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Summary: At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Woodmere
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Summary: At twelve years old, Cornelius secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread his father's teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MOSMosley, 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: A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter
Summary: "A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones , the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi, into John Woman, an unconventional history professor while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Investigating the murder of a client he initially refused to help, Leonid navigates difficult personal elements in his own life while uncovering dark secrets about the victim's old-money family and its missing heiress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the experience dissolves his calm, everyday existence into a thirst for revenge and a sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in cash and favors, Leonid McGill is an old-school P.I. working a city that's gotten fancy all around him. And like New York City itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, "decided to go from crooked to slightly bent." But when he calls in old markers and greases a few NYPD palms to unearth some seemingly harmless information for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: RL's Drean is a novel about the blues - the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgement on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is alone, ill, and dying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1995