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Author
Publisher
Kaplan North America, LLC, d/b/a Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Helps applicants prepare for police officer exams by providing a review of the question types used on recent tests given nationwide, full-length practice exams, explanations of correct answers, and test-taking strategies.
"This updated manual presents information, practice tests, and strategies for the different question types, including a brand new question type that will be used by police departments throughout the country. It includes: Four full-length...
Author
Publisher
Lisa Slater
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This book is based on a true story. It is told by Odin, Coos County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Tracking Canine, badge number 5K3. The intended spirit of this book is to provide the unique and invaluable opportunity to experience life through Odin’s eyes, allowing readers to bear the noble weight of a dog’s capacity, for what some might call, a flickering and waning human role—to serve faithfully and with abounding love. Rescued from being euthanized,...
Author
Series
Maddie Castle volume 3
Publisher
Liquid Mind Media, LLC
Pub. Date
©2023
Language
English
Description
A killer has returned and his reign of terror has only just begun. An unstoppable killer stalks the city, leaving a mounting body count in his wake. As panic and fear grip Pittsburgh, the FBI is brought in to assist the local police with the manhunt, hoping to prevent further bloodshed. Retired Pittsburgh K9 Handler Maddie Castle is pulled into the manhunt. She has experienced the killer's deadly handiwork firsthand. He left her crippled in body and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"'My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.' Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer.
"Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization....
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned in this first volume of a gritty, cinematic graphic novel duology. In 1988, journalist David Simon was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. Over the next twelve months, he shadowed detectives as they took on a slew of killings in a city where killings were common. Only the most heinous cases stood out-chief amongst...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From corsets to crime fighting , Mae Foley challenged the patriarchal status quo by not only juggling family life, but also by forming the first female auxiliary police force in the City That Never Sleeps. After the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, Foley galvanized 2,000 women to join her "Masher Squad" and eventually became one of the first sworn officers with the NYPD. The "Masher Squad" brought down robbers and rapists, investigated the notorious...
8) The talk
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned as a gritty, cinematic graphic novel duology. This thrilling second volume concludes the saga. A woman is stabbed and left to die in her bedroom. A taxi cab driver is killed for a handful of jewelry. A man is gunned down over a debt of $8. As the board fills with red ink, the pressure rises. All the while, Detective Pellegrini is haunted by the murder of...
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