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  Dissenter on the Bench - Ruth...

  Victoria Ortiz

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  Dramatically narrated case histories from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's stellar career are interwoven with an account of her life—including her childhood, family, beliefs, many faceted personality, education, marriage, children, legal and judicial career, and other achievements. The cases described, many involving young people, demonstrate her passionate concern for gender equality, fairness, and our constitutional rights.

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  Grilling Dahmer - The...

  Patrick Kennedy, Robyn Maharaj

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  The Milwaukee detective who interrogated the notorious serial killer shares a vivid chronicle of what was revealed during the weeks-long encounter. In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick “Pat” Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers, the “Milwaukee Cannibal” Jeffrey Dahmer. As the media clamored for details, Kennedy spent the next six weeks, sixteen hours a day, locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. There the thirty-one-year-old killer described in lurid detail how he lured several young men to his apartment where he strangled, sexually assaulted, dismembered, and in some cases, cannibalized his victims. In Grilling Dahmer,Kennedy takes readers inside the mind of evil as he patiently, meticulously, listens to unspeakable horrors.

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  Water - The Epic Struggle for...

  Steven Solomon

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  “I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history.” —Bill McKibben In Water, esteemed journalist Steven Solomon describes a terrifying—and all too real—world in which access to fresh water has replaced oil as the primary cause of global conflicts that increasingly emanate from drought-ridden, overpopulated areas of the world. Meticulously researched and undeniably prescient, Water is a stunningly clear-eyed action statement on what Robert F Kennedy, Jr. calls “the biggest environmental and political challenge of our time.”

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  Shake the Devil Off - A True...

  Ethan Brown

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  “A gripping suspense story, an indictment of the military’s treatment of our soldiers . . . and a celebration of the resilience . . . of a great American city.” —George Pelecanos, New York Times–bestselling author of The Turnaround and Hell to Pay 
   
  Zackery Bowen was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency in Iraq. After years of military service he returned to New Orleans to tend bar and deliver groceries. In the weeks before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, he met Addie Hall, a pretty and high-spirited bartender. Their hard-partying endurance during and after Hurricane Katrina had news outlets around the world featuring the couple as the personification of what so many want to believe is the indomitable spirit of New Orleans. 
   
  But in October 2006, Bowen leaped from the rooftop bar of a French Quarter hotel. A note in his pocket directed the police to the body of Addie Hall. It was, according to NOPD veterans, one of the most gruesome crimes in the city’s history. How had this popular, handsome father of two done such a thing? 
   
  Journalist Ethan Brown moved from New York City to the French Quarter to investigate this question. Brown’s discovery that this tragedy could have been avoided if the military had simply not, in the words of Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, “absolutely and completely failed this soldier.” Shake the Devil Off is a mesmerizing tribute to these lives lost. 
   
  “Heartbreaking.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 
   
  “Provocative . . . [Can] be read as a follow-up to Dexter Filkins’s . . . The Forever War.” —Lisa Scottoline, The New York Times Book Review 
   
  “Essential reading for those willing to face the awful truths about New Orleans—our nation’s most misunderstood city.” —Washington Post Book World

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  PT Barnum - A Captivating Guide...

  Captivating History

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  Explore the Captivating Life of P.T. Barnum
   
  He wasn't always the Great Showman. In fact, Phineas Taylor Barnum grew up in relative poverty with only his wits to help him along. When his father died, the fifteen-year-old boy entered the working world as a shopkeeper's assistant. In leaps and bounds, he worked his way from assistant to shop owner, lottery office owner, and eventually, entertainment promoter. The bulk of his career was focused on his beloved American Museum, where thousands of ticket-holders flocked every day to look at the human oddities, stuffed animals, live whale, and American memorabilia. In the Barnum and Bailey Circus, we see the culmination of the renowned man's life's work.
   
  Some of the topics covered in this book include:
  
  -  The Inn-Keeper's Son 
  -  Lottery Mania 
  -  The Herald of Freedom 
  -  Leasing Joice Heth 
  -  Barnum's American Museum 
  -  General Tom Thumb Goes to England 
  -  The Swedish Nightingale 
  -  'The Drunkard' at the Moral Lecture Room 
  -  Bankruptcy and Criticism 
  -  The Family Man 
  -  Publicist, Showman, Author 
  -  The Nancy Fish Era 
  -  The Greatest Show on Earth 
  -  More Politicking 
  -  The Blackface Minstrels 
  -  The Last Show 
  -  And much more!  
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  All the Fun of the Book Fair

  Gerry Cotter

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  If you enjoy visiting second-hand book fairs, or browsing in bookshops, ‘All the Fun of the Book Fair’ offers a revealing look behind the scenes.It tells how a life-long book-lover finally, after retirement, achieved his dream of becoming a second-hand book dealer by standing at fairs, and how he ended up running many of them. It describes the mistakes he made, the lessons he learned, the friends he made – and he hopes that if you have ever had ambitions to be a bookseller it will inspire you to take a similar path. After the story comes the quiz: 300 questions on many aspects of books.

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