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- The rope : a true story of murder, heroism, and the dawn of the NAACP / by Tresniowski, Alex,author.;
"From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective's first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured in all its rich detail for the first time. Occurring exactly halfway between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the formal beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954, the brutal murder and its highly-covered investigation sits at the historic intersection of sweeping national forces--religious extremism, class struggle, the infancy of criminal forensics, and America's Jim Crow racial violence. History and true crime collide in this sensational murder mystery featuring characters as complex and colorful as those found in the best psychological thrillers--the unconventional truth-seeking detective Ray Schindler; the sinister pedophile Frank Heidemann; the ambitious Asbury Park Sheriff Clarence Hetrick; the mysterious "sting artist," Carl Neumeister; the indomitable crusader Ida Wells; and the victim, Marie Smith, who represented all the innocent and vulnerable children living in turn-of-the-century America. Gripping and powerful, The Rope is an important piece of history that gives a voice to the voiceless and resurrects a long-forgotten true crime story that speaks to the very divisions tearing at the nation's fabric today"--- Subjects: True crime stories.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.; Heroes; Murder; Murder;
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- The foundling : the true story of a kidnapping, a family secret, and my search for the real me / by Fronczak, Paul Joseph,author.; Tresniowski, Alex,author.;
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- Subjects: Biographies.; Fronczak, Paul Joseph.; Kidnapping victims; Families; Family reunification;
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- The girl who saw Heaven : a fateful tornado and a journey of faith / by Reburn, Lisa,author.; Tresniowski, Alex,author.;
"Shares the story of Ari Hallmark, who is now a high school senior, and what happened to her during the tornado that claimed the lives her parents, delivering a powerful message to the world: you will see your loved ones again"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Hallmark, Ari.; Death; Heaven; Near-death experiences;
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