Back Bay Books
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of “welfare queen” Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a “wild, only-in-America story” of pol… [more below]- Author: Levin, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316513288
- Language: English
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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother’s Love
$21.99 Add to cart“Glorious…one of the best memoirs I’ve read in years…a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [McDermott] can move from barely controlled hila… [more below]
- Author: McDermott, Zack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0316315125
- Language: English
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A World Without Islam
$21.99 Add to cartThis extremely provocative and illuminating “what if” journey through history, geopolitics, and religion investigates whether there is something unique in Islam and its followers that breeds violence
- Author: Fuller, Graham E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316041203
- Language: English
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The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
$18.99 Read moreOne man’s “curiously thrilling joyride” of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In- Author: Fox, Porter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316460907
- Language: English
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
$21.99 Add to cartThis masterful explorationof American roots music–country, rockabilly, and the blues–spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Elvis … [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316332747
- Language: English
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The Who & the What: A Play
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daughter writes a provocative novel th… [more below]
- Author: Akhtar, Ayad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0316324493
- Language: English
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All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons
$19.99 Add to cartThis “love story for the ages” from a # 1 New York Times bestselling author comes an unforgettable story about basketball and the enduring bonds between a father and daughter that “will heal relations… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0316706892
- Language: English
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Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church: The Findings of the Investigation That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Spotlight
$19.99 Add to cartWith this expos , the Boston Globe presents the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its history of sexual abuse secret.
A… [more below]
- Author: The Investigative Staff of the Boston Gl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0316271535
- Language: English
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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
$24.99 Add to cartThe definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David.
On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Pa- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0316245399
- Language: English
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After the Fire
$21.99 Add to cartOn January 19, 2000, a fire raged through Seton Hall University’s freshman dormitory, killing three students and injuring 58 others. Among the victims were Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, roommates fr… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Robin Gaby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0316066222
- Language: English
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World
$18.99 Add to cartAs the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning… Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life… [more below]
- Author: Lacey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316511579
- Language: English
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The Closer
$19.99 Add to cartThe greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.
Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door,- Author: Rivera, Mariano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0316400742
- Language: English
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Pentimento
$21.99 Add to cartThe second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author.
In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unf- Series: Back Bay Books
- Author: Hellman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0316352888
- Language: English
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
$24.99 Add to cartThe spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and- Author: Rosbottom, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0316217433
- Language: English
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
$22.99 Add to cartFew American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into s… [more below]
- Author: Wenner, Jann S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316005282
- Language: English
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Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note
$18.99 Read moreThe long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music.
From Booker T. Jones’s ear… [more below]- Author: Jones, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0316485594
- Language: English
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The Rival Queens: Catherine De’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
$19.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de’ Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestu… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0316409669
- Language: English
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Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things
$16.99 Add to cartThe “hilarious and poignant” story of one chronically anxious woman’s quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she’s spent her life avoiding (Cheryl Strayed).
For most of her li- Author: Hameister, Courtenay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0316395714
- Language: English
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Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll
$21.99 Add to cartThis vivid celebration of blues and early rock ‘n’ roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Waters, Skip James, and Howlin’ Wolf; excursions into t… [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316332720
- Language: English
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Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like Journey in the Title
$16.99 Add to cartWith her signature warmth, hilarity, and tendency to overshare, Leslie Gray Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way that “will make you laugh and cry, sometime… [more below]
- Author: Streeter, Leslie Gray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0316490733
- Language: English
