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Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sgt. Forrest Guth on his final tour, Alexander crosses an ocean and a continent to follow the path to victory taken by the famed Band of Brothers, exploring the living history of the places where they went into action and revealing what makes their story so meaningful...
Author
Publisher
KingDoMedia
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, a former shot caller for the Southside Compton Crips and kingpin of a Compton-based drug operation, rose to national prominence as one of the only living witnesses to the 1996 slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur. Unlike other accounts of the murders of global rap icons Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., Compton Street Legend is an authentic narrative from a major street player who was inextricably involved. Compton Street Legend...
65) The league
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the 20th century, exploring Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities, and a showcase for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while exposing unintended consequences of the sport's integration.
Author
Series
Martini Club volume 1
Publisher
Amazon Pub
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she's living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie's driveway, she knows it's a message from former foes who haven't forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends--all retirees from...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost didn't set out to make history. But when these three Black first graders stepped into the all-white McDonogh No. 19 Public School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960, that's exactly what they did. They integrated their school just ten minutes before Ruby Bridges walked into her school, also in New Orleans. Like Ruby, the trio faced crowds of protestors fighting against public school desegregation efforts...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2013
Language
English
Description
Season three introduces a new main villain, Robert Quarles of Detroit. The parent criminal organization connected to the Frankfort mafia has exiled Quarles to Kentucky. Quarles begins to muscle in on the local criminals, successfully supplanting them until Raylan begins investigating. Simultaneously, Dickie Bennett, the lone survivor of the Bennett clan, seeks the aid of the black residents of Noble's Holler and their leader Ellstin Limehouse in recovering...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on Snowden's behalf. Gellman took his own path. Snowden and his...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir from permafrost scientist Katey Walter Anthony on her pioneering research studying methane emissions in Arctic lakes-which has made significant contributions to the climate change dialogue-as well as her search for family, faith, and belonging,on her journey to becoming a scientist"--
Author
Publisher
Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens-Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front. While Sam fights...
Publisher
Angel Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Sound of Freedom, based on the incredible true story, shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from a fate worse than death.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Rosenblatt finds himself again patrolling the territory of his youth ... A grown man now, he investigates his own life and the life of the city as he walks, exploring the New York of the 1950s; the lives of the writers who walked these streets before him, such as Poe and Melville; the great detectives of fiction and the essence of detective work; and the monuments of his childhood, such as the New York Public Library, once the site of an immense...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, along with deputy Chester Goode, saloon queen Miss Kitty and Dodge City medicine man Doc Adams do there part to clean up their corner of Kansas taking on corrupt sheriffs, shady widows and an assortment of murderers, thieves and con artists, all in the name of the ongoing Westward expansion. The glorious spirit and epic legend of the Old West come alive in this multi-Emmy Award winning series where schemers and outlaws meet...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Adapted from her adult memoir, this is the autobiography of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (the King Center), and twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist. 40pp.
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