Burning Up
When a girl she had met at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
Hate Crime
Examines the events surrounding the 1998 dragging and murder of a forty-nine-year-old African-American man in Jasper, Texas.
364.15
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
subjects: byrd, james, murder [X], hate crimes, african american men, racism [X], homicide, jasper (tex.)
A Hundred Little Hitlers
Chronicles the events surrounding the trial of Kenneth Mieske, a white racists accussed of killing an Ethiopian, and discusses how the incident uncovered the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.
305.8
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: 305.8
lexile:
subjects: seraw, mulugeta, white supremacy movements, racism [X], hate crimes, united states, portland (or.), ethiopian americans, murder [X]
The Quiet Game
Widowed attorney Penn Cage, having returned with his young daughter to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, finds himself battling the FBI, a powerful judge, a former love, and the citizens of the city when he joins ranks with local publisher Caitlin Masters to solve the mystery of the thirty-year-old murder of an African-American Korean War veteran.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: legal stories, mystery and detective stories, racism [X], murder [X], extortion, natchez, mississippi, publishers and publishing, african american veterans, man-woman relationships, african american soldiers, natchez (miss.)
Hunting Season
Documents the true story of a Long Island immigrant's murder in 2008, citing the hate biases that compelled a group of teens to attack the Ecuadorean victim, who became a symbol of flaws in America's immigration system.
364.15
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile: 1150
Convicted For Being Mi'kmaq
Presents the true story of Donald Marshall Jr., a seventeen-year-old Mi'kmaq teen who was arrested and convicted for a murder he did not commit.
364.15
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile: 770
The True American
Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgives his assailant and petitions the state of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty.
364.15
year: 2014
copies: 2
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
Real Justice
Documents the experiences of Donald Marshall Jr., a young Mi'kmaq from Nova Scotia, who was framed for the murder of his friend Sandy Seale and spent eleven years in prison before being acquitted of the crime.
364.15
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
subjects: marshall, donald, murder [X], trials (murder), racism [X], judicial error, false imprisonment
Bb Wolf And The Three Lps
BB Wolf, a farmer and family man who fancies himself a blues musician by night, is forced into action when Mr.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: wolves, swine, racism [X], murder [X], revenge, blues (music), pigs, homicide, blues music, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, graphic novels
This Is My America
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: racism [X], administration of criminal justice, african americans, race relations, prisoners, homicide, family life, judicial error, murder [X], dysfunctional families, family problems, large print books
The Barn
"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: till, emmett, lynching, murder [X], african american teenage boys, african americans, racism against black people, collective memory, homicide, racism [X], apaah, delta (miss. : region), mississippi