books about: massachusetts     books:     Massachusetts      Mercy Jodi Picoult Washington Square Press, 2001 Smudged powdered doughnuts! If you have scored this book anything lower than 5 stars, you have temporary insanity! Picoult engages the reader from the very first page and does a phenomenal job going from different characters which share the same story lines: Jamie and Maggie; Allie and Cam; and ...             Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions Ben Mezrich Free Press, 2003 Dazzling Mr. Mezrich, in "Bringing Down the House", gives us a fascinating account of a group of MIT students who took "card counting" at the blackjack table to a whole new level. This fast paced page-turner takes a thrill ride that reads like a novel. Great read!!             The Crucible (Penguin Classics) Arthur Miller Penguin Classics, 2003 The Devil is Precise On my walk through the LoA edition of Arthur Miller plays I bypass The Enemy of the People, the Ibsen adaptation, which I think is a waste of everyone's time, and go straight to the Crucible, which I had never read, nor watched on stage or screen. Very odd. It is a ...             Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School Philip Delves Broughton Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 "Ahead of the Curve" -- Interesting Book I found "Ahead of the Curve" very interesting and enjoyable. I enjoyed the author's insights into the challenges of attending Harvard Business School. I found Delves Broughton's anecdotes on the professors, guest lecturers and classmates particularly interesting. ...             A Civil Action Jonathan Harr Vintage, 1996 A Great Book about Human Nature and the Legal System This is the best book written about a lawsuit and is a terrific teaching tool. The author had unparalleled access to the lawyers, mostly the plaintiffs' lawyer who, somewhat questionably from an ethics standpoint, allowed a journalist to witness client meetings and ...             The Front Patricia Cornwell Putnam Adult, 2008 Very Satisfied I have not had a chance to read my new books, but they arrived in excellent condition as always. Thank you, K             Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series) Marc S Sabatine Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007 Must have for medical students Although the expectations for medical students are not that of residents and interns, this book is very helpful. Evidence-based medicine is the term heard over and over on the wards and this pocket book will help with that. When presenting a patient, you may be asked ...             Running with Scissors: A Memoir Augusten Burroughs St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006 genius More entertaining in a fascinating way than hilarious but still worth every minute spent reading. I couldn't put it down. I disagree with people who say this book is offensive; i'd rather read one of Augusten's books than watch any U.S. news channel anyday - at least ...             Make Way for Ducklings (Viking Kestrel Picture Books) Robert McCloskey Viking Juvenile, 1941 A must before going to Boston Prior to a planned trip to Boston, I purchased Make Way For Ducklings for my grandchildren who were three and a half and five and a half at the time. Their mom was running in the Boston Marathan. Knowing that we would be taking them to the Public Gardens and they ...             Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Nathaniel Philbrick Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Plymouth Myth Excellent and informative. This book is a must for history buffs and teachers. Mayflower busts most myths about our early settlers.             The Winthrop Woman: A Novel Anya Seton Chicago Review Press, 2006 A city on the hill? This book is a fascinating take on the origins of colonial America. I normally do not read historical fiction set in the United States. I selected this book because of my admiration for Anya Seton's Katherine and Avalon. This heavily fact-centered novel starts out in ...             Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) Henry David Thoreau Dover Publications, 1995 The Hobo Philosopher My first copy of this book was indubitably from some other publisher. So I'm not commenting on this particular volume but the content of the work itself. I have always loved this book but it wasn't until recent years that I realized what a controversial book this was. ...             Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels) Robert B. Parker Putnam Adult, 2008 Maybe the best of the Stone series... Perhaps I was just in the right mood, but I devoured this one in two sittings, and the break I took in order to go to sleep was done regretfully. For a change, the actual suspense/mystery/thriller plot was better than the personal relationships depicted. Thus, it ...             A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman Joan Anderson Broadway, 2000 This book helped me stay in my marriage! It was the year 2000, I'd been married almost 20 years -- the kids were pretty much grown and I stood at the edge of my marriage - terrified that I'd jump off and terrified that I wouldn't. Okay, maybe terrified is a dramatic term, but that is how I felt. I truly did ...             Requiem, Mass.: A Novel John Dufresne W. W. Norton, 2008 Amen Childhood, heartbreak, mental illness, infidelity, roadtrips, hope, tragedy, dysfunction, identity, religion, physics, personal history...you name it and John Dufresne has jammed it into this wise and wistful novel about Johnny, an adolescent struggling to keep his ...          products you might be interested in search for books community, ducklings, handbook, massachusetts, mayflower, unfinished      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System