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381) JFK
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
382) Assassin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Series
Assassination classroom volume 12
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Mr. Karasuma gives super-powered uniforms to the 3-E students.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an "F" on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call ... again? How about blowing up the moon and threatening to do the same to Mother Earth--unless you take him out first?! Plus a reward of a cool 100 million from the Ministry of Defense!...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Koro Sensei's lessons in verbal defense are put to the test when Karma must use his brains instead of his brawn to rescue a classmate. Then things finally begin to go smoothly for the students of 3-E. Everyone receives some good news about their futures, and Nagisa settles on a career goal. But the peace is broken when the world's nations miraculously manage to coordinate their efforts long enough to launch a plan to assassinate Koro Sensei--with...
386) The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan: a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out "of love for my parents and for my people." Two days later, vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited his murder to inaugurate its long-planned campaign of terror against Germany's Jewish citizens, in the...
Publisher
Charles River Editors
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This short work presents the conception and development of the Serbian secret society, whose goal was the union of Serbs into a national state. Discusses the most infamous names attached to the society, and explores its boldest endeavors, including the one that may have triggered the First World War. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, readers will learn about the Black Hand like never before.
388) All you have to do
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Several secret pasts are finally revealed in this volume: the tragedy that led Principal Asano to develop his harsh--some would say brutal, sadistic, and inhumane--pedagogical methods, the relationship that gives one 3-E student a personal motivation to assassinate her teacher, and even Koro Sensei's origin story! Will the students be more of less motivated to assassinate him after they know his true identity? And what lengths will shy Nagisa go to...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a breakthrough book that is sure to be relevant for years to come, historian Mark Shaw investigates the connection between the mysterious deaths of motion picture screen siren Marilyn Monroe, President John F. Kennedy, and What's My Line? TV star and crack investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. A former noted criminal defense attorney and network legal analyst, Shaw provides an illuminating perspective as to how Robert Kennedy's abuse of power...
392) Bobby
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the horrible events unfold and wonder what might have been....
393) Don't blink
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
�2010
Language
English
Description
When an assassin successfully hits a notorious mob lawyer at Lombardo's Steak House, the other patrons in the restaurant are left stunned. Among them is reporter Nick Daniels, whose dream interview with a baseball legend is ruined. As a key witness to the murder, Nick finds himself wanted by most of New York's major political players. However, when he attempts to investigate the case himself, Nick discovers that he might have stumbled upon an international...
394) Gospel Hill
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In the town of Julia, the residents of the black neighborhood of Gospel Hill, are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multimillion-dollar golf course development. Thirty years ago Peter Malcolm, a black civil rights activist, was assassinated and race relations in the town have been strained ever since. Dr. Ron Palmer is an influential black community leader who is supporting the development. John Malcolm, Peter's brother, withdrew from...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
This book uses "the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, governor of Idaho, {to examine the period's} labor strife. The murder, investigation, and trial quickly became a cause for business, labor, and law enforcement, both private and public."
396) Jackie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of a...
397) Valkyrie
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The only firsthand account of the failed German military plot to kill Hitler--told by one of the key conspirators--gives eloquent voice to the courageous spirit of the men whose honor could not be dimmed by the diabolical propaganda of the Third Reich.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"3-E student Isogai breaks the school rules by working part-time to help support his family. When Gakushu and rest of the Big Four students find out, they use his secret as leverage to force 3-E to participate in a bizarre sports-day competition. Soon it's time for the school's midterm competition as well, but when some 3-E students accidentally injure the elderly owner of a day care/after-school program, Koro Sensei forbids them from studying and...
Author
Publisher
Thunder's Mouth Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
The fantastic story of the U.S.'s undeclared war against Cuba, including an expanded section on the CIA's role in the assassination of JFK. "Deadly Secrets is a warning as well as terribly exciting reading".--Studs Terkel. National radio and TV coverage.
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