Ron Butler
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri,...
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lauren Francis-Sharma's 'Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman, the risks and rewards in Marcia's life amplify forever. On an island rich with laughter, Calypso, Carnival, cricket, beaches and salty air, sweet fruits...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne Treadstone novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Operation Treadstone has nearly ruined Adam Hayes. The top-secret CIA Black Ops program trained him to be an all but invincible assassin, but it also cost him his family and any chance at a normal life. Which is why he was determined to get out. Working as a carpenter in rural Washington state, Adam thinks he has left Treadstone in the past, until he received a mysterious email from a former colleague, and soon after is attacked by an unknown hit...
Author
Series
Catalina Cove volume 4
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Victoria Madaris shows Roman Malone, a rising U.S. senator, around her picturesque Catalina Cove at the encouragement of her matchmaking great-grandmother despite her mistrust of politicians.
Author
Series
Catalina Cove volume 5
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Vaughn Miller's Wall Street career was abruptly ended by a wrongful conviction and two years in prison. Since then, he's returned to his hometown, kept his head down and forged a way forward. When he is exonerated and his name cleared, he feels he can hold his head up once again, maybe even talk to the beautiful café owner who sets his blood to simmering. Sierra Crane escaped a disastrous marriage--barely. She and her six-year-old goddaughter have...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS. SOME ARE JUST TOO HARD TO TELL
---BUT TOO HOT TO KEEP. . .
It's been fifteen years since the Bennetts were all in one place, at one time, and now at a total blowout of a reunion four special cousins' hidden desires and long-kept secrets will challenge their bond, test their courage, and change their hearts forever. . .
Taye is a hair stylist with big ambitions. She's trusted the wrong men in the past and now she determined...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been kidnapped, but how could someone remove a teenager from...
10) Forged in desire
Author
Series
The Protectors (Brenda Jackson) volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When good girl Margo Connelly becomes bodyguard Lamar "Striker" Jennings' latest assignment, she begins to wonder if the temptation of her alluring protector is more dangerous than the gangster targeting her.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s--one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscape"--
"From MSNBC and NBC News correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s--one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscape. In The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes account of the #blacklivesmatter movement shares insights into the young men and women behind it, citing the racially charged controversies that have motivated members and the economic, political, and personal histories that inform its purpose.
"A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic, heartfelt romance about a boy torn between two loves, one in his present ... and one in the past. A story of Black queer history, love, loss, and learning to stay in the moment
...Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
~Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018~
A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn off happy endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves back to town.
Nathan Bird doesn't believe in happy endings. Although he's the ultimate film buff and an aspiring screenwriter,
...Author
Series
The Protectors (Brenda Jackson) volume 2
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
One glance is all it takes
From the moment his eyes meet hers across the crime-scene tape, ex-con turned bodyguard Quasar Patterson knows he has to see the mysterious Dr. Randi Fuller again. She's a renowned psychic investigator who can foresee danger for others, but not for herself. That makes Quasar doubly determined to watch over her—the closer, the better—as she's drawn into a dangerous gang rivalry.
Both her psychic...
From the moment his eyes meet hers across the crime-scene tape, ex-con turned bodyguard Quasar Patterson knows he has to see the mysterious Dr. Randi Fuller again. She's a renowned psychic investigator who can foresee danger for others, but not for herself. That makes Quasar doubly determined to watch over her—the closer, the better—as she's drawn into a dangerous gang rivalry.
Both her psychic...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. He lets his longtime crush walk all over him. And he's in no hurry to decide on a college path. The only person who ever made him think he could be more was his older brother Patrick. But that was before Patrick died suddenly, leaving Pup with a family who won't talk about it and acquaintances who just keep saying, "sorry for...
17) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
18) Hoodoo
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Secret Life of Bees meets Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle in this bold debut novel, set between the deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early 70s, following a biracial teenage boy whose new life in a big city is disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point. It's 1969 when fifteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins his first day at Claremont Prep, one of New York City's...