Massachusetts Book Census for the Year 2004
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 2004 to the list at massbook@simmons.edu.
Fiction
Ali, Thalassa. A Beggar at the Gate ( Random House / Bantam Books)
Amidon, Stephen. Human Capital ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Biewald, Connie. Digging to Indochina ( iUniverse, Inc.)
Brundage, Elizabeth. The Doctor's Wife ( Penguin Group / Viking Press)
Carey, Lisa. Love in the Asylum ( HarperCollins / William Morrow)
Ceely, Jonatha. Mina ( Random House / Bantam Books)
Chang, Lan Samantha. Inheritance ( W.W. Norton)
Cook, Claire. Multiple Choice ( Penguin Group / Viking Press)
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Escape ( HarperCollins)
Crowley, John. Novelties & Souvenirs ( HarperCollins)
Fairstein, Linda. The Kills ( Simon & Schuster / Scribner)
Flook, Maria. Lux ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Gautreau, Norman. Island of First Light ( MacAdam / Cage)
Golden, Christopher. The Boys are Back in Town ( Random House / Bantam Books)
Goldstein, Naama. The Place Will Comfort You ( Simon & Schuster / Scribner)
Graver, Elizabeth. Awake ( Henry Holt and Company)
Haldeman, Joe. Camouflage ( Penguin Group / Ace Books)
Hoffman, Alice. Blackbird House ( Random House / Doubleday)
Hogan, Chuck. Prince of Thieves ( Simon & Schuster / Scribner)
Jen, Gish. The Love Wife ( Random House / Alfred A. Knopf)
Jin, Ha. War Trash ( Random House / Pantheon Books)
Just, Ward. An Unfinished Season ( Houghton Mifflin)
Katzenbach, John. The Madman's Tale ( Random House / Ballantine Books)
Klass, Perri. Mystery of Breathing ( Houghton Mifflin)
LeClaire, Anne. The Law of Bound Hearts ( Random House / Ballantine Books)
Lee, Don. Country of Origin ( W.W. Norton)
Lentz, David B.. Bloomsday: Ulysses in Boston ( Xlibris Corp.)
Lester, Julius. Autobiography of God ( St. Martin 's Press )
Loh, Vyvyane. Breaking the Tongue ( W.W. Norton)
MacLean, Ron. Blue Winnetka Skies ( Swank Books)
McFarland, Dennis. Prince Edward ( Henry Holt and Company)
McLean, Margaret. Under Oath ( Hot House Press)
Milne, Teddy. The Pharaoh's Fingerprint ( Pittenbruach Press)
Morris, Mary McGarry. A Hole in the Universe ( Penguin Group / Viking Press)
Mosher, Howard Frank. Waiting for Teddy Williams ( Houghton Mifflin)
Murray, Sabina. Carnivore's Inquiry ( Grove Press)
Page, Katherine Hall. Body in the Attic ( HarperCollins / William Morrow)
Palmer, Michael. The Society ( Random House / Bantam Books)
Perrotta, Tom. Little Children ( St. Martin 's Press )
Pies, Ronald. Zimmerman's Tefillin ( Publish America )
Robinson, Patrick. Scimitar SL-2 ( HarperCollins)
Shepard, Jim. Project X ( Random House / Alfred A. Knopf)
Shepard, Karen. The Bad Boy's Wife ( St. Martin 's Press )
Shreve, Anita. Light on Snow ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Steele, Allen. Coyote Rising ( Penguin Group / Ace Books)
Sullivan, Mary Sarah. Ship Sooner ( HarperCollins / William Morrow)
Theroux, Paul. Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro ( Houghton Mifflin)
Velvel, Lawrence R.. Misfits in America , volume 1 ( University Press of America)
Vivante, Arturo. Solitude and Other Stories ( University of Notre Dame Press )
Ward, Amanda Eyre. How to be Lost ( MacAdam / Cage)
Ward, Liza. Outside Valentine ( Henry Holt and Company)
Weller, Anthony. The Siege of Salt Cove ( W.W. Norton)
Nonfiction
Abramson, John. Overdosed America ( HarperCollins)
Agigian, Amy. Baby Steps ( Wesleyan University Press )
Almond, Steve. Candy Freak ( Workman Publishing / Algonquin Books)
Anderson, Joan. A Walk on the Beach ( Random House / Broadway Books)
Angell, Marcia. The Truth about the Drug Companies ( Random House)
Ault, Jr., James M.. Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church ( Random House / Alfred A. Knopf)
Auyang, Sunny. Engineering - an endless frontier ( Harvard University Press)
Avorn, Jerry. Powerful Medicines ( Random House / Alfred A. Knopf)
Barnet, Anne Alison. Extravaganza King ( Northeastern University Press)
Becker, Suzy. I had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? ( Workman Publishing)
Becker, Kerstin. Through These Doors ( Old Chapel Press)
Bilder, Mary Sarah. The Transatlantic Constitution ( Harvard University Press )
Bookman, Ann. Starting in our Own Backyard: How working families can build community … ( Routledge)
Braham, Jeanne. Made by Hand ( Commonwealth Editions)
Brox, Jane. Clearing Land ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Burns, Stewart. To the Mountaintop ( HarperSanFrancisco)
Campbell, William C. et al., William C.. Woburn : Forgotten Tales & Untold Stories ( Sonrel Press)
Carlisle, Elizabeth Pendergast. Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps ( Scribner)
Carlson, et al, Karen J.. New Harvard Guide to Women's Health ( Harvard University Press )
Cavell, Stanley. Cities of Words ( Harvard University Press )
Collins, Jim. The Last Best League ( Perseus Books / Da Capo Press)
Corson, Trevor. The Secret Life of Lobsters ( HarperCollins)
Cox, Harvey. When Jesus Came to Harvard ( Houghton Mifflin)
Dandola, John. Living in the Past, Looking to the Future ( Quincannon Publishing Group)
D'Antonio, Michael. The State Boys Rebellion ( Simon & Schuster)
Davis-Hollander, Lawrence. The Tomato Festival Cookbook ( Story Publishing)
Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord ( Yale University Press )
Doyle, Paul E.. Hot Shots and Heavy Hits ( Northeastern University Press)
Dunn, Susan. Jefferson 's Second Revolution ( Houghton Mifflin)
Ellis, Joseph J.. His Excellency : George Washington ( Random House / Alfred A. Knopf)
Fischer, David Hackett. Washington 's Crossing ( Oxford University Press )
Flaherty, Alice. The Midnight Disease ( Houghton Mifflin)
Flynn, Nick. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City ( W.W. Norton)
Ford, Eileen. Pumpkin and Me ( Dogtown Books)
Fried, Charles. Saying What the Law Is ( Harvard University Press )
Friedman, Walter A.. Birth of a Salesman ( Harvard University Press )
Fuller, Todd K.. Wolves of the World: Natural History and Conservation ( Voyageur Press)
Garber, Marjorie. Shakespeare After All ( Random House / Pantheon Books)
Gedutis, Susan J.. See You at the Hall ( Northeastern University Press)
Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point ( Perseus Books / Basic Books)
Gelman, Judy & Vicki Krupp. The Book Club Cook Book ( Tarcher / Penguin Group USA )
Genovese, Daniel L.. The Old Ball Ground, vol. 1 ( Infinity Publishing)
Gill, Gillian. Nightingales ( Random House / Ballantine Books)
Goodman, Ellen. Paper Trail ( Simon & Schuster)
Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World ( W.W. Norton)
Gruenbaum, Thelma. Nesarim: Child Survivors of Terezin ( Vallentine Mitchell)
Gutschow, Kim. Being a Buddhist Nun ( Harvard University Press )
Haas, Scott. Are We There Yet? ( Penguin Group / Plume Books)
Hagan, Debbie. Against the Tide ( Hamilton Books )
Hales, ed., Mary Ann. Lincoln by Lincoln ( Cottage Press)
Heaney, Seamus. The Burial at Thebes (Translation of Antigone) ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Herlihy, David V.. Bicycle: the History ( Yale University Press )
Hiestand & Ande Zellman, eds., Emily. The Good City ( Beacon Press)
Hirsch, James. Two Souls Indivisible ( Houghton Mifflin)
Holley, Michael. Patriot Reign ( William Morrow / HarperCollins)
Horowitz, Daniel. The Anxieties of Affluence ( University of Massachusetts Press )
Hunt, Swanee. This Was Not Our War ( Duke University Press)
Huntington, Samuel P.. Who Are We? ( Simon & Schuster)
Ingersoll, Larry & M. Foote. Behind the Badge, vol. 2 ( Dogtown Books)
Jarzombek, Mark M.. Designing MIT: Bosworth's New Tech ( Northeastern University Press)
Jones, David S.. Rationalizing Epidemics ( Harvard University Press )
Kaufmann, Dorothy. Edith Thomas: a Passion for Resistance ( Cornell University Press )
Klare, Michael T.. Blood and Oil ( Henry Holt and Company / Metropolitan Books)
Lansky, Aaron. Outwitting History ( Workman Publishing / Algonquin Books)
LaPlante, Eve. American Jezebel ( HarperSanFrancisco)
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land : Harriet Tubman ( Random House / Ballantine Books)
Lazare, Aaron. On Apology ( Oxford University Press )
Lester, Julius. On Writing for Children and Other People ( Penguin / Dial Books for Young Readers)
Littell, Robert T.. The Men We Became ( St. Martin 's Press )
Manikowski, John. Fish: Grilled & Smoked ( Story Publishing)
Mason, Mary Grimley. Working Against Odds ( Northeastern University Press)
Mezrich, Ben. Ugly Americans ( HarperCollins / William Morrow)
Milner, Craig S.. Ralph Stanley, Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder ( Down East Books)
Morrison, Dane & Nancy Lusignan Schultz, eds. Salem : Place, Myth, and Memory ( Northeastern University Press)
Newman, Katherine. Rampage: the Social Roots of School Shootings ( Perseus Books / Basic Books)
Northampton 350th (series of six chapbooks) ( Collective Copies)
Oliver, Mary. Long Life: Essays and Other Writings ( Perseus Books / Da Capo Press)
O'Malley, John W.. Four Cultures of the West ( Harvard University Press )
O'Nan, Stewart & S. King, Stewart. Faithful ( Simon & Schuster / Scribner)
Orbanes, Philip E.. The Game Makers: the Story of Parker Brothers ( Harvard Business School Press )
Orlean, Susan. My Kind of Place ( Random House)
Petronella, Mary Melvin, ed. Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours ( Northeastern University Press)
Putnam, Hilary. Ethics without Ontology ( Harvard University Press )
Ravage, Barbara. Burn Unit: Saving Lives after the Flames ( Perseus Books / Da Capo Press)
Reich, Robert B.. Reason: Why Liberals will Win the Battle for America ( Random House / Alfred A. Knopf)
Reid, Catherine. Coyote ( Houghton Mifflin)
Ricks, Christopher. Dylan's Vision of Sin ( HarperCollins / Echo)
Roberts, David. The Pueblo Revolt ( Simon & Schuster)
Robinson, David M.. Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism ( Cornell University Press )
Sarna, Jonathan D.. American Judaism ( Yale University Press )
Schloss, Joseph G.. Making Beats ( Wesleyan University Press )
Schor, Juliet B.. Born to Buy ( Simon & Schuster / Scribner)
Sheehan, Thomas F.. A Collection of Friends ( Pocol Press)
Silver, Julie K.. Chronic Pain and the Family ( Harvard University Press )
Silvey, Anita. 100 Best Books for Children ( Houghton Mifflin)
Slater, Lauren. Opening Skinner's Box ( W.W. Norton)
Smith, Patrick. Ask the Pilot ( Penguin Group / Riverhead Books)
Smith, Charles W.G.. The Weather-Resilient Garden ( Story Publishing)
Smith, Peter. Two of Us ( Houghton Mifflin)
Stein, Joel. Stroke and the Family ( Harvard University Press )
Sumner, Judith. American Household Botany ( Timber Press)
Tollefsen, Astrid. Following the Waters, Voices from the Final Norwegian Emigration (Leifur Publications)
Valentine, Douglas. Strength of the Wolf ( Verso)
Vrabel, Jim. When in Boston : a time line & almanac ( Northeastern University Press)
Weisblat, Tinky. The Pudding Hollow Cookbook ( Merry Lion Press (Hawley))
Whalen, Thomas J.. Dynasty's End ( Northeastern University Press)
Whitaker, Robert. The Mapmaker's Wife ( Perseus Books / Basic Books)
Whouley, Kate. Cottage for Sale : Must be Moved ( Commonwealth Editions)
Williams, Patricia. Open House ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Williams, Ted. Wild Moments ( Workman Publishing / Storey)
Wood, James. The Irresponsible Self ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Zitser , Ernest A.. The Transfigured Kingdom ( Cornell University Press )
Poetry
Baus, Eric. The To Sound ( Verse Press)
Beisch, June. Fatherless Woman ( Cape Cod Literary Press )
Brock-Broido, Lucie. Trouble in Mind ( Random House / Alfred A. Knopf)
Casey, Michael. Raiding a Whorehouse ( Adastra Press)
Cramer, Steven. Goodbye to the Orchard ( Sarabande Books, Inc.)
Digges, Deborah. Trapeze ( Random House / Alfred A. Knopf)
Fein, Richard. Mother Tongue ( BrickHouse Books, Inc.)
Feldman, Alan. A Sail to Great Island ( University of Wisconsin Press )
Gluck, Louise. October ( Sarabande Books, Inc.)
Goodan, Kevin. In the Ghost-House Acquainted ( Alice James Books)
Howe, Fanny. On the Ground ( Graywolf Press)
Knott, Bill. The Unsubscriber ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Knox, Caroline. He Paves the Road with Iron Bars ( Verse Press)
Lieberman, David. The Task, the Hoard & the Long Walk Home ( Yuganta Press)
Nealon, Joanna. Living It ( Ibbetson St. Press)
Oliver, Mary. Why I Wake Early ( Beacon Press)
Pies, Ronald. Creeping Thyme ( Brandylane Publishers, Inc.)
Priestly, Deborah M.. The Woman has a Voice ( Ibbetson St. Press)
Surette, David R.. Young Gentlemen's School ( Koenisha Publications)
Tate, James. Return to the City of White Donkeys ( HarperCollins / Echo)
Van Driesche, Emmett. The Land Before Us ( Adastra Press)
Wilbur, Richard. Collected Poems: 1943-2004 ( Harcourt)
Worth, Douglas. Catch the Light ( Higganum Hill Books)
Children's/Young Adult Literature
Anderson, M. T. The Game of Sunken Places ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Aronson, Marc. John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise ( Houghton Mifflin / Clarion Books)
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Snakecharm ( Random House Children's Books / Delacorte)
Bang, Molly. My Light ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Bang-Campbell, Monika & Molly Bang. Little Rat Rides ( Harcourt)
Black, Holly & T. DiTerlizzi, Holly. The Spiderwick Chronicles, Bk 4: The Ironwood Tree ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Black, Holly & T. DiTerlizzi, Holly. The Spiderwick Chronicles, Bk 5: The Wrath of Mulgarath ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Bond, Rebecca. This Place in the Snow ( Penguin / Dutton Children's Books)
Bratun, Illus., Kary. Hippity Skippity Easter ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Bregoli, Jane. The Goat Lady ( Tilbury House, Publishers)
Brett, Jan. The Umbrella ( Penguin / G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Bridwell, Norman. Clifford's First Sleepover ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Brown, Marc, illus. Wild About Books ( Knopf / Random House)
Burnham, Niki. Royally Jacked ( Simon & Schuster / Simon Pulse)
Carle, Eric. Mr. Seahorse ( Penguin / Philomel)
Clements, Andrew. The Last Holiday Concert ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
__________. The Report Card ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Cosetello, David. Here They Come! ( Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Curtis, Carolyn. I Took the Moon for a Walk ( Random House / Ballantine Books)
Davies, Jacqueline. The Boy who Drew Birds ( Houghton Mifflin - Children's)
Demas, Corinne. Saying Goodbye to LuLu ( Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
DePalma, Mary Newell, illus. My Chair ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Ering, Timothy Basil, illus. Don't Let the Peas Touch ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Fenner, Merrily B.. The Secret ( Merry Publishing (Chilmark))
Friend, Natasha. Perfect ( Milkweed Editions)
Gantos, Jack. Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten ( Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Garden, Nancy. Molly's Family ( Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Harris, Robie H.. Sweet Jasmine, Nice Jackson ( Simon & Schuster / Margaret K. McElderry)
Hobbie, Nathaniel. Priscilla and the Pink Planet ( Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Hobbie, Holly. Toot & Puddle: the New Friend ( Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Jango-Cohen, Judith. The Liberty Bell ( Lerner Publishing Group)
Johnson, D.B.. Henry Works ( Houghton Mifflin - Children's)
Kirwan, Anna. Lady of Palenque ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Koponen, Libby. Blow Out the Moon ( Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Koscielniak, Bruce. About Time: a First Look at Time and Clocks ( Houghton Mifflin - Children's)
Krosoczka, Jarrett. Max for President ( Random House Children's Books / Knopf)
Kwasney, Michelle D.. Baby Blue ( Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
LaReau, Kara and Jenna. Rocko and Spanky go to a Party ( Harcourt)
Lasky, Kathryn. An American Spring ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________. Guardians of Ga'hoole: the Burning ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________. Guardians of Ga'hoole: the Shattering ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________. Humphry, Albert, and the Flying Machine ( Harcourt)
__________. Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Lin, Grace. Robert's Snow ( Penguin / Viking Children's Books)
Lowry, Lois. Messenger ( Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books)
MacLachlan, Patricia. Bittle ( HarperCollins Children's Books)
__________. More Perfect Than the Moon ( HarperCollins Children's Books)
Maguire, Gregory. Leaping Beauty ( HarperCollins Children's Books)
Masiello, Ralph. Bug Drawing Book ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
Meddaugh, Susan. Perfectly Martha ( Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books)
Molk, Laurel. When You Were Just a Heart Beat ( Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Morrison, Gordon. Nature in the Neighborhood ( Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books)
Morrissey, Dean. The Monster Trap ( HarperCollins Children's Books)
Moser, Barry, illus. Hummingbird Nest ( Harcourt, Inc.)
Newman, Leslea. A Fire Engine for Ruthie ( Houghton Mifflin / Clarion Books)
__________. Hachiko Waits ( Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
__________. The Best Cat in the World ( Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
__________. The Boy Who Cried Fabulous ( Tricycle Press)
__________. Where is Bear? ( Harcourt / Gulliver Books)
Noyes, Deborah. Hana in the Time of the Tulips ( Candlewick Press)
O'Connor, Barbara. Taking Care of Moses ( Farrar Straus Giroux / Frances Foster Books)
Pallotta, Jerry. The Beetle Alphabet Book ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
Paterson, Katherine. Blueberries for the Queen ( HarperCollins Children's Books)
Pearson, Susan. Squeal and Squawk: Barnyard Talk ( Marshall Cavendish Children's Books)
Perkins, Mitali. Monsoon Summer ( Random House Children's Books / Delacorte)
Prophet, John M.. Body in the Salt Marsh Boatyard ( iUniverse, Inc.)
Reynolds, Peter H.. Ish ( Candlewick Press)
Robertson, Craig and Barbara. The Kids' Building Workshop ( Storey Publishing)
Runyon, Brent. The Burn Journals ( Random House Children's Books / Knopf)
Schertle, Alice. All you Need for a Beach ( Harcourt / Silver Whistle)
Staake, Bob. Hello, Robot ( Penguin / Viking Children's Books)
Sturges, Philemon. She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain ( Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Tang, Greg. Math Fables ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Tashjian, Janet. Vote for Larry ( Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
Wenzel, Gregory. Feathered Dinosaurs of China ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
__________. Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
Werlin, Nancy. Double Helix ( Penguin / Dial Books for Young Readers)
Whitney, Kim Ablon. See You Down the Road ( Random House Children's Books / Knopf)
Winthrop, Elizabeth. Dog Show ( Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
Wittlinger, Ellen. Heart on my Sleeve ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Yolen, Jane. How do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Yolen, Jane & Heidi Stemple. The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories ( Barefoot Books)
__________. The Salem Witch Trials ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Yolen, Jane & Jason Stemple (photographer). Fine Feathered Friends ( Boyds Mills Press)
Yolen, Jane & Robert Harris. Prince Across the Water ( Philomel)