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The Soundtracks of Woody Allen
This comprehensive guide covers all of the music used in Woody Allen's films from Take the Money and Run (1969) to Match Point (2005). Each film receives scene-by-scene analysis with a focus on how Allen utilized music.
Rising from the Ashes
Winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of the Year Award-winning author Paula Yoo delivers "a comprehensive, kaleidoscopic account of what happened before, during, and after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising" (Horn Book Magazine, starred review). In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, Rodney King, Los Angeles was torn apart. Thousands of fires were set, causing m...
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire L...
Anatomy of a Trial
"The People vs. O. J. Simpson ranks indisputably as the trial of the century. As the Los Angeles Superior Court' media liaison, Jerrianne Hayslett had unprecedented access to the trial - and met with Judge Lance Ito daily - as she attempted, sometimes unsuccessfully, to mediate between the court and members of the media and to balance their interests. In Anatomy of a Trial, she takes readers behind the scenes to shed new light on people and proceedings and to show how the media and the trial participants changed the court-media landscape to the detriment of the public's understanding of the judicial system."--BOOK JACKET.
Eagle Pass
In the newest adventure from the creators of the blockbuster series Stagecoach and Wagons West!, Texas Ranger Sam Cody rides out to find who's behind an outbreak of lawlessness that has the local sheriff running scared.
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Island in the City
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Maggie Come Lately
Maggie McCarthy has been resident babysitter and housekeeper since her mother died. Now she wants to be a regular teen, but when she rescues a classmate from sexual assault, she becomes a celebrity instead. While reconciling popularity with friendship and redefining her place at home, will Maggie discover God's grace and the goodness of what she already has?
