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1) The ascent
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go-and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 724 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian Heather Ann Thompson offers the first definitive telling of the Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice--in time for the forty-fifth anniversary of the events"--
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with...
Author
Series
Zoey Ashe volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Zoey Ashe wakes up every day feeling like she's trying to steer a battleship while tied to the propeller. The twenty-three-year-old heiress to a criminal empire is navigating a futuristic world of high-tech liars and cutthroats, forced to learn the rules of a devious game she never asked to play. Now she's facing a crisis that is both bigger and stranger than all that came before: The gleaming new city of Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual...
4) Acid Row
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visiting a crime-riddled housing project, unaware that a known pedophile lives there, Sophie Morrison learns that a child has gone missing and that the project's vigilantes are out in force, trapping Sophie with a man who is intent on hurting her.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
196 pages : photographs ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent and chaotic demonstrations that lasted over several days and are today seen as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ movement. They began on June 28, 1969, when the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village in New York City. Many people were involved in and affected by the riots, but what exactly happened early in the morning on June 28?
The Stonewall Riots brings the uprising into perspective...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alternating chapters explore how race relations have changed in the past century, as Rowan Chase investigates a murder committed during the Tulsa race riot in 1921.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.
Over the course of one night, two girls with two very different backgrounds must rely on each other to get through the violent race riot that has enveloped their city. Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell,...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Diversion Books edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Deanne Quinn Miller was five years old when her father-William "Billy" Quinn-was murdered in the first minutes of the Attica Prison Riot, the only corrections officer to die at the hands of inmates. But how did he die? Who were the killers? Those questions haunted Dee and wreaked havoc on her psyche for thirty years. Finally, when she joined the Forgotten Victims of Attica, she began to find answers. This began the process of bringing closure not...
9) Smoky night
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
101 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Flor's mother dies in early 1969, she is left with her abuelita who refuses to accept her identity as a trans girl. In order to be true to herself, Flor must leave home. She makes friends with Tami, a trans teenager, and the two girls make their way in the queer and trans community of New York City. But things quickly become dangerous when Flor and Tami meet up with friends at the Stonewall Inn on a night that leads to a police raid and violence....
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma he would never recover from. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like a final straw--it led to a week of protests and then five days described alternately...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile African American community and the local police, Johnson, a 30-year law enforcement veteran and an African American, did the unthinkable; he took off his bullet-proof...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of gay tolerance that traces the progression of civil rights for gay citizens and identifies the prejudices and misconceptions that have criminalized homosexual relationships.
16) The Black Kids
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 45 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out, and a number of their fellow orphans are kidnapped by an evil magistrate, Richard Riker. Magdalys and her friends flee to Brooklyn and settle in the Dactyl Hill neighborhood, where black and brown New Yorkers have set up...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
xviii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the true story of Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, when a white mob murdered hundreds of citizens and decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The incredible, untold story of the WWII vets who overthrew their corrupt hometown government--the only successful armed rebellion on US soil since the War of Independence. Corrupt politician Paul Cantrell was in complete control of McMinn County, Tennessee, his whims enforced by the violent Sheriff Pat Mansfield and his deputies. On Election Day, Cantrell and the sheriff seized the ballot boxes and brought them to the jail "to be counted" in secret....
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...