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A life of control: stories of living with diabetes
By Alan L. Graber, Anne W. Brown, Kathleen Wolff. 2010
Endocrinologist interviews dozens of patients with diabetes about their challenges, coping mechanisms, successes, and failures. Joins with two nurse practitioners…
to discuss the patient's role in self-management, the disease's impact on the family, and the effect of one's environment on health. Also addresses the doctor/patient relationship. 2010The 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. 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. 2009The African-American guide to living well with diabetes
By Constance Brown-Riggs, Tamara Jeffries. 2010
African American dietician and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association discusses the basics of diabetes management, including nutrition, exercise, and…
medication. Focuses on spirituality and scripture to assist with necessary lifestyle changes. Includes healthy Caribbean and soul food recipes. 2010Nutrition and fitness consultant suggests people with diabetes ease into an active lifestyle by getting the most out of daily…
tasks at work, play, and home and by beginning a low-impact walking program. Includes stretching and strengthening exercises. 2006CIA-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. 2010Securing 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. 2009The best life guide to managing diabetes and pre-diabetes
By Bob Greene, Janis Jibrin, John J. Merendino Jr.. 2009
An exercise physiologist, an endocrinologist, and a nutritionist team up to offer a practical plan for living fully with diabetes…
or prediabetes. They discuss the condition, suggest improving diet and exercise and taking appropriate medication to protect health, and provide various motivation strategies. 2009Diabetes meal planning made easy
By Hope S. Warshaw, Hope Warshaw. 2006
Provides nutritional information on shopping for and preparing healthier meals for people who have diabetes. Explains ways to change eating…
habits and food choices by reading product labels, planning menus, taking vitamins, and customizing one's diet. Includes sample menus. 2006Death 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. 2009Texas high sheriffs
By Thad Sitton. 1988
Discusses the old ways of law enforcement as practiced by the rural Texas sheriff before 1965. The author interviewed current…
(at time of publication) and former sheriffs from across the state whose careers in some cases spanned more than thirty years. The stories reveal not only their unique character in maintaining law and order but also their important social role in the community as marriage counselor, friend and confidant, arbiter over property disputes, and legal advisor. Strong language and violenceCharlie Siringo's West: an interpretive biography
By Howard Roberts Lamar, Howard R. Lamar, Howard Lamar. 2005
Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and…
later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. Descriptions of sex, strong language and violenceGood cops, bad verdict: how racial politics convicted us of murder
By Larry Nevers. 2007
In 1979 seven Norman Rockwell paintings and a supposed Renoir, later discovered to be a forgery, were stolen from Elayne's…
Gallery in Edina. It is still the biggest theft in Minnesota history, and no one was ever convicted for the crime. This is the story of the theft, the investigation, and the twenty-year quest to return the art to its rightful owners. Some strong languageThe Milwaukee police station bomb of 1917 (True Crime)
By Robert Tanzilo. 2010