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Series
Alex Cross ; 15
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
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Language
English
Description
Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day, and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees,...
6) Birthright
Author
Publisher
Mint Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The protagonist of this novel is an educated mulatto male who tries to survive in a small Southern town in the early twentieth century. In a biography of Stribling, William E. Smith states: "Many years after its publication, Stribling identified his work as 'the first realistic novel of Negroes written in this country since Opie Read produced My Young Master.'" In 1924, the famous black director Oscar Micheaux adapted Birthright into a silent film."--...
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Language
English
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Fourteen year-old Tom lives with his Uncle Will, who manages the Centerville Owls, a championship minor league baseball team. But his life is shaken up when his long missing father turns up, and a body is discovered behind the Centerville scoreboard in a shallow grave.
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Language
English
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"At eight years old, Raeford "Junebug" Hurley has known more than his share of hard lessons. After the sudden death of his parents, he goes to live with his grandparents on a farm surrounded by tobacco fields and lonesome woods. There he meets Fancy Stroud and her twin brother, Lightning, the children of black sharecroppers on a neighboring farm. As years pass, the friendship between Junebug and bright, compassionate Fancy takes on a deeper intensity....
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Language
English
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"Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century's worth of hate. On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home. Armed with skills honed while caring for an alcoholic mother, she must battle to survive the days and months ahead. Seven years later,...
Author
Publisher
Obstinate Daughters Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eldred Mims has died in prison after serving time for a crime he did not commit. When Ora Lee Beckworth decides to set the record straight, her confession leaves Blanche Lowery's daughters, Patrice and Grace, to grapple with the aftermath of a lifetime of lies. Now the sisters must reframe everything they thought they knew about their mother, their brother, and the man they knew as Eddie. --
11) Dessa Rose
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Based on the lives of two nineteenth-century women, this portrait of the South during slavery focuses on the slave Dessa Rose and her relationship with a white woman, Miss Rufel.
12) O sol para todos
Author
Publisher
Jose Olympio editora
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Um livro emblematico sobre racismo e injustica: a historia de um advogado que defende um homem negro acusado de estuprar uma mulher branca nos Estados Unidos dos anos 1930 e enfrenta represalias da comunidade racista. O livro e narrado pela sensivel Scout, filha do advogado. Uma historia atemporal sobre tolerancia, perda da inocencia e conceito de justica." --
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Series
Publisher
Peter Lang
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South is a collection of twelve short stories that addresses issues of race, place, and identity in the post-Civil Rights American South. Using historical, spectral, and hip hop infused fiction, Boondock Kollage critically engages readers to question the intersections of regionalism and black culture in current American society"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later, in 1955, Betty Jewel is dying of cancer and looking for someone to care for Billie when she's gone. With no one she can count on, Betty Jewel does the unthinkable: she takes out a want ad seeking a loving mother...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape." --
"La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas." --
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Series
Language
English
Description
"This book is an historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To kill a mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go set a watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To kill a mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go set a watchman...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"El consejo de un abogado a sus hijos mientras ?l defiende el verdadero ruise?or de la novela cl?sica de Harper Lee?un hombre negro acusado de violar a una ni?a blanca. A trav?s de los ojos de Jem y Scout Finch, Harper Lee explora con humor y honestidad inquebrantable la irracionalidad de la actitud de los adultos hacia la raza y la clase en las profundidades del sur en la d?cada de 1930. La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia...
19) The reckoning
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Language
English
Description
"Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...