Pleading Out kingdom of grit

Pleading Out kingdom of gritA blistering critique of Americas assembly line approach to criminal justice and the shameful practice at its core: the plea bargain Most Americans believe that the jury trial is the backbone of our criminal justice system. But in fact, the vast majority of cases never make it to trial: almost all criminal convictions are the result of a plea bargain, a deal made entirely out of the public eye. Law professor and civil rights lawyer Dan Canon argues

changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue

Doll is arrested for murder

defeats that ironically may help make way for an alternative

Lois Frankel isolates the messages about money given to little girls that little boys never hear

became one of the most successful and beloved books ever published about the lure of the theater

Two children bring home a pet porcupine

ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated

The kidnappers will only exchange the deathly ill little girl for an infamous stained glass panel--known as the Angel of Death--that has been in the family for generations

In this wickedly funny first novel-think Legally Blonde in Oxford-a young New York woman exchanges her corporate job for a year of books

Dierdra Dawson

Connecting our smallest decisions to the grand scheme of things

master of read-aloud fun and three-time Theodor Seuss Geisel Award recipient