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Cambridge (Mass.) Fiction College students Massachusetts Cambridge Fiction Dogs Fiction Forensic pathologists Fiction Massachusetts Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology History 19th century Fiction Medical examiners (Law) Fiction Murder victims Massachusetts Cambridge Fiction Serial murders Washington (D.C.) Fiction Washington (D.C.) FictionZernike, Kate
Summary: "In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event--one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. The Exceptions is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.133 ZEMCooper, Becky
Summary: "1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 COOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 COOGarrett, Kent
Summary: The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen 'Negro' boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378.1 GARMiller, Sue
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMiller, Sue
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MILGarrett, Kent
Summary: "The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, an early formof affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: Semyon Dukach was the darling of Las Vegas. A legend at twenty-one, this hotshot was the biggest high roller in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop--a system that has never been revealed until now; that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything tried before. From Atlantic City to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Summary: The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wasteland, the daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PEAConant, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONThomas, Julia
Summary: "Never underestimate the power of a woman with a shop full of books Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge. She turns it into the enchanting bookshop of her dreams, knowing firsthand the power of books to comfort the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOPearl, Matthew.
Summary: The first graduating class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEACornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: "The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cornwell 2013Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CORBarnes, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BARKurtz, Jane.
Summary: Ten-year-old Lanie's wildflower garden is thriving and attracting butterflies to her Cambridge, Massachusetts, backyard, but a neighbor not only objects to her growing "weeds," she also uses harmful chemicals on her own plants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KURKaysen, Susanna
Summary: This novel-from-life is an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KAYConant, Susan
Summary: There is dog lore galore in this novel as Holy Winter, a reporter for Dog's Life magazine, investigates the death of a dog-loving bookseller in Cambridge, Massachusetts. By the author of Gone to the Dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONMiller, Sue
Summary: Lottie Gardner, her brother Cameron, and their childhood friend Elizabeth, all come together one summer in their hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts after years of separation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILTremblay, Christopher W.
Summary: "The original place-based compreshensive biographical travel guidebook of Walt Disney. While designed as a travel guide, non-traveleres and Disney history buffs will also enjoy this sense of place in Walt's life. This book is part history, part adventure. It features more than 275 sites in Walt Disney's life spanning 80+ cities in 25 states, Canada and Mexico. This practical book is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [KDP Amazon] 2017