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501) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details the career of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, including her work for gender equality, her time with the ACLU, and her law career.
502) Nothing to hide
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Lucy Kincaid's latest puzzling case, involving the murders of three married men that all bear the same troubling M.O., turns into something darker and more sinister than she could have imagined after she catches each widow in a lie.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For Christmas: Four postal detectives, with a mission to deliver previously undeliverable mail, set out to deliver a Christmas letter. From Paris with love: While working at the dead letter office, the Postables investigate the story behind two-year-old divorce papers that have been lost in the mail. Truth be told: The Postables help deliver a soldier's letter from Afghanistan to a bullied teenager, while Oliver receives surprising news from his estranged...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
270 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes his successful two-and-a-half year stint as an undercover agent with the Mongols, a violent outlaw motorcycle gang, documenting their violent crimes and offering profiles of individual gang members.
505) On the basis of sex
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the US Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature will premiere in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of herlandmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with b/w archival photographs"--
508) Obama's wars
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 441 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan, and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
509) The killing season
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
510) Send a girl!
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"This dynamic and inspiring picture book biography tells the story of a woman who broke an important barrier by becoming one of the first female fire fighters in New York City"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 274 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former FBI deputy director shows how the greatest threat to the United States comes from within, as President Trump and his administration ignore the law, attack democratic institutions, degrade human rights, and undermine the U.S. Constitution.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"In this adaptation for middle graders based on her bestselling adult memoir, My Beloved World, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor's extraordinary life inspires. Her achievement serves as a true testament to the fact that no matter the obstacles, dreams can come true. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, was a young girl when she...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former FBI director shares his experiences over the past two decades working in the American government and explores ethical leadership and how it drives sound decision-making.
515) Facing the enemy
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the long-awaited reunion between Risa and her brother, Trenton, ends in tragedy, Risa is riddled with guilt, unable to cope with the responsibility she feels over his death. On leave from the FBI, Risa returns to her former career as an English teacher at a local college, only to see her past and present collide when one of her students, Carson Mercury, turns in an assignment that reads like an eyewitness account of her brother's murder, with...
517) Permanent record
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
621 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The phrase 'riding shotgun' was no game to the men who guarded Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains in the Western frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns and an occasional revolver, these men guarded valuable cargo through lawless terrain--battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. Wells Fargo always had courageous men to protect its treasure, and their bravery and ingenuity make this book...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Original U.K. ed.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (9 hours) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sweeping Downton Abbey saga continues with a fourth season of drama, romance, and family intrigue. Dame Maggie Smith stars as Violet, the stubborn Dowager Countess of Grantham, matriarch of Downton. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, the stoic Lord Crawley; Elizabeth McGovern is his American wife, Cora, and Michelle Dockery is their daughter Lady Mary. From Academy Award-winner Julian Fellowes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11"--
"As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportunity did not always go hand in hand. As an African American and a girl growing up in an era of brutal...