Summary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEPCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Summary: Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 3Di Spigna, Christian
Summary: A detailed portrait of Founding Father, Dr. Joseph Warren, examines his work as an architect of the colonial rebellion, before his hero's death at Bunker Hill obscured his essential role in America's independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARREN, JOSEPH DIPKidder, Tracy
Summary: "When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Jones, Jacqueline
Summary: "Before, during, and after the US Civil War, Boston's Black workers were barred from the skilled trades, factory work, and public-works projects. In Boston, as in cities across the North, white abolitionists focused virtually all their energies on the plight of enslaved Black Southerners, while refusing to address the challenges faced by their Black neighbors. The author presents inspiring and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 JONSummary: Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. They tackle some of today's most inflammatory, and sometimes irreverent, social and moral issues, from teen pregnancy and the death penalty to sex surrogates and Alzheimer's. Now, the firm faces financial ruin and its brilliant attorneys face chaotic caseloads filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSSummary: Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: World-weary and living hand to mouth, small-time gunrunner Eddie 'Fingers' Coyle (Mitchum) works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he's forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FRIAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2015Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATKSummary: Ethically-challenged attorney Alan Shore settles in at a wealthy and powerful legal firm that focuses primarily on civil cases. With some help from veteran attorney Denny Crane, Shore quickly makes his mark winning cases no one would take. In doing so, he develops a rival in his colleague Brad Chase, who has been assigned to the office partly to keep an eye on the increasingly eccentric (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2007
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LOVGreenidge, Kerri
Summary: "This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TROTTER, WILLIAM MONROE GREAtkins, Ace
Summary: Boston PI Spenser is approached by firefighter Jack McGee, who's convinced that the apartment blaze that took the lives of five residents and two firefighters was arson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2016Copies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATKBarile, Nancy
Summary: "From disaffected Catholic schoolgirl and 1970s music fanatic to instigator on the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Nancy Barile pursued freedom at a time when punk music was new and dangerous. While booking some of Philadelphia's earliest DIY shows featuring Minor Threat and SSD, and managing raw local acts, Nancy was at the fierce center of the action as insurgents such as the Dead Kennedys and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bazillion Points 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BARFlynn, Rory
Summary: "Boston narcotics detective Eddy Harkness is on the case again, and this time the soul of the city is at stake. When a late-summer hurricane slams into Boston, Detective Eddy Harkness and his Narco-Intel crew are thrown into the eye of a very different kind of storm. Dark Horse -- an especially pure and deadly brand of heroin -- has infiltrated the gritty Lower South End. Harkness soon finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYParker, Robert B.
Summary: Elizabeth Shaw of the Boston law firm Shaw & Cartwright hires sleuthing extraordinaire Spenser to investigate Gary Eisenhower. Notorious for his affairs with wealthy married women, Gary is now being accused of blackmailing his former lovers. Spenser's investigation quickly shifts from blackmail to murder, though, when the blackmailed women turn up murdered one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARAtkins, Ace
Summary: "Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATKBodden, Valerie
Summary: This title examines an important historic even--the April 15, 2013, bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the men behind the bombing, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the emergency response to the attack, how the events were communicated and reported through traditional media and social media, the manhunt for the Tsarnaev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 BODSummary: Set in 1990s Boston, an assistant district attorney and a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran work together to take on a case that grows to involve, and ultimately subvert, the entire criminal justice system of Boston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in 1990's Boston, an assistant district attorney and a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran work together to take on a case that grows to involve, and ultimately subvert, the entire criminal justice system of Boston. Family, blood, betrayal, honor, corruption, all combine in this powerful series that's one-part gritty thriller and another intimate family drama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Hauser, Stephen L.
Summary: "A doctor's powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40 year quest to find a treatment for MS. Dr. Stephen L. Hauser is an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge research on multiple sclerosis (MS), a devastating brain disease that affects millions of people worldwide. His work has revolutionized our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAUSER, STEPHEN L. HAUSummary: "Uptight FBI agent Sarah Ashburn ... and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins ... couldn't be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected-- buddies"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013