title: The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis
author:  Bettina Aptheker 
description: Activist-scholar Angela Y. Davis was one of the most potent radical political symbols of the '70s, her defiantly clenched fist raised high over her reddish-brown, full-blown Afro. Her "celebrity" was launched when she was put on trial in 1972 in San Jose, California, for murder and kidnapping, charges on which she was later acquitted. This second edition of Bettina Aptheker's gut-wrenching chronicle of the Davis trial is a fact-filled boon to a younger generation imbued with the era's mythologies. With a strange cast of characters, including then-governor Ronald Reagan, Aptheker reveals heroes, villains, and brilliant legal work.
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  **Visions in Death**
  
   **Eve Dallas – Book 22**
  
   **J. D. Robb**
  
   _Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility._ —LORD HALIFAX
  
  Is this a vision?
  
  is this a dream?
  
  do I sleep?
  
  —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
  
   **Chapter One**
  
  She'd gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve
  Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the restraint showed enormous strength of
  character.
  
  Her day had gone smoothly enough. A morning court appearance that had been as
  routine as it was tedious, paperwork both extensive and mind-numbing. The
  single case she'd caught had involved pals and their dispute over who had dibs
  on the last of the illegals —a party mix of Buzz, Exotica, and Zoom—they'd
  been toking on while lazing around on the roof of an apartment building on the
  West Side.
  
  The dispute had been resolved when one of the afternoon partiers had taken a
  header off the roof, clutching the last of the illegals in his greedy fist.
  
  He probably hadn't f