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4141) Miracle on 34th Street
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as the Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with the Christmas spirit. Everyone that is, except Doris Walker, his boss, who is raising her daughter not to believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test as young...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"When Trayvon Martin took his last walk down a Florida street on a cool February evening in 2012, he was just another American teenager, heading home with candy and a soda, talking on the phone with a friend, and dreaming of the future. By the end of the night he was dead--gunned down by a neighborhood watchman. Within weeks his name would be on the lips of a President and the movement for justice in his case would spread all over the country. Today...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Describes how Russ Faria was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted for his wifes 2011 murder, despite having an alibi supported by surveillance video, receipts, and friends testimony and that her friend, Pamela Hupp, had recently replaced him as her insurance beneficiary.
December 27th, 2011. Russell Faria returned to his Troy, Missouri, home after a weekly game night to find his wife, Betsy, dead, a knife still lodged in her neck. Surveillance video,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Account of the fight by Native American lawyers (the Coyote Warriors of the title) to protect Indian rights. The story revolves around Martin Cross, who fought and lost a life-long campaign against a government project to build a dam on the Upper Missouri, which flooded Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara land.
4147) What the dead know
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Barbara Butcher was recovering from addiction problems and unhappy relationships when she landed a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty and demanding, sometimes dangerous. And she loved it. In a voice full of attitude, a real New Yorker some might say, Barbara writes about what it was...
4148) Casanova: Gula
Author
Series
Casanova volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
When a mission goes haywire and Casanova disappears, all hell breaks loose. As arch rival Newman Xeno conspires to break both the laws of man and physics both, the fabric of all-that-is begins to fray. Clearing the way for that delightful little Armageddon is Casanova's sister Zephyr, killing her way through a blood-soaked hit list that ends with their father. All this as a super-vixen from the future scrambles to unravel the mystery at the heart...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Appears on list
Description
"On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has been described as an illegal chokehold during an arrest for selling bootleg cigarettes. The final moments of Garner's life were captured on video and seen by millions. His agonized last words, 'I can't breathe,' became a rallying cry for the nascent Black Lives Matter protest movement. A grand jury ultimately...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"In 2001 a bill was presented to the US Congress, known as the DREAM Act. The purpose of this bill was to fix the immigration status of almost two million undocumented youth who came to the country as minors through no choice of their own but now as young adults, with no legal identity, they may be unable to attend college, and live under the constant threat of deportation. These young people are known as Dreamers. As part of activist organizations...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The story of the 1931 Lemon Grove incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first school desegregation case in United States history. Told in Spanish and English. Includes a corrido (ballad), and information about the people involved and events leading up to and after the court case ruling"--
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A respected biographer teams up with an acclaimed artist to tell the story of a mail carrier, who in 1961 orchestrated the Great Savannah Boycott and was instrumental in bringing equality to his Georgia community. Illustrations.
Author
Series
Shadowlands volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown.
4158) The poisoner's handbook
Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Tells the story of the dawn of forensic investigation, focusing on a number of cases of death by poisoning as well as accidental death by exposure to deadly chemicals. Examines the pioneering efforts of New York's first medical examiner Charles Norris and his assistant, toxicologist Alexander Gettler.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Disc 1: Darrow & Darrow: Claire Darrow, a lawyer, fights for what's right, regardless of whether it makes her a dime. Joanna, Claire's estranged mother and a lawyer as well, would rather make a profit. They clash on nearly everything, even on the best way to raise Claire's daughter, Louise.
Disc 2: In the Key of Murder: A simple offer of legal advice turns into the biggest challenge of Claire's legal career when Miles' younger half-sister is arrested...
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