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Vroman's Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101
Tel: 626-449-5320
Fax: 626-792-7308
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101
Tel: 626-449-5320
Fax: 626-792-7308
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$15.95Like the majority of 19th-century European rulers, King Leopold of Belgium wanted a piece of Africa. Though the nation he led was never powerful enough to compete with France and Great Britain, he did manage to snatch a large territory in the heart of the continent: what is today known as the Congo, where he left a horrific bloody legacy that included the murder, rape, and torture of between 4 and 8 million native Congolese people. This book is important in that it is one of the few to document these atrocities, and does much to help us understand the truly damaging effects of European colonialism in Africa, the results of which can still be seen and felt today.
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Cara Black discusses and signs Murder in the Palais Royal
03/19/2010 7:00 pm
Location:
- Street:
- Vroman's Bookstore
- Additional:
- 695 E. Colorado Blvd
- City:
- Pasadena ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 91101
- Country:
- United States
In the 10th book to feature P.I. Aimée Leduc, she must go to New York to meet a previously unknown brother. Before she can even leave, dogged Inspector Melac arrests her for the nonfatal shooting of her partner, René Friant. A woman impersonating the stylish PI entered the Leduc Detective office and shot René. Someone, Aimée decides, is trying to frame her. Aimée gains her release by pulling strings with her godfather, Commissaire Morbier, so she can investigate on her own. The trail leads her to Cardinal Richelieu's former Palais Royal, where bistro waitress Clémence Touvier schemes to blackmail the prominent mother of a neo-Nazi arsonist whose accomplices Aimée helped convict. And that's only the beginning.
