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782) Mind games
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Brainiac invades the Science and Technology Expo with a robot army, and the Justice League must stop him.
783) Free and famous
Author
Series
Victoria Stitch volume 2
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Victoria Stitch has escaped from the confines of Wiskling Wood and flown into the human world. Here, she breaks the most sacred of all wiskling laws and speaks to a human. Where she is feared and disgraced in Wiskling Wood, she is adored and revered in the human world. But the net is closing in. There are wisklings who would like to end Victoria Stitch's famous reign in the human world for good. Will her beloved twin, Celestine, be able to warn her...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This delightful mosaic in book form employs personal stories from the author, poignant cultural references, engaging (and nobly challenging) practices, and the author's charismatic voice to promote personal, communal, and environmental justice"--
786) Re-thinking the rights of children: proceedings of the Governor's Conference on Juvenile Justice
Publisher
State Youth Coordinator's Office, Office for Planning and Programming
Pub. Date
[1974?]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also a long-time member of the disability justice movement, which advocates for the rights of the disabled. In her latest book of essays, Leah writes passionately and personally about disability justice, on subject such as the creation...
788) The Mueller report
Author
Publisher
Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available. Read the findings of the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying analysis by the Post reporters who've covered the story from the beginning. This edition from The Washington Post/Scribner contains: --The long-awaited report -- An introduction...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Harleen Quinzel scores an internship in a psych lab at Gotham University, she's more than ecstatic; she's desperate to make a Big Scientific Discovery that will land her a full-ride college scholarship and get her away from her abusive father. But when Harleen witnesses the way women are treated across STEM departments-and experiences harassment herself-she decides that revenge and justice are more important than her own dreams. Harleen finds...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A stirring defense of our law enforcement agencies-police, border control, the military, the Department of Justice, and more-and an analysis of what happens in situations when they are not present. Kelly's debut will touch on his own experience as a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve and the legacy of law enforcement in his family as the son of NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. He'll look at the indispensability of all law enforcement,...
791) Executioner's song
Author
Series
Animal volume 5
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this final installment of the Animal series, we find our anti-hero on a hunt for the woman who forced him to pick his guns back up when she burned his entire world down: the traitorous Red Sonja. She alone holds the key to saving his children and avenging his murdered wife, Gucci. But first, he has to find her.
792) Miranda's victim
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1963, after Trish Weir was kidnapped and sexually assaulted, her assailant was caught and tried. But after he confesses without legal representation and is granted a retrial, it triggers a legal proceeding that forever changes the nation's justice system.
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this sociology-based history, Bobby J. Smith II uses archival research, interviews, and oral histories to unearth a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Thinking with multiple disciplines, including critical food studies, Black studies, history, sociology, agri-food studies, and southern studies, Smith uncovers a neglected period of the movement--what he calls the food story of the Mississippi civil rights movement--when...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"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 of explosive charges across four cases: the January 6...
797) Dark passage
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
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