Law & Crime

A true crime thriller - the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body....

Stanley "Tookie" Williams, cofounder of the notorious Crips gang, is a death-row inmate....

Kennedy's Last Days is a gripping account of the events leading up to the most notorious crime of the 20th century....

In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job...

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. This volume features Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice....

An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr....

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the white beach. An angry white man threw stones at the boys, striking and killing one....

Here is the story of Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye....

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson received the Coretta Scott King Award for her children’s book Almost to Freedom....

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was famous for her stylish collars (called jabots) and her commanding dissents. This opera-loving New Yorker always spoke her mind; as a young lawyer, RBG advocated for gender equality and women's rights when few others did....

The New York Times best-selling biography Notorious RBG - whose concept originated with a Tumblr page of the same name - is now available in a vibrant young listeners' edition....

Signed on September 17, 1787 - four years after the American War for Independence - the Constitution laid out the supreme law of the United States of America. Today it's easy for us to take this blueprint of our government for granted....

Do you want to learn more about police cars? Police dogs? Other tools the police use? Then it's your lucky day....

Nosotros, el pueblo de Who HQ, traemos a los oyentes la historia completa (argumentos y todo) de cómo surgió la Constitución de los Estados Unidos....

Filled with anecdotes and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating audiobook by an award-winning author looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition....

A middle-grade retelling of Richard Nixon’s downfall, Bringing Down A President: The Watergate Scandal is an inventive and timely look at one of the biggest scandals to ever rock our nation by Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy....

Learn French effortlessly through proven methods with this new edition of Learn French for Beginners....

These accounts will do more than shiver your timbers. Come aboard to witness the ruthless methods of history's most petrifying pirates....

Robbery, smuggling, gambling - gangsters did it all. Find out the true stories of the United States' most feared hoodlums and mob bosses....

What do the courts do? And how do they affect your daily life? Listen to this audiobook to find out....

Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent White Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor....

The Supreme Court is the most powerful branch of the government because it determines the constitutionality of laws....

In Who Stole Mona Lisa?, author Ruthie Knapp crafts a fascinating look at the disappearance of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911—retold from the point of view of the painting....

Loyal subjects, watch out! Some of history's royal leaders were just as vicious as they were powerful. These kings and queens stole, tortured, and murdered....

James Bond may be one of the good guys, but the spies in this book definitely aren't - nor are the traitors and assassins....