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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence ... In desperation,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt leads him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution.
4) Native son
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Language
English
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories-heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
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Language
English
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As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status, much like their grandparents before them.
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Language
English
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A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today,
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Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here it's the last days of the Watts riots in 1966, and a black woman, nicknamed Little Scarlet, has been found murdered in her apartment, the same building that an unidentified white man appeared to enter after escaping a mob of rioters. Did the white man commit the murder? The LAPD wants answers quickly, which is why Rawlins is asked to investigate.
10) Moonlight
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows an African American man as he grows up in a rough Miami neighborhood and tries to find his place in the world.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Easy Rawlins and his friend Mouse become engulfed in a world of voodoo, revenge, and death, when they set out in 1939 to retrieve money from Mouse's stepfather so that Mouse can marry EttaMae--a girl with whom Easy was once involved.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Easy Rawlins becomes caught up in murder and the racial tensions of 1960s Los Angeles when he agrees to find Brawly Brown, the teenage son of a long-time friend who has left home and is running with the radical Urban Revolutionary Party.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation's top physics PhD program at Stanford in this coming-of-age memoir.
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard, even for the detective designated as "a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe" (The Boston Globe) and "the perfect heir to Easy Rawlins" (Toronto Globe and Mail). Lately, Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his life grows ever more complicated: his favorite stepson, Twill, drops out of school for mysteriously lucrative...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend. The weekend before, $6.8 million had been stolen from Rutgers Assurance Corp., whose offices are across the street from where Zella worked. Zella didn't remember shooting Harry, but she didn't deny it either. The district attorney was inclined to call it temporary insanity -- until the police found $80,000 from the Rutgers heist hidden in her storage space....
16) Touched: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."--
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,|c2017
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life for Easy Rawlins is surprisingly ... easy. He's living off the proceeds of his last case, trying to keep out of trouble. Of course it's not going to last. Because Easy's old friend Mouse knocks on his door. Mouse is one of the deadliest men in America. And Mouse wants a small favor. He wants Easy to help a man he says is wrongly imprisoned, a friend of Charcoal Joe. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in the LA underworld - he pulls all the strings...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Leonid McGill is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife--but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top-of-the-skyscraper office space. Meanwhile, one of his sons seems to have found true love--but the girl has a shady past that's all of sudden threatening...
Author
Publisher
The RoadRunner Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by his father, neglected by his mother, and shuttled between foster homes and a boys' ranch, a young African-American man refuses to succumb to the fate that the world says should be his. Told by the man who lived it.
20) Walkin' the dog
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Further adventures of Socrates Fortlow in Watts. In each chapter he challenges a different conundrum of modern life.
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