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Summary: "What happens when the all-American high school student discovers he's undocumented? Rafa's parents didn't want him to grow up feeling different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." Rafa had no idea of his immigration status until he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school. Suddenly, his perfectly curated and slightly racist (race-ish,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AGUSTIN, RAFAEL AGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B AGUSTIN AGUAustin, Nefertiti
Summary: "When Nefertiti Austin, a single African-American woman, decided to adopt two black children through the foster system, she was unprepared for the fact that there is no place for black women in the 'mommy wars.' Austin set off on her path with no place to seek guidance from others who looked like her or shared her experience. She soon realized that she would not only have to navigate skepticism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUSTIN, NEFERTITI AUSCoates, Laura Gayle
Summary: "A powerful true story and groundbreaking account of bias in the courtroom from CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates, recounting her time as a Black female prosecutor for the US Department of Justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COATES, LAURA COACordell, LaDoris H.
Summary: Judge Cordell, the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court of Northern California, knows firsthand how prejudice has permeated our legal system. And yet, she believes in the system. From ending school segregation to legalizing same-sex marriage, its progress relies on legal professionals and jurors who strive to make the imperfect system as fair as possible. Cordell takes you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CORDELL CORSteinberg, Robin
Summary: "How would you like to be judged for the rest of your life by the worst thing you've ever done? We all think we are compassionate just like we all think we are honest. But true compassion is not innate. Compassion for others, especially those that we don't know or understand, must be learned. Our lack of compassion is perhaps most extreme in the exercise of criminal justice, where a person's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Optimism Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 340.092 STEBerman, Geoffrey
Summary: "The gripping and explosive memoir of serving as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in the face of the Justice Department's attempts to protect Trump's friends and punish his enemies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022