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Juvenile justice, Administration of Corrupt practices Pennsylvania Mennonite Church. Lancaster Conference. Morris, Margaretta Hare 1797-1867 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Genealogy Pennsylvania Philadelphia Registers of births, etc Pennsylvania Scranton (Pa.) Drama Still, William 1821-1902 United StatesCooper, Candy J.
Summary: "Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 364.1 COOBrown, Theresa
Summary: Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health BrownSummary: Documents the exploits of a paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The employees are led by manager Michael Scott, a deluded boss who cares about the welfare of his employees while trying to put his own spin on company policy. From sexual politics to performance reviews to email espionage, the employees at Dunder-Mifflin are there to get the job done ... or not.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Of 2Summary: Michael Scott is an earnest but clueless boss who can't help but contribute his own irreverent commentary to the daily happenings at the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper company. As the staff deals with potential office closures, mergers, romances and advancement, Michael is always there to say all the wrong things at all the right times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Tv Of 3Micklos, John
Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the Pennsylvania Colony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.8 MICFord, Leon
Summary: "An unforgettable and stirring memoir in the vein of Free Cyntoia, Just Mercy, and The Sum of Us that both inspires and upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, LEON FORBoyle, Joseph Lee
Contents: 1720-1749 -- 1750-1762 -- 1763-1768 -- 1769-1772.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3748 BoyleBiddle, Daniel R.
Summary: Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer-one who risked his life a century before Selma and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTO, OCTAVIUS BIDSummary: In a continuous monologue, former death-row inmate Nick Yarris tells the story of how he was charged with the murder of a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sentenced to death, and, after twenty-one years behind bars, exhonerated based on DNA evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FEASummary: Investigates the 2011 Penn State child molestation scandal, in which Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was accused of several accounts of child sexual abuse and head coach Joe Paterno and university administration were implicated in a coverup. Looks at the effects of the scandal on the Penn State student body, Penn State alumni, and residents of State College, Pennsylvania. Covers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HAPAptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe
Summary: A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities. Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools-or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUTTER, THOMAS D APTValentine, Sarah
Summary: "The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VALENTINE, SARAH VALDiemer, Andrew K.
Summary: "The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STILL, WILLIAM DIESummary: A collection of essays by regional journalists, academics, and religious and community leaders commemorates the October 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue while describing how neighbors are working together to heal and help preventfuture tragedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BOUFisher, Charles Adam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.37484 FISGoffman, Alice.
Summary: Forty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high tech surveillance criminalize entire blocks, a climate of fear and suspicion pervades daily life, not only for young men entangled in the legal system,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307 GOFMoushey, Bill.
Summary: Covers the child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State that rocked the world of collegiate sports, surveying all the key participants, as well as the climate that allowed the alleged crimes to occur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.153 MOUWeaver, Martin G. (Martin Good)
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Publication Board] 1982
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.374815 WEAMcElhinney, Ann
Summary: In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book--now a major movie starring Dean Cain (Lois &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MCEMcNeur, Catherine
Summary: "The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School, a small town in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania elected a charismatic judge who was hell-bent on keeping kids in line. Under his reign, more than 3,000 children were ripped from their families and imprisoned for years over petty crimes. When one parent dared to question his harsh brand of justice, it was revealed the judge had received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KIDLevin, Larry (Laurence M.)
Summary: "A heartwarming story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 LEVEcenbarger, William.
Summary: Investigates the "kids for cash" scandal that saw Judge Mark A. Ciavarella hand down unusually harsh sentences to delinquent teenagers, ordering that they be sent to a detention facility in which he had a financial stake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.42 ECEFreilich, Kay
Contents: Research in Pennsylvania -- History and settlement -- Archives, libraries and societies : Pennsylvania State Archives ; State Library of Pennsylvania ; Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) ; Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP) ; National Archives Philadelphia (NARA) -- Other libraries -- Other societies -- Other federal repositories -- Major resources : Aids to research ; Atlases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2016