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21) The human stain
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. --- [Exerpt from back cover.]
22) Little green
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English
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Surviving a near-fatal car wreck and cruising the streets of the Sunset Strip during the heyday of the late 1960s, Easy Rawlins investigates the disappearance of a young African-American--a case that's complicated by Rawlins's changing perspectives.
25) Cinnamon Kiss
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Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant—and faces danger around every corner.
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him...
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him...
27) Native son
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old African-American man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage daughter of a promiscuous woman and an unknown father, meet through Even's lover Joody Two Sun, and embark on a quest for family, love, and commitment that takes them to places they never imagined they would go.
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On the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their destination is desolate Pariah, Texas - Mouse's home once, and still home to his hated stepfather. Encountering violent and unexpected threats, Easy and Mouse forge bonds that will link them in the decades...
30) Red River
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Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
31) The long fall
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Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
32) Little Scarlet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When a man who fled the 1965 Watts riots is suspected of killing a woman in a nearby apartment building, Easy Rawlins begins a murder investigation and learns that the case has sobering racial origins."--from NoveList.
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In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town's new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage-and is subsequently murdered-suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town's accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for...
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Easy Rawlins, working as a school janitor in Los Angeles, is seduced by a teacher into taking her dog, which her husband is threatening to kill. When the husband is murdered, Rawlins becomes the prime suspect and must clear his name. By the author of Black Betty.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespread--all with the support of judges and politicians. In his no-holds-barred style,...
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English
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"People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive...
37) Man gone down
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English
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A father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged from his Boston Brahmin wife and three children, and living in a friend's spare bedroom in Brooklyn. He has four days to come up with the money to keep his family afloat, and four days to make sense of his past and his future in a country where he feels preprogrammed to fail. But he has...
38) Tyrel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn't know. As soon as they get there, it's clear that he's the only black guy, and it's going to be a weekend of heavy drinking. Although Tyler is welcomed, he can't help but feel uneasy in 'Whitesville.' The combination of all the testosterone and alcohol starts to get out of hand, and Tyler's precarious situation starts to feel like a nightmare....
40) Black Betty
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English
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"On the shady side of LA in 1961, African-American private eye Easy Rawlins can go places a white detective cannot. So when Saul Lynx needs a missing woman found, he hires Easy to do his dirty work."--from NoveList.
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