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2) Little green
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Language
English
Description
We thought we'd seen the last of Easy Rawlins at the end of 'Blonde Faith'. But it takes more than an oncoming car to stop LA's finest PI. As Easy wakes from his coma, the last thing he needs is an investigation. But a friend's son is in trouble and old habits die hard. So Easy wades into the squats, clubs and LSD dens of Sunset Boulevard, trying to find the missing boy, Evander. What he discovers will take him on a journey into the dark underbelly...
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The prison population has increased from 300,000 in the early 1970s to more than two million now. One in every 15 people is expected to go to prison. For black men, the most incarcerated group in America, this figure rises to one out of every three. Bryan Stevenson grew up a member of a poor black community in the racially segregated South. He was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice...
Author
Publisher
Black & White Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for more than a hundred years it has held Glasgow?s toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Ten men died on its gallows in the infamous Hanging Shed, including serial killer Peter Manuel. It has sparked rooftop protests and cell-block riots, and been home to godfathers of crime like Arthur Thompson Snr and Walter Norval. Barlinnie was also the scene of one of the...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Ent
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Idris Elba stars in this sci-fi fantasy directed by Nikolaj Arcel, intended as a sequel to the Stephen King book series of the same name. Roland Deschain (Elba) attempts to reach the tower at the heart of space and time in order to save the dying land of Mid-World. Walter Padick (Matthew McConaughey) seeks the same tower, but with an altogether less noble ambition.
Publisher
Dazzler
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Glenn Campbell directs this live-action retelling of the folk tale in which young street performer Aladdin (Adam Hollick) has his world turned upside down when he falls for the Sultan's daughter, Shahzadi (Lucia Dimitra Xypteras). After the Sultan dies, Shahzadi inherits the reign of the city but faces trouble from the Sultan's Minister, Maghreb (Daniel O'Reilly), who refuses to be ruled by Shahzadi. Aladdin and the Genie (Tionne Williams) must figure...
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