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81) Law for dummies
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Law For Dummies is packed with the tools and resources you need to make informed legal decisions. Youĺl become familiar with a variety of laws that can affect you personally from retirement, health care, and housing laws to personal finance, employment, divorce, and privacy laws.
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour-- and only they can be sure that their last words will be recorded for posterity. From the famous, such as Nathan Hale to Ted Bundy, to the forgotten, these final statements range from heartfelt to horrific.
87) The Atlas of Us
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Description
Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After an incident regarding a crossing guard and a bottle of Martini Rosso (and his delinquent friends), 17-year-old worrier Ben Fletcher must develop his sense of social alignment, take up a hobby, and do some community service to avoid any further problems. He takes a knitting clsss (it was that or his father's mechanic class) with the impression that it's taught by the hot teacher all the boys like. Turns out, it's not. Perfect. Regardless, he...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas--and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America. In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country's death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime...
92) Queen of the sea
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Margaret has lived on the Island for as long as she can remember, and she loves every inch of it, from the mysterious stone circle left by the Old People to the windswept beach where she and the Elysian sisters await the ship that brings supplies to their remote convent home. But everything changes when two new arrivals appear on the Island: first William, who will become her dear friend, and then Eleanor, who will upend her peaceful existence. Regal,...
94) Sin Eater
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In Elizabeth I's England, a fourteen-year-old girl who steals a loaf of bread is sentenced to be a sin eater, a shunned woman who must assume the sins of the dead, and becomes drawn into a dangerous mystery at the heart of a corrupt and violent court. 'The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard / Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers / Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard / The Sin Eater Walks Among Us.' For the crime of stealing bread,...
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Series
Sisterhood diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"He could be her fantasy man, if he could just lighten up...Tall, dark, intense, Detective Jason de Sanges excites all kinds of fantasies in Poppy Calloway. But when she suggests three teens caught spray-painting a Seattle neighborhood be given art-related community service and he just wants to see them pay, all bets are off..."--p.[4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Limits of Blame takes issue with a criminal justice system that aligns legal criteria of guilt with moral criteria of blameworthiness. Many incarcerated people do not meet the criteria of blameworthiness, even when they are guilty of crimes. The author underscores the problems...
99) The ghost ship
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and...
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
5.4 million Americans-1 in every 40 voting-age adults-are denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction. In several American states, 1 in 4 black men cannot vote due to a felony conviction. In a country that prides itself on universal suffrage, how did the United States come to deny a voice to such a large percentage of its citizenry? What are the consequences of large-scale disenfranchisement-for...