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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Just when Alex Cross thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex...
Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
"Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage."--Amazon.com.
4) Black hornet
Author
Series
The Lew Griffin novels volume 3
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Description
"A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. Though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some sense of it. His unlikely allies include a crusading journalist, a longtime supplier of mercenary arms and troops, and a bail bondsman"--
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 1
Description
"Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive...
Publisher
Distribution Solutions
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An NYPD Detective is shot by one of his own, benevolent brothers in uniform. Communities are ignited to march for justice. Gangs put their differences aside for a united fight, an equal opportunity. "That people not be judged by the color of their skin but for the content of their character." The movement and unity impacts City society and leads to a Blue Wall intervention within the Police force.
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 10
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co. Large Print
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
453 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Description
When the world's largest cities are seized by terrorists who threaten to set off deadly bombs, Alex Cross heads a joint investigation by the FBI, CIA, and Interpol to outmaneuver two vicious criminals known as the Weasel and the Wolf.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; cm
Description
"A few weeks later the office phone rings, and the caller asks Ron a question he thought hed never have to answer, “Would you like to join our cause?” This is 1978, and the KKK is on the rise in the United States. Its Grand Wizard, David Duke, has made a name for himself, appearing on talk shows, and major magazine interviews preaching a “kinder” Klan that wants nothing more than to preserve a heritage, and to restore a nation to its former...
Author
Series
Charlotte Justice novels volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 25 cm.
11) Kiss the girls
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
481 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
As two serial killers terrorize different regions of America, the FBI begins to suspect that the two are competing with each other, and Washington, D.C. police detective Alex Cross embarks on a personal quest to find the perpetrators.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"When a famously volatile and suspended NFL superstar linebacker and his entourage decide to spend his season in exile in bucolic Dorset--much to the dismay of his early-to-bed, ultra-white neighbors--Des Mitry is put on the spot. And when his 17-year-old sister-in-law washes up on Mitch Berger's beach, bloodied and barely alive, Des is on the case"--
13) Blazing saddles
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Under pressure to capture a flasher who has been targeting wealthy women in the Dorset Historic District, police officer Desiree Mitry becomes convinced about the culprit's identity and is wrongly accused of murder when her suspect turns up dead after a heated public confrontation.
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers: they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect...
16) Lightning men
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
647 pages cm.
Description
"Writes with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." -The New York Times, on Darktown "Reads like the best of James Ellroy." -Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Darktown "Mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers." -The Washington Post, on Darktown From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a "combustible procedural that will knock the wind...
17) The glass shield
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first African American assigned to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department uncovers a corrupt and racist precinct.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1978 detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, answered an ad recruiting for the Ku Klux Klan. A few weeks later, his office phone rang and the man on the other end of the line asked, "Do you want to join our cause?" This launched Ron into an incredible undercover investigation, with his white partner playing "Ron" in person, while he took the phone calls, eventually befriending David Duke himself....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (286 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Blazing Saddles: A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town in the Old West of 1874.
Caddyshack: Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III -- against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smails plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a...
Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
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