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What is?Grisham, John
Summary: A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGrisham, John
Summary: "In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 345.0122 GRIBruni, Frank
Summary: "An examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left. More and more Americans are convinced that they're losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it. The blame game has become very popular. Grievance needn't be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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Summary: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 GILGolusky, Jackie
Summary: "From having a lemonade stand to writing letters, learn how to be an upstander with your friends on Sesame Street! Elmo and friends learn along with young readers about racial justice. Inspired by Sesame Street's Town Hall on Racism, this gentle guide helps kids understand that it is wrong to treat others unfairly because of their race or cultural identity." -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOLGrisham, John
Summary: "In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0122 GRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0122 GRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0122 GRIRomeo, Nick
Summary: "Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century -- widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world -- many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174 ROMZaki, Jamil
Summary: "Runaway cynicism is turning our world into a meaner, sicker place; director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab, Dr. Jamil Zaki, is about to disrupt this narrative. For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, that figure had fallen to 30%. Different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing
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Summary: "Best-selling author, former executive editor of the New York Times, and self-confessed political junkie, Jill Abramson has written a detailed and fascinating book that explains how the highest court in the United States works, who gets to serve on it, which cases have had the greatest impact on the country, and why the US justice system is so vital to democracy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Gov What AbramsonSengeh, David Moinina
Summary: "An inspiring young leader's moving call to action for anyone who seeks to make the world a better place-and the first title from Melinda French Gates's Moment of Lift Books. As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served-not to mention his family and friends-shared his conviction that all girls belong in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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Summary: "A leading authority on sheriffs in America investigates the impunity with which sheriffs police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. What should be of grave concern to us all is that sheriffs are wholly unaccountable. They do not report to federal, state, or local executives, and sheriffs' duties are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 363.28 PISSigwalt, Dany
Summary: This Book Will Save the Planet is a vital and timely illustrated study of the climate crisis that tells us exactly what we can do to help save the world we live in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363.738 SIGAnton, Betina
Summary: Josef Mengele, known worldwide for unimaginably cruel human experiments and for sending thousands of people to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, was a fugitive in South America for thirty-four years after World War II, sought by the Israeli secret service and Nazi hunters. Hidden for half that time in Brazil, Mengele created his own paradise, a life where he could speak German, maintain his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books
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Summary: "The First Amendment grants kids and every other citizen five monster privileges: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the right to petition the government. If the First Amendment is everywhere in their lives, shouldn’t kids know more about it? Yes! In Your Freedom, Your Power, middle grade readers get a focused look at their freedoms and rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.7308 MATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.7308 MATMurray, Melissa
Summary: "Timed to the start of the first trial in March 2024, this essential volume collects the four unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump and features extensive commentary by NYU law professors and MSNBC contributors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann. In the long span of American history, Donald Trump is the first former president to face criminal indictment. He is the subject of a series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 MURWilliams, Yohuru
Summary: "Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.48 WILBerry, Wendell
Summary: "Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others. Without historical understanding of this practice of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Company 2022