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The black book [sound recording] / by Patterson, James,author.; Ballerini, Edoardo,1970-narrator.; Ellis, David,author.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Edoardo Ballerini.Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with double murder and desperate to clear his name, Billy retraces his steps to get to the bottom of what happened. When he discovers the existence of a little black book that everyone who's anyone in Chicago will stop at nothing to get their hands on, Billy suspects it contains the truth that will either set him free ... or confirm his worst fears.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Thrillers (Fiction); Police; Murder;
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The house across the street / by Pearse, Lesley,author.;
Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea. But who is the woman who arrives in the black car most Saturdays while Gloria is at work? Sometimes she brings women to the house, other times they have children. Hilda, Katy's mother, disapproves of Gloria. She wonders if these mysterious visitors have just been released from prison. Is Gloria secretly bringing criminals, or worse, into the heart of the community? Then one night, the house burns down. In the wreckage, the bodies of Gloria and her daughter are found. Katy is sure the unexplained visitors must be responsible until her father is arrested and charged with murder. Have the police arrested the correct person? Are the rest of the street safe? Can Katy find the truth before it's too late?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Abused women; Arson; Families; Family violence; Murder; Neighbors; Secrecy;
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Dreamer : a graphic memoir / by Aliu, Akim.; Anderson-Elysée, Greg.; Vega, Karen de la.; Williams, Marcus(Comic book artist);
"Akim Aliu--also known as 'Dreamer'--is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. 'Dreamer' tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice. This is a gut-wrenching and riveting graphic novel memoir that reminds us to never stop dreaming, and is sure to inspire young readers everywhere."--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Autobiographical comics.; Aliu, Akim; Hockey players; Hockey players, Black; Racially mixed people; Racially mixed people; Immigrants; Racism in sports; Cartoons and comics.;
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone A Novel [electronic resource] : by Stevenson, Benjamin.aut; cloudLibrary;
Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this “utterly original” (Jane Harper), “not to be missed” (Karin Slaughter), fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. “A witty twist on classic whodunits… Stevenson not only 'plays fair,' he plays the mystery game very, very well.” -- Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started. EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE My brother My stepsister My wife My father My mother My sister-in-law My uncle My stepfather My aunt Me
Subjects: Electronic books.; Black Humor; Amateur Sleuth; Crime; Traditional; Crime;
© 2023., HarperCollins,
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Daughter of Black Lake / by Buchanan, Cathy Marie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In a world of pagan traditions and deeply rooted love, a girl in jeopardy must save her family and community, in a transporting historical novel by nationally bestselling author Cathy Marie Buchanan. It's the season of Fallow, in the era of iron. In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honor Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time. A girl named Devout comes of age, sweetly flirting with the young man she's tilled alongside all her life, and envisions a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, though, the settlement is a changed place. Famine has brought struggle, and outsiders, with their foreign ways and military might, have arrived at the doorstep. For Devout's young daughter, life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipated. But this girl has an extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens, it will be up to her to save her family and community. Set in a time long forgotten, Daughter of Black Lake brings the ancient world to life and introduces us to an unforgettable family facing an unimaginable trial"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.;
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Lawmen, Bass Reeves. [videorecording] / by Oyelowo, David,actor.; Quaid, Dennis,actor.; Sutherland, Donald,1935-actor.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.;
David Oyelowo, Dennis Quaid, Donald Sutherland, Lauren E. Banks, Barry Pepper, Demi Singleton.It follows the journey of Reeves and his rise from enslavement to law enforcement as one of the first Black U.S. Deputy Marshals west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting over 3,000 outlaws during his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Western television programs.; Television programs.; Reeves, Bass; United States. Marshals Service; African Americans; African American families; Marshals; Freed persons; Gunfighters; Outlaws;
For private home use only.
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My government means to kill me / by Newson, Rasheed,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the City, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that change his life forever--from civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, who he meets in a Harlem bathhouse, to his landlord, Fred Trump, who he clashes with and outfoxes. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activist Larry Kramer and civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton, becomes a founding member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships--all while seeking the meaning of life in the midst of so much death. Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced, coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young, gay, Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Gay fiction.; Historical ficition.; Novels.; African American gay men;
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The guest book [sound recording] / by Blake, Sarah,1960-author.; Cassidy, Orlagh,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Orlagh Cassidy."A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used to run the world." And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything--perfect children, good looks, a love everyone envies. But after a tragedy befalls them, Ogden tries to bring Kitty back to life by purchasing an island in Maine. That island, and its house, come to define and burnish the Milton family, year after year after year. And it is there that Kitty issues a refusal that will haunt her till the day she dies. In 1959 a young Jewish man, Len Levy, will get a job in Ogden's bank and earn the admiration of Ogden and one of his daughters, but the scorn of everyone else. Len's best friend, Reg Pauling, has always been the only black man in the room--at Harvard, at work, and finally at the Miltons' island in Maine. An island that, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this last generation doesn't have the money to keep. When Kitty's granddaughter hears that she and her cousins might be forced to sell it, and when her husband brings back disturbing evidence about her grandfather's past, she realizes she is on the verge of finally understanding the silences that seemed to hover just below the surface of her family all her life. An ambitious novel that weaves the American past with its present, Sarah Blake's The Guest Book looks at the racism and power that has been systemically embedded in the U.S. for generations" --
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Family secrets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Joe Hustle : a novel / by Lange, Richard,1961-author.;
Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together enough money from various jobs to eke out a precarious existence on the darker fringes of Los Angeles. When he meets Emily, the black-sheep daughter of a wealthy family, the two spark an instant connection--she seems like the best thing to happen to him in a while. But their whirlwind romance is put to the test when what starts out as a simple favor for a friend leaves Joe homeless, unemployed, and on the wrong side of a vengeful drug dealer. An impulsive offer to go on a road trip with Emily promises to take them out of harm's way but may only lead to more chaos.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Noir fiction.; Novels.; Ex-convicts; Man-woman relationships; Organized crime; Veterans; Working poor;
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The help [videorecording] / by Barnathan, Michael.; Chastain, Jessica.; Columbus, Chris.; Davis, Viola.; Goldblatt, Stephen,1945-; Green, Brunson.; Howard, Bryce Dallas,1981-; Janney, Allison.; Newman, Thomas,1955-; Spacek, Sissy.; Spencer, Octavia.; Stockett, Kathryn.Help.Videorecording.; Stone, Emma,1988-; Taylor, Tate.; Tyson, Cicely.; Vogel, Mike.; Winborne, Hughes.; 1492 Pictures.; Dreamworks Pictures.; Harbinger Pictures.; Imagenation Abu Dhabi (Firm); Participant Media.; Reliance Entertainment (Firm); Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm);
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Thomas Newman.Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney.Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray ; widescreen presentation (1.85:1) ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; region 1.
Subjects: Stockett, Kathryn.; African American women household employees; African American women; Civil rights movements; Feature films.; Female friendship; Housekeepers;
© c2011., Touchstone Home Entertainment,
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