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Flee north : a forgotten hero and the fight for freedom in slavery's borderland / by Shane, Scott,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol by the 1840s. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north. They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region's leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would tear one million enslaved people from their families and sell them to the brutal cotton and sugar plantations of the deep south. Men, women, and children in imminent danger of being sold south turned to Smallwood, who risked his own freedom to battle what he called "the most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history." And he documented the escapes in satirical newspaper columns, mocking the slaveholders, the slave traders and the police who worked for them. At a time when Americans are rediscovering a tragic and cruel history and struggling anew with the legacy of white supremacy, this book--the first to tell the extraordinary story of Smallwood--will offer complicated heroes, genuine villains, and a powerful narrative set in cities still plagued by shocking racial inequity today"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Smallwood, Thomas, 1801-1883.; Slatter, Hope H. (Hope Hull), 1790-1853.; Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner), 1813-1846.; Abolitionists; African American abolitionists; Fugitive slaves; Slave trade; Underground Railroad.;
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The babysitter : my summers with a serial killer / by Rodman, Liza,author.; Jordan, Jennifer,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A chilling true story-part memoir, part crime investigation-reminiscent of Ann Rule's classic The Stranger Beside Me, about a little girl longing for love and how she found friendship with her charismatic babysitter-who was also a vicious serial killer. Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter-the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked-took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his "secret garden" in the Truro woods. To Liza, he was one of the few kind and understanding adults in her life. Everyone thought he was just a "great guy." But there was one thing she didn't know; their babysitter was a serial killer. Some of his victims were buried-in pieces-right there, in his garden in the woods. Though Tony Costa's gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond, Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women, including four in Massachusetts, until decades later. Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she learned, Liza became obsessed with the case. Now, she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal the chilling and unforgettable true story of a charming but brutal psychopath through the eyes of a young girl who once called him her friend"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Costa, Antone Charles, -1974.; Rodman, Liza.; Serial murderers; Serial murders;
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WPC 56. [videorecording] / by Barber, Ian.; Bowler, John.; De'Ath, Charles.; Fraser, Niall.; Jacques, Jennie.; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television service.;
Jennie Jacques, Charles De'Ath, John Bowler.The daily challenges facing the first policewoman to join a West Midlands force in the 1950s, where sexism, chauvinism and petty grudges are added to the policeman's usual lot.PG.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Nineteen fifties; Policewomen; Television programs.;
© c2014., Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia,
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WPC 56. [videorecording] / by Barber, Ian.; Bowler, John.; De'Ath, Charles.; Fraser, Niall.; Jacques, Jennie.; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television service.;
Cry, cry, cry -- Dead man dancing -- Eye of the storm -- That old devil called love -- The harder they fall.Jennie Jacques, Charles De'Ath, John Bowler.The daily challenges facing the first policewoman to join a West Midlands force in the 1950s, where sexism, chauvinism and petty grudges are added to the policeman's usual lot.PG.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Criminal behavior; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen fifties; Policewomen; Television programs.;
© c2014., Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia,
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The wolf at the door / by Higgins, Jack,1929-;
Subjects: Spy stories.; Suspense fiction.; Assassins; Dillon, Sean (Fictitious character); Ferguson, Charles (Fictitious character); Secret service;
© c2010., G.P. Putnam's Sons,
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Joan of Arc : a life transfigured / by Harrison, Kathryn.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431.; Christian saints;
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Alice I have been : a novel / by Benjamin, Melanie.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898; Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, 1852-1934;
© 2010, c2009., Delacorte Press,
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Adventures of Rufus. [videorecording] / by Beck, Kyler Charles,actor.; Bellgardt, Ryan,film director,voice actor.; Philpott, Leah N. H.,actor.; Tate, Christy,actor.; Lions Gate Home Entertainment,publisher.;
Leah N.H. Philpott, Kyler Charles Beck, Christy Tate.While staying at his grandparents' mysterious mansion, friends Scott and Emily must team up with an eccentric wizard and an adorable talking creature named Rufus in order to defeat an evil sorceress and save Rufus' magical home world.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Children's films.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Wizards; Magic; Good and evil;
For private home use only.
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Eames: The Architect and The Painter. by Cohn, Jason,film director.; Jersey, Bill,film director.; Kanopy (Firm);
Originally produced by First Run Features in 2011.Design history was born in a cavernous warehouse on a gritty street in Venice Beach, California, where Charles and Ray Eames set up their Renaissance-style studio in the optimistic flush of American victory during World War II. Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey's definitive cinematic foray into the world of the Eames is the first film to be made about Charles and Ray since their deaths - and the only one that peers deeply inside the link between their artistic collaboration and sometimes tortured love for one another. Insightfully narrated by James Franco, the film brings to light a virgin cache of archival material, visually stunning films, love letters, photographs and artifacts produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles and Ray with their talented staff during the hypercreative forty-year epoch of the Eames Office. Interviews with family members and design historians guide the viewer on an intimate tour of the Eames era, while junior designers who were swept into the 24-7 world of "The Eamery," as they called it, flesh out a fascinatingly complex blueprint of this husband-and-wife powerhouse. The work of Charles and Ray Eames remains an ideal of design at its most virtuous - an alchemical combination of beauty and purpose. Their light and whimsical designs became emblematic of a new West Coast lifestyle whose influence reached Europe, Asia, and beyond. Though the Eameses are best known for their ubiquitous furniture and the signature innovation of the classic Eames chair, this essential documentary shows Charles and Ray applying the same process of inquiry to architecture, exhibitions and their quirky, beautiful films.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Documentary films.; Office of Charles and Ray Eames.; Design; Industrial design;
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Member of the Family : My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties / by Lake, Dianne,author.; Herman, Deborah,1958-author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Manson, Charles, 1934-; Lake, Dianne.; Murderers; Murder; Criminals; Cults;
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