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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's RBG like you've never seen her before! Using a mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an American trailblazer. The first book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg focuses on Ruth's lifelong mission to bring equality and justice to all. Sarah Green's spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life, and engaging backmatter instructs...
Author
Series
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A judge is found killed in Regina, Saskatchewan. Recently she had been attempting to assist those whom she had convicted. Was she having a change of heart, or was she going senile. Before she could be properly assessed, she was murdered. Now Joanne's friend Hilda has to make a choice between the two wills the judge left behind, one benefitting her daughter, and the other benefitting a half-way house for ex-cons. Whoever stands to lose could be the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
As a student, teacher, lawyer, and judge, Ruth often experienced unfair treatment. But she persisted, becoming a cultural icon, championing equality in pay and opportunity. Her brilliant mind, compelling arguments, and staunch commitment to truth and justice have convinced many to stand with her, and her fight continues to this day.
Author
Series
Kerry Kilcannon trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
549 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Instinct series volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
88) My lost daughter
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presiding over a wrenching murder case, California judge Lily Forrester finds her attention divided when she assists her distraught law student daughter, who is being treated in an unethical medical facility that bilks patients for extravagant insurance payouts.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Presents the biography of Sandra Day O'Connor against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur paperback edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mara, a judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, arrives in a small independent kingdom on the west coast of Ireland, a land that lives according to the ancient Celtic laws, to investigate the mysterious death of her assistant during a May Day festival.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harassment and intimidation, the Iranian spy services turned their...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the second female Supreme Court justice describes how she faced discrimination because of her gender throughout her education and working life, and how her fight for equality changed the way the law dealt with women's rights.
97) Sonia Sotomayor
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
52 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A chapter book biography of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, part of the She Persisted series"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged; [Retail edition].
Physical Desc
11 CD (approximately 14 hours) : digital audio ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
The relationship between Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher's daughter and Brooklyn girl, transcends party, religion, region, and culture. Strengthened by each other's presence, these groundbreaking judges, the first and second to serve on the highest court in the land, have transformed the Constitution and America itself, making it a more equal place for all women.
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.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Leslie Karst learned that her offer to cook dinner for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her renowned tax law professor husband, Marty, had been accepted, she was thrilled--and terrified. Justice Is Served is Karst's account of the journey this unexpected challenge launched her on--starting with a trip to Paris for culinary inspiration, and ending with the dinner itself. A story of simultaneously searching for delicious recipes and...
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