Frank Carlson Library

When Evan Maitland found out that Thomas Hicks had killed two men, he doubled his fee. Fifty thousand dollars to bring the bail jumper back to Chicago for trial. Thomas Hicks killed two men in self-defense. But for a black man with a record, he doesn't believe justice is going to prevail. He jumps bail, becomes a fugitive, and flees to western Kansas. He isn't there long before he realizes he would have been safer in a Chicago jail. Nina Harrows...

"Bohemian rhapsody": The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985). "The doors": The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. "Ray": The story of the life and career of the...

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.

Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.

"On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...