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Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments "Cunninghams short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." —The Washington Post"Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Lands End is... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown (Crown Journeys) by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments In this celebration of one of America?s oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize?winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt Publisher Comments In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston by Gerard O'neill Publisher Comments From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town by Elyssa East Publisher Comments In rich first-person narrative, Dogtown tells the strange, dark story of a wilderness ghost town that has enthralled artists, writers, and eccentrics—and of a brutal murder committed there. Documenting its history and lore, East explores the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602?1890 by Nathaniel Philbrick About the Author Nathaniel Philbrick, is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket Island. His In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award. His latest book is Sea of Glory, about the epic U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838andndash;1842. His other books... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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While the music lasts :my life in politics by William M Bulger Publisher Comments This memoir, by turns passionate and hilarious, recounts the colorful life of the man who has dominated Massachusetts state politics for more than a generation. William Bulger describes his childhood in a poor but lively and devoted family in heavily... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod by Cynthia Huntington Publisher Comments A woman writer's lyrical memoir of a summer with her artist husband in a remote Cape Cod dune shack.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fodor's Cityguide Boston: The Sourcebook for Your Hometown (Fodor's Cityguide Boston) by Fodor's Synopsis This ingenious city guide to Boston packages a concise full-color mini guide with a color foldout map. The mini guide contains the top 25 attractions, itineraries, walks, tours, and excursions -- plus capsule reviews of key hotels, restaurants, shops... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Massachusetts Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities) by Bruce Gellerman Publisher Comments Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bay State has to offer! • Have some joe under the worlds largest tea pot; visit the oldest pet cemetery in America, including the grave of a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo Publisher Comments Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Bostons waterfront, disgorging its contents as a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that briefly traveled at thirty-five miles... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Marblehead Myths Legends & Lore by Pam Matthias Peterson Publisher Comments In Marblehead Myths, Legends and Lore, author Pam Peterson recounts the oral and written accounts that Marbleheaders have handed down over the past four hundred years. Here you will find stories of magic and witches, sailors, pirates and shipwrecks... (read more) Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1001 Greatest Things Ever Said about Massachusetts (1001) by Patricia Harris Publisher Comments “Dont Blame Me—Im from Massachusetts.” —Post-Watergate bumper sticker“Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts is a bit like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention.” —Mitt Romney“Its spring and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sea Level Rising by William Sargent Synopsis On April 16, 2007, an early spring storm broke through Cape Cods barrier beach. Overnight, the citizens of Chatham had to contend with as much sea level rise as most communities will face in the next fifty years. A dozen homes were swept away in as many... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Down at the Docks by Rory Nugent Publisher Comments Nugent tells the story of America's largest fishing port, New Bedford, Massachusetts--a city which has withered as outsourcing has blossomed. "Down at the Docks" is a view of a community mired in failed promises and struggling to maintain its heritage.... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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True Accounts of Yankee Ingenuity and Grit from the Cape Cod Voice by Theresa Barbo Publisher Comments Some of America's earliest settlers established permanent towns on Cape Cod. These communities and their residents created the quintessential Yankee spirit and the notoriously flinty character of Cape Cod. In True Accounts of Yankee Ingenuity and Grit... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Massachusetts : a Concise History (00 Edition) by Richard D. Brown Publisher Comments From the moment the first English colonists landed on the shores of Plymouth Bay, the experiences of the people of Massachusetts have been emblematic of larger themes in American history. The story of the first Pilgrim thanksgiving is commemorated as a... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City by Robert Booth Publisher Comments Most readers know Salem only for the citys notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced Americas first millionaire (still one of historys 75 wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it the... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention That Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great by Lynda Morgenroth Publisher Comments Looks at everything (well, almost!) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from the first lighthouse and public library to the first madam and ready-made suit, ranging from advances in science and engineering to innovations in culture... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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If Ever Two Were One: A Private Diary of Love Eternal by Francis Ellin Abbot Publisher Comments "A Private Diary" "Know Thyself" August 30, 1855 If this volume should fall into the hands of any one to whom I have not myself entrusted it, I beg him at once to lay it down, and, if he cannot return it, to destroy it entirely; for in these pages I mean... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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