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Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWHobey, Jack.
Summary: "Recounts the case of The People vs. Herman Swift, a story which ran on front pages of newspapers throughout Michigan for three years in the early 20th century. It is one of the most sensational cases to ever go to the Michigan Supreme Court and was reviewed on appeal by famous Michigan governors, Chase Osborn and Nathaniel Ferris. The story revolves around the complex, tragic figure of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harbor House Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.76 HOB1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 362.76 HOB
Muller, Peter Paul
Summary: A story of the South African lawyer Bram Fischer who defended Nelson Mandela and other members of his group during the Rivonia Trial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACTSummary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Summary: True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case, Gideon v. Wainright (1963), led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIDSmith, Zadie
Summary: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story--and who deserves to be believed It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. It is based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HURWeir, Andy
Summary: What happens to Alice when she comes back from Wonderland? Wendy from Neverland? Dorothy from Oz? The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing -- a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers. But the trio -- now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures -- aren't content to sit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOSummary: Allen Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh setting out to have the book banned, while...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2010
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Summary: "Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fcition SmithSummary: Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow attempt to murder his wife Sunny at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? The tabloids of the day certainly had their opinions. "You have one thing in your favor," defense attorney Alan Dershowitz told von Bulow, "Everybody hates you." Reversal of Fortune is the acclaimed movie version of events that had all America talking. Jeremy Irons plays von...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video, Inc. 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REVSummary: A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FAIDehe, Astrid
Summary: "A gripping and beautifully imagined work of literary fiction that explores history, memory, and the traumatic legacy of the Holocaust, in the English-language debut of a highly acclaimed German writing duo In May 1962, twenty-two men gathered in Jerusalem to decide by lot who would be Eichmann's executioner. These men had guarded the former Nazi SS lieutenant colonel during his imprisonment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEHKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: "The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELRobinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. Yet between his brief and jarring visitations to this future, Galileo must struggle against the ignorance and superstition of his own time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Robinson 2009Woodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War. A companion to the Woodson's other book entitled: Locomotion
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WOOKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: "The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Kellerman 2014Connelly, Michael
Summary: Defense attorney Mickey Haller enlists Harry Bosch to help investigate the death of a deputy, blamed on the wife. But danger comes from those who covered up what the deputy's killing was really about.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CONAlbee, Jay
Summary: Nonbinary fourth-grader Riley learns how hard it is to take care of a dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024
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Summary: Gus Blackburn daydreams of being a hero wide receiver on his school's football team, but he is not naturally athletic or fast, so he spends most of his time on the bench--until his father points out that most dreams actually take hard work before they can come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MADSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019