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Provides a detailed account of what became one of the great miscarriages of justice of the 20th century, the arrest, trial and conviction of George Edalji - a South Staffordshire solicitor sentenced to 7 years penal servitude for maiming a horse in 1903. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became an interested party after hearing about the case and his investigations were carried out in the manner of his great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
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My Life As A Kid is a lively autobiography written from the perspective of an imaginative, spirited young boy growing up in the pre-depression and Great Depression years of the 1920s and 30s in Galt, a small town in Southern Ontario, Canada. In the background are the sturdy immigrant Scottish family, with their ethic of hard work and simple, frugal living. The story gains additional depth and broader vision through adult reflections. The style is anecdotal and fresh, providing a wide range of characters with humour, adventure and overtones of the coming world war. Its scenes and memories showcase the remarkable differences and similarities between small town life nearly a century ago and life in the complex modern world of today.
A genealogical compilation of the descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook and their seven children. The couple was married circa 1812 in South Carolina and by 1828 could be found in Rankin County, Mississippi. Many of the descendants are traced to the present, including biographies and photographs when available.
The first complete biography of singing legend Tony Bennett Among America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible story of Bennett's life and sixty-year career, from his impoverished New York City childhood through his first chart-topping hits, from liberating a concentration camp to his civil rights struggles, from his devastating personal and career battles and addiction in the 1970's to his stunning comeback and emergence as a musical statesman, America's troubadour, role model and mentor, and unmatched interpre...
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