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1) UNjust
Author
Language
English
Description
UNjust is the shocking story of a father's 15-year journey in the pursuit of justice. It all begins during a chance encounter in Dallas, Texas. Lauryn Burns is a highly sought- after engineer and math teacher. While working at Texas Technology, she meets Gerald. Gerald is a well-educated nonprofit executive. He is a preacher with social justice bona fides.
Lauryn and Gerald have an intense courtship that leads to a child being born. Gerald didn't...
Author
Language
English
Description
Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933. Raised in Kingston by his three aunts, he was sent to Canada in 1947 to join his mother and stepfather in Montreal. He trained in the plumbing and steam-fitting trade, but at age eighteen decided to join the railway as a passenger car porter. He worked for Canadian Pacific and Canadian National until the 1960s, when declining passenger rail traffic and the ascendance of air travel caused him...
4) Mur 19
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Mark Rappaport's first film commences with Gerald Mur "studying the cinema" in the form of a blow-up glamor shot of Garbo. Then "the cinema" studies Gerald (from numerous angles) followed by a standoff as filmmaker and subject circle one another, dueling with cameras to determine who's watcher and who's watched.. Gerald's philosophical soundtrack musings ("People don't ask for beauty, they'll settle for less ugliness," "To live together destroys integrity")...
Author
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English
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"There seems an unquenchable fascination with the British royal family on both sides of the Atlantic, borne out by the popularity of The Crown on Netflix, the spotlight on the Sussexes and Cambridges, and the media attention on the death of Prince Philip. These detailed interviews and insightful accounts range from the very early years of her reign to Prince Phillip's death in 2021. Covering the shocking death of her father and the adjustment required...
6) The blue max
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A low-born infantryman becomes a pilot during World War I, almost deliberately stepping on the sensibilities of his aristocratic comrades in the process. A national hero, he wins the Blue Max, the highest award that can be bestowed upon an aviator. His fame is exploited by a general, who tolerates the affair between the pilot and the general's wife. The canny general knows that, eventually, the pilot will become expendable, and a "heroic" death can...
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches...
8) Kwik krimes
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
81 short stories of criminal adventures by as many authors.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jack Johnson — the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World, whose dominance over his white opponents spurred furious debates and race riots in the early 20th century — enters the ring once again in January 2005 when PBS airs Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a provocative new PBS documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns. The two-part film airs on PBS Monday-Tuesday January 17-18, 2005, 9:00-11:00 p.m....
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