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In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young,... (more)

Witness

by Karen Hesse

Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish. In this story of a community on the brink of... (more)

Devil on My Heels

by Joyce McDonald

It’s 1959 in Benevolence, Florida, and life is as sweet as a Valencia orange for 15-year-old Dove Alderman. Whether she’s sipping cherry Cokes with her girlfriends and listening to the Everly Brothers, eating key lime pie made by her housekeeper, Delia, or cruising around town with the coolest boy in school in his silver-blue T-bird convertible, Dove’s days are as smooth and warm as the soft sand in her father’s... (more)

Away West (Scraps of Time)

by Fred McKissack

Unlike his older brothers, thirteen-year-old Everett was "born in freedom," never knowing life as a slave. His most prized possession is the medal his father earned in the Civil War. Now, more than 125 years later, that treasure is kept in the Websters’ attic with other "scraps of time," ready to be discovered by another generation eager to know its family history. The second novel in Patricia C. McKissack’s... (more)

The Return of Gabriel

by John Armistead

In the summer of 1964, freedom workers come to a small Mississippi town to register blacks to vote. The quiet pace of the summer changes dramatically for Cooper and his friends Jubal, who is black, and Squirrel, who is Jewish. The only white member of Oak Grove Baptist Church, Cooper must decide how to react when his father makes him attend Ku Klux Klan meetings. His uncle Chicago helps guide him through the... (more)

The Most Dangerous Gang in America: The NYPD

The Most Dangerous Gang in America: The NYPD

by Richard Jeanty

Black men are increasingly being victimized by the police in New York and other major cities around the country. The violence has escalated to deadly force, most of the time without justification. In this controversial book, noted author Richard Jeanty, tackles the problem of police brutality and the unfair treatment of Black men at the hands of police in New York City and the rest of the country. The conflict... (more)

1963 Birmingham Church Bombing: The Ku Klux Klan's History of Terror (Snapshots in History)Lisa Klobuchar

1963 Birmingham Church Bombing: The Ku Klux Klan's History of Terror (Snapshots in History)

by Lisa Klobuchar

1963 Birmingham Church Bombing is a Capstone Press publication.

Alex Cross: Book 15

Alex Cross's Trial

by James Patterson

From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written-a novel called Trial. As a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his... (more)

Most Evil Secret Societies In History

by Shelley Klein

The Liberation of Gabriel King

by K. L. Going

Gabriel King was a born chicken. He’s afraid of spiders, corpses, loose cows, and just about everything related to the fifth grade. Gabe’s best friend, Frita Wilson, thinks Gabe needs some liberating from his fears. Frita knows something about being brave— she’s the only black kid in school in a town with an active Ku Klux Klan. Together Gabe and Frita are going to spend the summer of 1976 facing down the... (more)

A Time to Kill

by John Grisham

When a ten-year-old girl is killed by two drunken men in the small southern town of Clanton, Mississippi, black-white riots erupt, threatening to destroy the town. By the author of The Pelican Brief and The Firm. Reprint.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

Facing a year of night riders and burnings, Cassie and her family continue their struggle to keep their land and hold onto what rightfully belongs to them, despite the difficult battles they must continue to endure. Reprint. Winner of the Newbery Medal. AB. NYT.

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The Chamber

by John Grisham

Witness

by Karen Hesse

Devil on My Heels

by Joyce McDonald

Away West (Scraps of Time)

by Fred McKissack

The Return of Gabriel

by John Armistead

The Most Dangerous Gang in America: The NYPD

by Richard Jeanty

1963 Birmingham Church Bombing: The Ku Klux Klan's History of Terror (Snapshots in History)

by Lisa Klobuchar

Alex Cross's Trial

by James Patterson

Most Evil Secret Societies In History

by Shelley Klein

The Liberation of Gabriel King

by K. L. Going

A Time to Kill

by John Grisham

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor