Walter Mosley
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The economy has hit the private investigator business hard, and lately, Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she tells him, who's escaped from poverty via marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend. But she says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig...
44) Fearless Jones
Author
Series
Fearless Jones novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Tempest Tales, an Essence Book Club Recommended Read, features Tempest Landry, a black man shot down by an over-eager cop. But that's not the end of the line for Tempest. Unwilling to accept St. Peter's judgment that he spend eternity in Hell, Tempest is sent back to Harlem- guardian angel in tow-to make things right.
47) Six easy pieces
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mystery volume 8
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Easy Rawlins counts the blessings of a law-abiding life, but still finds himself trading favors and investigating cases of arson, murder, and missing people in these six short stories
49) Merge: Disciple
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"MERGE Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for $26 million, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the only thing his father left behind after he died. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in cash and favors, Leonid McGill is an old-school P.I. working a city that's gotten fancy all around him. And like New York City itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, "decided to go from crooked to slightly bent." But when he calls in old markers and greases a few NYPD palms to unearth some seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client, he learns that even in this cleaned-up...
53) Touchy Feely
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A massage therapist navigates her way through an identity crisis when she suddenly develops an aversion to bodily contact. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
55) Little Scarlet
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
An irresistible story of love and death, this Easy Rawlins mystery takes place during the devastating 1965 Watts riots. Easy's hunt for a killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes — and a new life for Easy and his friends.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Language
English
Description
In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimistic and strong.After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys diverge astonishingly: Eric, the golden youth, is given everything but trusts nothing; Tommy, motherless and impoverished, has nothing,...
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this ... anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child"--Provided by publisher.