Dawidoff, Nicholas
Summary: "A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.9746 DAWSummary: Marinara sauce runs red through the streets of New Haven in this surprising, delectable documentary which profiles three pizza restaurants, Pepe, Sally's, and Modern, that together stand as the cornerstone of the town's Italian-American heritage and connoisseurs of the tastiest incarnations of America's favorite comfort food. This mouth-watering documentary will make viewers laugh and leave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIZRichards, David Alan
Summary: "Secret societies have fundamentally shaped America's cultural and political landscapes. In ways that are expected but never explicit, the bonds made and lessons learned through the most elite of secret societies have helped make their members senators, governors, ambassadors, CIA directors, Supreme Court justices, and even presidents. At the apex of these institutions stands Yale University...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 366 RICBarber, Charles
Summary: "A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OUTLAW, WILLIAM JUNEBUG, III BARBardugo, Leigh
Summary: "Alex Stern returns in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent, another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell-even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BardugoCohen, Lizabeth
Summary: The story of the postwar American city as refracted through the life and career of the urban planner Edward J. Logue In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.3 COHTremblay, Christopher W.
Summary: "The original place-based compreshensive biographical travel guidebook of Walt Disney. While designed as a travel guide, non-traveleres and Disney history buffs will also enjoy this sense of place in Walt's life. This book is part history, part adventure. It features more than 275 sites in Walt Disney's life spanning 80+ cities in 25 states, Canada and Mexico. This practical book is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [KDP Amazon] 2017