Danielle Deadwyler
2) Caged
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair novels volume 1
Description
FBI Special Agent Sayer Altair would rather conduct research on criminality than catch actual criminals. But when she's offered a chance to work on the high-profile Cage Killer investigation in Washington, D.C., she can't refuse. During her work in the field, clues emerge connecting one of the female victims to Sayer herself. The deeper she is drawn into a dangerous web of secrets and lies, the closer Sayer comes to crossing paths with the killer....
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair volume 3
Description
"A bus full of high school students has disappeared from Washington D.C. and FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair must hunt down the culprit who has a link to her own past. After grieving the death of her fiancé and almost losing her job, Agent Sayer Altair is finally starting to rebuild her life. Her research into the minds of psychopaths is breaking new ground and her strange little family is thriving. But Sayer's newfound happiness is threatened when...
5) Parallel
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Description
Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
7) Till
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
8) Till
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
9) Buried
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair novels volume 2
Formats
Description
"Senior Special Agent Sayer Altair studies the minds of psychopaths. But even she didn't expect to uncover a killer within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Rooting him out and exposing internal corruption got her a bullet wound and six months of desk duty. Now, she's finally back in the field, called in when an off-duty FBI agent and his cadaver dog fall into a sinkhole filled with human bones. Found deep in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park,...
10) The devil to pay
Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A struggling farmer in an Appalachian community has to repay her disappeared husband's debt in order to save her son's life.
11) The street
Author
Description
"The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies"--
Author
Formats
Description
"The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah...
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show, a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack.
14) Jane and Emma
Publisher
Excel Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Sister Jane Manning, one of the first African Americans to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, returns to Nauvoo to find that Joseph Smith, her prophet and friend, has been assassinated. Jane spends a sleepless night with his widow, Emma, sitting watch over the body of the Prophet, as a whirlwind of memory, loss, and confusion leaves them wondering how either one will be able to move forward.
15) Till
Publisher
Orion Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
16) A Cross to Bear
Author
Description
Like every little girl, Erica Moses had big dreams for the future... but life had other plans for her. After failed relationships, addiction and homelessness, Erica hits rock bottom when she faces a young mother's ultimate nightmare: the loss of her child. With nowhere left to turn, she finds herself on the doorstep of a very special house. At this home, women can find shelter, a helping hand and, just maybe, a second chance.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates...