Michael Dennis
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This historical analysis of the 1937 Chicago Steel Strike demonstrates how it revealed systemic oppression and inspired the larger progressive movement.
On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers and labor rights supporters gathered on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel. By the end of the day, ten marchers had been mortally wounded and more than one hundred badly injured, victims of a terrifying police riot that came to...
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In the year 674, Ecgberht the Cyning and his entire giseth were slaughtered in the Anderedsweald. Their defeat sent shock waves throughout Cant.In Thanatus, Almund, Smith and the surviving men are struggling with the trauma of their battle with the Draugr. An experience that changed each of them forever. With a handful of warriors, Almund and Smith enter the forest to hunt down the truth behind the horrors he suspects deep within the Anderedsweald....
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Draugr, the first of three Novellas In The Chronicle of Achren Series.The Warbands returned safely as a civil war in Cant was averted.Almund and Smith after months away had returned to Thanatus to continue their training. While all enjoyed this period of peace. A new foe bent upon the destruction of Achren and Thanatus gathers in the Anderedsweald. When a boat laden with Saxon bodies are washed up on the beach, a young boy is found to be the only...
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When night took hold would he stand in awe at those bodies forever beyond his touch? The trunk was far wider than he was tall, black and shining, gnarled, at first glance it reminded him of an ancient yew with many trunks intertwined as one, like wide ropes, knots and boles, a parody of a tree with no leaves or needles but an array of small bones, none of its branches swayed in the breeze. It stood brooding, motionless like no other tree he had ever...
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This is a harrowing memoir of how one person has made a difference: Daoud Hari helped inform the world about the genocide in Darfur. Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman, grew up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 2003, traditional life was shattered when government-backed militias attacked Darfur's villages with helicopters and on horseback, raping and murdering citizens and burning villages. His family dispersed, Hari escaped. He and friends helped...
8) Vindication
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Caught in the crosshairs of a criminal investigation, Derek Taylor recalls the details of his failing marriage to a team of suspicious detectives. As the intricacies of his alibi are presented, it becomes obvious that Derek's story is too convenient for his circumstances. Did he truly experience an 11th-hour spiritual awakening the night of the crime, or do the holes in his story place the burden of guilt squarely on his shoulders? This riveting faith-based...
9) Pale Rider
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[2010]
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An unknown stranger rides into a California Gold Rush town and gets caught in the middle of a feud between the mining syndicate and independent miners.
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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The young scientist Victor Frankenstein has created something amazing and horrible at the same time--a living being out of dead flesh and bone. His creation, however, turns out to be a monster! Frankenstein's creation quickly discovers that his hideous appearance frightens away any companions. Now Victor Frankenstein must stop his creation before the monster's loneliness turns to violence.
This book, in graphic novel format, retells the story...
15) The Gauntlet
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Phoenix cop Ben Shockley's dream of breaking 'the big case' has faded over time. His assignment to escort from Las Vegas 'a nothing witness for a nothing trial' seems like another meaningless exercise. Until the fireworks start.
16) The Drop
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[2015]
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Lonely bartender Bob Saginowski and his hardened employer cousin Marv run a bar that is used as a 'drop' - a covert scheme that funnels cash to local gangsters. But when they find themselves caught in a robber gone bad, and on the hook for a debt they can't even repay, both men have to make the dangerous choice between loyalty and survival.
17) The car
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[2008]
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The peaceful tranquility of a small Western town is disturbed when a murderous car wreaks havoc by viciously mowing down innocent victims. New sheriff, Wade Parent (James Brolin), may be the only one who can stop this menace in its tracks until he realizes that the driver of this indestructible vehicle is far more dangerous than any man -- it is driven by pure evil.