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Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £Pages: In sending forth this little volume I confidently anticipate that these true stories-full as they are of vivid descriptions of Durham pit-life, with its humorous and pathetic memories will find a grateful appreciation in many a miner's home.

‘The Best of Enemies’ the movie. ‘The Best of Enemies’ stars “Empire” star Taraji P. Henson as civil-rights activist Ann Atwater and Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell as Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Ellis, telling the true story of events in Durham, NC, in True Stories of Durham Pit-Life.

Publisher: Charles H Kelly, London; Date of publication: £ Sign up to our mailing list for the latest Keel Row news, books and random stuff. We will not share your details with any other organisation or business, ever. Keel Row Books. Durham, N.C. — In the s, in the midst of racial division, a Durham civil rights activist and a Ku Klux Klan leader came together to change history.

That true story is now the focus of a major motion picture, "The Best of Enemies," which is inspired by a book of the same title. Inat the age of 84 he published a book called "True Stories of Durham Pit Life", described in the book's introduction, by Wm.

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In his book "True Stories of Durham Pit Life", published inthe author, George Parkinson, was born the son of a miner in New Lambton in His mother was Mary and his father was also born.

All books set in Durham on the global book map. We found 32 books set in Durham and 22 others set nearby The Story of Durham University by Nigel Watson. No recommendations yet. Books set nearby 22 books set in the area. Monks and markets: Durham Cathedral-Priory, by Miranda Threlfall-Holmes. Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder () is a non-fiction crime tragedy written by American author Jerry Bledsoe that reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Bitter Blood is composed of various newspaper articles (from Author: Jerry Bledsoe. Jerry Bledsoe also wrote a book in about the case, entitled Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder, which was later made into a TV movie in with the same title starring Jaclyn Smith.

A&E's City Confidential presented its perspective on the case in the episode "Durham: Dangerous Housewife".Criminal penalty: Death, commuted to life imprisonment.

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£ Click & Collect. £ postage. Natural History Antiquarian & Collectable Books. ‘The Best of Enemies’ the movie. ‘The Best of Enemies’ stars “Empire” star Taraji P. Henson as civil-rights activist Ann Atwater and Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell as Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Ellis, telling the true story of events in Durham, NC, in The Best of Enemies true story reveals that Ann Atwater got married at the age of 14 and moved to Durham, NC in Ann's dad had encouraged her baby's father to marry her.

Ann's dad had encouraged her baby's father to marry her. This is one of my favorite books of all time—credit that to the enigmatic character that is Charles Manson, the blind devotion of his followers, the horrific nature of this very twisted story, or the lively storytelling of Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor in the case.

He went on to organize black and white labor unions in Durham, and Atwater continued to empower poor people. Ellis’ conversion to desegregation is documented in the book Best of Enemies (), a documentary An Unlikely Friendship, and in a moving interview with Studs Turkel recorded in the book American Dreams () by Studs Turkel.Inhigh school coach Russ Stager of Durham, N.C., was "accidentally" killed by his wife, Barbara, shot with a loaded gun he allegedly kept under his pillow.

A seemingly happy and popular couple, both active in their church, the two were compulsive overspenders--and she was a sexual overachiever with a string of extramarital affairs.

As the case developed, it became clear she was a liar. The Best of Enemies, a new movie starring Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell, tells the story of how an unlikely friendship developed between Ann Atwater, an African American activist, and C.P.

Ellis, a Ku Klux Klan leader. A charette—a meeting in which all members of a community get to vote on the outcome of an issue—sparked Ellis and Atwater's friendship.