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Bywaters, Grant Clark, Tracy Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina. Mosley, Walter Sandford, JohnSummary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHABywaters, Grant
Summary: "Newly-minted private investigator William Fletcher is having trouble finding clientele. He's not the only man out of work [during the Depression], but his past as a former heavyweight contender with a few shady connections--not to mention the color of his skin in race-obsessed New Orleans--isn't helping lure clients to his door. Stuck without any viable alternative, he takes a case from an old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYWClark, Tracy
Summary: While searching for fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus, who has run away from her foster home, Black homicide cop-turned-PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can't find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAMosley, Walter
Summary: Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi blues-man who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: After being asked to investigate the charges against a white nationalist accused of treason and murder, Joe King Oliver, with help from bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, embarks on a winding quest to expose the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MOSSandford, John
Summary: When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who's been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn't have much to go on except the victim's rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS SANSandford, John
Summary: Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine month old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year old ward, Letty West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANGarcia-Aguilera, Carolina.
Summary: A baby develops an inherited disease which requires a bone-marrow transplant from the mother. But no one knows the mother, the baby having been illegally adopted. PI Lupe Solano, the daughter of upper-class Cuban immigrants, agrees to search for her and in the process discovers a racket in babies from Cuba and a murder. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta Pub. 2002