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By Charles Fleming, Charles A. Moose, Charles A Moose. 2003
Account by the police chief of Montgomery County, Maryland, of the massive search for the snipers who killed ten people,…
wounded four others, and terrorized the greater Washington metropolitan area in October 2002. Moose also recounts his personal journey to becoming the head of two police departments. Some strong language. 2003Discusses the 1970s case brought by a white male student challenging the affirmative action policy used in admitting students to…
the University of California medical school. Reviews the divided Supreme Court ruling in 1978 for Bakke, the continuing debate over preferential admission standards, and remaining unanswered questions. For junior and senior high readers. 1998By Ann Louise Bardach. 2002
Award-winning journalist examines four decades of United States policies toward Cuba. Investigates anti-Castro sentiments in Florida's exile community, political corruption,…
blood feuds, and the Elián Gonzáles affair in 2000. Speculates about the possibility of a future civil war on the island. Some strong language. 2002By Bernard Wolf. 2003
An account of the joys and hardships encountered by second grader Rowan Mahmoud and her family, who moved to New…
York City from Alexandria, Egypt, hoping to make a better life for themselves. Discusses their religion--Islam--and its role in their daily activities. For grades 2-4. 2003By Sari Horwitz, Michael Ruane. 2003
Reporters from the Washington Post chronicle the hunt for the perpetrator(s) of ten random serial shootings during the fall of…
2002 around the nation's capital and elsewhere. Concludes with the arrests of John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo at a Maryland highway rest stop. Some violence. 2003By John N. Maclean, John N Maclean. 2003
Writer of Fire on the Mountain (DB 50200) examines the conditions of America's forests, the history of wildland fires, and…
the dangers of fighting them. Includes an interview with the last survivor of a 1949 tragedy that the author's father wrote about in Young Men and Fire (DB 35639). Some strong language. 2003By Scott Burnside, Alan Cairns. 1995
Reconstructs the Canadian "crime of the century" in which Paul and Karla Bernardo--a seemingly normal newlywed couple--abduct, rape, torture, and…
kill teenage girls, including Karla's own sister. Paul also turns out to be the serial "Scarborough Rapist" who haunted Ontario for years. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 1995By Kathleen Hart. 2002
Discusses the marketing of genetically modified food products with neither public disclosure nor sufficient government testing. Suggests that regulatory agencies…
tacitly support biotechnology industries and deny the American public any choice. Contrasts American acceptance of genetically engineered food with European and Japanese refusal. 2002By Elsa Marston, Inc. Staff, Franklin Watts, Ramsay M Harik, Ramsay M. Harik. 2003
Social history of women, mainly Arab and Muslim, in the Middle East from Morocco to Pakistan. The authors explain the…
diversity of the region and the varying roles that religion, family, education, work, and traditions play in the women's lives. For senior high and older readers. 2003By Anthony Walker. 2003
A psychiatrist's memoir of his brief, "pathological" marriage to a woman with borderline personality disorder. While a medical student, Walker…
falls in love with a patient hospitalized for a suicide attempt. Relates the chaos in his life and the painful decision to leave someone he cannot help. Strong language. 2003By Gail Sheehy. 2003
Journalist records the post-9/11 thoughts, feelings, and actions of fifty residents, especially four widowed moms, of Middletown, New Jersey, a…
community suffering more deaths from the Twin Towers' destruction than any other outside NYC. Sheehy's interviews conducted over a two-year period reveal the survivors' trauma, anger, call to activism, and gradual revival of hope. 2003By Neenah Ellis. 2002
What began as an NPR history project became the author's personal search for the secret to living well. Ellis recalls…
her interviews with nineteen exceptional Americans aged one hundred or more, from 103-year-old Anna Wilmot who indulges in an occasional skinny-dip to a centenarian couple married for eighty years. 2002By Charles Bowden. 2002
Journalist reconstructs the 1995 murder of Lionel Bruno Jordan in El Paso, Texas, and the subsequent search for the truth…
by his DEA-agent brother. The trail leads to hypocrisy and corruption as Bowden implicates Mexico and the United States as willing partners in the drug trade. Violence and some strong language. 2002By Peter Burchard. 2003
Biography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), an escaped slave from Maryland who became an abolitionist, a crusader for women's rights, and…
an advisor to President Abraham Lincoln. Discusses Douglass's personal life, his professional accomplishments, and his influence before and after the Civil War. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2003By Mitchell Zuckoff, Dick Lehr. 2003
Boston Globe reporters examine the 2001 murder of a professor couple from Dartmouth College by two Vermont teenagers. Explores the…
rural environment's social conditions and investigates the mind-set of the killers, Jim Parker and Robert Tulloch. Some violence and some strong language. 2003By Arthur Kornhaber. 2002
Medical doctor, who is also a child and family therapist, offers advice on the role grandparents play in the lives…
of their grandchildren, as well as changes in that role as people live longer. His topics include baby-sitting, mentoring, spiritual guidance, favoritism, spoiling, adoption, divorce, substance abuse, "cybergrandparenting," legal issues, and legacies. 2002By Jessica Stern. 2003
Terrorism expert explores the phenomenon of violence perpetrated in the name of religion--Christian, Jewish, and Muslim. Drawing on conversations with…
government officials, religious leaders, and terrorist operatives, Stern identifies motivations and grievances leading individuals to join holy-war groups. She also examines the structure of their organizations and suggests some counterstrategies. 2003By Thomas DeBaggio. 2003
This sequel to Losing My Mind (DB 54906) continues the author's poignant memoir chronicling his struggle with Alzheimer's disease. DeBaggio's…
increasingly introspective account follows the inevitable progression of his illness in fragmented memories, observations, and thoughts. Some strong language. 2003By Susan Sontag. 2003
American intellectual discusses the role of photographs in conveying human suffering and wartime atrocities. She evaluates other writers' opinions on…
this topic and comments on modern day media coverage of horrific events. 2003By Linda Gordon. 1999
History professor describes how racial politics caused a social upheaval in 1904. The New York Catholic Foundling Hospital placed children…
with Mexican-American families in the Clifton-Morenci, Arizona, mining area. Infuriated, local Anglos took the fair Irish-American orphans from their new Hispanic homes. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the vigilantes. 1999