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A bilingual compilation of one hundred questions about government and history from the U.S. naturalization test. Includes reading and writing…
vocabularies, questions for people age sixty-five and older, and contact information for U.S. government agencies. English/Spanish language. 2011
Case files: 40 murders and mysteries solved by science
By Larry Verstraete. 2011
A killer has been caught, convicted, and sentenced, the case closed, all in 114 days. No one suspected – least…
of all the boy on death row – that it would take almost 50 years for a tiny piece of scientific evidence to answer the question: was he really the murderer? 40 amazing stories of how scientists solve crimes, reveal identities, untangle evidence, and discover the truth. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2011.
Bloodlines: the rise and fall of the mafia's royal family
By Antonio Nicaso, Lee Lamothe. 2001
A gripping tale that crisscrosses Europe, Latin America, and the United States and Canada, Bloodlines underscores the complexity and sophistication…
of organized crime at its highest levels. It illustrates how the Caruana-Cuntrera family operates in the netherworld where the financial engineering that supports the global economy bumps up against the billions of dollars of criminal proceeds that need to be laundered. 2001.
Duped!: true stories of the world's best swindlers (It actually happened series #1)
By Andreas Schroeder. 2012
Schroeder uncovers the facts behind eight of the most outrageous scams of all time. Read about a Stone Age tribe…
discovered in the jungles of the Philippines, lost documents written by Shakespeare, and a 1938 radio broadcast that reported that something strange has crashed into a field in New Jersey and that hostile Martians then started attacking!
Le sablier: otage au Sahara pendant 450 jours
By Edith Blais. 2021
Un récit qui nous transporte dans un univers brutal et méconnu. En janvier 2019, les familles d'Edith Blais et de…
l'Italien Luca Tacchetto lancent un appel à l'aide: les deux voyageurs ont disparu quelque part en Afrique sans laisser de traces. Entre la nouvelle de leur disparition et celle de leur libération, 15 mois s'écouleront pendant lesquels personne ne sait ce qu'il est advenu d'eux.Avec Le sablier, Edith lève le voile sur son histoire et répond aux questions que tous se posent. Qui les a détenus? Dans quelles conditions? Pour quelles raisons? Comment ont-ils survécu? Et dans quelles circonstances ont-ils retrouvé la liberté? Un témoignage de résilience magnifiquement illustré, que viennent soutenir des poèmes rédigés en captivité, et dont on ressort à bout de souffle