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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Paperback Nonfiction
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Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
4) Afghanistan
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
209 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores three deades of human rights abuses in Afghanistan associated with the intervention of the Soviet Union in that country.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, chronicles the 2000 disappearance, massive search, long investigation, and the even longer murder trial behind the gruesome murder case of Lucie Blackman in Japan.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Examines the series of beard-and-hair-cutting attacks on Amish victims perpetrated by members of a maverick Amish community near Bergholz, Ohio, chronicling the attacks, the investigation, the trial, and the aftermath of the violence.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring in-depth interviews, personal accounts, and trial analysis, this gripping account of the 2017 murder of twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind brings to light the overwhelming sexual and physical violence against Native American women and girls in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 297 pages, [8] pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the cruelty and prevalent racial prejudice in early-20th-century America that resulted in a Congolese pygmy being featured in an exhibit in the 1904 World's Fair and then displayed in the Monkey House of the New York Zoological Gardens.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
363 p.
Language
English
Description
A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster-a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman's relentless battle for environmental justice. By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"She was know to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by almost eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail on suspicion of raping a white woman—only for the suspect to die the next day during an escape attempt. It was a tale straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird, with her grandfather as the tragic...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 146 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the lives and attitudes of young people who even as children could...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. In one evening, all those she had left behind in Ürümchi when she fled to a new life in the United States were arrested because of her. Her crime – and thus that of her family – was her award-winning investigations for Radio Free Asia on the plight of the Uyghur people.
A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs is Gulchehra Hoja’s, stunning literary memoir,...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
�2006
Physical Desc
xii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the Bugesera, one of the areas most devastated by the Rwandan genocide of April 1994, where an average of five out of six Tutsis were hacked to death with machete and spear by their Hutu neighbors and militiamen. In the villages of Nyamata and N'tarama, Hatzfeld interviewed fourteen survivors of the genocide, from orphan teenage farmers...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 391 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a 66 year-old cold case? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this question drives a new telling of the story of Emmett Till,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, "How many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!" Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy murdered six decades before? In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common: murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city. Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates how respected local farmer and school board treasurer Andrew P. Kehoe blew up the new primary school in Bath, Michigan in 1927, an act of vengeance that killed thirty-eight children and six adults in one of the first and worst mass murders in American history.