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MEMORIES OF TOM PETTY An excerpt from The Decibel Diaries: A Journey through Rock in 50 Concerts by Carter Alan Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: even the losers get lucky (third time) M...

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By David Weinstein , author of The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics  Earlier this week, when I learned that Jerry Lewis had died, my first thoughts were not of t...

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By Susan Tejada , author of In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti Ninety years ago this August, more than 700 law enforcement officers, from squads  throughout the city and state, stood guard in...

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"The Traits of Both" by Soraida Martinez BY JACKSON WRIGHT SHULTZ AUTHOR OF TRANS/PORTRAITS: VOICES FROM TRANSGENDER COMMUNITIES I distinctly remember the first time I ever read an entire...

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By UPNE Staff BRENDA BIONDO’S  BOOK ONCE UPON A PLAYGROUND —ONE OF OUR INAUGURAL FOREEDGE TITLES!—HAS RECENTLY BEEN FEATURED AT THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART , ALONG WITH SOME OF HER MA...

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By Christopher Sandford,  author of Union Jack: JFK's Special Relationship with Great Britain What would John F. Kennedy have done? As the United States seemingly lurches from one polarizin...

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By Michael Benson The Spring 2015 escape by two worst-of-the-worst prisoners from the Clinton Correctional Facility (CCF) in Dannemora, N.Y., resulted in the largest manhunt in New York Stat...

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By Michael Benson It was the perfect story: the Great Escape. On June 6, 2015, Richard Matt, a torture killer, and David Sweat, a cop killer, worst-of-the-worst prisoners in the Clinton Corre...

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By Cory Franklin If you grew up as a sports fan and gravitated toward others of common disposition, then at some point you found yourself on the playground, in your living room or college dor...

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By Sheldon Hirsch, author of Hot Hands, Draft Hype, & DiMaggio's Streak: Debunking America's Favorite Sports Myths Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder has received enormous acclai...

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By Edna Aizenberg Author of On the Edge of the Holocaust: The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture   The New York Times got it wrong. On the front page of its Sunday, January 29...

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The below is an excerpt from Boston Strong by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge . This month, we are offering the Boston Strong ebook for $1.99 on all platforms in conjunction with the 1/13 theat...

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By UPNE Staff While we may not even be halfway through the winter yet, who said we can’t talk about our Spring ’17 catalog ? Here’s a short primer on but a few of the exciting bo...

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This is an excerpt from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: An American Hero , by Ronald D. Lankford, Jr. I never planned to write a book about Rudolph. He was so much a part of my childhood, ...

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By James C. O’Connell, Author of Dining Out in Boston Most New Englanders assume that traditional regional cooking has been around since colonial times. Yet it was not until the twentiet...

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By Sheldon Hirsch, author of the forthcoming Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak: Debunking America's Favorite Sports Myths  (April 2017) Oakland A’s general manager Billy Bean...

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By Dave Wedge Co-author of Boston Strong When Boston was attacked by a pair of jihadist brothers in April 2013, it marked the first time since 9/11 that terrorists struck us right in our...

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By Jerry Thornton Author of From Darkness to Dynasty: The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots Anyone who writes a book should be prepared to answer one question about it: “...

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By Catherine Musemeche M.D. Author of Hurt: The Inspired, Untold Story of Trauma Care   Houston, New York, Orlando, Dallas — every week a new domestic terror incident elbows its way int...

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By Paula Reed Ward, Author of Death By Cyanide: The Murder of Dr. Autumn Klei n Throughout my 20-year career as a police and courts reporter, I have covered every kind of case imaginable. B...

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By Pamela Heyne Author of In Julia's Kitchen: Practical and Convivial Kitchen Design Inspired by Julia Child ; Jim Scherer , coauthor.  I met my coauthor Jim Scherer in 1989 when I was int...

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By Bruce J. Hillman, MD Author of A Plague on All Our Houses A friend once theorized that what success I’d enjoyed during my academic medical career had occurred by dint of my being in t...

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By Chuck McCutcheon Coauthor of Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes  and Doubletalk Presidential debates feature many, many words — way too many for some people. But th...

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By David Nagel, M.D. author of Needless Suffering: How Society Fails Those With Chronic Pain   “Those are rare who fall without becoming degraded; there is a point, moreover, at which t...

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By Marcelo Gleiser, Author of The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything The boy inserted his fishing rod into a plasti...

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