Back Bay Books
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Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
$22.99 Read more“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” –Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix
The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters–who went from Mississippi farm- Author: Gordon, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0316164941
- Language: English
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The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
$22.99 Add to cartIn this “lively and entertaining” history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of econom… [more below]
- Author: Appelbaum, Binyamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0316512346
- Language: English
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Hank Williams: The Biography
$18.99 Add to cart– Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many… [more below]
- Author: Macewen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0316734977
- Language: English
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 – 1964
$28.99 Add to cartThe bestselling classic that indelibly captures the life and times of one of the most brilliant and controversial military figures of the twentieth century.
“Electric…Tense with the feeling that this… [more below]- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316024740
- Language: English
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Festival Days
$17.99 Add to cartA searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life” (Sigrid Nunez, National… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Jo Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0316497223
- Language: English
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George Lucas: A Life
$21.99 Add to cartThe essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George Lucas.
On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two Americ- Author: Jones, Brian Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0316257427
- Language: English
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao’s ascent. … [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0316196681
- Language: English
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – The Last Great Battle of the American West
$22.99 Add to cartA rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.
In June of 1876, on a desolate h- Author: Donovan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316067474
- Language: English
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – And Helped Save an American Town
$21.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller about one man’s battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world’s biggest w- Author: Macy, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 031623141X
- Language: English
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Megathreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
$21.99 Add to cart“Read and pay attention” (Martin Wolf, the Financial Times): the bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defe
- Author: Roubini, Nouriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316284343
- Language: English
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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
$19.99 Add to cartThis updated edition of Gloria Steinem’s classic bestseller — called “the ultimate self-help book” by the Los Angeles Times — features a new preface by the author.
For decades, Gloria Steinem has l- Author: Steinem, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0316706361
- Language: English
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Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and Wework
$17.99 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This “vivid” inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business
- Author: Wiedeman, Reeves
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0316461334
- Language: English
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Tomato Red
$19.99 Add to cartA sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell’s collection of “country noir” novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.
In the Ozarks,- Author: Abbott, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0316206210
- Language: English
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
$24.99 Add to cartWhere do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers,… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0316182400
- Language: English
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Resurrection Men
$24.99 Add to cartInspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he’s been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as “resurrection men,” he joins … [more below]
- Series: Rebus Novel #13
- Author: Rankin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 031609921X
- Language: English
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In a House of Lies
$16.99 Add to cartA cold case involving a missing private investigator threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus’s past in this “must-read” mystery (Tana French).
Former Detective John Rebus’ retirement is disrupted o- Series: Rebus Novel #22
- Author: Rankin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0316479225
- Language: English
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Frog Music
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder–but only if the killer does
- Author: Donoghue, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0316324671
- Language: English
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Sea Glass
$24.99 Add to cartWith all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-t… [more below]
- Author: Shreve, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0316089699
- Language: English
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Last Neanderthal
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Bear, the enthralling story of two women separated by millennia, but linked by an epic journey that will transform them both.
Forty thousand years in the past, the last family- Author: Cameron, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0316314463
- Language: English
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Tigers in Red Weather
$15.00 Add to cartNick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha’s Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In th… [more below]
- Author: Klaussmann, Liza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 18 2013
- ISBN10: 031621132X
- Language: English
