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21) Heaven, my home
Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark. Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had...
Author
Series
[Berger and Mitry mystery] volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
New York film critic Mitch Berger is sent to do a piece on the Connecticut Gold Coast to help him get over his wife's death. The discovery of a body in his landlady's backyard brings Mitch in contact with Lt. Desiree Mitry, an enigmatic and beautiful member of the Connecticut State Police.
23) Hide
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Foster thriller volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles. Detective Harriet Foster is on the case, even though she's still grieving the sudden death of her partner. As a Black woman in a male-dominated department, Foster anticipates a rocky road ahead acclimating to a new team--and building trust with her new partner isn't coming easily. After another victim...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
Choosing a college and striking out on one's own is an exciting time that requires a big adjustment by both child and parent, but few parents will have as much difficulty relinquishing control over their daughter's life as Chicago police chief James Porter. A loving, but overprotective father, James wants his daughter Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern College. When she's waitlisted and called for an interview at Georgetown in Washington, D.C.,...
25) Blazing saddles
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A sheriff and a sharpshooter join forces to defend a small town from villains in the wild West.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection-for his own private charity. But the take-$87,000-is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everybody wants to get his hands on. With Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics--and their impact on people of color--are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as one of 'eight notable Oklahomans, ' the 'most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.' That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas makes his accomplishments all the more remarkable ..."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Righter's Mill Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Following the overdose deaths of two high school teens, ... a diverse narcotics team called the Harlem Raiders ... found an unlikely ally--a local black female community leader--as they took on a trio of Mafioso families bent on destroying their community for profit, leaving a path of dead and grieving. Over time, the narcs were shadowed by [this] rogue, undercover black female DEA agent, who used her skills to covertly protect them as they worked...
30) Bass Reeves
Author
Series
Tales of the talented tenth volume 1
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bass Reeves : Tales of the Talented Tenth tells the story of Bass Reeves, an escaped slave who became one of the most successful lawmen of the Old West and the rumored inspiration for The Lone Ranger. Volume I chronicles his life from winning shooting matches in early childhood to traveling with his master, living with Native Americans in Indian Territory, and finally becoming a Deputy US Marshal. The Tales of the Talented Tenth series will feature...
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