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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the Supreme Court's 2019-2020 term, the center was holding. The predictions that the Court would move irrevocably to the radical right hadn't come to pass, as the justices released surprisingly moderate opinions on cases involving abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and how local governments could handle the pandemic, all shepherded by Chief Justice John Roberts. By the end of the 2020-2021 term, much about our the nation's highest court...
425) Root and branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the struggle to end segregation
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Dangerous beauty novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Life is not easy in Philistia, especially not for a woman and child alone. When beautiful, wounded Delilah finds herself begging for food to survive, she resolves that she will find a way to defeat all the men who have taken advantage of her. She will overcome the roadblocks life has set before her, and she will find riches and victory for herself. When she meets a legendary man called Samson, she senses that in him lies the means for her victory....
430) Blind justice
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
First of a series featuring Sir John Fielding, a magistrate who in the 18th Century co-founded London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners. The narrator is Jeremy Proctor, a 13-year-old orphan who serves as Fielding's eyes. Fielding is blind. The series opens with the "suicide" of a lord known for his gambling and extra-marital affairs.
432) 9 scorpions
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
viii, 373 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 110
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
xvii, 154 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recounts the tragic role that some African Americans--as judges, prosecutors, politicians, police officers, and voters--played in escalating the war on crime"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre-Civil War justices--Marshall, Taney, and Story--upheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice's proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life"--
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Intensely examines Polanski's conviction for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, and the chaos that followed. A startling indictment of our legal system and its paradoxical relationship with celebrity culture in contemporary America.
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In sixteenth-century western Ireland, Brehon judge Mara attends the funeral of a priest from the Burren, only to discover the dead body of a local silversmith, Sorley, a greedy and distrusted man who was stung to death by bees.
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