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- The gangs of Zion : a Black cop's crusade in Mormon country / by Stallworth, Ron,author.; Quintero, Sofia,author.;
"New York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the '90s. Determined to pursue his passion for undercover work wherever it leads, Ron Stallworth finally lands in Salt Lake City, Utah. Once again, he's an outsider -- not only as a Black man on a mostly white police force but also as an unapologetic nonbeliever in a state dominated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But soon after his first drug bust in the Beehive, Stallworth makes a startling discovery -- Bloods and Crips are infiltrating Mormon Country, threatening to turn the deeply conservative community into a hotbed of crime. Kids are bombing homes while carrying pocket versions of the Book of Mormon, yet his fellow cops are in denial that gangs are wreaking havoc in their Christian town. Now Stallworth has a new mission. Whether facing off with skinheads at a downtown bar or schooling white Crips blasting "F*ck tha Police," he is intent on stemming the tide of gangs into the state. But those he expected to be his allies either have their heads in the sand or their own agendas -- from the racist Mormon legislator to the community activist exploiting a fatal gang incident to spread paranoia over an imaginary race war. As he butts heads with these so-called leaders, Stallworth also realizes that gangsta rap has the key to the g-code. He becomes obsessed with -- even defensive of -- the music he once loathed and puts himself on the front lines of America's culture war. Now he's spitting uncensored lyrics before Congress and taking the stand in the 1993 murder case that puts hip-hop on trial. But the more Stallworth speaks truth to power, the more determined the gatekeepers in Utah are to silence him, and not even twenty-three years of police work could prepare him for how low they would stoop"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; True crime stories.; Stallworth, Ron.; African American police; Gangs; Police; Racism;
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- Game of thrones. [videorecording] / by Benioff, David.; Caulfield, Bernadette.; Clarke, Emilia.; Coster-Waldau, Nikolaj,1970-; Dinklage, Peter.; Fairley, Michelle.; Headey, Lena.; Martin, George R. R.Song of ice and fireVideorecording.; Weiss, D. B.; HBO Home Entertainment (Firm); Home Box Office (Firm);
Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley, Emilia Clarke, Aidan Gillen.In Season 3, family and loyalty will be the overarching themes, and many critical plot points from the first two seasons will come to a violent head, with several major characters meeting cruel fates. While a primary focus continues to be on King's Landing, where the Lannisters barely held onto power after a savage naval onslaught from Stannis Baratheon, stirrings in the North threaten to alter the overall balance of power in Westeros. Robb Stark, King of the North, will face a major calamity in his efforts to build on his victories over the Lannisters in Season 2, while further north, Mance Rayder (new character) and his huge army of wildlings begin an inexorable march south to scale the Wall. Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen - reunited with her three deadly, fast-maturing dragons - attempts to raise an army of slaves to sail with her from Essos to Westeros, in hopes of eventually overthrowing the Iron Throne.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0 sound.- Subjects: Martin, George R. R.; Action and adventure television programs.; Fantasy television programs.; Imaginary wars and battles; Kings and rulers; Nobility; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2014., HBO Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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- A Snowman in Africa. by Losansky, Rolf,film director.; Barry, Hadiatou,actor.; Penz, Wolfgang,actor.; Winkler, Wolfgang,actor.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Hadiatou Barry, Wolfgang Penz, Wolfgang WinklerOriginally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1977.Every day on the beach at imaginary place in Africa, called Coccatuttibana, Asina, a little girl, waits for the ship from Rostock with the young sailor Karli. He has promised to bring her a unique gift that does not exist in Africa. Finally, the day arrives, and Asina gets her present: a talking snowman! But the frozen man cannot survive the African sun for long, so Asina needs to come up with a plan. A funny, poetic and imaginative film by Rolf Losansky, an internationally praised and awarded children’s film director.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy.; Science fiction.; Motion Pictures.; Fantasy fiction.;
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