Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as
you have never seen her before! This book explores
her life and career, battles against sexism, and her innovative legal work on the nation’s highest court. As
the country struggles with issues of gender equality
and civil rights, Notorious RBG shows how far we’ve
come, and the work yet to be done.
The Sleep Revolution: Transforming your life, one night at
a time by Arianna Huffington
If you are an attorney or a law school student, chances
are you are sleep deprived. In this book, author Ariana Huffington discusses how our culture dismisses
sleep as “a waste of time” when in actuality, a lack of
sleep negatively affects our health, decision-making
skills, relationships, and quality of work. She presents
tips and recommendations on getting better, more
restorative sleep.
So, Anyway by John Cleese
Did you know that prior to working in the entertainment industry, John Cleese studied law at Cambridge?
This is just one of the stops on the author’s Grand Tour
of his life, which covers everything from his childhood
days in a small English town to the founding of the
landmark Monty Python comedy troupe.
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The Children Act by Ian McEwan
The plotlines of McEwans’s books often turn on a
single decision. In The Children Act, that decision is
a ruling by fictional High Court Justice Fiona Maye.
In her role as a family court arbiter, Maye must make
an agonizing choice: force a teenager to receive a
life-saving blood transfusion, or adhere to the parent’s
refusal of treatment, based on their faith.
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
Taking a break from her other fiction series, Slaughter
takes the reader back to 1970s Atlanta. Newly elected
Mayor Maynard Jackson and Police Commissioner
Reginald Eaves have dictated radical change in the
Atlanta Police Department: it must integrate women
and different races into the detective force. Main
character Maggie Lawson, new to the APD, has been
tasked with investigating attacks on police officers, in
light of the social changes occurring in Atlanta.
Don’t Talk to Strangers by Amanda Kyle Williams
In Williams’ third book featuring the fictional Atlanta
private investigator Keye Street, Williams sends Street
far from her comfortable Georgian Terrace loft to
look for a killer hiding in the countryside of Whisper,
Georgia. Street is gutsy, smart and determined… but
this may be a case she cannot solve.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Author Bryan Stevenson, an attorney who grew up in
a segregated Chesapeake Bay community, says that he
struggled to feel connected with the law, that is, until
he began an internship in Atlanta with the Southern
Prisoners Defense Committee. This led him to found
the Equal Justice Initiative, a group of which defends
prisoners who were inadequately represented based
on their race. This book, equal parts horror story and
inspira tion story, follows these eye-opening accounts.
Let Him Go by Larry Watson
Vastly under recognized as an author, Larry Watson
( Justice, Montana 1948, Orchard) illustrates in exquisite
prose the gifts and the costs of love. The book follows
Margaret and George Blackledge as they travel across
North Dakota and Montana, in hopes of claiming their
only grandchild. Readers will not soon forget The
Blackledges… or author Larry Watson.
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
Author Krakauer, known for his books Into Thin Air,
Into the Wild, and Under the Banner of Heaven, explores the compelling social issue of sexual assaults
on campuses. While Krakauer focuses on assault cases
at the University of Montana, he places them within
a larger context of academic, athletic, social and legal
communities.
Out of the Blues by Trudy Nan Boyce
In her debut novel, retired Atlanta Police Detective
Trudy Boyce introduces readers to fictional character Sarah “Salt” Altman. Salt, a newly promoted
APD detective, is thrown a murder investigation of a
young boy and a decades-old cold case murder of a
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