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Solomon Northup 12 Years a Slave ENThe astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for 12 years — a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a story soon to be introduced to a new audience through a major film. Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped. Threatened with death, Northup was forced to assume a new…
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Pekka Hiltunen Black NoiseThe second installment in the Studio series is an intelligent crime thriller pitting unlikely heroines against London's dark crime underworld Ultra-violent videos of murder and torture are being uploaded to the internet...
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Emmeline Pankhurst, Helen Pankhurst SuffragetteWith insight and great wit, Emmeline's autobiography chronicles the beginnings of her interest in feminism through to her militant and controversial fight for women's right to vote. While Emmeline received a good education, attending an all-girls school and being, she rebelled against conventional women's roles. At the age of fourteen a meeting of women's rights activists sparked a lifelong passion in her to fight…
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Jonas Jonasson The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared ENIt all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The Mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not... Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway. And so begins his…