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, african americans [X], homicide [X], 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 [X], african americans [X], blacks, feature films, film adaptations, audiobooks, murder, spanish language
Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart
In a small New York town divided by race in the 1950s, a young African-American basketball player risks his life to protect Iris Courtney, a white girl pursued by a malicious classmate, and, in doing so, forms a bond of secrecy that will stay with them both through adulthood.
FIC
year: 1991
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Murder Of Emmett Till
Examine the world of the criminal investigator and other professions who are on the frontline of solving the murder of Emmett Till.
364.1
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: 364.1
lexile:
subjects: till, emmett, racism, homicide [X], african americans [X], murder victims, victims of crimes, electronic books, electronic books
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, homicide [X], 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
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, african americans [X], homicide [X], 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
The Murder Of Emmett Till
Examines the death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago murdered by two white men in August 1955 after he reportedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store, and discusses the killing's impact as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
364.15
year: 2004
copies: 5
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
subjects: till, emmett, african americans [X], lynching, trials (murder), video recordings for the hearing impaired, homicide [X], mississippi
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, homicide [X], atlanta (ga.), mystery fiction, electronic books
Lay This Body Down
364.15
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
subjects: manning, clyde, williams, john s, plantation life, african americans [X], homicide [X], peonage, trials (homicide)
Slice Of Cherry
Portero, Texas, teens Kit and Fancy Cordelle share their infamous father's fascination with killing, and despite their tendency to shun others they bring two boys with similar tendencies to a world of endless possibilities they have discovered behind a mysterious door.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: african americans [X], dating (social customs), supernatural, homicide [X], sisters, texas
Cuando Muere Un H?roe
When friendly Mr. Jefferson is murdered, Tony sets out to find the killer, putting his own life at risk.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Dreamland Burning
"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide [X], african americans [X], race relations, riots, tulsa (okla.), detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction