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Orange Is the New Black
One Year in a Women's Prison
by Piper Kerman
A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women's prison, by a Smith College graduate who did the crime and did the time.
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
by Peter Matthiessen
A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for a new trial. Reprint.
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Philip Dray
Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stain—illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Philip Dray also tells the story of the men and women who led the long and difficult fight to expose and eradicate... (more)
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Contempt of Court
The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
by Mark Curriden, Leroy Phillips, Jr.
In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States. In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innocnet black man found guilty of the brutal rape of Nevada Taylor, a white woman, and sentenced to die in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two black lawyers, not even part of the original defense, appealed to the Supreme Court... (more)
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No Visible Wounds: Identifying Non-Physical Abuse of Women by Their Men
by Mary Susan Miller
DOES YOUR PARTNER . . . * have sudden outbursts of anger or rage? * become jealous without reason? * prevent you from seeing friends and family? * deny you access to family assets such as bank accounts, credit cards, or the car? * control all finances and force you to account for what you spend? * insult you or call you derogatory names? * humiliate you in front of your children? * turn minor incidents into major... (more)
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Swindle: Book 3
Framed
by Gordon Korman
Griffin Bing's new principal doesn't like him. And Griffin doesn't like the boot camp football atmosphere the new principal has brought. Griffin manages to stay out of trouble -- until a Super Bowl ring disappears from the school's display case, with Griffin's retainer left in its place. Griffin has been framed! Unfortunately, the Man doesn't have a Plan - and everything his team tries to find out who really... (more)
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No Future Without Forgiveness
by Desmond Tutu
The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson... (more)
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Prisoners of the Williwaw
by Ed Griffin
Convict Frank Villa reaches deep into history, psychology and penology and comes up with a plan to establish an island prison where three hundred convicts can serve out their sentences, accompanied by their families. He dreams of a new society, of a community founded on the American ideals of freedom and respect for the individual. But Frank soon discovers that he and many others lack the skills needed to build... (more)
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Daddy by Default
by Pat Tucker
A Simon & Schuster eBook
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Redneck Country...Black Letter Law
by John Russell Smith
" Criminal defense attorney J.R. Cuttler begins his Sunday with thoughts of flying his airplane around the East Texas area and later watching his Dallas Cowboys play the hated Washington Redskins. That thought is shattered in an instant when the local radio station reports the abduction and rape of a twenty-eight year old woman and her twelve year old niece from the local Wal-Mart parking lot. The identity of the... (more)
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Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response
by Lynn Powell
Ten years ago, amateur photographer and school bus driver Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home in Ohio. The rolls contained photographs of her eight-year-old daughter Nora, including two of the child in the shower -- photos that would cause the county prosecutor to arrest Cynthia, take her away in handcuffs, threaten to remove her daughter from her home, and charge her with... (more)
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Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church
by David F. Pierre Jr
" Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church is essential reading for anyone who wants to hear the other side of the clergy sexual abuse scandal. The side the media hasn't told you, and side most of the public doesn't know ... Even for someone who has read about this subject for years, it was eye-opening to me ... If someone attacks you or slanders the Church over the sexual abuse... (more)
The great conspiracy trial; an essay on law, liberty and the Constitution.Jason Epstein
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The great conspiracy trial; an essay on law, liberty and the Constitution.
by Jason Epstein
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Jamí Alden Romantic Suspense Series: Book 1
Beg for Mercy
by Jami Alden
He lurks in the shadows, waiting and watching . . . And once he has you, all you can do is. . .BEG for MERCYMegan Flynn thought she was falling in love. Cole Williams wasn't just handsome and passionate, he was one of the good guys. Or so she thought, until he arrested her brother-the only family she has left-for a murder she knows he couldn't have possibly committed. Now, with her heart broken and her... (more)
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
by Glenn Greenwald
From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively... (more)
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Sophie's Legacy: The Sophie Elliott Story
by Lesley Elliott, William J O'Brien
Sophie Elliott had everything to live for - good looks, intelligence, friends, a loving family, a degree under her belt and a new job at the Treasury in Wellington. And then, the day before she left Dunedin to take up that job, she was brutally stabbed to death in her own home by her former boyfriend, Clayton Weatherston. He was much older and one of her lecturers at the university. When the public came to take... (more)
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Miscarriage Of Justice
by Bruce A. Borders
The justice system is just a system, not a just system. Sentenced to fifteen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Ethan Rafferty has one thing on his mind - payback! With his time up, the ex-con is free to pursue his mission of revenge. The District Attorney, Mariana Clark, who, during the trial suppressed evidence that would've exonerated him, is the focus of his vengeance. Intent on making her life... (more)
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Fixing The Engine Of Justice: Diagnosis and Repair Of Our Jury System
It has been many years since O. J. Simpson walked free from a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. For many, it was the demolition of the fundamental principle of right and wrong, and many debated the deficiencies of the American justice system. Since then, we have witnessed the Casey Anthony case, and others, that remind us of issues unaddressed and questions unanswered. In Fixing the Engine of Justice¸ author David... (more)
Oppenheimer Case Trial of a Security SysCharles P. Curtis
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Oppenheimer Case Trial of a Security Sys
by Charles P. Curtis
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Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs
by Philip S. Foner
"A carefully prepared and useful study of the bombing event in Chicago in May, 1886, which marked a bloody turn in the American labor history. As such it is pertinent to all courses in American labor history... It is an important piece of American social history ..." -- KLIATT, Fall 1978