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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963 African Americans Civil rights Alabama Birmingham History Birmingham (Ala) Race relations History Birmingham (England) Drama Birmingham (England) Fiction England Birmingham Gangs Gangs England Birmingham History 19th century Drama Jones, Doug (G. Douglas) 1954- Trials (Murder) Alabama BirminghamSummary: Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a stronghold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham that follows the notorious gang, who got their name from sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, a man dead set on moving up in the world, no matter the cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PEACarter, Maureen.
Summary: When a baby is snatched from outside a Birmingham newsagent's, Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and feisty TV reporter Caroline King clash head-on in the desperate search to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme de la Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSummary: On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kim Stim 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAYRobinson, Steve
Summary: In Victorian England, a mother is on the run from her past - and the truth about what she did. Birmingham, 1880. Angelica Chastain has fled from London with her young son, William. She promises him a better life, far away from the terrors they left behind. Securing a job as a governess, Angelica captures the attention of wealthy widower Stanley Hampton. Soon they marry and the successful future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROBO'Flynn, Catherine.
Summary: It's the 1980's and Kate Meany "Top Secret" notebook and the toy monkey in tow--is hard at work as a junior detective. Busy trailing "suspects" and carefully observing everything around her at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping mall, she forms an unlikely friendship with Adrian, the son of a local shopkeeper.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFLCoe, Jonathan.
Contents: The chick and the hairy guy -- The very maws of doom -- Green coaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEKing, Tracy
Summary: "Set in 1980s Birmingham, England, a piercing memoir about the liberating power of a scientific view of the world" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2024
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Summary: "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019