Law & Crime
Black History 1619-2019: An Illustrated and Documented African-American History
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers BLACK HISTORY 1619 TO 2019 is an inspiring and educational journey through American history. It is an in-depth look at the events which shaped the lives and contributions of the African-American community in the United States of...
$39.95
Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
Publisher: Visible Ink Press A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride! The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American...
$29.95
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
Supplier: Ten Speed Press A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party.Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the...
$19.99
Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
Supplier: Microcosm Publishing The graphic narrative history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants.When Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police, the city broke out into nonviolent...
$11.95
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Supplier: New Press "Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."―Michelle AlexanderMore than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did...
$17.95
Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
Supplier: Arsenal Pulp Press Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator...
$18.95
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America
Publisher: Princeton University Press How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divide On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness...
$29.95
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparationsBorn into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy...
$27.95
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
Publisher: Yale University Press Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History—the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. . . . The...
$35.00
While Justice Sleeps
Publisher: Doubleday Books #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, a gripping thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court—where a young law clerk finds herself embroiled in a shocking mystery plotted...
$28.00
The Police and Excessive Use of Force
Publisher: Brightpoint Press Pub Date: 02/01/2024 "Black Americans are disproportionately affected by police violence. One central part of the Black Lives Matter Movement calls for an end to this violence. The Police and Excessive Use of Force examines the history...
$30.95
Vigilante Danger: A Threat to Black Lives
Publisher:Lerner Publications (Tm) Pub Date: 01/01/2026 Vigilantes are regular citizens who take justice into their own hands, outside of the law. When people take action in this way, the consequences can be devastating. Over the course of American history, vigilante...
$9.99
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice
Publisher:Magination Press Pub Date: 03/01/2018 The companion book, Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence, is available now. A NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 INDIEBOUND BEST SELLER#6 on American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom's Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2020A Little Free Library...
$16.99
Police Defunding and Reform: What Changes Are Needed?
Publisher:Referencepoint Press Pub Date: 02/01/2022 After multiple police killings of unarmed African Americans, activists have called for immediate and meaningful changes. The focus is on community-police interactions, law enforcement policies, and the defunding of police departments. This book examines what...
$30.95
21st Birthday
Publisher: Little Brown and Company Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday. When young wife and mother Tara Burke goes missing with her baby girl, all eyes...
$29.00
A Time for Mercy
Publisher: Doubleday Books Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that The New York Times says is "riveting" and "suspenseful." Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself...
$29.95
The Guest List
Publisher: William Morrow & Company A Reese's Book Club Pick “I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie.... The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and...
$27.99
Three Women Disappear
Publisher: Little Brown and Company A man is murdered in his home. Sarah, his personal chef. Anna, his wife. Serena, his maid, all had access. Now all three women are missing. Eyes are on Detective Sean Walsh, whose personal connection to the...
$28.00
A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in...
$28.00