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c1993., 5.2; Ages 3-6, Pleasant Co. Call No: YS POR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American girls collection Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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c1994., Ages 3-6, Pleasant Company Call No: YS POR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American girls collectionSummary Note: Addy and Harriet feud over everything, including fund-raising plans to help the families of freed slaves, but tragedy finally forces them to stop fighting and work together.
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c1993., 5.1; Ages 3-6, Pleasant Co. Call No: YS POR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American girls collectionSummary Note: Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War.
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-- Alex Cross must die :2023., Adult, Little Brown and Company Call No: FIC PAT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alex Cross Volume: 32.Summary Note: 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 didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short. And time before another lethal strike runs even shorter. Especially for Detective Cross. Alex Cross Must Die.
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2009., Adult, Little, Brown Call No: FIC PAT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Detective Alex Cross recounts the story of his great-uncle Abraham, who, with the help of his beautiful daughter, introduces Washington, D.C., attorney Ben Corbett to the dark side of their small Southern town in the early 1900s, where Ben has been sent to investigate a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
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[2019]., Adults, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: FIC JON Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Oprah's Book Club.Summary Note: Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
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1999, c1992., Ages 4-8, Puffin Call No: PB PIN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Picture puffinsSummary Note: Eight-year-old Ernestine returns to visit relatives on the North Carolina farm where she was born.
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[2020], Ages 10 up, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: Y WOO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
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c2003., Adult, Little, Brown Call No: FIC PAT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Alex Cross battles a ruthless and powerful killer, a master criminal and shadowy figure known only as the Wolf, who appears to be behind a terrifying business in which ordinary men and women are kidnapped and sold as slaves.
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[2017], Ages 7-10, Random House Call No: G OSB Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Magic tree house Volume: #29Summary Note: "Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
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c1989., Ages 4-8, Scholastic Call No: PB MEN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Through the powers of a magical kente, a black snowman comes to life and helps young Jacob discover the beauty of his black heritage as well as his own self-worth.
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c1996., Ages 4-8, Scholastic Call No: PB BUN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As an African-American boy and his white friend watch the construction of a house which will make them neighbors on the site of a Civil War battlefield, they agree that their homes are monuments to that war.
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c2002., Adult, Shaye Areheart Books Call No: FIC BOH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Terry and Laura Sheldon lose their 9-year-old twins in a flash flood. After a year of putting their lives back together, the couple, who are unable to have more children, decide to adopt a 10-year-old African American boy.
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1994., Ages 4-8, Atheneum : Maxwell Macmillan International Call No: PB ACK Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young girl and her brother stay with their grandmother while their mother works at night.
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-- story of requited love, crossing over, and the sexual healing of the soulc1998., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC WAL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Susannah and her family move to the Sierras in Mexico, and while they are there, their lives are forever changed by the Mundo people who live there.
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c2001., Adult, Warner Books Call No: FIC TAD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fact-based novel in which the author draws upon her own family history to trace four generations of African-American women from slavery on a Creole plantation to the pre-civil rights South.
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By Craft, Jerry[2020], Age: 8-14, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: GN CRA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New Kid Volume: #2Summary Note: Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.
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c2006., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: YA DRA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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2019., Adults, Little, Brown and Company Call No: FIC PAT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alex Cross Volume: #27Summary Note: "In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details--details that conjure up decades-old cases. Details that conjure up Cross family secrets. Details that make clear that M is after a prize so dear that--were the killer to attain it--Alex's heart would no longer have reason to beat"--
