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181) The lord of death
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Former Beijing investigator Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national on parole from a Tibetan gulag, witnesses the death of the Chinese Minister of Tourism who was shot while in her car, and is promptly arrested for the crime, but he convinces authorities to release him only to be forced to go in search of the real killer after Colonel Tan, a man Yun needs to secure the release of his imprisoned son, is arrested in his place.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The dramatic biography of one of the most notorious families in American history. Junius Booth and his sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, were nineteenth-century America's most famous theatrical family. Yet the Booth name is forever etched in the history books for one terrible reason: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. In American Gothic , bestselling historian Gene Smith vividly chronicles...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
David Rizzio came to Scotland from Italy in 1561. He quickly rose to power and became secretary to Queen Mary. He exerted considerable influence and was perceived to be a threat to English interests by Sir William Cecil. On the evening of the March 9, 1566 he was murdered by her jealous husband Lord Darnley and others.
Author
Publisher
Granta Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A concise and gripping history of the Troubles, revealing the people behind the pain and violence" from the award-winning investigative journalist ( Vice ). On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son. In Anatomy of a Killing , award-winning journalist Ian Cobain...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.
186) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
188) The house of Kennedy
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife...
Author
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The first African-American agent to serve on the White House Secret Service detail describes the racism he confronted, his efforts to expose the Secret Service's negligence in JFK's assassination, and the destruction of his career due to a false bribery charge.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"WHO BETTER TO FACE THE GREATEST EVIL OF THE 20TH CENTURY THAN A HUMBLE MAN OF FAITH? As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- a pastor and author. In this New York Times best-selling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities...
195) Ford's Theatre
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ford's Theatre in downtown Washington, DC, is best known as the notorious scene of Pres. Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865. It is among the oldest and most visited sites of national tragedy in the United States. First constructed in 1833 as a Baptist church, the property was acquired by John T. Ford and converted into a theater in 1861. Presenting almost 500 performances before the assassination, Ford afterward sold the building to...
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