cincinnati

Traces the history of the Cincinnati Reds, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, and a glossary.

Encompassing the extraordinary history of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds, this photo-laden narrative underscores significant players, team accomplishments, and noteworthy moments that will stand out in young sports fans' minds.

"In the early days of Prohibition, . . . a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey . . . By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States. Pioneering prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down. Willebrandt's bosses at the U.S. Attorney's office hired her right out of law school, assuming she'd pose no real threat to the cozy relationship they maintain with Remus. Eager to prove them wrong, she dispatches her best investigator, Franklin Dodge, to look into his empire. It's a decision with deadly consequences: . . . sparking a bitter feud that soon reaches the highest levels of government--and that can only end in murder"--Provided by publisher.

Relates the story of Emi, a Sumatran rhinoceros that was the first of her species to give birth in captivity, discussing the challenges she has faced and how she has overcome them and describing how she has inspired people.

"Describes the life of Fiona, a baby hippopotamus who was born prematurely and raised by humans at the Cincinnati Zoo, and details how the hippo became a worldwide Internet sensation"--OCLC.

A talented, troubled young woman named Kirsten Pearson, daughter of a well-known Cincinnati psychiatrist, disappears, and Harry Stoner is hired to find her.

Deborah Hicks shares her experiences teaching in a poor neighborhood.

Traces the life of Margaret Garner, a twenty-two-year-old slave in mid-nineteenth-century Kentucky, focusing on the nation-wide controversy that erupted when Margaret, recaptured after fleeing to Ohio, killed her young daughter rather than have the child returned to slavery.

Provides an account of the secret radiation experiments conducted on cancer patients in Ohio by the U.S. government between 1960 and 1972 in an effort to learn the effects of nuclear war on soldiers, discussing how the public and press became aware of the story, and examining the medical and legal aspects of the case.