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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers,...
Author
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak or a perfect family. Crave is a memoir of growing up with a successful but explosive father, a beautiful but damaged, mother and three brothers in New York City's famed Dakota building. Christine's father was Ed Scherick, the ABC television executive and film producer who created ABC's Wide World of Sports and films like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Her mother, a Miss America finalist,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted across the continent, instead of returning home, she headed to France. In a country divided between freedom and fascism, Virginia was determined to do her part for the Allies. An ordinary woman from Baltimore, Maryland, she dove into the action, first joining a French ambulance unit and later becoming an undercover...
Author
Language
English
Description
She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the Auschwitz extermination camp; Alfons to a high rank in the Hitler Youth. While Helen was hiding in Amsterdam, Alfons was a fanatic believer in Hitler's...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on religion and culture. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United States in an arranged marriage that becomes a love match lasting forty years; from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robin Dreeke is a 28-year veteran of federal service, including the United States Naval Academy, United States Marine Corps. He served most recently as a senior agent in the FBI, with 20 years of experience. He was, until recently, the head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, where his primary mission was to thwart the efforts of foreign spies, and to recruit American spies. His core approach in this mission was to inspire reasonable,...
Author
Publisher
A&M Records
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is a celebration of Joe Cocker's magical mystery tour of the United States in 1970. Faced with a booked tour and no band, a group of friends came to his aid, forming an entourage of 42 musicians, singers, wives, girl friends, children and dogs, who set out to create the world's first flying commune. The film follows Cocker and company through airports, bus terminals, motel pools, hotel kitchens, and a picnic, but the point...
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