful introduction to Cape Cod.
(USE67, $8.95)
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Insight Guide New England
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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For a good overview of the region, you can't go wrong with this guide, noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and outstanding color maps. It is a thoroughly illustrated overview of the history, culture and nature of New England.
(USE38, $23.95)
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Karen Brown's New England, Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries
• Jack Bullard
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to lodging of character and itineraries.
(USE200, $19.95)
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Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
• Kenn Kaufman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year.
(BRD27, $14.00)
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Knopf Mapguide, Boston
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(BOS30, $9.95)
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Ladies, Women, and Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston
• Jane H. Pease
• William H. Pease
• HISTORY
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This comparative history juxtaposes the lives of women in pre-Civil War Boston and Charleston.
(USS333, $25.00)
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The Loyalists: Revolution, Exile, Settlement
• Christopher Moore
• HISTORY
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A good, general account of the Loyalist experience in the American Revolution.
(USE172, $17.95)
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Mammals of North America
• Roland W. Kays
• Don E. Wilson
• FIELD GUIDE
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The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico.
(NAM11, $19.95)
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
• Nathaniel Philbrick
• HISTORY
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National Book Award-winner Philbrick brings the 17th-century Plymouth colony, in all its gruesome detail, to life through its most interesting characters and events. He digs for the truths underlying the myths.
(USE388, $16.00)
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The Most Beautiful Villages of New England
• Tom Shachtman
• Len Rubenstein
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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In this coffee-table book, New England's most picturesque towns and villages are presented through 240 full color photographs. Accompanying descriptions fill in details about each town's history and architecture.
(USE42, $24.95)
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Muses in Arcadia, Cultural Life in the Berkshires
• Timothy Cahill
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to Berkshires' prominent cultural venues
(USE164, $19.95)
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My Pamet, Cape Cod Chronicle
• Tom Kane
• ANTHOLOGY
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From 1951 to 1988, journalist Tom Kane recorded the goings-on of small-town life in his newspaper column in Cape Cod's weekly newspapers.
(USE82, $24.95)
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Mystic River
• Clint Eastwood
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A haunting murder mystery which brings three childhood friends together as adults in a working-class Boston neighborhood.
(USE332, $27.95)
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The Namesake
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• LITERATURE
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An intricate and beautifully told tale, Lahiri follows the Ganguli family as they leave Calcutta and settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now a feature film, directed by Mira Nair.
(IDA292, $14.00)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England
• Brian Cassie
• Peter Alden
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact, easy-to-use overview of 1,000 of New England's trees, wildflowers, mammals, insects and other flora and fauna. It also provides an extensive overview of the area's geology, weather patterns and natural sites.
(USE06, $19.95)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders
• Lorus J. Milne
• FIELD GUIDE
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A guide to 200 species of insects and beetles featuring 700 full-color photographs.
(FG53, $19.95)
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
• National Geographic
• FIELD GUIDE
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From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry.
(FG09, $24.00)
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Native Universe, Voices of Indian America
• Clifford E. Trafzer
• ANTHOLOGY
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This sumptuously illustrated cultural history, written exclusively by Native Americans, is published in celebration of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
(USA95, $40.00)
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A New England Autumn
• Ferenc Mate
• Candace Mate
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Magnificent photographs of farmsteads, pastures, forests, wharves and villages from Maine to Connecticut are paired with the poetry and literature of Dickinson, Thoreau and Waldo Emerson in this pictorial celebration of season. With a 14-page section of maps and practical travel information.
(USE337, $29.95)
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New England Birds
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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This laminated, fold-out guide gives illustrations of almost 150 commonly encountered birds in New England.
(USE232, $5.95)
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New England Trees and Wildflowers
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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A pocket-size fold-out guide to the conspicuous plants of New England.
(USE233, $5.95)
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New England Wildlife
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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This laminated, fold-out, pocket-size guide features illustrations of almost 150 species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals.
(USE234, $5.95)
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Northeast US Southeast Canada Map
• Marshall Penn-York Maps
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A colorful map of the Great Lakes.
(GLK08, $3.95)
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The Outermost House, A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
• Henry Beston
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The chronicle of a year spent living alone in a remote Cape Cod beach house in 1925. These beloved essays, first published in 1928, capture the essence of the Cape, the sea, weather and animal life.
(USE41, $14.00)
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The Paper Chase
• James Bridges
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A Harvard law student's attempts to get in his professor's good graces may be botched when he woos the professor's daughter.
(USE333, $14.98)
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The Perfect Storm, A True Story of Men Against the Sea
• Sebastian Junger
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A gripping, now-famous blow-by-blow account of a 1991 disaster at sea. Junger reconstructs the final hours of six men aboard a 72-foot swordfish boat in the North Atlantic, battling against a torrential storm.
(OCE06, $7.99)
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Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians, Eastern and Central North America
• Roger Conant
• FIELD GUIDE
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A handy guide for the hertologically inclined of the eastern US.
(FG46, $21.00)
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Picturing Old New England, Image and Memory
• William H. Truettner
• Roger B. Stein
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A selection of 19th and 20th century art of New England.
(USE188, $70.00)
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selectedstories
• James M. Cain
• MYSTERY
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(USE434, $23.00)
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The Rarest of the Rare, Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
• Nancy Pick
• Mark Sloan
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A history of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, featuring 95 color photographs of its finest and oddest specimens, from tapeworms and taxidermied birds to mastodon skeletons.
(NAT81, $22.95)
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Recommended Country Inns New England, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
• Elizabeth Squier
• Eleanor Berman
• GUIDEBOOK
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(USE373, $18.95)
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Red Sox Century
• Richard A. Johnson
• Glenn Stout
• SPORT
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A gorgeously illustrated history of Boston's favorite baseball team.
(BBL14, $25.00)
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Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories
• Ronald J. Drez
• David Eisenhower
• HISTORY
• YOUNG ADULTS
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An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs and plenty of historical information.
(USA96, $17.95)
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Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
• Scott Weidensaul
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America.
(USA123, $15.00)
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Road Guide New England, Atlantic Northeast
• Hallwag
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A map of the Northeast at a scale of 1:1,200,000.
(USE58, $12.95)
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Sails and Steam in the Mountains, A Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain
• Russell Bellico
• HISTORY
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(USE167, $25.00)
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
• David Sibley
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks.
(USE262, $19.95)
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The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast
• Bruce Kershner
• Robert T. Leverett
• GUIDEBOOK
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A handy guide to the old-growth forests of New England and the mid-Atlantic states.
(USE336, $16.95)
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Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
• Ronald Wright
• HISTORY
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A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account.
(NAM20, $17.00)
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To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsession
• Dan Koeppel
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this enormously appealing memoir of a life devoted to birds. Koeppel chronicles his father's growing obsession and accomplishment as an elite birdwatcher, one of a handful of people who have tallied 7,000 species.
(BRD28, $14.00)
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The Verb to Bird, Sightings of an Avid Birder
• Peter Cashwell
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A memoir of the birding life, its pleasures, obsessions and pitfalls. Based in the Carolinas (where he teaches English), Cashwell recounts in these essays the birds he's encountered, the why and wherefores of the birding life and some very entertaining anecdotes.
(BRD26, $14.95)
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A Walk in the Woods
• Bill Bryson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The entertaining account of Bryon's hike up the Appalachian trail, combining biting satire with a certain warmth. A fond memoir and a very entertaining read.
(USE01, $14.95)
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Western New England Map
• National Geographic
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A regional map of New England, including Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
(USE40, $7.95)
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