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African American teenagers Fiction African Americans Fiction Berkeley (Calif.) Fiction High school students Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Oakland (Calif.) Fiction Oakland (Calif.) Juvenile fiction Police Fiction Police misconduct United States Fiction Student movements FictionAnderson, Kent
Summary: Oakland, California, 1983. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home from the war. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves, choosing to live in the same town where he works. He forges a precarious friendship with Felix Maxwell, the drug king of East Oakland,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDOshiro, Mark
Summary: Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals their own school. New rules. Random locker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OSHIxta, Carolina
Summary: Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about because he's Black and her parents are racist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC IXTMottley, Leila
Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC MOTMowry, Jess
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICThiem, Brian
Summary: When the Oakland coroner's office uncovers a body buried in a shallow grave in the outskirts of the city, homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair expects to find a drug dealer caught in the crosshairs of a turf war. Instead, the victim is identified as Phil Roberts, the commander of the police department's intelligence unit and Sinclair's former partner. Police brass want to pin the murder on a dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THIBayer, William
Summary: "In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche and another man in a bizarre photograph taken in Luzern, Switzerland. Over thirty years later, an intense art student in Freud's Vienna presents Lou Salome with his own drawing based on the infamous photograph. In the present day, Tess Berenson, a brilliant performance artist, moves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYChabon, Michael.
Summary: When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth richest black man in America, decides to open his newest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy, the owners of Brokeland Records, fear for their business until Gibson's endeavor exposes a decades-old secret history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHAThiem, Brian
Summary: When a teenager from a wealthy suburb outside of Oakland, California is dumped at an inner city bus stop, homicide detective Matt Sinclair catches the case. It's his first since being bumped to desk duty for a bust that went south fast. With few leads and plenty of attention, it's the worst kind of case to help him get back up to speed. It only gets worse as the bodies start to pile up--first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THIYee, F. C
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Genie's focus on getting into a top-tier college is destroyed when an enigmatic transfer student, Quentin, helps her transform into a demon-fighter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YEEChabon, Michael.
Summary: When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth richest black man in America, decides to open his newest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy, the owners of Brokeland Records, fear for their business until Gibson's endeavor exposes a decades-old secret history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chabon 2012Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WILAlonge, L. J.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Justin keeps a list of goals stashed under his mattress. Number 1 is "figure out life plans." Number 5 is "earn Zen Master rating in WoW." Number 7 is "play a little basketball every day." Nowhere on that list is "take on the crew from Ghosttown," but that's the type of trouble that always seems to finds him, and he's not the type to back down from a challenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2016