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221) Oreo
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First New Directions paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with...
222) When cicadas cry
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Zach Stander, a lawyer with a past, and Addie Stone, his indomitable detective and lover, find themselves entangled in secrets, lies, and murder in a small Southern town. A high-profile murder case: A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross in a rural church on Cicada Road in Walterboro, South Carolina. Sam Jenkins, a Black man, is found covered in blood, kneeling over the body. In a state already roiling with racial tension,...
223) Sweeping up glass
Author
Language
English
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Description
In rural 1930's Kentucky, Olivia Harker runs the grocery store her father started and raises her grandson, William. She tries to keep to herself and live as peaceful a life as possible, but once she finds wolves shot on her land and missing an ear, she sees this as a message and sets out to find out what is happening.
224) Two rivers
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the railroad and raising his daughter the best way he can. Then one fall day, a train derails, and Harper finds a survivor - a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched eyes and skin the color of blackberries who needs a place to stay. Plagued by his role in a brutal crime...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1959...The Smoke in Our Eyes is a cinematic, clock-ticking saga set in a small Montana town. When a fatal car accident shatters ten-year-old Lucas's world, he finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up. Alongside the tightly written drama of Lucas and his family, Grady...evokes a heady mood and sense of place. From the Space Race and the first warnings of global climate change, to...
226) The guest book
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used to run the world." And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything--perfect children, good looks, a love everyone...
227) Midnight Atlanta
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Arthur Bishop, editor of Atlanta's leading black newspaper, is killed in his office, cop-turned-journalist Tommy Smith finds himself in the crosshairs of the racist cops he's been trying to avoid. To clear his name, he needs to learn more about thedangerous story Bishop had been working on"--
228) Stand your ground
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Touchstone trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
After a seventeen-year-old African American boy is shot dead by a white man, the boy's mother and the shooter's wife face difficulties.
230) The hoopster
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Paperbacks For Children edition.
Language
English
Description
Andre Anderson has a bright future as a basketball star until he is viciously attacked in a hate crime, causing him to question everything he once believed in.
231) Sleepless City
Author
Series
Nick Ryan volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When you're in trouble, you call 911. When cops are in trouble, they call Nick Ryan. Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private cop,...
233) The good boy
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Language
English
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Description
"Edgar award winner Theresa Schwegel returns with The Good Boy, her most dramatic and emotional novel to date, a family epic that combines the hard-boiled grit of her acclaimed police thrillers with an intimate portrait of a young boy trying to follow his heart in an often heartless city. For Officer Pete Murphy, K9 duty is as much a punishment as a promotion. When a shaky arrest reignites a recent scandal and triggers a multimillion-dollar lawsuit,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between...
235) The color of a lie
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1955, a Black family relocates to the suburbs where they must pass for white, but dark secrets about the town and its inhabitants threaten their new home.
236) The lost child
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of Wuthering Heights traces the multigenerational forces that shape the lives of a young Heathcliff, the Brontë sisters and their brother.
237) Grant Park
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories. Grant Park begins in 1968, with Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 election, and cuts between the two eras as it unfolds. Disillusioned columnist...
239) A time to stand
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In a small Georgia town where racial tensions run high and lives are at stake, can one lawyer stand up for justice against the tide of prejudice on every side? Adisa Johnson, a young African American attorney, is living her dream of practicing law with a prestigious firm in downtown Atlanta. Then a split-second mistake changes the course of her career. Left with no other options, Adisa returns to her hometown where a few days earlier a white police...
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