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Earthly Powers Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess has long been regarded as one of the most original and daring writers of our time. In Earthly Powers, Burgess has writtena book rich with astonishing powers and surprising events. OL1386742W
Jonestown Massacre Jonestown Massacre Gina DeAngelis The agricultural settlement of Jonestown in Guyana, South America, was meant to be a promised land for its inhabitants, the members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple. How then, in November 1978, did 912 … OL15045151W
A thousand lives A thousand lives Julia Scheeres What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978. OL16450780W
Cult City Cult City Daniel J. Flynn November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days … OL18023417W
Dear people Dear people Denice Stephenson More than a quarter of a century after the fall of Peoples Temple, in which the world witnessed the devastating loss of over nine hundred lives - including those of Congressman Leo J. Ryan and severa… OL18360154W
Peoples Temple and Black religion in America Peoples Temple and Black religion in America Anthony B. Pinn,Rebecca Moore The Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978 in their utopianist community of Jonestown, Guyana, when more than 900 members died, most of whom took their own lives. Only a handful lived to … OL19572854W
Jonestown survivor Jonestown survivor Laura Johnston Kohl Laura Johnston Kohl was a teen activist working to integrate public facilities in the Washington, D.C., area. She actively fought for civil rights and free speech, and against the Vietnam War through… OL19950564W
Jonestown & other madness Jonestown & other madness Pat Parker,Pat Parker Straightforward, no-nonsense poetry about being Black, female and gay. OL2010722W
The ghosts of November The ghosts of November Jeffrey Brailey This work represents the first book to be written by a participant in the clean-up operation of Jonestown. It is nonfiction horror written in its most descriptive form. The further you get into this … OL2040039W
White Nights, Black Paradise White Nights, Black Paradise Sikivu Hutchinson In 1978, Peoples Temple, a Black multiracial church once at the forefront of progressive San Francisco politics, self-destructed in a Guyana jungle settlement named after its leader, the Reverend Jim… OL20846560W
And Then They Were Gone And Then They Were Gone Ron Cabral,Judy Bebelaar Of the 918 Americans who died in the shocking murder-suicides of November 18, 1978, in the tiny South American country of Guyana, a third were under eighteen. More than half were in their twenties or… OL21738636W
The Death of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple The Death of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Chris Saunders On the morning of November 19, 1978, the bodies of over 900 Americans were found scattered all over a small commune in northwestern Guyana, South America by the Guyana Defense Force. It was clear tha… OL27027438W
Marked for Death Marked for Death Timothy Oliver Stoen "I have Tim Stoen...in my psyche tonight... I'm a man filled with rage... I could kill him. I could really kill him. Literally kill him... I got the man that'll get him. All I got to do is say the wo… OL27043644W
Heavenly deceptor Heavenly deceptor Nathan Landau It has been fifteen years since the horrors of the Jonestown massacre burst forth on the world. Since that time, many unanswered questions have remained concerning that horrible event. In his book, *… OL4013546W
Awake in a nightmare Awake in a nightmare Ethan Feinsod This book is based on the *only eyewitness account*, never previously published, of one of the most dramatic and horrifying events of our times. On November 18, 1978, 914 men, women, and children—all… OL4296656W
Gone from the promised land Gone from the promised land John R. Hall In this superb cultural history, John R. Hall presents a reasoned analysis of the meaning of Jonestown--why it happened and how it is tied to our history as a nation, our ideals, our practices, and t… OL4298524W
Jesus and Jim Jones Jesus and Jim Jones Rose, Stephen C. *Jesus and Jim Jones* is a moving and incisive reflection on one of the most shocking public events of the 1970s. It contains the most far-reaching collection of documents about Jim Jones and the Peo… OL5269854W
Making sense of the Jonestown suicides Making sense of the Jonestown suicides Judith Mary Weightman An interpretive study of the sociological phenomena of Jonestown. It combines historical scholarship and sociological analysis and should be of interest to sociologists, psychologists and historians … OL5603876W
White night White night John Peer Nugent On November 18, 1978 nearly one thousand American men, women and children died, in a so-called "mass suicide" in a place called Jonestown, Guyana. White Night is the first full account of the true st… OL6577305W
Hold hands and die! Hold hands and die! John Maguire **Tragedy in Guyana** **Why?** - Over 900 dead. - Ambush and Murder. - Suicide. The question is 'how could it happen?' How could one man induce over a thousand Americans to give up their… OL6818422W
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