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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In this startling and intimate memoir of life before death and love after grief, the internationally best-selling author tells the story of his wife's battle with Lou Gehrig's disease and her death, while celebrating her life, in all its color, humor, andbrightness.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As world-famous aviator Amelia Earhart closed in on her record-setting attempt to fly around the world in July 1937, she disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean - vanishing without a trace. Did she run out of fuel and crash into the sea? Or could she have survived?
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
49 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"When a Black teenager named Trayvon Martin was senselessly killed in 2012, the African American community called for his murderer to be held accountable. But like many other racially sparked incidents in the past, his killer walked free. People looked for justice and healing in the moment. They turned to social media and a simple yet powerful hashtag emerged, #BlackLivesMatter. The message grew into an international movement and has now become the...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxii, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of 32 spelled the end of that unity. The story of his conquests is known to many readers, but the saga of the empire's collapse remains virtually untold. Alexander bequeathed his power, legend has it, "to the strongest," leaving behind a mentally damaged half brother and a posthumously born son as...
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On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (4 hrs., 18 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband, Russ' conviction. When his conviction was overturned, the crime set off a chain of events that exposed a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mark of the vampire: Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire believed to haunt the local village. Now his daughter Irena is the Count's next target. Enter Professor Zelen, an expert on vampires who's sent in to prevent her death. At the same time, secrets are revealed surrounding the circumstances of Sir Karell's death.
The mask of Fu Manchu: Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. They have to get there...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. Writing under a pseudonym to protect his anonymity, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six provides a behind-the-scenes, first-person account of all his dangerous assignments around the globe, including the training, planning and execution of his most important...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a divison of Rnadom House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xix, 202 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"On October 7, 1988, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in a shocking act of hate. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of the town, theevent was deeply personal. In the aftermath, Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its people. From the transcripts,...
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Deals with the life and death story of political peace activist Mary Pinchot Meyer. Highlighting her allegedly romantic and drug-riddled relationship with John F Kennedy, this title aims to debunk conventional wisdom regarding her death and expose the CIA cover-up of her murder - just two weeks after the release of the Warren Commission Report
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Pub. Date
2022
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"It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder--James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former SMERSH agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den--but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives? In a mission where treachery...
57) The white queen
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years,...
Author
Publisher
AUXmedia
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Tomomi Hanamure, a Japanese citizen who loved exploring the rugged wilderness of the American West, was killed on her birthday May 8, 2006. She was stabbed 29 times as she hiked to Havasu Falls on the Havasupai Indian Reservation at the bottom of Grand Canyon. Her killer was an 18-year old Havasupai youth named Randy Redtail Wescogame who had a history of robbing tourists and was addicted to meth. It was the most brutal murder ever recorded in Grand...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...
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