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Six mummified corpses are found buried in an underground chamber on the grounds of a Massachusetts mental hospital. One of the bodies is wearing the necklace beloning to Annabelle Granger. Annabelle lived her childhood in hiding with her family not knowing why, until her name appeared in the paper as one of the victims.
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This fresh account of Massachusetts's infamous Bulger brothers unveils a stunning criminal alliance, and with its dual biography format, goes deeper than the New York Times bestselling Black Mass. For the first time, journalist Howie Carr reveals the real story behind the infamous Bulgers-two brothers from South Boston who grew up to control a state. With political corruption on one side and deadly force on the other, the Bulgers shared a diabolic...
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2008
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xiv, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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April 5, 1976. As Boston simmered with tension over forced school busing, one photo made headlines. Examine the power of photography and the iconic value of the flag, as it opens a dramatic window onto the turbulent issue of race in America.
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2015
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186 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
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"Dr. O'Connell's collection of stories and essays, written during thirty years of caring for homeless persons in Boston, gently illuminates the humanity and raw courage of those who struggle to survive and find meaning and hope while living on the streets."
15) Cradle and all
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Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate two immaculate conceptions as terrifying forces of light and darkness gather.
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Spenser novels volume 1
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When the local university hired Spenser to recover a stolen manuscript, his only clue was a radical student with four bullets in his chest.
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©2018
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472 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
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More timely now than ever, Deadly Force is a powerful indictment of police misconduct, a reminder of this issues long, tortured history and of how far we still have to go. From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence ODonnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston--one of the first to draw national headlines--and the dramatic investigation and court case that followed.
18) Valediction
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[1988], ©1984
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284 pages ; 18 cm
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When a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no threat of death can make Spenser cut and run.
19) The sinner
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2003
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369 p. ; 24 cm.
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Not even the icy temperatures of a New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical examiner Maura Isles’s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year-old Sister Camille gave birth before...
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Spenser novels volume 6
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When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head.
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