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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
62) Dinosaur 13
Publisher
Lionsgate Etnertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of the largest, most complete tyrannosaurus Rex ever found, and the battle with the U.S. government after federal agents seized it.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed historian Paul Collins' remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued -- a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done.
66) Hannah Arendt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A biopic of Hannah Arendt, the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker, controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils, introduced her now-famous concept of the 'Banality of Evil.' Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta beautifully turns the often invisible...
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, John Surratt has always been relegated to a few paragraphs, but his saga is, in many respects, the most interesting part of the story. In The Last Lincoln Conspirator Andrew Jampoler does an admirable job illuminating Surratt's life as an undercover agent; his flight halfway around the world; and his capture, escape, and subsequent recapture
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In November 2000 DeRogatis, a Chicago journalist and music critic, received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with 'young girls.' DeRogatis thought breaking the story would have an impact. Instead, Kelly's career flourished. After eighteen years of tenacious journalism, he tells the story of Kelly's career, his own investigations, and brings the story up to the moment when things finally seem to have changed. The result is a darkly...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"'Mommy burned up.' On a cloudy day in August 2003, Grace and Lily Pearson, 4 and 3, were flying in their uncle's plane along with their mother on their way to their grandpa's birthday party near Lake Superior, when Lily noticed the trees out the window were growing close; so close she could almost touch them. Before the trees screamed into the cabin, Grace had the strange sensation of falling through clouds. A story of tragedy, survival, and justice,...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Examines the Borden murders, using newspaper articles to recreate the events and the trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden and exploring Lizzie's story to theorize on what may have happened.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Details the conditions at Andersonville Prison in Georgia--including overcrowding, lack of supplies, harsh rules, and prison gangs--that led to the deaths of 13,000 Union prisoners, and recounts the trial of the camp's commandant, Henry Wirz.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, the Selma marchers, and other civil rights heroes reveals the true story of the historic trial that made Dr. King a national hero. Fred D. Gray was just twenty-four years old when he became the defense lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young minister who had become the face of the bus boycott that had rocked the city of Montgomery, Alabama. In this incredible history, Gray takes...
Author
Publisher
Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Ardlamont murder trial, which took place in Edinburgh's High Court in December 1893, was the culmination of one of the most intriguing criminal cases in British legal history. But perhaps more remarkable than that was that it brought together the two principal real-life inspirations behind the creation of the world's favourite fictional consulting detective: Sherlock Holmes. Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn were Professors of Medicine at Edinburgh...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Philipps uncovers the shocking rise and fall of Eddie Gallagher, the decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes during his deployment to Mosul, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts, and more." --
78) Engineering Eden: the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
80) Roe v. Wade
Publisher
Quiver Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history. It is a compelling and deeper look into the parties involved on both sides of this landmark decision.
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