In Revere, in Those Days:
A Novel by Roland Merullo: $15.40

Product Details:
Hardcover: 320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 9.52 x 6.08
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group; 1st edition (September 17, 2002)
ISBN: 0609610325

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
When 11-year-old Anthony Benedetto's parents die in an airplane crash, he is saved by the loving presence of his extended Italian family in this gracefully written coming-of-age novel. Set in the 1960s and moving from Anthony's parents' death through his experiences at an elite prep school, the novel is structured as a memoir and reads like one: long on nostalgia, short on dramatic conflict or credibility. Anthony's transition from smart but damaged kid to successful student at Exeter is too smooth to be compellingly real. Many scenes are predictable, such as when Anthony loses his virginity to an older, caring woman, but the portraits of his relatives and the Boston suburb of Revere are palpably full of life. Anthony's courtly grandparents are painfully aware of the culture they left behind in Italy; Uncle Peter, a boxer lacking the ferocity to be a champion or mob "muscle," is richly drawn. And Anthony's cousin Rosalie is a troubled and ultimately tragic figure who deserves a book of her own. Merullo (Revere Beach Boulevard) is a talented writer with a fine, lyrical ear, and the book is rife with acute observations and powerful (if familiar) themes: loss, recovery, community. Ultimately, the narrative is limited by the elegiac tone; Merullo is content to bask in the glow of nostalgia instead of stoking his imagination into flame.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Revere Beach (Images of America: Massachusetts)
by Leah A. Schmidt: $19.99

Product Details:
Paperback: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.28 x 9.40 x 6.54
Publisher: Arcadia; (July 2002)
ISBN: 0738510300

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The Images of America Series presents a extraordinary history of Revere Beach, Massachusetts through a remarkable visual tour. This book invites the reader to take an unsurpassed pictorial journey detailing nine pivotal decades of a premier metropolitan seaside destination. The book showcases Wonderland Amusement Park, with its famous amusements and attractions that thrilled and entertained generations of visitors. This book further allows readers to view the formation of an inspired reservation and to book passage on the nostalgic narrow gauge railroad. Through archival and private collections, this book enables the inquisitive to discover the true Revere Beach, which captured the attention of two U.S presidents and the heart of swimming champion Annette Kellerman, who chose the beach as the perfect venue to intorduce the scandalous one piece bathing suit to North America.

Revere Beach Elegy : A Memoir of Home and Beyond
by Roland Merullo (Author): $11.20

Product Details:
Paperback: 232 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 8.30 x 6.54
Publisher: Beacon Press; (December 2002)
ISBN: 0807072451

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Through a series of loosely connected essays, Merullo (Revere Beach Boulevard) leads readers from his boyhood to the present day in a memoir of the spirit. It is also a memoir of discovery: on scholarship at the elite Exeter Academy, Merullo encounters the class structures that exist beyond his beloved Revere Beach (a working-class suburb of Boston) and realizes his affinity for the Russian language. In the Russia of the late 1970s, he begins his search to find "truth... in the deep murky reaches of the interior world rather than in titles, philosophies and categories." This pursuit leads him to the practice and ideals of Buddhism (though he acknowledges his deep Italian-Catholic roots). Turning his back on the bourgeois life his father so valued, Merullo trades comfort and security for adventure: in the Peace Corps, in an unheated house in Vermont, during some months as a cab driver. So maybe these aren't particularly adventurous adventures, but Merullo still writes about them and about the people and places of his life with careful reflection and painstaking kindness. It is difficult to be good, Merullo implies, so why not settle for blanket optimism? What Merullo appears to be looking for, after his years in Russia and Micronesia and living hand to mouth, is some kind of empathy within himself for the less fortunate. Before his journeys, Merullo admits, the "lights would always be green for me," it's now time, he says, to scrape "one layer of comfort from my life."

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer: $13.97

Product Details:
Paperback: 464 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.19 x 9.21 x 6.12
Publisher: Oxford Press; Reprint edition (April 1995)
ISBN: 0195098315

From School Library Journal: YA-A whole book about a minor incident? You bet, and a terrific book, at that. Fischer's exhaustive research shows that Revere played an important role in pre-Revolutionary Boston that included, but was by no means limited to, his midnight ride. The author shows how Longfellow's poem deliberately distorted the facts in order to suit the political climate of the times; the real story surrounding Revere's role and the battles of Concord and Lexington is infinitely more interesting because it involves planning, courage, danger, suspense, and national destiny. This is exciting history, and Fischer adeptly paints it in stirring tones while giving background information on Revere and General Thomas Gage. For the rest of their lives, people remembered where they were when Revere made his famous midnight ride, as readers will remember this fascinating account.
Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Lexington and Concord by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot: $10.47

Product Details:
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 7.75 x 5.25
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; (January 1963)
ISBN: 0393001946
In-Print Editions: Paperback | All Editions

Editorial Reviews
Christian Science MonitorAn absorbing and vital history . . . about a crucial week in the history of the United States. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Saturday Review
Vivid, fast moving, splendidly detailed. . . . Presents magnificently for the general reader and the specialist this immortal opening chapter of our beginnings as a nation. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Times Literary Supplement [London]
[A] brilliantly organized and convincing book. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Book Description
In a minute-by-minute account, this popular book gives a vivid picture of what actually happened on April 19, 1775. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn
by Alan Dawley: $21.95

Product Details:
Paperback: 320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.82 x 9.05 x 6.03
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; (September 15, 2000)
ISBN: 0674004310

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
n this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his Bancroft Prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth century. He not only revisits this urban conglomeration, but also seeks out previously unheard groups such as women and blacks. The result is a more rounded portrait of a small eastern city on the verge of becoming modern.

OUTSTANDING RESEARCH, June 21, 2001
Reviewer: A reader from Swampscott, MA United States
Dawley packs this book with pertinent facts. This is a real page turner. There is not alot of published information about this particular area of the Industrial Revolution. So, the extensive research presented is greatly appreciated.

OUTSTANDING RESEARCH, June 21, 2001
Reviewer: dlcstory2 from Swampscott, MA United States
Dawley packs this book with pertinent facts. This is a real page turner. There is not alot of published information about this particular area of the Industrial Revolution. So, the extensive research presented is greatly appreciated.

Massachusetts: An Explorer's Guide: The North Shore, Central Massachusetts, and the Berkshires, Third Edition by Christina Tree, William Davis: $13.27

Product Details:
Paperback: 480 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x 9.02 x 6.02
Publisher: Countryman Pr; 3 edition (June 2000)
ISBN: 0881504394 | All Editions

Editorial Reviews
Pamela Robin Brandt, New York Daily News
Two canny Boston Globe authors . . . reveal so many of Massachusetts' secret delights.

John W. Olver, US Congress
Christina Tree uses her travels and experience to create a long-overdue guide to what makes western and central Massachusetts special. She uncovers the real charm of our towns and countryside in a way few travel writers have.

Shipwrecks North of Boston: Salem Bay
by Raymond H., Jr Bates: $19.95

Product Details:
Hardcover: 1 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 10.50 x 8.50
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions; (October 2000)
ISBN: 1889833150

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Ray Bates Jr. is a lobsterman and contract diver from Marblehead, Massachusetts. He has personally explored countless shipwrecks on the ocean floor and has worked on salvage and rescue missions for over twenty years. In Shipwrecks North of Boston. Volume 1: Salem Bay, he backs up this personal experience with exhaustive research into historic archives. His book offers the most complete list yet compiled of wrecks in Salem Bay since 1700. It details thirty of them, with the help of sixty period photographs and charts, as well as illustrations by Salem artist Racket Shreve. These thirty tales of drama and discovery span nearly three centuries, from the loss of the British frigate Macklesfield off Baker’s Island on November 2, 1710, to the tragic loss of the pilot boat Can-Do during the blizzard of 1978.

The Green & Gold Coast: The History of Golf on Boston's North Shore, 1893-2001
by Gary Larrabe: $24.95

Product Details:
Hardcover: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 11.50 x 9.00
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions; (April 1, 2001)
ISBN: 1889833207

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
A history of golf in the region north of Boston on courses both public and private. These include three of the top courses in America: Essex County Club, Myopia Hunt Club, and Salem Country Club. Also includes a list of the "North Shore Golden Hundred," those hundred North Shore men and women who have contributed the most to the game in the region and beyond. Also includes 250 photographs, many never before published.

About the Author
A sportswriter at the Salem Evening News for twenty-five years, Larrabee has also contributed to regional and national golf publications and is the author of three golf club histories: Salem Country Club, Wenham Country Club, and Winchester Country Club (forthcoming).