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Boston, All One Family
by Bill Brett
Commonwealth Editions

Our Price: $27.95

Boston Globe society photographer Bill Brett has been taking pictures of the city's high and mighty since the 1960s. His first book shows their human side. With unequaled access, not only to business and cultural leaders but also to the community activists and philanthropists who give Boston its heart, Brett takes us into the homes and offices of the city's leaders, and out onto the streets where they live, work, and play.

Mapping Boston
by Alex Krieger
MIT Press

Our Price: $34.95

To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness---bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries.

Boston Rediscovered
by Ulrike Welsch
Commonwealth Editions

Our Price: $24.95

The first woman photographer in the history of the Boston Globe offers forty years of images of her adopted city. Breathtaking new color work and vintage black-and-whites span the Impossible Dream and the Big Dig.

Boston Neighborhoods: A Food Lover's Walking, Eating, and Shopping Guide to Ethnic Enclaves in and around Boston
by Lynda Morgenroth
Globe Pequot Press

Our Price: $15.95

If a bowl of clam chowder is not your idea of an adventurous ethnic dining experience, hop on the T and discover thirteen of Boston's incredible ethnic neighborhoods.

Red Sox Century, Expanded and Updated: The Definitive History of the World's Most Storied Franchise
by Richard A. Johnson
Houghton Mifflin Company

Our Price: $40.00

To commemorate the euphoric 2004 Red Sox season, when it finally was the year for Sox fans young and old, here is an expanded edition of Red Sox Century, a "book [that] has all that anyone would care to know about this accursed yet lovable franchise" (Sports Illustrated).

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Ballantine Books

Our Price: $14.00

Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world", the Old Colony projects of South Boston, where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All Souls, MacDonald takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie.

Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball
by John Taylor
Random House

Our Price: $25.95

In The Rivalry, award-winning journalist John Taylor projects the stories of Russell, Chamberlain, and other stars from the NBA’s golden age onto a backdrop of racial tensions and cultural change.

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