Baldacci, David
Summary: "Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Summary: "When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Summary: "Dans une petite ville d'Alabama, à l'époque de la Grande Dépression, Atticus Finch élève seul ses deux enfants, Jem et Scout. Avocat intègre et rigoureux, il est commis d'office pour défendre un Noir accusé d'avoir violé une Blanche. Racontée par Scout avec beaucoup de drôlerie, cette histoire tient du conte, de la court story américaine et du roman initiatique."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Librairie générale française 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FIC LEEHo, Joanna
Summary: In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOStringfellow, Tara M.
Summary: "In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRCole, Teju
Summary: "A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEAArmand, Glenda
Summary: During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARMMiller, Samuel
Summary: In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2024
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Summary: "After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCBMéndez, Yamile Saied
Summary: When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MENThomas, Angie.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil, who was unarmed, at the hands of a police officer. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOKey, Justin C.
Summary: Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie's only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain--if they were portrayed at all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OLIWalls, Jasmine
Summary: "It's 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills...it's there to be found. Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They're determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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Summary: Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TAHGonzalez James, Elizabeth
Summary: "In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEABlaedel, Sara
Summary: "Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father--who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago--has died. And he's left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BLABlaedel, Sara
Summary: "Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father--who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago--has died. And he's left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAGragg, Sanya Whittaker
Summary: "Ten year old Avery is in a panic over the shooting of another unarmed black man. His parents decide it is time to have "The Talk." They teach him and his brother a catchy and easy way to remember what to do if approached by an officer, while also emphasizing that all policemen are not bad."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017