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"I've known about Susan Orlean for some time now, mostly framed by the strange film adaptation of the Orchid Thief. This book is great, as someone that has done disaster planning for a library, it makes me very thankful to have sprinklers in our Ce..."
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"On the morning of April 29, 1986, a disastrous fire broke out in the Los Angeles Public Library. By the time it was extinguished, the fire had destroyed or damaged more than a million books. Over thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did...
"The Black Lives Matter movement makes this title more relevant than ever. Tyson uses thorough research, a gift for storytelling, newly assembled evidence and a personal commitment and passion to produce a stunning account of the lynching of 14-ye..."
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Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in...
The Shape of Water
DVD - 2018
"Director Guillermo del Torro creates a visually stunning dark fable focused on a top secret 1960s laboratory where a government agent cruelly experiments on an amphibious man. Gentle Elisa works at the facility and bonds with the captive, becoming..."
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