Adult Readers

By Steven H.Gifis (Author) The latest edition of Barron’s Law Dictionary is updated with new and revised definitions and is a quick reference guide for law students and legal professionals. It features definitions...

By Jay M. Feinman 1001 Legal Words You Need to Know explains and illuminates the most difficult and arcane vocabulary any American has to deal with--that of the law. This...

By Stephen Breyer *Signed Bookplate The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine...

By Stephen Breyer *Signed Bookplate A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary...

  By Linda Hirshman The relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher’s daughter and Brooklyn girl—transcends party, religion, region, and culture....

By Megan Stine and Who HQ  A young girl who was inspired by a TV show to become a judgeA lawyer who helped police chase counterfeitersThe first Latina US Supreme Court...

By Sonia Sotomayor *Signed Bookplate Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde los proyectos...

By Evan Thomas She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers,...

By William H. Rehnquist Chief Justice Rehnquist’s engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall’s dominance of the Court during the...

  By Joan Biskupic *Signed Bookplate Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned. She was called the most powerful woman in...

Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day Here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O'Connor's family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped...

By Linda Greenhouse For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times....