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A veteran of the Illinois Senate, Illinois State Senator Rickey Hendon served with Barack Obama in that chamber and campaigned for him during his successful US Senate and Presidential campaigns. This title tells his story and is suitable for both political novices and seasoned election operatives.

A young Jewish American soldier runs into trouble in a camp for German POWs in France toward the end of World War-II.

One of America's least known and controversial women artists of the Civil War era was Vinnie Ream, who sculpted a bust of Abraham Lincoln from life when she was only sixteen years old and had almost no artistic training. This biography of the important women artist also presents a portrait of Washington, DC in the Civil War era.

Elucidating the somber diaspora of Iraqi Jews, this collection of stories explores the migration of a people escaping oppression, only to be confronted with the difficult realities of new nations and customs. This work spans Iraq, Israel and the US. It portrays characters struggling to cope with drastic social changes.

When Civil War veterans Henry Morton and his son, Wilson, return to the family farm after years of combat and imprisonment in a Confederate jail, they find that Henry's wife has died and his daughter Helen has eloped. Both Wilson and Morton's younger son William are determined to leave the farm for the nearby town.

Recounts the tragedy of Stalinist domination where people were randomly deported to labour camps or tortured in Zovty Prison in Pinsk.

Provides an account of the author's early life growing up in a commune in rural SW Virginia in the 1960s and 1970s. This book outlines the history of efforts to create a utopian society which demonstrates the fact that no matter how ideally a societal structure is conceived, its enactment cannot escape the imperfections of humans who embody it.

Someone very, very clever planned this murder. The place: a remote shelter on the promenade at Selby-on-Sea; the occasion: a stormy evening in late November; the victim: somebody ready-made for a crack-of-doom from a coal hammer. However, the murderer had not counted on the clever, tenacious mind of Carolus Deene.

There are strange goings-on at St. Asprey's, an expensive boys' preparatory school: footsteps in passages at night...strange lights...rabbits with battered skulls...a face in the window...a puppy found in a pool of blood...and even worse to come. In a tense, chilling atmosphere Carolous Deene has some spine tingling experiences before he solves the mystery of these curious and sinister events.

Mysterious doings in a churchyard. A catalogue of crime calls this ""probably Bruce's wittiest and best-plotted novel to date. A very ingenious idea...a fine surprise in the last moments. The humour and wit are of a high order..."".

In a gloomy London suburb a modern Jack the Ripper stalks at night, killing at random with brutal knife thrusts from behind. Three women fall victim, and the terrorised residents wait to see who will be next. Was it a method in these murders? Although the police resent his presence, only Carolus Deene can solve this puzzler.

Within an hour or two the dead bodies of two elderly ladies are discovered in the vicinity of Buddington-on-the-Hill; both had been strangled. Each is found lying full-length, clasping in her hand the stem of Madonna lily. The work of a maniac? Two murderers working together? It's up to Carolous Deene to find out.

The story of Wilhelm Bachner, a Polish Jew who provided false identity papers to dozens of Jews, saving them from certain death. Includes interviews with Bachner and some of those he saved. "This fascinating story must be read for it proves that it was possible for humanity to triumph over powerful evil" -Elie Wiesel.

Presents a critique of lawyering and corporate politics at a self-important 'white shoe' firm, with its two appealing main characters trading repartee as they negotiate law and love.

A memoir that demonstrates the fortitude to take misfortune and valiantly turn it into triumph. It tells how the author who was diagnosed with the rare and disabling disease Partial Truisms 13 encounters much hardship as she struggles to learn life's simplest tasks, years after her peers have done.

Contains evidence that the run-up to the Iraq War was laced with Administration lies and distortions, to make it appear that the US was threatened. This book also includes information about torture in Abu Ghraib, Guantanomo and other detention centres in direct violation of the Geneva Convention.

Trent Tucker hates Reality TV. Unfortunately, his job involves the creation of new Reality shows that are outrageous and excessive than those now on television. Trent dives into a world filled with incessant bickering and maybe a murder plot as the employees try to create new and better shows for their anxious network clients.

A story of the Bailey family's escape from the gruelling Corbin Glow mines in 1930 to find a better life in Letcher, Kentucky. This account recounts the lives of the mining people whose religion and 'family values' buttressed and sustained them. It is three dimensional account containing humour, but lacking sentimentality.

Explores baseball at its best and worst - a unique, informative and often humorous glimpse into some of the secret and not-so-secret dirty tricks, thefts, vaudeville pranks and just plain cheating that dot the long, colourful history of America's most beloved game.

This is vintage Leo Bruce, enhanced by the effortless humour that is a hallmark of all his mysteries. This time, Carolus Deene is enjoying himself on a holiday cruise. On the first night aboard the Summer Queen, there is a shout of ""Man Overboard!"" From that point on to the moment of Deene's unexpected revelations, the reader will find that unique mixture of artless fun and grim terror Bruce devotees savour.

Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, while her husband, Lester, is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed: Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family.

Tedesco became a priest and then realized that he was gay.

Features a story about a London family who suspects that their upstairs lodger is a mysterious killer known as 'The Avenger'.

Inspector Ganesh Ghote comes to London!The Indian police inspector (pronounced Go-tay) is sent to attend an international conference on drug smuggling; and in cold, drizzling London he is faced with his first case outside India.It is a very odd case. The girl, Ranee, niece of relatives of Ghote who live in London, has vanished--seduced, kidnapped, murdered, so her relatives allege, by the notorious pop singer Johnny Bull. Ghote is hounded by the relatives into spending his few leisure hours from the conference in trying to find Ranee--known for her brilliance as The Peacock.

Rebecca Haile lived in Ethiopia until she was 11 years old. When the Emperor was deposed by a military coup, her father was shot. Barely surviving, he escaped with his family and settled in Minnesota where they struggled with the strain of their changed circumstances. This book brings into focus the consequences of political upheaval in Ethiopia.