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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
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Entertaining Satan

By John Putnam Demos ,

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House
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House

By Tracy Kidder ,

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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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The Perfect Storm

By Sebastian Junger ,

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Seating Arrangements
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Seating Arrangements

By Maggie Shipstead ,

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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
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Changes in the Land

By William Cronon ,

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Pollyanna
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Pollyanna

By Eleanor H. Porter ,

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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
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In Small Things Forgotten

By James Deetz ,

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Witchcraft in Old and New England
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Witchcraft in Old and New England

By George Lyman Kittredge ,

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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman

By Carol F Karlsen ,

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The Journals of Louisa May Alcott
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The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

By Louisa May Alcott ,

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Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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Winter

By Henry David Thoreau ,

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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
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Within the Plantation Household

By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ,

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Narratives Of The Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706
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Narratives Of The Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706

By George Lincoln Burr ,

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Witchcraft at Salem
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Witchcraft at Salem

By Chadwick Hansen ,

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne : A Tale of Murder, Madness and Love of Words
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne

By Simon Winchester ,

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Clueless in New England: The Unsolved Disappearances of Paula Welden, Connie Smith and Katherine Hull
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Clueless in New England

By Michael C. Dooling ,

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Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer's Historic Boston Marathon
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Her Fearless Run

By Kim Chaffee , Ellen Rooney (illustrator) ,

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The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather
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The Last American Puritan

By Michael G. Hall ,

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Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676
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Prospero's America

By Walter W. Woodward ,

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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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Good Wives

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ,

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Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920
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Petticoat Whalers

By Joan Druett ,

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God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England
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God, War, and Providence

By James A. Warren ,

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Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
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Brethren by Nature

By Margaret Ellen Newell ,

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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
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Black Is the Body

By Emily Bernard ,

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The Other
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The Other

By Thomas Tryon ,

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Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699
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Sex in Middlesex

By Roger Thompson ,

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Ghosts of the Northeast
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Ghosts of the Northeast

By David J. Pitkin ,

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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

By Mary Rowlandson ,

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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
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Let's Take the Long Way Home

By Gail Caldwell ,

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Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding
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Inventing a Christian America

By Steven K. Green ,

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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War
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Our Beloved Kin

By Lisa Brooks ,

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The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
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The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

By Mary Rowlandson ,

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The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape
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The Patina of Place

By Kingston Wm Heath ,

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Mighty Storms of New England: The Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Blizzards, and Floods That Shaped the Region
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Mighty Storms of New England

By Eric P. Fisher ,

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A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
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A Chance in the World

By Steve Pemberton ,

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The Gift of an Ordinary Day
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The Gift of an Ordinary Day

By Katrina Kenison ,

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Quabbin: The Story of a Small Town With Outlooks Upon Puritan Life
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Quabbin

By Francis Henry Underwood ,

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The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840
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The Reshaping of Everyday Life

By Jack Larkin ,

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The New England Village
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The New England Village

By Joseph S. Wood ,

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All Our Yesterdays: A Century of Family Life in an American Small Town
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All Our Yesterdays

By James Oliver Robertson , Janet C. Robertson ,

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The Transcendentalists and Their World
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The Transcendentalists and Their World

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Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England
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Dawnland Voices

By Siobhan Senier (editor) ,

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My Half Orange
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My Half Orange

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The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England
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The Province of Affliction

By Ben Mutschler ,

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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
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Salem Possessed

By Paul Boyer , Stephen Nissenbaum ,

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Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England
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Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy

By Strother E. Roberts ,

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A Cluster of Noisy Planets
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A Cluster of Noisy Planets

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Solitude and Other Stories
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Solitude and Other Stories

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American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England
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American Passage

By Katherine Grandjean ,

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Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650–1815
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Graven Images

By Allen Ludwig ,

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Memorials for Children of Change: The Art of Early New England Stonecarving
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Memorials for Children of Change

By Dickran Tashjian , Ann Tashjian ,

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The Masks of Orthodoxy: Folk Gravestone Carving in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1689-1805
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The Masks of Orthodoxy

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Gravestone Chronicles I: Some Eighteenth-Century New England Carvers and Their Work
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Gravestone Chronicles I

By Theodore Chase , Laurel K. Gabel ,

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Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm
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Clearing Land

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Manhattan Memoir: American Girl; Manhattan, When I Was Young; Speaking with Strangers
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Manhattan Memoir

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Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
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Girls of Tender Age

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The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England Cartoonists
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The Most Costly Journey

By Marek Bennett (editor) , Andy Kolovos (editor) , Teresa Mares (editor) , Julia Grand Doucet (editor)

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Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic
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Grassroots Leviathan

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