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1) Witness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A serious of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
2) The chamber
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 29
Formats
Description
In his Chicago law firm a young lawyer named Adam Hall asks to work on the case of Sam Cayhall, Klan member sentenced to death for a 1967 bombing in which two people were killed. Adam's firm has handled the case on a pro bono basis for years, but the case is all but lost and time is running out: within weeks Sam will finally go to the gas chamber. Why in the world would Adam want to get involved?
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Somewhere in America, high above a pristine lake, floats St. Ivory Academy, an elite wizarding school whose enchanted halls have only ever been graced by the most talented (and white) young spellcasters. But times are changing, and St. Ivory seems to finally be taking its first crucial steps toward breaking down the social divide between white mages and their separate-but-equal black mage counterparts. What better way to prove their unwavering dedication...
9) Denver
Author
Description
"A lusty historical novel that vividly portrays Denver journalism, politics, and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s."-- from website "101 Best Books on Colorado", accessed 6-22-12.
10) Zom-B clans
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 8
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"While saving the town of New Kirkham, B's old friend, Vinyl, is kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan. The Angels are prepared to do what it takes to save him, but B will have to make some very hard decisions about her loyalties"--
11) Skeletons
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Lee Donne has an eidetic memory that maintains a visual representation of everything she's ever seen. Unfortunately, this gift hasn't helped her in college, where she spent four years drifting from major to major. With no degree or job prospects, Lee is relieved to be house-sitting her grandfather's isolated Oregon home. But her stay soon becomes a nightmare when she is tormented by strange and menacing noises at night. Determined to track down the...
Author
Description
As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl's life. In 1868, on the barren shores of post-war Outer Banks North Carolina, the once wealthy Sinclair family moves for the summer to one of the first cottages on the ocean side of the resort village of Nags Head. Seventeen-year-old Abigail is beautiful, book-smart, but sheltered by her plantation life and hemmed-in by her...
13) To walk humbly
Author
Series
White winter trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
1923. The Great War has ended, but for three young Irish-Americans, the fight at home has just begun with a daunting foe: the Ku Klux Klan. As America returns to peace and prosperity, the Ku Klux Klan arrives in Colorado. As its membership grows, the Klan rises to political power through intimidation of its enemies and violence. For Kathleen O'Doherty, the Klan threatens what she values most: family and faith. Still grieving for those she lost during...
14) The binding oath
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
"Out of the ashes of disillusionment following World War I, the Ku Klux Klan rose to new heights, its four million members spreading racial and religious hatred across the nation. Outside of the South, Colorado was one of the Klan's strongest enclaves." "On a hot June day in 1922, the Grand Dragon of Colorado's Ku Klux Klan holds a press conference in Denver's most elegant hotel, announcing that the Klan intends to recall the popular district attorney...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die. Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and...
16) Pug Sheridan
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A spiritual odyssey set in the rural South of a century past, Pug Sheridan depicts a young woman's arduous quest for identity and rdemption. More than a typical coming-of-age tale, the novel explores the natures of love, friendship, loss, and racism and reveals how childhood choices affect our adult lives in unexpected and sometimes wondrous ways.
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Description
In 1924 a 17-year-old girl tries to rebuild her life after a personal tragedy by taking a job as switchboard operator in a small town far from home. Instead of a haven, however, she finds her new community in the grip of fanatic prejudices that force her to take a stand for what she knows is right.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Returning to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to complete her graduate thesis, Toya, a young black artist, sets her sights on something bigger when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town and two horrific crimes split the county apart.