A Gathering Of Old Men
After Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: african american farmers, murder [X], african americans [X], homicide, audiobooks, compact discs, louisiana, historical fiction, electronic books, didactic fiction
Native Son
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.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 146
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: african american men, thomas, bigger (fictitious character), thomas, bigger (fictional character), bildungsromans, chicago (ill.), death row inmates, trials (murder), murderers, homicide, african americans [X], blacks, feature films, film adaptations, audiobooks, murder [X], spanish language
Shattered
Living with other "mechs" since her wealthy parents transplanted her brain into a mechanical body to prevent her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia becomes a pawn in a religious leader's movement to outlaw "mech" technology and eradicate machines such as herself.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 140
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: interpersonal relations, high school students, african americans [X], voyages and travels, murder [X], homicide, horror fiction, cyborgs, science fiction, science fiction, families, family life, theft, missing persons
Jazz
A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
Until Justice Rolls Down
An account of the 1963 KKK bombing of a church in Birmingham in which four African-American girls were killed, discussing the FBI's failure to solve the crime, and examining the efforts of Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley to win justice--finally convicting one man in 1977.
364.15
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile: 1050
Dangerous Skies
Hypocrisy and prejudice twist events in such a way as to implicate two children, one from a prominent white family and the other an African-American, in a murder.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
Native Son
Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young African-American man finds release only in acts of violence.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: african american men, thomas, bigger (fictitious character), murder [X], african americans [X], thomas, bigger (fictional character), chicago (ill.)
Only Twice I've Wished For Heaven
When the Saville family gains entrance to a new apartment building in Lakeland, they find out that life inside their gated apartment complex is much different from that on the outside.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Jazz
A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: murder [X], african americans [X], homicide, love stories, historical fiction, harlem, (new york, n.y.), crimes of passion, middle-aged persons, funeral rites and ceremonies, triangles (interpersonal relations), harlem (new york, n.y.), psychological fiction
Searching For Answers
Karen becomes terrified when Will cannot stop thinking of Mike's murder.
002
year: 2013
copies: 2
call number/section: 002
lexile: 380
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Marzala Spencer's teen-age son disappears amidst a streak of child murders in the Atlanta area, involving her family in the middle of a terror-filled search for a killer.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african americans [X], murder [X], homicide, atlanta (ga.), mystery fiction, electronic books
Proud And Angry Dust
Eleven-year-old Moose O'Malley's life is changed in unexpected ways when oil is discovered in his small Texas town.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african american boys, african american teenage boys, petroleum industry and trade, murder [X], african americans [X], texas
The Sacred Lies Of Minnow Bly
After wasting twelve years in the Kevinian Cult, seventeen-year-old Minnow rebels.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: murder [X], people with disabilities, amputees, african americans [X], juvenile detention homes, cults
Mary, Mary
A well-known actress has been shot. Shortly afterwards the LA Times receives a letter describing her murder in vivid detail.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: cross, alex (fictitious character), police, murder [X], african american psychologists, actresses, government investigators, actors and actresses, african americans [X], spanish language, psychologists, actors, victims of crimes, psychological fiction, serial murders, cross, alex (fictional character), mystery fiction, los angeles (calif.)
Overturned
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.
FIC
year:
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide, poker, gambling, murder [X], casinos, fathers and daughters, juvenile fiction / social themes / friendship, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, juvenile fiction / action & adventure, african americans [X], nevada, las vegas (nev.), detective and mystery fiction, mystery fiction, juvenile works, fiction, father-daughter relationship