Benbrook Public Library

When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas... wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. In...

"When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a reclusive 104-year-old heiress named Huguette Clark. Dedman...

Ten-year-old Joey Ambrosio has barely begun to grieve his mother's death when his father abruptly uproots him from his sedate suburban Long Island home, and deposits him at his estranged grandparents' house in boisterous East New York. While his dad takes off on an indefinite road trip, Joey is left to navigate unfamiliar terrain. Besides his gruff Italian grandparents, there's his teenage Uncle Vic, a baseball star obsessed with the music of Frank...

Where big data meets big brother: The story of how governments manipulate the internet to censor and monitor their citizens and how those citizens are fighting back. This battle challenges our ideas of citizenship, privacy, and democracy.

"After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer-and exposed a looming battle between the pursuit of justice and the right to privacy. When Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook were murdered during a trip to Seattle in the 1980s, detectives had few leads. The murder weapon was missing. No one witnessed any suspicious activity. And there was only a single handprint on the outside of the young couple's van. The detectives assumed...

Rancher Jared Cameron was a mystery to everyone in Jacobsville, Texas… and he liked it that way. Only sweet-natured bookseller Sara dared to intrude on his privacy-informing the loner that a book on ogres might be more appropriate for a man of his qualities. Charmed by her audaciousness, Jared seduced the town's plain Jane. But their burgeoning relationship soon thrust Sara into Jared's hidden world of intrigue. Now the iron cowboy had to steel...

Eric O'Grady joins Damage Control, but don't worry - he'll still have plenty of time to spy on the ladies like the despicable human-being that he is. Plus: Why fight super-villains when you can watch attractive ladies take their clothes off in the privacy of their own homes? That is, until he realizes that the current subject of his perverted voyeurism is none other than Carol Danvers - otherwise known as Ms. Marvel!

Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedom the democratic issue of the moment. In a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to large-scale state surveillance, at home and abroad, to fight complex and unconventional...

The RabbitValerie grows increasingly paranoid about her daughter's new pet rabbit. Her husband thinks she's losing her mind, but Valerie is determined to protect her family at any cost.​Einar's FollyA search for privacy leads a young man into a desperate fight for survival when he accidentally stumbles onto the lair of a dark creature.​Playing With Fire (The Long Version; there is a short version with a different story line, and with the same...

"Nothing is more valuable than personal privacy in today's world." In a world where privacy is increasingly becoming a rare thing, John Trudel's Privacy Wars is stark reminder of what we all have to lose. Cybertech, a high technology company that specializes in developing encryption products that are so good even the Japanese cannot crack their codes, leaves its competitors hungry for the competition and governments desperate to get its hands on them....