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Title of the book:Assata Shakur; a 20th century Escaped Slave Author: Barbara Casey Publisher: Strategic media Books Publishing Date: 2017 ISBN: 978-1939521606 Summary: In May 1973, Assata Olugbala Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in which she was accused of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and assaulting Trooper James Harper. This resulted in her indictment of first-degree murder of Foerster and seven other felonies related to the shootout. A member of the Black Panther Party, she became a prime target of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Counterintelligence Program. When she joined the Black Liberation Army and went into hiding, between 1973 and 1977, she was placed on the FBIs Most Wanted List for three bank robberies, the kidnapping and murder of two drug dealers, and the attempted murder of two New Jersey police officers. In March 1977 Assata Shakur was convicted of murdering state trooper Werner Forrester and was impri...

Name of Book: The Cadence of Gypsies Author: Barbara Casey ISBN: 978-0-9820812-8-0 Publisher: Gauthier Publications Type of book: Gypsies, adoption, discovering self, new life, geniuses, Italy, travel, teaching, brilliance, Voynich Manuscript, friendships, new beginnings Year it was published: 2011 Summary: On her 18th birthday Carolina Lovel learned that she was adopted and was given a letter written by her birth mother in an unknown language. After years of research she travels to Italy on a mission to find the truth about her past. Carolina is accompanied by three extremely gifted but mischievous students the FIGs from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women. In an effort to help their favorite teacher, the FIGs will have to use their special abilities to decipher the Voynich Manuscript, the most mysterious document in the world, and the one thing that is strangely similar to what Carolina was given. Their search will take them into the mystical world of ...