Frank Carlson Library

"A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy...

Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and...

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits...

"Did the U.S. government hide evidence of UFOs? Were some of the Founding Fathers members of a satanic cult? Is there a secret cabal of wealthy billionaires controlling the world from behind the scenes? American culture is unique in the degree to which conspiracy theories have been incorporated into the fabric of American society, finding support even among America{u2019}s popular leaders and major public figures. This volume of Opinions looks at...

"Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson's landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting and the work by a group of Sandy Hook parents to defend themselves and the truth of their children's fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists"--Dust jacket flap. On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first...

The author, a professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, argues that political, scientific, and cultural elites, in conjunction with the pharmaceutical industry and other corporate actors, used the COVID-19 pandemic to impose a repressive social order on the American public and establish "medical apartheid" within communities, ultimately striking at the heart of freedom and democracy.