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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with black and white archival photographs.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes -- the moment she hears him speak of his crimes -- she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover the incredible life of Kamala Harris, the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American to be elected vice president of the USA. Little Kamala used to accompany her parents to civil rights marches in California, strapped into her stroller so she wouldn't get lost. From an early age, she dreamed of becoming a lawyer to help people in need. In school, Kamala felt like she could do anything and everything. She earned a law...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called "the mini-skirted lawyer" by the press, she fought to receive...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage. Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's thirty-year war with...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
“An intimate account of one of the most appalling environmental crimes in modern historyRob Bilott is a hero of our time.” Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth. The story that inspired the major motion picture Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo as Robert Bilott. In 1988, Rob Bilott began a legal battle against DuPont that would consume the next twenty years of his life, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in modern history...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne’s memoir, The Devil’s Defender, recounts his tortuous education in what it means to be an advocate—and a human being. For the last four decades, the Seattled-based criminal defense lawyer has defended the indefensible. From Facebook folk hero “the Barefoot Bandit” Colton Harris-Moore, to Benjamin Ng of the...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Microsoft's associate general counsel shares the inspirational story of his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance. For fans of Indra Nooyi's My Life in Full and Viola Davis's Finding Me"--
"Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares this story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries,...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Aparna Shewakramani appeared on Netflix's hit series, Indian Matchmaking, it soon became clear that Aparna knew what she wanted. But all stories are told through certain lenses -- and her story is no exception. Being on a reality show made Aparna feel like a character. Her decisiveness and sense of self-worth led viewers to see her as a very specific archetype: The villain. The woman you love to hate. The unlikeable woman. It turned around,...
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