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Author
Language
English
Description
"A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland...
2) Lucky you
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy featuring two people recovering a stolen $14-million lottery ticket. It belongs to JoLayne Lucks, a black veterinary assistant in Florida and was stolen by white supremacists. With the help of reporter Tom Krome, JoLayne goes after the thieves and love blooms.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An unflinching story about Shania, a white girl who, after moving to a gentrifying city, reckons with her role in racism there, the historical and present day effects of white supremacy, and the danger in silence"--
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This Field Guide to White Supremacy illuminates the long and complex career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and across impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those who wish to recognize, understand, name, and oppose it. We focus here not only on the most catastrophic incidents of white supremacist domestic terrorism-like the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building...
9) Bone Lake
Author
Publisher
Madison Park Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Callen Norgaard is 11 years old and grew up as a member of the True Word Brethren, a racist cult teaching intolerance and hate...until the night a fire kills her mother and puts her in the custody of the FBI. The FBI takes Callen to her Uncle Eli's ranch for abused horses in Bone Lake, California. As Eli and his wife, Isabelle, try to teach Callen that life isn't all black and white, they make progress, but they need time...and with the cult's assassins...
14) High white sun
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Even though the corrupt Sheriff Ross is dead and gone, outlaws still walk free, peace comes at a price, and redemption remains hard to find in this fiery and violent novel from the author of The Far Empty Sometimes we have to be wolves ... In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry--now Sheriff Cherry--is the new "law" in Big Bend County, yet he still struggles to escape the long, dark shadow of that infamous lawman....
15) Skinhead
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Juniper
Pub. Date
1992.
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
A plea from a dying man he has never seen before involves nineteen-year-old Jonathan in a life-and-death struggle with white-supremacist skinheads.
18) A perfect snow
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ben has just moved from a ranch where his dad was the foreman, to a trailer park where his dad doesn't have a job. His dad has befriended a local mechanic who runs what seems to be a men's support group but is in fact a white supremacist organization. At first Ben finds it easy to believe the rhetoric and is soon blaming gays, Jews and other groups for all his problems. Ben and his brother, David participate in the group's horrible...