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Max!  Congratulations to our Photo Contest winner Max! We hope you read a copious amount of eBooks on your new Kindle Fire!!! Thanks to everyone for entering our photo contest for National Library week. You guys made it really hard to select a winner, all the photos were so great! See all the great photos COM students submitted to the contest in our National Library Week Photo Contest Flickr photo album .

In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and found that DeLuna almost certainly was innocent. They discovered that no one had cared enough about either the defendant or the victim to make sure the real perpetrator was found. Everything that could go wrong in a criminal case did.  This book and its website (thewrongcarlos.net) reproduce law-enforcement, crime lab, lawyer, court, social service, media, and witness records, as well as court transcripts, photographs, radio traffic, and audio and videotaped interviews, documenting one of the most comprehensive investigations into a criminal case in U.S. history. The result is eye-opening yet may not be unusual. Faulty eyewitness testimony, shoddy legal representation, and prosecutoria...

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological innovations. There were transportation and communication networks. There was the network of the globalized marketplace, which brought into the American home exotic goods previously affordable to only a few. There was the network of standard time, which bound together all but the most rural Americans. There was the public health movement, which joined individuals to their fellow citizens by making everyone responsible for the health of everyone else. There were social networks that joined individuals to their fellows at the municipal, state, national, and global levels. Previous histories of this era focus on alienation and dislocation that new technologies caused. This book shows tha...

Ed King's Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer" features more than forty unpublished black-and-white photographs and substantial writings by the prominent civil rights activist Reverend Ed King. The images and text provide a unique perspective on Mississippi during the summer of 1964. Ed King's writings offer background and insights on the motivations and work of Freedom Summer volunteers, on the racial climate of Mississippi during the late 1950s and 1960s, and the grassroots effort by black Mississippians to enter the political arena and exercise their fundamental civil rights.-Excerpt courtesy of goodreads.com. See it in the Catalog . You can see all our new books on the New Books page .

Your instructor asked you to use academic, scholarly or peer reviewed articles but you don't know where to start. We help students with that all the time, and now we have a brand new guide just for you! Go to the Guide . Get our tips for your best bets for finding scholarly & peer reviewed articles, plus step by step tips to save you time and get the sources you need. Find out: What is a peer reviewed article? How to Find articles with literature reviews, methodology and results.  Steps to find peer reviewed articles in EBSCO & ProQuest Research Library

Read about the history of African Americans, including books, eBooks, articles, streaming media, primary and secondary sources and see our book display in the library . Go to the guide for these great resources: Watch The March on Washington, 1963  Read an eyewitness account: President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Watch the video Soundtrack for a Revolution: Freedom Songs from the Civil Rights Era Read Twelve Years a Slave print book and eBooks View historical photographs from the Library of Congress

The best COM Library books, eBooks, articles and media by or about Stephen King. Go to the Guide for these great resources: Read the eBook: Dissecting Stephen King : From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism . Read the book: The science of Stephen King : from Carrie to Cell, the terrifying truth behind the horror master's fiction Read the books Mr. Mercedes, Doctor Sleep, 11/22/63 and lots more by King Read our short story collections, including The Monkey, Sorry, right number, The things they left behind, Man in the black suit and more. Listen to or download MP3 Stephen King: The 'Craft' Of Writing Horror Stories Watch the DVD The Shining Watch on YouTube  A Conversation with Stephen King at UMass Lowell online.