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41) The Blackening
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain₂t no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?
42) Witness: stories
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"An elegant, stirring, insistent new book bearing out actions taken and not taken, from the acclaimed National Book Award finalist"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder -- Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporations, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears. There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
A retelling of the Caribbean folktale La cucaracha Martina where Martina, in an effort to escape her noisy tías, slips away to a warm familiar island where she can play in peace and quiet--but is she home at last?
46) Joy ride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience...
Author
Publisher
King Production
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Harper was never content, unless she was going from one toxic relationship to another. But when the young beauty sets her sights on Mahoney Monroe, a married billionaire playboy, she finds herself playing a dangerous game, she will more than likely lose. Will falling in love with a married man, be the breaking point for Harper to finally end the vicious cycle of being in yet another toxic relationship. Or will she once again, give into the desires...
48) Decanted
Series
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Look inside one of the most intimate wine-growing regions in the world, Napa Valley, as we follow the journey of new beginnings and mastering a craft.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Deadly traffic accidents involving large trucks have surged over the past decade. FRONTLINE and ProPublica examine one gruesome kind of truck accident - underride crashes - and why they keep happening. Trucking industry representatives and the government's lead agency on traffic safety have said that their top priority is safety. Drawing on more than a year of reporting - including leaked documents and interviews with former government insiders, trucking...
51) Dark Legacy II
Series
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This follow-up to Dark Legacy presents jaw-dropping evidence of the Bush Family's involvement in the death of John Kennedy Jr., all based on official government documents.
52) Vernon, Florida
Series
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris' second feature reveals just how interesting and eccentric the residents of a small town can be. Featured are a turtle keeper, a worm farmer, and most memorably, an extremely enthusiastic turkey hunter.
53) Dark Legacy
Series
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
From government docs, and statements from the best witnesses available, DARK LEGACY produces a thoroughly substantiated criminal indictment of the JFK killing, establishing beyond a reasonable doubt the conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed, who gets bail, how offenders should be sentenced, and who gets parole. But is it actually making our law enforcement and court systems fairer and more just? This timely investigation digs into the hidden biases, privacy risks, and design flaws of this controversial technology.
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An exciting and unexpected collection of 100 recipes that re-examines Chinese American food Jon Kung grew up as a "third-culture" kid: Born in Los Angeles, raised in Hong Kong and Toronto, and now living in Detroit, Jon learned to embrace his diasporic identity in the kitchen after pivoting his career from law school graduate to being a cook. When the pandemic shut down his immensely popular popup, he turned to social media-not just as a means of...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except...
57) A damaged girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Zola Zaire never had a chance to choose her man. Raped at fourteen, her mother threw her out at sixteen, and she was forced to live with a man three times her age. Abuse was all she'd known, and she has gotten comfortable as a bottom dweller--until her son is taken from her. That's when she decides to become the predator instead of the prey"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books distributed by Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Love isn't always easy. Kaylha Karrington introduces us to three couples striving to achieve happiness and love in some less-than-ideal circumstances. Draya wants to trust and believe, but she doesn't know how. Will this couple get it together, or will the memories of what they want disappear right before their eyes? Draya had given up on the hopes of being in love ever since her fiancé, Korey, decided to make a fool out of her. Her woman's intuition...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy--a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that...
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