Massachusetts Book Census for the Year 2005

Each year the Massachusetts Center for the Book will report on books published by Massachusetts writers or about Commonwealth themes. Contact us to add a book published in 2005 to the list at massbook@simmons.edu.

Fiction

Almond, Steve. The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories (Algonquin Books) Middlesex

Arkin, Frieda. Hedwig and Berti (St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books) Essex

Barton, Alice. South Station (iUniverse, Inc.) Barnstable

Benedict, Elizabeth. The Practice of Deceit (Houghton Mifflin) Middlesex

Benson, Kate. Two Harbors (Harcourt) Worcester

Bernays, Anne. Trophy House (Simon & Schuster) Middlesex

Brady, Eddie. Georgie! My Georgie! (Xlibris Corp.) Middlesex

Braver, Gary. Flashback, (St. Martin's Press / Forge), Middlesex

Brockmann, Suzanne. Breaking Point (Ballantine Books / Random House)

Brogan, Jan. A Confidential Source (Mysterious Press / Warner Books) Norfolk

Castellani, Christopher.The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin Books) Middlesex

Ceely, Jonatha. Bread and Dreams (Delacorte / Random House) Norfolk

Connors, Rose. False Testimony (Scribner / Simon & Schuster) Barnstable

Cooney, Ellen. A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies (Pantheon Books / Random House) Middlesex

Craig, Philip R. Vineyard Prey (Scribner / Simon & Schuster) Dukes

Crouse, David. Copy Cats (University of Georgia Press) Essex

Crowley, John. Lord Byron's Novel : the Evening Land (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Franklin

Daniel, David. The Marble Kite (St. Martin's Press) Middlesex

Delinsky, Barbara Looking for Peyton Place (Scribner / Simon & Schuster) Norfolk

Dew, Robb Forman. The Truth of the Matter (Little, Brown and Co.) Berkshire

Diamant, Anita. The Last Days of Dogtown (Scribner / Simon & Schuster) Middlesex

Dongala, Emmanuel. Johnny Mad Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Berkshire

Durham, David Anthony. Pride of Carthage (Doubleday / Random House) Franklin

Fairstein, Linda. Entombed (Scribner / Simon & Schuster) Dukes

Foos, Laurie. Before Elvis There Was Nothing (Coffee House Press) Worcester

Gabridge, Patrick. Tornado Siren (Behler Publications) Suffolk

Haigh, Jennifer. Baker Towers (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Plymouth

Hoffman, Alice. The Ice Queen (Little, Brown and Co.) Middlesex

Holland, Noy. What Begins with Bird (FC2) Franklin

Kalechofsky, Roberta. Job Enters a Pain Clinic and other stories (Micah Publications) Essex

Kalotay, Daphne. Calamity and Other Stories (Doubleday / Random House) Norfolk

Kaplan-Maxfield, Thomas. Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter (Kepler Press) Middlesex

Kulpa, Kathryn. Pleasant Drugs (Mid-List Press) Bristol

Langdon, Jane. Steeplechase (St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books) Middlesex

McArdle, Tracy. Confessions of a Nervous Shiksa (Downtown Press / Simon & Schuster) Middlesex

Merullo, Roland. Golfing with God (Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing) Hampshire

Merullo, Roland. A Little Love Story (Crown Publishers / Shaye Areheart Books / RH) Hampshire

Miller, Sue. Lost in the Forest (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Suffolk

Nathan, Micah. Gods of Aberdeen (Simon & Schuster) Norfolk

Noble, Isobel. Ruin, Book 1, The Tent City (EarthBound Books) Berkshire

Nolta, David D. Lostlindens (Quality Words in Print) Worcester

Noyes, Deborah. Angel and Apostle (Unbridled Books) Middlesex

Page, Katherine Hall. Body in the Snowdrift (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Middlesex

Patterson, Richard North. Conviction (Random House) Dukes

Pearlman, Edith. How to Fall (Sarabande Books, Inc.) Norfolk

Piercy, Marge. Sex Wars (HarperCollins / William Morrow) Barnstable

Pullins, Ronald. The Boss is Dead (Focus Publishing) Essex

Salisbury, Luke. Hollywood and Sunset (Shambling Gate Press) Suffolk

Shreve, Anita. A Wedding in December (Little, Brown and Co.) Hampden

Simon, Clea. Mew is for Murder (Poisoned Pen Press) Middlesex

Slater, Lauren. Blue Beyond Blue (W.W. Norton) Middlesex

Taylor, Ian. Spindle (BookSurge Publishing) Worcester

Thayer, Nancy. The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again (Ballantine Books / Random House) Nantucket

Thayer, Nancy. Hot Flash Holidays (Ballantine Books / Random House) Nantucket

Theroux, Paul. Blinding Light (Houghton Mifflin) Barnstable

Tripp, Dawn Clifton. The Season of Open Water (Random House) Bristol

Willig, Lauren. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Dutton / Penguin Group)

Wilson, Jonathan. An Ambulance is on the Way (Pantheon Books / Random House) Middlesex

Nonfiction

Abrams, John. The Company We Keep (Chelsea Green Publishing) Dukes

Anderson, Mark. "Shakespeare" by Another Name (Gotham Books / Penguin) Hampshire

Atkinson, Jay. Legends of Winter Hill (Crown Publishers / Random House) Essex

Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism (Oxford University Press) Norfolk

Bacon, Mardges, ed. "Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture (Cornell University Press) Middlesex

Basbanes, Nicholas A. Every Book its Reader (Harper Collins) Worcester

Biel, Steven. American Gothic, (W.W. Norton)

Bird, Kai and Martin Sherwin. American Prometheus (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex

Bookbinder, Judith. Boston Modern (University Press of New England) Norfolk

Bowen, Mark. Thin Ice (Henry Holt and Company / John MacRae) Middlesex

Broyard, Sandy. Standby (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Dukes

Bundy, Carol. The Nature of Sacrifice (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Middlesex

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Theological Bioethics (Georgetown University Press) Middlesex

Carleton, Gregory. Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press) Middlesex

Caton, Steven C. Yemen Chronicle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Middlesex

Cavell, Stanley. Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow (Harvard UP) Norfolk

Cleary, Kathleen. If This Is Heaven, I am Going to be a Good Boy (iUniverse, Inc.) Berkshire

Crokee, Vicki. The Lady and the Panda (Random House) Middlesex

Damrosch, Leo. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (Houghton Mifflin) Middlesex

Davidson, Susie, ed. I Refused to Die (THEME) (Ibbetson St. Press) Norfolk

Dine, Carol. Places in the Bone (Rutgers University Press) Norfolk

Elkins, Caroline. Imperial Reckoning (Henry Holt and Company) Middlesex

Emanuel, Kerry. Divine Wind: the History and Science of Hurricanes (Oxford University Press) Middlesex

Esposito, John C. Fire in the Grove (THEME) (Da Capo Press / Perseus Books)

Ferguson, Jeffrey B. The Sage of Sugar Hill (Yale University Press) Hampshire

Fick, Nathaniel. One Bullet Away (Houghton Mifflin) Middlesex

Fischer, David Hackett. Liberty and Freedom (Oxford University Press) Middlesex

Fogelson, Robert M. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930 (Yale University Press) Suffolk

Foulds, Alan E. Boston's Ballparks & Arenas (University Press of New England)

Friedman, Ben. The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex

Gershenfeld, Neil. Fab (Basic Books / Perseus Books Group) Middlesex

Gilder, George. The Silicon Eye (W.W. Norton) Berkshire

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals (Simon & Schuster) Middlesex

Gordon, Charlotte. Mistress Bradstreet (Little, Brown and Co.) Essex

Gordon, Suzanne. Nursing Against the Odds (Cornell University Press) Middlesex

Graham, Patricia Albjerg. Schooling America (Oxford University Press) Middlesex

Greenfield, Amy Butler. A Perfect Red (HarperCollins) Suffolk

Guralnick, Peter. Dream Boogie (Little, Brown and Co.) Essex

Harr, Jonathan. The Lost Painting (Random House) Hampshire

Henshaw, Kristen Kingsbury. Craig Kingsbury Talkin' (Tereski Presski) Middlesex

Hever, Jennifer Ngaire. The Family and the Nation (Cornell University Press) Hampshire

Hird, John A. Power, Knowledge, and Politics (Georgetown University Press) Hampshire

Jones, Stephen F. Socialism in Georgian Colors (Harvard UP) Hampshire

Kidder, Tracy. My Detachment (Random House) Hampshire

Kimball, John R. H. Disasters Etc. (Peter E. Randall Publisher LLC) Middlesex

Kunitz, Stanley with Genine Lentine. The Wild Braid. (W.W. Norton) Barnstable

Kroodsma, Donald. The Singing Life of Birds (Houghton Mifflin) Hampshire

Lange, Amanda E. Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield (Historic Deerfield, Inc.) Hampshire

Laurie, Bruce. Beyond Garrison (Cambridge University Press) Hampshire

Lee, Lindsey. More Vineyard Voices (THEME) (Martha's Vineyard Historical Society) Dukes

Lepore, Jill. New York Burning (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex

Levy, Daniel and Susan Brink. A Change of Heart (THEME) (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House)

Lightman, Alan. The Discoveries (Pantheon Books / Random House) Middlesex

Lightman, Alan. A Sense of the Mysterious (Pantheon Books / Random House) Middlesex

Machoian, Lisa. The Disappearing Girl (Dutton / Penguin Group) Middlesex

Mann, Charles. 1491 (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Hampshire

Marcus, David L. What it Takes to Pull Me Through (Houghton Mifflin) Hampshire

Marshall, Megan. The Peabody Sisters (Houghton Mifflin) Middlesex

McCullough, David. 1776 (Simon & Schuster) Dukes

Mehri, Darius. Notes from Toyota-Land (Cornell University Press) Worcester

Mezrich, Ben. Busting Vegas (William Morrow / HarperCollins) Suffolk

Milford, T. A. The Gardiners of Massachusetts (THEME) (University Press of New England) Brooklyn, NY

Miller, Richard F. Harvard's Civil War (University Press of New England) Middlesex

Mitchell, John Hanson. Looking for Mr. Gilbert (Avalon Publishing Group / Shoemaker & Hoard)

Murphy, Evelyn with E.J. Graff. Getting Even: why women don't get paid like men (Touchstone / Simon & Schuster) Norfolk

Nelson, Adam R. The Elusive Ideal (THEME) (University of Chicago Press)

O'Connell, Mark. The Good Father (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)

Ouden, Amy E. Den. Beyond Conquest: native peoples and the struggle for history …(University of Nebraska Press) Suffolk

Parker, Richard. John Kenneth Galbraith (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Middlesex

Peleg, Yaron. Orientalism and the Hebrew Language (Cornell University Press) Suffolk

Pinsky, Robert. The Life of David (Schocken Books / Random House) Suffolk

Pleshakov, Constantine. Stalin's Folly (Houghton Mifflin) Hampshire

Puleo, Stephen. Due to Enemy Action (Lyons Press) Norfolk

Randall, Lisa. Warped Passages (HarperCollins / Echo) Middlesex

Rathbone, Cristina. A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars (Random House) Suffolk

Rooney, Kathleen. Reading with Oprah (University of Arkansas Press) Suffolk

Sargent, Theodore D. The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman (University of Nebraska Press) Franklin

Sargent, William. The House on Ipswich Marsh (University Press of New England) Essex

Senator, Susan. Making Peace with Autism (Trumpeter Books / Shambhala Publications) Norfolk

Sharp, Gene. Waging Nonviolent Struggle (Porter Sargent Publishers, Inc.) Suffolk

Shaughnessy, Dan. Reversing the Curse (Houghton Mifflin) Middlesex

Shell, Marc. Polio and Its Aftermath (Harvard UP) Middlesex

Shepherd, Margaret. The Art of Civilized Conversation (Broadway Books / Random House) Suffolk

Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union (Harvard UP) Norfolk

Simonds, Nina. Spices of Life (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Essex

Simons, D. Brenton. Witches, Rakes, and Rogues (Commonwealth Editions) Suffolk

Spear, Robert J. The Great Gypsy Moth War (THEME) (University of Massachusetts Press)

Stout, Martha. The Sociopath Next Door (Broadway Books / Random House)

Teitell, Beth. From Here to Maternity (Broadway Books / Random House) Norfolk

Tougias, Michael J. Ten Hours Until Dawn (St. Martin's Press) Norfolk

Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House)

Van Zuylen, Marina. Monomania (Cornell University Press) Middlesex

Various. The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub (THEME) (Harvard UP)

Vaughan, Virginia Mason. Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 (Cambridge University Press) Worcester

Walt, Stephen M. Taming American Power (W.W. Norton) Norfolk

Watson, Bruce. Bread & Roses (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Franklin

Weinstein, Miriam. The Surprising Power of Family Meals (Steerforth Press) Essex

Weiss, Robert. The Experience of Retirement (Cornell University Press) Norfolk

Whalen, Ruth. Welcome to the Dance (Trafford Publishing) Barnstable

Wong, K. Scott. Americans First (Harvard UP) Berkshire

Wood, Elizabeth. Performing Justice (Cornell University Press) Suffolk

Zaleski, Philip and Carol Zaleski. Prayer: A History (Houghton Mifflin) Hampshire

Zuckoff, Mitchell. Ponzi's Scheme (Random House) Middlesex

Poetry

Ablon, Steven Luria. Blue Damsels (Peter E. Randall Publisher LLC)

Aguero, Kathleen. Daughter Of (Cedar Hill Books) Middlesex

Althaus, Keith. Ladder of Hours (Ausable Press) Barnstable

Bergman, Denise. Seeing Annie Sullivan (Cedar Hill Books) Middlesex

Bidart, Frank. Star Dust (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Middlesex

Boutelle, Annie. Becoming Bone (University of Arkansas Press) Hampshire

Boutelle, Annie. Nest of Thistles (University Press of New England) Hampshire

Burnham, Philip E. Housekeeping : Poems Out of the Ordinary (Ibbetson St. Press) Middlesex

Carhart, Ann. Sanctus! Sanctus! Sanctus! (Ibbetson St. Press) Middlesex

Casey, Helen Marie. Fragrance Upon His Lips (Finishing Line Press) Middlesex

Chiasson, Dan. Natural History (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Middlesex

Chichetto, James W. The Dream of Norumbega, Book II (Saybrook House / CT Poetry Review Press)

DeNicola, Deborah. The Harmony of the Next (Riverstone Press) Suffolk

Duffin, K. E. King Vulture (University of Arkansas Press) Middlesex

Edelstein, Carol, The Disappearing Girl (Perugia Press) Hampshire

Galvin, Brendan. Habitat (Louisiana State University Press) Barnstable

Gilbert, Jack. Refusing Heaven (Alfred A. Knopf / Random House) Hampshire

Gillett, Michelle. Blinding the Goldfinches (Backwaters Press) Berkshire

Graham, Jorie. Overlord, (HarperCollins / Echo) Middlesex

Holder, Doug. Wrestling With My Father (Yellow Pepper Press) Middlesex

Mariani, Paul. Deaths & Transfigurations (Paraclete Press) Franklin

Mazur, Gail. Zeppo's First Wife (University of Chicago Press) Middlesex

Miller, Matt. Cameo Diner (Loom Press) Middlesex

Moore, Richard. Sailing to Oblivion (Light Quarterly Imprints) Middlesex

Pope, Jacquelyn. Watermark (Marsh Hawk Press) Norfolk

Schneider, Pat. Another River: New and Selected Poems (Amherst Writers and Artists Press) Hampshire

Scrimgeour, J. D. The Last Miles (Fine Tooth Press) Essex

Slate, Ronald. The Incentive of the Maggot (Houghton Mifflin / Mariner) Norfolk

Slavitt, David. Change of Address (Louisiana State University Press) Middlesex

Smith, Nathan. Temple Sonnets (EarthBound Books) Berkshire

Swist, Wally. The Silence Between Us (Brooks Books) Hampshire

Szumowski, Margaret. The Night of the Lunar Eclipse (Tupelo Press) Hamden

Thomas, Cammy. Cathedral of Wish (Four Way Books) Middlesex

Tobin, Daniel. The Narrows (Four Way Books) Suffolk

Wier, Dara. Reverse Rapture (Wave Books) Hampshire

Willis, Irene. At the Fortune Café (Snake Nation Press) Berkshire

Young, Geoffrey. Fickle Sonnets (The Figures) Berkshire

Zeiger, Genie. Radio Waves (White Pine Press) Franklin

Children's/Young Adult Literature