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Summary: "A professional job turns personal for jet-setting contract killer Gideon in this sexy, thrilling page-turner by New York Timesbestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first time, the job is taking its toll. Neither Gideon nor the city of Buenos Aires has recovered from the mayhem...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DICMance, Ajuan Maria
Summary: "A picture book with illustrated portraits of real Black men celebrating the daily lives and activities of African Americans, from visiting the barber shop to exploring outer space"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANCosby, S. A.
Summary: "After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COSCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M COSBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRIBaldwin, James
Summary: "Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALMosley, Walter
Summary: "Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Charcoal Joe has asked Easy to help clear Joe's son, who was found standing over a white man's dead body in his cabin home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSEverett, Percival
Summary: Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2001
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Summary: "A professional job turns personal for jet-setting contract killer Gideon in this sexy, thrilling page-turner by New York Timesbestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first time, the job is taking its toll. Neither Gideon nor the city of Buenos Aires has recovered from the mayhem...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICGaines, Ernest J.
Summary: "Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIHerrera, Adriana
Summary: "As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Joy Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he's been actively avoiding most of his life. For Desta, the East African capital encompasses some of the happiest and saddest parts of his life -- his first home and the place where his father died. When an unavoidable work obligation lands him there for twelve weeks, he may finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adriana Herrera 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERMosley, Walter
Summary: After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSTademy, Lalita
Summary: Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2014