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224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Throughout her law school education, her time as a professor, and her career as a Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has overcome difficult circumstances with steadfast determination. In her uphill battle to be viewed as a woman capable of more than just the scope of devoted wife and mother, she used her legal prowess to dismantle many of the outdated laws barring women from being treated as equals in the United States. This collection outlines...
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xvi, 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor -- by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her...
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"When a woman's body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Fár Breige, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the haunted caves and ancient fortifications of the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god who killed her. In life, Clodagh O'Lochlainn had been a disgrace to her clan, tormenting her former priestly lover, jeering at her husband, robbing her relatives: but could she really have been slaughtered...
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3 videodiscs (approximately 588 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Judge Olivia Lockhart who is considered the community's guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all while doing her best to care for the township she calls home.
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3 videodiscs (511 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Season 3 returns viewers to a majestic and idyllic small seaside town of Cedar Cove, home to romance, relationships and drama. At the center of it all is Olivia Lockhart, the revered Cedar Cove Municipal Court judge, lifetime resident, loving mother and loyal friend to many. As Olivia's romance with newspaper editor Jack hangs in the balance following a shocking discovery, Olivia, along with her family and friends, will find her small town is bursting...
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xviii, 723 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The first full life -- private; public; legal; philosophical -- of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates. In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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"Discover the incredible story of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and eventually became the first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court in this picture book biography."--
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame -- she was just trying to make the world a little better and a little freer. But along the way, the feminist pioneer's searing dissents and steely strength have inspired millions. Notorious RBG takes you behind the myth for an intimate, irreverent look at the justice's life and work. As America struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stays fierce....
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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As a student, teacher, lawyer, and judge, Ruth often experienced unfair treatment. But she persisted, becoming a cultural icon, championing equality in pay and opportunity. Her brilliant mind, compelling arguments, and staunch commitment to truth and justice have convinced many to stand with her, and her fight continues to this day.
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xxiii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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An account of the intertwined lives of the first two women to be appointed to the Supreme Court examines their respective religious and political beliefs while sharing insights into how they have influenced interpretations of the Constitution to promote equal rights for women.
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"In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Even those...
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1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Deutsch
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A search for a killer spanning three continents and three centuries. Based on the international bestselling novel by Henning Mankell, The man form Beijing is a two-part thriller that begins with the stunning murder of 19 people. The only clue left behind is a red ribbon. When Judge Brigitta Roslin discovers that almost all the victims were related to her, she starts an investigation of her own. Her search for the killer leads her to China, where she...
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x, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs....
57) The Amber Room
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449 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Forged of the exquisite gem, the Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man₆and the subject of one of history₂s most intriguing mysteries. German troops invading the Soviet Union seized the Room in 1941. When the Allies bombed, the Room was hidden, and it has never been seen since. But now, the hunt has begun once more. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything...
58) La ley del menor
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Panorama de narrativas volume 905
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211 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
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English
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"To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination...
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