The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century
by Claire Prentice

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Inés of My Soul
by Isabel Allende


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The Rebellion of Jane Clarke
by Sally Gunning

A sequel of sorts to The Widow's War and Bound


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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin


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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann

Sequel (if you can call it that?) to 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus


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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

by Katherine Howe

After passing her Ph.D. qualifying examination, Connie Goodwin looks forward to a summer spent amongst dusty books, researching her dissertation. However, her mother has other plans for her, and Connie is thrust into her dead grandmother’s crumbling Marblehead home with the task of making it ( Read more... )

It’s funny, I went to Boston last month and when I got back the first two books I read were set in Massachusetts. It was a complete and total coincidence; they just happened to be the top books on my to-be-reviewed pile.

Love’s Pursuit

by Siri Mitchell


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The Wordy Shipmates

by Sarah Vowell


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The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent

Once upon a time in the dreary town of Salem, hysteria struck the people and blighted their reputation forever.   Regardless of what they’d done before, and what they accomplished since, Salem will forever be known for the witch hunts of 1692. The trials have been a black mark upon the community for ( Read more... )