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Boston: A Topographical History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 90 ratings — published 1968
Salem's Centuries: New Perspectives on the History of an Old American City (History and the Public)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.27 — 152 ratings — published 1994
The Late George Apley (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,433 ratings — published 1937
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.63 — 178 ratings — published 2010
Somerville, Massachusetts:: A Brief History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published 2008
A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March 1770 by soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment with ... prior to that catastrophe. With appendix. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Mary Baker Eddy (Radcliffe Biography Series)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 4.07 — 106 ratings — published 1998
Boston's Immigrants: 1840-1925 (Images of America: Massachusetts)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published 2000
The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, From the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.97 — 173 ratings — published 2007
The Atlas of Boston History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 4.53 — 32 ratings — published
Islands of Boston Harbor (Snow Centennial Editions)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.91 — 34 ratings — published 1971
The Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.51 — 585 ratings — published 1912
Woburn: A Past Observed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1999
The World's Most Haunted House: The True Story of the Bridgeport Poltergeist on Lindley Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.33 — 877 ratings — published 2014
Ghosts Along the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers (Haunted America)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published
The Atomic City Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.54 — 26,694 ratings — published 2018
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,605 ratings — published 2013
You Would Not Believe What Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy's Knoxville (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published 2012
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,382 ratings — published 1979
Historic Knoxville: The Curious Visitor's Guide to Its Stories and Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 4.22 — 23 ratings — published
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,095 ratings — published 1941
The Morning Watch (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.64 — 229 ratings — published 1950
Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as local-lore)
avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published
The Witches: Salem, 1692 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 0 times as local-lore)
avg rating 3.25 — 25,564 ratings — published 2015