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That's No Dino!: Or Is It? What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur
By Helaine Becker. 2021
A fun introduction to prehistoric creatures that are not dinosaurs, and why! Everyone knows what a dinosaur is, right? Well,…
maybe not. Dinosaurs are actually just one type of extinct animal from prehistoric times. So, what sets them apart? Here, readers are introduced to ten prehistoric animals. Each one looks like a dinosaur. But it's missing at least one key characteristic of all true dinosaurs. Animal by animal, each of those characteristics is added to a growing list, until, by the end of the book, readers know just what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur! A dinosaur by any other name is . . . not a dinosaur, of course!The savage city: race, murder, and a generation on the edge
By T. J. English. 2011
Explores tensions between the African American community and the NYPD during the 1960s. Examines the murders of two white upper-East-Side…
women and the coerced confession of nineteen-year-old drifter George Whitmore Jr., corruption on the police force, and the roles played by leading activists. Violence and strong language. 2011The secrets of the FBI
By Ronald Kessler. 2011
Journalist and author of The Bureau (DB 55193) and The FBI (DB 37795) relates information he uncovered through research and…
interviews with bureau agents. Discusses controversial topics involving the FBI from the 1960s to 2011, including Hoover's sexual orientation and the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound. 2011The ultimate dinopedia: the most complete dinosaur reference ever (National geographic kids)
By Franco Tempesta, Don Lessem. 2010
Guide provides information on nearly a hundred dinosaurs--what they ate (plants or meat), where they lived (from the Arctic to…
the jungle), ways they behaved (some climbed trees) and evolved, and even what color some of them were. Includes quick facts on hundreds of others. For grades 3-6. 2010The triple agent: the al-Qaeda mole who infiltrated the CIA
By Joby Warrick. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist details the December 30, 2009, gathering in Khost, Afghanistan, of CIA and U.S. military officials…
and Pakistani and Afghani operatives to meet Jordanian pediatrician and spy Humam Khalil al-Balawi. Relates Balawi's subsequent suicide bombing, which killed himself and seven CIA personnel. 2011The informant: the FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder of Viola Liuzzo
By Gary May. 2005
Examines the role of FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., who infiltrated the Alabama Klan and identified suspects in the…
1965 murder of civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit, while he participated in other race crimes. Criticizes the effectiveness of the FBI's reliance upon informants. 2005Cultural history of women in American law enforcement focuses on events that helped or hindered their progress toward equality. Uses…
archival documents and interviews to illuminate the expansion of women's roles from the 1840s, when matrons guarded prisoners, to the twenty-first century. Highlights incidents of workplace discrimination. Some violence. 2010Provides facts about a variety of dinosaurs that lived in different environments, based on fossil discoveries and research. Describes each…
dinosaur's anatomy, diet, and living conditions in the ocean, the sky, or on land. Discusses renowned fossil sites and technological advances in studying prehistoric remains. For grades 4-7. 2010Honeymoon with a killer
By Don Lasseter, Ronald E. Bowers. 2009
Describes the short, troubled marriage of Rebecca Salcedo and Bruce Cleland, which ended with the 1997 shooting death of Bruce…
during a supposed carjacking. Details events surrounding the murder and the subsequent arrests and trials of Rebecca and her two cousins. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2009CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer documents his years in Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Tells of leading black-ops teams…
against the Taliban and offers suggestions for winning the war on terror. Some text revised or redacted after the Pentagon expressed national security concerns. Violence and strong language. 2010Journey to the Ice Age: discovering an ancient world
By Peter L. Storck. 2004
Archaeologist's autobiographical account of fieldwork in Ontario that revealed early human settlements near the Great Lakes. Senior curator of the…
Royal Ontario Museum discusses his thirty-year career, including his study of stone-knapping techniques and painstaking work uncovering and correlating artifacts, and describes the challenges Paleo-Indians faced 11,500 years ago. 2004Mammoths and mastodons: titans of the Ice Age
By Cheryl Bardoe. 2010
Discusses what scientists have learned from the 2007 discovery in Siberia of a frozen baby woolly mammoth given the name…
Lyuba. Explains how research on fossil tusks, teeth, and droppings reveals differences between mammoths, mastodons, and modern elephants. For grades 4-7. 2010Global warming and the dinosaurs: fossil discoveries at the poles
By Caroline Arnold, Laurie A. Caple. 2009
Discusses fossil evidence and scientific discoveries in Alaska, Canada, Siberia, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, and Patagonia showing that dinosaurs lived…
not just in warm, tropical places but also in the cold and seasonally dark environments of the polar circles. For grades 3-6. 2009Securing the city: inside America's best counterterror force : the NYPD
By Christopher Dickey. 2009
Journalist chronicles the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism efforts led by Commissioner Ray Kelly and former CIA agent David…
Cohen, from 1995 to the post-9/11 climate. Contrasts the local tactical division's effectiveness and training techniques with those of federal organizations. Also discusses reduced American privacy. Some strong language. 2009Bizarre dinosaurs: some very strange creatures and why we think they got that way
By Christopher Sloan. 2008
Discusses the unusual features--giant beak, musical head, or wide muzzle--of eleven different dinosaurs and provides scientists' interpretations of the uses…
of these characteristics. Covers the 2006 discovery of a spiky skull that looked so nasty it was named Dracorex hogwartsia, meaning dragon king of Hogwarts. For grades K-3. 2008Death of a Texas Ranger: a true story of murder and vengeance on the Texas frontier
By Cynthia Leal Massey. 2014
Discusses the murder of Texas Ranger John Green by Cesario Menchaca, one of three Rangers of Mexican descent under Green's…
command. Immediately word spread that the killing may have been the botched outcome of a contract taken out on Menchaca's life by the notorious Gabriel Marnoch, a local naturalist who had run up against the law himself. Adult. Some violenceLittle faith: a novel
By Michael Simon. 2006
It's 1995 and Texas has a new governor, the heir to a political dynasty. As politicians and lobbyists converge on…
the capital, a former child star and recent porn actress is found murdered and a thirteen-year-old boy is sent out to make a treacherous living on the streets. All this is just some of what Dan Reles, Austin Homicide's only New Yorker and only Jew has to deal with. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2006Tulia: race, cocaine, and corruption in a small Texas town
By Nate Blakeslee. 2005
In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty nine people, almost all of them…
black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local authorities, was based on the work of one notoriously unreliable undercover officer. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of that officer, Tom Coleman. "Tulia" is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle that ultimately led to the reversal of the convictions in the summer of 2003. Some profanitySecret partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker gang
By Timothy Mahoney, Tim Mahoney. 2013
Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows:…
Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected the gang from raids by the nascent FBI--and while he did all this, the gangsters gunned down cops and citizens in his hometown. UnratedA different shade of blue: how women changed the face of police work
By Adam Eisenberg. 2009
The author includes the voices of 50 policewomen who served with the Seattle Police Department to tell the story of…
struggle, conflict and upheaval after a 1961 court decision signaled the end of segregation in police departments nationwide. The women share stories of dangerous encounters, discrimination and harassment. Some violence and strong language. 2009