When a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921., the fate of one of its prisoners, a young black male, seemed assured. Accused of attempting to rape a white woman, Dick Rowland was with little doubt about to be lynched. But in another part of town, a small group of black men, many of them World War I veterans, decided to risk lives for a different vision of justice. Before it was all over, Tulsa had erupted into one of America's worst racial nightmares, leaving scores dead and hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed. Exhaustively researched, 'Death in a Promised Land' is compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation's most devastating race riots, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, hedonism, and human perserverance. Views: 13
2XS, THE HALLUCINOGENIC CHIP OF CHOICE.
To Excess--that's how they say it on the streets, before it destroyed their minds.
Dirk Montgomery thinks he knows those streets. He's watched the change with the world,as the powers of magic grow and alter the balances of power. He thinks he understands even the deepest shadows and the darkest of hearts. He is wrong.
Now there's something out there beyond his understanding. Something foul and alien. Something that will consume even the most wary soul. Even Dirks. Views: 13
Just when it looks like Deputy Marshal Mason Raines might finally settle into a life free from violence, he receives an emergency distress call from the New Colony. Not only has his handler been brutally attacked, but the life of a treacherous woman he once loved is also in danger. Forced to choose between contentment and duty, he must once again forsake his own happiness for the welfare of others. This time, however, he would be well served to remember that the motives of those being rescued are anything but pure.Faced with an equally daunting challenge, Tanner and Samantha travel west to Fort Knox, Kentucky. Their goal is as simple as it is impossible: to rob the nation's Gold Vault of all its remaining treasure. The trip takes an unexpected turn, and they find themselves recruited by and old woman eager to lay her husband to rest. But even that task is not without moral choices that have them questioning what it means to be one of the nation's last remaining survivors. Views: 13
In the bestselling tradition of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta, M. R. Hall's heroine Jenny Cooper makes her debut as a coroner with a detective's eye and a woman with a home life as complicated as her cases. In this brilliant debut, Jenny investigates the disappearance of two young Muslim students, who vanished without a trace seven years ago. The police had concluded that the boys, under surveillance for some time for suspicion of terrorism, had fled to Pakistan to traffic in the atrocities of Islamic fanaticism. Now, sufficient time has passed for the law to declare the boys legally dead. A final declaration is left up to a coroner, Jenny Cooper. As Jenny's official inquest progresses, the stench of corruption is unmistakable. Not only does it appear that British Security Services played a role, but the involvement of an American intelligence agent soon makes it clear that a vast conspiracy is in play. As Jenny builds an ever-strengthening case implicating a shocking collection of power and influence, she meets with a determined and increasingly menacing resistance. When she links the students' "vanishing" to the unidentified corpse of a beautiful young woman and the fate of a missing nuclear scientist, Jenny is forced into an arena in which she is pushed to the breaking point and beyond. She must struggle with her own inner demons while fighting a lone and desperate battle to bring an unspeakable crime to justice. Views: 13
All Andrew Johansson wanted was a home, Abbey Martin, and for people to leave him alone: a tall order for a man caught between two combative cultures. The Sioux raised Andy from the time he was eight. When they surrendered, the soldiers forced him back to a culture that didn't want him.Everyone, including Abbey's parents, wanted her to marry Lloyd Stevens, a wealthy businessman. The headstrong young woman was determined no one was going to force her into a loveless marriage. She wanted Andy or no one.Stevens, not one to take rejection, enlisted the help of Abbey's father and the townspeople to keep them apart. When that didn't work, he kidnapped Abbey. If he couldn't have her, no one would.With Abbey's life on the line, Andy had to gamble everything to save her. But would he be in time? Views: 13
'What would Germaine do?'This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the twists and turns that life brings. Such as the sectioning of their mother Karen Jane. Marlo puts her faith in her hero, Germaine Greer, and twelve-year-old Skip trusts her clever big sister to know the right thing to do. But when the sisters are forced to move to their Auntie Noreen and Uncle Doug's home in the backwater city of Crater Lakes even Marlo can't think of a solution. At age sixteen, Marlo is forced to quit school and work in the family hardware store. Skip manages to get on her auntie's bad side from the get-go and is an outcast at school as she vehemently declares the injustice of the Vietnam War - not what Noreen wants to hear with her precious son Barry off fighting.Skip and Marlo dream of escape from Crater Lakes but with Karen Jane's release nowhere on the horizon they resign themselves to their new life. Before long... Views: 13
As a militia movement invades Arizona 's Cochise County, a gun dealer dies mysteriously, and his stock of high-powered weapons vanishes, Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates two other murders that point to armed separatist Alton Hosfield, a probe that threatens her own life and those of her family. Views: 13
The perfect wedding?Dr. Fern Rycroft had disappointed the islanders once by not returning to work there, so she agreed to her aunt's wishes that she have an island wedding. But Fern hadn't anticipated two things—the actions of Lizzy Hurst, who adored Fern's fiancé and wanted to stop the wedding, and meeting the new doctor, Quinn Gallagher.Lizzy's antics resulted in mass food poisoning, so Fern had no choice except to work with Quinn, and by the time the panic was over, Fern knew the wedding was off—unless there was a chance of a substitute groom? Views: 12
Witches are real, and to be blunt, they’re all black-hearted, and evil. Charged with stopping the witches, taking whatever measures necessary are the witch-hunters, all reporting to the Malleus Maleficarum Council. The best the MMC has to offer, the talented seventh-generation witch-hunting Hunter Astley has his own part to play. In his own way. Views: 12
