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Black tunnel white magic : a murder, a detective's obsession, and '90s Los Angeles at the brink / by Jackson, Rick,author.; Connelly, Michael,1956-writer of foreword.; McGough, Matthew,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This is the story of Rick Jackson, a famed LA homicide detective and eventual cold case investigator, and the case that he's never managed to let go. In June 1990, a white male UCLA student was found stabbed to death in a tunnel near the infamous Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his followers had lived. That night, Jackson and his partner, Frank Garcia, were called on the scene and soon focused their investigation on the young man's two male roommates, one Black and one white. Nothing about the case made sense, though- not the relationship between these young men, not the potential influence of Wicca (then a trend among youth, and closely tied to the moral panic around Satanism), not the justice system that tried the two roommates very differently, and not Los Angeles itself, which was and remains a fraught tinderbox of racial bias and violence. In straightforward, matter-of-fact prose, Jackson takes us through the events as he and his partner experienced them, with no foreknowledge of information that would emerge later in the case. Readers will feel as though they are a fly on the wall, piecing together the truth about what happened to Ron Baker as the detectives did themselves, day by day and clue by clue"--
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Personal narratives.; Murder; Murder; Race relations.;
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To kill a mockingbird [videorecording (DVD)] / by Mulligan, Robert,1925; Peck, Gregory,1916-200; Badham, Mary,1952; Alford, Phillip; Lee, Harper.To kill a mockingbir; Pakula-Mulligan Productions; Brentwood Productions, Inc;
Director of photography, Russell Harlan ; music, Elmer Bernstein.Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White.When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Atticus Finch (Peck) will defend him. His defense costs him friendships but earns him the respect of his two children.CHV rating: PG.DVDs Dolby 5.1 surround.Academy Award for best actor, 1962.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Race relations; Trials (Rape); Girls; Feature film;
© c2005., Universal ; Distributed by Universal Studios Canada
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Iced / by Francis, Felix,author.; Francis, Dick,creator.;
Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenalin rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen lake, he gets talked into helping out with the horses. It is against his better judgement. Seven years before, Miles left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. When he discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future life, Miles begins a search for answers. But someone is adamant to stop - and they'll go to any lengths to do it.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Horse racing; Jockeys; Murder; Tobogganing;
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Megafire : the race to extinguish a deadly epidemic of flame / by Kodas, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A journalist and forest-fire expert shares his experiences in some of the world's most dangerous and remote regions to explore the rising phenomenon of large-scale fires, the damage they cause, and how they are being battled by elite firefighters.
Subjects: Wildfires.; Wildfire fighters.;
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The Runner's world : race everthing : how to conquer any race at any distance in any environment and have fun doing it / by Yasso, Bart,author.; Strout, Erin,author.;
Subjects: Road running;
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The second : race and guns in a fatally unequal America / by Anderson, Carol,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment--and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception. In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a "pro-gun" nor an "anti-gun" book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. From the eighteenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry, or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless--revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished. Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don't), their life--as surely as Philando Castile's, Tamir Rice's, Alton Sterling's--may be snatched away in that single, fatal second. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today, Anderson's penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness, shedding shocking new light on another dimension of racism in America"--
Subjects: United States.; Firearms; Firearms ownership; Gun control; African Americans;
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Maiden [videorecording] / by Holmes, Alex,film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
In 1989, the Whitbread Around the World Race was considered to be the most dangerous sailing competition on earth. When 26-year-old Tracy Edwards wanted to participate, she was met with resistance and sexism - no team would take her. Left with no other choice, she started an all-female crew, one who would not only take on the vast and foreboding ocean, but also the doubts and attacks from her male competitors and press. In this incredible true story, watch Edwards and her crew attempt to turn the impossible into reality as they take on fifty-foot waves, icebergs and all of the dangers of the great and powerful sea.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG; for language, thematic elements, some suggestive content and brief smoking images.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Edwards, Tracy.; Whitbread Round the World Race.; Sailboat racing; Women sailors;
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Sycamore Row / by Grisham, John.;
Subjects: Legal stories.; Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Lawyers; Trials; Wills;
© c2013., Doubleday,
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Rodeo & Juliet [videorecording] / by Abell, Tim,1958-; Alexandra, Lauren.; Allen, Krista.; Turner, Thadd.; MarVista Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Monarch Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Tim Abell, Lauren Alexandra, Krista Allen.Big-city girl goes to the country and meets a special horse and young cowboy who teaches her to barrel race, while her mother reconnects with a local rancher she was in love with 20 years earlier.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Romance films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Barrel racing; Horses; Human-animal relationships; Man-woman relationships; Rodeos;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tulsa. [videorecording] : a centennial exploration of the 1921 race massacre / by Brown, DeNeen L.,commentator,television producer.; Christman, David,composer.; Johnson, Doug(Film composer),composer.; Lee, Robert Y.(Robert Ying-Fu),composer.; Martin, Michel(Michel McQueen),narrator.; Silvers, Jonathan,television director,television producer.; Stover, Eric,television producer.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.; Saybrook Productions, Ltd.,production company.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.),production company.; WNET Group,production company.;
Composers, David Christman, Robert Y. Lee, Doug Johnson.Narrator, Michel Martin ; commentator, Deneen Brown.One hundred years after the destruction of the Black-owned Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, residents and descendants examine the history of the 1921 tragedy and its aftermath. Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, the film explores vital issues of atonement, reconciliation and reparation.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; African Americans; Racism; Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921.;
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