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      By Mosley, Walter
       2020., Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Call No: BLK Fic Mos   Edition: First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd. He overturns the stereotypes that corral black male characters and paints a subtle, powerful portrait of each of these unique individuals.
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      By Stallworth, Ron
       2018., Adult, 135, Universal Studios Call No: BLK DVD Fic BlackK    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
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      By Mosley, Walter
       2021., Adult, Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company Call No: BLK MYS Fic Mos   Edition: First trade paperback edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Easy Rawlins mysteries.   Volume: 15Summary Note: It is 1969. Protest wafts like smoke through the thick air, and Black private detective Easy Rawlins gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense, about his lover, a beautiful young woman, and a man he may have killed. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes he can't ignore their bond as veterans. The veteran is not Easy's only unlooked-for trouble. His adopted daughter Feather's white uncle shows up uninvited, unsettling the life Easy has forged for her. Where Feather sees a family reunion, Easy suspects something else, something that will break his heart.
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      By Mosley, Walter
       2002., Washington Square Press Call No: BLK MYS Fic Mos    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs....
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      -- Do not cry for me
      By Black, Daniel
       2022., Adult, Hanover Square Press Call No: BLK Fic Bla    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker. As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery. Secrets from Jacob's tumultuous relationship with Isaac's mother and the shame he carries from the dissolution of their family. Tragedies that informed Jacob's role as a father and his reaction to Isaac's being gay. But most of all, Jacob must share with Isaac the unspoken truths that reside in his heart. He must give voice to the trauma that Isaac has inherited. And he must create a space for the two to find peace. With piercing insight and profound empathy, acclaimed author Daniel Black illuminates the lived experiences of Black fathers and queer sons, offering an authentic and ultimately hopeful portrait of reckoning and reconciliation. Spare as it is sweeping, poetic as it is compulsively readable, Don't Cry for Me is a monumental novel about one family grappling with love's hard edges and the unexpected places where hope and healing take flight.
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      By Mosley, Walter
       c2001., Little, Brown Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: Narrator Paris Minton is an appealing figure an easygoing black man for whom the written word is salvation and whose nameless used bookstore in Watts is paradise. Then the beautiful Elana Love enters his store and brings with her more trouble than Paris has ever seen enough trouble that Paris knows his only hope is his friend Fearless Jones. A former soldier, Jones is a riveting new creation. He's a man of both principle and action with an innate sense of justice and as his name makes clear, he's afraid of nothing. The novel rips along with a hunt for the girl and a race among competing factions to find a missing bond that's the key to a fortune. For the black characters it's a desperate struggle to stay alive in a white world where the deck is stacked. One sly reference tells the reader we're still in the same world and time inhabited by Easy Rawlins, and that Fearless and Mouse are equally "bad." But Fearless is also a knight-errant and hopefully destined for further adventures as fine as this one.
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      By Baldwin, James  Martin, Jesse
       2008., 02:25:40, Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC Edition: Unabridged.    Click to access digital title.     Summary Note: At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.