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21) The Long Shadow
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When two daughters of the South, Director Frances Causey and Producer Sally Holst, set out to find causes for the continuing racial divisions in the United States, they discovered that the politics of slavery didn't end after the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the history of anti-black racism in the United States, "The Long Shadow" traces the blunt imposition of white privilege and its ultimate manifestation-slavery. Causey and Holst...
22) The Long Shadow
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A young Sheriff's Deputy in rural Louisiana takes on her town's wealthiest family when the woman she's in a secret relationship with is murdered.
23) A Long Shadow
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Old sins cast long shadows...
When the bodies of a young, homeless girl and a girl who disappeared thirty years ago are found on the same day, residents in the historic city of York are aghast. It seems unlikely the two cases are related, and yet some of the same players knew both victims. As Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow and his eager new partner, Sergeant Jimmy Chang, dive into their investigation, they uncover a complicated web of pop...
24) The long shadow
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From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, Frances Causey and Sally Holst travel the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveal the connections of slavery and strong arm Southern politics to the current racial strife in America.
25) Long shadow
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The constant threat of terrorism has left London under round-the-clock surveillance and in the tightenting grip of privatised security firms. Journalist Antonia Conti suspects one such organisation - GRM- not only of being behind several women's disappearances, but of financing the widespread violence it claims to fight. When a gang of hitmen use rampant state surveillance to track Antonia down, she narrowly escapes with her life. But then one of...
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An unwilling outlaw who of necessity called a bordello his residence, Douglas MacMillan flees Scotland to make a new home and a new start in British North America. Farmer's daughter Morag Green, young, beautiful and innocent, dreams of a dashing prince charming, while she resembles a character in one of the romances she fancies reading. Will the "princess" be able to find happiness with the rogue, or will the long shadows from old sins-both his and...
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Of all the mistakes Conrad Quintano has made, driving Damian away is the one that haunts him the most. He hates the fact that's he's hurt the man he loves more than anything. For the sake of the twins, though, Conrad and Damian parent as a united front, a challenge that grows more and more difficult with each passing year. And with Conrad in his weakened state after his kidnapping, it grows more difficult than ever to be around the one man he can't...
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Ruth's death in nineteen ninety-four surfaces a long held suspicion from within her family that she had many secrets, especially about her much guarded younger life. Speculation heightens when Mary Morgan, a friend from her youth arrives at her death bed.
Mary will become the custodian of Ruth's secrets; charged with finding the three children Ruth abandoned when they were infants.
A notification in the personal column of The Times brings Ruth's abandoned...
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"In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime--the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas,"--Amazon.com.
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Matthew Fairchild is the Consul's son and the golden-haired boy of the Nephilim. He has the love of his family and his parabatai James Herondale, and nothing to wish for, except excitement and artistry and beauty that do not seem to fit in with a warrior's way of life. Matthew gets more than he bargained for at the Shadow Market, where he commits the greatest sin of his life-something he can never tell his parabatai, or any of the honorable Shadowhunters...
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vacation and part research in preparation for our retirement. When, at last, we purchased the village ruin we would someday call home, we took several "before" pictures. The early photos, like our vacations, had dual purposes. They documented the condition of the property and provided help in our planning. We used them to sketch the revisions, giving the builders the visual aide they needed to help us pull out of these old stones the inherent potential...
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Batman volume 687
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With Bruce Wayne gone in the wake of BATMAN: R.I.P., Dick Grayson - formerly known as Robin and Nightwing - becomes the new Batman. And it's not long before the city's criminals put him to the test! With The Penguin intent on becoming Gotham's new crime kingpin and Two-Face waging a war of his own, how can any hero, let alone one who's just stepped into his role, stop them - especially since he also has to round up a posse of escaped criminals who've...
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Joel Shelby and his friend Tex travel to a friend's wedding, and on their journey back home, they learn that the man whom they had captured a year ago had escaped from the jailhouse in Tuscon with the help of a gang of outlaws, leaving a few people dead and wounded in the town as they left. Joel organizes a posse with Tex and a few other men, and they trail the outlaws into New Mexico territory. After a few escapades, the posse track down the outlaws...
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All original collection of the best of Welsh women's crime short fiction from new and established voices… A striking collection of the widest range of crime short stories from contemporary urban thriller to historical rural mystery and the speculative and uncanny. Includes stories from Tiffany Murray – winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and an inaugural Hay Festival International Fellow; Eluned Gramich – winner of New Welsh Writing...
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