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Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den. Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his...
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010], �2010
Language
English
Description
Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha encounters his most ruthless adversary to date: Vahid, head of a special branch of the secret police, who has convinced the sultan that a socialist commune is leading a secessionist movement and should be destroyed--along with surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason.
Series
Publisher
Lone Chimney Productions
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Friday, August 21, 1963, dawned clear and bright in the sleepy abolitionist town of Lawrence, KS. Its citizens awoke that morning unaware that the feared Missouri raider William Quantrill and more than 400 of his followers were bearing down on them intent on retribution, bloodshed and destruction. A few hours later, nearly 200 men and boys lay dead, buildings, homes and human remains smoldered, and raiders raced for the safety of the Missouri border....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Harry Warden murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe. Tom returns to his hometown on the anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre. Instead of a homecoming, however, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders instead of Harry. The only person who seems to believe he is innocent is his old girlfriend. Now, something has returned to the town of Harmony. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Draws from extensive research and fieldwork to explore the desperate flight of Chief Dull Knife's Northern Cheyenne Indians from imprisonment at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, their near annihilation, the survivors' dreadful experiences in the aftermath, and the present-day Cheyenne tribal events commemorating the breakout"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
"Thorough account of Dec. 1981 massacre of villagers by Salvadoran armed forces includes details of subsequent cover-up. Guerrillas acknowledged many civilian victims were rebel supporters, but El Mozote was Protestant stronghold unreceptive even to liberation theology. Good overview of military, death squad, and guerrilla violence in early 1980s"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
49) Crimson harvest
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the Indiana Territory at the beginning of the War of 1812, a powerful war chief of the Shawnee tribe clings desperately to his hold on all the lands he sees as his. He has a hatred for the American settlers that he sees as invaders. He sides with the British in the conflict and musters his warriors to battle. In one attack, the Shawnee swooped down on a small settlement, striking cabins where peaceful settlers went about their daily routines. In...
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A teenager leaves his fianc�e behind in their Anatolian village to make a new life in Canada for both of them. But when World War I breaks out, he is sent to an internment camp while his betrothed struggles to survive and find a way to join him"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Harry Warden murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe. Tom returns to his hometown on the anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre. Instead of a homecoming, however, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders instead of Harry. The only person who seems to believe he is innocent is his old girlfriend. Now, something has returned to the town of Harmony. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer...
53) End of the spear
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Nate Saint is a pilot and Christian missionary who, with his family, lives and works in the jungles of the Amazon River Basin in South America. Nate is fascinated by tales he's heard of the Waodani, a violent and aggressive tribe living nearby, and with a group of fellow Christians takes it upon himself to teach them the importance of compassion and forgiveness. However, the leader of the Waodanis, Mincayani, does not trust the white visitors, and...
55) High crimes
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
High-profile attorney Claire Kubik puts her career on the line to defend her husband Tom Kubik after it is revealed that he is a Marine named Ron Chapman wanted for the murder of Latin American villagers.
58) null Book, Books
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent--more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches, raised by the tribe, and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and...
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