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A Gathering Of Old Men

author: Gaines, Ernest J., Schlo?ndorff, Volker, Schl?ndorff, Volker
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

Native Son

author: Wright, Richard
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

Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart

author: Oates, Joyce Carol
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:
subjects: family, african americans [X], homicide [X], new york (state)

The Murder Of Emmett Till

author: Robson, David
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:

Shattered

author: Langan, Paul, Koontz, Dean R, Wasserman, Robin
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

Jazz

author: Morrison, Toni
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
subjects: african americans [X], murder, homicide [X], love stories, historical fiction

Only Twice I've Wished For Heaven

author: Trice, Dawn Turner
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:
subjects: african americans [X], chicago (ill.), murder, homicide [X]

Jazz

author: Morrison, Toni
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

Searching For Answers

author: Gray, P. J
Karen becomes terrified when Will cannot stop thinking of Mike's murder.
002
year: 2013
copies: 2
call number/section: 002
lexile: 380
subjects: homicide [X], african americans [X], murder

The Murder Of Emmett Till

author: Braugher, Andre
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:

Those Bones Are Not My Child

author: Bambara, Toni Cade
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

author: Freeman, Gregory A
364.15
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:

Slice Of Cherry

author: Reeves, Dia
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

author: Schraff, Anne E
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:
subjects: homicide [X], spanish language, african americans [X], mystery fiction

Dreamland Burning

author: Latham, Jennifer
"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:

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