Berthoud Community Library District

A 1930's nightclub owner has a scheme to keep mobsters from muscling in on his Harlem hot spot.

Gabe Driscoll, chief of Internal Affairs for the New York City police department, stands in the city morgue, watching an autopsy. His interest is more than professional. The body is that of activist priest Frank Redmond, who along with Driscoll belonged to a championship swim relay team at a Jesuit high school in the 1950s. More than three decades later, Redmond has gone off a Harlem rooftop a few blocks from his church, and the surviving members...

"The Twelfth Card is a two day cat and mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd--by all appearances nondescript, innocuous man, but one whose past has turned him into a killing machine as unfeeling and cunning as a wolf. Boyd is after Geneva Steele, a high school girl from Harlem, and it's up to Lincoln and Amelia to figure out why."--Jacket.

The story of a young man of Puerto Rican descent who faced many challenges and struggles when he was growing up in Harlem.

"With his eponymous store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the early 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own flamboyant designs. But before reinventing fashion, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes, a teen who daringly gambled drug dealers out of their money, a young man in a prison cell who found nourishment in books, and, finally, a designer who broke barriers to outfit a whos-who of music,...

A play looking at the relationship among African Americans, their church and families.

Nine-year-old Shelby Holmes and eleven-year-old John Watson team up again, this time to investigate the new science teacher at the Harlem Academy of the Arts.

Deborah Kenny discusses her life and career as an educator and businesswoman.

Examines important accomplishments and events in the history of African-Americans, focusing on the Harlem Renaissance; and includes short biographies of notable men and women, as well as a glossary, a list of related Internet sites, and an index.

Showcases paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures created by African-American visual artists working during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s.