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The retirement plan [text (large print)] : a novel / by Hincenbergs, Sue,author.;
"Three middle-aged best friends turn to murder in order to collect on their husbands' life insurance policies ... but are unaware that their husbands have a devious plan of their own, in this darkly funny debut perfect for fans of Thursday Murder Club and Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Black humor.; Large print books.; Novels.; Assassins; Female friendship; Friendship; Life insurance policies; Married people;
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The unlucky ones / by Morrissey, Hannah,author.;
"A police transcriber-turned-novelist returns to Black Harbor to help solve the case of her ex-husband's murder in the next riveting Black Harbor mystery by acclaimed author Hannah Morrissey. Black Harbor is a tinderbox. Temperatures and violent crime have both risen to all-time highs, a new drug razes the city, and the scene to which Sergeant Nikolai Kole responds is anything but a rote homicide. In the back of a clubhouse lies a body wrapped in garbage bags and doused in bleach. It isn't just any body. Tommy Greenlee, the ex-husband of Kole's former lover, Hazel, has been shot several times and left for dead. What's more ... the killer left what appears to be a calling card. Elsewhere, Hazel is haunted by her memories of Black Harbor. Lured there after eight years, she returns to find out who killed Tommy and why. Now back in Kole's orbit, their love affair can hardly pick up where it left off. They both used each other to their own ends before, which begs the question: would they do it again? With the atmosphere growing more volatile by the second, Hazel and Kole call a truce, and as they work together to solve this murder, they will not only unearth Black Harbor's deepest, darkest secrets-they'll each have to face their own"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Secrecy; Women authors;
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Yet here I am : lessons from a Black man's search for home / by Capehart, Jonathan,author.;
"MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart is one of the most recognizable faces in cable news. But long before that success, Capehart spent his boyhood growing up without his father, shuttling back and forth between New Jersey and rural Severn, North Carolina, contemplating the complexities of race and identity as they shifted around him. It was never easy bridging two worlds; whether being told he was too smart or not smart enough, too black or not black enough, Capehart struggled to find his place. Then, an internship at The Today Show altered the course of his life, bringing him one step closer to his dream. From there, Capehart embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Yet Here I Am takes us along that journey, from his years at Carleton College, where he learns to embrace his identity as a gay, black man surrounded by a likeminded community; to his decision to come out to his family, risking rejection; and finally to his move to New York City, where time and again he stumbles and picks himself up as he blazes a path to become the familiar face in news we know today. Honest and endearing, Yet Here I Am is an inspirational memoir of identity, opportunity, and of finding one's voice and purpose along the way"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Capehart, Jonathan.; African American journalists; Gay journalists;
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I take my coffee black : reflections on Tupac, musical theater, faith, and being Black in America / by Merritt, Tyler,author.; Kimmel, Jimmy,1967-writer of foreword.; Tieche, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."As a 6'2" dreadlocked black man, Tyler Merritt knows that getting too close to the wrong person can get him killed. But he also believes that proximity can be a cure for racism. Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed more than 59 million times. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has been profiled in the New York Times. The viral video's main point--that the more you know someone, the more empathy, understanding, and compassion you have for that person--is the springboard for this book, which lets us deeply into Tyler's life and his world to help bridge the divides that seem to grow wider every day. In I Take My Coffee Black, Tyler tells hilarious stories from his own life as a black man in America. He talks about growing up in a multi-cultural community and realizing that he wasn't always welcome. He shares how he quit sports for musical theater (that's where the girls were), to how Jesus barged in uninvited and changed his life forever (it all revolved around a Triple Fat Goose jacket), to how he ended up at a small Bible college in Santa Cruz because he thought they had a great theater program (they didn't). Throughout his stories, he also seamlessly weaves in lessons about privilege and the legacy of lynching and sharecropping and why you don't cross black mamas, teaching readers about the history of encoded racism that still undergirds our society today. By turns witty, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny, I Take My Coffee Black paints a portrait of black manhood in America and enlightens, illuminates, and entertains--and, ultimately, builds the kind of empathy that might just be the antidote against the racial injustice in our society. With a foreword from Jimmy Kimmel"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Actors; African American actors;
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The black bird oracle / by Harkness, Deborah,1965-author.;
"Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana's family line. Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It's time you came home, Diana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family's dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power -- if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it."--
Subjects: Vampire fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Physicians; Vampires;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Girl taking over [graphic novel] : a Lois Lane story / by Kuhn, Sarah(Author),author.; Jovellanos, Arielle,illustrator.; Pecini, Olivia,colourist.; Ujimori, Melanie,letterer.;
"Ambitious aspiring journalist Lois Lane is fresh out of high school and ready to tackle a summer in the city with gusto, but a cavalcade of setbacks-including an annoying frenemy roommate, a beyond-tedious internship at a suddenly corporatized website, and a boss who demotes her to coffee-fetching minion-threatens to derail her extremely detailed life plan. And, you know, her entire future!!! When Lois uncovers a potentially explosive scandal, she must stand up and speak out for the future she deserves without destroying everything she's worked so hard to create. From beloved writer Sarah Kuhn (Shadow of the Batgirl, Heroine Complex), with expressive art by Arielle Jovellanos (Black Star) and vibrant colors from Olivia Pecini (Tuca & Bertie), comes a charming YA story about the strength it takes to embrace the messiness of life."--013-017.Grades 7-9.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Lane, Lois (Fictitious character); Asian American women; Friendship; Reporters and reporting; Women journalists;
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Amity : A Novel. by Harris, Nathan.;
'Amity' is a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to finally reunite, all while escaping a former master still intent on their bondage. From the author of 'The Sweetness of Water'. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / African American & Black / Historical; FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Southern;
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I bet you'd look good in a coffin / by Brent, Katy,author.;
My name is Kitty Collins and I'm a serial killer. I don't want to kill. It's just so hard to resist. Some men really, really deserve it. Men like Blaze Bundy, an anonymous influencer spreading misogyny online. He's making it very hard for me to control my murderous urges. Meanwhile I'm in the South of France to watch my mother marry a man I've never met. I should be drinking cocktails and focusing on my tan, not plotting a murder. But a woman's work is never done. Surely one more teensy little kill wouldn't hurt, would it?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Black humor.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Murder; Women murderers; Women serial murderers;
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Blackout / by Jónasson,Ragnar,1976-author.; Bates, Quentin,translator.; translation of:Ragnar Jónasson,1976-Myrknætti.English.;
On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Police; Violent crimes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The eating instinct : food culture, body image, and guilt in America / by Sole-Smith, Virginia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Food habits.; Body image.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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