Summary: In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RAC

Collinge, William.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Trumpeter Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.029 COL

Cullina, William.

Summary: With this new volume, Cullina completes the set of stunning books on native plants for the garden that includes Wildflowers and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines. All three books combine Cullina's fresh and entertaining style with encyclopedic information about the plants and specific instructions on how to grow and propagate them. Cullina compares a garden made up of nothing but bright colors...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Land Cullina

Cullina, William.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9344 CUL

Cullina, William.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.97 CUL

Smith, Gregory White.

Summary: "When Gregory White Smith and Steve Naifeh stumbled on Joye Cottage, it was love at first sight. They'd just finished their Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jackson Pollack, and they were fed up with apartment life in New York City. What better way to escape than to sell everything and get a steal on a rundown, turn-of-the-century mansion built by robber baron William C. Whitney in that most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.775 SMI

Williams, Elizabeth Whitney.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J.E. Jewett 1905

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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH WHITNEY Williams
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH WHITNEY Williams
2 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH WHITNEY WIL

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Gilliam, Terry

Summary: A memoir from the screenwriter, animator, visionary film director, and founding member of Monty Python describes his life through recollections, anecdotes, and never-before-seen photographs and artwork.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperDesign 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIAM, TERRY GIL

Gilliam, Fatimah

Summary: "What if there were a set of rules to educate people against race-based social faux pas that damage relationships, perpetuate racist stereotypes, and harm people of color? This book provides just that in an effort to slow the malignant domino effect of race-based ignorance in American communities and workplaces to help address the vestiges of our nation's racist past. Race Rules is an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 GIL

LANGEWIESCHE, WILLIA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PANTH 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 LAN

Hilliam, David.

Summary: Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.18 HIL

Hilliam, Paul.

Summary: A discussion of the tactics and technology of warfare during the Middle Ages, including the tradition of personal combat, the use of armor, castles-and-siege weapons, and the dominance of the mounted knight.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.0094 HIL

Quealy, Gerit

Summary: A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, accompanied by their companion quotes from all of his plays and poems. With a foreword by Dame Helen Mirren--the first foreword she has ever contributed. In this striking compilation,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Quealy

Summary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEN

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MEN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Me

Ury, William

Summary: "A book introducing a new approach to tough negotiations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 303.6 URY

Dillian, Jared.

Summary: A former trader recounts the final years of Lehman Brothers, discussing the outrageous personalities of his co-workers, his own battles with mental illness, and the company's activities during the economic collapse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.62 DIL

Phelps,M.William

Summary: Details the case of Lisa Montgomery, who murdered eight-months-pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and kidnapped her unborn baby, revealing a woman with a history of sexual abuse, abandonment, and desperation that molded her into a sociopath.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp 2006

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1 Phelp

Gilliam, Dorothy Butler

Summary: Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street, Hachette Book Group 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIAM, DOROTHY BUTLER GIL

Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAK

Summary: A feature film version of America's hit comedy concert tour with renowned comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLU

Willan, Anne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.813 WIL

Gillam, Carey

Summary: "The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson's landmark lawsuit against Monsanto, a David-and-Goliath showdown pitting a dying cancer victim and an eclectic team of young, ambitious lawyers against one of the world's most powerful corporate giants. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn't survive long enough to take the witness stand. For...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 GIL

Weddon, Willah.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NOG Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 920 WED

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Manchester, William

Summary: "In this intensely powerful memoir, biographer-historian William Manchester looks back at his own early life. The memoir offers a firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences"--Container

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5483 MAN