Michael Boatman
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Staff Reads - Juneteenth Weekend Edition! 2023
Queer Coffee House @ the (Virtual) Library - November
Staff Reads - Juneteenth Weekend Edition! 2023
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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town -- with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity as he...
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Addison McKellar isn't clueless, she knows she and her husband Dean don't have the perfect marriage, but she's still shocked when he completely vanishes from her life. At first Addison is annoyed, but as days stretch into a week and she's repeatedly stonewalled by Dean's friends and associates, her frustration turns into genuine alarm. When even the police seem dismissive of her concerns, Addison turns to an old friend of her father, legendary Memphis...
3) Hope to die
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2014.
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English
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Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family -- his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children -- have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he...
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In this latest from Dennis Lehane, a Spanish influenza epidemic has gripped Boston and a struggling police department's attempt to unionize results in a strike with far-reaching implications. At once political, tumultuous, and absorbing, and with Lehane's usual engrossing plot lines and vivid characterizations, this story is sure to satisfy.
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Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he has made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer,...
6) The race
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English
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Corey Grace, a Republican senator from Ohio noted for voting his own conscience rather than the party line, becomes locked in a no-holds-barred presidential primary campaign with his rival, a member of the party establishment and leader of the Christian right.
8) Blood grove
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[2021]
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English
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Private investigator "Easy" Rawlins embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 12
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English
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Easy Rawlins is back (almost literally from the dead after the car wreck that ended Blonde Faith, his last outing) and cruising the hippified streets of the Sunset Strip circa 1967, in search of a young black man who has gone missing and maybe of his own rebirth.
10) Seeing Red
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When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
Description
Charlie Sheen continues to play Charlie Howard, the deputy mayor and right-hand man to Mayor Randall Winston, who expertly keeps his co-workers and City Hall under complete control while his personal life often spins completely out of control. Filmed entirely in New York City, the popular and often very hilarious sitcom ran on ABC for six seasons. Includes all 22 episodes of the sixth and final season.
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Distributed by Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Charlie Sheen joins the cast in season five as Charlie Howard, the new deputy mayor and right-hand man to Mayor Randall Winston, who expertly keeps his co-workers and City Hall under complete control while his personal life often spins completely out of control. Filmed entirely in New York City, the popular and often very hilarious sitcom ran on ABC for six seasons.
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
Description
"New York City's Deputy Mayor, Mike Flaherty [is] the slick support system to newly announced Senatorial candidate Mayor Randall Winston. But with a Senate seat on the line and a city to run, Mike is forced to hire a campaign manager to help lighten the load."--Container.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The story of Michelle Jordan, a young woman raised in an environment of abuse and molestation at the hands of her mother's boyfriend Reggie, which her mother Cassie unwittingly condons. While incarcerated, Michelle sends Bishop Jakes a letter requesting a visit. Jakes agrees to meet Michelle and soon uncovers the painful history that led to her personal demise.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with an oddball staff that include an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activitist running minority affairs; a sharp and man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic speechwriter.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Season four finds Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart navigating a very different landscape. After they lost their biggest client, Chumhum and their founding partner's name was tarnished, Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart were forced to accept an offer by a huge multi-national law firm, STR Laurie, to become a small subsidiary. Suddenly, all of their decisions can be second-guessed by the giant firm that is literally on top of them.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Diane Lockhart tries to figure out whether she can resist a crazy administration without going crazy herself, while Adrian Boseman and Liz Reddick-Lawrence struggle with a new post-factual world where the lawyer who tells the best story triumphs over the lawyer with the best facts. Meanwhile, Lucca Quinn balances a new baby with a new love, and Maia Rindell finds a new Mephistopheles in Roland Blum, a lawyer who is corruption incarnate.