04997cam a2200829 4500 1013645936 TxAuBib 20230823120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593320839 0593320832 B09BVDPVYP Amazon 283a95b4-d65b-4b14-9f5c-70cba9bc6b9e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6476029 OverDrive (Product ID) 688403 688403 688403 TxAuBib Addison, Corban, 1979- Wastelands [Libby (Advantage)] : The True Story of Farm Country on Trial. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022. us history. Food. Law. slaughterhouse. South. Law and Order. lawyer. Prison. crime. Farming. american history. Memoirs. power. FBI. grisham. History. Sociology. True stories. injustice. John Grisham. crime books. history books. john grisham books. farm book. true crime books. stocking stuffers. new york times best sellers. sociology books. current best sellers. Smithfield. true crime gifts. women christmas gifts. true crime books best sellers 2022. wastelands corban addison. best sellers list nonfiction. top rated books for men. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4490kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Sociology. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John Grisham   The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and the threat of a restraining order to tell the story of the waste raining down on her rooftop from the hog operation next door. There is Don Webb, a larger-than-life hog farmer turned grassroots crusader, and Rick Dove, a riverkeeper and erstwhile military judge who has pioneered the use of aerial photography to document the scale of the pollution. There is Woodell McGowan, a quiet man whose quest to redeem his family’s ancestral land encourages him to become a better neighbor, and Dr. Steve Wing, a groundbreaking epidemiologist whose work on the health effects of hog waste exposure translates the neighbors’ stories into the argot of science. And there is Tom Butler, an environmental savant and hog industry insider whose whistleblowing testimony electrifies the jury. Fighting alongside them in the courtroom is Mona Lisa Wallace, who broke the gender barrier in her small southern town and built a storied legal career out of vanquishing corporate giants, and Mike Kaeske, whose trial skills are second to none. With journalistic rigor and a novelist’s instinct for story, Corban Addison's Wastelands captures the inspiring struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once-invincible corporation to change, and to preserve the rights—and restore the heritage—of a long-suffering community. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-10-23 12:26:21. Advantage title. Grisham, John. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=283a95b4-d65b-4b14-9f5c-70cba9bc6b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=283a95b4-d65b-4b14-9f5c-70cba9bc6b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=283a95b4-d65b-4b14-9f5c-70cba9bc6b9e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8