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1. The Boston way: radicals against slavery and the Civil War

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Author:
Kurlansky, Mark
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Godine
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"Has there ever been good violence or a good war? The American Civil War is likely considered to be so since there seemed to be no alternative. Or was there? Before the war, Bostonian abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison correctly predicted that fighting would not bring about real freedom and justice. If emancipation came about through violence, he believed, it would take at least a century for Black people to get their rights. As we now know, it has...

2. Boston ways: high, by, and folk

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Author:
Weston, George F.
Publisher:
Beacon Press
Pub. Date:
[1967]
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English
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3. Own the Future: 50 Ways to Win from The Boston Consulting Group

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Wiley
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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The world faces social, political, and economic turmoil on an unprecedented scale-along with unsettling levels of turbulence and volatility. Market leadership today is less of a predictor of leadership tomorrow. Therefore, senior executives today must strive to own the future. In Own the Future, The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's most prestigious and innovative management consulting firms, offers a roadmap. Drawing on the firm's experience...

4. Finding Your Way: Timeless and Usable Solutions for Any Leader

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Boston Jr., Walter
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AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2010
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English
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Finding your way are down-to-earth lessons with practical solutions for aspiring and daring leaders. Walter Boston, Jr. in a riveting and humorous way, engages you in a learning adventure, that hubs around fundamentals guaranteed to help any leader in their time of uncertainty. He offers you proven and tried principles on: * The power of Discovery * The task of Decision-making * The keys to personal Development * The way to renew your passion for...

5. Hack Your Way to Security Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle

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Author:
Alger, Teddy
Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Hack Your Way to Security Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Hacking for Beginners and The Basics of Hacking Are you concerned about the security of your online accounts and personal information? This audiobook bundle is the ultimate guide to hacking, designed to help you understand how hackers work and how to protect yourself from cyber attacks. In this bundle, you'll discover the fundamentals of hacking and how to use basic tools and techniques to test your...

6. October road

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Author:
Taylor, James, 1948-
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Columbia Records
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[2002]
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English
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7. It ends with us

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Author:
Hoover, Colleen
Series:
It Ends with Us: volume 1
Thorndike Press Large Print softcover romance and women's fiction
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"Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up— she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant....

8. Make way for ducklings

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Author:
McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003
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Caldecott Medal Book 1942
Weston Woods read-along CD
Puffin storytime
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AD: Adult Directed 710L
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English
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Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their homes in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

9. Three days in June

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Tyler, Anne
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"Gail Baines is long divorced from her husband, Max, and not especially close to her grown daughter, Debbie. Today is the day before Debbie's wedding. To start, Gail loses her job - or quits, depending who you ask. Then, Max arrives unannounced on Gail's doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay and without even a suit in which to walk their daughter down the aisle. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she...

10. The scarlet letter

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Author:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
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John Harvard library
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HL: High-Low 1420L
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English
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Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.

11. Heartwood: a novel

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Author:
Gaige, Amity, 1972-
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"In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie,...

12. The blue hour: a novel

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Hawkins, Paula
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Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: a famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: a solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. And the secrets of...

13. Tell me everything: a novel

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Author:
Strout, Elizabeth
Series:
Amgash
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English
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"With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? It's autumn in Maine, and...

14. Educated: a memoir

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Westover, Tara
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870L
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...

15. Long Island: a novel

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Author:
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
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Eilis Lacey
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English
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"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian-American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to the town...

16. The sword of summer

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
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Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume I
Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 1
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630L
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English
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Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, he is tracked down by a man he's never met -- a man his mother claimed was dangerous. The man tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god. The Viking myths are true. The gods of Asgard are preparing for war. Trolls,...

17. North woods: a novel

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Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)
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English
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"When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave -- only to discover...

18. Bunker Hill: a city, a siege, a revolution

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Author:
Philbrick, Nathaniel
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The American Revolution
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English
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Recounts the events of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, tracing the experiences of Patriot leader Dr. Joseph Warren, a newly recruited George Washington, and British General William Howe. Boston, Massachusetts, in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from citizens to vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts...

19. The book of two ways: a novel

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Author:
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
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English
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Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her...

20. The inn

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Author:
Patterson, James, 1947-
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English
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"The Inn at Gloucester stands alone on the rocky shoreline. Its seclusion suits former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, novice owner and innkeeper. As long as the dozen residents pay their rent, Robinson doesn't ask any questions. Neither does Sheriff Clayton Spears, who lives on the second floor. Then Mitchell Cline arrives, with a deadly new way of doing business. His crew of local killers break laws, deal drugs, and bring violence to the...
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