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1) Lucky you
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me—and “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review)—a novel starring three lottery winners, two heavily armed psychopaths, and a big-city investigative journalist set deep in Florida Bay.
Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles—the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus,...
Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles—the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her grandmother passes, Shania moves to the gentrifying town of Blue Rock and is thrust into Bard, the city's wealthiest private school. At Bard, race is both invisible and hypervisible, and Shania's new friends are split on what they see. Catherine, the school's queen bee, unexpectedly takes Shania under her wing. Prescott, the golden boy, seems perfect... except for the disturbing rumors about an altercation he had with a Black student who...
Publisher
Blax Film
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Edition
Special widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An insane white supremacist plans to poison the water supplies of Washington, D.C., Detroit, and Los Angeles. The poison will kill only Blacks. Three Black agents thwart the plot.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Jefferson is great at her job. She's an experienced labor and delivery nurse who not only knows how to guide women through labor, but also understands postdelivery needs such as a shoulder to cry on and lipstick. But her career and life change forever when she hesitates before helping a baby in cardiac arrest. Why would a nurse pause to help a patient? Ruth is African American and the baby's white supremacist parents don't want her touching their...
Author
Series
Shadow man novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Santa Elena in 1985 is a sleepy, sedate town-that is, until unusual crimes start to occur. The body of a dog is left outside a Vietnamese grocery store. An encampment of Mexican strawberry pickers is brutally attacked with mysterious weapons. A wealthy real estate developer is found dead inside the pool of his beach-side house. When rat poison and other clues are found across these crime scenes, Detective Ben Wade and forensic expert Natasha Betencourt...
Author
Series
Jack Keller novels volume 4
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Keller's been in exile, living a quiet life in the desert. Now his old friend and former employer Angela has tracked him down and needs his help. Oscar Sanchez, Angela's husband and Keller's best friend, has disappeared while investigating what happened to the sons he was trying to bring to America. If anyone can find Oscar, Keller can, but along the way, he has to confront his own demons and his unresolved feelings for Angela--now his best friend's...
Author
Publisher
Swallow Press, Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A chilling, timely reminder of the moral and human costs of racial hatred. What happens when a delusional white supremacist and his army of followers decide to create a racially pure 'Little Europe' within a rural Tennessee community? As the town's residents grapple with their new reality, minor skirmishes escalate and dirty politics, scandals, and a cataclysmic chain of violence follows. In this uncanny reflection of our time, award-winning novelist...
Language
English
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Description
Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.
15) Devils within
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Language
English
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Description
Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces - a prize for spilling blood for "the cause." And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and the leader of The Fort, a notorious white supremacist compound) in self-defense, landing in a treatment center while the state searched for his next of kin. Now, in the custody of an uncle he never knew existed, who wants nothing to do with him, enrolled in school...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets. Jeffrey Toobin details how McVeigh's principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and documents, including detailed communications between McVeigh...
19) Hollow fires
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
20) High white sun
Author
Series
Sheriff Chris Cherry novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, new sheriff Chris Cherry still struggles to escape Ross's long, dark shadow. He's trying to modernize the department, bringing in new deputies America Reynosa and Ben Harper. But they're facing a town unwilling to change, friends and enemies unable to let go of the past, and the harsh limits of the badge. When a local Rio Grande guide is brutally and inexplicably murdered, their investigation is swept...
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