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Atkins, Ace

Summary: "Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. When her chief of staff reaches out to Spenser for security and help finding the culprits of what he believes to be the most credible threats, Garcia-Ramirez is less than thrilled. She's used to the antipathy and intimidation women of color often face when seeking power. To her, it's all noise. But it doesn't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ATK

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATK

Ahmed, Samira

Summary: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHM

Slaughter, Karin

Summary: When the charred body of a woman is found, and Detective Lena Adams is charged with homicide, Grant County's medical examiner/pediatrician Sara Linton joins forces with her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, to uncover the truth about a case that is poisoning a small town with hatred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS SLA

Atkins, Ace

Summary: Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATK

Littman, Sarah

Summary: "After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, Declan Taylor accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again. He's forced to get a job to help his family out, and his best friend, Jake Lehrer, is flirting with Declan's crush, or ditching him to hang out with the team or his friends from synagogue. Declan plays a lot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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Cole, Olivia A.

Summary: After her grandmother passes, Shania moves to the gentrifying town of Blue Rock and is thrust into Bard, the city's wealthiest private school. At Bard, race is both invisible and hypervisible, and Shania's new friends are split on what they see. Catherine, the school's queen bee, unexpectedly takes Shania under her wing. Prescott, the golden boy, seems perfect... except for the disturbing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COL

Jackson, Neta.

Summary: "The Yada Yadas got tight in the past year, but they're about to learn the real meaning of togetherness"--Book cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Eggers, Dave

Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 974.71 Eggers 2018

Gino, Alex

Summary: Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIN

Summary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UND

Summary: American History X: "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AME

Smith, Elliott

Summary: During the turbulent 1960s, the reader's plot choices determine their role in the historic fight for equal rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SMI

Prose, Francine

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRO

Maltman, Thomas James

Summary: "Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Lucien sets out to find a missing woman he had been having an affair with, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAL

Drew, Alan

Summary: "Santa Elena in 1985 is a sleepy, sedate town-that is, until unusual crimes start to occur. The body of a dog is left outside a Vietnamese grocery store. An encampment of Mexican strawberry pickers is brutally attacked with mysterious weapons. A wealthy real estate developer is found dead inside the pool of his beach-side house. When rat poison and other clues are found across these crime...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRE

Fowler, Earlene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOW

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FOW

Galligan, John

Summary: "It’s a time for celebration in Bad Axe County as the town gathers for the annual Syttende Mai—or Norwegian Independence Day—festival. During this rollicking family-oriented event filled with dancing and food, Sheriff Heidi Kick discovers a dark and shocking event—a migrant worker has been savagely beaten but refuses to explain what happened. Then, a sudden murder of a band member shatters the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Galligan 2020

Loehfelm, Bill.

Summary: Police officer Maureen Coughlin's in rough shape. Just a rookie, she's already been suspended from the force. When the FBI comes to town on the trail of a ruthless anti-government militia group--the Watchmen Brigade--she's told she has no choice but to work with them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOE

Luna, Louisa

Summary: ""Alice Vega is sensational-I want to see lots more of her."-Lee Child A powerful new thriller from Louisa Luna. Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUN

Yolen, Jane

Summary: In humorous verse Plymouth Rock tells the story of itself, from glacial erratic to national icon--with historical asides and corrections by the fact checker.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Yolen 2020

Summary: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ha

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HAR

Summary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UND

Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALL

Phelan, Matt

Summary: The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHE

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