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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Black PI Easy Rawlins, working as a school janitor in Los Angeles, is seduced by a teacher into taking her dog which her husband threatens to kill. When the husband is murdered, Rawlins becomes the prime suspect and must clear his name. By the author of Black Betty.
62) Black Betty
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
LA's black investigator Easy Rawlins, financially in the hole, must accept $2,000 from the oily white private eye Saul Lynx to track down one Elizabeth Eady, aka Black Betty. From her native Houston to her position as a housekeeper for a wealthy Beverly Hills family Betty's beauty and sensuality have left a trail of chaos. By the author of White Butterfly.
63) Fever season
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
Benjamin January must solve a murder mystery while he is trying to save the people of New Orleans from the deadly cholera epidemic.
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 32
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Detective Alex Cross is in the sights of the Dead Hours Killer, a serial murderer on a ruthless mission ... An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. 'Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,' DC Metro Police dispatch says. 'A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.' Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane...
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Gideon novels (Eric Jerome Dickey) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
International hit man Gideon never misses his target, but when a job in Detroit goes bad, he should have killed his client--a cold-blooded woman who hired him to kill her husband--when he had the chance. Now the city's mayor and with money and power to spare, this woman will stop at nothing to see that Gideon gets what he deserves
67) Dead water
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In turbulent nineteenth-century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January finds himself on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable journey of death and murder.
68) Finding Gideon
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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"A professional job turns personal for jet-setting contract killer Gideon in this sexy, thrilling page-turner by New York Timesbestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first time, the job is taking its toll. Neither Gideon nor the city of Buenos Aires has recovered from the mayhem caused during Gideon's last job. But before the dust has...
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
John "Basil" Henderson has always played the field, both as a professional football player and as an equal opportunity lover. After retiring his jersey for a career as a sports agent, the dashing playboy is surprising everyone - including himself - by deciding to settle down and commit to his new love, Yancey Harrington Braxton. A fiercely driven Broadway star on the rise, blessed with beauty, charm, and a fondness for the finer things in life, she...
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Series
Gideon novels (Eric Jerome Dickey) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Dickey's fans will be delighted by this fast-paced, deadly, and sensual book that gives them the chance to catch up with some of their favorite characters while introducing a great new bad-boy narrator: a hit man who goes by the name of Gideon.
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Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
72) Them: [a novel]
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Barlowe, a single, African American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his nephew in an Atlanta neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward, known both as the center of the civil rights movement and for its main street, Auburn Avenue, once the richest Negro street in the world. Barlowe works as a printer and passes the time reading books from the neighborhood library and hanging out with other local black men at the corner store. When a white married...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:
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It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:
...
76) Charcoal Joe
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
Life for Easy Rawlins is surprisingly... easy. He's living off the proceeds of his last case, trying to keep out of trouble. Of course it's not going to last. Because Easy's old friend Mouse knocks on his door. Mouse is one of the deadliest men in America. And Mouse wants a small favor. He wants Easy to help a man he says is wrongly imprisoned, a friend of Charcoal Joe. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in the LA underworld -- he pulls all the strings...
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Series
C. J. Floyd mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Bounty-hunting CJ Floyd is hired to find the daughter of a federal judge after she becomes involved with a radical ecology group that has plans to destroy Colorado's ranching industry, but when he finds her dead, he's faced with the more dangerous mission of tracking down her killing.
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Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance Corp., Leonid McGill investigates, while his own family life begins to unravel around him.
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Nineteen-year-old Easy Rawlins and his friend Mouse become engulfed in a world of voodoo, revenge, and death, when they set out in 1939 to retrieve money from Mouse's stepfather so that Mouse can marry EttaMae--a girl with whom Easy was once involved.
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