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Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The stagnation of living standards for most Americans over the past few decades has been the defining trend of modern life in the United States. Wealth and educational attainment have all slowed to a crawl in the twenty first century, while life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and the Black-White wage gap is as large as it was when Harry Truman was president. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? Drawing...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Adapted for young readers, this true story follows a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit and how he transformed not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, until his release in 2015.
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. It was a case of mistaken identity, and Hinton believed that the truth would prove his innocence. He spent his first three...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A recounting of the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who arranged for the transport of nearly 700 children who would otherwise have been sent by the Nazis to concentration camps in the late 1930s. From the 2022 Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Christmas concert"--
"The inspiring, true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, who ingeniously rescued hundreds of children before Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. The shadow of war was spreading...
45) True believers
Author
Publisher
Capitol Records Nashville
Pub. Date
℗2013
Language
English
Description
Capitol Records Nashville recording artist Darius Rucker's third country studio album, True Believers. Darius wrote ten of the twelve tracks on True Believers, produced by Frank Rogers, and the album features the top twenty (and-climbing) critically acclaimed single Wagon Wheel, written by Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show based on a sketch by Bob Dylan.--Midwest Tape.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Gappah's powerful novel of exploration and adventure in 19th-century Africa is the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone's body, his papers, and maps, 1,500 miles across the continent of Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there.
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