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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries-memories...
24) El proceso
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Lea S.A
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Language
English
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The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson' is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England...
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Language
English
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"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
27) Widows & orphans
Author
Series
Rachael Flynn mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When attorney Rachael Flynn learns her bighearted younger brother has been arrested, she at first takes it in stride; Joshua has been in trouble before when his zeal for helping the downtrodden and disadvantaged pitted him against the law. But this time the charge is murder and he's confessed to the crime. Certain that he's innocent, Rachael begs Joshua to let her represent him, but her brother refuses her offer of counsel. As Rachael works on the...
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English
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"With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period, Abortion in America illuminates an entirely different and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Rather than simply championing rights, Mary Ziegler shows, those on opposing sides battled about the policy costs and benefits of abortion and laws restricting...
31) Rough justice
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The third electrifying book in #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline's Rosato & Associates series has criminal lawyer Marta Richter in a race to prove one man's innocence.
Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere. Elliot is on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him. But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth...
33) Inherit the wind
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Portrays the Scopes monkey trial, where a defense attorney represents a teacher who taught evolution and the prosecutor worked to keep the teaching of evolution out of Tennessee schools.
Publisher
Time Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documents some of America's most famous and appalling crimes with a visual look at each case, the perpetrators, and the justice system at work, in such cases as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Oklahoma City bombing.
35) After dark
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
O.J. Simpson's sports agent and confidant describes his relationship with the football star, how he defended and lied for Simpson, and how Simpson confessed to him that he had killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
37) The burning man
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review • 30th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author.
Shots...
Shots...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"--
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