Nate Powell

Jim Demonakos

Mark Long

Follows the experiences of a white family from a racist suburb and a black family from Houston's most disadvantaged community who cross color lines to defend five black college students charged with the murder of a policeman.

The Silence of Our Friends

Shane Feazell

A practical guide to surviving the Zombie Apocalypse in the United Kingdom with or without preparation. This book goes beyond the immediate struggle for survival and considers the longer term problems and solutions of building a stable team and a sustainable and safe long term base of operations.Topics include tactics, equipment, team dynamics, first aid, transport (including boats and aircraft), fortifications, infection control, water supplies, horticulture and choosing locations.Unlike most guides, Z-day UK is written for UK conditions and resources. The advice on safe places, the information on digging wells and all aspects of survival are specific to the conditions in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.If this book does not help you to survive the Zombie Apocalypse, a full refund may be obtained from the author.

A Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse in Great Britain

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Houston, 1967. En plein mouvement pour les droits civiques, Jack, reporter cameraman blanc pour une chaîne locale, se lie d'amitié avec Larry, un jeune professeur noir. Les deux hommes et leurs familles vont tenter de se rapprocher malgré les préjugés de toute une société, alors en proie à de grands changements. Alors que Jack couvre le procès d'étudiants noirs, qui risquent la peine de mort pour avoir tiré sur la police lors d'une manifestation, les tensions entre les communautés s'exacerbent, laissant présager du pire...

Le silence de nos amis

Nobody Knows But Everybody Remembers

Michael R. Waters

Annotation Between 1943 and 1945 nearly fifty thousand German Prisoners of war, mostly from the German Afrika Korps, lives and worked at seventy POW camps across Texas. Camp Hearne, located on the outskirts of rural Hearne, Texas, was one of the first and largest German prisoner-of-war camps in the United States. Waters and his research teams tell the story of the five thousand German soldiers held there during World War II. The book reveals the shadow world of Nazism that existed in the camp, adding darkness to a story that is otherwise optimistic and in places humorous.

German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne

Lone Star Stalag

Jeffrey Keating

The World of Satellite Television

Mark Sloan

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South

A New York Times-bestselling graphic novel based on the true story of two families—one white and one black—who find common ground as the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. The Silence of Our Friends follows events through the point of view of young Mark Long, whose father is a reporter covering the story. Semi-fictionalized, this story has its roots solidly in very real events. With art from the brilliant Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole) bringing the tale to heart-wrenching life, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature. Praise for The Silence of Our Friends: "[A]n engrossing narrative about race in America, while honestly dealing with a host of other real-world issues, including familial relationships, friendship, dependency, "other"-ness, and perhaps most importantly, the search for common ground." —Publishers Weekly "A moving evocation of a tipping point in our country's regrettable history of race relations, Long and Demonakos's story flows perfectly in Eisner and Ignatz Award winner Powell's graceful and vivid yet unpretty black-and-gray wash." —Library Journal "[C]onvincingly depicts the systemic racism, blatant and subtle, that suffused and corroded everything during [the] period...[Popwell's] imagery amplifies the effects of the book's multiple perspectives—the overwhelmed kid's-eye view of uneasy family dynamics and open Texas spaces, the hyperkinetic chaos on campus, the cropped literalism of TV newscasts." —The New York Times "Powell uses a mixture of large and small panels along with a variety of frame compositions and points of view to give the book a cinematic realism. From this intimate vantage point, racist incidents are shockingly ugly, while happy domestic moments—as when the kids from both families belt out "Soul Man"—are unself-consciously beautiful. The youthful protagonist and graphic-novel format will plunge readers into a time that can seem very distant. Ideal as a class read, absorbing for solo readers." —School Library Journal "Covering a time period of societal unrest from Viet Nam to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Silence uses realistic black-and-white illustrations to convey a subject that is not black and white." —VOYA

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