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The Shadows of Men. by Mukherjee, Abir.;

PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: DEATH IN THE EAST, ISBN 9781787300576. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of a religious war. Can Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to Bombay, this fifth installment in the series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?Library Bound Incorporated

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.;

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Wolf Hall [videorecording] / by Kosminsky, Peter,television director.; Straughan, Peter,screenwriter.; Pybus, Mark,television producer.; Rylance, Mark,actor.; Lewis, Damian,1971-actor.; Foy, Claire,1984-actor.; Hill, Bernard,1944-actor.; Lesser, Anton,actor.; Gatiss, Mark,actor.; Amalric, Mathieu,1965-actor.; Whalley, Joanne,1964-actor.; Pryce, Jonathan,actor.; Television adaptation of (work):Mantel, Hilary,1952-Wolf Hall.Videorecording.; Television adaptation of (work):Mantel, Hilary,1952-Bring up the bodies.Videorecording.; Company Pictures (Firm),production company.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.,production company.; Altus Media,production company.; Prescience Media 1 LLP,production company.; BBC Two (Television station : London, England),broadcaster.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.;

Disc 1. Three card trick ; Entirely beloved -- Disc 2. Anna Regina ; The devil's spit -- Disc 3. Crows ; Master of Phantoms.Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Bernard Hill, Anton Lesser, Mark Gatiss, Mathieu Amalric, Joanne Whalley, Jonathan Pryce.Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king and country while dealing with deadly political intrigue, Henry VIII's tempestuous relationship with Anne Boleyn, and the religious upheavals of the Protestant reformation.PG.DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen presentation; stereo.

Subjects: Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547; Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536; Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.;

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Nights of plague / by Pamuk, Orhan,1952-author.; Oklap, Ekin,translator.; translation of:Pamuk, Orhan,1952-Veba geceleri.English.;

"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic-a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives-brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca, or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria-the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island-an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh H, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And the sultan's expert is murdered. As the plague continues its rapid spread, the sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island's governor and local administration and the people's refusal to respect the bans dooms the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingeria are on their own, andthey must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago with themes that feel remarkably contemporary"--

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Epidemics;

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Black River [electronic resource] : by Roy, Nilanjana.aut; cloudLibrary;

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, THE SUNDAY TIMES, AND THE FINANCIAL TIMES A searing debut set in a modern India simmering with the tension of growing religious intolerance, by a major new international voice This shockingly powerful “psychological thriller” and “riveting murder mystery” is “a magnificent work of literary fiction” perfect for fans of AGE OF VICE and WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (Kiran Desai, Booker Prize winning author) Teetapur, an unassuming village just a few hours outside of bustling Delhi, is famous for nothing—until one of its children, 8-year-old Munia, is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor Suspicion ignites like wildfire, fueled by religious tensions that simmer beneath the surface. The responsibility of uncovering the elusive truth – and prevent the lynching of the prime suspect – now rests on the weary shoulders of Sub-Inspector Ombir Singh. With only one other officer beneath him, and just a single working revolver between them, can he bring justice to a grieving father and an angry village – or will Teetapur demand vengeance instead? Offering readers a gripping mystery and a sweeping state-of-the-nation saga, Black River stands as a searing critique of modern India, weaving an intricate narrative that captures the essence of a nation grappling with its own complexities and contradictions.

Subjects: Electronic books.; Psychological; Suspense;

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The professor and the parson : a story of desire, deceit, and defrocking / by Sisman, Adam,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist, fraudulent priest, and imposter extraordinaire. The Professor and the Parson traces the strange career of one of Britain's most eccentric criminals. Motivated not by money but by a desire for prestige, Peters lied, stole, and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York, Singapore, and South Africa. Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, his trail of destruction included seven marriages (three of which were bigamous), an investigation by the FBI, and a disastrous appearance on Mastermind. Based on Trevor-Roper's own detailed "file on Peters," The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming account of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism, and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: True crime stories.; Biographies.; Peters, Robert Parkins.; Fraud.; Swindlers and swindling.;

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The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / by Payne, Les,1941-author.; Payne, Tamara,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic biography that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford followers stir with purpose, as if the dead were truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting Malcolm's life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the life of one of the twentieth century's most politically relevant figures "from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary." In tracing Malcolm X's life from his Nebraska birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled from Malcolm's Depression-era youth, describing the influence of his Garveyite parents: his father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was run over by a street car in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who continued to instill black pride in her children after Earl's death. Filling each chapter with resonant drama, Payne follows Malcolm's exploits as a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awakening and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a Massachusetts penitentiary. With a biographer's unwavering determination, Payne corrects the historical record and delivers extraordinary revelations-from the unmasking of the mysterious NOI founder "Fard Muhammad," who preceded Elijah Muhammad; to a hair-rising scene, conveyed in cinematic detail, of Malcolm and Minister Jeremiah X Shabazz's 1961 clandestine meeting with the KKK; to a minute-by-minute account of Malcolm X's murder at the Audubon Ballroom. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle"--

Subjects: Biographies.; X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.; African American civil rights workers; African American Muslims; African Americans; Black Muslims; Black nationalism;

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Corpus Christi [videorecording] / by Bielenia, Bartosz,actor.; Komasa, Jan,1981-film director.; Konieczna, Aleksandra,1965-actor.; Kurzaj, Barbara,actor.; Lichota, Leszek,actor.; Rycembel, Eliza,1992-actor.; Wardejn, Zdzisław,actor.; Ziętek, Tomasz,1989-actor.; Film Movement (Firm),film distributor.;

Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel, Tomasz Zietek, Barbara Kurzaj, Leszek Lichota, Zdzislaw Wardejn.After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, twenty-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. While in prison, he found Christ and aspires to join the clergy, but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for the town's new priest, and he sets about leading his newfound flock.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.

Subjects: Motion pictures, Polish.; Foreign films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Religious films.; Clergy; Ex-convicts; False personation;

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The warlords [videorecording (DVD)] / by Chen, Kexin,1962-; Kaneshiro, Takeshi.; Lau, Andy,1961-; Li, Jet,1963-; Xu, Jinglei,1974-; Alliance Films (Firm); Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm); Morgan & Chan Films.;

Composer, Peter Kam, Chan Kwong Wing, Chatchai Pongprapaphan ; Edited by Christopher Blunden.Lianjie Li, Dehua Liu, Wu Jincheng, Jinglei Xu.In 1870, the power of the corrupt Qing Dynasty has been threatened by the rise of a revolutionary army, led by religious fanatics, and civil war is tearing the nation apart. Pang Qingyun (Jet Li), a good man who finds himself fighting for the Qing leadership, is one of the only survivors of a bloody battle in between revolutionaries and Qing troops, and is looking for someplace to go when he's offered shelter by a beautiful peasant woman, Lian (Xu Jinglei). Pang and Lian spend the night in each others arms, and he finds himself falling in love with her. Pang sets out to make his way home when he's befriended by Zhao Erhu (Andy Lau) and Jiang Wuyang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a pair of bandits. When Jiang is attacked in an ambush, Pang helps save his life, and the three men become blood brothers in a gory ritual. Pang convinces Jiang and Zhao to join him in the fight against the revolutionaries, and with their help Pang is able to achieve some impressive victories.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.

Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Brothers; Civil war; Epic films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Historical films.; Insurgency; Man-woman relationships; Motion pictures, Chinese.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; War films.;

© c2010., Alliance Films,

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